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Insatiable City
A history of food in the Crescent City that explores race, power, social status, and labor. In Insatiable City, Theresa McCulla probes the overt and covert ways that the production …
Sovereign Fictions
An exploration of Russian realist fiction reveals a preoccupation with the absolutist state.The nineteenth-century novel is generally assumed to owe its basic social imaginaries to …
Enlightenment Biopolitics
A wide-ranging history tracing the birth of biopolitics in Enlightenment thought and its aftermath.In Enlightenment Biopolitics, historian William Max Nelson pursues the ambitious …
Great American City
Great American City demonstrates the powerfully enduring impact of place. Based on one of the most ambitious studies in the history of social science, Robert J. Sampson s Great …
Northeast Corridor
All aboard for the first comprehensive history of the hard-working and wildly influential Northeast Corridor. Traversed by thousands of trains and millions of riders, the Northeast …
John Donne's Physics
A reimagining of Devotions upon Emergent Occasions as an original treatment of human life shaped by innovations in seventeenth-century science and medicine. In 1624, poet and …
Otherworldly Antarctica
With stunning original photographs, an Antarctic scientist and explorer takes us to one of the most sublime, remote, and pristine regions on the planet. The interior of Antarctica …
Supreme Court Unlike Any Other
A data-rich examination of the US Supreme Court's unprecedented detachment from the democratic processes that buttress its legitimacy.Today s Supreme Court is unlike any other in …
Coming Out Republican
A revelatory and comprehensive history of the gay Right from incisive political commentator Neil J. Young.?One of the most maligned, misunderstood, and even mocked constituencies …
America's New Racial Battle Lines
A sobering portrait of the United States' divided racial politics.For nearly two decades, Rogers M. Smith and Desmond King have charted the shifting racial policy alliances that …
Wisecracks
A philosopher's case for the importance of good-if ethically questionable-humor.A good sense of humor is key to the good life, but a joke taken too far can get anyone into trouble. …