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God at Play
The oldest extant Marathi work, a medieval chronicle of Chakradhar’s divine life on earth, in a new English translation.God at Play, or Li?acaritra, is a remarkable biography of …
The Kannada Mahabharata
The classic Kannada version of the Mahabharata, a jewel of world literature, translated into English.The Mahabharata, a cornerstone of ancient Indian literature, recounts the …
Epitome of Pompeius Trogus, Volume I
A condensed Roman history of non-Roman civilizations.To Justin (Marcus Junian(i)us Justinus), otherwise unknown, is attributed our abbreviated version of the lost Philippic History …
Experimentalist Constitutions
One of the most commonly cited virtues of American federalism is its “laboratories of democracy”—the notion that decentralization and political competition encourage states to …
Theft of a Tree
The first English translation of a thousand-year-old story of Krishna and his wife Satyabhama, retold by the most famous court poet of the Vijayanagara Empire.Legend has it that …
The Collapse of Heaven
The Collapse of Heaven investigates a long-neglected century in Chinese literature through the lens of the Taiping War (1851–1864), one of the most devastating civil wars in human …
Asia after Europe
A concise new history of a century of struggles to define Asian identity and express alternatives to European forms of universalism.The balance of global power changed profoundly …
Documentary Sources on the History of Rus’ Metropolitanate
Documentary Sources on the History of Rus’ Metropolitanate contains an extensive collection of letters and documents relating to the late medieval Orthodox Church, edited and …
The Struggle of Parts
A landmark work of nineteenth-century developmental and evolutionary biology that takes the Darwinian struggle for existence into the organism itself.Though he is remembered …
The Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art
The Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art is the first comprehensive survey of the visual representation of people of African descent in Latin America and the …
Pre-Texts International
Pre-Texts is a methodology developed by Doris Sommer for education professionals to stimulate close reading and critical-thinking skills by making art based on challenging texts. …
Necropolis
Winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner AwardWinner of James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize, SHEARWinner of the Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana HistoryWinner of the …