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Enlightenment's Frontier
The Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism
Enlightenment’s Frontier is the first book to investigate the environmental roots of the Scottish Enlightenment. What was the place of the natural world in Adam Smith’s famous defense of free trade? Fredrik Albritton...
Our Hero
Superman on Earth
From the author of It's Superman!, an exuberant and original exploration of America’s most iconic comic book hero Since his first appearance in Action Comics Number One, published in late...
The Racial Glass Ceiling
Subordination in American Law and Culture
A compelling study of a subtle and insidious form of racial inequality in American law and culture. Why does racial equality continue to elude African Americans even after the election of a black president?...
Baule
African Art, Western Eyes
The superb sculptures of the Baule people of the Ivory Coast have long been recognized in Europe and the United States as one of Africa's most significant art traditions. The work of many modern artists—Amedeo Modigliani in...
Class Matters
The Strange Career of an American Delusion
A uniquely personal yet deeply informed exploration of the hidden history of class in American life From the decks of the Mayflower straight through to Donald Trump’s “American carnage,” class has...
A Baedeker of Decadence
Charting a Literary Fashion, 1884–1927
During the final decades of the nineteenth century, a common mind-set emerged among many intellectuals—“la décadence.” Many novels and novellas of the period were populated with protagonists who were fragile, refined, self...
A New Anthology of Early Modern Spanish Theater
Play and Playtext
This anthology of plays from the Spanish Golden Age brings together the work of canonical writers, female writers who are rapidly achieving canonical status, and lesser-known writers who have recently gained critical attention....
The Prose Works of Andrew Marvell
Volume II, 1676-1678
Andrew Marvell (1621–78) is best known today as the author of a handful of exquisite lyrics and provocative political poems. In his own time, however, Marvell was famous for his brilliant prose interventions in the major...
Mary P. Follett
Creating Democracy, Transforming Management
Mary P. Follett (1868–1933) brought new dimensions to the theory and practice of management and was one of America’s preeminent thinkers about democracy and social organization. The ideas Follett developed in the early...
Hollow Justice
A History of Indigenous Claims in the United States
This book, the first of its kind, comprehensively explores Native American claims against the United States government over the past two centuries. Despite the federal government’s multiple attempts to redress indigenous...