History

Revolutionary Stagecraft draws on a rich corpus of literary, historical, and technical materials to reveal a deep entanglement among technological ...

The Cuzco region of highland Peru was the heartland of the Inca empire, the largest native state to develop in the Americas.

Cerro Azul, a pre-Inca fishing community in the Kingdom of Huarco, Peru, stood at the interface between a rich marine ecosystem and an irrigated co...

'At three in the morning I crept out of Carlsbad, they wouldn't have let me go if I hadn't. I wasn't going to be stopped, for it was time.' This i...

Landscapes of Promise is the first comprehensive environmental history of the early years of a state that has long been associated with environment...

Conquering Demons examines the origins and influence of three popular anti-Kirishitan (anti-Christian) works from the seventeenth and eighteenth ce...

In his retelling of the boldness and tragedy of the Zhina uprising in Iran, Hamid Dabashi asks: What constitutes the success of revolutions and how...

How early Black prison writing shaped Black intellectual movements   In this book, Andrea Stone recovers critical, understudied writings from ear...

How early Black prison writing shaped Black intellectual movements   In this book, Andrea Stone recovers critical, understudied writings from ear...

An art historical epic for dangerous timesWhat do artworks look like in extreme cases of collective experience? What signals do artists send when e...

Contested City offers a history of state-society relations in Baghdad, exploring how city residents managed through periods of economic growth, san...