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When Ecuador's cut-flower industry took off in the mid-1980s, it rode a wave of international credit peddling and currency speculation that would l...

This book centers on a fascinating woman, Clare of Rimini (c. 1260 to c. 132429), whose story is preserved in a fascinating text. Composed by an an...

This book centers on a fascinating woman, Clare of Rimini (c. 1260 to c. 132429), whose story is preserved in a fascinating text. Composed by an an...

In 1974, the International Congress on World Evangelization met in Lausanne, Switzerland. Gathering together nearly 2,500 Protestant evangelical le...

The small and remote island of Barbados seems an unlikely location for the epochal change in labor that overwhelmed it and much of British America ...

Usme, one of the peripheral districts surrounding Bogotá, Colombia, is one of the poorest, most populous, and most marginalized outer districts of ...

Usme, one of the peripheral districts surrounding Bogotá, Colombia, is one of the poorest, most populous, and most marginalized outer districts of ...

Rebecca Lemon illuminates a previously-buried conception of addiction, as a form of devotion at once laudable, difficult, and extraordinary, that h...

In this provocative book, renowned public intellectual Ivan Krastev reflects on the future of the European Unionand its potential lack of a future....

What prompts the United Nations Security Council to engage forcefully in some crises at high risk for genocide and ethnic cleansing but not others?...

In popular mythology, the Overland Trail is typically a triumphant tale, with plucky easterners crossing the Plains in caravans of covered wagons. ...

In the years between the independence of the colonies from Britain and the start of the Jacksonian age, American readers consumed an enormous numbe...

The first comprehensive biography of Elihu Palmer tells the life story of a freethinker who was at the heart of the early United States' protracted...

As states across the country battle internally over same-sex marriage in the courts, in legislatures, and at the ballot box, activists and scholars...

Leading political scientists analyze the presidency of Donald Trump and its impact on the future of American politics In virtually all respects, th...

An Infinity of Nations explores the formation and development of a Native New World in North America. Until the middle of the nineteenth century, i...