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A Critical Encounter: Bataille and Blanchot
This volume addresses recent contemporary French thought on literary realism. Few terms have been more prone and resistant to definition than the “literary” and the “real.” Bringing them together…
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A Crow Doesn’t Need A Shadow
“Each generation of young people, it seems, is further removed from nature, from the wind that ‘rubs its chin on the trees’ and the ducks that ‘slip through the quiet…
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A Cultural Arsenal for Democracy
“Does it seem strange to think of a museum as a weapon in national defense?” asked John Hay Whitney, president of the Museum of Modern Art, in June 1941. As…
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A Cultural History of The Punisher
A comprehensive study of the Punisher in all his contradictions. The Punisher made his debut in The Amazing Spider-Man in 1974, fighting crime with violence—and willingness to kill—that set him…
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A Dark Conspiracy and Other Nineteenth-Century Canadian Short Stories in English
A revolutionary anthology of Canadian short fiction. The first anthology of its kind, A Dark Conspiracy and Other nineteenth-Century Canadian Short Stories in English collects the best stories written by…
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A Feminist Reading of Debt
***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021***”Of great value to those interested in the financialisation of everyday life and social reproduction.”—LSE Review of Books In this sharp evaluation and…
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A Forest of History
David Freidel and Linda Schele’s monumental work A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya (1990) offered an innovative, rigorous, and controversial approach to studying the ancient…
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A Hercules in the Cradle
Explores the origin and evolution of American public finance and shows how the nation’s rise to great-power status in the nineteenth century rested on its ability to go into debt….
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A History of Hate in Ohio
While Ohio’s rich history of abolitionism is deservedly known, its equally long history of white supremacist activity—including the Ohio-founded neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer and the many groups currently documented…
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A History of Japanese Theology
This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. This is the first book on the history of Japanese theology written by Japanese theologians. Editor Yasuo Furuya and…
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A History of Utah Radicalism
Utah, now one of the most conservative states, has a long tradition of left-wing radicalism. Early Mormon settlers set a precedent with the United Order and other experiments with…
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A Journey to Inner Africa
In 1847, Russian military engineer and diplomat Egor Petrovich Kovalevsky embarked on a journey through what is today Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, and Ethiopia, recording his impressions of a region in…
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