A groundbreaking history of women in British intelligence, revealing their pivotal role across the first half of the twentieth century. From the twentieth century onward, women took on an extraordinary range of roles in intelligence, defying the co...

The Black social gospel is a tradition of unsurpassed importance in American life, and it remains ongoing. So Gary Dorrien argues in his groundbreaking trilogy of books on the history of Black social Christianity. Following his Grawemeyer Award-winni...

The story of a remarkable era of reform, controversy, optimism, and Cold War confrontation in the Soviet Union. Beginning with the death of Stalin in 1953, the "sixties" era in the Soviet Union was just as vibrant and transformative as in the West....

A sweeping new history that reveals how British, African, and American merchants developed the transatlantic slave trade. During the eighteenth century, Britain's slave trade exploded in size. Formerly a small and geographically constricted busines...

A vibrant history of English landscape preservation over the last 150 years, told through the lives of four remarkable women. In Britain today, a mosaic of regulations protects the natural environment and guarantees public access to green spaces. Bu...

An innovative analysis of 1960s abstract sculpture that draws on transgender studies and queer theory. Now back in print, Abstract Bodies was the first book to bridge the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies with the discipline of art hist...

A comprehensive history of the struggle to define womanhood in America, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. What does it mean to be a "woman" in America? Award-winning gender and sexuality scholar Lillian Faderman traces the evolution...

The fascinating history of how the antifascist movement of the 1930s created "the left" as we know it today. In the middle years of the Great Depression, the antifascist movement became a global political force, powerfully uniting people from across...

Over the last few years, it has been impossible to ignore the steady resurgence of xenophobia. The European migrant crisis and immigration from Central America to the United States have placed Western advocates of globalization on the defensive, and...

A first-ever collection of contemporary Muslim women's khutbahs (sermons) drawing on their social, religious, and spiritual experiences and framed by original reflections on an emerging Muslim feminist ethics. Within the Muslim world, there is a dyn...