This is a landmark intellectual history of Britain's working classes from the preindustrial era to the twentieth century. Drawing on workers' memoirs, social surveys, library registers, and more, Jonathan Rose uncovers which books people read, how th...

Contemporary artists and writers reflect on the Great Migration and the ways that it continues to inform the Black experience in America. The Great Migration (1915-1970) saw more than six million African Americans leave the South for destinations ac...

Stories of transnational terror and justice illuminate the past and present of South America's struggles for human rights. Through the voices of survivors, human rights activists, judicial actors, and experts, "The Condor Trials" unravels the secret...

How the suppression of the slave trade and the "disposal" of liberated Africans shaped the emergence of modern humanitarianism. Between 1808 and 1867, the British navy's Atlantic squadrons seized nearly two thousand slave ships, "re-capturing" almos...

Through images and texts both historical and contemporary, this book looks at the Great Migration and its profound and ongoing impact. This thoughtful interweaving of text and imagery presents a variety of perspectives on the Great Migration (1915-1...

A vigorous and timely defense of the state as a force for good. For decades now wealth and power have been shifting from states to markets. This experiment has been a failure for all but a privileged few. But this trend is beginning to reverse, acce...

When a distressed urban neighborhood gentrifies, all the ratios change: poor to rich; Black and Brown to white; unskilled to professional; vulnerable to secure. Vacant lots and toxic dumps become condos and parks. Upscale restaurants open and pawn sh...

In 1921, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander became the first Black American to gain a Ph.D. degree in economics. Unable to find employment as an economist because of discrimination, Alexander became a lawyer so that she could press for equal rights for A...

Tracing the social and bureaucratic life of organic quality, this book yields new understandings of this fraught concept. Shaila Seshia Galvin examines certified organic agriculture in India's central Himalayas, revealing how organic is less a materi...

The early modern period was one of profound change in Europe. It was witness to the development of science, religious reformation, and the birth of the nation state. As Europeans explored the world – looking to Asia and the Americas for new peoples a...