The first major English-language history of Ukraine from its emergence after the demise of the Soviet Union through the current Russian invasion. In 1991, after seventy years of imperial Soviet rule, Ukraine became an independent country. Since 202...

A biography of "Native Son's" Bigger Thomas that examines his continued relevance in debates over Black men and the violence of racism. Bigger Thomas, the central figure in Richard Wright's novel "Native Son" (1940), eludes easy categorization. A v...

A translation of Muhammad Rashid Rida's best-known work, which examines the compatibility of Islamic political and legal tradition with modern thought. Muhammad Rashid Rida (1865-1935) was a prominent Muslim intellectual and reformer. Born in a vil...

The best essays from America's premier cultural historian. Jackson Lears has been hailed as "America's premier cultural historian", the "dean of American cultural history", and "one of the few pre-eminent historians of our time". Well known for his...

A synthesis of legal, political, and social history to show how the post-founding generations were forced to rethink and substantially revise the U.S. constitutional vision. Between 1815 and 1861, American constitutional law and politics underwent...

A fascinating look into how the transformative joys of mathematical experience are available to everyone, not just specialists. Math has a reputation for being inaccessible. People think that it requires a special gift or that comprehension is a ma...

A deeply researched, fully updated edition of "The National Security Constitution" that explores the growing imbalance of institutional powers in American foreign affairs and national security policy. Since the beginning of the American Republic, a...

A new and necessary examination of how nineteenth-century Cuban white elites viewed the natural world, material culture, and political power as intertwined. In the decades before the Cuban wars of independence, white elites exploited the island's n...

An indispensable illustrated source of information for hundreds of species of North American trees. This authoritative reference on native and non-native trees of North America, by Smithsonian veteran W. John Kress, provides an unprecedented apprai...

A reexamination of 1970s France as a decade of intellectual, cultural, and political consequence, both then and now. Number 143 of Yale French Studies, "The French Seventies", reintroduces and reorients readers to a decade typically considered a pe...