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A War on Global Poverty: The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit

By Joanne Meyerowitz

A history of US involvement in late twentieth-century campaigns against global poverty and how they came to focus on women A War on Global Poverty provides a fresh account of US involvement in campaigns to end global poverty in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt

By Ziad Fahmy

As the twentieth century roared on, transformative technologies-from trains, trams, and automobiles to radios and loudspeakers-fundamentally changed the sounds of the Egyptian streets.

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Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return Before 1948

By Nadim Bawalsa

Tens of thousands of Palestinians migrated to the Americas in the final decades of the nineteenth century and early decades of the twentieth.

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When the Future Disappears: The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea

By Janet Poole

Taking a panoramic view of Korea's dynamic literary production in the final decade of Japanese rule, When the Future Disappears locates the imprint of a new temporal sense in Korean modernism: the impression of time interrupted, with no promise of a future.

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Brokers of Faith, Brokers of Empire: Armenians and the Politics of Reform in the Ottoman Empire

By Richard E. Antaramian

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Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought

By Durba Mitra

How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in India During the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and elite Indian intellectuals-philologists, administrators, doctors, ethnologists, sociologists, and social critics-deployed ideas about sexuality to understand modern Indian society.

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The Evolved Eater: A Quest to Eat Better, Live Better, and Change the World

By Nick Taranto

From the co-founder of Plated, the home delivery food service, an inspirational business title that is a call-to-arms and investigation into the industrial American food complex. In early 2012, Nick Taranto was twenty-seven years old, recently married, and fresh out of the Marine Corps. He moved back to New York City, started working on Wall Street, and put on twenty pounds in under six months.