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Japan, 1972: Visions of Masculinity in an Age of Mass Consumerism

By Yoshikuni Igarashi

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Japan's Cold War: Media, Literature, and the Law

By Ann Sherif

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The Orphan Scandal: Christian Missionaries and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood

By Beth Baron

Following the story of the Port Said orphan scandal, this book uncovers hidden links between Protestant evangelicals and the growth of Islamist groups in Egypt.

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Partitions: A Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Territorial Separatism

By Arie M. Dubnov, Laura Robson

Partition-the physical division of territory along ethno-religious lines into separate nation-states-is often presented as a successful political "solution" to ethnic conflict.

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The Politics of Women's Work: The Paris Garment Trades, 1750-1915

By Judith G. Coffin

Few issues attracted more attention in the nineteenth century than the "problem" of women's work, and few industries posed that problem more urgently than the booming garment industry in Paris.

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The Politics of Women's Work: The Paris Garment Trades, 1750-1915

By Judith G. Coffin

Few issues attracted more attention in the nineteenth century than the "problem" of women's work, and few industries posed that problem more urgently than the booming garment industry in Paris.

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Reinventing Human Rights

By Mark Goodale

A radical vision for the future of human rights as a fundamentally reconfigured framework for global justice. Reinventing Human Rights offers a bold argument: that only a radically reformulated approach to human rights will prove adequate to confront and overcome the most consequential global problems.

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Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War's Most Audacious Espionage Operation

By Steve Vogel

A riveting and vivid account. . . . A remarkable story. . . . It reads like a Hollywood screenplay. -- Foreign Affairs The astonishing true story of the Berlin Tunnel, one of the West's greatest espionage operations of the Cold War--and the dangerous Soviet mole who betrayed it.

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Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color

By Michael R. Fischbach

The 1967 Arab-Israeli War rocketed the question of Israel and Palestine onto the front pages of American newspapers. Black Power activists saw Palestinians as a kindred people of color, waging the same struggle for freedom and justice as themselves.

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Brown in the Windy City: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago

By Lilia Fern?ndez

Brown in the Windy City is the first history to examine the migration and settlement of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in postwar Chicago. Lilia Fern ndez reveals how the two populations arrived in Chicago in the midst of tremendous social and economic change and, in spite of declining industrial employment and massive urban renewal projects, managed to carve out a geographic and racial place in one of America's great cities.