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By Ke Li
Women's experiences of divorce court in China illustrate the grave limits of a legal system that too often disregards their lawful rights and interests.
By Bernard Bate
Throughout history, speech and storytelling have united communities and mobilized movements. Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern examines this phenomenon in Tamil-speaking South India over the last three centuries, charting the development of political oratory and its influence on society. Supplementing his narrative with thorough archival work, Bernard Bate begins with Protestant missionaries' introduction of the sermonic genre and takes the reader through its local vernacularization.
This anthology draws bold comparisons between secularist strategies to contain, privatize, and discipline religion and the treatment of racialized subjects by the American state. Contributors from a range of disciplines expose secularism's prohibitive practices in all facets of American society and suggest opportunities for change.
By Jean-Frédéric Schaub
Translation of: Pour une historie politique de la race.
By Robert Morrison
A surprising and lively history of an overlooked era that brought the modern world of art, culture, and science decisively into view.
By William Hardy McNeill
A distinguished scholar and the well-known author of The Rise of the West and Plagues and Peoples, William McNeill has won widespread recgonition for his ideas on the role of disease in history.
By Michael Brenner
A major new history of the century-long debate over what a Jewish state should be Many Zionists who advocated for the creation of a Jewish state envisioned a nation like any other. Yet for Israel's founders, the nation that emerged against all odds in 1948 was anything but ordinary. Born from the ashes of genocide and a long history of suffering, Israel was conceived to be unique, a model society and the heart of a prosperous new Middle East.
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