Cecile Pineda--award-winning Chicana novelist, memoirist, theater director, performer, activist--felt rootless throughout much of her life. Her father ...

By the end of the eighth century A.D., imperial China had established a system of administrative and penal law, the main institutions of which lasted ...

This volume of original essays is the first collection devoted to the monumental Roman de Melusine (1393) by Jean d'Arras. A masterwork of late ...

This book explores the often-overlooked positive role of public housing in facilitating social movements and activism. Taking a political, social, and ...

This original and ambitious work looks anew at a series of intellectual debates about the meaning of democracy. Clive Barnett engages with key thinkers ...

In the last decade the world has witnessed a rise in women's participation in terrorism. Women, Gender, and Terrorism explores women's relationship ...

Reading the Roots is an unprecedented anthology of outstanding early writings about American nature--a rich, influential, yet critically underappreciated ...