Culture & Society

The civil rights movement was one of the most searing developments in modern American history. It abounded with noble visions, resounded with magni...

Drawing from a vast array of creation myths-Babylonian, Greek, Aztec, Maya, Inca, Chinese, Hindu, Navajo, Polynesian, African, Norse, Inuit, and mo...

Leo Braudy, a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, has won accolades for revealing the complex and...

Mescaline became a popular sensation in the mid-twentieth century through Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception, after which the word "psychedeli...

A member of the unique generation of African writers and intellectuals who came of age in the last days of colonialism, Wole Soyinka has witnessed ...

edited by Andrew Van Der Vlies The most significant nonfiction writings of Zoe Wicomb, one of South Africa's leading authors and intellectuals, are...

This Veritas edition of Nancy Cott’s acclaimed study includes a new introduction by the author, situating the work for a new generation of readers....

China's Belt and Road Initiative is the world's most ambitious and misunderstood geoeconomic vision. To carry out President Xi Jinping's flagship f...

Considered by many to be one of the most influential books of the twentieth century, The Lonely Crowd opened exciting new dimensions in our underst...

This fascinating and enlightening study of the tie-on pocket combines materiality and gender to provide new insight into the social history of wome...

We work because we have to, but also because we like it: from hunting-gathering over 700,000 years ago to the present era of zoom meetings, humans ...

To understand a thwarted Turkish coup, an anti-Wall Street encampment, and a packed Tahrir Square, we must first comprehend the power and the weakn...

The greatest challenges facing humankind, according to Deirdre McCloskey, are poverty and tyranny, both of which hold people back. Arguing for a re...

This pioneering study of the social and political lives of Muslim women has shaped a whole generation of scholarship. In it, Leila Ahmed explores t...