October 8, 2015

Wall Streeters: Michael Milken, Junk Bond King, Part 1

Read an excerpt from chapter on Michael Milken from WALL STREETERS: THE CREATORS AND CORRUPTORS OF AMERICAN FINANCE, by Edward Morris!

October 7, 2015

Wall Streeters: J. Pierpont Morgan

Read an excerpt from chapter on J. Pierpont Morgan from WALL STREETERS: THE CREATORS AND CORRUPTORS OF AMERICAN FINANCE, by Edward Morris!

October 6, 2015

Has 'Financialization' Been Good for Us?

Read an excerpt from the conclusion of WALL STREETERS: THE CREATORS AND CORRUPTORS OF AMERICAN FINANCE, by Edward Morris!

October 6, 2015

New Book Tuesday: Transracial Adoption, Sport in India, and More New Books!

Our weekly listing of new titles.

October 5, 2015

An Interview with Steven S. Lee, author of "The Ethnic Avant-Garde"

“Up until Black Lives Matter, there was a lot of talk about ‘post-race’ and ‘post-identity,’ which now seems awfully naïve. I think my book helps us to grasp the ongoing salience of racial and ethnic divides, namely, by explaining how...

October 2, 2015

University Press Roundup

Our weekly links roundup of the best blog posts from around the world of academic publishing!

October 2, 2015

American Individualism Challenged

Read a guest post by George Rupp, author of BEYOND INDIVIDUALISM: THE CHALLENGE OF INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES, in which he argues that the individualism embraced by both liberals and conservatives in American politics has a deleterious effect on both American domestic and foreign policy.

October 1, 2015

Introducing "Beyond Individualism"

Read the introduction of BEYOND INDIVIDUALISM: THE CHALLENGE OF INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES, by George Rupp.

October 1, 2015

Interview with Jill Stauffer, author of Ethical Loneliness

Read an interview with Jill Stauffer, author of ETHICAL LONELINESS: THE INJUSTICE OF NOT BEING HEARD.

September 30, 2015

Periodization and Globalization — Jacques Le Goff

The conclusion to “Must We Divide History Into Periods,” by Jacques Le Goff.

September 29, 2015

Jacques Le Goff's Preface to "Must We Divide History Into Periods?"

“I trust I have not lost sight of the broader question with which I began, namely, whether history is a unified, continuous whole or whether it is broken up instead into segments of greater or lesser length. To put the...

September 29, 2015

New Book Tuesday! The China Boom, Marx After Marx, and More New Titles!

Our weekly listing of new titles!