September 12, 2020

Browse Books in Global Politics with Caelyn Cobb

The world may be on pause, but politics—and the study of it—continues apace. From gender and globalization to comparative politics and methodology, the global politics list at Columbia University Press is here to help you keep up. This spring saw...

September 12, 2020

Book Giveaway! Stories from the Field

“The breadth of life experience captured in this collection is the reason this volume has great pedagogical potential. A lot of graduate students will flip to find their academic heroes and crushes and then keep reading. Authors are writing with...

September 11, 2020

Video: Bernard E. Harcourt Asks, “Can Critical Theory Change the World?”

 “Today the paradigm has shifted and praxis must be posed as subjectivation. If before the problem consisted in responding to ‘What is to be done?,’ today the question is ‘What more am I to do?’ Harcourt thus transforms critical...

September 11, 2020

Browse Books in Political Theory with Wendy Lochner

Hi, I’m Wendy Lochner, the editor responsible for political theory and political philosophy. By now you know that we are participating in the virtual APSA meeting, introducing new books, posting new author blogs and videos, and offering discounts and book...

September 10, 2020

Book Launch: Critique & Praxis

Canceled! We are all mourning the loss of the great Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and extend to her family our deepest condolences. #StreetRidersNYC are not riding.Let’s meet instead today at the vigil for RBG in NYC. Time & location will be...

September 10, 2020

Heath Brown on Homeschooling the Right

“In this exciting book, Heath Brown enlarges our understanding of conservative public policies and their relation to American political development, helps situate the homeschooling movement within the larger “New Right” enterprise, and offers a novel theory of conservative freedom policies...

September 10, 2020

Take a Tour of Our APSA 2020 Virtual Booth with Stephen Wesley

Hello and welcome to the Columbia University Press virtual exhibit booth for this year’s meeting of the American Political Science Association. We would have loved to see you in San Francisco, but so long as the coronavirus pandemic is with...

September 9, 2020

New From Our Distributed Presses! Quantitative Easing, ohpikinâwasowin/Growing a Child, Being a Parent in the Field and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Agenda Publishing From the Finance Matters series Quantitative Easing Jonathan Ashworth This book offers a thorough and perspicacious analysis of QE, what has become a recovery method of last resort, and...

September 8, 2020

New Book Tuesday! The Huayan University Network

Our weekly list of new books is now available! The Huayan University Network The Teaching and Practice of Avataṃsaka Buddhism in Twentieth-Century China Erik J. Hammerstrom In The Huayan University Network, Erik J. Hammerstrom examines how Huayan Buddhism was imagined,...

September 8, 2020

The Unprecedented 1827 Osaka Incident

By Kate Wildman Nakai, Mark Teeuwen, and Fumiko Miyazaki

“Christian Sorcerers on Trial is a model of consummate scholarship and at the same time a gripping narrative which will be of great interest not just to students of Japanese religion and history, but to anyone curious about Japan in the...

September 3, 2020

Van C. Gessel on Endō Shūsaku’s Sachiko

“An extraordinary novel by one of Japan’s literary masters, Sachiko is a testament to shared experiences, cruelty, loss, and the persistence of love and faith.” ~Foreword Reviews, starred review September is National Translation Month. Today, we present a guest post...

September 2, 2020

Q&A: Claire Seiler on Midcentury Suspension

“It is impossible not to be impressed by the highly accomplished results on offer in Claire Seiler’s reconfiguration of early postwar transatlantic literature in terms of the concept of the “midcentury” and the forms of temporal and theoretical suspension she...