The first attempt to understand medieval emotional responses to buildings like Notre-Dame built across the whole of Western Europe. In this time of rapid evolution, we offer a thoroughly updated and ...

How did chemistry and physics acquire their separate identities, and are they on their way to losing them again? Mary Jo Nye has written a graceful account of the historical demarcation of chemistry ...

In this innovative volume, leading scholars examine the role of the body as a primary site of political signification in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France. Some essays focus on the ...

Much agony over writing research papers originates in the failure of the academic system to teach students how to use the library and how to write formally structured English. This handbook is ...

Timothy O. Benedict is Assistant Professor in the School of Sociology at Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan. What role does religion play at the end of life in Japan? Spiritual Ends draws on ...

Cancer Intersections is an ethnographic analysis of the complex and paradoxical efforts to access neoliberal, market-based oncological treatments in Colombia, a country where all patients are legally ...

Paulina Pospieszna is Associate Professor of Political Science at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Her research interests include democracy promotion, democratization, and democratic ...

In this essay, UC Berkeley historian and Journal of Vietnamese Studies Co-Editor Peter Zinoman discusses the detention of Trương Huy San (Huy Đức) and his interview with the imprisoned journalist.

For hundreds of years the region we will call North L.A. in this book has been the historic core of Los Angeles. When the Tongva, the local indigenous people, dominated the region, one of their ...

It was an unfortunate irony for Lyndon Johnson that the Vietnam problem loomed large from the very beginning of his presidency. Since the start of his political career in the 1930s, the issues that ...