Explores Victorian writers’ conception of the novel’s potential to become serious knowledge and differentiate itself from other educational genres.

A comparative study of iconographic and fictional representations of department stores in France and Egypt, as sites of imperial and Mediterranean cultural memory, from 1859 to the present.

An approachable and readable translation of a classic work of Chinese literature and landmark work of non-Western fiction writing.

Combines historical, literary, art historical, and archaeological perspectives to explore the idea of the Hindu temple in the British colonial imagination.

Offers a new perspective on the first dynasty of imperial China and the reasons for its collapse.

Explores how the tremendous wealth of newly unearthed artifacts and manuscripts have changed our understanding of China's past.

Draws on the rich history of Black feminist writing to help scholars manage the stress of writing and publishing academic books.

Seeks to introduce an "affective turn" to the study of China's political modernization process.

Provides a philosophical, cultural, and historical answer to the question: Where did China come from?

Looks at how digitalization has changed the way we produce and interact, and the implications for working classes and countries of the Global South.

Examines questions of cosmos, society, and self through the metaphors and language of ancient Chinese texts and artifacts.

Sheds new light on the relationship between myth and history in ancient China and the central role they have played in shaping early Chinese thought.

A comprehensive study of the history and evolution of the dybbuk, from kabbalistic tradition to popular folklore.

Shows how Britain's trans-imperial engagements in the long nineteenth century have come to shape global cultural commodity flows today.

A deeply researched, pathbreaking collection of original and newly translated essays on slavery in Spain, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico.

A collection of original essays and previously untranslated critical writings on the renowned Brazilian documentary filmmaker, Eduardo Coutinho.

Offers an innovative analysis of gates—as architectural components, visual images, and mental constructs—in early Chinese thought and material culture.

A pioneering study of a formative chapter in Middle East intellectual history, examining the historical myth that underlies the "Canaanite" brand of Israeli nationalist anti-Zionism.

Provides a new model for reading the Shiji and other early Chinese historical texts.

Challenges readers to use utopian thinking and practice to counter the conditions of the present and create an alternative future.

Biography of a major figure in modern Chinese history.

Uses the intellectual encounter between Islam and modernity to explore the nature of culture, civilization, religion, and tradition.

Studies Plato's approach to argumentation, exploring his role as logician, rhetorician, and dialectician in a way that sees these three aspects working together.

Explores the question of whether heroes matter in the modern republic.

Originally published in Hebrew in 1944, this fascinating and moving account may well be the first memoir of the Holocaust.