A prize-winning poet argues that blackness acts as the caesura between human and nonhuman, man and animal.0Throughout US history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons, a subgenre of the human. Being Property Once Myself delves into the literary imagination …
The mongols are universally known as conquerors, but they were more than that: influential thinkers, politicians, engineers, and merchants. Challenging the view that nomads are peripheral to history, The Horde reveals the complex empire the Mongols built and traces its enduring …
Book on the history of women and the American civil war. Through three stories the author reveals the roles women played on and off the battlefield: the confederate spy Clara Judd, the emancipation of escaped enslaved women and the life of grande dame Gertrude Thomas. The book d…
A constitutional originalist sounds the alarm over the presidency's ever-expanding powers, ascribing them unexpectedly to the liberal embrace of a living Constitution. Liberal scholars and politicians routinely denounce the imperial presidency-a self-aggrandizing executive that …
For most of its history, the United States avoided making political and military commitments that would entangle it in European-style power politics. Then, suddenly, it conceived a new role for itself as the world's armed superpower-and never looked back. In Tomorrow, the World,…
Chinese leaders once tried to suppress memories of their nation's brutal experience during World War II. Now they celebrate the "victory"-a key foundation of China's rising nationalism.0For most of its history, the People's Republic of China limited public discussion of the war …
