Diani, a coastal town on the Indian Ocean, is significantly defined by a large European presence that has spurred economic development and is also supported by close relationships…
Edited by Stephanie Beswick, Soaud T. Ali, Richard Lobban and Jay Spaulding
The previous book presaged this present volume as the, perhaps inevitable, outcome of endless conflicts with no serious effort to “make unity attractive.” Reading this book will…
Successful democracies rely on an active citizenry. They require citizens to participate by voting, serving on juries, and running for office. But what happens when those citizens…
"Uncivil Disobedience" examines the roles violence and terrorism have played in the exercise of democratic ideals in America. Jennet Kirkpatrick explores how crowds, rallying behind the…
How have political conflicts impacted philosophical concepts and the rise of particular intellectual lineages in China? This question is part of a contested issue — the relative strength…
Edited by Ryan Skinnell
Donald J. Trump's speaking and writing invite passionate reactions — maybe he’s a bluecollar, billionaire hero who speaks the language of the common man or maybe he’s a gleefully…
Edited by María Isabel Alvarez and Dante Di Stefano
The poets anthologized in "Misrepresented People: Poetic Responses to Trump's America" bear witness to, rage against, and defy the misogyny, racism, homophobia, xenophobia, and…
"With the precision of a surgeon and a poet's reverberant intelligence, Vedran Husić gives us stories of children growing up in war-ravaged Bosnia, a world of vanishing fathers, games…
Mapping representations of post-1980s immigration from the former Soviet Union to the United States in interviews, reality TV shows, fiction, and memoirs, Claudia Sadowski-Smith shows…
In 1963, the waters began rising behind Glen Canyon Dam and 170 miles of the Colorado River slowly disappeared as the riverbed and its surrounding wild canyons filled with water. The dam…