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Challenges descriptions of East Asian societies as Confucian cultures and communitarian Confucian models as a political alternative to liberal democracy.

An innovative comparative study of the role of racial stereotypes in expressing state power under globalization.

Combines powerful first-person accounts with incisive scholarly analysis to understand the phenomenon of ultra-Orthodox Jews who leave their insular communities and venture into the wider world.

Examines US foreign and domestic policy through the narratives of post-9/11 US military veterans and the activism they are engaged in.

Examines the Great Peace (taiping), one of the first utopian visions in Chinese history, and its impact on literati lives in Han China.

Explores the evolving role of botanic gardens from products and enablers of modernity and the nation-state, to their recent reinvention as institutions of environmental governance.

Assesses John Dewey's visit to China in 1919-21 as an "intra-cultural" episode and promotes "Chinese natural philosophy" as a philosophical context in which to understand the connections between Dewey's philosophy and early Confucian thinking.

Proposes an "intra-cultural philosophy" based on John Dewey's "cultural turn" and promotes Daoist thought as a resource that can help to reconstruct outmoded assumptions that continue to shape how we currently think.

A study of John Marshall's political thought with special emphasis on his views of constitutional legitimacy, sovereignty, citizenship, and national identity.

Analyzes audio recordings of interwar Hebrew plays, providing a new model for the use of sound in theater studies.

A wide-ranging consideration of early modern Muslim and Christian empires, covering the Iberian, Ottoman and Mughal worlds, including questions of political economy, images and representations, and historiography.

A psychological study, based on extensive interview data, of Jewish adults who take on a devout lifestyle.

A distillation of the historian's finest writings on modern Indian historical themes.

Systematically addresses the philosophical implications of the postcolonial.

Investigates how musicals, war films, sex comedies, and Westerns dealt with contentious issues during a time of change in Hollywood.

Examines Bergson's work from the perspectives of critical philosophy of race and decolonial theory, placing it in conversation with theorists from Africa, the African Diaspora, and Latin America.

Explores how writers across five continents and four centuries have debated ideas about what it means to be an individual, and shows that the modern self is an ongoing project of global history.

Illuminates transgender activists' successful strategies to organize for social and political change in the US.

Reveals how the expanding world-system entangled the non-western world in global economies, yet did so in ways that were locally articulated, varied, and, often, non-European in their expression.

Examines how our diverse understandings of property impact real-world governing strategies.

Diagnoses our contemporary spatial experience as fundamentally totalitarian through a multilayered critical theory of space.

Analyzes six films as allegories of capitalism's precarious state in the early twenty-first century.

A rich collection of essays about the inner, shared experiences of participants engaged in second-person approaches to contemplative practice.

Investigates the cosmological and metaphysical thought in the Zhuangzi from the perspective of nothingness.

Reveals how presidents deploy a rhetoric that attempts to attract many racial and ethnic groups, but ultimately directs itself to an archtypal white, Middle-American swing voter.

A critical, philosophical engagement of the psychological structures that propagate the continued oppression of women.

Explores the sources, interpretations, and influences of Neoplatonism.

A guide to Buddhism's rich variety of traditions and cultural expressions for educators who would like to include Buddhism in their undergraduate courses.