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Migrants in the Profane
Critical Theory and the Question of Secularization
A beautifully written exploration of religion’s role in a secular, modern politics, by an accomplished scholar of critical theoryMigrants in the Profane takes its title from a well-known remark by...
Past and Prologue
Politics and Memory in the American Revolution
How American colonists reinterpreted their British and colonial histories to help establish political and cultural independence from Britain In Past and Prologue, Michael Hattem shows how colonists’...
Ceramics of Iran
Islamic Pottery in the Sarikhani Collection
A beautifully illustrated showcase of the rich and varied ceramic tradition of Iran Featuring a broad selection of objects from one of the most distinguished collections of Iranian art, this volume brings...
Vietnam
Rising Dragon
Revised Edition, Revised and Updated
A much-needed behind-the-scenes survey of an emerging Asian power The eyes of the West have recently been trained on China and India, but Vietnam is rising fast among its Asian peers. A breathtaking period of...
The Dead of the Irish Revolution
The first comprehensive account to record and analyze all deaths arising from the Irish revolution between 1916 and 1921 This account covers the turbulent period from the 1916 Rising to the Anglo-Irish...
The Last Slave Ships
New York and the End of the Middle Passage
A stunning behind-the-curtain look into the last years of the illegal transatlantic slave trade in the United States Long after the transatlantic slave trade was officially outlawed by every major slave...
On Democracy
Written by the preeminent democratic theorist of our time, this book explains the nature, value, and mechanics of democracy. In a new introduction to this Veritas edition, Ian Shapiro considers how Dahl would respond to the ongoing...
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 9
Catastrophe and Rebirth, 1939–1973
An exploration of global Jewish responses to the years 1939 to 1973, a time of unprecedented destruction, dislocation, agency, and creativity. Volume 9 of the Posen Library covers the years 1939 to 1973, a...
What Obergefell v. Hodges Should Have Said
The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Same-Sex Marriage Decision
Rewriting the Supreme Court’s landmark gay rights decision Jack Balkin and an all-star cast of legal scholars, sitting as a hypothetical Supreme Court, rewrite the famous 2015 opinion in Obergefell v....
A Question of Freedom
The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War
The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history For over seventy years and five generations, the enslaved families of Prince George’s County, Maryland, filed...