by Summer Hart | Feb 12, 2025
Austerity Measures explores how early modern writers used poetic form as a tool to fight extreme food insecurity. Authors such as Thomas Tusser, George Herbert, Robert Herrick, Anne Bradstreet, and Thomas Tryon witnessed the privatization of public farmland, rising...
by Summer Hart | Feb 12, 2025
What happens to the experience of community when the grounds of communal life collapse? The Romantic period’s upheaval cast both traditional communal organizations of life and outgrowths of the new revolutionary age into crisis. In this context, Joseph Albernaz...
by Summer Hart | Feb 12, 2025
This book chronicles the life and political action of Franz Boas, a ground-breaking anthropologist whose work denied the notion of racial superiority and introduced the notion of cultural relativity. In addition, he was a fierce pacifist who opposed the entry of the...
by Summer Hart | Feb 12, 2025
In Indian languages from Sanskrit to Marathi, yoga has an enormous range of meanings, though most often it refers to philosophy or methods to control the mind and body. This book argues for a wider understanding, demonstrating that yoga has long expressed political...
by Summer Hart | Oct 31, 2024
How modern data-driven government originated in the creation and use of administrative archives in the British Empire. Over the span of two hundred years, Great Britain established, governed, lost, and reconstructed an empire that embraced three continents and two...
