- Civilization and Enlightenment
- Albert M. Craig
- The idea that society progresses through stages of development, from savagery to civilization, arose in eighteenth-century Europe. Craig traces how Fukuzawa Yukichi, deeply influenced by the Scottish Enlightenment, “translated” the idea for Japanese society, both enriching and challenging the concept.
- Hardcover 2009
- Islamicate Sexualities
- Edited by Kathryn Babayan
- Edited by Afsaneh Najmabadi
- Babayan explores different genealogies of sexuality and questions some of the theoretical emphases and epistemic assumptions affecting current histories of sexuality.
- Paperback 2008
- Why the Garden Club Couldn't Save Youngstown
- Sean Safford
- This book compares the recent history of Allentown, Pennsylvania, with that of Youngstown, Ohio. Safford offers a probing historical explanation for the decline, fall, and unlikely rejuvenation of the Rust Belt.
- Hardcover 2009