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Citizen Speak: The Democratic Imagination in American Life

Citizen Speak: The Democratic Imagination in American Life

When we think about what constitutes being a good citizen, routine activities like voting, letter writing, and paying attention to the news spring to mind. But in Citizen Speak, Andrew […]


Women of Courage: Jewish and Italian Immigrant Women in New York

Women of Courage: Jewish and Italian Immigrant Women in New York

In the wake of World War I, a diverse group of women emigrated from Europe to the United States under austere conditions and adapted in different ways to life in […]


Coming of Age in the Other America

Coming of Age in the Other America

Recent research on inequality and poverty has shown that those born into low-income families, especially African Americans, still have difficulty entering the middle class, in part because of the disadvantages […]


Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing

Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing

From the Cold War through today, the U.S. has quietly assisted dozens of regimes around the world in suppressing civil unrest and securing the conditions for the smooth operation of […]


Agrarian Marxism

Agrarian Marxism

This comprehensive volume advances heterodox reconstructions of agrarian Marxism on the occasion of Marx’s 200th birth anniversary. While Marxists have long criticized ‘populists’ for ignoring capitalism and class, populists have […]


Disenfranchised: The Rise and Fall of Industrial Citizenship in China

Disenfranchised: The Rise and Fall of Industrial Citizenship in China

In the decades following World War II, factories in many countries not only provided secure employment and a range of economic entitlements, but also recognized workers as legitimate stakeholders, enabling […]


Dispossession Without Development: Land Grabs in Neoliberal India

Dispossession Without Development: Land Grabs in Neoliberal India

Since the mid-2000s, India has been beset by widespread farmer protests against land dispossession. Dispossession Without Development demonstrates that beneath these conflicts lay a profound shift in regimes of dispossession. […]


The China Boom: Why China Will Not Rule the World

The China Boom:  Why China Will Not Rule the World

Many thought China’s rise would fundamentally remake the global order. Yet, much like other developing nations, the Chinese state now finds itself entrenched in a status quo characterized by free […]


Networks beyond Empires: Chinese Business and Nationalism in the Hong Kong-Singapore Corridor, 1914-1941

Networks beyond Empires:  Chinese Business and Nationalism in the Hong Kong-Singapore Corridor, 1914-1941

In Networks beyond Empires, Kuo examines business and nationalist activities of the Chinese bourgeoisie in Hong Kong and Singapore between 1914 and 1941. The book argues that speech-group ties were […]


Counterfactuals and Causal Inference: Methods and Principles for Social Research (Analytical Methods for Social Research)

Counterfactuals and Causal Inference: Methods and Principles for Social Research (Analytical Methods for Social Research)

In this second edition of Counterfactuals and Causal Inference, completely revised and expanded, the essential features of the counterfactual approach to observational data analysis are presented with examples from the […]