On the Cusp of an Era

With historical-critical analysis and dialogical even-handedness, the essays of this book re-assess the life and legacy of Swami Vivekananda, forged at a time of colonial suppressi...

Abstract The Social Topography of a Rural Community is the first study of any of the two dozen seventeenth-century English communities which have occupational data r...

Malaysia was once on the cusp of becoming one of the Asian Tigers as a result of the impressively high growth rates recorded in the early 1990s. From 1990 until 1997, the growth ra...

This chapter examines Indian foreign policy under Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi (1984–89). It argues that during these years, Indian foreign policy was significantly reoriented. Gand...

A "granular history" (Wall Street Journal) of the greatest hoax in radio history and the panic that followed, whichPublishers Weeklycalls "a rollicking portrait of a director on th...

The first book on active matter, an emerging field focused on programming physical materials to assemble themselves, transform autonomously, and react to information. ...