Social norms are the glue that holds society together, yet our knowledge of them remains
heavily intellectually siloed. This article provides an interdisciplinary review of the emerging …

This paper discusses the rise to prominence of persistence studies, defined as studies that
use quantitative causal inference to link past events with later economic and political …

The Earth has reached a tipping point. Runaway climate change, the sixth great extinction of
planetary life, the acidification of the oceans—all point toward an era of unprecedented …

Abstract “Rugged individualism”—the combination of individualism and anti-statism—is a
prominent feature of American culture with deep roots in the country's history of frontier …

The presence of a westward‐moving frontier of settlement shaped early US history. In 1893,
the historian Frederick Jackson Turner famously argued that the American frontier fostered …

One of Europe's leading intellectual historians deconstructs the dark side of liberalism,
sifting through 3 centuries of liberal writings by John Locke, Alexis de Tocqueville, and …

Edition mise à jour En tant que géographe, Stéphane Rosière apporte ici un éclairage
essentiel sur les disciplines éminemment spatiales que sont la géographie politique et la …

This is a book about poverty and the ways in which people have made sense of it. It is also,
therefore, a book about contested concepts, about terms whose meanings have been up for …

In this landmark effort to understand African American people in the New World, Gunnar
Myrdal provides deep insight into the contradictions of American democracy as well as a …

A wheel turns because of its encounter with the surface of the road; spinning in the air it
goes nowhere. Rubbing two sticks together produces heat and light; one stick alone is just a …