" This is an urgently needed book as the question of choreographing behavior enters into
realms outside of the aesthetic domains of theatrical dance, Susan Foster writes a …

Drawing from a rich array of visual and literary material from nineteenth-century Iran, this
groundbreaking book rereads and rewrites the history of Iranian modernity through the lens …

Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference reveals the relationship between racial
discrimination and the struggle for upward social mobility in the early modern world …

The UK Home Office and the US Transportation Security Administration have made
substantial recent investment in new Backscatter X-ray scanners to screen bodies at …

When we think about the European past, we tend to imagine villages, towns, and cities
populated by conventional families—married couples and their children. Although most …

Maps make the world visible, but they also obscure, distort, idealize. This wide-ranging study
traces the impact of cartography on the changing cultural meanings of space, offering a fresh …

The first full-length study of the impact of the discovery of the Americas on Italian
Renaissance art and culture, Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence demonstrates that …

Toward the end of the sixteenth century, and throughout the seventeenth, thinking in spatial
terms assumed extraordinary urgency among Russia's ruling elites. The two great …

These seven essays and the seminar in which they first circulated emerged in the wake of
the 2013 Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) meeting in Toronto, which had as one …

JB Harley notes that 'maps as an impersonal type of knowledge tend to “desocialize” the
territory they represent; they foster the notion of a socially empty space'. Focusing on …