Princeton University Press: 2605 books
Foreign Relations
American Immigration in Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Histories investigating U.S. immigration have often portrayed America as a domestic melting pot, merging together those who arrive on its shores. Yet this is not a truly accurate depiction of the nation's complex connections to immigration. Offering a brand-new global history of the subject, Foreign...
No Man's Land
Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
From South Africa in the nineteenth century to Hong Kong today, nations around the world, including the United States, have turned to guestworker programs to manage migration. These temporary labor recruitment systems represented a state-brokered compromise between employers who wanted foreign workers...
Arendt and Heidegger
The Fate of the Political
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 1995
Theodor Adorno once wrote an essay to "defend Bach against his devotees." In this book Dana Villa does the same for Hannah Arendt, whose sweeping reconceptualization of the nature and value of political action, he argues, has been covered over and domesticated by admirers (including critical theorists,...
by Tamsin Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Political theorists have long been frustrated by Nietzsche's work. Although he develops profound critiques of morality, culture, and religion, it is very difficult to spell out the precise political implications of his insights. He himself never did so in any systematic way. In this book, Tamsin Shaw...
Montaigne
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
One of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before. But did he do it, as he suggests in his Essays, by retreating to his chateau, turning his back on the world,...
by Mordechai Feingold, Jed Z Buchwald
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2012
Isaac Newton's Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, published in 1728, one year after the great man's death, unleashed a storm of controversy. And for good reason. The book presents a drastically revised timeline for ancient civilizations, contracting Greek history by five hundred years and Egypt's...
by Charles Tilly
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
Why? is a book about the explanations we give and how we give them--a fascinating look at the way the reasons we offer every day are dictated by, and help constitute, social relationships. Written in an easy-to-read style by distinguished social historian Charles Tilly, the book explores the manner...
"The Tibetan Book of the Dead"
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
The Tibetan Book of the Dead is the most famous Buddhist text in the West, having sold more than a million copies since it was first published in English in 1927. Carl Jung wrote a commentary on it, Timothy Leary redesigned it as a guidebook for an acid trip, and the Beatles quoted Leary's version...
Soul Dust
The Magic of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
How is consciousness possible? What biological purpose does it serve? And why do we value it so highly? In Soul Dust, the psychologist Nicholas Humphrey, a leading figure in consciousness research, proposes a startling new theory. Consciousness, he argues, is nothing less than a magical-mystery show...
by Richard Foley
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
A woman glances at a broken clock and comes to believe it is a quarter past seven. Yet, despite the broken clock, it really does happen to be a quarter past seven. Her belief is true, but it isn't knowledge. This is a classic illustration of a central problem in epistemology: determining what knowledge...
by Amos Ih Tiao Chang
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Frank Lloyd Wright first noted the affinity between modern Western architecture and the philosophy of the ancient Chinese writer Laotzu. In this classic work, Amos Ih Tiao Chang expands on that idea, developing the parallel with the aid of architectural drawings and Chinese paintings. Now with a new...
Frontier Fictions
Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
In Frontier Fictions, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet looks at the efforts of Iranians to defend, if not expand, their borders in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and explores how their conceptions of national geography influenced cultural and political change. The "frontier fictions,"...
Tocqueville between Two Worlds
The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Alexis de Tocqueville may be the most influential political thinker in American history. He also led an unusually active and ambitious career in French politics. In this magisterial book, one of America's most important contemporary theorists draws on decades of research and thought to present the...
Legitimacy and Power Politics
The American and French Revolutions in International Political Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
This book examines the causes and consequences of a major transformation in both domestic and international politics: the shift from dynastically legitimated monarchical sovereignty to popularly legitimated national sovereignty. It analyzes the impact of Enlightenment discourse on politics in eighteenth-century...