Princeton University Press: 2605 books
The Passions and the Interests
Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests--so long condemned as the deadly sin of avarice--was assigned the role...
The Visioneers
How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
In 1969, Princeton physicist Gerard O'Neill began looking outward to space colonies as the new frontier for humanity's expansion. A decade later, Eric Drexler, an MIT-trained engineer, turned his attention to the molecular world as the place where society's future needs could be met using self-replicating...
by Abraham Flexner, Robbert Dijkgraaf
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
A short, provocative book about why "useless" science often leads to humanity's greatest technological breakthroughs
A forty-year tightening of funding for scientific research has meant that resources are increasingly directed toward applied or practical outcomes, with the intent...
The Origins of the Urban Crisis
Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2014
Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America’s racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. He challenges...
Three Critics of the Enlightenment
Vico, Hamann, Herder - Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2013
Isaiah Berlin was deeply admired during his life, but his full contribution was perhaps underestimated because of his preference for the long essay form. The efforts of Henry Hardy to edit Berlin's work and reintroduce it to a broad, eager readership have gone far to remedy this. Now, Princeton is...
Medieval Cities
Their Origins and the Revival of Trade - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Nearly a century after it was first published in 1925, Medieval Cities remains one of the most provocative works of medieval history ever written. Here, Henri Pirenne argues that it was not the invasion of the Germanic tribes that destroyed the civilization of antiquity, but rather the closing of...
The Children of Abraham
Judaism, Christianity, Islam
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
F.E. Peters, a scholar without peer in the comparative study of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, revisits his pioneering work. Peters has rethought and thoroughly rewritten his classic The Children of Abraham for a new generation of readers-at a time when the understanding of these three religious...
The Age of the Democratic Revolution
A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800 - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
For the Western world, the period from 1760 to 1800 was the great revolutionary era in which the outlines of the modern democratic state came into being. Here for the first time in one volume is R. R. Palmer's magisterial account of this incendiary age. Palmer argues that the American, French, and...
The Edge of Objectivity
An Essay in the History of Scientific Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Originally published in 1960, The Edge of Objectivity helped to establish the history of science as a full-fledged academic discipline. In the mid-1950s, a young professor at Princeton named Charles Gillispie began teaching Humanities 304, one of the first undergraduate courses offered anywhere in...
Ernst Kantorowicz
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
This is the first complete biography of Ernst Kantorowicz (1895–1963), an influential and controversial German-American intellectual whose colorful and dramatic life intersected with many of the great events and thinkers of his time. A medieval historian whose ideas exerted an influence far beyond...
Islamic Political Thought
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2015
In sixteen concise chapters on key topics, this book provides a rich, authoritative, and up-to-date introduction to Islamic political thought from the birth of Islam to today, presenting essential background and context for understanding contemporary politics in the Islamic world and beyond. Selected...
Syrian Episodes
Sons, Fathers, and an Anthropologist in Aleppo
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2007
When Princeton anthropologist John Borneman arrived in Syria's second-largest city in 2004 as a visiting Fulbright professor, he took up residence in what many consider a "rogue state" on the frontline of a "clash of civilizations" between the Orient and the West. Hoping to understand...
"Keep the Damned Women Out"
The Struggle for Coeducation
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
As the tumultuous decade of the 1960s ended, a number of very traditional, very conservative, highly prestigious colleges and universities in the United States and the United Kingdom decided to go coed, seemingly all at once, in a remarkably brief span of time. Coeducation met with fierce resistance....
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
The Essential Goethe is the most comprehensive and representative one-volume collection of Goethe's writings ever published in English. It provides English-language readers easier access than ever before to the widest range of work by one of the greatest writers in world history. Goethe’s work as...