Harvard University PressWhy Do We Need a New Paradigm to Explain the Wealth of Nations?The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations, available in paperback, draws on cutting-edge theory and…4 min read·Sep 22, 2023--1--1
Harvard University PressWhy Are Jamaicans the Fastest Runners in the World?Orlando Patterson’s award-winning book The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament, out now in paperback, grapples…4 min read·Aug 13, 2023----
Harvard University PressThe ValentinianiCalled “a brilliant tour d’horizon of the West” by the New York Review of Books, Michael Kulikowski’s The Tragedy of Empire: From…6 min read·Jul 19, 2023----
Harvard University PressDown in the Hole: Steelmaking Pittsburgh in the 1950sIn The Next Shift, Gabriel Winant takes us inside the Rust Belt to show how America’s cities have weathered new economic realities. The…4 min read·Jun 21, 2023--1--1
Harvard University PressSacralizing the Urban LandscapeIn his book God In Gotham: The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan, now out in paperback, Jon Butler reveals how faith adapted and…4 min read·May 30, 2023----
Harvard University PressIdeological Exclusion & Deportation: Political Repression through the Suppression of Free…In Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States, Julia Rose Kraut reveals how the United…5 min read·May 12, 2023--4--4
Harvard University PressThe Kind of Justice Which Only a Brother Can GiveJean Rhodes’ award-winning book Older and Wiser: New Ideas for Youth Mentoring in the 21st Century, now out in paperback, surveys the state…4 min read·Apr 28, 2023----
Harvard University PressDismal NationalismTim Harper’s Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire tells the dramatic story of the shadowy networks of…5 min read·Mar 23, 2023----
Harvard University PressCannibal GoldExhibiting at The Shed through April 16 is The Yanomami Struggle, a collection dedicated to the Yanomami people’s fight against the…6 min read·Mar 13, 2023----
Harvard University PressThe Fugitive Slave as a Folk Hero in Black EducationJarvis R. Givens chronicles the subversive tradition of Black education in America in his award-winning book Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G…5 min read·Feb 27, 2023----