Goa, and the blue mountains; or, six months of sick leave

Published in 1851, this is the first book written by the famed Victorian explorer Richard F. Burton. It is an account of his journey through portions of southwest India while he was on sick leave from the British Indian army. Traveling through Bombay to the Portuguese colony of Goa, he went throu...

Rethinking architecture

Rethinking Architecture: Design Students and Physically Disabled People by Raymond Lifchez examines how architectural education can be reshaped by engaging directly with the experiences of physically disabled people. The book grows out of an experimental studio project at the University of Califo...

Forces of order

In sharp contrast to the United States, Japan has one of the lowest crime rates in the world and practically no police brutality or corruption. Urban congestion is often blamed for the soaring crime rate in the United States and the waning public confidence in the American police force, yet Japan...

The spanish seaborne empire

The Spanish empire in America was the first of the great seaborne empires of western Europe; it was for long the richest and the most formidable, the focus of envy, fear, and hatred. Its haphazard beginning dates from 1492; it was to last more than three hundred years before breaking up in the ea...

Tradition and transition in east africa

Tradition and Transition in East Africa brings together leading anthropologists, historians, linguists, sociologists, and political practitioners to interrogate the role of “the tribal factor” in shaping East Africa’s modern era. Originating in the School of Oriental and African Studies’ African ...

The new typography

Since its initial publication in Berlin in 1928, Jan Tschichold's The New Typography has been recognized as the definitive treatise on book and graphic design in the machine age. First published in English in 1995, with an excellent introduction by Robin Kinross, this new edition includes a forew...

To make america

To Make America: European Emigration in the Early Modern Period brings together leading scholars to examine one of the most consequential yet understudied forces in Atlantic history: the mass movement of Europeans across the ocean between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Edited by Ida Altm...

The greeks and the irrational

In this philosophy classic, which was first published in 1951, E. R. Dodds takes on the traditional view of Greek culture as a triumph of rationalism. Using the analytical tools of modern anthropology and psychology, Dodds asks, "Why should we attribute to the ancient Greeks an immunity from 'pri...

Indian tales of the raj

Ethnic options

In this perceptive and revealing study, Mary Waters explores the "reinvention" of ethnicity in the lives of the grandchildren and great grandchildren of European immigrants, asking how their ethnic heritage is lived, maintained, and celebrated. Through in-depth interviews with sixty third and fou...

Caucasians only

Caucasians Only: The Supreme Court, the NAACP, and the Restrictive Covenant Cases provides a deep dive into the landmark legal battles that dismantled racially restrictive housing covenants in the United States. This book explores the Supreme Court’s rulings in 1948 and 1953, which invalidated ju...