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From Social Movement to Moral Market tells the story of the Circuit Riders, a group of activists who helped nonprofit organizations to cross the digital divide, as a way of examining how grassroots movements lay the groundwork for the formation of new markets.

This book analyzes China's interactions with leading international organizations, and concludes that international engagement is the key to the gradual socialization of "rogue" states.

American Bohemias explores the construction and emergence of "Bohemia" in American literature and culture.

The Right Spouse offers a description and an interpretation of preferential marriages with close kin in South India, as they used to be arranged and experienced in the recent past, one or two generations ago, and as they are increasingly discontinued in the present.

Based on the works of Marx, Veblen and Weber, and in stark contrast to mainstream economics, this book presents a view of money as an object of desire.

This book brings together a uniquely wide variety of sources, including historical chronicles, gravestones, ritual objects, liturgy, popular songs and more, to sketch a portrait of the ways in which Jews of this storied, populous, understudied community preserved their own local history and sought to transmit it to future generations.

This book focuses on how low-wage Vietnamese immigrants in the United States and their non-migrant family members in Vietnam give, receive, and spend money.

This book provides one of the first economic analysis of Hispanic entrepreneurship in the first decade of the 2000s.

Told through the life and work of a barber-Ibn Budayr-this book explores emerging written historical forms by non-scholars in the 18th century Ottoman Empire to offer a revisionist history that connects 18th century society and culture to the 19th century Arab Renaissance.

Explores the emergence of a credit card market in post-Soviet Russia during the formative period from 1988 to 2007. This book demonstrates how networks that combine individuals and organizations help to build markets for mass consumption. It chronicles both the creation of a credit card market and the making of a mass consumer.

Sergo Mikoyan, who died in 2010, was a historian specializing in Latin America and in Soviet-Latin American relations. Svetlana Savranskaya is a research fellow at the National Security Archive at George Washington University.

Culture and Management in the Americas provides a different approach to enhance the effectiveness of management across cultures.

This book opens new perspectives on the Zohar, the greatest book of Jewish mysticism, by examining its unique approach to narrative.

This book, which features the autobiographical narrative of Mistress Mary Hampson, a 17th-century woman in an abusive and violent marriage, reconstructs the events in and around this harrowing tale and rescues a compelling and complicated voice from the past.

This book reconstructs John Locke's political theology to offer a revolutionary theory of the secular as public religion.

Chinese Money in Global Context: Historic Junctures Between 600 BC and 2012 offers a groundbreaking interpretation of the Chinese monetary system's evolution. Focusing on pivotal moments in history, author Niv Horesh provides an international perspective that highlights the ways in which Chinese currency impacted, diverged from, and has been shaped by financial systems around the world.

The Neuro-Image investigates cinema's survival in the digital age through neuroscientific and philosophical understandings of the brain, our conception of the future, and the affective intensity of contemporary screen culture.

This book re-examines important figures from the entire history of philosophy to show how and why philosophy must renew itself as a critical practice dedicated to dialogue with women, people of color, LGBTs, and others who seek liberation from age-old oppressions.

The Illustration of the Master examines the crucial role of the illustrated press in the formation of the reading public and the writing profession during Henry James's lifetime.

This is the first comprehensive new study of the Greek Jewish experience during World War II to be published in sixty years.

This book is about how U.S. immigration policies and immigrants' gendered experiences stratify the well-being of Salvadoran mothers and fathers in the United States and their children who remain in El Salvador.

A radical reassessment of the art and writings of Wassily Kandinsky, this book contests the traditional understanding that he was motivated by mystical concerns and sees his work instead as an extended philosophical "conversation" on the nature of art with German philosopher Hegel, and the Kandinsky's own nephew, philosopher and Hegel scholar, Alexandre Kojeve.

Judaism in Transition places American Judaism in its economic context and shows how the decisions of individual Jews, as they respond to economic incentives, have shaped a community that is characterized by innovative ways of observing ancient religious traditions.

In the mid-18th century, the French naturalist Buffon contended that the New World was in fact geologically new and that it had recently emerged from the water. This text looks at the debate surrounding the geological history of the New World, and the effect on historiographical concepts.