Before it became the center of Latin American drug trafficking, the Colombian city of Medellin was famous as a success story of industrialization, a place where protectionist tariffs had created a &q …

In Like Cattle and Horses Steve Smith connects the rise of Chinese nationalism to the growth of a Chinese working class. Moving from the late nineteenth century, when foreign companies first set up f …

Nancy L. Green offers a critical and lively look at New York’s Seventh Avenue and the Parisian Sentier in this first comparative study of the two historical centers of the women’s garment industry. T …

A landmark work on human migration around the globe, Cultures in Contact provides a history of the world told through the movements of its people. It is a broad, pioneering interpretation of the scop …

Working Difference is one of the first comparative, historical studies of women’s professional access to public institutions in a state socialist and a capitalist society. Eva Fodor examines women’s …

A New Statesman Book of the Year"America’s greatest historian of democracy now offers an extraordinary history of the most bizarre aspect of our representative democracy-the electoral college… …