Coping with Defeat: Sunni Islam, Roman Catholicism, and the Modern State The surprising similarities in the rise and fall of the Sunni Islamic and Roman Catholic empires in the face of…
Corporate Conquests : Business, the State, and the Origins of Ethnic Inequality in Southwest China Tenacious patterns of ethnic and economic inequality persist in the rural, largely minority regions of China’s north- and southwest. Such…
The Shimmering State: A Novel A luminous literary debut following two patients in recovery after an experimental memory drug warps their lives. Lucien moves to…
Red State Blues: How the Conservative Revolution Stalled in the States Over the last quarter century, a nationalized and increasingly conservative Republican Party made unprecedented gains at the state level, winning…
The State Must Provide: Why America’s Colleges Have Always Been Unequal – And How to Set Them Right [Audiobook] The definitive history of the pervasiveness of racial inequality in American higher education. America’s colleges and universities have a shameful…
Fengshui In China: Geomantic Divination Between State Orthodoxy And Popular Religion For well over a century Chinese fengshui, or geomancy, has fascinated Western laymen and scholars. Today hundreds of popular manuals…
From the Outside in: World War II and the American State From the Outside In examines the profound impact of World War II on American government. The book argues that the…
People Without a State: The Kurds from the Rise of Islam to the Dawn of Nationalism Numbering between 25 and 35 million worldwide, the Kurds are among the largest culturally and ethnically distinct people to remain…
God’s Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State (Volume 3) A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Up to the twentieth century, Islamic…
Power and Protest: How Marginalized Groups Oppose the State and Other Institutions Power and Protest presents chapters that analyse the dynamics of power in social movements. Examining how marginalized groups use their…