Nazi concentration camps (KZs) were established in the vicinity of local communities across Europe. Arguably, the individuals in these communities were not perpetrators, nor were they victims, like...

Women’s Imprisonment and the Case for Abolition

is an anthropological account of how Peruvian emigrants raise and remit money and what that activity means for themselves and for their home communities. The book draws on first-hand ethnographic...

Our ideas about the long histories of young couples' relationships and women's efforts to manage their reproductive health are often premised on the notion of a powerful sexual double standard. In...

Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty (Forms of Living)

Gender on the Edge: Transgender, Gay, and Other Pacific Islanders

Korean American Families in Immigrant America: How Teens and Parents Navigate Race

is the first book to study the conflation of antisemitism and anti-Black racism. As objects of racism, Jews and Blacks have been linked together for centuries as peoples apart from the general run of...

Clutter: An Untidy History

In the eighteenth century, as wars between Britain, France, and their allies raged across the world, hundreds of thousands of people were captured, detained, or exchanged. They were shipped across...

How did the West End of London become the world's leading pleasure district? What is the source of its magnetic appeal? How did the centre of London become Theatreland? is the first ever history of...

Queering Family Trees: Race, Reproductive Justice, and Lesbian Motherhood

In the American West, water adjudication lawsuits are adversarial, expensive, and lengthy.   is the first detailed study of water adjudications in New Mexico. The state envisioned adjudication as a...

This ground-breaking study explores welfare institutions in western law in the middle ages and establishes, for the first time, a legal model for the hospital. takes us beyond canon law, Carolingian...

In the sixteenth century, in what is now modern-day Peru and Bolivia, Andean communities were forcibly removed from their traditional villages by Spanish colonizers and resettled in planned, self-g...