Princeton UP Ideas Podcast

There are many routes to mental well-being. In this groundbreaking book, neuroscientist Camilla Nord

Karl Marx (1818-1883) was living in exile in England when he embarked on an ambitious, multivolume c

The Holy Alliance is now most familiar as a label for conspiratorial reaction. In The Holy Alliance:

In 1665, Sabbetai Zevi, a self-proclaimed Messiah with a mass following throughout the Ottoman Empir

Political Theorist David Lay Williams has a new book that traces the problem of economic inequality

One of my talking points when hanging out with my fellow diplomatic historians is the painful absenc

Brewed from the dried leaves and tender shoots of an evergreen tree native to South America, yerba m

In the years following World War II, the New York intellectuals became some of the most renowned cri

Butterflies have long captivated the imagination of humans, from naturalists to children to poets. I

The specter of the “Godless” Soviet Union haunted the United States and continental Western Europe t

A sweeping account of how small wars shaped global order in the age of empires.Imperial conquest and

Elite colleges are boasting unprecedented numbers with respect to diversity, with some schools admit

Rabbi Meir Kahane came of age amid the radical politics of the counterculture, becoming a militant v

After India gained independence in 1947, Britain reinvented its role in the global economy through n

In Deep Time: A Literary History (Princeton UP, 2023), Noah Heringman, Curators’ Professor of Englis

Across the vast expanse of the Roman Empire, anxieties about childbirth tied individuals to one anot

Politics is a site of performance, and contemporary politicians often perform the role of a regular

For Kahane, the greatest enemy of the Jews was not the black nationalist, the greatest enemy of the

A gripping history of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR--and still p

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as a society we want successful, profitable companies be