Small Wars, Big Data: The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict

Authors: Eli Berman, chair of economics at the University of California-San Diego; Joseph Felter, deputy assistant secretary of defense for South and Southeast Asia; Jacob Shapiro, professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson Continue Reading →

The Discrete Charm of the Machine: Why the World Became Digital

Author: Ken Steiglitz, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus, and senior scholar Publisher: Princeton University Press, forthcoming February 2019 A few short decades ago, we were informed by the smooth signals of analog Continue Reading →

The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America

Author: Beth Lew-Williams, assistant professor of history Publisher: Harvard University Press, February 2018 The American West erupted in anti-Chinese violence in 1885. Following the massacre of Chinese miners in Wyoming Territory, communities throughout California and Continue Reading →

The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden: Religion at the Roman Street Corner

Author: Harriet Flower, the Andrew Fleming West Professor in Classics Publisher: Princeton University Press, September 2017 The most pervasive gods in ancient Rome had no traditional mythology attached to them, nor was their worship organized Continue Reading →

Street Players: Black Pulp Fiction and the Making of a Literary Underground

Author: Kinohi Nishikawa, assistant professor of English and African American studies Publisher: University of Chicago Press, November 2018 The uncontested center of the black pulp fiction universe for more than four decades was Los Angeles Continue Reading →

Islam in Pakistan: A History

Author: Muhammad Qasim Zaman, the Robert H. Niehaus ’77 Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Religion Publisher: Princeton University Press, May 2018 The first modern state to be founded in the name of Islam, Pakistan Continue Reading →