Books published by Princeton University Press

Reveals that our intense age consciousness has developed only gradually since the late nineteenth century. In so doing, this title explores a wide range of topics, including demographic change, the development of pediatrics and psychological testing, and popular music from the early 1800s until now.

From the celebrated Russian intellectuals Michael Bakunin and Peter Kropotkin to the little-known Australian bootmaker and radical speaker J W Fleming, this book probes the lives and personalities of representative anarchists.

Recipient of the J. Willard Hurst Award by the US Law and Society Association, this study examines the legal history and ramifications of the New Deal by tracing the path of crucial constitutional test cases from 1933 to 1937.

The recipient of the Jay Leyda Prize in Cinema Studies from the US Anthology Film Archives, this two-volume work explores the emergence of French film theory before the essays of Andre Bazin. The anthology contains selections from 150 texts, many published in English for the first time.

Describes what happens when a bureaucracy charged with historic conservation clashes with a local populace hostile to the state and suspicious of tourism. Focusing on the Cretan town of Rethemnos, once a center of learning under Venetian rule and later inhabited by the Turks, this book examines questions confronting conservators and citizens.

Why has postwar Japanese abortion policy been relatively progressive, while contraception policy has been relatively conservative? The Japanese government legalized abortion in 1948 but did not approve the pill until 1999. This study argues that these contradictory policies flowed from different historical circumstances.

How do individuals change their behavior when abortion access increases? This book uses economic analysis to consider this question, comparing abortion to a form of insurance. It includes an analysis which suggests that the manner in which individuals change their behavior depends on the extent to which abortion is accessible.

Features Thomas Jefferson's papers from the end of his presidency until his death, covering the period from 16 November 1809 to 11 August 1810. This title includes both incoming and outgoing letters, totaling 518 documents.

Traces the invention and evolution of socialist trade, the progressive constriction of private trade, and the development of consumer habits from the 1917 revolution to Stalin's death in 1953. This book places trade and consumption in the context of debilitating economic crises.

A comprehensive synthesis of parasite variation at the molecular, population, and evolutionary levels, this book is suitable for students and researchers throughout biology and biomedicine. It uses an evolutionary perspective to meld the terms and findings of molecular biology, immunology, pathogen biology, and population dynamics.

Manhattan's Lower East Side stands for Jewish experience in America. This is an account of one of our famous neighborhoods and its power to shape identity. It examines children's stories, novels, movies, museum exhibits, television shows, summer-camp reenactments, walking tours, and photos hung on deli walls far from Manhattan.

Suburbanization is often blamed for a loss of civic engagement in contemporary America. How justified is this claim? Just what is a suburb? How do social environments shape civic life? Looking beyond stereotypes, this title answers these questions by examining how suburbs influence citizen participation in community and public affairs.

This book serves both as a completely self-contained introduction and as an exposition of new results in the field of recursive function theory and its application to formal systems.

Explains why youth gangs emerged, how they evolved, and why young men found membership and the violence it involved so attractive. This book describes how postwar urban renewal, slum clearances, and ethnic migration pitted African-American, Puerto Rican, and Euro-American youths against each other in battles to dominate changing neighborhoods.

Describes the urban bachelor life that took shape in the late nineteenth century, when a significant population of single men migrated to American cities. This book also describe a complex subculture that continues to affect the larger meanings of manhood and manliness in American society.

How did second-century Christians vie with each other in seeking to produce an authoritative discourse of Christian identity? This book argues that many early Christians deployed the metaphors of procreation and kinship in the struggle over claims to represent the truth of Christian interpretation, practice, and doctrine.

Explores the development of health insurance in the United States and Canada. This book shows that Canada's federal structure and its parliamentary institutions encouraged a social-democratic third party that became pivotal in demonstrating the feasibility of universal, public health insurance.

Documents Edmond Charles Genet's challenges to American neutrality and Jefferson's diplomatic and political responses.

During the Cold War, international trade closely paralleled the division of the world into two rival political-military blocs. This book examines the logic behind this linkage between alliances and trade and asks whether it applies not only after but also before World War II.

At the outset of the twentieth century, the Nivkhi of Sakhalin Island were a small population of fishermen under Russian dominion and an Asian cultural sway. This book draws upon Nivkh interviews, archives, and translated Soviet ethnographic texts to examine the effects of this remarkable state venture in the construction of identity.

Examines the Macedonian conflict in light of theoretical work on the construction of national identities and cultures and the invention of tradition. This book analyzes two issues: the struggle for human rights of the Macedonian minority in northern Greece and the campaign for international recognition of the independent Republic of Macedonia.

From its earliest days under English rule, New York City had an unusually diverse ethnic makeup, with substantial numbers of Dutch, English, Scottish, Irish, French, German, and Jewish immigrants, as well as a large African-American population. This title paints a portrait of this society, exploring the meaning of ethnicity in early America.

Offers a historical reconstruction of the evolutionary synthesis of the 1930s and 1940s. This book argues that the evolutionary synthesis was part of a larger process of unifying the biological sciences. It suggests that the drive to unify the sciences of evolution and biology was part of a global philosophical movement toward unifying knowledge.

Why would a country strongly influenced by Buddhism's reverence for life allow legalized, widely used abortion? This title examines abortion as a window on the culture and ethics of Japan.