While 70% of HIV positive individuals live in sub-Saharan Africa, it is widely believed that the
future of the epidemic depends on the magnitude of HIV spread in India and China, the …

The study of women in twentieth-century China has expanded so quickly in the past two
decades that a state-of-the-field survey becomes outdated in the time that it takes to …

In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between
Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the late eighteenth-and early nineteenth-centuries …

Neoliberalism is commonly viewed as an economic doctrine that seeks to limit the scope of
government. Some consider it a form of predatory capitalism with adverse effects on the …

The first quarter century of communist rule in China was dramatic and disastrous, the mark of
a po liti cal regime whose extremism created a distinctive epoch in the history of revolution …

Original and compelling, Laura Briggs's Reproducing Empire shows how, for both Puerto
Ricans and North Americans, ideologies of sexuality, reproduction, and gender have …

Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness,
Ruth Rogaski reveals how hygiene became a crucial element in the formulation of Chinese …

Organized crime is spreading like a global virus as mobs take advantage of open borders to
establish local franchises at will. That at least is the fear, inspired by stories of Russian …

In addition to shouldering the blame for the increasing incidence of venereal disease among
sailors and soldiers, prostitutes throughout the British Empire also bore the burden of the …

Comprehensive, critical and accessible, Criminology: A Sociological Introduction offers an
authoritative overview of the study of criminology, from early theoretical perspectives to …