Publications in Partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University

Formations of Belief: Historical Approaches to Religion and the Secular Edited by Philip Nord, Katja Guenther, and Max Weiss

For decades, scholars and public intellectuals have been predicting the demise of religion in the face of secularization. Yet religion is undergoing an unprecedented resurgence in modern life—and secularization no longer appears so...

Cultures in Motion Edited by Daniel T. Rodgers, Bhavani Raman, and Helmut Reimitz

In the wide-ranging and innovative essays of Cultures in Motion, a dozen distinguished historians offer new conceptual vocabularies for understanding how cultures have trespassed across geography and social space. From the...

Facing Fear: The History of an Emotion in Global Perspective Edited by Michael Laffan and Max Weiss

Fear is ubiquitous but slippery. It has been defined as a purely biological reality, derided as an excuse for cowardice, attacked as a force for social control, and even denigrated as an unnatural condition that has no place in the...

Noir Urbanisms: Dystopic Images of the Modern City Edited by Gyan Prakash

Dystopic imagery has figured prominently in modern depictions of the urban landscape. The city is often portrayed as a terrifying world of darkness, crisis, and catastrophe. Noir Urbanisms traces the history of the modern city through...

The Spaces of the Modern City: Imaginaries, Politics, and Everyday Life Edited by Gyan Prakash and Kevin M. Kruse

By United Nations estimates, 60 percent of the world's population will be urban by 2030. With the increasing speed of urbanization, especially in the developing world, scholars are now rethinking standard concepts and histories of...