Imprint: Tangent
FORTHCOMING Fall 2026
African Pastoral: Versions of Virgil’s Eclogues presents a fresh and unexpected version of the ten pastoral poems that comprise the Eclogues of Virgil (70–19 BCE). Although these poems focus on the lives of shepherds and goatherds, Virgil makes their seemingly circumscribed existence a mirror of the wider world, a world that is both his and[…]
FORTHCOMING Fall 2025
In Frantz Fanon’s eyes, decolonization “sets out to change the order of the world.” Is that even possible today? If it is in any sense possible in our times, what would this involve: what kind of changes? a decolonial manual is an adventure in thinking through these questions with a hopeful attention on meaningful, enworlded[…]
FORTHCOMING Spring 2025
Before the World War II, most anthropological research in Puerto Rico was led by US anthropologists. The most famous project, The People of Puerto Rico, was directed by American anthropologist Julian Steward and launched the career of renowned scholars such as Sidney Mintz and Eric Wolf. Gazing at the Puerto Rican Anthropological Landscape aims to[…]
Imprint: Gracchi Books
Published: 02/17/2022
The establishment of Christianity in the late- and post-Roman world caused an economic as well as a religious revolution, but while a great deal of attention has been paid to the religious developments of the period, the impact of the establishment of the Church on the economy has attracted remarkably little attention. The Christian Economy[…]
Imprint: Gracchi Books
Published: 10/15/2020
This volume is dedicated to eliciting the interactions between localities across late antique and early medieval Europe and the wider Mediterranean. Significant research has been done in recent years to explore how late “Roman” and post-“Roman” cities, towns and other localities communicated vis-à-vis larger structural phenomena, such as provinces, empires, kingdoms, institutions and so on.[…]