International Studies

Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots delineates the differences between the British and Portuguese empires as they struggled with revolutionary tumult. It reveals how those differences led to turbulent transnational exchanges between the United States and Brazil as merchants, smugglers, rogue officials, slave traders, and pirates sought to trade outside legal confines.

A Syria-born dancer offers his deeply personal story of war, statelessness, and the pursuit of the art of dance in this inspirational memoir.

Schmitz illuminates how the policies FDR pursued in response to the crises of the 1930s transformed Americans' thinking about their place in the world. He shows how the president developed an interlocking set of ideas that prompted a debate between isolationism and preparedness, guided the United States into World War II, and mobilized support for the war while establishing a sense of responsibility for the postwar world.

General Lucifer of the Kingdom army is convicted of treason and is banished to the earth, along with his rebel forces. Later, when the Kingdom of Heaven establishes a colony on earth, the former general makes his move and grabs control of the colony, and enslaves the human colonists. For the next seven thousand years, Kingdom forces clash with Lucifer's rebels in a war that is invisible to the humans of earth. Each human eventually finds that they are barred from crossing the border into the safety of the Kingdom.