Since its founding in 1936 as a nonprofit publisher, Rutgers University Press has been dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge to scholars, students, and the general reading public. An integral part of one of the leading public research and teaching universities in the United States, the Press reflects and is essential to the University's missions of research, instruction, and service. To carry out these goals, we publish books in print and electronic format in a broad array of disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Fulfilling our mandate to serve the people of New Jersey, we also publish books of scholarly and popular interest on the state and surrounding region.Working with authors throughout the world, we seek books that meet high editorial standards, facilitate the exchange of ideas, enhance teaching, and make scholarship accessible to a wide range of readers. The Press's overriding ambition is nothing less than to help make the world better, one book at a time, through a publication program of superior scholarship and popular appeal. The Press celebrates and affirms its role as a major cultural institution that contributes significantly to the ideas that shape the critical issues of our day.