Letters written by Leslie Fiedler to his wife Margaret from May 1944 to December 1945 while he was stationed in Hawaiʻi and various parts of the Pacific Theater as an intelligence officer during World War II.

Inspiring stories of six US presidents and the distinctive leadership characteristics that set them apart and transformed America.

Unveils the profound influence of medieval Islamic philosophy on the thought of Leo Strauss.

Essays addressing, from various angles, the relationship between Europe and philosophy in today’s crisis-ridden contexts such as xenophobia and migration.

Life, love, and scandal in a nineteenth-century Long Island farm community.

Stretching from antiquity to AI, a provocative study of the joyless laughter that emerges at the boundary of the human and the inhuman.

Explores Victorian writers’ conception of the novel’s potential to become serious knowledge and differentiate itself from other educational genres.

A comparative study of iconographic and fictional representations of department stores in France and Egypt, as sites of imperial and Mediterranean cultural memory, from 1859 to the present.

The story of Woodstock, N.Y., over the last 100 years and how a small, rural town coped with the many challenges of changing times.

An approachable and readable translation of a classic work of Chinese literature and landmark work of non-Western fiction writing.

Combines historical, literary, art historical, and archaeological perspectives to explore the idea of the Hindu temple in the British colonial imagination.

Offers a new perspective on the first dynasty of imperial China and the reasons for its collapse.

Recounts how preservationists and environmentalists ultimately succeeded in persuading a powerful state agency to abandon its plans for privately developing Buffalo’s waterfront and instead revitalize the city by enhancing opportunities for members of the public to use and enjoy that same space.

Explores how the tremendous wealth of newly unearthed artifacts and manuscripts have changed our understanding of China's past.

Draws on the rich history of Black feminist writing to help scholars manage the stress of writing and publishing academic books.

Seeks to introduce an "affective turn" to the study of China's political modernization process.

Cooper's 1846 novel about the Anti-Rent Wars in upstate New York, now available in a scholarly edition.

Provides a philosophical, cultural, and historical answer to the question: Where did China come from?

Looks at how digitalization has changed the way we produce and interact, and the implications for working classes and countries of the Global South.

An intellectual-political biography of Otto Heller, the most prominent and prolific communist theoretician of the Jewish question.

Essays that describe the efforts of several groups in a variety of political settings to achieve greater control over the policies that affect them, the strategies they employ to do so, and their status today.

Provides a fascinating and in-depth look into the life, career and legacy of one of the most important New Yorkers of the Gilded Age.

Examines questions of cosmos, society, and self through the metaphors and language of ancient Chinese texts and artifacts.

Shows how nineteenth-century discoveries in acoustical science shaped Victorian literary representations of gender, sexuality, and intimacy.

Explores the value of Shakespeare for theatrical businesspeople and audiences in nineteenth-century New York City.