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

The most complete collection of works by the nineteenth century's most famous and groundbreaking woman journalist.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Uncovers the facts behind the celebrated 1889 case of Riggs v. Palmer and shows how they transform our understanding of the decision.

An analysis of the China Race—the global competition for leadership and world order between the US-led West and the People's Republic of China.

Illuminates the cross-border migration and settlement of Catholics from Canada to northern New York.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The exciting story of New York in the progressive era told by the reformers and visionaries who shaped its history,

Provides a new model for reading the Shiji and other early Chinese historical texts.

Explores the role of democracy in NATO expansion decisions throughout the organizations history and looking forward into the future.