First-of-its-kind study offering a model for understanding vice-presidential influence in the modern era.

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.

Biography of a major figure in modern Chinese history.

Uses the intellectual encounter between Islam and modernity to explore the nature of culture, civilization, religion, and tradition.

Challenges readers to use utopian thinking and practice to counter the conditions of the present and create an alternative future.

A stunning visual memorial to Buffalo's architectural and industrial history.

Multifaceted study of Pennsylvania's coal miners during the post-World War One era.

A pioneering study of a formative chapter in Middle East intellectual history, examining the historical myth that underlies the "Canaanite" brand of Israeli nationalist anti-Zionism.

An in-depth sociological investigation of "hope" as it applies to the Italian immigrant experience in the blue-collar suburb of Chicago Heights between 1910 and 1950.

A collection of original essays and previously untranslated critical writings on the renowned Brazilian documentary filmmaker, Eduardo Coutinho.

Offers an innovative analysis of gates—as architectural components, visual images, and mental constructs—in early Chinese thought and material culture.

The facts and legends of New York's famed artistic hub told by one of its key participants.

Renowned poets and scholars address the question of how poetry sounds and signifies in different contexts.

Sheds new light on the relationship between myth and history in ancient China and the central role they have played in shaping early Chinese thought.

A deeply researched, pathbreaking collection of original and newly translated essays on slavery in Spain, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico.

Explores the remarkable range of artists who have worked in Woodstock, New York for over a century.

Shows how Britain's trans-imperial engagements in the long nineteenth century have come to shape global cultural commodity flows today.

A comprehensive study of the history and evolution of the dybbuk, from kabbalistic tradition to popular folklore.