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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.