A survey of the Muslim, Jewish, and Christian debates and mystical discussions about Muhammad’s heavenly journey that took place in early medieval Spain.

Details the Belt and Road global infrastructure development initiative as the most important instrument for China’s leadership under Xi Jinping to create an alternative global economic and geopolitical order to challenge the United States.

Includes 22 new settings of period tunes, and examines the expressive culture of the largest antebellum tenant farmer protest from its origin to its 21st-century reverberations.

A fascinating story of how three musicians, who escaped the Nazis, inspired Iceland’s modern classical music.

Considers how sign-reading fit into broader understandings of the human and cosmic worlds in Han times.

Uncovers the significant social, literary, and political contributions of thirty-one notable women of Oswego County, New York.

An in-depth analysis of the primary conflicts animating the contemporary struggle over the regional order of the Middle East.

Offers a fresh look at American and Italian cinema in the postwar period.

The first book-length account of Brazilian science fiction cinema.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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