An English translation, with introduction and annotations, of a selection of the letters and verse that José María Heredia (b. Cuba, 1803; d. Mexico, 1839), wrote during his months of political exile in New York from November 1823 to August 1825.

Examines literary expressions of allyship between Italian America and other diasporic communities in modern and contemporary US fiction.

Reevaluates the significance of iconic Afro-Brazilian figures, from slavery to post-abolition.

Sets out the challenges presented to Muslim societies by Western dominance over the past two hundred years, and explores Muslim responses, particularly in the context of South Asia.

Develops a theory of spiritual freedom and explores its relationship to problems of liberal political regimes.

The intellectual autobiography of a leading scholar in the field of African American Studies.

Offers new perspectives on modern Chinese political thought.

Essays on modern Indian history and the legacy of Partition.

The first book to offer a detailed framework, a fine-grained history, and an analytically nuanced understanding of one of the rarest branches of Hindu worship.

A celebration of Anishinaabe intellectual tradition.

Examines how events in the Cold War and post–Cold War periods shaped the intellectual projects of Perry Anderson and Immanuel Wallerstein.

The story of the suffrage movement and the ongoing struggle for women’s rights through the lens of one family’s history.

Argues that the Divine Comedy dramatizes the risks and rewards of competing narratives, or different ways of reading.

Translation of Alexandre Leupin’s award-winning study of Édouard Glissant’s entire work in relation to philosophy.

A dynamic dialogue of poetry and art that reimagines the ancient, biblical concept of sacrifice.

Timely and provocative asessment of various cultural, moral, and political problems in "post-constitutional" America.

Calls attention to the political, economic, and cultural interdependence and interaction of global and local forces shaping the Atlantic world of the nineteenth century.

Highlights connections between authors rarely studied together by exposing their shared counternarratives to germ theory's implicit suggestion of protection in isolation.

Analyzes the dynamic period in which Dick Gregory and Bill Cosby moved African American professional stand-up comedy from the chitlin’ circuit to the mainstream.

Rethinks the role of Indigenous and non-Indigenous interactions in the production of ethnographic museum collections.

Investigates how nineteenth-century British literature grappled with a new understanding of aging as both an individual and collective experience.

Argues that impeachment may no longer be an effective check on overreach by American presidents.

The story of a nineteenth-century New Yorker’s struggle to reconcile his same-sex erotic desires with his commitment to a Christian life.

Reflects on the legacy and limits of suffrage in New York State as a way to understand present-day issues with women's social and political rights, as well proposes ideas for future progress.

Argues that concern with the nation and national community will be a key factor in redefining twenty-first-century politics.