Offers a powerful new interpretation of Engels’s contributions to modern social and political theory.

Explains the Hindi novel’s role in anticipating and creating the story of middle-class modernity and modernization in North India.

Reveals how classic American novels embodied the tensions embedded in American views of the natural world from the Centennial until the end of the Second World War.

The first detailed examination of African Americans and First Amendment rights, from the colonial era to the present.

Groundbreaking analysis of how colonialism created new conceptual categories and spatial forms that reshaped rural societies.

Encompasses key years and important events in Theodore Roosevelt’s early life and career.

Presents a historical and philosophical overview of the twentieth-century German debates on secularization and their significance for contemporary discussions about the relationship between theology and modernity.

Examines the relation between Indian diplomacy and nineteenth-century Native American literature.

An in-depth look at Elie Wiesel’s writings, from his earliest works to his final novels.

Explores the philosophy of history of Henri Bergson and shows its relevance to contemporary historical thought.

Study of a fascinating medieval Jewish philosopher, focusing on his twin conceptions of history.

Combining photography and essay, presents a speculative portrait of a Jewish immigrant living out the end of his days in New York's midcentury mental health system.

Critically assesses the experiences of men in the Holocaust.

Chronicles the story of the Erie Canal from its inception to today.

Combines personal accounts with insights from psychology to understand the continuing impact of Holocaust trauma in Lithuania.

The illustrated nineteenth-century travel diaries of artist, educator, and architect Thomas Kelah Wharton, documenting his trips in the lower Hudson River Valley and New Orleans to Boston and back.

A distillation of the historian’s finest writings on modern Indian historical themes.

Explores why past generations of radical ecological and social justice scholarship have been ineffective, and considers the work of a new wave of scholarship that aims to reinvent the radical project and combat injustice.

Reveals how the expanding world-system entangled the non-western world in global economies, yet did so in ways that were locally articulated, varied, and, often, non-European in their expression.

Explores how writers across five continents and four centuries have debated ideas about what it means to be an individual, and shows that the modern self is an ongoing project of global history.

Compares the political activities of African Americans who settled in Ghana in the 1950s and 1960s with those who settled in the 1980s to the present.

Uncovers long-ignored political themes—ideology, propaganda, mind-control, and Orwellian history—at work within the pages of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

Pioneering study of the localization of Chinese culture in early modern Japan, using legends, classics, and historical terms as case studies.

Investigates how musicals, war films, sex comedies, and Westerns dealt with contentious issues during a time of change in Hollywood.

Offers a history of the role of investigations in radical political struggles from the nineteenth century forward.