Recounts the forgotten but important work of Wayne Coy, the Office for Emergency Management's Liaison Officer, during the early years of World War II.

Analyzes how location-shot crime films of the 1970s reflected and influenced understandings of urban crisis.

Demonstrates the extent to which Josiah Royce’s ideas about race were motivated explicitly in terms of imperial conquest.

Discusses the conservative ideological and political attack on welfare in the United States.

This exploration of key terms related to social and political order, found in early Indian texts, challenges the idea of a unified ancient India and a unified national identity at that time.

A rich intellectual encounter, revolving around the hands of the experimenter and those of the artist, highlighting the relation between the sciences and the arts.

Surveys the current state of Jewish American and Holocaust literatures as well as approaches to teaching them.

Uses cultural representations to investigate how two religious minority communities came to be incorporated into the Mexican nation.

Presents rare biographies of traditional Indian scholars during the nineteenth century, a critical moment of transition for the Indian intellectual tradition.

Traces the US Supreme Court’s effect on federal government growth from the founding era forward.

A study of the times and life in Southampton, New York between 1870 and 1900.

Offers a firsthand account into early-nineteenth-century New York State and Lower Canada during a time of enormous growth and change.

Comprehensive analysis of 220 hours of outtakes that impels us to reexamine our assumptions about a crucial Holocaust documentary.

An intellectual biography of the American philosopher C. I. Lewis.

Tells the story of the nation's largest higher education union from its earliest years to its role today as a powerful organization promoting the interests of faculty, staff, and the entire SUNY community.

Offers biographical accounts of several of North Korea’s leaders to illuminate the inner workings of its government.

A compelling story of our ever-evolving relationship with mountains and wilderness.

Contrasts the experiences of German Jewish refugees from the Holocaust who fled to London and New York City.

An innovative philosophical meditation on the muteness of Holocaust survivors and the human faculty of storytelling.

Examines the relationship of Derrida’s writings on architecture to his methodology of deconstruction and to deconstrutivism in architecture.

How films of the 1960s and early 1970s framed therapeutic issues as problems of human communication, and individual psychological problems as social ones.

Argues that Holocaust representation has ethical implications fundamentally linked to questions of good and evil.

Blends academic and activist perspectives to explore recent emancipatory struggles to win and transform state power.

Comprehensive historical study of policy planning and implementation during the crucial formative years of the Israeli government system.

Examines the many ways water has contributed to power structures in the past, with insights for contemporary water management.