Examines the rising power of China and Chinese foreign policy through a revisionist analysis of Chinese civilization.

Essays on Telugu and South Indian literature and culture by distinguished Telugu scholar Narayana Rao.

A history of the French schools that pioneered female education in Ottoman Iraq's Jewish communities.

A comprehensive survey of the most important writing to come out of the Holocaust.

Challenges the conventional view of a “disenchanted” and secular modernity, and recovers the complex relation that exists between science, religion, and esotericism in the modern world.

Examines slavery, abolition, and race in the United States with a special focus on New York State.

The first comprehensive biography of an important yet understudied figure in the Dutch colony of New Netherland.

Combines history and biography to interpret the last half century of black politics in America as represented in the life and work of a pivotal African American public intellectual.

Addresses an understudied yet highly significant aspect of the work of the influential artist Andy Warhol: his exploration of anniversaries.

How the Pine Hills neighborhood in Albany, New York, changed and grew, as reflected in the history of one house and the lives of its residents.

Surveys how reunification in 1990 impacted historical scholarship in the former East Germany.

Examines how the US media covers high-profile public policy issues in the context of competing claims about media bias.

Analyzes cultural materials that grapple with gender and blackness to revise traditional interpretations of Mexicanness.

Presents a new view of the Chinese revolution through the lens of the local Communist movement in Hainan between 1926 and 1956.

Provides a systematic and comprehensive survey of writings on military philosophy in early China.

Provides firsthand accounts of militant Puerto Rican activists in 1970s New York City.

How a small family company in the Finger Lakes became one of the most important wine producers in the United States, only to be taken down by corporate greed and mismanagement.

Challenges the belief that the Walloons and the Dutch of the Hudson Valley were cultural preservationists who resisted English culture.

Examines the life of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg through the lens of both Blackness and latinidad.

Tells the story of Bavaria’s acquisition of ancient Greek sculptures that rivaled those acquired by England from the Parthenon.

Argues that post-Katrina New Orleans is a key site for exploring competing narratives of American decline and renewal at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

An eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and its aftermath, newly translated into English.

Undergraduate-level textbook introducing students to the factors which define immigration politics in the United States and Europe.

The definitive biography of New York State's four-term Governor, US Senator, humanitarian, and Jewish liberal political reformer.

Focuses on the posters of World War I as a medium to interpret the tremendous role played by New York State and its citizens in the war effort.