First comparative historical analysis of the organizational growth of black colleges.

Documents the rise and fall of a market economy in China from 1000-1500.

Uncovers clues regarding the inner life of Machiavelli's political leaders.

The first book to focus on the experience of LGBT archival research.

Demonstrates how local political parties have retained a role of critical importance in American politics.

Details how presidents utilize mass media to justify foreign policy objectives in the aftermath of 9/11.

Looks at southern Chinese martial arts traditions and how they have become important to local identity and narratives of resistance.

Essays addressing relatively unknown or unexamined speeches delivered by famous or influential environmental figures.

A haunting story of the disintegration of an American and Italian family caught in Europe during World War II.

A poet and essayist attempt to find their bearings in a civilization lost at sea.

A comprehensive history of the first three decades of underwater exploration in antebellum America.

Tells the story of Lebanese immigrant Alfred Nicola, the fortune he began building as a peddler in Louisiana, and the family that founded Al-Kafaat University, an iconic institution serving the underprivileged and disabled of Lebanon, through two centuries of unrest in the Middle East.

Provides encyclopedic coverage of female sexuality in 1940s popular culture.

A sweeping study of political murder in Latin America.

Traces the economic, political, and social evolution of New York State’s fourth largest city during the twentieth century.

Thorough exploration of the distinct culture of the Mappila Muslims of Kerala, India.

Explores the ideological and emotional trauma created after the withering of the socialist utopia in Cuba.

The history of John Dewey's leadership of the progressive People's Lobby.

An ambitious and radically original reading of philosopher Francis Bacon.

Tells the fascinating story of African American women who traveled to France to seek freedom of expression.

Demonstrates how American Jews used culture—art, dance, music, fashion, literature—to win the hearts and minds of postwar Americans to the cause of Israel.

Synthesizes the most important recent work on wonder and brings a number of disciplines into conversation.

Challenges the traditional perception that Loyalists were ostracized as traitors to the United States, after the American Revolution.

Explores the history and present-day reality of grain elevators on the Great Lakes.

An account of a mysterious murder committed in nineteenth-century Troy, New York, and the sensational trial that ensued.