The career of communist revolutionary Wei Baqun, one of China’s “three great peasant leaders” and man of the southern frontier.

Uses historical case studies to illuminate women’s claims to emancipation and to sexual subjectivity during the tumultuous Wilhelmine and Weimar periods in Germany.

An interdisciplinary exploration of the contemporary Confucian revival.

The inspirational story of an African American community that migrated from the Deep South to Albany, New York, in the 1930s.

A biography of one of nineteenth-century America’s foremost poets and public intellectuals.

An award-winning African-American historian and novelist takes the reader on an exciting journey from a segregated Philadephia childhood in the 1930's to mid-century Paris, Moscow, Cambridge, and Manhattan.

The first full-length biography of America’s youngest, and perhaps most underrated, First Lady.

Critical analysis of Plan Colombia, a multibillion dollar US counternarcotics initiative.

Examines the organized efforts to reshape the law relating to young women’s sexuality in the United States.

Food and history combine in this exploration of the Dutch influence on American holiday traditions. Includes more than one hundred easy-to-make holiday recipes.

Explores the evolution of Atlanta's water system and charts the poor urban planning decisions that created the city's current water shortage.

An interdisciplinary study of the rise of empirical observation in the Spanish arts and sciences as the principle vehicle for acquiring knowledge about the natural world.

The story of the Erie Canal’s completion and its place in the larger narrative of American modernity and progress.

An account of an ordinary young woman coming of age in the "Burned-Over District" of Western New York during the Second Great Awakening.

A guide to the phenomenal crop of prophets, cults, and utopian communities that arose in Upstate New York from 1776 to 1914.

Presents New York history in a fresh way through sixteen dramatic events.

A compelling story about three murders in Brooklyn between 1872 and 1873 and the young women charged with the crimes.

A multidisciplinary and accessible introduction to humanity’s favorite structure: the bridge.

Essays by eleven prominent scholars provide the latest insights into the seventeenth-century history of the Hudson Valley and its environs.

Challenges traditional views of the Qin dynasty as an oppressive regime by revealing cooperative aspects of its governance.

Offers a critical history of the role of pain, suffering, and compassion in democratic culture.

Contests long-standing claims that Confucianism came to prominence under China's Emperor Wu.

Explores the curating of “difficult knowledge” through the exhibition of lynching photographs in contemporary museums.

Tells the social history of the Iroquois people of Ohio during the buildup to removal.

Examines the political significance of ideas about happiness through the work of utilitarian philosophers William Thompson and Jeremy Bentham.