History
Systems of Violence, Second Edition
Expanded new edition of an important study of the protracted violence in Colombia.
Endtimes?
A groundbreaking study of ten difficult years in the life of America's most important newspaper.
John Dewey and the Ethics of Historical Belief
Uses the thought of John Dewey to address the ethics of historical belief within religious and critical historiographical traditions.
Passionate Commitments
A story of two twentieth-century American women whose love for each other fueled their work to create an egalitarian world.
Enough Blame to Go Around
Veteran labor journalist Richard Steier explores the tensions between New York City's public employee unions, their critics, and city and state politicians.
America's First Crisis
Engaging and accessible account of the war that helped forge the American nation.
William Almon Wheeler
An American success story about the life of William Almon Wheeler, a poor boy from northern New York who became the nineteenth vice president of the United States.
Smugglers, Bootleggers, and Scofflaws
Uses previously unstudied Coast Guard records for New York City and environs to examine the development of Rum Row and smuggling in New York City during Prohibition.
The Anarchist Bastard
A tribute to the Italian American family and its trying bonds of love.
Songs Beyond Mankind: Poetry and the Lager from Dante to Primo Levi
Examines the preservation of the integrity of humanity through literature in the hells described by Dante in his Inferno and by Primo Levi in Survival in Auschwitz.
Key to the Northern Country
Offers nearly forty years of interdisciplinary scholarship on the Hudson River Valley’s role in the American Revolution.
Struggles for Equal Voice
Reveals how African Americans used cable television as a means of empowerment.
Red Genesis
Looks at the role of the Hunan First Normal School in fostering a generation of founders and key figures in the Chinese Communist Party.
Roving Mariners
A comprehensive history of Australian Aboriginal whaling and sealing.
Dubious Facts
An innovative approach to historical records assesses how evidence claims and policy arguments were put forth in the royal courts of early China.
Collecting Objects / Excluding People
Combining aesthetic and political history, explores the influence of Chinese people and objects on American visual culture.
Opening Statements
Explores the influence of Dutch law and jurisprudence in colonial America.
Running on Empty
Explores how Southampton College went from “the jewel in the university crown” to an “albatross around the university neck. ”
Life on a Rocky Farm
A folksy look at farm life in rugged Putnam Valley just as it was being transformed by industrialization and mechanization.
Felony Disenfranchisement in America, Second Edition
Reveals how state felony disenfranchisement laws are undermining American democracy.
Red Ink
Reexamines the writings of early indigenous authors in the northeastern United States.
Imagining Russia
A bold work of feminist international relations that contributes to our understanding of the gendered, racialized, and heteronormative dynamics of U.S. foreign policy, both in relations with Russia and in the invasion of Iraq.
Arguing with Angels
An exploration of John Dee’s Enochian magic of angel contact, its reinterpretation over the years, and its endurance to the present day.
Tuscarora
The definitive history of the Tuscaroras and their return to western New York.
Fairy Tales Framed
Translations of the forewords and afterwords by original fairy tale authors and commentaries by their contemporaries, material that has not been widely published in English.