A pioneering study of a formative chapter in Middle East intellectual history, examining the historical myth that underlies the "Canaanite" brand of Israeli nationalist anti-Zionism.

A stunning visual memorial to Buffalo's architectural and industrial history.

Challenges readers to use utopian thinking and practice to counter the conditions of the present and create an alternative future.

Explores the role of democracy in NATO expansion decisions throughout the organizations history and looking forward into the future.

Provides a new model for reading the Shiji and other early Chinese historical texts.

The exciting story of New York in the progressive era told by the reformers and visionaries who shaped its history,

Biography of a major figure in modern Chinese history.

Uses the intellectual encounter between Islam and modernity to explore the nature of culture, civilization, religion, and tradition.

Studies Plato's approach to argumentation, exploring his role as logician, rhetorician, and dialectician in a way that sees these three aspects working together.

Challenges deep-seated assumptions about the traditionalist nature of Confucianism by providing a new interpretation of the emergence of modern Confucianism in Republican China.

Illuminating study of the ideas and influences of a near-forgotten American philosopher.

Originally published in Hebrew in 1944, this fascinating and moving account may well be the first memoir of the Holocaust.

A granddaughter's intimate portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt at her longtime home of Val-Kill as well as on a diplomatic trip to Europe and the Middle East.

An explorer’s walking guide to downstate New York’s awesome boulders and rock formations.

Explores the question of whether heroes matter in the modern republic.

The most comprehensive collection of writings by an important twentieth-century radical writer.

Presents the history of central New York State from the Ice Age to the present day.

Examines the Yiddish-Hebrew writer I. L. Peretz's alignment with the Jewish working-class in Eastern Europe and his devotion to progressive politics.

A detailed, historic guide to the rich physical history of New York City, from its founding by Dutch settlers to the turn of the twentieth century.

Takes a multicultural, interdisciplinary approach to the rhetoric of science to expand our toolkit for the collective management of global risks like climate change and pandemics.

Considers how popular Haitian films not only provide entertainment but also help audiences in Haiti and the diaspora think through daily challenges.

The complete history of one of New York State's—and the nation's—founding families.

Illuminates the beginnings, downfall, and legacy of the acid-inspired, spontaneous, and playful approach to life and music in Haight-Ashbury from 1964–1967.

How two roadside craft shops in upstate New York transformed American crafts into a fine art.

Explores how Victorian women writers used the popular science of phrenology to challenge socially constructed forms of power.