Reveals how the persona of India's most famous emperor was constantly reinvented in ancient times to suit a variety of social visions, political agendas, and moral purposes.

Detailed assessment of the People's Republic of China as an alternative mode of political system and as a distinctive model of socioeconomic development.

Establishes the central role of Afro-Puerto Ricans in the island's history and the creation of its capital city, San Juan.

Addresses the question of China's rise and what it portends for the future.

An annotated collection of over one hundred Civil War letters that trace a Union soldier's transformation from eager recruit to war-weary, battle-tested veteran.

Develops a pragmatist approach to the philosophy of the humanities, interpreting history, literature, and religion in terms of pragmatic realism.

Examines the struggle of Jewish women to join defense and military activities during the decades leading up to the Israeli War of Independence.

Examines the place of history in the political thought of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, one of the key architects of modern Hindu nationalism.

The first complete intellectual biography of one of the most influential and controversial philosophers of the twentieth century, Leo Strauss.

Juxtaposes feminist and queer activism in Britain and the United States in the face of resurgent conservatism during the 1980s.

A classic history of Delaware County and the border wars written by none other than prominent Gilded Age "Robber Baron" Jay Gould.

Gripping account of the life of the Russian Tsar’s last chief of security and intelligence.

Illuminates the ways games—from baseball cards to board games, charades to boxing, and croquet to strategies of war—were integral to nineteenth-century life and culture in the United States and Britain.

The first concerted attempt to analyze how the histories Shiji and Hanshu described the technical arts as they were applied in vital areas of the administration of pre-Han and Han China.

Explores how poetry was used to disseminate and interpret history in early medieval China.

Follows Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland as they travel together in South America and then go their separate ways, in the process illustrating two very different ways of understanding humanity's place in the natural world.

Describes the profound social impact of the overthrow of the Thai absolute monarchy in 1932, and explains the importance of democracy in a country long known for authoritarian politics.

Fourteen Italian philosophers reflect on how the global experience of vulnerability and precariousness—of which the Covid-19 pandemic is but one example—compels us to rethink life and collective living.

A critical view of race relations on the island of Puerto Rico from 1898 to 1965.

The first book-length study in English of the Heidegger-Hölderlin relation, addressing the tension between Heidegger's political commitments during National Socialism and Hölderlin's ideal of poetic dwelling.

Analyzes Turkey’s Kurdish conflict since post-Ottoman nation-building through recent peace attempts, from a novel perspective highlighting the dilemmas of the Turk majority and reshaping our understanding of ethnic conflicts, and offers solutions for a sustainable peace.

An idealistic, occasionally naïve and somewhat irreverent young attorney becomes the District Attorney of Rockland County, New York, in the 1960s and faces the challenges of fighting crime in a rapidly changing world.

Traces the circulation of Hollywood films in North Africa and the Middle East from the early twentieth century to the present.

Examines the colonization of Goa in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the durability of Portuguese rule.

Relates Chinese Realism to contemporary political and ethical challenges, such as in international relations and the morality of the public sector.

A fascinating fusion of New York history and local folklore sure to send shivers up your spine!

Examines English-language Indian newspapers from the mid-nineteenth century and their role in simultaneously sustaining and probing British colonial governance.

Uses extensive archival research to explore the manifold contributions of foreign film workers to emerging film industries in Latin America from the 1930s to early 1940s.

Traces the inner connections between the second slavery in the Americas, slavery in Africa, the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, and the "Great Transformation" of the nineteenth century world economy.

Offers a comparative and deconstructive reading of the cross-cultural encounter between the Jesuits and their Confucian hosts in late Ming China.

Brings together archaeologists, art historians, sociologists, and classicists to explore the origins and development of unequal relationships in ancient societies.

Examines the relationship between Mughal political culture and the two dominant strains of Islam's Sufi traditions in South Asia: one centered around orthodoxy, the other focusing on a more accommodating and mystical spirituality.

Brings to life the dramatic and colorful career of William Sulzer (1863–1941), former governor of New York State.

The first volume in English to explore the cultural impact of Haiti on the surrounding Spanish-speaking nations of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.

Examines how events in the Cold War and post–Cold War periods shaped the intellectual projects of Perry Anderson and Immanuel Wallerstein.

Reevaluates the significance of iconic Afro-Brazilian figures, from slavery to post-abolition.

Essays on modern Indian history and the legacy of Partition.

An English translation, with introduction and annotations, of a selection of the letters and verse that José María Heredia (b. Cuba, 1803; d. Mexico, 1839), wrote during his months of political exile in New York from November 1823 to August 1825.

Argues that concern with the nation and national community will be a key factor in redefining twenty-first-century politics.

Reflects on the legacy and limits of suffrage in New York State as a way to understand present-day issues with women's social and political rights, as well proposes ideas for future progress.

The story of a nineteenth-century New Yorker’s struggle to reconcile his same-sex erotic desires with his commitment to a Christian life.

Calls attention to the political, economic, and cultural interdependence and interaction of global and local forces shaping the Atlantic world of the nineteenth century.

Rethinks the role of Indigenous and non-Indigenous interactions in the production of ethnographic museum collections.

Makes literature of Niagara Falls available to readers with a variety of interests in literature, culture, and place.

Assesses how America's film industry remembered World War I during the interwar period.

Explains the Hindi novel’s role in anticipating and creating the story of middle-class modernity and modernization in North India.

Revisits a foundational moment in Argentine history to demonstrate how the crisis of modernity opened up new possibilities for imagining kinship otherwise.

Investigates how depictions of young people in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America use artifice to destabilize pre-existing narratives of truth, news, and fact.

Combining photography and essay, presents a speculative portrait of a Jewish immigrant living out the end of his days in New York's midcentury mental health system.

Chronicles the story of the Erie Canal from its inception to today.

Combines personal accounts with insights from psychology to understand the continuing impact of Holocaust trauma in Lithuania.

An indispensable primary source in the history of Zionism.

Offers a history of the role of investigations in radical political struggles from the nineteenth century forward.

Examines how our diverse understandings of property impact real-world governing strategies.

A wide-ranging consideration of early modern Muslim and Christian empires, covering the Iberian, Ottoman and Mughal worlds, including questions of political economy, images and representations, and historiography.

A distillation of the historian’s finest writings on modern Indian historical themes.

Explores why past generations of radical ecological and social justice scholarship have been ineffective, and considers the work of a new wave of scholarship that aims to reinvent the radical project and combat injustice.

The illustrated nineteenth-century travel diaries of artist, educator, and architect Thomas Kelah Wharton, documenting his trips in the lower Hudson River Valley and New Orleans to Boston and back.

Through an examination of archaeologically recovered texts from China’s northwestern border regions, argues for widespread interaction with texts in the Han period.

Archaeologists, anthropologists, and classicists discuss how urbanization first emerged in strikingly different sociopolitical contexts in North America, Europe, and the Near East.

Compares the political activities of African Americans who settled in Ghana in the 1950s and 1960s with those who settled in the 1980s to the present.

The first detailed analysis in English of monarchy and governance in Korea during King Chŏngjo’s reign.

A rare look at the history of Himalayan peasant society and the relationship between culture and environment in the Himalayas.

Reveals how the expanding world-system entangled the non-western world in global economies, yet did so in ways that were locally articulated, varied, and, often, non-European in their expression.

Investigates how nineteenth-century British literature grappled with a new understanding of aging as both an individual and collective experience.

Chronicles the history and archaeological study of Lake George, New York’s sunken bateaux of 1758.

A study of the times and life in Southampton, New York between 1870 and 1900.

Offers a new perspective on the relationship between religion and the creation of the first Chinese empires.

Demonstrates how four books by dissident German intellectuals served as a rebuke to the Nazi regime.

Offers a firsthand account into early-nineteenth-century New York State and Lower Canada during a time of enormous growth and change.

This volume brings social and cultural anthropologists into dialogue with historical sociology and illustrates the continued potential of the concept of civilization for all participants.

Analyzes the nineteenth century canal age in the Niagara-Great Lakes borderland region as a transnational phenomenon.

Examines the many ways water has contributed to power structures in the past, with insights for contemporary water management.

Macro-level study of the South Atlantic throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries demonstrating how Brazil’s emergence was built on the longest and most intense slave trade of the modern era.

Contrasts the experiences of German Jewish refugees from the Holocaust who fled to London and New York City.

Examines how NATO has adapted and endured after the end of the Cold War, transforming itself to deal with a host of new security challenges.

Comprehensive historical study of policy planning and implementation during the crucial formative years of the Israeli government system.

Depicts a man's exploration of the landscape, history, and toponymy of Hell Gate, a notorious stretch of water in New York City's East River.

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.

Reveals cultural paradigms and historical prejudices regarding the role of birthing and women in the reproduction of society.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Tells the untold story of the life and career of Nathan Sanford, a New York State lawyer-politician who capitalized on opportunities created by the new politics of the early Republic to achieve social mobility.

Handsome, fully illustrated history of the sixty-four State University of New York campuses.

Presents a major new interpretation of the Ashcan School of Art, arguing that these artists made the working class city at the turn of the century a subject for beautiful art.

Explores the rich history, collections, and significance of the only museum in the United States dedicated solely to the art form of dance.

Explores the long-neglected rural dimensions of northern slavery and emancipation in New York's Mid-Hudson Valley.

First comprehensive examination of the rise and decline of the Jewish communist movement in the English-speaking world.