Rich case studies examining responses to climatic events in ancient Europe and the Near East.

Tales of New York State history from the pages of the award-winning publication New York Archives.

Previously unpublished letters and private journal provide an intimate view of World War I through the eyes of an ordinary soldier from western New York.

Examines the influence of the notorious American anarchist “Red Emma” on the shifting social geography of sex and gender at the turn of the twentieth century.

Addresses ways that cultural imaginaries point toward alternative urban futures.

Recovers and chronicles the plights of ordinary New Yorkers that resonate with contemporary debates on rape and domestic violence.

Using Chinese thought, explores how non-Western thought can structure generally applicable social and political theory.

Discusses the origins and cultural history of the Theravada Buddhist ideals behind the Thai institution of monarchy.

Essays challenging conventional understandings of the slave economy of the nineteenth century.

Presents and expands upon Roosevelt’s daily nautical log as he was trying to regain the use of his polio-damaged legs.

Argues that Indian cinema’s deep nineteenth-century past continues to play a vital role in its twenty-first-century present.

Explores the social disruption resulting from industrialization in a Chinese coalmining community at the turn of the twentieth century.

Examines the role of African American educators in the Birmingham civil rights movement.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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