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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

An indispensable primary source in the history of Zionism.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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