Provides a fascinating and in-depth look into the life, career and legacy of one of the most important New Yorkers of the Gilded Age.

Essays that describe the efforts of several groups in a variety of political settings to achieve greater control over the policies that affect them, the strategies they employ to do so, and their status today.

An intellectual-political biography of Otto Heller, the most prominent and prolific communist theoretician of the Jewish question.

Situates yoga practice within a musical context in the life and work of famed violinist Yehudi Menuhin

Explores the value of Shakespeare for theatrical businesspeople and audiences in nineteenth-century New York City.

A personal voyage of discovery drawing on musicology, literary theory, Jewish studies, and philosophical phenomenology.

Collects and interprets the literary legacy of Nūrī, an early Sufi master known for his ecstatic behaviour, eccentric acts, and passionate poems of mystical love.

The most complete collection of works by the nineteenth century's most famous and groundbreaking woman journalist.

Centers Cuban cinema to explore how films produced in Havana or Hollywood differently represent Black resistance to slavery.

Examines questions of cosmos, society, and self through the metaphors and language of ancient Chinese texts and artifacts.

Shows how nineteenth-century discoveries in acoustical science shaped Victorian literary representations of gender, sexuality, and intimacy.

A groundbreaking study of Farid al-Din ʿAṭṭār, one of Persian literature's greatest poets.