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.

The State University of New York Press has started an initiative to make its publications and electronic media as accessible as possible to a broad audience, with a goal to make SUNY Press an accessible ...

Accessible to a wide range of readers, from artists to commuters to nature lovers and beyond, who wish to expand their understanding of walking.

Provides a remapping of Italian and Italian American culture by retracing trans and gender-variant experiences within Italy and along diasporic routes.

Interlinks Gilles Deleuze's critical philosophy with Niklas Luhmann's systems theory to unpack contemporary democratic politics as a contest for complexity-reducing orientation in sense.

Explores the influence coping has had on African Americans' political attitudes and behaviors.

Combines phenomenology with the "enactivist" approach to consciousness theory and recent emotion research to explore the way self-motivated action plans shape selective attention, exploration, and ultimately the mind's interpretation of reality - in philosophy, psychology, cultural awareness, and our personal lives.

Explores mountain regions as cultural landscapes that have been shaped by long-term human-environment interactions.

Reformulates the notion of the ego and provides a new perspective for understanding ego development and the role of the ego in spiritual life.

Retraces Hölderlin's journeys to Bordeaux and back in 1801–02, explaining why they are turning points in the great poet's life.

Presents Tantra from an ethnographic vantage point, through a series of case studies grounded in diverse settings across contemporary Asia.

Offers a new, Spinozist framework for understanding encounters with otherness in Romantic literature as experiences of immanence.

The first edited collection to offer a systematic introduction to African phenomenology.

How jazz spurred a generational debate that reshaped American culture.

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.

Offers a fresh approach to the problem of the human figure in an age of digital cinema.

Michael Docherty is Postdoctoral Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.