The Algonquin Round Table
The Algonquin Round Table

for Excelsior Editions, 2023

This previously unpublished manuscript describes how the Algonquin Hotel became an artistic hub for the city and a landmark in America’s cultural life.

Bedfordshire Probate Inventories before 1660
Bedfordshire Probate Inventories before 1660

for Boydell Press, 2023

Bedfordshire Probate Inventories before 1660 provides evidence of the home environment of the minor gentry, clergy, middling sort, tradesmen and the poor of Bedfordshire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Picturing Divinity in John Donne’s Writings
Picturing Divinity in John Donne’s Writings

for D. S. Brewer, 2023

This study provides new insights on some of John Donne’s best-known poems and extends our appreciation of Donne as an artist exploring the limits of his own practice as he confronts the relationship between the human and the divine.

The Medieval Pig
The Medieval Pig

for Boydell Press, 2023

This book considers pigs in medieval Europe from a number of angles uncovers the pig's numerous roles in medieval society, how pigs shaped human life, and how humans shaped theirs.

The Gothic Imagination in the Music of Franz Schubert
The Gothic Imagination in the Music of Franz Schubert

for Boydell Press, 2023

This book illuminates Franz Schubert’s engagement with gothic discourse at the intersection of music, literature, and the visual arts.

Keorapetse Kgositsile & the Black Arts Movement
Keorapetse Kgositsile & the Black Arts Movement

for James Curry, 2023

Phalafala reveals the foundational influence of Kgositsile’s mother and grandmother on his craft and explores the cosmological archive he took with him into exile in 1960s America.

Reframing Diversity and Inclusive Leadership
Reframing Diversity and Inclusive Leadership

for SUNY Press, 2023

Reframing Diversity and Inclusive Leadership addresses the urgent need for more than merely performative gestures toward diversity, equity, and inclusion.

The Great Murdering-Heir Case
The Great Murdering-Heir Case

for SUNY Press, 2023

The book illustrates the value of two approaches to interpreting decisions, those of “case biography” and “legal archaeology.”

Progressive New York
Progressive New York

for Excelsior Editions, 2023

Progressive New York provides a firsthand portrait of one of the most exciting times in New York’s and the nation’s history: the progressive era, 1900–1920.

The Medieval French Ovide Moralisé (Volume 1 of 3)
The Medieval French Ovide Moralisé (Volume 1 of 3)

for D. S. Brewer, 2023

The anonymous Ovide moralisé (Moralized Ovid), composed in France in the fourteenth century, retells and explicates Ovid’s Metamorphoses, with generous helpings of related texts, for a Christian audience.

Radical Assimilation in the Face of the Holocaust
Radical Assimilation in the Face of the Holocaust

for SUNY Press, 2023

This book explores the confrontation of radically assimilated Jews with the violent collapse of their envisioned integration into a cosmopolitan European society, which culminated during the Holocaust.

The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Volume 1)
The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Volume 1)

for J. S. Curry, 2023

The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), was the first non-Western declaration of human rights and the first official statement of an African human rights perspective. This book, for the first time, documents the evolution of the ACHPR's origins which are key to a proper understanding of how it should be interpreted.

The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Volume 2)
The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Volume 2)

for J. S. Curry, 2023

The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), was the first non-Western declaration of human rights and the first official statement of an African human rights perspective. This book, for the first time, documents the evolution of the ACHPR's origins which are key to a proper understanding of how it should be interpreted.

Tourists and Trade
Tourists and Trade

for SUNY Press, 2023

Tourists and Trade examines the improbable idea of selling discretionary goods targeted to a consumer market characterized by 25 percent unemployment at a rural highway’s roadside amid the economic turmoil of the Great Depression and beyond.

Charles Briidgeman (c. 1685–1738)
Charles Briidgeman (c. 1685–1738)

from Boydell Press, 2023

Charles Bridgeman’s landscapes, barely known outside the world of academic garden history, were audacious and monumental. They are revealed here through an extensive but wildly heterogenous corpus of garden plans.

The Register of Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln 1420–1431, Volume III
The Register of Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln 1420–1431, Volume III

for Canterbury & York Society, 2023

This volume completes the edition of the register of Bishop Fleming.

Casseroles, Can Openers, and Jell-O
Casseroles, Can Openers, and Jell-O

for SUNY Press, 2023

Casseroles, Can Openers, and Jell-O provides insight on how American food culture developed during the early years of the Cold War.

Henry VIII the Duke of Albany and the Anglo-Scottish War of 1522–1524
Henry VIII the Duke of Albany and the Anglo-Scottish War of 1522–1524

for Boydell Press, 2023

Drawing on an unprecedented access to English and Scottish sources of the conflict, this book offers an important new contribution to both Scottish and English history as well as the wider military history of late medieval and early modern Europe.

The Republican Hero
The Republican Hero

for SUNY Press, 2023

Politically speaking, do heroes matter? Are we living in a post- heroic age? The Republican Hero addresses both these questions.

The Choral Foundation of the Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle
The Choral Foundation of the Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle

for Boydell Press, 2023

This study investigates the Chapel’s constitution, liturgy and music through an examination of previously unexplored primary material.

Three Preludes to the Song of Roland
Three Preludes to the Song of Roland

for D. S. Brewer, 2023

This volume presents English translations of the three epic poems whose action directly precedes the events of the Song of Roland.

Invisible Forces
Invisible Forces

for SUNY Press, 2023

Invisible Forces provides a framework for thinking of student motivation as a set of internal “mindsets” that are promoted or thwarted through a complex ecology of personal, classroom, institutional, and systemic factors.

The Emergence of Value
The Emergence of Value

for SUNY Press, 2023

The Emergence of Value argues that a broad enough understanding of nature and human nature can incorporate human values and norms, without reducing them to inhuman processes.

The Motorcycle Industry in New York State
The Motorcycle Industry in New York State

for Excelsior Editions, 2023

The Motorcycle Industry in New York State is the first book to focus on the over 120-year history of motorcycle construction in the Empire State.

Global Rhetorics of Science
Global Rhetorics of Science

for SUNY Press, 2023

The field of rhetoric of science joins its sister disciplines in history and philosophy through Global Rhetorics of Science in challenging the dominance of Euro-American science as a global epistemology.

Human Landscapes
Human Landscapes

for SUNY Press, 2022

Roberta Dreon retrieves and develops the work of the Classical Pragmatists in its astonishing modernity concerning current debates on the mind as embodied and enacted, philosophy of the emotions, social theory, and studies about the origins of human language.

Henry Dreyfuss: Designing for People
Henry Dreyfuss: Designing for People

for SUNY Press, 2022

Henry Dreyfuss: Designing for People reveals the work of Dreyfuss’s talented, hand-picked staff and explores how together they influenced nearly a century of industrial design.

The First Chief Justice
The First Chief Justice

for SUNY Press, 2022

In The First Chief Justice, New York State Appellate Judge Mark C. Dillon uncovers how Jay’s personal, educational, and professional experiences—before, during, and after the Revolutionary War—shaped both the establishment of the first system of federal courts and Jay’s approach to deciding the earliest cases heard by the Supreme Court.

Gifts from Amin
Gifts from Amin

for University of Manitoba Press, 2022

Gifts from Amin documents how Asian Ugandans responded to the threat in their home country and rebuilt their lives in Canada.

The Emergence of Word-Meaning in Early China
The Emergence of Word-Meaning in Early China

for SUNY Press, 2022

The Emergence of Word-Meaning in Early China makes an innovative contribution to studies of language by historicizing the Chinese notion that words have "meaning" (content independent of instances of use).

Black Lives Matter in US Schools
Black Lives Matter in US Schools

for SUNY Press, 2022

Black Lives Matter in US Schools critically examines the relationship between schooling and sociocultural abolitionist movements such as #BlackLivesMatter.

Dimensions of Aesthetic Encounters
Dimensions of Aesthetic Encounters

for SUNY Press, 2022

Dimensions of Aesthetic Encounters explores central perceptual, interpretative, and semiotic dimensions of significant encounters, combining a wide range of examples and intellectual resources from pragmatist, hermeneutical, and semiotic frameworks.

Moving Across Differences
Moving Across Differences

for SUNY Press, 2022

Grounded in ethnography and teacher research, Moving Across Differences examines how an LGBTQ+-themed literature course enabled high school students to negotiate their differences and engage in ethical encounters.

Resist, Organize, Build
Resist, Organize, Build

for SUNY Press, 2022

Resist, Organize, Build casts new light on grassroots campaigns in Britain and the US, looking at feminist and queer work on university campuses, within anti-racist and anti-imperialist movements, in reframing the family, reproduction, and health, and in the establishment of new magazines, book series, and publishing houses.

Letters with Smokie
Letters with Smokie

for University of Manitoba Press, 2023

Letters with Smokie is a funny and thoughtful exchange, the result is a refreshing exploration and re-evaluation of learned cultural misunderstandings of disability.

The White Indians of Mexican Cinema
The White Indians of Mexican Cinema

for SUNY Press, 2022

The White Indians of Mexican Cinema theorizes the development of a unique form of racial masquerade—the representation of Whiteness as Indigeneity—during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, from the 1930s to the 1950s.

The Crucible of Public Policy: New York Courts in the Progressive Era
The Crucible of Public Policy: New York Courts in the Progressive Era

for Excelsior Editions, 2022

The Crucible of Public Policy: New York Courts in the Progressive Era relates the dramatic story of New York State courts, particularly the Court of Appeals, in deciding on the constitutionality of key state statutes in the progressive era.

A Passionate Life
A Passionate Life

for Excelsior Editions, 2022

A Passionate Life is the first comprehensive biography of W. H. H. Murray, a man who has been described as the father of the American outdoor movement and the modern vacation.

Ana M. López: Essays
Ana M. López: Essays

for SUNY Press, 2022

Ana M. López: Essays examines the work of one of the foremost film and media scholars in the world, mapping and situating her key interventions and aiding students and scholars less familiar with her work.

The Ashburnham Pentateuch and its Contents
The Ashburnham Pentateuch and its Contents

for Boydell Press, 2022

This study examines the theological, political, and iconographic contexts of the production and later modification of the Ashburnham Pentateuch's creation image.

The Genocide against the Tutsi, and the Rwandan Churches
The Genocide against the Tutsi, and the Rwandan Churches

for James Curry, 2022

Pioneering study of the role of the Christian churches in the Rwandan genocide of the Tutsi; a key work for historians, memory studies scholars, religion scholars and Africanists.

Forgeries and Historical Writing
Forgeries and Historical Writing

for Boydell Press, 2022

This book offers close analysis of three monastic archives over the eleventh century to provide the basis for contextualizing key shifts in documentary culture in the twelfth century across Europe.

Bronx Epitaph
Bronx Epitaph

for Excelsior Editions, 2022

Bronx Epitaph, the first comprehensive look at Lou Gehrig’s “Luckiest Man” speech which has settled into a sphere so timeless and essential that it seems he delivered it only yesterday.

Dear Uncles
Dear Uncles

for Excelsior Editions, 2022

Dear Uncles is one young man’s story from the beginning of the American Civil War … an intimate portrait of Arthur McKinstry’s journey from a small town in upstate New York to confront Confederate forces in Virginia.

Medieval Women Religious
Medieval Women Religious

for Boydell Press, 2022

Via a range of disciplinary approaches, from history, archaeology, literature, and the visual arts, the essays in this volume challenge received scholarly narratives and re-examine the roles of women religious.

Late Medieval Italian Art and its Contexts
Late Medieval Italian Art and its Contexts

for Boydell Press, 2022

The essays collected here form a tribute to Joanna Cannon, whose scholarship and teaching have done so much to shape the historical study of thirteenth- and fourteenth- century Italian art.

Following the Ticker
Following the Ticker

for SUNY Press, 2022

Following the Ticker explores the complex relationship between stock market performance and political judgments through distinctive patterns of coverage in American news media.

The Medieval Changeling
The Medieval Changeling

for D. S. Brewer, 2022

This interdisciplinary study considers the idea of the changeling as a cultural construct through an examination of a broad range of medical, miracle, and imaginative texts.

Machado de Assis: The World Keeps Changing to Remain the Same
Machado de Assis: The World Keeps Changing to Remain the Same

for Tamesis, 2022

This book provides a lively and accessible introduction to Machado and his work, examining his various personas – the translator, poet, playwright, critic, cronista, short story writer, and novelist

The China Record
The China Record

for SUNY Press, 2022

The China Record provides readers with an ambitious, detailed, and wide- ranging examination of the People’s Republic of China under the Chinese Communist Party both as an alternative mode of political system and a distinctive model of socioeconomic development.

The Restraint of the Press in England, 1660–1715
The Restraint of the Press in England, 1660–1715

for Boydell Press, 2022

This book challenges the idea that the loss of pre-publication licensing in 1695 unleashed a free press on an unsuspecting political class, setting England on the path to modernity.

The Funeral Achievements of Henry V at Westminster Abbey
The Funeral Achievements of Henry V at Westminster Abbey

for Boydell Press, 2022

This book, stimulated by the 600th anniversary of the death of this iconic king, sheds new light on his funeral service and the design of his ornate chantry chapel and tomb.

Bob Dylan’s New York
Bob Dylan’s New York

for Excelsior Editions, 2022

Bob Dylan’s New York
is a guidebook and a history of New York’s key role through Dylan’s lengthy career. It places Dylan’s

The Story Is True
The Story Is True

for SUNY Press, 2022

In The Story Is True, folklorist, filmmaker, and professor of English Bruce Jackson explores the ways we use the stories that become a central part of our public and private lives.

The Spirit of New York
The Spirit of New York

for Excelsior Editions, 2021

Bruce W. Dearstyne presents New York State history through an exploration of nineteen dramatic events.

Ways of the Hand
Ways of the Hand

for Excelsior Editions, 2022

Throughout his sixty-year career as folklorist, ethnographer, criminologist, filmmaker, and journalist, Bruce Jackson has taken photographs … Ways of the Hand includes 112 of his favorite portraits, portraits in which the hands are often as expressive as the faces.

The Arts of Indigenous Health and Well-Being
The Arts of Indigenous Health and Well-Being

for University of Manitoba Press, 2021

The Arts of Indigenous Health and Well-Being explores the effects of artistic endeavour on the “good life,” or miyo pimâtisiwin in Cree, which can be described as the balanced interconnection of physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental well-being

The Social World of the Abbey of Cava
The Social World of the Abbey of Cava

for Boydell Press, 2021

The Benedictine abbey of Holy Trinity, Cava, has had a continuous existence since its foundation almost exactly a thousand years ago. This volume presents a picture of local society and its workings, and of the families and individuals who had dealings with the abbey.

Ecology on the Ground and in the Clouds
Ecology on the Ground and in the Clouds

for SUNY Press, 2021

In Ecology on the Ground and in the Clouds, Andrea Nye raises a question: In a time of climate change and environmental crisis, where should we look for inspiration?

Under the Bed of Heaven
Under the Bed of Heaven

for SUNY Press, 2021

Under the Bed of Heaven is a work of Christian ethics that examines how eschatology might reshape concepts of sexual morality.

Cultural Translations in Medieval Romance
Cultural Translations in Medieval Romance

for D. S. Brewer, 2021

The essays collected in this volume explore the subject of translation, both linguistic and cultural, in relation to the composition, reception, and dissemination of romance across the languages of late medieval Britain, Ireland, and Iceland.

Addiction Recovery and Resilience
Addiction Recovery and Resilience

for SUNY Press, 2021

Using a social ecology of resilience model, Addiction Recovery and Resilience is a yearslong ethnographic case study of a faith-based health organization with a focus on long-term recovery.

Persons Emerging
Persons Emerging

for SUNY Press, 2021

Persons Emerging explores the renewed idea of the Confucian person in the eleventh-century philosophies of Zhou Dunyi, Shao Yong, and Zhang Zai.

The Last Noble Gendarme
The Last Noble Gendarme

for SUNY Press, 2021

The Last Noble Gendarme is the first biography of Major General Konstantin Ivanovich Globachev (Tsar Nicholas II’s last chief of security) and his wife, Sofia. Globachev was an eyewitness to the seething turmoil in the capital of the Russian Empire.

Sharkey
Sharkey

for Excelsior Editions, 2021

Sharkey tells the compelling story of an unusually gifted, trained sea lion who shared the stage with practically every important performer of the first half of the twentieth century—from Bob Hope to Ella Fitzgerald, from Broadway to Hollywood and beyond.

Inside the Green Lobby
Inside the Green Lobby

for Excelsior Editions, 2021

Inside the Green Lobby recounts the behind-the-scenes efforts, both at the State Capitol in Albany and the halls of Congress, of a lobbyist for a major environmental advocacy group.

Decolonizing Discipline
Decolonizing Discipline

for University of Manitoba Press, 2021

Decolonizing Discipline is a response to Call to Action 6—the call to repeal Section 43 of Canada’s Criminal Code, which justifies the corporal punishment of children.

Mayalogue
Mayalogue

for SUNY Press, 2021

Native Mayan scholar Victor Montejo provides an alternative reading and interpretation of cultures, challenging Western ethnocentric approaches that have marginalized Native knowledge and worldviews in the past.

Being German Canadian
Being German Canadian

for University of Manitoba Press, 2021

Being German Canadian explores how multi-generational families and groups have interacted and shaped each other’s integration and adaptation in Canadian society, focusing on the experiences, histories, and memories of German immigrants and their descendants.

Manuscript Culture and MedIieval Devotional Traditions
Manuscript Culture and MedIieval Devotional Traditions

for Boydell Press, 2021

The essays in this volume demonstrate and pay tribute to Michael G. Sargent’s influence, extending and complementing his work on devotional texts and the books in which they traveled.

Faith, Hope, and Sustainability
Faith, Hope, and Sustainability

for SUNY Press, 2021

Faith, Hope, and Sustainability explores the experiences of fifteen faith communities striving to care for the earth and live more sustainably.

Fracture Feminism
Fracture Feminism

for SUNY Press, 2021

Fracture Feminism explores the tradition of Feminist writers in British Romanticism who developed alternatives to linear time. Through psychoanalytical and deconstructive perspectives, the author considers how time can be imagined to contain a hidden fracture—and how that fracture could be the basis for an emancipatory politics.

The Hagiographer and the Avatar
The Hagiographer and the Avatar

for SUNY Press, 2021

The author explores the fundamental role of a hagiographer within a charismatic religious movement: in this case, the postsectarian, cosmopolitan community of the Indian guru Sathya Sai Baba.

Death Rights
Death Rights

for SUNY Press, 2021

The author presents an antiracist critique of British romanticism by deconstructing one of its organizing tropes—the suicidal creative “genius.”

An Unfinished Revolution
An Unfinished Revolution

for Excelsior Editions, 2021

The author tells the story of the suffrage movement and the ongoing struggle for women’s rights in the United States through the lens of one family’s history.

Empire News
Empire News

for SUNY Press, 2021

The author examines the neglected archive of English-language newspapers from India to unpack the maintenance and tensions of empire.

Sensitive Negotiations
Sensitive Negotiations

for SUNY Press, 2021

The author describes how Indigenous peoples in North America and the Pacific engaged with the latest and most fashionable British Romantic poetry as part of transcontinental and transoceanic cross-cultural negotiations about sovereignty, treaty rights, and land claims.

Many Mahābhāratas
Many Mahābhāratas

for SUNY Press, 2020

Many Mahābhāratas is an introduction to the spectacular and long-lived diversity of Mahābhārata literature in South Asia.

The Seasons
The Seasons

for SUNY Press, 2021

This pioneering book demonstrates the ways in which inquiry into the seasons reveals new and illuminating perspectives for philosophy, environmental thought, anthropology, cultural studies, aesthetics, poetics, and literary criticism.

The Godfather and Sicily
The Godfather and Sicily

for SUNY Press, 2021

The author presents an interpretation of The Godfather as a commentary on the transformation of personal identity within the Sicilian and Italian immigrant experience.

The Yorkshire Historical Dictionary
The Yorkshire Historical Dictionary

Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society, 2021

This volume offers an unparalleled collection of words and phrases gleaned from Yorkshire’s archives. The language it contains tells the story of Yorkshire in the words of the people who experienced it.

Manuscript Culture and Medieval Devotional Traditions
Manuscript Culture and Medieval Devotional Traditions

for Boydell Press/York Medieval Press, 2021

The essays in this volume demonstrate and pay tribute to Michael G. Sargent’s influence, extending and complementing his work on devotional texts and the books in which they traveled.

Elite Participation in the Third Crusade
Elite Participation in the Third Crusade

for Boydell Press, 2021

This book analyses the communal and cultural factors that influenced nobles from north-western Europe who embarked on the Third Crusade.

Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty
Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty

for SUNY Press, 2020

The author draws on her engagement in traditional ceremonies, observations of national Catholic celebrations, and interviews with activists from peasant, feminist, and LGBT communities to reframe contemporary conversations about queerness and blackness.

Pathways of Reconciliation
Pathways of Reconciliation

for University of Manitoba Press, 2020

The essays in this volume address themes of reframing, learning and healing, researching, and living. They engage with different approaches to reconciliation and illustrate the complexities of the reconciliation process.

City on the Edge
City on the Edge

for Excelsior Editions, 2020

Why do people stay in a struggling city? City on the Edge explores this question through the lives of five people in Syracuse, New York, a quintessential rust-belt metropolis.

Capitán Latinoamérica
Capitán Latinoamérica

for SUNY Press, 2020

Capitán Latinoamérica is the first study to examine the unique contribution of Latin American cinema, television, and web series to the global superhero boom.

in Security
in Security

for Excelsior Editions, 2020

Part airport thriller, part family drama, part love story, In Security explores how those who strive to protect us are often unable to protect themselves.

Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions
Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions

for SUNY Press, 2020

Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions provides a multidisciplinary exploration of the contemporary university’s entanglement with the history of slavery and settler colonialism in the United States.

Yiddish Plays for Reading and Performance
Yiddish Plays for Reading and Performance

for SUNY Press, 2020

Fresh, lively, and accurate, these works, well-known in Yiddish repertory but never before translated, offer an introduction to the full range of Yiddish theater contextualizing the plays in modern Western theater history from the nineteenth century to the present.

José María Heredia in New York, 1823–1825
José María Heredia in New York, 1823–1825

for SUNY Press, 2020

This volume offers the most complete English translation to date of the prose and poetry of José María Heredia (b. Cuba, 1803; d. Mexico, 1839), focusing on Heredia’s political exile in the United States from November 1823 to August 1825.

Keys to the Beyond
Keys to the Beyond

for SUNY Press, 2020

This book explores the work of the religious philosopher Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) by focusing on the way he develops his own expansive adaptations of traditional religious terms.

Changed Forever, Volume 2
Changed Forever, Volume 2

for SUNY Press, 2020

After a theoretical and historical introduction to American Indian boarding-school literature, this volume examines the autobiographical writings of a number of Native Americans who attended the federal Indian boarding schools.

Kept from All Contagion
Kept from All Contagion

for SUNY Press, 2020

Kept from All Contagion explores the surprising social effects of germ theory in the late nineteenth century.

Demons of Change
Demons of Change

for SUNY Press, 2020

Demons of Change examines the the role of the divine warrior fighting against demonic forces in the transformation of the hero and antihero in early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic accounts.

Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds
Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds

for SUNY Press, 2020

The author analyzes the agency of materiality—the ability of materials to have an effect on both humans and deities—beyond human intentions.

Djinn
Djinn

for SUNY Press, 2020

A bestseller upon its publication in Dutch in 2015, Djinn tells the poignant, at times heartbreaking, story of the author’s coming-of-age as a gay Muslim man with humor and grace.

Niagaras of  Ink
Niagaras of Ink

for Excelsior Editions, 2020

Niagaras of Ink collects anecdotes of famous writers’ experiences with an anthology of some of the most engaging Anglo-American writing on the Falls from the nineteenth to early twentieth centuries.

Since 1948
Since 1948

for SUNY Press, 2020

Toward the end of the twentieth century, an unprecedented surge of writing altered the Israeli literary scene in profound ways … scholars consider how recent voices have succeeded older ones and reverberated in concert with them; how linguistic and geographical boundaries have blurred; how genres have shifted; and how canon and competition have shaped Israeli culture.

Bending the Arc
Bending the Arc

for SUNY Press, 2020

Bending the Arc provides a history of the Kateri Tekakwitha Interfaith Peace Conference in upstate New York and brings together the inspiring, personal stories from well-known participants.

Power-Brokers and the Yorkist State, 1461–1485
Power-Brokers and the Yorkist State, 1461–1485

for Boydell Press, 2020

This book examines the most influential men and women at the centre of the regimes of Edward IV and Richard III: the political power-brokers that served the king in matters of diplomacy, warfare, court ceremony, local government.

The Miraculous and the Writing of Crusade Narrative
The Miraculous and the Writing of Crusade Narrative

for Boydell Press, 2020

This book represents the first far-reaching examination of the miraculous in crusade narrative, offering an analysis of the role of miracles, marvels, visions, dreams, signs and augury in narratives of the crusades.

The Historical Mind
The Historical Mind

for SUNY Press, 2020

In The Historical Mind, various scholars argue that America’s problems are rooted in its people’s refusal to heed the lessons of historical experience and to adopt “constitutional” checks or self-imposed restraints on their cultural, moral, and political lives.

The Holocaust and Masculinities
The Holocaust and Masculinities

for SUNY Press, 2020

The author examines the role of gender during the Holocaust and critically investigates the experiences of men as gendered beings.

What Remains
What Remains

for Excelsior Editions, 2020

What Remains pairs Jon Crispin’s gripping photographs of Charles F’s belongings (an 84 year-old Russian Jewish immigrant arrested at a Brooklyn subway station in 1946 and institutionalized at Willard State Hospital) with Ilan Stavans’s intriguing, speculative portrait of a patient and institution at odds with one another.

Poly-Olbion: New Perspectives
Poly-Olbion: New Perspectives

for Boydell Press, 2020

This first ever volume of essays on Poly-Olbion (1612–1622)—the collaborative work of the poet Michael Drayton, legal scholar John Selden, and engraver William Hole—is a reflection on the work’s increasing prominence in scholarship within the literature and culture of early modern England.

A Permanent Beginning
A Permanent Beginning

for SUNY Press, 2020

A Permanent Beginning lays out a new paradigm for understanding R. Nachman of Braslav’s (1772–1810) thought and writing, and, with them, the beginnings of Jewish literary modernity.

A Survivor Named Trauma
A Survivor Named Trauma

for SUNY Press, 2019

A Survivor Named Trauma examines the nature of trauma and memory as they relate to the Holocaust in Lithuania.

Waste Not
Waste Not

for SUNY Press, 2019

Waste Not provides a comprehensive intellectual history of the concept, Bal tashḥit, charting its evolution from the Bible through classical rabbinic literature, commentaries, codes of law, responsa, and the works of modern environmentalists.

Argentine Intimacies
Argentine Intimacies

for SUNY Press, 2019

The author draws on queer studies, Latin American studies, and literary and cultural studies to consider the significance of one Argentine family in particular during this period of intense social change.


The Great War in Hollywood Memory, 1918–1939
The Great War in Hollywood Memory, 1918–1939

for SUNY Press, 2019

This is the definitive account of how America’s film industry remembered and reimagined World War I from the Armistice in 1918 to the outbreak of World War II in 1939.

Civilization and Barbarism
Civilization and Barbarism

for SUNY Press, 2019

With mass incarceration coming under increasing criticism, the author compels the reader to confront the biases embedded in this model and the impossibility of defending prisons as a civilized form of punishment.

Friedrich Engels and Modern Social and Political Theory
Friedrich Engels and Modern Social and Political Theory

for SUNY Press, 2019

The author critically explores Engels’s contributions to modern social and political theory generally and Marxism specifically.

Authorized Agents
Authorized Agents

for SUNY Press, 2019

In the nineteenth century, Native American writing and oratory extended a long tradition of diplomacy between indigenous people and settler states. Through analyses of a range of texts, Kelderman offers an interdisciplinary method for examining how Native authors claimed a place in public discourse, and how the conventions of Indian diplomacy shaped their texts.

Injichaag/My Soul in Story
Injichaag/My Soul in Story

for University of Manitoba Press, 2019

Injichaag shares the life story of Anishinaabe artist Rene Meshake in stories, poetry, and Anishinaabemowin “word bundles” that serve as a dictionary of Ojibwe poetics.

The Struggles for Understanding
The Struggles for Understanding

for SUNY Press, 2019

The Struggle for Understanding examines Wiesel’s literary, religious, and cultural roots and the indelible impact of the Holocaust on his storytelling.

Stories of School Yoga
Stories of School Yoga

for SUNY Press, 2019

Stories of School Yoga brings together firsthand narratives by teachers and practitioners from diverse settings nationwide to illuminate the multifaceted work, challenges, and benefits of teaching yoga to K−12 students in public schools.

Cub Reporters
Cub Reporters

for SUNY Press, 2019

Cub Reporters considers the intersections between children’s literature and journalism in the United States during the period between the Civil War and World War I.

Imagining the Pagan in Late Medieval England
Imagining the Pagan in Late Medieval England

for D. S. Brewer, 2019

Late medieval English culture was fascinated by the figure of the pagan, the ancestor whose religious difference must be negotiated, and by the pagan’s idol, an animate artefact. This book reads the imagined history of the long term relationship between pagan and Christian through quasi-factual fifteenth-century Middle English writings.

Dancing With Sophia
Dancing With Sophia

for SUNY Press, 2019

Dancing with Sophia is the first book of essays to focus on the philosophical dimensions and implications of integral theory, a metatheory that organizes first order theories and disciplines into higher order modes of knowing and insight needed to address the complexity of today’s world.


African Americans and the First Amendment
African Americans and the First Amendment

for SUNY Press, 2019

African Americans and the First Amendment is the first book to explore in detail the relationship between African Americans and Americans’ “first freedoms,” especially freedom of speech.

Ubuntu Relational Love
Ubuntu Relational Love

for University of Manitoba Press, 2019

Ubuntu is a Bantu term meaning humanity. It is also a philosophical and ethical system of thought, from which definitions of humanness, togetherness, and social politics of difference arise. The author uses Ubuntu oratures as tools to address the impacts of Euro-colonialism while regenerating relational Ubuntu governance structures.

The Politics of Paradigm
The Politics of Paradigm

for SUNY Press, 2019

The Politics of Paradigms shows that America’s most famous and influential book about science, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions of 1962, was inspired and shaped by Thomas Kuhn’s political interests, his relationship with the influential cold warrior James Bryant Conant, and America’s McCarthy-era struggle to resist and defeat totalitarian ideology.

Emerson in Iran
Emerson in Iran

for SUNY Press, 2019

Emerson in Iran is the first full-length study of Persian influence in the work of the seminal American poet, philosopher, and translator, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Beyond the Troubled Water of Shifei
Beyond the Troubled Water of Shifei

for SUNY Press, 2019

A growing concern in studies in Chinese intellectual history is that Chinese classics have been forced into systems of classification prevalent in Western philosophy … Ma and Brakel offer a methodology to counter this approach.

The Spiritual Transformation of Jews Who Become Orthodox
The Spiritual Transformation of Jews Who Become Orthodox

for SUNY Press, 2019

Jewish adults who adopt Orthodoxy provide a clear example of spiritual transformation—the process of changing one’s beliefs, values, attitudes, and everyday behaviors related to a transcendent experience or higher power.

Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain
Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain

for D. S. Brewer, 2019

Atkin and Rujsic explore the production, transmission and reception of texts from England and beyond during the late-medieval and early-renaissance periods.

Writing the Talking Cure
Writing the Talking Cure

for SUNY Press, 2019

Writing the Talking Cure is the first book to explore all of the major writings of Irvin D. Yalom, a distinguished psychiatrist and psychotherapist.

Everything Worthy of Observation
Everything Worthy of Observation

for Excelsior Editions, 2019

This firsthand account immerses the reader in the world of early-nineteenth-century life in both New York and Lower Canada as experienced by Alexander Stewart Scott.

Legacies of the Sublime
Legacies of the Sublime

for SUNY Press, 2019

Legacies of the Sublime offers a highly original, subtle, and persuasive account of the aesthetics of the sublime in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature, philosophy, and science.

The Age of Shojo
The Age of Shojo

for SUNY Press, 2019

The Age of Shojo examines the role that magazines have played in the creation and development of the concept of shōjo, the modern cultural identity of adolescent Japanese girls.

Arthurianism in Early Plantagenet England
Arthurianism in Early Plantagenet England

for Boydell Press, 2018

This book provides a comprehensive history of the first 150 years of Arthurianism, from its beginnings under Henry II of England to a highpoint under Edward I.

The Majestic Nature of the North
The Majestic Nature of the North

for SUNY Press, 2018

Thomas Kelah Wharton’s travel diaries provide an intimate glimpse into the society of early nineteenth-century America.

Personal Religion and Spiritual Healing
Personal Religion and Spiritual Healing

for SUNY Press, 2018

This book addresses debates about the complexity and meaning of the rise or decline of religion in the twentieth century and the processes involved in the formation of popular nontraditional spiritualities.

Changed Forever
Changed Forever

for SUNY Press, 2018

Changed Forever is the first study to gather a range of texts produced by Native Americans who, voluntarily or through compulsion, attended government-run boarding schools in the last decades of the nineteenth and the first decades of the twentieth centuries.

Following His Own Path
Following His Own Path

for SUNY Press, 2018

In the first comprehensive overview and exegesis of the work of Li Zehou—one of the most significant and influential contemporary Chinese philosophers—the author shows us how Li’s complex system of thought seeks to revive various Chinese traditions, and at the same time attempts to harmonize or reconcile this cultural heritage with the demands of the dominant global economic, political, and axiological structures.

Popovers and Candlelight
Popovers and Candlelight

for Excelsior Editions, 2018

This rags-to-riches story of Patricia Murphy and her Candlelight restaurants is also a fascinating view of class, gender, ethnicity, and food culture during much of the twentieth century.

Facing Toward the Dawn
Facing Toward the Dawn

for SUNY Press, 2018

In the early twentieth century, the Italian American radical movement thrived in industrial cities throughout the United States, including New London, Connecticut. Facing toward the Dawn tells the history of the vibrant anarchist movement that existed in New London’s Fort Trumbull neighborhood for seventy years.

The Adventure of Weak Theology
The Adventure of Weak Theology

for SUNY Press, 2018

In a distinctive exploration of John D. Caputo’s work, Štefan Štofaník traces Caputo’s journey of philosophical discovery from his earlier, more conventional academic writings to his later, almost confessional works of weak theology and his deep engagement with Derrida.


Author, Scribe, and Book
Author, Scribe, and Book

for D. S. Brewer, 2018

Critten argues that early writers elaborated a ‘self-publishing pose’ with the aim of regaining their audiences’ confidence. In their unusual insistence on their co-identity with their manuscripts, they demonstrate a new awareness of the socially instrumental potential of Middle English writing.



Kayanerenkó:wa (The Great Law of Peace)
Kayanerenkó:wa (The Great Law of Peace)

for University of Manitoba Press, 2018

Kayanesenh Paul Williams brings the sum of his experience and expertise to this analysis of Kayanerenkó:wa (The Great Law of Peace)—developed by the five nations that would become the Haudenosaunee (Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca)—as a living, principled legal system.

Damnation and Salvation
Damnation and Salvation

for D. S. Brewer, 2018

The author examines the hope of salvation and fear of damnation— fundamental in the Middle Ages—as reflected in Old Norse literature, and how these two intersect and interact in text and theme.

'Charms', Liturgies, and Secret Rites
'Charms', Liturgies, and Secret Rites

for Boydell Press, 2018

The author undertakes a wide-ranging investigation of the Anglo-Saxon charms genre in order to better understand how early English ecclesiastics perceived them and why they have drawn the attention of many scholars and appealed to enthusiasts of magic, paganism, and popular religion.

Blood Circuits
Blood Circuits

for SUNY Press, 2018

Blood Circuits focuses on contemporary Argentine horror cinema and the various “cinematic pleasures” it offers national and transnational audiences … providing unprecedented ways of engaging with the consequences of authoritarianism and neoliberalism in Argentina.



Towards a New Ethnohistory
Towards a New Ethnohistory

for University of Manitoba Press, 2018

Towards a New Ethnohistory engages respectfully in cross-cultural dialogue and interdisciplinary methods to co-create with Indigenous people a new, decolonized ethnohistory.

The Medieval Literary: Beyond Form
The Medieval Literary: Beyond Form

for D. S. Brewer, 2018

The twenty-first century has witnessed the re-emergence of various kinds of literary formalism, and one project that characterizes most of these diverse formalisms is the effort to distinguish what is precisely literary about their objects of study … the essays gathered here aim to rethink the relationship between form and the literary.

Hell Gate
Hell Gate

for Excelsior Editions, 2018

Part history and part memoir, Hell Gate tells of a man’s excursions along and through Hell Gate, a narrow stretch of water in New York City’s East River, notorious for dangerous currents, shipwrecks, and its melancholic islands and rocks.

Queer Art Camp Superstar
Queer Art Camp Superstar

for SUNY Press, 2018

Queer Art Camp Superstar … looks closely at a selection of his most significant movies in order to discern the artist’s artistic genealogy, evolving aesthetics, radical approach to digital and Internet culture, and impact on contemporary art, film, and media.


The Problem of Disenchantment
The Problem of Disenchantment

for SUNY Press, 2018

Drawing on a wide range of early twentieth-century primary sources … Asprem casts the intellectual life of high modernity as a synchronic struggle across conspicuously different fields that shared surprisingly similar intellectual problems about value, meaning, and the limits of knowledge.


Lord Liverpool
Lord Liverpool

for Boydell Press, 2018

This new political biography explores Liverpool's career and puts his efforts at resisting change into context, bringing this period of transformation into sharp focus.


Tha Ballad and it's Pasts
Tha Ballad and it's Pasts

for D. S. Brewer, 2018

The ballad genre and its material are frequently backward-looking in terms of subject and style: it is ideally suited to the reimagining of past events, both real and fictional. This volume addresses the past of the ballad and the past in the ballad.

The Specter of the Indian
The Specter of the Indian

for SUNY Press, 2018

The Specter of the Indian unveils the centrality of Native American spirit guides during the emergent years of American Spiritualism.

Invisible Hosts
Invisible Hosts

for SUNY Press, 2017

Invisible Hosts explores how the central tenets of Spiritualism influenced ways in which women conceived of their bodies and their civic responsibilities.

Dancing with Ophelia
Dancing with Ophelia

for Excelsior Editions, 2017

The author draws on literature, art, and philosophy to gain a unique understanding of madness that allowed her to achieve lasting mental health without using long-term psychiatric drugs.

Mystery 101
Mystery 101

for SUNY Press, 2017

The author approaches the “big questions” of philosophy not by weighing the merits of leading arguments, but instead by questioning the extent to which we are even in a position to answer such questions in the first place.

Reluctant Reformer
Reluctant Reformer

for Excelsior Editions, 2017

Reluctant Reformer chronicles the political rise and professional compromises of Nathan Sanford who contributed to the expansion of democratic rights and responsive government in the Early American Republic.

Rebels on the Niagara
Rebels on the Niagara

for Excelsior Editions, 2017

The story of Irish Americans invading Canada along the Niagara Frontier in 1866, orchestrated by the Fenian Brotherhood, in an attempt to fight for Irish independence from Britain.

Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth
Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth

for SUNY Press, 2017

A consideration of the current environmental and ecological crisis throughout the writings of American activist Gary Snyder and thirteenth-century Japanese Zen Master Eihei Dōgen.

The Truth of the Russian Revolution
The Truth of the Russian Revolution

for SUNY Press, 2017

The memoirs of Major General Konstantin Ivanovich Globachev and his his wife, Sofia Nikolaevna Globacheva provide a front-row view of Tsar Nicholas II’s final years, the revolution, and its tumultuous aftermath.

Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka, and Scientific Imagination
Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka, and Scientific Imagination

for SUNY Press, 2017

A philosophical consideration of Poe’s literary theory, theology, and intellectual development, with a comparison of his understanding of science with that of scientists and philosophers from his own time to the present.

Historicizing Post-Discourses
Historicizing Post-Discourses

for SUNY Press, 2017

The break down and restructuring of form references the shifting views of race and feminist identity. The underlying grid suggests a path to a new construct.

Failed State
Failed State

for Excelsior Editions, 2016

The original account of a state legislature in urgent need of reform is depicted through a gritty, torn black and white image referencing dysfunction and corruption.

Romantic Mediations
Romantic Mediations

for SUNY Press, 2016

Romantic script is paired with cool, minimal type for a text investigating the connections among British Romantic writers, their texts, and the history of major forms of technical media from the turn of the nineteenth century to the present. 

FDR On His Houseboat
FDR On His Houseboat

for Excelsior Editions, 2016

Hardcover dust jacket for a text that documents FDR’s time spent on recuperating on his houseboat as told through log entries and photographs, contrasting his private life of struggle and fun against the outside world.

Respectability On Trial
Respectability On Trial

for SUNY Press, 2016

This design uses a restrained sepia colour palette, dramatically cropped images (obscuring individual identities), and a blunt typeface to represent critical courtroom battles over seduction, pimping, rape, and sodomy in early twentieth-century New York City.

The Possibility of a World
The Possibility of a World

for Fordham University Press, 2016

The published conversations of philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy and and Pierre-Philippe Jardin are represented by a arrangement of overlapping rectangles meant to describe a simple ontology.

Sounding Thunder
Sounding Thunder

for University of Manitoba Press, 2016

Francis Pegahmagabow, a member of the Ojibwa nation, became the most decorated Canadian Indigenous soldier in North American military history. The colour bars reference his achievements as a sniper and his bravery.

Fundamentals of Comparative and Intercultural Philosophy
Fundamentals of Comparative and Intercultural Philosophy

for SUNY Press, 2016

The image represents eastern wisdom/thinking/philosophy and the grid represents a western framework (based on a Fibonacci Sequence). The imposition of the grid over the image represents the attempt to understand eastern teachings through a western perspective and highlight the need for a common language for interpretation. The mirror image of Laozi represents critical self-reflection and examination within the discipline. The use of purple and charcoal references the text associated with the statue of Laozi (“the black ox goes to the west; a purple air flows from the east.”).

Mythologizing Norval Morrisseau
Mythologizing Norval Morrisseau

for University of Manitoba Press, 2016

The cover depicts Morrisseau, the real man, dwarfed by his own constructed myth.

Beer of Broadway Fame
Beer of Broadway Fame

for Excelsior Editions, 2016

The Piels’ history is referenced through organic textures, archival motifs, and historical beer label typography.

The Heroic Age of Diving
The Heroic Age of Diving

for Excelsior Editions, 2015

The dive helmut—with the gradated seascape—communicates the idea of depth, claustrophobic enclosure and risk to the pioneers of diving.

Tongue of Fire
Tongue of Fire

for SUNY Press, 2015

An examination of the speeches and writings of the "Most Dangerous Woman in the World", Emma Goldman, within the context of shifting gender roles in early twentieth-century America.

Three Songs By Hank Williams
Three Songs By Hank Williams

for Turnstone Press, 2001

Intertwining narratives of rough-and-tumble characters, pulled in different directions, are played out across the Canadian west.

Constructing Tomorrow's Federalism
Constructing Tomorrow's Federalism

for University Of Manitoba Press, 2007

The maple leaf, the international symbol of Canada, is converted into a number of puzzle pieces that, for the time being, are aligned suggesting the impermanent and complex
idea of federalism.

Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood
Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood

for University Of Manitoba Press, 2006

The subtle design reflects the Mennonites nuanced approach to politics.

History, Literature, and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies
History, Literature, and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies

for University Of Manitoba Press, 2005

An image of a straight rail line vanishing into the distance has long been used to communicate the Prairie West. However, for a book cover for essays by a new generation of writers confronting the prairies, that image is subverted by breaking it down to pixels, duplicating it, and turing it, literally, on it's head.

Formidable Heritage
Formidable Heritage

for University Of Manitoba Press, 2004

After confederation, Northern Manitoba rapidly changed with shifts from fur-trading to resource development with undesired consequences. The cover is constructed with an archival image of a stripped landscape making way for a rail line and slag, a byproduct of the smelting process.

Providence Watching
Providence Watching

for University Of Manitoba Press, 2003

The stories of Polish soldiers emerge decades after conflict
and resettlement in a familiar landscape but within a different country. Their individual voices are described within the recognizable faces of soldiers marching en masse

A Very Remarkable Sickness
A Very Remarkable Sickness

for University Of Manitoba Press, 2002

The map showing settlement spread is emphasized to show the distribution and diffusion of disease through North American Aboriginal communities.

Muskekowuck Athinuwick
Muskekowuck Athinuwick

for University Of Manitoba Press, 2002

Muskekowuck Athinuwick (Original People of the Great Swampy Land) describes the long history of the Lowland Cree, one of the first Aboriginal groups to have contact with Europeans. The cover, an archival image of intermingling members of both groups, describes their complex and interconnected relationship.

One Version of the Facts
One Version of the Facts

for University Of Manitoba Press, 2000

The cover for the memoirs of accomplished physicist and academic Henry Duckworth is illustrated with images of his life, teaching and his scientific endeavours.

Manitoba Medicine
Manitoba Medicine

for University Of Manitoba Press, 1999

Manitoba Medicine describes the development of healthcare in the province. The cover image—an archival photo of a medical lecture theatre—plays with the idea of students anticipating A Brief History.

Toward Defining the Prairies
Toward Defining the Prairies

for University Of Manitoba Press, 2001

Overlapping definitions of the prairies highlights the theme of process. While it may be difficult, even impossible, to define something like the Prairie West, the process—as difficult as it may be—can be illuminating.

Making it Home in Canadian Literature
Making it Home in Canadian Literature

for University Of Manitoba Press, 1998

Traditional approaches to considering the Canadian prairies are overturned in a series of essays. This breaking from the past is represented by an abandoned homestead that is fragmented and dissected in jarring, and sometimes, inverted colours.

The Algonquin Round Table
Bedfordshire Probate Inventories before 1660
Picturing Divinity in John Donne’s Writings
The Medieval Pig
The Gothic Imagination in the Music of Franz Schubert
Keorapetse Kgositsile & the Black Arts Movement
Reframing Diversity and Inclusive Leadership
The Great Murdering-Heir Case
Progressive New York
The Medieval French Ovide Moralisé (Volume 1 of 3)
Radical Assimilation in the Face of the Holocaust
The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Volume 1)
The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Volume 2)
Tourists and Trade
Charles Briidgeman (c. 1685–1738)
The Register of Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln 1420–1431, Volume III
Casseroles, Can Openers, and Jell-O
Henry VIII the Duke of Albany and the Anglo-Scottish War of 1522–1524
The Republican Hero
The Choral Foundation of the Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle
Three Preludes to the Song of Roland
Invisible Forces
The Emergence of Value
The Motorcycle Industry in New York State
Global Rhetorics of Science
Human Landscapes
Henry Dreyfuss: Designing for People
The First Chief Justice
Gifts from Amin
The Emergence of Word-Meaning in Early China
Black Lives Matter in US Schools
Dimensions of Aesthetic Encounters
Moving Across Differences
Resist, Organize, Build
Letters with Smokie
The White Indians of Mexican Cinema
The Crucible of Public Policy: New York Courts in the Progressive Era
A Passionate Life
Ana M. López: Essays
The Ashburnham Pentateuch and its Contents
The Genocide against the Tutsi, and the Rwandan Churches
Forgeries and Historical Writing
Bronx Epitaph
Dear Uncles
Medieval Women Religious
Late Medieval Italian Art and its Contexts
Following the Ticker
The Medieval Changeling
Machado de Assis: The World Keeps Changing to Remain the Same
The China Record
The Restraint of the Press in England, 1660–1715
The Funeral Achievements of Henry V at Westminster Abbey
Bob Dylan’s New York
The Story Is True
The Spirit of New York
Ways of the Hand
The Arts of Indigenous Health and Well-Being
The Social World of the Abbey of Cava
Ecology on the Ground and in the Clouds
Under the Bed of Heaven
Cultural Translations in Medieval Romance
Addiction Recovery and Resilience
Persons Emerging
The Last Noble Gendarme
Sharkey
Inside the Green Lobby
Decolonizing Discipline
Mayalogue
Being German Canadian
Manuscript Culture and MedIieval Devotional Traditions
Faith, Hope, and Sustainability
Fracture Feminism
The Hagiographer and the Avatar
Death Rights
An Unfinished Revolution
Empire News
Sensitive Negotiations
Many Mahābhāratas
The Seasons
The Godfather and Sicily
The Yorkshire Historical Dictionary
Manuscript Culture and Medieval Devotional Traditions
Elite Participation in the Third Crusade
Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty
Pathways of Reconciliation
City on the Edge
Capitán Latinoamérica
in Security
Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions
Yiddish Plays for Reading and Performance
José María Heredia in New York, 1823–1825
Keys to the Beyond
Changed Forever, Volume 2
Kept from All Contagion
Demons of Change
Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds
Djinn
Niagaras of  Ink
Since 1948
Bending the Arc
Power-Brokers and the Yorkist State, 1461–1485
The Miraculous and the Writing of Crusade Narrative
The Historical Mind
The Holocaust and Masculinities
What Remains
Poly-Olbion: New Perspectives
A Permanent Beginning
A Survivor Named Trauma
Waste Not
Argentine Intimacies
The Great War in Hollywood Memory, 1918–1939
Civilization and Barbarism
Friedrich Engels and Modern Social and Political Theory
Authorized Agents
Injichaag/My Soul in Story
The Struggles for Understanding
Stories of School Yoga
Cub Reporters
Imagining the Pagan in Late Medieval England
Dancing With Sophia
African Americans and the First Amendment
Ubuntu Relational Love
The Politics of Paradigm
Emerson in Iran
Beyond the Troubled Water of Shifei
The Spiritual Transformation of Jews Who Become Orthodox
Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain
Writing the Talking Cure
Everything Worthy of Observation
Legacies of the Sublime
The Age of Shojo
Arthurianism in Early Plantagenet England
The Majestic Nature of the North
Personal Religion and Spiritual Healing
Changed Forever
Following His Own Path
Popovers and Candlelight
Facing Toward the Dawn
The Adventure of Weak Theology
Author, Scribe, and Book
Kayanerenkó:wa (The Great Law of Peace)
Damnation and Salvation
'Charms', Liturgies, and Secret Rites
Blood Circuits
Towards a New Ethnohistory
The Medieval Literary: Beyond Form
Hell Gate
Queer Art Camp Superstar
The Problem of Disenchantment
Lord Liverpool
Tha Ballad and it's Pasts
The Specter of the Indian
Invisible Hosts
Dancing with Ophelia
Mystery 101
Reluctant Reformer
Rebels on the Niagara
Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth
The Truth of the Russian Revolution
Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka, and Scientific Imagination
Historicizing Post-Discourses
Failed State
Romantic Mediations
FDR On His Houseboat
Respectability On Trial
The Possibility of a World
Sounding Thunder
Fundamentals of Comparative and Intercultural Philosophy
Mythologizing Norval Morrisseau
Beer of Broadway Fame
The Heroic Age of Diving
Tongue of Fire
Three Songs By Hank Williams
Constructing Tomorrow's Federalism
Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood
History, Literature, and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies
Formidable Heritage
Providence Watching
A Very Remarkable Sickness
Muskekowuck Athinuwick
One Version of the Facts
Manitoba Medicine
Toward Defining the Prairies
Making it Home in Canadian Literature
The Algonquin Round Table

for Excelsior Editions, 2023

This previously unpublished manuscript describes how the Algonquin Hotel became an artistic hub for the city and a landmark in America’s cultural life.

Bedfordshire Probate Inventories before 1660

for Boydell Press, 2023

Bedfordshire Probate Inventories before 1660 provides evidence of the home environment of the minor gentry, clergy, middling sort, tradesmen and the poor of Bedfordshire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Picturing Divinity in John Donne’s Writings

for D. S. Brewer, 2023

This study provides new insights on some of John Donne’s best-known poems and extends our appreciation of Donne as an artist exploring the limits of his own practice as he confronts the relationship between the human and the divine.

The Medieval Pig

for Boydell Press, 2023

This book considers pigs in medieval Europe from a number of angles uncovers the pig's numerous roles in medieval society, how pigs shaped human life, and how humans shaped theirs.

The Gothic Imagination in the Music of Franz Schubert

for Boydell Press, 2023

This book illuminates Franz Schubert’s engagement with gothic discourse at the intersection of music, literature, and the visual arts.

Keorapetse Kgositsile & the Black Arts Movement

for James Curry, 2023

Phalafala reveals the foundational influence of Kgositsile’s mother and grandmother on his craft and explores the cosmological archive he took with him into exile in 1960s America.

Reframing Diversity and Inclusive Leadership

for SUNY Press, 2023

Reframing Diversity and Inclusive Leadership addresses the urgent need for more than merely performative gestures toward diversity, equity, and inclusion.

The Great Murdering-Heir Case

for SUNY Press, 2023

The book illustrates the value of two approaches to interpreting decisions, those of “case biography” and “legal archaeology.”

Progressive New York

for Excelsior Editions, 2023

Progressive New York provides a firsthand portrait of one of the most exciting times in New York’s and the nation’s history: the progressive era, 1900–1920.

The Medieval French Ovide Moralisé (Volume 1 of 3)

for D. S. Brewer, 2023

The anonymous Ovide moralisé (Moralized Ovid), composed in France in the fourteenth century, retells and explicates Ovid’s Metamorphoses, with generous helpings of related texts, for a Christian audience.

Radical Assimilation in the Face of the Holocaust

for SUNY Press, 2023

This book explores the confrontation of radically assimilated Jews with the violent collapse of their envisioned integration into a cosmopolitan European society, which culminated during the Holocaust.

The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Volume 1)

for J. S. Curry, 2023

The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), was the first non-Western declaration of human rights and the first official statement of an African human rights perspective. This book, for the first time, documents the evolution of the ACHPR's origins which are key to a proper understanding of how it should be interpreted.

The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Volume 2)

for J. S. Curry, 2023

The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), was the first non-Western declaration of human rights and the first official statement of an African human rights perspective. This book, for the first time, documents the evolution of the ACHPR's origins which are key to a proper understanding of how it should be interpreted.

Tourists and Trade

for SUNY Press, 2023

Tourists and Trade examines the improbable idea of selling discretionary goods targeted to a consumer market characterized by 25 percent unemployment at a rural highway’s roadside amid the economic turmoil of the Great Depression and beyond.

Charles Briidgeman (c. 1685–1738)

from Boydell Press, 2023

Charles Bridgeman’s landscapes, barely known outside the world of academic garden history, were audacious and monumental. They are revealed here through an extensive but wildly heterogenous corpus of garden plans.

The Register of Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln 1420–1431, Volume III

for Canterbury & York Society, 2023

This volume completes the edition of the register of Bishop Fleming.

Casseroles, Can Openers, and Jell-O

for SUNY Press, 2023

Casseroles, Can Openers, and Jell-O provides insight on how American food culture developed during the early years of the Cold War.

Henry VIII the Duke of Albany and the Anglo-Scottish War of 1522–1524

for Boydell Press, 2023

Drawing on an unprecedented access to English and Scottish sources of the conflict, this book offers an important new contribution to both Scottish and English history as well as the wider military history of late medieval and early modern Europe.

The Republican Hero

for SUNY Press, 2023

Politically speaking, do heroes matter? Are we living in a post- heroic age? The Republican Hero addresses both these questions.

The Choral Foundation of the Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle

for Boydell Press, 2023

This study investigates the Chapel’s constitution, liturgy and music through an examination of previously unexplored primary material.

Three Preludes to the Song of Roland

for D. S. Brewer, 2023

This volume presents English translations of the three epic poems whose action directly precedes the events of the Song of Roland.

Invisible Forces

for SUNY Press, 2023

Invisible Forces provides a framework for thinking of student motivation as a set of internal “mindsets” that are promoted or thwarted through a complex ecology of personal, classroom, institutional, and systemic factors.

The Emergence of Value

for SUNY Press, 2023

The Emergence of Value argues that a broad enough understanding of nature and human nature can incorporate human values and norms, without reducing them to inhuman processes.

The Motorcycle Industry in New York State

for Excelsior Editions, 2023

The Motorcycle Industry in New York State is the first book to focus on the over 120-year history of motorcycle construction in the Empire State.

Global Rhetorics of Science

for SUNY Press, 2023

The field of rhetoric of science joins its sister disciplines in history and philosophy through Global Rhetorics of Science in challenging the dominance of Euro-American science as a global epistemology.

Human Landscapes

for SUNY Press, 2022

Roberta Dreon retrieves and develops the work of the Classical Pragmatists in its astonishing modernity concerning current debates on the mind as embodied and enacted, philosophy of the emotions, social theory, and studies about the origins of human language.

Henry Dreyfuss: Designing for People

for SUNY Press, 2022

Henry Dreyfuss: Designing for People reveals the work of Dreyfuss’s talented, hand-picked staff and explores how together they influenced nearly a century of industrial design.

The First Chief Justice

for SUNY Press, 2022

In The First Chief Justice, New York State Appellate Judge Mark C. Dillon uncovers how Jay’s personal, educational, and professional experiences—before, during, and after the Revolutionary War—shaped both the establishment of the first system of federal courts and Jay’s approach to deciding the earliest cases heard by the Supreme Court.

Gifts from Amin

for University of Manitoba Press, 2022

Gifts from Amin documents how Asian Ugandans responded to the threat in their home country and rebuilt their lives in Canada.

The Emergence of Word-Meaning in Early China

for SUNY Press, 2022

The Emergence of Word-Meaning in Early China makes an innovative contribution to studies of language by historicizing the Chinese notion that words have "meaning" (content independent of instances of use).

Black Lives Matter in US Schools

for SUNY Press, 2022

Black Lives Matter in US Schools critically examines the relationship between schooling and sociocultural abolitionist movements such as #BlackLivesMatter.

Dimensions of Aesthetic Encounters

for SUNY Press, 2022

Dimensions of Aesthetic Encounters explores central perceptual, interpretative, and semiotic dimensions of significant encounters, combining a wide range of examples and intellectual resources from pragmatist, hermeneutical, and semiotic frameworks.

Moving Across Differences

for SUNY Press, 2022

Grounded in ethnography and teacher research, Moving Across Differences examines how an LGBTQ+-themed literature course enabled high school students to negotiate their differences and engage in ethical encounters.

Resist, Organize, Build

for SUNY Press, 2022

Resist, Organize, Build casts new light on grassroots campaigns in Britain and the US, looking at feminist and queer work on university campuses, within anti-racist and anti-imperialist movements, in reframing the family, reproduction, and health, and in the establishment of new magazines, book series, and publishing houses.

Letters with Smokie

for University of Manitoba Press, 2023

Letters with Smokie is a funny and thoughtful exchange, the result is a refreshing exploration and re-evaluation of learned cultural misunderstandings of disability.

The White Indians of Mexican Cinema

for SUNY Press, 2022

The White Indians of Mexican Cinema theorizes the development of a unique form of racial masquerade—the representation of Whiteness as Indigeneity—during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, from the 1930s to the 1950s.

The Crucible of Public Policy: New York Courts in the Progressive Era

for Excelsior Editions, 2022

The Crucible of Public Policy: New York Courts in the Progressive Era relates the dramatic story of New York State courts, particularly the Court of Appeals, in deciding on the constitutionality of key state statutes in the progressive era.

A Passionate Life

for Excelsior Editions, 2022

A Passionate Life is the first comprehensive biography of W. H. H. Murray, a man who has been described as the father of the American outdoor movement and the modern vacation.

Ana M. López: Essays

for SUNY Press, 2022

Ana M. López: Essays examines the work of one of the foremost film and media scholars in the world, mapping and situating her key interventions and aiding students and scholars less familiar with her work.

The Ashburnham Pentateuch and its Contents

for Boydell Press, 2022

This study examines the theological, political, and iconographic contexts of the production and later modification of the Ashburnham Pentateuch's creation image.

The Genocide against the Tutsi, and the Rwandan Churches

for James Curry, 2022

Pioneering study of the role of the Christian churches in the Rwandan genocide of the Tutsi; a key work for historians, memory studies scholars, religion scholars and Africanists.

Forgeries and Historical Writing

for Boydell Press, 2022

This book offers close analysis of three monastic archives over the eleventh century to provide the basis for contextualizing key shifts in documentary culture in the twelfth century across Europe.

Bronx Epitaph

for Excelsior Editions, 2022

Bronx Epitaph, the first comprehensive look at Lou Gehrig’s “Luckiest Man” speech which has settled into a sphere so timeless and essential that it seems he delivered it only yesterday.

Dear Uncles

for Excelsior Editions, 2022

Dear Uncles is one young man’s story from the beginning of the American Civil War … an intimate portrait of Arthur McKinstry’s journey from a small town in upstate New York to confront Confederate forces in Virginia.

Medieval Women Religious

for Boydell Press, 2022

Via a range of disciplinary approaches, from history, archaeology, literature, and the visual arts, the essays in this volume challenge received scholarly narratives and re-examine the roles of women religious.

Late Medieval Italian Art and its Contexts

for Boydell Press, 2022

The essays collected here form a tribute to Joanna Cannon, whose scholarship and teaching have done so much to shape the historical study of thirteenth- and fourteenth- century Italian art.

Following the Ticker

for SUNY Press, 2022

Following the Ticker explores the complex relationship between stock market performance and political judgments through distinctive patterns of coverage in American news media.

The Medieval Changeling

for D. S. Brewer, 2022

This interdisciplinary study considers the idea of the changeling as a cultural construct through an examination of a broad range of medical, miracle, and imaginative texts.

Machado de Assis: The World Keeps Changing to Remain the Same

for Tamesis, 2022

This book provides a lively and accessible introduction to Machado and his work, examining his various personas – the translator, poet, playwright, critic, cronista, short story writer, and novelist

The China Record

for SUNY Press, 2022

The China Record provides readers with an ambitious, detailed, and wide- ranging examination of the People’s Republic of China under the Chinese Communist Party both as an alternative mode of political system and a distinctive model of socioeconomic development.

The Restraint of the Press in England, 1660–1715

for Boydell Press, 2022

This book challenges the idea that the loss of pre-publication licensing in 1695 unleashed a free press on an unsuspecting political class, setting England on the path to modernity.

The Funeral Achievements of Henry V at Westminster Abbey

for Boydell Press, 2022

This book, stimulated by the 600th anniversary of the death of this iconic king, sheds new light on his funeral service and the design of his ornate chantry chapel and tomb.

Bob Dylan’s New York

for Excelsior Editions, 2022

Bob Dylan’s New York
is a guidebook and a history of New York’s key role through Dylan’s lengthy career. It places Dylan’s

The Story Is True

for SUNY Press, 2022

In The Story Is True, folklorist, filmmaker, and professor of English Bruce Jackson explores the ways we use the stories that become a central part of our public and private lives.

The Spirit of New York

for Excelsior Editions, 2021

Bruce W. Dearstyne presents New York State history through an exploration of nineteen dramatic events.

Ways of the Hand

for Excelsior Editions, 2022

Throughout his sixty-year career as folklorist, ethnographer, criminologist, filmmaker, and journalist, Bruce Jackson has taken photographs … Ways of the Hand includes 112 of his favorite portraits, portraits in which the hands are often as expressive as the faces.

The Arts of Indigenous Health and Well-Being

for University of Manitoba Press, 2021

The Arts of Indigenous Health and Well-Being explores the effects of artistic endeavour on the “good life,” or miyo pimâtisiwin in Cree, which can be described as the balanced interconnection of physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental well-being

The Social World of the Abbey of Cava

for Boydell Press, 2021

The Benedictine abbey of Holy Trinity, Cava, has had a continuous existence since its foundation almost exactly a thousand years ago. This volume presents a picture of local society and its workings, and of the families and individuals who had dealings with the abbey.

Ecology on the Ground and in the Clouds

for SUNY Press, 2021

In Ecology on the Ground and in the Clouds, Andrea Nye raises a question: In a time of climate change and environmental crisis, where should we look for inspiration?

Under the Bed of Heaven

for SUNY Press, 2021

Under the Bed of Heaven is a work of Christian ethics that examines how eschatology might reshape concepts of sexual morality.

Cultural Translations in Medieval Romance

for D. S. Brewer, 2021

The essays collected in this volume explore the subject of translation, both linguistic and cultural, in relation to the composition, reception, and dissemination of romance across the languages of late medieval Britain, Ireland, and Iceland.

Addiction Recovery and Resilience

for SUNY Press, 2021

Using a social ecology of resilience model, Addiction Recovery and Resilience is a yearslong ethnographic case study of a faith-based health organization with a focus on long-term recovery.

Persons Emerging

for SUNY Press, 2021

Persons Emerging explores the renewed idea of the Confucian person in the eleventh-century philosophies of Zhou Dunyi, Shao Yong, and Zhang Zai.

The Last Noble Gendarme

for SUNY Press, 2021

The Last Noble Gendarme is the first biography of Major General Konstantin Ivanovich Globachev (Tsar Nicholas II’s last chief of security) and his wife, Sofia. Globachev was an eyewitness to the seething turmoil in the capital of the Russian Empire.

Sharkey

for Excelsior Editions, 2021

Sharkey tells the compelling story of an unusually gifted, trained sea lion who shared the stage with practically every important performer of the first half of the twentieth century—from Bob Hope to Ella Fitzgerald, from Broadway to Hollywood and beyond.

Inside the Green Lobby

for Excelsior Editions, 2021

Inside the Green Lobby recounts the behind-the-scenes efforts, both at the State Capitol in Albany and the halls of Congress, of a lobbyist for a major environmental advocacy group.

Decolonizing Discipline

for University of Manitoba Press, 2021

Decolonizing Discipline is a response to Call to Action 6—the call to repeal Section 43 of Canada’s Criminal Code, which justifies the corporal punishment of children.

Mayalogue

for SUNY Press, 2021

Native Mayan scholar Victor Montejo provides an alternative reading and interpretation of cultures, challenging Western ethnocentric approaches that have marginalized Native knowledge and worldviews in the past.

Being German Canadian

for University of Manitoba Press, 2021

Being German Canadian explores how multi-generational families and groups have interacted and shaped each other’s integration and adaptation in Canadian society, focusing on the experiences, histories, and memories of German immigrants and their descendants.

Manuscript Culture and MedIieval Devotional Traditions

for Boydell Press, 2021

The essays in this volume demonstrate and pay tribute to Michael G. Sargent’s influence, extending and complementing his work on devotional texts and the books in which they traveled.

Faith, Hope, and Sustainability

for SUNY Press, 2021

Faith, Hope, and Sustainability explores the experiences of fifteen faith communities striving to care for the earth and live more sustainably.

Fracture Feminism

for SUNY Press, 2021

Fracture Feminism explores the tradition of Feminist writers in British Romanticism who developed alternatives to linear time. Through psychoanalytical and deconstructive perspectives, the author considers how time can be imagined to contain a hidden fracture—and how that fracture could be the basis for an emancipatory politics.

The Hagiographer and the Avatar

for SUNY Press, 2021

The author explores the fundamental role of a hagiographer within a charismatic religious movement: in this case, the postsectarian, cosmopolitan community of the Indian guru Sathya Sai Baba.

Death Rights

for SUNY Press, 2021

The author presents an antiracist critique of British romanticism by deconstructing one of its organizing tropes—the suicidal creative “genius.”

An Unfinished Revolution

for Excelsior Editions, 2021

The author tells the story of the suffrage movement and the ongoing struggle for women’s rights in the United States through the lens of one family’s history.

Empire News

for SUNY Press, 2021

The author examines the neglected archive of English-language newspapers from India to unpack the maintenance and tensions of empire.

Sensitive Negotiations

for SUNY Press, 2021

The author describes how Indigenous peoples in North America and the Pacific engaged with the latest and most fashionable British Romantic poetry as part of transcontinental and transoceanic cross-cultural negotiations about sovereignty, treaty rights, and land claims.

Many Mahābhāratas

for SUNY Press, 2020

Many Mahābhāratas is an introduction to the spectacular and long-lived diversity of Mahābhārata literature in South Asia.

The Seasons

for SUNY Press, 2021

This pioneering book demonstrates the ways in which inquiry into the seasons reveals new and illuminating perspectives for philosophy, environmental thought, anthropology, cultural studies, aesthetics, poetics, and literary criticism.

The Godfather and Sicily

for SUNY Press, 2021

The author presents an interpretation of The Godfather as a commentary on the transformation of personal identity within the Sicilian and Italian immigrant experience.

The Yorkshire Historical Dictionary

Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society, 2021

This volume offers an unparalleled collection of words and phrases gleaned from Yorkshire’s archives. The language it contains tells the story of Yorkshire in the words of the people who experienced it.

Manuscript Culture and Medieval Devotional Traditions

for Boydell Press/York Medieval Press, 2021

The essays in this volume demonstrate and pay tribute to Michael G. Sargent’s influence, extending and complementing his work on devotional texts and the books in which they traveled.

Elite Participation in the Third Crusade

for Boydell Press, 2021

This book analyses the communal and cultural factors that influenced nobles from north-western Europe who embarked on the Third Crusade.

Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty

for SUNY Press, 2020

The author draws on her engagement in traditional ceremonies, observations of national Catholic celebrations, and interviews with activists from peasant, feminist, and LGBT communities to reframe contemporary conversations about queerness and blackness.

Pathways of Reconciliation

for University of Manitoba Press, 2020

The essays in this volume address themes of reframing, learning and healing, researching, and living. They engage with different approaches to reconciliation and illustrate the complexities of the reconciliation process.

City on the Edge

for Excelsior Editions, 2020

Why do people stay in a struggling city? City on the Edge explores this question through the lives of five people in Syracuse, New York, a quintessential rust-belt metropolis.

Capitán Latinoamérica

for SUNY Press, 2020

Capitán Latinoamérica is the first study to examine the unique contribution of Latin American cinema, television, and web series to the global superhero boom.

in Security

for Excelsior Editions, 2020

Part airport thriller, part family drama, part love story, In Security explores how those who strive to protect us are often unable to protect themselves.

Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions

for SUNY Press, 2020

Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions provides a multidisciplinary exploration of the contemporary university’s entanglement with the history of slavery and settler colonialism in the United States.

Yiddish Plays for Reading and Performance

for SUNY Press, 2020

Fresh, lively, and accurate, these works, well-known in Yiddish repertory but never before translated, offer an introduction to the full range of Yiddish theater contextualizing the plays in modern Western theater history from the nineteenth century to the present.

José María Heredia in New York, 1823–1825

for SUNY Press, 2020

This volume offers the most complete English translation to date of the prose and poetry of José María Heredia (b. Cuba, 1803; d. Mexico, 1839), focusing on Heredia’s political exile in the United States from November 1823 to August 1825.

Keys to the Beyond

for SUNY Press, 2020

This book explores the work of the religious philosopher Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) by focusing on the way he develops his own expansive adaptations of traditional religious terms.

Changed Forever, Volume 2

for SUNY Press, 2020

After a theoretical and historical introduction to American Indian boarding-school literature, this volume examines the autobiographical writings of a number of Native Americans who attended the federal Indian boarding schools.

Kept from All Contagion

for SUNY Press, 2020

Kept from All Contagion explores the surprising social effects of germ theory in the late nineteenth century.

Demons of Change

for SUNY Press, 2020

Demons of Change examines the the role of the divine warrior fighting against demonic forces in the transformation of the hero and antihero in early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic accounts.

Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds

for SUNY Press, 2020

The author analyzes the agency of materiality—the ability of materials to have an effect on both humans and deities—beyond human intentions.

Djinn

for SUNY Press, 2020

A bestseller upon its publication in Dutch in 2015, Djinn tells the poignant, at times heartbreaking, story of the author’s coming-of-age as a gay Muslim man with humor and grace.

Niagaras of Ink

for Excelsior Editions, 2020

Niagaras of Ink collects anecdotes of famous writers’ experiences with an anthology of some of the most engaging Anglo-American writing on the Falls from the nineteenth to early twentieth centuries.

Since 1948

for SUNY Press, 2020

Toward the end of the twentieth century, an unprecedented surge of writing altered the Israeli literary scene in profound ways … scholars consider how recent voices have succeeded older ones and reverberated in concert with them; how linguistic and geographical boundaries have blurred; how genres have shifted; and how canon and competition have shaped Israeli culture.

Bending the Arc

for SUNY Press, 2020

Bending the Arc provides a history of the Kateri Tekakwitha Interfaith Peace Conference in upstate New York and brings together the inspiring, personal stories from well-known participants.

Power-Brokers and the Yorkist State, 1461–1485

for Boydell Press, 2020

This book examines the most influential men and women at the centre of the regimes of Edward IV and Richard III: the political power-brokers that served the king in matters of diplomacy, warfare, court ceremony, local government.

The Miraculous and the Writing of Crusade Narrative

for Boydell Press, 2020

This book represents the first far-reaching examination of the miraculous in crusade narrative, offering an analysis of the role of miracles, marvels, visions, dreams, signs and augury in narratives of the crusades.

The Historical Mind

for SUNY Press, 2020

In The Historical Mind, various scholars argue that America’s problems are rooted in its people’s refusal to heed the lessons of historical experience and to adopt “constitutional” checks or self-imposed restraints on their cultural, moral, and political lives.

The Holocaust and Masculinities

for SUNY Press, 2020

The author examines the role of gender during the Holocaust and critically investigates the experiences of men as gendered beings.

What Remains

for Excelsior Editions, 2020

What Remains pairs Jon Crispin’s gripping photographs of Charles F’s belongings (an 84 year-old Russian Jewish immigrant arrested at a Brooklyn subway station in 1946 and institutionalized at Willard State Hospital) with Ilan Stavans’s intriguing, speculative portrait of a patient and institution at odds with one another.

Poly-Olbion: New Perspectives

for Boydell Press, 2020

This first ever volume of essays on Poly-Olbion (1612–1622)—the collaborative work of the poet Michael Drayton, legal scholar John Selden, and engraver William Hole—is a reflection on the work’s increasing prominence in scholarship within the literature and culture of early modern England.

A Permanent Beginning

for SUNY Press, 2020

A Permanent Beginning lays out a new paradigm for understanding R. Nachman of Braslav’s (1772–1810) thought and writing, and, with them, the beginnings of Jewish literary modernity.

A Survivor Named Trauma

for SUNY Press, 2019

A Survivor Named Trauma examines the nature of trauma and memory as they relate to the Holocaust in Lithuania.

Waste Not

for SUNY Press, 2019

Waste Not provides a comprehensive intellectual history of the concept, Bal tashḥit, charting its evolution from the Bible through classical rabbinic literature, commentaries, codes of law, responsa, and the works of modern environmentalists.

Argentine Intimacies

for SUNY Press, 2019

The author draws on queer studies, Latin American studies, and literary and cultural studies to consider the significance of one Argentine family in particular during this period of intense social change.


The Great War in Hollywood Memory, 1918–1939

for SUNY Press, 2019

This is the definitive account of how America’s film industry remembered and reimagined World War I from the Armistice in 1918 to the outbreak of World War II in 1939.

Civilization and Barbarism

for SUNY Press, 2019

With mass incarceration coming under increasing criticism, the author compels the reader to confront the biases embedded in this model and the impossibility of defending prisons as a civilized form of punishment.

Friedrich Engels and Modern Social and Political Theory

for SUNY Press, 2019

The author critically explores Engels’s contributions to modern social and political theory generally and Marxism specifically.

Authorized Agents

for SUNY Press, 2019

In the nineteenth century, Native American writing and oratory extended a long tradition of diplomacy between indigenous people and settler states. Through analyses of a range of texts, Kelderman offers an interdisciplinary method for examining how Native authors claimed a place in public discourse, and how the conventions of Indian diplomacy shaped their texts.

Injichaag/My Soul in Story

for University of Manitoba Press, 2019

Injichaag shares the life story of Anishinaabe artist Rene Meshake in stories, poetry, and Anishinaabemowin “word bundles” that serve as a dictionary of Ojibwe poetics.

The Struggles for Understanding

for SUNY Press, 2019

The Struggle for Understanding examines Wiesel’s literary, religious, and cultural roots and the indelible impact of the Holocaust on his storytelling.

Stories of School Yoga

for SUNY Press, 2019

Stories of School Yoga brings together firsthand narratives by teachers and practitioners from diverse settings nationwide to illuminate the multifaceted work, challenges, and benefits of teaching yoga to K−12 students in public schools.

Cub Reporters

for SUNY Press, 2019

Cub Reporters considers the intersections between children’s literature and journalism in the United States during the period between the Civil War and World War I.

Imagining the Pagan in Late Medieval England

for D. S. Brewer, 2019

Late medieval English culture was fascinated by the figure of the pagan, the ancestor whose religious difference must be negotiated, and by the pagan’s idol, an animate artefact. This book reads the imagined history of the long term relationship between pagan and Christian through quasi-factual fifteenth-century Middle English writings.

Dancing With Sophia

for SUNY Press, 2019

Dancing with Sophia is the first book of essays to focus on the philosophical dimensions and implications of integral theory, a metatheory that organizes first order theories and disciplines into higher order modes of knowing and insight needed to address the complexity of today’s world.


African Americans and the First Amendment

for SUNY Press, 2019

African Americans and the First Amendment is the first book to explore in detail the relationship between African Americans and Americans’ “first freedoms,” especially freedom of speech.

Ubuntu Relational Love

for University of Manitoba Press, 2019

Ubuntu is a Bantu term meaning humanity. It is also a philosophical and ethical system of thought, from which definitions of humanness, togetherness, and social politics of difference arise. The author uses Ubuntu oratures as tools to address the impacts of Euro-colonialism while regenerating relational Ubuntu governance structures.

The Politics of Paradigm

for SUNY Press, 2019

The Politics of Paradigms shows that America’s most famous and influential book about science, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions of 1962, was inspired and shaped by Thomas Kuhn’s political interests, his relationship with the influential cold warrior James Bryant Conant, and America’s McCarthy-era struggle to resist and defeat totalitarian ideology.

Emerson in Iran

for SUNY Press, 2019

Emerson in Iran is the first full-length study of Persian influence in the work of the seminal American poet, philosopher, and translator, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Beyond the Troubled Water of Shifei

for SUNY Press, 2019

A growing concern in studies in Chinese intellectual history is that Chinese classics have been forced into systems of classification prevalent in Western philosophy … Ma and Brakel offer a methodology to counter this approach.

The Spiritual Transformation of Jews Who Become Orthodox

for SUNY Press, 2019

Jewish adults who adopt Orthodoxy provide a clear example of spiritual transformation—the process of changing one’s beliefs, values, attitudes, and everyday behaviors related to a transcendent experience or higher power.

Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain

for D. S. Brewer, 2019

Atkin and Rujsic explore the production, transmission and reception of texts from England and beyond during the late-medieval and early-renaissance periods.

Writing the Talking Cure

for SUNY Press, 2019

Writing the Talking Cure is the first book to explore all of the major writings of Irvin D. Yalom, a distinguished psychiatrist and psychotherapist.

Everything Worthy of Observation

for Excelsior Editions, 2019

This firsthand account immerses the reader in the world of early-nineteenth-century life in both New York and Lower Canada as experienced by Alexander Stewart Scott.

Legacies of the Sublime

for SUNY Press, 2019

Legacies of the Sublime offers a highly original, subtle, and persuasive account of the aesthetics of the sublime in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature, philosophy, and science.

The Age of Shojo

for SUNY Press, 2019

The Age of Shojo examines the role that magazines have played in the creation and development of the concept of shōjo, the modern cultural identity of adolescent Japanese girls.

Arthurianism in Early Plantagenet England

for Boydell Press, 2018

This book provides a comprehensive history of the first 150 years of Arthurianism, from its beginnings under Henry II of England to a highpoint under Edward I.

The Majestic Nature of the North

for SUNY Press, 2018

Thomas Kelah Wharton’s travel diaries provide an intimate glimpse into the society of early nineteenth-century America.

Personal Religion and Spiritual Healing

for SUNY Press, 2018

This book addresses debates about the complexity and meaning of the rise or decline of religion in the twentieth century and the processes involved in the formation of popular nontraditional spiritualities.

Changed Forever

for SUNY Press, 2018

Changed Forever is the first study to gather a range of texts produced by Native Americans who, voluntarily or through compulsion, attended government-run boarding schools in the last decades of the nineteenth and the first decades of the twentieth centuries.

Following His Own Path

for SUNY Press, 2018

In the first comprehensive overview and exegesis of the work of Li Zehou—one of the most significant and influential contemporary Chinese philosophers—the author shows us how Li’s complex system of thought seeks to revive various Chinese traditions, and at the same time attempts to harmonize or reconcile this cultural heritage with the demands of the dominant global economic, political, and axiological structures.

Popovers and Candlelight

for Excelsior Editions, 2018

This rags-to-riches story of Patricia Murphy and her Candlelight restaurants is also a fascinating view of class, gender, ethnicity, and food culture during much of the twentieth century.

Facing Toward the Dawn

for SUNY Press, 2018

In the early twentieth century, the Italian American radical movement thrived in industrial cities throughout the United States, including New London, Connecticut. Facing toward the Dawn tells the history of the vibrant anarchist movement that existed in New London’s Fort Trumbull neighborhood for seventy years.

The Adventure of Weak Theology

for SUNY Press, 2018

In a distinctive exploration of John D. Caputo’s work, Štefan Štofaník traces Caputo’s journey of philosophical discovery from his earlier, more conventional academic writings to his later, almost confessional works of weak theology and his deep engagement with Derrida.


Author, Scribe, and Book

for D. S. Brewer, 2018

Critten argues that early writers elaborated a ‘self-publishing pose’ with the aim of regaining their audiences’ confidence. In their unusual insistence on their co-identity with their manuscripts, they demonstrate a new awareness of the socially instrumental potential of Middle English writing.



Kayanerenkó:wa (The Great Law of Peace)

for University of Manitoba Press, 2018

Kayanesenh Paul Williams brings the sum of his experience and expertise to this analysis of Kayanerenkó:wa (The Great Law of Peace)—developed by the five nations that would become the Haudenosaunee (Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca)—as a living, principled legal system.

Damnation and Salvation

for D. S. Brewer, 2018

The author examines the hope of salvation and fear of damnation— fundamental in the Middle Ages—as reflected in Old Norse literature, and how these two intersect and interact in text and theme.

'Charms', Liturgies, and Secret Rites

for Boydell Press, 2018

The author undertakes a wide-ranging investigation of the Anglo-Saxon charms genre in order to better understand how early English ecclesiastics perceived them and why they have drawn the attention of many scholars and appealed to enthusiasts of magic, paganism, and popular religion.

Blood Circuits

for SUNY Press, 2018

Blood Circuits focuses on contemporary Argentine horror cinema and the various “cinematic pleasures” it offers national and transnational audiences … providing unprecedented ways of engaging with the consequences of authoritarianism and neoliberalism in Argentina.



Towards a New Ethnohistory

for University of Manitoba Press, 2018

Towards a New Ethnohistory engages respectfully in cross-cultural dialogue and interdisciplinary methods to co-create with Indigenous people a new, decolonized ethnohistory.

The Medieval Literary: Beyond Form

for D. S. Brewer, 2018

The twenty-first century has witnessed the re-emergence of various kinds of literary formalism, and one project that characterizes most of these diverse formalisms is the effort to distinguish what is precisely literary about their objects of study … the essays gathered here aim to rethink the relationship between form and the literary.

Hell Gate

for Excelsior Editions, 2018

Part history and part memoir, Hell Gate tells of a man’s excursions along and through Hell Gate, a narrow stretch of water in New York City’s East River, notorious for dangerous currents, shipwrecks, and its melancholic islands and rocks.

Queer Art Camp Superstar

for SUNY Press, 2018

Queer Art Camp Superstar … looks closely at a selection of his most significant movies in order to discern the artist’s artistic genealogy, evolving aesthetics, radical approach to digital and Internet culture, and impact on contemporary art, film, and media.


The Problem of Disenchantment

for SUNY Press, 2018

Drawing on a wide range of early twentieth-century primary sources … Asprem casts the intellectual life of high modernity as a synchronic struggle across conspicuously different fields that shared surprisingly similar intellectual problems about value, meaning, and the limits of knowledge.


Lord Liverpool

for Boydell Press, 2018

This new political biography explores Liverpool's career and puts his efforts at resisting change into context, bringing this period of transformation into sharp focus.


Tha Ballad and it's Pasts

for D. S. Brewer, 2018

The ballad genre and its material are frequently backward-looking in terms of subject and style: it is ideally suited to the reimagining of past events, both real and fictional. This volume addresses the past of the ballad and the past in the ballad.

The Specter of the Indian

for SUNY Press, 2018

The Specter of the Indian unveils the centrality of Native American spirit guides during the emergent years of American Spiritualism.

Invisible Hosts

for SUNY Press, 2017

Invisible Hosts explores how the central tenets of Spiritualism influenced ways in which women conceived of their bodies and their civic responsibilities.

Dancing with Ophelia

for Excelsior Editions, 2017

The author draws on literature, art, and philosophy to gain a unique understanding of madness that allowed her to achieve lasting mental health without using long-term psychiatric drugs.

Mystery 101

for SUNY Press, 2017

The author approaches the “big questions” of philosophy not by weighing the merits of leading arguments, but instead by questioning the extent to which we are even in a position to answer such questions in the first place.

Reluctant Reformer

for Excelsior Editions, 2017

Reluctant Reformer chronicles the political rise and professional compromises of Nathan Sanford who contributed to the expansion of democratic rights and responsive government in the Early American Republic.

Rebels on the Niagara

for Excelsior Editions, 2017

The story of Irish Americans invading Canada along the Niagara Frontier in 1866, orchestrated by the Fenian Brotherhood, in an attempt to fight for Irish independence from Britain.

Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth

for SUNY Press, 2017

A consideration of the current environmental and ecological crisis throughout the writings of American activist Gary Snyder and thirteenth-century Japanese Zen Master Eihei Dōgen.

The Truth of the Russian Revolution

for SUNY Press, 2017

The memoirs of Major General Konstantin Ivanovich Globachev and his his wife, Sofia Nikolaevna Globacheva provide a front-row view of Tsar Nicholas II’s final years, the revolution, and its tumultuous aftermath.

Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka, and Scientific Imagination

for SUNY Press, 2017

A philosophical consideration of Poe’s literary theory, theology, and intellectual development, with a comparison of his understanding of science with that of scientists and philosophers from his own time to the present.

Historicizing Post-Discourses

for SUNY Press, 2017

The break down and restructuring of form references the shifting views of race and feminist identity. The underlying grid suggests a path to a new construct.

Failed State

for Excelsior Editions, 2016

The original account of a state legislature in urgent need of reform is depicted through a gritty, torn black and white image referencing dysfunction and corruption.

Romantic Mediations

for SUNY Press, 2016

Romantic script is paired with cool, minimal type for a text investigating the connections among British Romantic writers, their texts, and the history of major forms of technical media from the turn of the nineteenth century to the present. 

FDR On His Houseboat

for Excelsior Editions, 2016

Hardcover dust jacket for a text that documents FDR’s time spent on recuperating on his houseboat as told through log entries and photographs, contrasting his private life of struggle and fun against the outside world.

Respectability On Trial

for SUNY Press, 2016

This design uses a restrained sepia colour palette, dramatically cropped images (obscuring individual identities), and a blunt typeface to represent critical courtroom battles over seduction, pimping, rape, and sodomy in early twentieth-century New York City.

The Possibility of a World

for Fordham University Press, 2016

The published conversations of philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy and and Pierre-Philippe Jardin are represented by a arrangement of overlapping rectangles meant to describe a simple ontology.

Sounding Thunder

for University of Manitoba Press, 2016

Francis Pegahmagabow, a member of the Ojibwa nation, became the most decorated Canadian Indigenous soldier in North American military history. The colour bars reference his achievements as a sniper and his bravery.

Fundamentals of Comparative and Intercultural Philosophy

for SUNY Press, 2016

The image represents eastern wisdom/thinking/philosophy and the grid represents a western framework (based on a Fibonacci Sequence). The imposition of the grid over the image represents the attempt to understand eastern teachings through a western perspective and highlight the need for a common language for interpretation. The mirror image of Laozi represents critical self-reflection and examination within the discipline. The use of purple and charcoal references the text associated with the statue of Laozi (“the black ox goes to the west; a purple air flows from the east.”).

Mythologizing Norval Morrisseau

for University of Manitoba Press, 2016

The cover depicts Morrisseau, the real man, dwarfed by his own constructed myth.

Beer of Broadway Fame

for Excelsior Editions, 2016

The Piels’ history is referenced through organic textures, archival motifs, and historical beer label typography.

The Heroic Age of Diving

for Excelsior Editions, 2015

The dive helmut—with the gradated seascape—communicates the idea of depth, claustrophobic enclosure and risk to the pioneers of diving.

Tongue of Fire

for SUNY Press, 2015

An examination of the speeches and writings of the "Most Dangerous Woman in the World", Emma Goldman, within the context of shifting gender roles in early twentieth-century America.

Three Songs By Hank Williams

for Turnstone Press, 2001

Intertwining narratives of rough-and-tumble characters, pulled in different directions, are played out across the Canadian west.

Constructing Tomorrow's Federalism

for University Of Manitoba Press, 2007

The maple leaf, the international symbol of Canada, is converted into a number of puzzle pieces that, for the time being, are aligned suggesting the impermanent and complex
idea of federalism.

Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood

for University Of Manitoba Press, 2006

The subtle design reflects the Mennonites nuanced approach to politics.

History, Literature, and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies

for University Of Manitoba Press, 2005

An image of a straight rail line vanishing into the distance has long been used to communicate the Prairie West. However, for a book cover for essays by a new generation of writers confronting the prairies, that image is subverted by breaking it down to pixels, duplicating it, and turing it, literally, on it's head.

Formidable Heritage

for University Of Manitoba Press, 2004

After confederation, Northern Manitoba rapidly changed with shifts from fur-trading to resource development with undesired consequences. The cover is constructed with an archival image of a stripped landscape making way for a rail line and slag, a byproduct of the smelting process.

Providence Watching

for University Of Manitoba Press, 2003

The stories of Polish soldiers emerge decades after conflict
and resettlement in a familiar landscape but within a different country. Their individual voices are described within the recognizable faces of soldiers marching en masse

A Very Remarkable Sickness

for University Of Manitoba Press, 2002

The map showing settlement spread is emphasized to show the distribution and diffusion of disease through North American Aboriginal communities.

Muskekowuck Athinuwick

for University Of Manitoba Press, 2002

Muskekowuck Athinuwick (Original People of the Great Swampy Land) describes the long history of the Lowland Cree, one of the first Aboriginal groups to have contact with Europeans. The cover, an archival image of intermingling members of both groups, describes their complex and interconnected relationship.

One Version of the Facts

for University Of Manitoba Press, 2000

The cover for the memoirs of accomplished physicist and academic Henry Duckworth is illustrated with images of his life, teaching and his scientific endeavours.

Manitoba Medicine

for University Of Manitoba Press, 1999

Manitoba Medicine describes the development of healthcare in the province. The cover image—an archival photo of a medical lecture theatre—plays with the idea of students anticipating A Brief History.

Toward Defining the Prairies

for University Of Manitoba Press, 2001

Overlapping definitions of the prairies highlights the theme of process. While it may be difficult, even impossible, to define something like the Prairie West, the process—as difficult as it may be—can be illuminating.

Making it Home in Canadian Literature

for University Of Manitoba Press, 1998

Traditional approaches to considering the Canadian prairies are overturned in a series of essays. This breaking from the past is represented by an abandoned homestead that is fragmented and dissected in jarring, and sometimes, inverted colours.

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