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This previously unpublished manuscript describes how the Algonquin Hotel became an artistic hub for the city and a landmark in America’s cultural life.
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.
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.
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.
for Boydell Press, 2023
This book illuminates Franz Schubert’s engagement with gothic discourse at the intersection of music, literature, and the visual arts.
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.
for SUNY Press, 2023
Reframing Diversity and Inclusive Leadership addresses the urgent need for more than merely performative gestures toward diversity, equity, and inclusion.
for SUNY Press, 2023
The book illustrates the value of two approaches to interpreting decisions, those of “case biography” and “legal archaeology.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
for Canterbury & York Society, 2023
This volume completes the edition of the register of Bishop Fleming.
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.
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.
for SUNY Press, 2023
Politically speaking, do heroes matter? Are we living in a post- heroic age? The Republican Hero addresses both these questions.
for Boydell Press, 2023
This study investigates the Chapel’s constitution, liturgy and music through an examination of previously unexplored primary material.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
for SUNY Press, 2022
Black Lives Matter in US Schools critically examines the relationship between schooling and sociocultural abolitionist movements such as #BlackLivesMatter.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
for Excelsior Editions, 2021
Bruce W. Dearstyne presents New York State history through an exploration of nineteen dramatic events.
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.
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
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
for SUNY Press, 2021
The author presents an antiracist critique of British romanticism by deconstructing one of its organizing tropes—the suicidal creative “genius.”
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.
for SUNY Press, 2021
The author examines the neglected archive of English-language newspapers from India to unpack the maintenance and tensions of empire.
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.
for SUNY Press, 2020
Many Mahābhāratas is an introduction to the spectacular and long-lived diversity of Mahābhārata literature in South Asia.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
for SUNY Press, 2020
Kept from All Contagion explores the surprising social effects of germ theory in the late nineteenth century.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
for SUNY Press, 2020
The author examines the role of gender during the Holocaust and critically investigates the experiences of men as gendered beings.
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.
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.
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.
for SUNY Press, 2019
A Survivor Named Trauma examines the nature of trauma and memory as they relate to the Holocaust in Lithuania.
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.
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.
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.
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.
for SUNY Press, 2019
The author critically explores Engels’s contributions to modern social and political theory generally and Marxism specifically.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
for SUNY Press, 2018
Thomas Kelah Wharton’s travel diaries provide an intimate glimpse into the society of early nineteenth-century America.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
for SUNY Press, 2018
The Specter of the Indian unveils the centrality of Native American spirit guides during the emergent years of American Spiritualism.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”).
for University of Manitoba Press, 2016
The cover depicts Morrisseau, the real man, dwarfed by his own constructed myth.
for Excelsior Editions, 2016
The Piels’ history is referenced through organic textures, archival motifs, and historical beer label typography.
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.
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.
for Turnstone Press, 2001
Intertwining narratives of rough-and-tumble characters, pulled in different directions, are played out across the Canadian west.
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.
for University Of Manitoba Press, 2006
The subtle design reflects the Mennonites nuanced approach to politics.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
for Boydell Press, 2023
This book illuminates Franz Schubert’s engagement with gothic discourse at the intersection of music, literature, and the visual arts.
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.
for SUNY Press, 2023
Reframing Diversity and Inclusive Leadership addresses the urgent need for more than merely performative gestures toward diversity, equity, and inclusion.
for SUNY Press, 2023
The book illustrates the value of two approaches to interpreting decisions, those of “case biography” and “legal archaeology.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
for Canterbury & York Society, 2023
This volume completes the edition of the register of Bishop Fleming.
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.
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.
for SUNY Press, 2023
Politically speaking, do heroes matter? Are we living in a post- heroic age? The Republican Hero addresses both these questions.
for Boydell Press, 2023
This study investigates the Chapel’s constitution, liturgy and music through an examination of previously unexplored primary material.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
for SUNY Press, 2022
Black Lives Matter in US Schools critically examines the relationship between schooling and sociocultural abolitionist movements such as #BlackLivesMatter.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
for Excelsior Editions, 2021
Bruce W. Dearstyne presents New York State history through an exploration of nineteen dramatic events.
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.
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
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
for SUNY Press, 2021
The author presents an antiracist critique of British romanticism by deconstructing one of its organizing tropes—the suicidal creative “genius.”
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.
for SUNY Press, 2021
The author examines the neglected archive of English-language newspapers from India to unpack the maintenance and tensions of empire.
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.
for SUNY Press, 2020
Many Mahābhāratas is an introduction to the spectacular and long-lived diversity of Mahābhārata literature in South Asia.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
for SUNY Press, 2020
Kept from All Contagion explores the surprising social effects of germ theory in the late nineteenth century.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
for SUNY Press, 2020
The author examines the role of gender during the Holocaust and critically investigates the experiences of men as gendered beings.
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.
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.
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.
for SUNY Press, 2019
A Survivor Named Trauma examines the nature of trauma and memory as they relate to the Holocaust in Lithuania.
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.
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.
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.
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.
for SUNY Press, 2019
The author critically explores Engels’s contributions to modern social and political theory generally and Marxism specifically.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
for SUNY Press, 2018
Thomas Kelah Wharton’s travel diaries provide an intimate glimpse into the society of early nineteenth-century America.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
for SUNY Press, 2018
The Specter of the Indian unveils the centrality of Native American spirit guides during the emergent years of American Spiritualism.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”).
for University of Manitoba Press, 2016
The cover depicts Morrisseau, the real man, dwarfed by his own constructed myth.
for Excelsior Editions, 2016
The Piels’ history is referenced through organic textures, archival motifs, and historical beer label typography.
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.
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.
for Turnstone Press, 2001
Intertwining narratives of rough-and-tumble characters, pulled in different directions, are played out across the Canadian west.
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.
for University Of Manitoba Press, 2006
The subtle design reflects the Mennonites nuanced approach to politics.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.