Nyu Press imprint: 1731 books
New York Jews and the Civil War
The Beginnings of a New Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
The Civil War, a watershed event in American history, marked a climactic moment in the history of New York’s Jewish community. Jews served and died on the battlefield, attended to wounded soldiers, sewed uniforms for soldiers and mourned the death of their President with as much depth as the Christian...
Mississippi Praying
Southern White Evangelicals and the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1975
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Winner of the 2013 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize presented by the American Society of Church History
Mississippi Praying examines the faith communities at ground-zero of the racial revolution that rocked America. This religious history of white Mississippians in the civil rights era...
In The Company Of Black Men
The African Influence on African American Culture in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
From the subaltern assemblies of the enslaved in colonial New York City to the benevolent New York African Society of the early national era to the formation of the African Blood Brotherhood in twentieth century Harlem, voluntary associations have been a fixture of African-American communities.
In...
Four Steeples over the City Streets
Religion and Society in New York’s Early Republic Congregations
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Tells the diverse story of four congregations in New York City as they navigated the social and political changes of the late eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries.
In the fifty years after the Constitution was signed in 1787, New York City grew from a port town of 30,000 to a metropolis...
Blood and Belief
The PKK and the Kurdish Fight for Independence
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
The Kurds, who number some 28 million people in the Middle East, have no country they can call their own. Long ignored by the West, Kurds are now highly visible actors on the world's political stage. More than half live in Turkey, where the Kurdish struggle has gained new strength and attention since...
Jews and Booze
Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Finalist, 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature from the Jewish Book Council
From kosher wine to their ties to the liquor trade in Europe, Jews have a longstanding historical relationship with alcohol. But once prohibition hit America, American Jews were forced to choose between abandoning...
Ethnicity and Group Rights
Nomos XXXIX
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1997
Within Western political philosophy, the rights of groups has often been neglected or addressed in only the narrowest fashion. Focusing solely on whether rights are exercised by individuals or groups misses what lies at the heart of ethnocultural conflict, leaving the crucial question unanswered:...
Christian Theologies of Scripture
A Comparative Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
All religious traditions that ground themselves in texts must grapple with certain questions concerning the texts' authority. Yet there has been much debate within Christianity concerning the nature of scripture and how it should be understood—a debate that has gone on for centuries.
Christian Theologies...
by Michael J. Bazyler, Frank M. Tuerkheimer
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
In the wake of the Second World War, how were the Allies to
respond to the enormous crime of the Holocaust? Even in an ideal world, it
would have been impossible to bring all the perpetrators to trial.
Nevertheless, an attempt was made to prosecute some.
This book uncovers ten “forgotten...
Beyond Trans
Does Gender Matter?
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
Goes beyond transgender to question the need for gender classification.
Beyond Trans pushes the conversation on gender identity to its limits: questioning the need for gender categories in the first place. Whether on birth certificates or college admissions applications or on bathroom doors,...
The Atheist
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2003
In 1964, Life magazine called Madalyn Murray O’Hair “the most hated woman in America.” Another critic described her as “rude, impertinent, blasphemous, a destroyer not only of beliefs but of esteemed values.”
In this first full-length biography, Bryan F. Le Beau offers a penetrating assessment...
Gun Crusaders
The NRA’s Culture War
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Nothing conjures up images of the American frontier and a pick-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps view of freedom and independence quite like guns. Gun Crusaders is a fascinating inside look at how the four-million member National Rifle Association and its committed members come to see each and every gun...
Mobsters, Unions, and Feds
The Mafia and the American Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Nowhere in the world has organized crime infiltrated the labor movement as effectively as in the United States. Yet the government, the AFL-CIO, and the civil liberties community all but ignored the situation for most of the twentieth century. Since 1975, however, the FBI, Department of Justice, and...
Revolutions in the Atlantic World, New Edition
A Comparative History
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
A new look at a contentious period in the history of the Atlantic world
Within just a half century, the American, French, Haitian, and Spanish American revolutions transformed the Atlantic world. This book is the first to analyze these events through a comparative lens, revealing several central...