Nyu Press: 1737 books
Capital of the World
The Race to Host the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
From 1944 to 1946, as the world pivoted from the Second World War to an unsteady peace, Americans in more than two hundred cities and towns mobilized to chase an implausible dream. The newly-created United Nations needed a meeting place, a central place for global diplomacy—a Capital of the World....
Max Yergan
Race Man, Internationalist, Cold Warrior
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
In his long and fascinating life, black activist and intellectual Max Yergan (1892-1975) traveled on more ground—both literally and figuratively—than any of his impressive contemporaries, which included Adam Clayton Powell, Paul Robeson, W.E.B. Du Bois, and A. Phillip Randolph. Yergan rose through...
The Secret Life of Stories
From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We Read
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
How an understanding of intellectual disability transforms the pleasures of reading
Narrative informs everything we think, do, plan, remember, and imagine. We tell stories and we listen to stories, gauging their “well-formedness” within a couple of years of learning to walk and talk. Some...
Making Political Science Matter
Debating Knowledge, Research, and Method
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2006
Making Political Science Matter brings together a number of prominent scholars to discuss the state of the field of Political Science. In particular, these scholars are interested in ways to reinvigorate the discipline by connecting it to present day political struggles. Uniformly well-written and...
Feeling Global
Internationalism in Distress
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1994
Is global culture merely a pale and sinister reflection of capitalist globalization? Bruce Robbins responds to this and other questions in Feeling Global, a crucial document on nationalism, culturalism, and the role of intellectuals in the age of globalization.
Building on his previous work, Robbins...
Aftermath
A New Global Economic Order?
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
The global financial crisis showed deep problems with mainstream economic predictions. At the same time, it showed the vulnerability of the world’s richest countries and the enormous potential of some poorer ones. China, India, Brazil and other countries are growing faster than Europe or America...
Russia
The Challenges of Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
In Russia, a group of leading Russian intellectuals and social scientists join with top researchers from around the world to examine the social, political, and economic transformation in Russia. This timely and important book of orginal essays makes clear that neither politics nor economics alone...
Wal-Mart Wars
Moral Populism in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Wal-Mart is America’s largest retailer. The national chain of stores is a powerful stand-in of both the promise and perils of free market capitalism. Yet it is also often the target of public outcry for its labor practices, to say nothing of class-action lawsuits, and a central symbol in America’s...
The Political Economy of Hope and Fear
Capitalism and the Black Condition in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
Popular liberal writing on race has relied on appeals to the value of "diversity" and the fading memory of the Civil Rights movement to counter the aggressive conservative assault on liberal racial reform generally, and on black well-being, in particular. Yet appeals to fairness and justice,...
Sexual Rights in America
The Ninth Amendment and the Pursuit of Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
The Constitution of the United States guarantees all Americans certain rights, such as the freedoms of speech and religious expression. But what guarantees our sexual freedoms?
Sexual Rights in America presents a bold and intriguing look at the constitutional basis of sexual rights in America. Resurrecting...
Seeds of Empire
The American Revolutionary Conquest of the Iroquois
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
Seeds of Empire recreates the events surrounding General John Sullivan's scorched-earth campaign against the Six Nations of the American Indians of New York and the Eastern territories in 1779, following the surrender of General John Burgoyne's British army at the Battle of Saratoga. Mintz's meticulous...
by Ralph J. Bunche
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
A world-renowned scholar and statesman, Dr. Ralph J. Bunche (1903—1971) began his career as an educator and a political scientist, and later joined the United Nations, serving as Undersecretary General for seventeen of his twenty-five years with that body. This African American mediator was the...
Rebels on the Air
An Alternative History of Radio in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Boring DJs who never shut up, and who don't even pick their own records. The same hits, over and over. A constant stream of annoying commercials. How did radio get so dull?
Not by accident, contends journalist and historian Jesse Walker. For decades, government and big business have colluded to monopolize...
Street Kids
Homeless Youth, Outreach, and Policing New Yorks Streets
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Street outreach workers comb public places such as parks, vacant lots, and abandoned waterfronts to search for young people who are living out in public spaces, if not always in the public eye. Street Kids opens a window to the largely hidden world of street youth, drawing on their detailed and compelling...