Nyu Press: 1737 books
Buzz
Urban Beekeeping and the Power of the Bee
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Winner, 2014 Distinguished Scholarship Award presented by the Animals & Society section of the American Sociological Association
Bees are essential for human survival—one-third of all food on American dining tables depends on the labor of bees. Beyond pollination, the very idea of the...
America in the Gilded Age
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1993
When the first edition of America in the Gilded Age was published in 1984, it soon acquired the status of a classic, and was widely acknowledged as the first comprehensive account of the latter half of the nineteenth century to appear in many years. Sean Dennis Cashman traces the political and social...
Cow Boys and Cattle Men
Class and Masculinities on the Texas Frontier, 1865-1900
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Cowboys are an American legend, but despite ubiquity in history and popular culture, misperceptions abound. Technically, a cowboy worked with cattle, as a ranch hand, while his boss, the cattleman, owned the ranch. Jacqueline M. Moore casts aside romantic and one-dimensional images of cowboys by analyzing...
Buying into Fair Trade
Culture, Morality, and Consumption
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Stamped on products from coffee to handicrafts, the term “fair trade” has quickly become one of today’s most seductive consumer buzzwords. Purportedly created through fair labor practices, or in ways that are environmentally sustainable, fair-trade products give buyers peace of mind in knowing...
The Real Price of War
How You Pay for the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Are Americans in denial about the costs of the War on Terror? In The Real Price of War, Joshua S. Goldstein argues that we need to face up to what the war costs the average American—both in taxes and in changes to our way of life. Goldstein contends that in order to protect the United States from...
by Andrew Stephen Walmsley
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1998
Rarely in American history has a political figure been so pilloried and despised as Thomas Hutchinson, Governor of Massachusetts and an ardent loyalist of the Crown in the days leading up to the American revolution.
In this narrative and analytic life of Hutchinson, the first since Bernard Bailyn's...
America in the Age of the Titans
The Progressive Era and World War I
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1988
Detailing the events of the Progressive Era and World War I (1901-20), America in the Age of the Titans is the only interdisciplinary history covering this period currently available. The book contains the results of research into primary sources an drecent scholarship with an emphases on leading...
Negro Comrades of the Crown
African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
While it is well known that more Africans fought on behalf of the British than with the successful patriots of the American Revolution, Gerald Horne reveals in his latest work of historical recovery that after 1776, Africans and African-Americans continued to collaborate with Great Britain against...
Authors of Their Lives
The Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North America in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
2008 United States Postal System’s Rita Lloyd Moroney Award
In the era before airplanes and e-mail, how did immigrants keep in touch with loved ones in their homelands, as well as preserve links with pasts that were rooted in places from which they voluntarily left? Regardless of literacy level,...
Freedom’s Gardener
James F. Brown, Horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in Antebellum America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
In 1793 James F. Brown was born a slave, and in 1868 he died a free man. At age 34 he ran away from his native Maryland to pass the remainder of his life as a gardener to a wealthy family in the Hudson Valley. Two years after his escape and manumission, he began a diary which he kept until his death....
Holocaust Justice
The Battle for Restitution in America's Courts
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
The Holocaust was not only the greatest murder in history; it was also the greatest theft. Historians estimate that the Nazis stole roughly $230 billion to $320 billion in assets (figured in today’s dollars), from the Jews of Europe. Since the revelations concerning the wartime activities of the...
Feeling Mediated
A History of Media Technology and Emotion in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
New technologies, whether text message or telegraph,
inevitably raise questions about emotion. New forms of communication bring with
them both fear and hope, on one hand allowing us deeper emotional connections
and the ability to forge global communities, while on the other prompting
anxieties about...
Fertility Holidays
IVF Tourism and the Reproduction of Whiteness
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Each year, more and more Americans travel out of the country seeking low cost medical treatments abroad, including fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization (IVF). As the lower middle classes of the United States have been priced out of an expensive privatized “baby business,” the Czech...
Copyrights and Copywrongs
The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Copyright reflects far more than economic interests. Embedded within conflicts over royalties and infringement are cultural values-about race, class, access, ownership, free speech, and democracy—which influence how rights are determined and enforced. Questions of legitimacy—of what constitutes...