Nyu Press: 1737 books
Jacob Neusner
An American Jewish Iconoclast
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Biography: Neusner is a social commentator, a post-Holocaust theologian, and an outspoken political figure.
Jacob Neusner (born 1932) is one of the most important figures in the shaping of modern American Judaism. He was pivotal in transforming the study of Judaism from an insular project only...
Visions of Zion
Ethiopians and Rastafari in the Search for the Promised Land
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
In reggae song after reggae song Bob Marley and other reggae singers speak of the Promised Land of Ethiopia. “Repatriation is a must!” they cry. The Rastafari have been travelling to Ethiopia since the movement originated in Jamaica in 1930s. They consider it the Promised Land, and repatriation...
Caribbean Religious History
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The colonial history of the Caribbean created a context in which many religions, from indigenous to African-based to Christian, intermingled with one another, creating a rich diversity of religious life. Caribbean Religious History offers the first comprehensive religious history of the region.
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Forging Napoleon's Grande Armée
Motivation, Military Culture, and Masculinity in the French Army, 1800-1808
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
The men who fought in Napoleon’s Grande Armée built a new empire that changed the world. Remarkably, the same men raised arms during the French Revolution for liberté, égalité, and fraternité. In just over a decade, these freedom fighters, who had once struggled to overthrow tyrants, rallied...
At Home in Nineteenth-Century America
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
Few institutions were as central to nineteenth-century American culture as the home. Emerging in the 1820s as a sentimental space apart from the public world of commerce and politics, the Victorian home transcended its initial association with the private lives of the white, native-born bourgeoisie...
Toilet
Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
View "Public Restrooms": A Photo Gallery in The Atlantic Monthly.So much happens in the public toilet that we never talk about. Finding the right door, waiting in line, and using the facilities are often undertaken with trepidation. Don't touch anything. Try not to smell. Avoid eye contact....
The End of the Hamptons
Scenes from the Class Struggle in America's Paradise
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
Winner of the 2005 Book Prize from the Association for Humanist Sociology
In this absorbing account of New York’s famous vacation playground, Corey Dolgon goes beyond the celebrity tales and polo games to tell us the story of this complex and contentious land. From the displacement of Native Americans...
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Feminist as Thinker
A Reader in Documents and Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
More than one hundred years after her death, Elizabeth Cady Stanton still stands—along with her close friend Susan B. Anthony—as the major icon of the struggle for women’s suffrage. In spite of this celebrity, Stanton’s intellectual contributions have been largely overshadowed by the focus...
True Sex
The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Winner, 2018 U.S. History PROSE Award
The incredible stories of how trans men assimilated into mainstream communities in the late 1800s
In 1883, Frank Dubois gained national attention for his life in Waupun, Wisconsin. There he was known as a hard-working man, married to a young woman...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
While the United States was dominant in the development of psychology for much of the twentieth century, other countries have experienced significant growth in this area since the end of World War II. The percentage of those in the discipline who live and work in the United States has been growing...
The American Title Insurance Industry
How a Cartel Fleeces the American Consumer
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
After World War II, banks and other mortgage lenders began requiring insurance to protect them against flawed or defective real estate titles. Over the past sixty years, the title insurance industry has grown steadily in size, power, and secrecy: policies are available for both lenders and property...
Dying to Get High
Marijuana as Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2008
Dying to Get High with Susie Bright on Boing Boing!
Warring Wines; ’You Want to Fight?’; Nurse Mary Jane in Santa Cruz
High Times interviews the authors
Alternet excerpt of the book ("How Pot Became Demonized")
Discussion from the Santa Cruz Metro
Marijuana as medicine has been a politically...
Bodies of War
World War I and the Politics of Commemoration in America, 1919-1933
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
The United States lost thousands of troops during World War I, and the government gave next-of-kin a choice about what to do with their fallen loved ones: ship them home for burial or leave them permanently in Europe, in makeshift graves that would be eventually transformed into cemeteries in France,...
The Post-Soviet Wars
Rebellion, Ethnic Conflict, and Nationhood in the Caucasus
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
The Post-Soviet Wars is a comparative account of the organized violence in the Caucusus region, looking at four key areas: Chechnya, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Dagestan. Zürcher’s goal is to understand the origin and nature of the violence in these regions, the response and suppression...