Nyu Press: 1737 books
Our Bodies, Our Crimes
The Policing of Women’s Reproduction in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association; Sex and Gender Section
The Real Issue behind the Abortion Debate
An op-ed by Jeanne Flavin in the San Francisco Chronicle
2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
The intense policing of women’s reproductive capacity...
At Liberty to Die
The Battle for Death with Dignity in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Over the past hundred years, average life expectancy in America has nearly doubled, due largely to scientific and medical advances, but also as a consequence of safer working conditions, a heightened awareness of the importance of diet and health, and other factors. Yet while longevity is celebrated...
In the Web of Class
Delinquents and Reformers in Boston, 1810s-1930s
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1993
"An analytic overview of the history of social welfare and juvenile justice in Boston..[Schneider] traces cogently the origins, development, and ultimate failure of Protestant and Catholic reformers' efforts to ameliorate working-class poverty and juvenile delinquency."
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Why Lawsuits are Good for America
Disciplined Democracy, Big Business, and the Common Law
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
Judging by the frequency with which it makes an appearance in television news shows and late night stand up routines, the frivolous lawsuit has become part and parcel of our national culture. A woman sues McDonald’s because she was scalded when she spilled her coffee. Thousands file lawsuits claiming...
Punishment, Prisons, and Patriarchy
Liberty and Power in the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
Punishment, Prisons, and Patriarchy tells the story of how first-generation Americans coupled their legacy of liberty with a penal philosophy that promoted patriarchy, especially for marginal Americans.
American patriots fought a revolution in the name of liberty. Their victory celebrations barely...
The Political Thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Women's Rights and the American Political Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was not only one of the most important leaders of the nineteenth century women’s rights movement but was also the movement’s principal philosopher. Her ideas both drew from and challenged the conventions that so severely...
Habeas Corpus
Rethinking the Great Writ of Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
Habeas Corpus is the process by which state prisoners—particularly those on death row—appeal to federal courts to have their convictions overturned. Its proper role in our criminal justice system has always been hotly contested, especially in the wake of 1996 legislation curtailing the ability...
The Smart Culture
Society, Intelligence, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1997
What exactly is intelligence? Is it social achievement? Professional success? Is it common sense? Or the number on an IQ test?
Interweaving engaging narratives with dramatic case studies, Robert L. Hayman, Jr., has written a history of intelligence that will forever change the way we think about who...
Nothing but the Truth
Why Trial Lawyers Don't, Can't, and Shouldn't Have to Tell the Whole Truth
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
Lubet's Nothing But The Truth presents a novel and engaging analysis of the role of storytelling in trial advocacy. The best lawyers are storytellers, he explains, who take the raw and disjointed observations of witnesses and transform them into coherent and persuasive narratives.
Critics of the adversary...
by Tammy M. Proctor
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
World War I heralded a new global era of warfare, consolidating and expanding changes that had been building throughout the previous century, while also instituting new notions of war. The 1914-18 conflict witnessed the first aerial bombing of civilian populations, the first widespread concentration...
The Contrast
Manners, Morals, and Authority in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
“The Contrast“, which premiered at New York City's John Street Theater in 1787, was the first American play performed in public by a professional theater company. The play, written by New England-born, Harvard-educated, Royall Tyler was timely, funny, and extremely popular. When the play appeared...
by Ronald Jennings
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1992
Wrested from the rule of the Venetians, the island of Cyprus took on cultural shadings of enormous complexity as a new province of the Ottoman empire, involving the compulsory migration of hundreds of Muslim Turks to the island from the nearby Karamna province, the conversion of large numbers of native...
Americans Without Law
The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Americans Without Law shows how the racial boundaries of civic life are based on widespread perceptions about the relative capacity of minority groups for legal behavior, which Mark S. Weiner calls “juridical racialism.” The book follows the history of this civic discourse by examining the legal...
Thurman Arnold
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
Thurman Arnold (1891-1969) was a major iconoclast of American law and a great liberal of the 20th century. In this first biography of Arnold, Spencer Weber Waller traces Arnold's life from his birth in Laramie, Wyoming, and explores how his western upbringing influenced his distinctive views about...