Nyu Press: 1737 books
Moral Universalism and Pluralism
NOMOS XLIX
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Moral universalism, or the idea that some system of ethics applies to all people regardless of race, color, nationality, religion, or culture, must have a plurality over which to range - a plurality of diverse persons, nations, jurisdictions, or localities over which morality asserts a universal authority....
The Fair Sex
White Women and Racial Patriarchy in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2002
Once the egalitarian passions of the American Revolution had dimmed, the new nation settled into a conservative period that saw the legal and social subordination of women and non-white men. Among the Founders who brought the fledgling government into being were...
Secession and Self-Determination
NOMOS XLV
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2003
The many questions that surround movements for secession and self-determination are both practically urgent and theoretically perplexing. The United States settled its secession crisis in the 1860s. But the trauma and unfinished business of those events are still with us. Around the world secession...
Classical Arabic Literature
A Library of Arabic Literature Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
A major achievement in the field of translation, this anthology presents a rich assortment of classical Arabic poems and literary prose, from pre-Islamic times until the 18th century, with short introductions to guide non-specialist students and informative endnotes and bibliography for advanced scholars....
Signature Wounds
The Untold Story of the Military's Mental Health Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
The surprising story of the Army’s efforts to combat PTSD and traumatic brain injury
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken a tremendous toll on the mental health of our troops. In 2005, then-Senator Barack Obama took to the Senate floor to tell his colleagues that “many of our injured soldiers...
Making Race in the Courtroom
The Legal Construction of Three Races in Early New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
No American city’s history better illustrates both the
possibilities for alternative racial models and the role of the law in shaping
racial identity than New Orleans, Louisiana, which prior to the Civil War was
home to America’s most privileged community of people of African descent. In
the eyes...
This House of Noble Deeds
The Mount Sinai Hospital, 1852-2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2002
On January 15, 1852, nine men representing various Hebrew charitable organizations came together to establish the Jews' Hospital in New York with a vision of offering free medical care to the indigent Hebrews in the City who were unable to provide for themselves during their illness. This was the...
Virtues of the Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal
Volume Two
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Ahmad ibn Hanbal (d. 241 H/855 AD), renowned for his profound knowledge of hadith—the reports of the Prophet’s sayings and deeds—is a major figure in the history of Islam. Ibn Hanbal’s piety and austerity made him a folk hero, especially after his principled resistance to the attempts of two...
by Ahmad Ibn Fadlan
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in Arabic.
A pioneering text of peerless historical and literary value. In its pages, we move north on a diplomatic mission from Baghdad to the upper reaches of the Volga River in what is now central Russia.
In this...
Rebel Girls
Youth Activism and Social Change Across the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
From anti-war walkouts to anarchist youth newspapers, rallies against educational privatization, and workshops on fair trade, teenage girls are active participants and leaders in a variety of social movements. Rebel Girls: Youth Activism and Social Change Across the Americas illuminates the experiences...
The Social Gospel in American Religion
A History
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
A remarkable history of the powerful and influential social gospel movement.
The global crises of child labor, alcoholism and poverty were all brought to our attention through the social gospel movement. Its impact on American society makes it one of the most influential developments in American...
Mainline Christianity
The Past and Future of America's Majority Faith
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Since the Revolutionary War, Mainline Christianity has been comprised of the Seven Sisters of American Protestantism—the Congregational Church, the Episcopal Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Presbyterian Church, the United Methodist Church, the American Baptist Convention, and the Disciples...
Empire of Sacrifice
The Religious Origins of American Violence
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
It is widely recognized that American culture is both exceptionally religious and exceptionally violent. Americans participate in religious communities in high numbers, yet American citizens also own guns at rates far beyond those of citizens in other industrialized nations. Since9/11, United States...
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Now?
Multicultural Conservatism in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2001
In Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Now? Angela Dillard offers the first comparative analysis of a conservatism which today cuts across the boundaries of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.
To be an African-American and a conservative, or a Latino who is also a conservative and a homosexual, is to...