Rutgers University Press: 415 books
Challenges of Diversity
Essays on America
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
What unites and what divides Americans as a nation? Who are we, and can we strike a balance between an emphasis on our divergent ethnic origins and what we have in common? Opening with a survey of American literature through the vantage point of ethnicity, Werner Sollors examines our evolving understanding...
The Bronx
The Ultimate Guide to New York City's Beautiful Borough
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Often overlooked by most tourists and locals alike, the Bronx—one of five boroughs that comprise the city of New York—is rich in cultural and historical attractions. From the Bronx Zoo (the largest urban zoo in the United States) to the New York Botanical Garden (one of the most visited botanical...
by Eric Burns
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Celebrities can come from many different realms: film, music, politics, sports. But what do all these major celebrities have in common? What elevates them to the status of household names while their equally talented peers remain in relative obscurity? Is it just a question of charisma, or does fame...
Black New Jersey
1664 to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Black New Jersey tells the rich and complex story of the African American community’s remarkable accomplishments and the colossal obstacles they faced along the way. Drawing from rare archives, historian Graham Russell Gao Hodges brings to life the courageous black men and women who fought for their...
by Margaret Morganroth Gullette
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
When the term “ageism” was coined in 1969, many problems of exclusion seemed resolved by government programs like Social Security and Medicare. As people live longer lives, today’s great demotions of older people cut deeper into their self-worth and human relations, beyond the reach of law or...
Urban Nightlife
Entertaining Race, Class, and Culture in Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Sociologists have long been curious about the ways in which city dwellers negotiate urban public space. How do they manage myriad interactions in the shared spaces of the city? In Urban Nightlife, sociologist Reuben May undertakes a nuanced examination of urban nightlife, drawing on ethnographic...
Nursing with a Message
Public Health Demonstration Projects in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Mandated by the Affordable Care Act, public health demonstration projects have been touted as an innovative solution to the nation’s health care crisis. Yet, such projects actually have a long but little-known history, dating back to the 1920s. This groundbreaking new book reveals the key role that...
Genocide as Social Practice
Reorganizing Society under the Nazis and Argentina's Military Juntas
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Genocide not only annihilates people but also destroys and reorganizes social relations, using terror as a method. In Genocide as Social Practice, social scientist Daniel Feierstein looks at the policies of state-sponsored repression pursued by the Argentine military dictatorship against political...
Tough on Hate?
The Cultural Politics of Hate Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Why do we know every gory crime scene detail about such victims as Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. and yet almost nothing about the vast majority of other hate crime victims? Now that federal anti-hate-crimes laws have been passed, why has the number of these crimes not declined significantly?...
The Business of Private Medical Practice
Doctors, Specialization, and Urban Change in Philadelphia, 1900-1940
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2013
Unevenly distributed resources and rising costs have become enduring problems in the American health care system. Health care is more expensive in the United States than in other wealthy nations, and access varies significantly across space and social classes. James A. Schafer Jr. shows that these...
Classrooms and Clinics
Urban Schools and the Protection and Promotion of Child Health, 1870-1930
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Classrooms and Clinics is the first book-length assessment of the development of public school health policies from the late nineteenth century through the early years of the Great Depression. Richard A. Meckel examines the efforts of early twentieth-century child health care advocates and reformers...
Broadcasting Birth Control
Mass Media and Family Planning
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Traditionally, the history of the birth control movement has been told through the accounts of the leaders, organizations, and legislation that shaped the campaign. Recently, historians have begun examining the cultural work of printed media, including newspapers, magazines, and even novels in fostering...
Echoes of the Marseillaise
Two Centuries Look Back on the French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
What was the French Revolution? Was it the triumph of Enlightenment humanist principles, or a violent reign of terror? Did it empower the common man, or just the bourgeoisie? And was it a turning point in world history, or a mere anomaly?
E.J. Hobsbawm’s classic historiographic study—written...
Junctures in Women's Leadership
Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
From Eleanor Roosevelt to feminist icon Gloria Steinem to HIV/AIDS activist Dazon Dixon Diallo, women have assumed leadership roles in struggles for social justice. How did these remarkable women ascend to positions of influence? And once in power, what...