On April 23, 1929, the second annual Transcontinental Foot Race across America, known as the Buni...

Between 1975 and 1979, the Communist Party of Kampuchea fundamentally transformed the social, eco...

This title situates Carmilla within its Irish Cultural milieu and treats the text as self-standin...

Sociologist Elise Boulding offers a collection of essays that emphasize her study of civil societ...

In this noted anthology, the poet Adonis evokes the wisdom of Whitman s Leaves of Grass (which he...

Brings together the histories of the women's peace movement and the black women's club and social...

Eleven short stories that form an irresistible drama of an extended Arabic family in twentieth-ce...

The Adirondack region of New York State is, in many respects, America's cauldron of conservation....

'At a time when Yemen has been ravaged by a decade of war and subject to myriad political and mil...

'At a time when Yemen has been ravaged by a decade of war and subject to myriad political and mil...

'This novel reframes contemporary discussions about gender, sexuality, and race through the lens ...

Wild Forest Lands

Castigation

For amateur mycologists and foragers alike, the difference between a beautiful fungal find and a ...

Evelyn Shakir paints tales that are rich in history and background. She sets her stories in diffe...

While the connection between Ireland and the otherworldly has long been a staple of literature an...

Straddling the Hudson where the river begins to narrow and twist in its journey, Bear Mountain Br...

An expansive bilingual anthology, Tracing the Ether showcases twenty-six acclaimed Saudi poets wh...

'This title traces the history of women's engagement with Islamic law in premodern Morocco'

While humanitarian organizations and media outlets often reduce Syrian refugees to statistics or ...

The boundaries between the seven constituent emirates of the United Arab Emirates form one of the...

In Crafting Marriages: Palestinian American Women Transforming Gender Boundaries, Enaya Othman dr...

Defines the arbitrary generic boundaries that isolate Persian biographies, autobiographies, trave...

Drawing on stories he heard as a boy from female relatives, Jilali El Koudia presents a cross sec...

The first biography of Asenath Nicholson, Compassionate Stranger recovers the largely forgotten h...

The legacy of William Tolley cuts a wide swath in the history of both Syracuse University and the...

These works entertain the question of how scholars may reconfigure 'area-based knowledge' to resp...

A new English version of the third edition (1963) of Longhi's seminal work on the Renaissance pai...

Of great importance to scholars, collectors, dealers, and others interested in the history of cer...

Perfectionist Politics is the story of an important, but overlooked, antebellum reform movement: ...

Taking sharp aim at complacent geography scholars, this irreverent hook turns the world of academ...

Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks transports the reader back in time to the days when steamboats,...

This is the last of three volumes to document the administration of the Dutch-controlled colonies...

A unique personal account of Jewish life in Eastern Europe during the Holocaust and of a young ma...

The only comprehensive volume of Homer's magazine illustrations, with extensive scholarly treatme...

Exploring the discrimination that kept blacks out of pro tennis for decades, this title examines ...

Although it has only been thirty years since the first female jockey rode onto the then male-only...

Phil Rogers understands, as did Bernard Leach, the doyen of British fine art pottery, that the st...

In the mid 1800s, deep in the Long Island pine barrens, Modern Times was established as an experi...

A collection of nine essays that delve into the relationship between Jewish Americans and the cul...

This is the story of how Bill Clinton fashioned the incredible, the unbelievable, the 100 to 1 sh...

Do institutions think? If so, how do they do it? Do they have minds of their own? If so, what tho...

In this follow-up to his 1992 work, The Bill Clinton Story: Winning the Presidency, John Hohenber...

Part of the Iroquois Confederacy, the Oneida Indians once controlled large areas of what is now u...

This volume makes available critical documents from a period of time when the Dutch played a majo...

Toba Pato Tucker, who has photographed the Navajo in the Southwest, the Shinnecock and Montauk In...

Shows the cookstove both as a functional artifact and cultural symbol, exploring history, technol...

Roger Mitchell writes with a poet's eye for exact detail in his absorbing new book about his sear...