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Energy, the Modern State, and the American World System
(June 2018)
George A. Gonzalez - Author
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Examines political authority in the modern era as a function of specific energy politics.
In this provocative and original study, George A. Gonzalez argues that the relationship between energy and the state, as well as global politics, has become more and more deeply intertwined, reaching something of a crescendo with the global hegemony of Pax Americana in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. He presents a cle...(Read More) |
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Adriaen van der Donck
(April 2018)
A Dutch Rebel in Seventeenth-Century America
J. van den Hout - Author
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The first comprehensive biography of an important yet understudied figure in the Dutch colony of New Netherland.
This book tells the compelling story of the young legal activist Adriaen van der Donck (1618–1655), whose fight to secure the struggling Dutch colony of New Netherland made him a controversial but pivotal figure in early America. At best, he has been labeled a hero, a visionary, and a spokesman of the people. A...(Read More) |
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Cities of Refuge
(April 2018)
German Jews in London and New York, 1935-1945
Lori Gemeiner Bihler - Author
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Contrasts the experiences of German Jewish refugees from the Holocaust who fled to London and New York City.
In the years following Hitler’s rise to power, German Jews faced increasingly restrictive antisemitic laws, and many responded by fleeing to more tolerant countries. Cities of Refuge compares the experiences of Jewish refugees who immigrated to London and New York City by analyzing letters, diaries, newspape...(Read More) |
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Our War Paint Is Writers' Ink
(March 2018)
Anishinaabe Literary Transnationalism
Adam Spry - Author
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Explores a little-known history of exchange between Anishinaabe and American writers, showing how literature has long been an important venue for debates over settler colonial policy and indigenous rights.
For the Anishinaabeg—the indigenous peoples of the Great Lakes—literary writing has long been an important means of asserting their continued existence as a nation, with its own culture, history, and sovereignty. ...(Read More) |
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Overcoming Niagara
(February 2018)
Canals, Commerce, and Tourism in the Niagara-Great Lakes Borderland Region, 1792–1837
Janet Dorothy Larkin - Author
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Analyzes the nineteenth-century canal age in the Niagara–Great Lakes borderland region as a transnational phenomenon.
In Overcoming Niagara Janet Dorothy Larkin analyzes the canal age from the perspective of the Niagara–Great Lakes borderland between 1792 and 1837. She shows what drove the transportation revolution, not the conventional story of westward expansion and the international/metropolitan rivalry b...(Read More) |
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Ronald W. Walters and the Fight for Black Power, 1969-2010
(February 2018)
Robert C. Smith - Author
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Combines history and biography to interpret the last half century of black politics in America as represented in the life and work of a pivotal African American public intellectual.
From his leadership of the first modern lunch counter sit-ins at age twenty to his work on African American reparations at the time of his death at age seventy-two, Ronald W. Walters (1938–2010) was at the cutting edge of African American pol...(Read More) |
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The History of Here
(February 2018)
A House, the Pine Hills Neighborhood, and the City of Albany
Akum Norder - Author
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How the Pine Hills neighborhood in Albany, New York, changed and grew, as reflected in the history of one house and the lives of its residents.
When you buy an old house, you get much more than a house. In all its quirks, its alterations, in fragments of memory and traces left behind, you get a bundle of small mysteries. Who used to live here? Why did they come here, and where did they go? Whose name is that written on the attic...(Read More) |
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Rx Hollywood
(January 2018)
Cinema and Therapy in the 1960s
Michael DeAngelis - Author
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How films of the 1960s and early 1970s framed therapeutic issues as problems of human communication, and individual psychological problems as social ones.
Rx Hollywood investigates how therapy surfaced in the themes, representations, and narrative strategies of a changing film industry. In the 1960s and early 1970s, American cinema was struggling to address adult audiences who were increasingly demanding films that confr...(Read More) |
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