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The Great War in Hollywood Memory, 1918-1939
(December 2019)
Michael Hammond - Author
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Assesses how America’s film industry remembered World War I during the interwar period.
This is the definitive account of how America’s film industry remembered and reimagined World War I from the Armistice in 1918 to the outbreak of World War II in 1939. Based on detailed archival research, Michael Hammond shows how the war and the sociocultural changes it brought made their way into cinematic stories and images. H...(Read More) |
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Argentine Intimacies
(November 2019)
Queer Kinship in an Age of Splendor, 1890-1910
Joseph M. Pierce - Author
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Revisits a foundational moment in Argentine history to demonstrate how the crisis of modernity opened up new possibilities for imagining kinship otherwise.
As Argentina rose to political and economic prominence at the turn of the twentieth century, debates about the family, as an ideological structure and set of lived relationships, took center stage in efforts to shape the modern nation. In Argentine Intimacies, Joseph ...(Read More) |
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Ghost Fleet Awakened
(November 2019)
Lake George's Sunken Fleet of 1758
Joseph W. Zarzynski - Author
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Chronicles the history and archaeological study of Lake George, New York’s sunken bateaux of 1758.
In Ghost Fleet Awakened, Joseph W. Zarzynski reveals the untold story of a little-recognized sunken fleet of British warships, bateaux, from the French and Indian War (1755–1763). The story begins more than 250 years ago, when bateaux first plied the waters of Lake George, New York. Zarzynski enlightens readers ...(Read More) |
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Unsettling Colonialism
(October 2019)
Gender and Race in the Nineteenth-Century Global Hispanic World
N. Michelle Murray - Editor
Akiko Tsuchiya - Editor
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Power and Progress
(September 2019)
Joseph Ibn Kaspi and the Meaning of History
Alexander Green - Author
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Study of a fascinating medieval Jewish philosopher, focusing on his twin conceptions of history.
The philosopher and biblical commentator Joseph Ibn Kaspi (1280–1345) was a provocative Jewish thinker of the medieval era whose works have generally been overlooked by modern scholars. Power and Progress by Alexander Green is one of the first books in English to analyze his thought by focusing on a central aspect of his...(Read More) |
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Cub Reporters
(August 2019)
American Children's Literature and Journalism in the Golden Age
Paige Gray - Author
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Investigates how depictions of young people in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America use artifice to destabilize pre-existing narratives of truth, news, and fact.
Cub Reporters considers the intersections between children’s literature and journalism in the United States during the period between the Civil War and World War I. American children’s literature of this time, including works from suc...(Read More) |
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Fiction as History
(August 2019)
The Novel and the City in Modern North India
Vasudha Dalmia - Author
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Explains the Hindi novel’s role in anticipating and creating the story of middle-class modernity and modernization in North India.
Vasudha Dalmia offers a panoramic view of the intellectual and cultural life of North India over a century, from the aftermath of the 1857 uprising to the end of the Nehruvian era. The North’s historical cities, rooted in an Indo-Persianate culture, began changing more slowly than the Pre...(Read More) |
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Everything Worthy of Observation
(July 2019)
The 1826 New York State Travel Journal of Alexander Stewart Scott
Paul G. Schneider Jr. - Editor
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Offers a firsthand account into early-nineteenth-century New York State and Lower Canada during a time of enormous growth and change.
In the pre-dawn of August 2, 1826, Alexander Stewart Scott stepped aboard the steamboat Chambly in Quebec City, Canada. He was beginning a journey that not only took him across New York State but also ultimately changed his view of America and her people. A keen observer, the twenty-one-year...(Read More) |
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An Archive of the Catastrophe
(June 2019)
The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann's Shoah
Jennifer Cazenave - Author
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Comprehensive analysis of 220 hours of outtakes that impels us to reexamine our assumptions about a crucial Holocaust documentary.
Claude Lanzmann’s 1985 magnum opus, Shoah, is a canonical documentary on the Holocaust—and in film history. Over the course of twelve years, Lanzmann gathered 230 hours of location filming and interviews with survivors, witnesses, and perpetrators, which he condensed into a 9½...(Read More) |
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Inside North Korea’s Theocracy
(May 2019)
The Rise and Sudden Fall of Jang Song-thaek
Ra Jong-yil - Author
Jinna Park - Translator
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Offers biographical accounts of several of North Korea’s leaders to illuminate the inner workings of its government.
First published in Korean in 2016, Inside North Korea’s Theocracy offers a fascinating and rare look at the lives of several of the regime’s key leaders. Its primary focus is Jang Song-thaek, a talented and reform-minded member of the political ruling class who was executed in 2013. J...(Read More) |
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