The Haunted History of Pelham, New York
(February 2022)
Including Ghostly Tales of the Bronx, Westchester County, and Long Island Sound Blake A. Bell - Author
Lore and Verse
(January 2022)
Poems on History in Early Medieval China Yue Zhang - Author
Explores how poetry was used to disseminate and interpret history in early medieval China.
Lore and Verse is the first English-language book dedicated entirely to studying poems on history (yongshi shi) in premodern China. Focusing on works by poets from the entire range of early medieval China (220–589), Yue Zhang explores how history was disseminated and interpreted...(Read More)
Return to Point Zero
(January 2022)
The Turkish-Kurdish Question and How Politics and Ideas (Re)Make Empires, Nations and States Murat Somer - Author
Analyzes Turkey’s Kurdish conflict since post-Ottoman nation-building through recent peace attempts, from a novel perspective highlighting the dilemmas of the Turk majority and reshaping our understanding of ethnic conflicts, and offers solutions for a sustainable peace.
How did the Kurdish-Turkish Conflict arise? Why have Turks and Kurds failed for so long to solve it? How can the...(Read More)
Amnesia
(December 2021)
A History of Democratic Idealism in Modern Thailand Arjun Subrahmanyan - Author
Describes the profound social impact of the overthrow of the Thai absolute monarchy in 1932, and explains the importance of democracy in a country long known for authoritarian politics.
Thailand’s monarchy and military have dominated the narrative of the country’s modern history, and their leadership is often accepted as evidence of a cultural preference for authoritarianism. Despi...(Read More)
Historical and theoretical discussions that describe and reflect on personal objects from a variety of perspectives.
The Cultural Power of Personal Objects seeks to understand the value and efficacy of objects, places, and times that take on cultural power and reverence to such a degree that they are treated (whether metaphorically or actually) as “persons,” or as objects wi...(Read More)
The Last Noble Gendarme
(November 2021)
How the Tsar's Last Head of Security and Intelligence Tried to Avert the Russian Revolution Vladimir G. Marinich - Author
Gripping account of the life of the Russian Tsar’s last chief of security and intelligence.
The Last Noble Gendarme is the first biography of Major General Konstantin Ivanovich Globachev and his wife, Sofia. Tsar Nicholas II’s last chief of security, Globachev was an eyewitness to the seething turmoil in the capital of the Russian Empire. Beginning in 1915 he tried to avert ...(Read More)
Elucidates how neoliberalism rules all areas of life and operates as a form of common sense, taking Mexico as a case study.
As one of the first countries to implement a neoliberal state apparatus, Mexico serves as a prime example of the effects of neoliberal structural economic reform on our sensibility. Irgmard Emmelhainz argues that, in addition to functioning as a form of politi...(Read More)
Gilbert and Sullivan
(October 2021)
The Players and the Plays Kurt Gänzl - Author
Highlights the original cast members--both the well-known and the (until now) wholly unknown--who staged the duo's comic operas in Britain and in America.
In this, the first book to focus on the original cast members of the classic Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas, world-renowned musical theater expert Kurt Gänzl provides a concise history of the writing and production of each op...(Read More)
