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Fate of the Flesh

Fate of the Flesh

Daniel Juan Gil

Daniel Juan Gil

This book argues that in the seventeenth century the ancient hope for the physical resurrection of the body and its flesh began an unexpected second life as critical theory, challenging the notion of an autonomous self and driving early modern avant-garde poetry.

ISBN: 9780823290055

Seeing Like a Child

Seeing Like a Child

Clara Han, Richard Rechtman

Clara Han

An utterly original and illuminating work that meets at the crossroads of autobiography and ethnography to re-examine violence and memory through the eyes of a child.Seeing Like...

ISBN: 9780823289462

Inventing America's First Immigration Crisis

Inventing America's First Immigration Crisis

Luke Ritter

Luke Ritter

Why have Americans expressed concern about immigration at some times but not at others? In pursuit of an answer, this book examines America’s first nativist movement, which responded to the rapid...

ISBN: 9780823289851

World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth

World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth

J. Daniel Elam

J. Daniel Elam

This book foregrounds anticolonial theories of reading to reveal an alternative strain of anticolonialism committed not to the forms of authority that facilitate political recognition or national sovereignty, but rather to inexpertise and inconsequence, with the aim of replacing mastery with collective cultivation.

ISBN: 9780823289806

Notable New Yorkers of Manhattan’s Upper West Side

Notable New Yorkers of Manhattan’s Upper West Side

Jim Mackin

Jim Mackin

Nearly 600 captivating stories of notable former residents of Manhattan’s Upper West Side, some famous, some forgottenWhat do Humphrey Bogart and Patty Hill (co-author of...

ISBN: 9780823289295

The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way

The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way

Colin Davey, Thomas A. Lesser, Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Colin Davey

With Thomas A. Lesser

Tells the story of the building of the American Museum of Natural History and Hayden Planetarium, a story of history, politics, science, and exploration, including the roles of American presidents,...

ISBN: 9780823289639

Who Is a Muslim?

Who Is a Muslim?

Maryam Wasif Khan

Maryam Wasif Khan

Who is a Muslim? destabilizes traditional constructions of postcolonial literary histories through the specific example of Urdu by suggesting that this North-India vernacular, far from secular or progressive, has been shaped as the authority designate around the intertwined questions of piety, national identity, and citizenship.

ISBN: 9780823290130

Preaching with Their Lives

Preaching with Their Lives

Margaret M. McGuinness, Jeffrey M. Burns, Arlene Bachanov, Elizabeth Michael Boyle O.P., James T. Carroll, Heath Carter, Kathleen Sprows Cummings, Diane Kennedy O.P., Margaret M. McGuinness, Donna Maria Moses O.P., Cecilia Murray O.P., Christopher J. Renz O.P., Ellen Skerrett, Cynthia Taylor, Janet Welsh O.P.

Edited by Margaret M. McGuinness and Jeffrey M. Burns

Contributor(s): Arlene Bachanov, Elizabeth Michael Boyle O.P., James T. Carroll, Heath Carter, Kathleen Sprows Cummings, Diane Kennedy O.P., Margaret M. McGuinness, Donna Maria Moses O.P., Cecilia Murray O.P., Christopher J. Renz O.P., Ellen Skerrett, Cynthia Taylor and Janet Welsh O.P.

This volume tells the little-known story of the Dominican Family—priests, sisters, brothers, contemplative nuns, and lay people—and integrates it into the history of the United States. Starting...

ISBN: 9780823289646

White Reconstruction

White Reconstruction

Dylan Rodríguez

Dylan Rodríguez

We are in the fray of another signature moment in the long history of the United States as a project of anti Black and racial–colonial violence. Long before November 2016, white nationalism, white...

ISBN: 9780823289394

Form and Feeling

Form and Feeling

Antonio Sergio Bessa, Michael Asbury, Antonio Sergio Bessa, Claudia Calirman, Frederico Coelho, Simone Homem de Mello, Marcos Gonçalves, Jose Lira, Fernanda Lopes, Martin Mäntele, Adele Nelson, Eduardo Oliveira, Claudia Saldanha, Eduardo Sterzi, Luisa Valle

Edited by Antonio Sergio Bessa

Contributor(s): Michael Asbury, Antonio Sergio Bessa, Claudia Calirman, Frederico Coelho, Simone Homem de Mello, Marcos Gonçalves, Jose Lira, Fernanda Lopes, Martin Mäntele, Adele Nelson, Eduardo Oliveira, Claudia Saldanha, Eduardo Sterzi and Luisa Valle

A significant contribution on the development and aftermath of post–World War II Concretism in BrazilForm and Feeling features a collection of essays by noted scholars exploring...

ISBN: 9780823289110

Critique of Journalistic Reason

Critique of Journalistic Reason

Tom Vandeputte

Tom Vandeputte

This book examines philosophy’s recurrent preoccupation with journalism. It shows how modern European philosophy's preoccupation with the news inflects theories of history, time, and language.

ISBN: 9780823290253

Womanpriest

Jill Peterfeso

Jill Peterfeso

This book is openly available in digital formats thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.While some Catholics and even non-Catholics today are asking...

ISBN: 9780823288274

The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot

The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot

Matthew Spady

Matthew Spady

Audubon Park’s journey from farmland to cityscapeThe study of Audubon Park’s origins, maturation, and disappearance is at root the study of a rural society evolving into an urban...

ISBN: 9780823289424

The Forgotten Radical Peter Maurin

The Forgotten Radical Peter Maurin

Peter Maurin, Lincoln Rice

Peter Maurin

Edited by Lincoln Rice

The definitive edition of Catholic Worker cofounder Peter Maurin's Easy Essays, including 74 previously unpublished worksAlthough Peter Maurin is well known among people connected...

ISBN: 9780823287536

Boss of Black Brooklyn

Boss of Black Brooklyn

Ron Howell

Ron Howell

Boss of Black Brooklyn presents a riveting and untold story about the struggles and achievements of the first black person to hold public office in Brooklyn. Bertram L. Baker immigrated to...

ISBN: 9780823288694

Xenocitizens

Jason Berger

Jason Berger

Xenocitizens returns to the nineteenth century in order to uncover realities and possibilities that have been foreclosed by dominant liberal paradigms. Examining how antebellum crises pushed writers to formulate alternative ontological and social models for personhood and sociality, Xenocitizens glimpses startlingly unique and unfamiliar ways to exist and to leverage change.

ISBN: 9780823287673

Against Sustainability

Against Sustainability

Michelle Neely

Michelle Neely

Against Sustainability responds to contemporary environmental crisis not by seeking the origins of U.S. environmental problems, but by returning to the nineteenth-century literature and cultural contexts that gave rise to many of our most familiar environmental solutions. Chapters explore sustainability, recycling, frugality, preservation, radical pet keeping, zero waste, and utopianism.

ISBN: 9780823288205

Textures of the Ordinary

Textures of the Ordinary

Veena Das

Veena Das

Textures of the Ordinary shows how life is marked not only by catastrophic events but also by the soft knife of economic deprivation and the repetitive corrosions and routine violence within everyday life itself. As an alternative to normative ethics, this book develops ordinary ethics as attentiveness to the other and as the ability of small acts of care to stand up to horrific violence.

ISBN: 9780823287697

Classical New York

Classical New York

Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis, Matthew McGowan, Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis, Matthew McGowan, Elizabeth Bartman, Maryl B. Gensheimer, Francis Morrone, Margaret Malamud, Allyson McDavid, Jon Ritter, Jared Simard

Edited by Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis and Matthew McGowan

Contributor(s): Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis, Matthew McGowan, Elizabeth Bartman, Maryl B. Gensheimer, Francis Morrone, Margaret Malamud, Allyson McDavid, Jon Ritter and Jared Simard

This book examines the reception and appropriation of Classical (Greco-Roman) Art and Architecture in New York from 1830–1940, including Pennsylvania Station, Rockefeller Center, the Gould Memorial Library, the proposed Civic Center (Foley Square), Federal Hall, as well as on the use of inscriptions in New York’s art and architecture.

ISBN: 9780823288700

That Further Shore

That Further Shore

John D. Feerick, Thomas J. Shelley

John D. Feerick

This book is the autobiography of a lawyer, born in the Bronx of immigrant parents, who practiced law, served as dean of Fordham Law, participated in framing the Constitution’s Twenty-Fifth Amendment, and served as President of the New York City Bar Association and chair of State Commissions on government integrity.

ISBN: 9780823287352

John Fante's Ask the Dust

John Fante's Ask the Dust

Stephen Cooper, Clorinda Donato, Miriam Amico, Charles Bukowski, Stephen Cooper, Giovanna Di Lello, John Fante, Valerio Ferme, Teresa Fiore, Daniel Gardner, Robert Guffey, Philippe Garnier, Ryan Holiday, Jan Louter, Chiara Mazzucchelli, Meagan Meylor, J’aime Morrison, Nathan Rabin, Alan Rifkin, Suzanne Roszak, Danny Shain, Robert Towne, Joel Williams

Edited by Stephen Cooper and Clorinda Donato

Contributor(s): Miriam Amico, Charles Bukowski, Stephen Cooper, Giovanna Di Lello, John Fante, Valerio Ferme, Teresa Fiore, Daniel Gardner, Robert Guffey, Philippe Garnier, Ryan Holiday, Jan Louter, Chiara Mazzucchelli, Meagan Meylor, J’aime Morrison, Nathan Rabin, Alan Rifkin, Suzanne Roszak, Danny Shain, Robert Towne and Joel Williams

This collection gathers a diverse set of critical, personal, and artistic reflections on the trials and epiphanies of Fante’s bio-fictive hero, Arturo Bandini, as he makes his way through the dust and dread of 1939 Los Angeles. As his quest for love and compassion turns to ethnic questioning and scorn, Fante’s protagonist comes alive for new audiences who see now what Fante saw then: the “sad flower in the sand” that resides within us all.

ISBN: 9780823287857

Remaking North American Sovereignty

Remaking North American Sovereignty

Jewel L. Spangler, Frank Towers, Robert E. Bonner, Christopher Clark, Jane Dinwoodie, Steven Hahn, Ryan Hall, Benjamin Johnson, Pablo Mijangos, Mary Ryan, Andrew Smith, Jewel L. Spangler, Marcela Terrazas y Basante, Frank Towers, Andrew L. Slap

Edited by Jewel L. Spangler and Frank Towers

Contributor(s): Robert E. Bonner, Christopher Clark, Jane Dinwoodie, Steven Hahn, Ryan Hall, Benjamin Johnson, Pablo Mijangos, Mary Ryan, Andrew Smith, Jewel L. Spangler, Marcela Terrazas y Basante and Frank Towers

This book explores the tumultuous history of state making in mid-nineteenth- century North America from a continental perspective. Essays by experts on Canadian Confederation, the U.S. Civil War, Mexico’s fight against French imperialists, and indigenous Americans shed new light on events traditionally studied as separate national stories.

ISBN: 9780823288441

Urban Formalism

Urban Formalism

David Faflik

David Faflik

This book examines how the city peoples of New York and Paris interpreted their urban surroundings during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. At the center of this examination are the literary, material, political, and visual forms which afforded contemporaries new ways of “reading” the modern metropolis.

ISBN: 9780823287680

Uniquely Okinawan

Uniquely Okinawan

Courtney A. Short

Courtney A. Short

Looks at how American soldiers, sailors, and Marines considered race, ethnicity, and identity in the planning and execution of the wartime occupation of Okinawa, during and immediately after the Battle of Okinawa, 1945-1946.

ISBN: 9780823287727

Humbug!

Wendy Jean Katz

Wendy Jean Katz

Mines the more than 300 newspapers published in New York City before the Civil War for art criticism, in order to trace the changing political positions of artists, artworks, and authors.

ISBN: 9780823285389

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