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Boss of Black Brooklyn

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Urban Formalism

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

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Orthodox Readings of Augustine

Aristotle Papanikolaou, George E. Demacopoulos

Edited by Aristotle Papanikolaou and George E. Demacopoulos

Orthodox Readings of Augustine examines the theological engagement with the preeminent Latin theologian Augustine of Hippo in the Orthodox context. Augustine was not widely read in the East...

ISBN: 9780823288601

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Uniquely Okinawan

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

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Xenocitizens

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

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Against Sustainability

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

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Osnabrück Station to Jerusalem

Hélène Cixous, Peggy Kamuf, Eva Hoffman

Hélène Cixous

Translated by Peggy Kamuf

An inventive literary account of Cixous’s remarkable journey to her mother’s birthplace and of the Jewish community of a German town that was wiped out in the Holocaust.

ISBN: 9780823287628

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Humbug!

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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Morality at the Margins

Sarah Hillewaert

What does it mean to be young, modern, and Muslim? Documenting everyday life in Lamu (Kenya), this book explores the mundane practices of behavior and speech that create moral personhood. In elaborating everyday practices of Islamic pluralism, the book shows how Muslim societies critically engage with change while sustaining a sense of integrity and morality.

ISBN: 9780823286508

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The Doctor and Mrs. A.

Sarah Pinto

In the 1940’s, the young Punjabi “Mrs. A.” reflected on sexuality, gender, and struggle in a dream analysis with psychiatrist Dev Satya Nand, drawing on Hindu myth to conceive a better, socialist future. An unconventional history of gender and sexuality in late colonialism, this book reminds us that the West does not have a monopoly on feminism, psychiatry, or ethical paradigms.

ISBN: 9780823286669

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Whose Middle Ages?

Andrew Albin, Mary C. Erler, Thomas O'Donnell, Nicholas L. Paul, Nina Rowe, David Perry, Geraldine Heng, Sandy Bardsley, Adam Bishop, Marian Bleeke, Will Cerbone, William Diebold, Fred Donner, Sarah Guérin, J. Patrick Hornbeck II, Lauren Mancia, Stephennie Mulder, W. Mark Ormrod, Pamela Patton, Nicholas L. Paul, Andrew Reeves, Ryan Szpiech, Magda Teter, Elizabeth Tyler, David Wacks, Cord Whitaker, Maggie Williams, Katherine Wilson, Helen Young

Edited by Andrew Albin, Mary C. Erler, Thomas O'Donnell, Nicholas L. Paul and Nina Rowe

Afterword by Geraldine Heng

Contributor(s): Sandy Bardsley, Adam Bishop, Marian Bleeke, Will Cerbone, William Diebold, Fred Donner, Sarah Guérin, J. Patrick Hornbeck II, Lauren Mancia, Stephennie Mulder, W. Mark Ormrod, Pamela Patton, Nicholas L. Paul, Andrew Reeves, Ryan Szpiech, Magda Teter, Elizabeth Tyler, David Wacks, Cord Whitaker, Maggie Williams, Katherine Wilson and Helen Young

Whose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the nonspecialist reader and ideal for teaching at an undergraduate level. Each of twenty-two...

ISBN: 9780823285563

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Lady Liberty

Joan Marans Dim, Antonio Masi, Joseph Berger

Magnificent art complements an unvarnished history of the Statue of Liberty and its relationship to immigration policy in the United States throughout the years.What began in 1865...

ISBN: 9780823285334

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Upper West Side Catholics

Thomas J. Shelley

The history of Ascension parish is a microcosm of the history of the Catholic Church in New York City because it has been characterized by the two most powerful dynamics that have shaped the nature of New York Catholicism: immigration and neighborhood change.

ISBN: 9780823285419

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Allied Encounters

Marisa Escolar

Analyzes Anglo-American and Italian literary, cinematic and military representations of World War II Italy in order to trace, critique and move beyond the gendered paradigm of redemption that has conditioned understandings of the Allied-Italian encounter.

ISBN: 9780823284498

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Karl Barth and Comparative Theology

Martha L. Moore-Keish, Christian T. Collins Winn, Chris Boesel, Francis X. Clooney, Christian T. Collins Winn, Victor Ifeanyi Ezigbo, James W. Farwell, Tim Hartman, S. Mark Heim, Paul Knitter, Pan-chiu Lau, Martha L. Moore-Keish, Peter Ochs, Marc A. Pugliese, Joshua Ralston, Anantanand Rambachan, Randi Rashkover, Kurt Anders Richardson, John N. Sheveland, Mun'im Sirry, Nimi Wariboko

Edited by Martha L. Moore-Keish and Christian T. Collins Winn

Contributor(s): Chris Boesel, Francis X. Clooney, Christian T. Collins Winn, Victor Ifeanyi Ezigbo, James W. Farwell, Tim Hartman, S. Mark Heim, Paul Knitter, Pan-chiu Lau, Martha L. Moore-Keish, Peter Ochs, Marc A. Pugliese, Joshua Ralston, Anantanand Rambachan, Randi Rashkover, Kurt Anders Richardson, John N. Sheveland, Mun'im Sirry and Nimi Wariboko

This volume builds on recent engagements with Barth in theologies of religion, and opens new conversation between Barth and comparative theology. In each of six religion-specific sections, two theologians offer focused engagements of Barth with themes and figures from another religious tradition, followed by response from a theologian from that tradition itself.

ISBN: 9780823284603

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New Perspectives on the Union War

Gary W. Gallagher, Elizabeth R. Varon, Michael Caires, Frank Cirillo, D.H. Dilbeck, Jack Furniss, Gary W. Gallagher, Jesse George-Nichol, William B. Kurtz, Peter Luebke, Tamika Nunley, Elizabeth R. Varon

Edited by Gary W. Gallagher and Elizabeth R. Varon

Contributor(s): Michael Caires, Frank Cirillo, D.H. Dilbeck, Jack Furniss, Gary W. Gallagher, Jesse George-Nichol, William B. Kurtz, Peter Luebke, Tamika Nunley and Elizabeth R. Varon

New Perspectives on the Union War explores, at a wide array of points along the political spectrum, the many shapes patriotic sentiment took in the loyal states during the Civil War. The essays provide new insights into well-known figures such as Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, political philosopher Francis Lieber, African American author/entrepreneur Elizabeth Keckley, abolitionist Abby Kelly Foster, New York governor Horatio Seymour, and Attorney General Edward Bates. They also offer the perspectives of common soldiers, of the partisan press, of the clergy, and of social reformers.

ISBN: 9780823284535

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Spiritual Grammar

F. Dominic Longo

Literary analysis and theological interpretation of Catholic, University of Paris chancellor Jean Gerson’s (d. 1429) Donatus moralizatus and Muslim, Sufi scholar ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Qushayrī’s (d. 1072) Naḥw al-qulūb. Argues that the genre of these two religious texts aims to engender saintly readers and uses grammar as metaphor for spiritual realities.

ISBN: 9780823283699

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A Worldly Affair

Pamela Hanlon

For more than seven decades, New York City and the United Nations have shared the island of Manhattan, living and working together in a bond that has been likened to a long marriage—both tempestuous...

ISBN: 9780823284320

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Brooklyn Bridge Park

Joanne Witty, Henrik Krogius

Joanne Witty and Henrik Krogius

A major social and political phenomenon of how a community overcame overwhelming opposition and obstacles to build the Brooklyn Bridge Park. Stretching along a waterfront that faces one of...

ISBN: 9780823284337

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Unknowing Fanaticism

Ross Lerner

We may think we know what defines religious fanaticism: violent action undertaken with dogmatic certainty. But the term fanatic, from the European Reformation to today, has never been a stable...

ISBN: 9780823283866

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History

Boss of Black Brooklyn

Textures of the Ordinary

Classical New York

That Further Shore

Remaking North American Sovereignty

John Fante's Ask the Dust

Urban Formalism

Orthodox Readings of Augustine

Uniquely Okinawan

Xenocitizens

Against Sustainability

Osnabrück Station to Jerusalem

Humbug!

Morality at the Margins

The Doctor and Mrs. A.

Whose Middle Ages?

Lady Liberty

Upper West Side Catholics

Allied Encounters

Karl Barth and Comparative Theology

New Perspectives on the Union War

Spiritual Grammar

A Worldly Affair

Brooklyn Bridge Park

Unknowing Fanaticism

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