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Spiritual Grammar

Spiritual Grammar

F. Dominic Longo

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

New Perspectives on the Union War

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

Allied Encounters

Allied Encounters

Marisa Escolar

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

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, III Roosevelt Kermit

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, New York power brokers, museum presidents, planetarium directors, polar and African explorers, and German rocket scientists.

ISBN: 9780823283484

A Worldly Affair

A Worldly Affair

Pamela Hanlon

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

Brooklyn Bridge Park

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

Unknowing Fanaticism

Unknowing Fanaticism

Ross Lerner

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

King Alfonso VIII of Castile

King Alfonso VIII of Castile

Miguel Gómez, Kyle C. Lincoln, Damian J. Smith, Martín Alvira Cabrer, Carlos de Ayala Martinez, Janna Bianchini, Thomas E. Burman, Sam Zeno Conedera, Miguel Gómez, Kyle C. Lincoln, Joseph F. O'Callaghan, Teofilo Ruiz, Miriam Shadis, Damian J. Smith, James J. Todesca

Edited by Miguel Gómez, Kyle C. Lincoln and Damian J. Smith

Contributor(s): Martín Alvira Cabrer, Carlos de Ayala Martinez, Janna Bianchini, Thomas E. Burman, Sam Zeno Conedera, Miguel Gómez, Kyle C. Lincoln, Joseph F. O'Callaghan, Teofilo Ruiz, Miriam Shadis, Damian J. Smith and James J. Todesca

King Alfonso VIII of Castile: Government, Family and War brings together a diverse group of scholars whose work concerns the reign of Alfonso VIII (1158–1215). This was a critical period...

ISBN: 9780823284146

Whom We Shall Welcome

Whom We Shall Welcome

Danielle Battisti

Danielle Battisti

Whom We Shall Welcome examines World War II immigration of Italians to the United States, an under-studied period in Italian immigration history. Danielle Battisti looks at efforts by Italian...

ISBN: 9780823284382

Colonizing Christianity

Colonizing Christianity

George E. Demacopoulos

George E. Demacopoulos

Colonizing Christianity employs postcolonial critique to analyze the transformations of Greek and Latin religious identity in the wake of the Fourth Crusade. It argues that the experience colonization splintered the Greek community, which could not agree how best to respond to the Latin other.

ISBN: 9780823284436

Karl Barth and Comparative Theology

Karl Barth and Comparative Theology

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

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

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

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

Roman Catholicism in the United States

Roman Catholicism in the United States

Margaret M. McGuinness, James T. Fisher, Jeffrey M. Burns, Roy Domenico, Una Cadegan, Christopher S. Shannon, James McCartin, Chester Gillis, Patrick Allitt, Timothy Matovina, Jeffrey Marlett, Robert Carbonneau, Anthony Smith, Cecilia Moore, Karen Davalos

Edited by Margaret M. McGuinness and James T. Fisher

Contributor(s): Jeffrey M. Burns, Roy Domenico, Una Cadegan, Christopher S. Shannon, James McCartin, Chester Gillis, Patrick Allitt, Timothy Matovina, Jeffrey Marlett, Robert Carbonneau, Anthony Smith, Cecilia Moore and Karen Davalos

A collection of essays examining Catholicism in the United States from a variety of perspectives. The volume is divided into three sections: “'Beyond the Parish,' 'Presence in the World,' and 'Prophetic Catholicism'.” Essay topics include: anti-Catholicism, women religious, Latino/a Catholicism, Catholicism and Popular Culture, and Rural Catholcism.

ISBN: 9780823282777

Poetics of History

Poetics of History

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jeff Fort

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

Translated by Jeff Fort

Poetics of History places Rousseau at the origin of modern speculative philosophy by showing that his thinking on the theater, despite its dependence on a false and conventional reading of Aristotle, nonetheless articulates a radical thinking of originary mimesis, and, well before Hegel, an understanding of catharsis as Aufhebung.

ISBN: 9780823282333

A Great Sacrifice

A Great Sacrifice

James G. Mendez

James G. Mendez

This study analyzes the effects of the Civil War on northern black families as they sacrificed for a Union victory. This book especially studies the effects of the war on these families as they and their soldiers fully supported the Union war effort and strived to gain full American citizenship.

ISBN: 9780823282494

Bad Faith

Andrew Feffer

Andrew Feffer

Bad Faith recounts the history of the Rapp-Coudert investigation into communist subversion in the public schools and municipal colleges of New York City, lasting from 1940 to 1942. This study explores how prominent depression-era liberals, as they joined in accusing Communists of “bad faith” and branded them enemies of American democracy, anticipated and made McCarthyism possible.

ISBN: 9780823281152

"Pretends to Be Free"

"Pretends to Be Free"

Graham Russell Gao Hodges, Alan Edward Brown

Edited by Graham Russell Gao Hodges and Alan Edward Brown

Republication on the twenty-fifth anniversary of “Pretends to Be Free” recognizes the signal importance of its sterling presentation of northern self-emancipation. Today, even more than...

ISBN: 9780823282159

Alegal

Annmaria M. Shimabuku

Annmaria M. Shimabuku

Alegal traces the trans-Pacific biopolitics between a postwar American empire of military bases and postcolonial Japan that secured Okinawa as a U.S. military fortress. It shows how both managed sex in its base towns from 1945 to 2015, and elucidates the potential for Okinawan insurgency in response to this collaboration.

ISBN: 9780823282654

Jews and the Ends of Theory

Jews and the Ends of Theory

Shai Ginsburg, Martin Land, Jonathan Boyarin, Svetlana Boym, Sergey Dolgopolski, Jay Geller, Sarah Hammerschlag, Martin Land, Martin Jay, Elliot R. Wolfson, Andrew Bush, Hannan Hever, James I. Porter, Yehouda Shenhav

Edited by Shai Ginsburg, Martin Land and Jonathan Boyarin

Contributor(s): Svetlana Boym, Sergey Dolgopolski, Jay Geller, Sarah Hammerschlag, Martin Land, Martin Jay, Elliot R. Wolfson, Andrew Bush, Hannan Hever, James I. Porter and Yehouda Shenhav

This volume assesses the role of Jews, as both agents and figures, in the development of critical and literary theory in the twentieth century and beyond. Its topics range from Biblical criticism to the relationship between Derrida and Levinas, from Mizrachi Jews in Israel to the Zionisms of Buber and Scholem.

ISBN: 9780823281992

Practicing Caste

Practicing Caste

Aniket Jaaware, Anupama Rao

Aniket Jaaware

Practicing Caste attempts a break from the tradition of caste studies, using versions of phenomenology, structuralism and post-structuralism; and gives a description of touchability and untouchability in terms of a rhetoric and semantics of touch.

ISBN: 9780823282258

Ecological Form

Ecological Form

Nathan K. Hensley, Philip Steer, Karen Pinkus, Nathan K. Hensley, Philip Steer, Lynn Voskuil, Jesse Oak Taylor, Teresa Shewry, Aaron Rosenberg, Benjamin Morgan, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, Deanna K. Kreisel, Adam Grener, Sukanya Banerjee, Monique Allewaert

Edited by Nathan K. Hensley and Philip Steer

Afterword by Karen Pinkus

Contributor(s): Nathan K. Hensley, Philip Steer, Lynn Voskuil, Jesse Oak Taylor, Teresa Shewry, Aaron Rosenberg, Benjamin Morgan, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, Deanna K. Kreisel, Adam Grener, Sukanya Banerjee and Monique Allewaert

Ecological Form brings together leading voices in nineteenth-century ecocriticism to suture the lingering divide between postcolonial and ecocritical approaches. Together, these essays show how...

ISBN: 9780823282111

Maurice Blanchot

Maurice Blanchot

Christophe Bident, John McKeane

Christophe Bident

Translated by John McKeane

Maurice Blanchot: a Critical Biography attempts a critical and theoretical biography by drawing on unpublished documents and interviews with those close to the writer. It tracks the life and work of one of the most important novelists and critics of the twentieth century, who influenced many writers, artists, and philosophers, not least those of French theory.

ISBN: 9780823281756

People's Car

Sarasij Majumder

Sarasij Majumder

People's Car studies divergent populist responses to land acquisition for industries in rural India. It contends that landownership enables small landowners to aspire and look forward to social mobility in the non-farm sector, which are contingent upon industrialization. The protests against land acquisition, thus, have contradictory tendencies.

ISBN: 9780823282418

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: 9780823280995

Murder, Inc., and the Moral Life

Murder, Inc., and the Moral Life

Robert Weldon Whalen

Robert Weldon Whalen

Murder, Inc. and the Moral Life: Gangsters and Gangbusters in La Guardia’s New York tells the story of the notorious 1930s Brooklyn gang nicknamed “Murder, Inc.” Murder, Inc. is as well an extended moral reflection on the phenomenon of gangsters in general and the Murder, Inc. gang in particular.

ISBN: 9780823282739

Death Now

Maurice Blanchot, Michael Holland

Maurice Blanchot

Translated by Michael Holland

The fourth volume of Blanchot’s war-time chronicles reflects a commitment to silence and a detachment from circumstance, as Germany’s occupation of France reaches its end. Convinced that disaster is now insuperable, Blanchot neutralizes the nihilism of that position through making it the basis of a new language of human relation.

ISBN: 9780823281794

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