Old Is Gold

This volume explores democracy in the 20th century, examining the triumph, crises, recovery, and resilience of democracy and its associated cultures in this period. From 1920 democracy became the hegemonic discourse in political cultures, to the extent that even its enemies claimed its legacy....

The newly born League of Nations confronted the post-WWI world--from growing stateless populations to the resurgence of right-wing movements--by aiming to create a transnational, cosmopolitan dialogue on justice. As part of these efforts, a veritable army of League personnel set out to shape "global...

Europe and the Making of Modernity, 1815-1914 is a clear and engaging chronicle of the political, economic, social, and cultural changes that transformed Europe during the nineteenth century. An introduction neatly summarizes the major issues and events of the French Revolution, while a sweeping...

South Carolina Onstage offers a collection of seven plays spanning two hundred years, all by South Carolina authors. It begins with a concise history of the theater in the Palmetto State, from the first dramatic productions in colonial Charleston through the rise of opera...

Recognizing the fiftieth anniversary of the protests, strikes, and violent struggles that formed the political and cultural backdrop of 1968 across Europe, the United States, and Latin America, Susana Draper offers a nuanced perspective of the 1968 movement in Mexico. She challenges the dominant...

Throughout the 19th century, American poetry was a profoundly populist literary form. It circulated in New England magazines and Southern newspapers; it was read aloud in taverns, homes, and schools across the country. Antebellum reviewers envisioned poetry as the touchstone democratic genre, and their...

Bestiaries. Lapidaries. Lunaries. Inventories and household vocabularies. Lists are everywhere in medieval and early modern texts--evidence of the need to manage and order knowledge and experience. Yet until now, listing as a formal practice has received scant scholarly attention. In Enlistment, foremost medievalists and...

In Against Marginalization, Jose O. Fernandez examines thematic, aesthetic, historical, and cultural commonalities among post-1960s Black and Latinx writers, showing how such similarities have propelled their fight against social, cultural, and literary marginalization by engaging, adopting, and subverting elements from the larger American literary...

In Cartographic Memory, Juan Herrera maps 1960s Chicano movement activism in the Latinx neighborhood of Fruitvale in Oakland, California, showing how activists there constructed a politics forged through productions of space. From Chicano-inspired street murals to the architecture of restaurants and shops, Herrera shows...

The "Pittsburgh Renaissance," an urban renewal effort launched in the late 1940s, transformed the smoky rust belt city's downtown. Working-class residents and people of color saw their neighborhoods cleared and replaced with upscale, white residents and with large corporations housed in massive skyscrapers. Pittsburgh's...

Drawing upon interviews, correspondence, and nearly 2000 pages of never-before-used prison records, Malcolm Before X is the definitive examination of the prison years of civil rights icon Malcolm X. In February 1946, when 21-year-old Malcolm Little was sentenced to eight to ten years in...

Combines historical, literary, art historical, and archaeological perspectives to explore the idea of the Hindu temple in the British colonial imagination.Author: Deborah SuttonPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 09/01/2024Pages: 294Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.24lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69dISBN: 9781438499208This title is not returnable

Explores the value of Shakespeare for theatrical businesspeople and audiences in nineteenth-century New York City.Author: Danielle RosvallyPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 07/01/2024Pages: 275Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.27lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75dISBN: 9781438498348This title is not returnable

Shannon Draucker is Assistant Professor of English at Siena College.Author: Shannon DrauckerPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 07/01/2024Pages: 294Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.33lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81dISBN: 9781438498416This title is not returnable

An intellectual-political biography of Otto Heller, the most prominent and prolific communist theoretician of the Jewish question.Author: Tom NavonPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 01/01/2024Pages: 312Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.29lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75dISBN: 9781438495910This title is not returnable

Brings together and makes available in English for the first time some of Ángel Rama's most important essays.Author: Ángel RamaPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 09/01/2023Pages: 388Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.63lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00dISBN: 9781438494494About the AuthorJosé Eduardo González is Associate Professor...

Examines literary depictions of "mannish" pregnant women and metaphors of male pregnancy to reframe the relationship between creativity and gender in modernism.Author: Aimee Armande WilsonPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 12/01/2023Pages: 224Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63dISBN: 9781438495590This title is...

Originally published in Hebrew in 1944, this fascinating and moving account may well be the first memoir of the Holocaust.Author: Renia KukielkaPublisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New YoPublished: 11/01/2023Pages: 238Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56dISBN: 9781438494784This title is not returnable

Romantic Immanence examines literary examples of an alternative experience of otherness-an experience of alterity the Romantics understood as an embodied, immanent encounter with raw reality. The Romantics' enthusiasm for encounters in nature and the imagination that exceeded the limits of rational thought is well...

A wide-ranging overview of contemporary literary works by LGBTQ Appalachians with a focus on LGBTQ themes and characters.Author: Allison E. CareyPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 07/01/2023Pages: 278Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.28lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75dISBN: 9781438493558About the AuthorAllison E. Carey is Professor...