Böcker utgivna av New York University Press

Mining the papers of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and the American Legion (AL), this book reveals that veterans actively organized in the years following the war to claim state benefits (such as pensions and bonuses), and strove to articulate a role for themselves as a distinct political bloc during the New Deal era.

A study of the childhood and youth of William Dean Howells, that demonstrates how the turbulent social and cultural changes of the early nineteenth century shaped the young Howells' emotional and intellectual life. It portrays the ordeal of coming of age during a momentous period of American history.

Tells the story of the much overlooked experience of first and second generation West African immigrants and refugees in the United States during the last forty years.

Analyzing the goals and aspirations parents have for their children as well as the strategies they use to reach them, this book discovers fundamental differences among American parenting styles that expose class fault lines, both within the elite and between the elite and the middle and working classes.

Addresses the economic, visual, cultural, audience, and new media dimensions of reality television

A deeply moving book, filled with stories of mothers who have committed the ultimate crime

In this biography of the prolific writer and columnist John T. Flynn, who was once described by the New York Times as "A man of wide-ranging contradictions," John E. Moser draws on Flynn's enigmatic life to illuminate how liberalism in America changed during the mid-20th century.

Major General Leonard Wood (1860-1927) was, with his close friend Teddy Roosevelt, an icon of US imperialism as the nation evolved into a global power at the dawn of the twentieth century. The author has mined Wood's personal records to create a vivid portrait of a complex man and the legacy he left on US Imperialism.

Political exclusion and domination are common forms of injustice in democratic societies. The contributors to this volume explore the concepts of exclusion and domination from a wide array of theoretical approaches - liberal and republican, feminist and pluralist.

Exploring the cultural production of second-generation Caribbean immigrants in the US after WWII, as a prism for understanding the formation of Caribbean American identity, this book contributes to the studies of twentieth century US immigration, African American and Afro-Caribbean history and literature, and theories of ethnicity and race.

The forty-fourth volume in the esteemed NOMOS series considers the philosophical, political, and legal dilemmas of the changing definition of "family" today.

Originalism is the practice of reviewing constitutional cases by seeking to discern the framers' and ratifiers' intent. This text argues that the "jurisprudence of original intent," represented on the 2002 Supreme Court by Justice Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, has failed on its own terms.

Examines the workplace spirituality movement, and explores how it is both shaping and being shaped by American business culture. This book analyzes the enhanced benefits and support that workplace spirituality offers to employees, while exposing the conflicts it engenders, including diversity, religious freedom, and discrimination issues.

Many of us belong to communities that have been scarred by terrible calamities. And many of us come from families that have suffered grievous losses. This book addresses questions of how we reflect on these legacies of loss and the ways they inform each other.

Presents a story of the postwar experiences of Union and Confederate Civil War veterans. This work gives the reader a perspective on the challenges of readjustment for ex-soldiers and American society.

This is the first attempt to integrate research on the place of religion in adolescent development today and to consider the impact of it on law and social policy making.

Considers the mother-blaming theories of psychological and medical "experts," bad mothers in the popular media, the scapegoating of mothers in politics, and the punitive approach to "bad" mothers by social service and legal authorities

Traces the history of psychoanalytically informed thinking about dreams, using selected contributions from Freud to the present to highlight both the legacy of Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams" and the evolving use of the dream as a research tool.

Brooklyn, crouching forever in the shadow of Manhattan, is perhaps best known for a certain bridge or for the eternal carnival at Coney Island. This collection of 135 notable poems reveals the many cultural, ethnic, aesthetic, and religious traditions that have accorded Brooklyn its enduring place in the American psyche.

Dating from the sixteenth century, there were hundreds of shtetls - Jewish settlements - in Eastern Europe that were home to a large and compact population that differed from their gentile, mostly peasant neighbors in religion, occupation, language, and culture. This volume takes a look at this most important facet of East European Jewish life.

In the past years, many traditionally white campus religious groups have become Asian American. This book focuses on second-generation Korean Americans, who make up the majority of Asian American evangelicals. It explores the factors that lead college-bound Korean American evangelicals to create racially segregated religious communities on campus.

Contributors consider key topics from the meaning of divine providence to questions of redemption to the link between the Holocaust and the creation of the State of Israel. Together, they push our thinking further about how our belief in God has changed in the wake of the Holocaust.

The story of how first-generation Americans coupled their legacy of liberty with a penal philosophy that promoted patriarchy, especially for marginal Americans. How did classical liberalism aid in the development of such expansive penal practices in the wake of the War of Independence?

Discusses the effects of technology advances on public policy and management of natural resources.

Since his conversion from Judaism, Charles Rich has sought to lead a contemplative life while still in world. He has shared the results of his meditations with a few intimate friends. It is these that make up this book-short, pithy reflections on a unique spiritual life.

Exposes the underbelly of culture workers as the saviour of cities