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With the enactment in 1891 of the Evarts Act, a court of appeals was created in each of the nation's nine circuits. What is now called the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit began as a...

Full-length study of an Iberia Muslim political dynasty that managed to adapt and survive in the Middle Ages through agile diplomacy with both Muslim and Christian states and through ambitious...

In The Latecomer's Rise, Muyang Chen reveals the nature and impact of a rapidly growing form of international lending: Chinese development finance. Over the past few decades, China has become the...

The Man in the Dog Park offers the reader a rare window into homeless life. Spurred by a personal relationship with a homeless man who became her co-author, Cathy A. Small takes a compelling look at...

Murder in a cathedral, horrific illnesses and deformities, narrow escapes from injury and death, a vengeful dragon, a wandering eyeball, a bawdy monk and other sinners redeemed--the accounts of...

Murder in a cathedral, horrific illnesses and deformities, narrow escapes from injury and death, a vengeful dragon, a wandering eyeball, a bawdy monk and other sinners redeemed--the accounts of...

The Mongol Archive in Late Medieval France is the first comprehensive study of contact between France and the Mongols in the late Middle Ages. As these realms expanded across Eurasia--the French...

Cowinner of the MLA Prize for Bibliographical or Archival ScholarshipThe Muriel Rukeyser Era makes available for the first time a range of Muriel Rukeyser's prose, a rich and diverse archive of...

Cowinner of the MLA Prize for Bibliographical or Archival ScholarshipThe Muriel Rukeyser Era makes available for the first time a range of Muriel Rukeyser's prose, a rich and diverse archive of...

The Natural Border tells the recent history of Mediterranean rural capitalism from the perspective of marginalized Black African farmworkers. In the context of global supply chains and repressive...

Examines the era's popular movements in all of their complexity, providing an integrated synthesis of France's most important protest campaign-Author: Micah AlpaughPublisher: Cornell University...

In The Pitfalls of Family Rule, Barbara Junisbai questions the conceptual divide separating democracy from nondemocracy as well as that separating "strong" authoritarian rulers from "weak" ones...

Understanding the history of grief and madness in late medieval and early modern Iberia through the lives of three royal women who all experienced tragedy while in power--Author: Nuria...

Considers Polish nationalism and the independence movement from the novel perspective of the Enthusiasts, a group that challenged not only comparative, transnational histories of women and gender but...

Arsalan Khan offers an ethnography of the normative vision that drives Pakistani Muslim men from diverse social and economic backgrounds to participate in a transnational Islamic piety movement:...

The Retrospective Muse showcases the celebrated work of Froma I. Zeitlin. Over many decades, Zeitlin's innovative studies have changed the field of classics. Her instantly recognizable work brings...

A sweeping social and environmental history, The Riviera, Exposed illuminates the profound changes to the physical space that we know as the quintessential European tourist destination. Stephen L...

In The Roots of Resilience Meredith L. Weiss examines governance from the ground up in the world's two most enduring electoral authoritarian or "hybrid" regimes--Singapore and Malaysia--where...

This book explores the economic and ecological significance of plant nurserymen over the course of the nineteenth century. Situated at the center of the transcontinental plant trade, the nurserymen...

From the shaping of new homelands in the Cherokee Nation to the export of sand from Cambodia to shore up urban expansion in Singapore, The Social Lives of Land reveals the often-hidden dynamics of...

The Splendor and Opulence of the Past traces the career of Jaume Caresmar (1717-1791), a church historian and a key figure of the Catalan Enlightenment who transcribed tens of thousands of parchments...

The Starving Empire traces the history of famine in the modern French Empire, showing that hunger is intensely local and sweepingly global, shaped by regional contexts and the transnational interplay...

Jacopo da Varagine (c. 1228-1298) is remembered today primarily for his immensely popular work The Golden Legend, a massive collection of stories about the saints. Compiled over the years 1260-67,...

The Tree and the Column examines the bronze door of Hildesheim Cathedral, which is not only a masterpiece of Ottonian art but is among the most recognizable and studied works of medieval sculpture...

The War on Rescue documents how governments block assistance to people in times of crisis. Focusing on the European Migration Crisis of 2015-2022 to address the reasons why governments do this,...

In The World Refugees Made, Pamela Ballinger explores Italy's remaking in light of the loss of a wide range of territorial possessions--colonies, protectorates, and provinces--in Africa and the...

Within anthropology, as elsewhere in the human sciences, there is a tendency to divide knowledge making into two separate poles: conceptual (theory) vs. empirical (ethnography). In Theory Can Be More...

Within anthropology, as elsewhere in the human sciences, there is a tendency to divide knowledge making into two separate poles: conceptual (theory) vs. empirical (ethnography). In Theory Can Be More...

The volume charts Walter LaFeber's career at Cornell University and demonstrates his enduring influence on the field of US diplomatic history by linking six of his monographs to his abiding concern...

Throw Your Voice is an ethnography of childhood in contemporary Kazakhstan, with theories of familiarization techniques and animation tying together two sites: a government-funded puppet theater and...