Nyu Press: 1737 books
by Richard J. Ross
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Historians used to imagine empire as an imperial power extending total domination over its colonies. Now, however, they understand empire as a site in which colonies and their constitutions were regulated by legal pluralism: layered and multicentric systems of law, which incorporated or preserved the...
At Home in Two Countries
The Past and Future of Dual Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Read Peter's Op-ed on Trump's Immigration Ban in The New York Times
The rise of dual citizenship could hardly have been imaginable to a time traveler from a hundred or even fifty years ago. Dual nationality was once considered an offense to nature, an abomination on the order of bigamy. It...
Shutting Down the Streets
Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Recently, a wall was built in eastern Germany. Made of steel and cement blocks, topped with razor barbed wire, and reinforced with video monitors and movement sensors, this wall was not put up to protect a prison or a military base, but rather to guard a three-day meeting of the finance ministers...
by Rachel Dwyer
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Modern Indian studies have recently become a site for new, creative, and thought-provoking debates extending over a broad canvas of crucial issues. As a result of socio-political transformations, certain concepts—such as ahimsa, caste, darshan, and race—have taken on different meanings.
Bringing...
Black Sailor, White Navy
Racial Unrest in the Fleet during the Vietnam War Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
It is hard to determine what dominated more newspaper headlines in America during the 1960s and early ‘70s: the Vietnam War or America’s turbulent racial climate. Oddly, however, these two pivotal moments are rarely examined in tandem.
John Darrell Sherwood has mined the archives of the U.S. Navy...
Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash
Piracy, Sexuality, and Masculine Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
Despite, or perhaps because of, our lack of actual knowledge about pirates, an immense architecture of cultural mythology has arisen around them. Three hundred years of novels, plays, painting, and movies have etched into the popular imagination contradictory images of the pirate as both arch-criminal...
Losing Our Religion
How Unaffiliated Parents Are Raising Their Children
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
The fastest growing religion in America is—none! One fifth of Americans now list their religion as “none,” up from only 7 percent two decades ago. Among adults under 30, those poised to be the parents of the next generation, fully one third are religiously unaffiliated. Yet these “Nones,”...
Camouflage Isn't Only for Combat
Gender, Sexuality, and Women in the Military
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
Drawing on surveys and interviews with almost 300 female military personnel, Melissa Herbert explores how women's everyday actions, such as choice of uniform, hobby, or social activity, involve the creation and re-creation of what it means to be a woman, and particularly a woman soldier. Do women...
Preventive Force
Drones, Targeted Killing, and the Transformation of Contemporary Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
More so than in the past, the US is now embracing the logic of preventive force: using military force to counter potential threats around the globe before they have fully materialized. While popular with individuals who seek to avoid too many “boots on the ground,” preventive force is controversial...
The Fighting Rabbis
Jewish Military Chaplains and American History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998
Rabbi Elkan Voorsanger received the Purple Heart for his actions during the Battle of Argonne. Chaplain Edgar Siskin, serving with the Marines on Pelilu Island, conducted Yom Kippur services in the midst of a barrage of artillery fire. Rabbi Alexander Goode and three fellow chaplains gave their own...
From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State
Race and the Death Penalty in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Since 1976, over forty percent of prisoners executed in American jails have been African American or Hispanic. This trend shows little evidence of diminishing, and follows a larger pattern of the violent criminalization of African American populations that has marked the country's history of punishment.
In...
by Austin Sarat
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
The way a society punishes demonstrates its commitment to standards of judgment and justice, its distinctive views of blame and responsibility, and its particular way of responding to evil. Punishment in Popular Culture examines the cultural presuppositions that undergird America’s distinctive approach...
When Law Fails
Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Since 1989, there have been over 200 post-conviction DNA exonerations in the United States. On the surface, the release of innocent people from prison could be seen as a victory for the criminal justice system: the wrong person went to jail, but the mistake was fixed and the accused set free. A closer...
The Road to Abolition?
The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
At the start of the twenty-first century, America is in the midst of a profound national reconsideration of the death penalty. There has been a dramatic decline in the number of people being sentenced to death as well as executed, exonerations have become common, and the number of states abolishing...