October 10, 2018
Christine A. Kray, Tamar W. Carroll, and Hinda Mandell, editors of the just-published Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in the 2016 US Presidential Election (University of Rochester… READ MORE
September 27, 2018
Brecht, Weill and The Threepenny Opera are names practically synonymous with each other. However, little is known about the great theater producer behind its staging, Ernst Josef Aufricht, whose memoir, And… READ MORE
September 17, 2018
Published earlier this year as part of our longstanding Worlds of the East India Company series, Kay Saville-Smith’s Provincial Society and Empire presents an unusual take on the Company and… READ MORE
August 8, 2018
Threads of Global Desire: Silk in the Pre-Modern World is the first volume in the Pasold Studies in Textile, Dress and Fashion History from the Pasold Research Fund. It is… READ MORE
August 3, 2018
Even if we neither participate nor spectate, horse racing is a constant presence in our culture. Racing seems to take place every single day of the year and results and… READ MORE
July 9, 2018
Without translation there would be no Holocaust. That’s the conclusion I came to about two-thirds of the way through the research and writing for my book, Witness between Languages. It’s… READ MORE
July 4, 2018
Dear Nancy, I’m writing a letter in the way that a woman of the late-eighteenth or early-nineteenth century might have written to her friend—to share ideas, emotions, thoughts, aspirations—assuming that… READ MORE
May 31, 2018
Brecht, Weill and The Threepenny Opera are names practically synonymous with each other. However, little is known about the great theater producer behind its staging, Ernst Josef Aufricht, whose memoir,… READ MORE
The Arms and Armour of Death