State and Family in China ~ Filial Piety and its Modern Reform
Cambridge University Press

State and Family in China ~ Filial Piety and its Modern Reform

Mara Yue Du

In Imperial China, the idea of filial piety not only shaped family relations but was also the official ideology by which Qing China was governed. In State and Family in China, Yue Du examines the relationship between politics and intergenerational family relations in China from the Qing period to 1949, focusing on changes in family law, parent-child relationships, and the changing nature of the Chinese state during this period.

Book Cover: teens playing Monopoly
The University of Chicago Press

The Queerness of Home

Vider uncovers how LGBTQ people reshaped domestic life in the postwar United States.

From the Stonewall riots to the protests of ACT UP, histories of queer and trans politics have almost exclusively centered on public activism. In The Queerness of Home, Stephen Vider turns the focus inward, showing that the intimacy of domestic space has been equally crucial to the history of postwar LGBTQ life.

Empires of Complaints
Cambridge University Press

Empire of Complaints

Robert Travers

n this deeply researched and revealing account, Robert Travers offers a new view of the transition from Mughal to British rule in India. By focusing on processes of petitioning and judicial inquiry, Travers argues that the East India Company consolidated its territorial power in the conquered province of Bengal by co-opting and transforming late Mughal, Persianate practices of administering justice to petitioning subjects.

The Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn
Cornell University Press

The Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn

Glenn Altschuler

In The Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn, Stuart M. Blumin and Glenn C. Altschuler tell the story of nineteenth-century Brooklyn's domination by upper- and middle-class Protestants with roots in Puritan New England. This lively history describes the unraveling of the control they wielded as more ethnically diverse groups moved into the "City of Churches" during the twentieth century.

Paul Hyams

Paul Hyams, expert on medieval law, dies at 82

Colleagues and former students remember Hyams as an innovative and multidisciplinary scholar who reached from history into literature, law, medieval studies and beyond through a pedagogical approach that combined intellectual rigor with camaraderie.

John Kerry

Kerry imparts experience, hope to the ‘next generation’

<div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"> <p> Now more than ever, leadership is needed at all levels of government to overcome growing partisanship and to keep the United States in a strong position in the world on fronts such as democracy, cybersecurity and climate change, said former U.S. Sen. John Kerry on Oct. 29. </p></div></div>

Screen shot showing four people

In election’s waning days, panel sees hope for democracy

<div> <div> <p> Amid the clatter in the days before the presidential election – the long lines at early polls, racial strife, street protests, political ad skirmishes and the streaming patter of television punditry – three College of Arts and Sciences professors offered a bright light at the end of the 2020 tunnel: hope for democracy. </p></div></div>

The Ottoman Scramble for Africa book jacket

New book spotlights Ottoman expansion in Africa

For more than six centuries, the Ottoman Empire ruled a vast area of the world, from Central Europe to the Persian Gulf. “The Ottoman Scramble for Africa: Empire and Diplomacy in the Sahara and the Hijaz,” a new book by Mostafa Minawi, tells the story of the Ottoman Empire’s expansionist efforts during the age of high imperialism at the end of the...

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