July 3, 2018

Trivia Tuesday: This Landmark Critique of Women’s History and Gender Inequality Examines the Use of Gender as a Tool for Historical and Cultural Analysis

Joan Wallach Scott’s Gender and the Politics of History played a significant role in the movement of women from the margins of historical focus to the center in the 1980s. This collection of essays was inspired by Scott’s tenure as Director of...

July 2, 2018

Book Giveaway! Novel Sounds: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll

This week, our featured book is Novel Sounds: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll, by Florence Dore! To enter for your chance to win, please complete all required fields below. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content...

June 29, 2018

The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy (Excerpt)

This week, we’re featuring our newest releases on the topic of climate change. Today’s book excerpt comes from The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy, by Michael E. Mann and Tom Toles

June 28, 2018

The Rosita Conundrum

 Earlier this month we released How Did Lubitsch Do It? by Joseph McBride. Today we are presenting you with a short by Dave Kehr of MoMA about Rosita, with beautiful footage from the restoration and discussion of what happened to the film. Below is...

June 27, 2018

Introducing The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism

This week, we’re featuring our newest releases on the topic of climate change. Today’s book excerpt comes from The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism, by Keith Makoto Woodhouse. A nuanced history of radical environmental thought and action in the late-twentieth-century United States, The Ecocentrists explores how radical...

June 26, 2018

Trivia Tuesday: This Groundbreaking Work Traces Early Christian Preoccupations with Sexuality and the Body

Peter Brown’s study of the ascetic impulse in early Christianity begins in the pagan world of the first century AD and traces the early Christian preoccupation with sexuality and the body through the fifth century AD. The Body and Society explores the...

June 26, 2018

Introducing Coping with the Climate Crisis

This week, we’re featuring our newest releases on the topic of climate change. Today’s book excerpt comes from the introduction of Coping with the Climate Crisis: Mitigation Policies and Global Coordination, edited by Rabah Arezki, Patrick Bolton, Karim El Aynaoui, and Maurice Obstfeld....

June 25, 2018

David Coates on Flawed Capitalism

 In this video, David Coates discusses his major new book, Flawed Capitalism: The Anglo-American Condition and its Resolution. Released in May 2018, Flawed Capitalism, draws on his vast experience of economy and society in both the U.S. and the UK to...

June 25, 2018

Introducing Game Theory and Climate Change

This week, we’re featuring our newest releases on the topic of climate change. Today’s book excerpt comes from chapter one of Game Theory and Climate Change.  A conceptual framework with which to analyze climate change as a strategic game, Game Theory and Climate...

June 23, 2018

What Difference Does a Word Make?

Did you know that Thomas Wentworth Higginson, publisher and friend to Emily Dickinson, changed the word “Heft” to “weight” when he and Mabel Loomis Todd edited and published a collection of her poems after her death. Higginson wrote that Dickinson’s...

June 22, 2018

Behind the Scenes of “The Operator”

“‘The Operator’ discusses the background noises which may motivate or destroy a person.” ~ Sharon Webber-Zvik To close this week’s “Behind the Scenes” theme, today we bring you a guest post from Sharon Webber-Zvik, who designed the image used on...

June 21, 2018

My Time at CUP: John D. Moore

John D. Moore COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1968-1996 EDITOR, 1968-1975 EDITOR IN CHIEF, 1976-1980 DIRECTOR, 1980-1996 > I came to the Press in 1968. Part of the hiring process was a luncheon in Faculty House with the editor in chief, Robert (Bob)...