April 5, 2020

Q&A: Kaeten Mistry on Whistleblowing Nation

In Whistleblowing Nation: The History of National Security Disclosures and the Cult of State Secrecy, editors Kaeten Mistry and Hannah Gurman detail the long American tradition of persecuting those who expose state misdeeds. The twenty-first century witnessed a new age...

April 4, 2020

OAH 2020 Happy Hour Reads: New in U.S. and Urban History

Hello, and welcome back to the second edition of Happy Hour Reads at the Columbia Virtual OAH Book Exhibit. This evening, we invite you to read excerpts from two brand new Columbia books that would have debuted at OAH. • ...

April 4, 2020

Book Excerpt! Reforming the City, by Ariane Liazos (introduction)

“A century ago, progressive reformers often thought expertise and nonpartisanship were the solution to extreme polarization and inequality in U.S. politics, as they do now. But Ariane Liazos dramatizes the unintended consequences of changes pursued in hundreds of U.S. cities...

April 4, 2020

Chromatic Modernity Wins the Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award!

A big congratulations to Sarah Street and Joshua Yumibe, whose book Chromatic Modernity: Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s was awarded The Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award. This beautifully written and illustrated book tells a fascinating story of technological...

April 4, 2020

What’s New From the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

Welcome back to our UAA Virtual Booth! We’re excited to hear from Maureen Clark and Emma Zehner, representing the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, one of our distributed presses, as they introduce two exciting new books for the urban studies...

April 4, 2020

There’s More to 3D Than Meets the Eye

By Nick Jones

“This book’s highly polished arguments situate digital 3D cinema within major debates about the role of the image in contemporary society as well as related structures of power. Jones’s historical focus and interaction with significant visual culture debates situate the...

April 4, 2020

Jason Hackworth on Manufacturing Decline

“Manufacturing Decline implicates conservative thought leadership, anti-urban interests, and elite—and ordinary—laissez-faire racism in a deliberate, decades-long degradation of U.S. cities via privation, demolition, and desertion. It is a thoughtful, stimulating, and efficient read at the intersection of urban geography, planning, and...

April 4, 2020

Q&A: Martin V. Melosi on Fresh Kills

“Fresh Kills is excellent in many ways–clarity of prose, strength of narration, depth of research, and command of the literature. Melosi is one of the finest urban historians working today, and he is, although this will sound like an unintended...

April 3, 2020

OAH 2020 Happy Hour Reads: New in U.S. History

Hello, and welcome back to the Columbia University Press Virtual OAH Book Exhibit! Now that the coronavirus pandemic has locked down most nonessential businesses in the country, many of us are finding ourselves stuck at home with lots of time...

April 3, 2020

What’s New From Columbia Books on Architecture and the City

Welcome back our UAA Virtual Booth! In addition to publishing our own books, we distribute books for a wide range of exciting academic presses from around the world. In this post, Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt and James Graham from Columbia Books on...

April 3, 2020

Join Ryan Groendyk in a Conversation About Wallflower

Welcome to the Wallflower table, it’s nice to see you again! I’m Ryan Groendyk, the editor for Wallflower. You may have heard (from me, most likely) that Wallflower became a true imprint of Columbia University Press a few years ago,...

April 3, 2020

Join Stephen Wesley on a Tour of Our New Books in Urban History

Hello and welcome back to Columbia’s UAA Virtual Book Exhibit. My name is Stephen Wesley, and I’m the American history editor here at Columbia. I’m pleased to share with you several new books we have in urban history. First up...