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Updates from SUNY Press
Announcing a New Series - Studies in New York Law
We are very pleased to announce a new series: Studies in New York Law, edited by Albert M. Rosenblatt. Studies in New York Law will highlight key legal issues and cases that have shaped New York (and the nation’s) history. Combining legal analysis with a focus on specific cases or events, books in the series will address the theoretical and practical applications of New York law as it has evolved over time. The series will address diverse issues in New York’s legal history, including racial and sexual equality, worker’s rights, health and safety, consumer protection, and equal application of the law. Books in the series will appeal to academics, legal historians, and New York State historians, as well as general readers interested how law has impacted the social cultural life of the state and country.
Albert M. Rosenblatt teaches at the New York University School of Law and is a retired Judge of New York State Court of Appeals. His books include The Eight: The Lemmon Slave Case and the Fight for Freedom; Opening Statements: Law, Jurisprudence, and the Legacy of Dutch New York (coedited with Julia C. Rosenblatt) and Judith S. Kaye in Her Own Words: Reflections on Life and the Law, with Selected Judicial Opinions and Articles (coedited with Henry M. Greenberg, Luisa M. Kaye, and Marilyn Marcus), all published by SUNY Press.
Announcing our New Catalog
Earlier this month, our Fall 2024 catalog went live on our website and on Edelweiss. We invite you to peruse the 86 new titles. We're proud of the diversity of thought the catalog represents, from the first of its kind Black Feminist Writing: A Practical Guide to Publishing Academic Books to the timely Meeting the Moment: Inspiring Presidential Leadership that Transformed America, to regional interest books like Woodstock: From World War to Culture Wars.
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Looking for a new summer read? Browse our titles to find a new autobiography, biography, memoir or a new great fiction or poetry book. Or read up on New York history or your favorite performing artist. Save 30% with code HERITAGE724 through July 31, 2024. Watch for new titles on sale for the month of August. | |
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Casseroles, Can Openers, and Jell-O: American Food and the Cold War, 1947–1959, by Elizabeth Aldrich, was named a Silver Winner in the Popular Culture category.
"A much-needed addition to the literature of the field. … It will be useful to university professors who teach culture in the Cold War, a growing field. In addition, with the playful quality of recipe inclusion, the book should appeal to general readers." — Victoria Phillips, author of Martha Graham's Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy
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Spirit of Haiti, by Myriam J. A. Chancy, was named a Gold Winner in the LGBTQ+ Fiction category.
"Myriam Chancy conjures up not only the past which continues to haunt … but also the loas and spirits of the dead. She deftly weaves her narrative and, via the perspectives of her characters, sheds light on the circumstances and emotional complexity of those who emigrate as well as those who remain behind." — Loida Maritza Perez, author of Geographies of Home: A Novel
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The Eight: The Lemmon Slave Case and the Fight for Freedom, by Albert M. Rosenblatt, was named a Gold Winner in the History category.
"In his lucid book, unencumbered by legalese, Rosenblatt narrates how, upon reaching New York, abolitionists, Black and white, assisted the eight enslaved people in suing for their freedom. An 1841 New York law granted liberty to any enslaved person brought into the state. Rosenblatt painstakingly charts the successful freedom suit in New York City's Superior Court and ultimately its victory in the New York Court of Appeals." — CHOICE
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Poetics of the Local: Globalization, Place, and Contemporary Irish Poetry, by Shirley Lau Wong, has won the 2023 Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature presented by the American Conference for Irish Studies.
"This book provides an important reconceptualization of one of the basic themes of Irish literature: place. Wong’s study will help to reorient the study of Irish poetry beyond the category of the nation and invigorate attention to the material realities and textures of economic and cultural globalization as they are absorbed into contemporary Irish poems." — Eric Falci, author of The Value of Poetry
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Author Voices from the SUNY Press Blog | |
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My Unexpected Education from Fearless
In a recent post, Neil Thomas Proto writes, "This addition to the SUNY Blog reflects the imperative of something I didn’t write about in Fearless: A. Bartlett Giamatti and the Battle for Fairness in America (SUNY, 2020).Yet without the depth of research and analysis necessary to understand Bart Giamatti’s life, the bigotry his grandparents and father endured in New Haven, his presidency of Yale University (1978-1986) and Yale’s own vicious historical conduct toward those it designated as “unfit” (that is, southern Italian immigrants), I would not have fully appreciated the history of the region between Naples and Sicily. That is, within the Spanish Empire, in battle to overthrow it, and the battle against the ruthless repression and exploitation by the northern region’s invading army that brought millions to the United States. Nor had I been able to write and have published "New Haven Italian-American sculpture represents true courage (without Columbus)" for the Connecticut Mirror." Read More
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A Serial Killer Meets the Buddha
In his recent blog, Charles R. Strain explores how engaged Buddhists struggle with the concept of “structural violence,” the violence built into our institutions, laws, policies, the ways we are socialized, even into our psyches. Read More
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The Difficulty of Defining Friendship
In a guest post, Sarah Horton explores the concept of friendship. She writes, "Friendship, once a major theme in philosophy, has largely fallen by the wayside. For Aristotle, philia was essential to a well-lived life; Thomas Aquinas believed that we would still have friendships with other humans in heaven; and of course the very word philosophy comes from philosophia, the friendship of wisdom. More recently, despite a few notable exceptions such as Derrida and Blanchot, philosophers have written little on friendship, preferring, when they write about love, to focus on eros instead. I chose to write The Promise of Friendship to counter this neglect, as friendship remains profoundly important to human life." Read More
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