I'm not 100% sure I see what's in it for them to make 400 books available to the general public, completely free. (Thanks, Bookish) But there will be time enough for analysis later. In the short run, I'm celebrating, passing it on, and hoping other presses will follow suit.
Here are some of the titles that interested me (not that I have time to actually read through many of them in the week before classes start). The books at the top of the list are generally books I've read parts of already:
Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India by Parama Roy
Nets of Awareness: Urdu Poetry and Its Critics by Frances Pritchett
A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity by Daniel Boyarin
At the Heart of the Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late-Victorian Britain
The Irish Ulysses by Maria Tymoczko
J.M Coetzee: South Africa and the Politics of Writing by David Attwell
The Travels of Dean Mahomet:
An Eighteenth-Century Journey through India by Dean Mahomet (!)
The Magic Mountain: Hill Stations and the British Raj
Many Ramayanas: The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia
Arabs and Young Turks: Ottomanism, Arabism, and Islamism in the Ottoman Empire, 1908–1918
A Nation of Empire: The Ottoman Legacy of Turkish Modernity
Behind the Scenes: Yeats, Horniman, and the Struggle for the Abbey Theatre
The Boundaries of Humanity: Humans, Animals, Machines
Caste and Capitalism in Colonial India: The Nattukottai Chettiars
Divine Passions: The Social Construction of Emotion in India
The Wrestler's Body: Identity and Ideology in North India
The French Revolution and the Birth of Modernity
Freud and His Critics
Hysteria Beyond Freud