First work in English devoted to medicine in the Ottoman world.

Presents a new genealogy and synoptic overview of modern Irish fiction.

Examines the relationship of Spain’s 1960s tourist boom to Franco’s right-wing dictatorship.

New insights into the cementing of the American-Israeli relationship during the Nixon years.

A look at the Latino experience in the American South using data from Richmond, Virginia.

Leading scholars engage the later contributions of Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

Explores the metafictional strategies of contemporary African novels rather than characterizing them primarily as a response to colonialism.

Explores the distinctions between science and pseudoscience.

First English translation of Paola Masino’s Nascita e morte della massaia, her most controversial novel that provoked Fascist censorship for its critical portrayal of marriage and motherhood.

Examines the policy stances of two major Hispanic interest groups.

Applies the concept of oppressor and oppressed nationalisms to explore the historical forces and social processes that have shaped modern Ethiopia.

Argues that Byron’s popularity marked the beginning of celebrity as a cultural identity.

Comprehensive study of the Lebanese Army from Lebanon’s independence to the present.

Explores Victorian responses to death and burial in literature, journalism, and legal writing.

Explores how the entry of migrant workers into Israel raises questions beyond just those of the labor market.

Explores the life and career of one of the twentieth century’s most colorful Zionist leaders.

Reveals the sophisticated design of Rumī’s Mathnawī, showing that this seemingly unstructured work both describes and functions as spiritual training.

Key text never before in English by central figure of the Negritude movement.

A comprehensive history of bilateral relations between the Netherlands and the United States.

Explores the relationship between disciplinarity and contemporary ethics of scholarship about the Holocaust.

A collection of works by nineteenth-century Russian religious philosopher V. S. Soloviev, critic of secularization, anti-Semitism, and the religious life of his time.

Examines Jean-Paul Sartre’s antiracist politics and his contributions to critical race theories, postcolonialism, and Africana existentialism.

Discusses the historical development of the well-loved story of the Prophet Muhammad’s night journey to the divine realm and back again.

The definitive scholarly edition and new translation of all three versions of Hölderlin’s poem, The Death of Empedocles, and his related theoretical essays.

Argues that the responsibility for eradicating racial hatred has been redirected away from the state and toward the hated, leaving the causes of hate unaddressed.

A sustained philosophical engagement with significant and creative French interpreters of Heidegger.

Encourages a deep reading of a selection of essential Spanish films.

The influence of photography and visual culture on the French poet, journalist, and critic.

Examines the social and cultural integration of Russian-speaking Jews and Germans who immigrated to their respective historic homelands.

Explores the work of Anne Conway, whose philosophy of the natural world incorporated a spiritual vision.

Examines the body in literature and science in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe.

Examines radical and messianic movements in Israel seeking to rebuild the Third Temple in Jerusalem.

Overturns traditional views of the origins of fairy tales and documents their actual origins and transmission.

Explores the spiritual vision of Van Gogh’s painting The Night Café.

A groundbreaking collection of forty-two Israeli poetic voices protesting the occupation of the West Bank.

Traces the rise of black participation in cyberspace.

Compelling stories and striking photographs illustrate the challenges and highlights of Latino/a life in Portland, Maine.

Turns a spotlight on the Victorian love affair with Scotland.

Analyzes initiatives aimed at reforming the electoral and government systems of Israel in comparison to other established democracies.

How Victorians reacted to the new sciences of geology and archaeology.

How cholera epidemics affected Victorian perceptions of the body and the nation.

Examines fantasies of charismatic, virile leaders in British literature from the 1790s to the 1840s.

From explorers’ accounts to boys’ adventure fiction, how Arctic exploration served as a metaphor for nation-building and empire in nineteenth-century Britain.

Argues for new water policies in the Nile River Basin.

Offers a detailed picture of the lives of Cuban Americans through interviews with artists, writers, and philosophers.

Anthropological case studies of the interplay of space, culture, and power in Iberia since 1850.

Argues there is a program of five-word utterances that imitate fallen language in Dante’s Commedia.

In Boccacio's Decameron, Cervigni sees a parodic echo of the circles of Dante's Divine Comedy, and asks whether Bocaccio envisions the voyage of the brigata as similar to Dante the Pilgrim's journey toward the center, first the abysmal center of Lucifer, then towards the highest center, God.

Selections from twenty-seven Hebrew poets, many of whose poems appear here in English for the first time.

Essays on various facets of Nursi’s spirituality as portrayed in his Risale-i Nur.

Traces the dialectical connections between Zionism’s past and present.

Explores the philosophical contributions and contemporary relevance of early German Romanticism.

Internationally renowned scholars address the Cuban diaspora from multiple perspectives and locations.

A biographical/narrative study of oppression, racism, and resistance in twentieth-century South Africa through the life of Richard Dudley, a teacher/politico.

Fictional narrative of a young girl’s experiences at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.

Draws connections between the life and writings of philosopher Sarah Kofman.

Looks at the language of rights used by diverse interest groups in British-colonized Nigeria.

Examines the transitions to democracy in Africa.

Provocative essays on language, literature, and the aesthetics of embodiment.

Schelling’s masterpiece investigating evil and freedom.

Looks at how various factions used the tradition that scholars were the “heirs of the Prophet” during the classical period of Islam (570–1258 CE).

The first complete study of Gide’s neglected wartime writings.

The first English translation of one of George Sand’s major novels.

Critical reevaluation of the concept of hybridity within postcolonial studies.

Philosophical reflections on the phenomenon of globalization.

Classic history of Ancient Ethiopia, as researched and written by a heralded African American woman activist.

Examines early Kurdish nationalism within the context of the demise of the Ottoman Empire.

Examines the experiences of women activists of the Islamist Refah (Welfare) party in Turkey.

Examines nineteenth-century scientists’ obsession with nerves and the nervous system.

Examines the image of Israel in American culture before 1960.

Addresses the implications of a document found in the Archivio di Stato di Siena which affirms a connection between Farinata degli Uberti, a Florentine conspicuously encountered by Dante the pilgrim in Inferno 10, and the Sienese Ghibellines with whom he and his fellow Florentine Ghibellines joined, in an alliance which produced the Sienese victory at the battle of Montaperti in 1260.

Offers a rare glimpse into schools in contemporary Egypt.

This first-of-its-kind volume bridges Chicana/Latina feminist perspectives with education and offers innovative ideas on teaching and learning, and ways of knowing.

Argues that women's relationship to books and their promotion of reading contributed greatly to the cultural and intellectual vitality of the Enlightenment.

Explains how the Jordanian monarchy has survived economic crisis and regional political instability.

Explores the limits of economic liberalization within the European Union.

A fascinating exploration of how the transcendent is expressed in the spatial sensibility of premodern Islam.

Examines the backpacking trip usually taken by Israeli youth following military service.

Examines how national interest groups respond to the international pressures of globalization.

Explores the unique and volatile relationship of these two nations and cultures over the past two centuries, as expressed in literature, film, and philosophy.

Examines Brecht's use of the theatre as a public arena for political change.

Explores the role of a significant yet elusive feature of the French landscape in literature, philosophy, and art.

The history of Turkey's difficult transition to a multi-party political system.

Selected letters from Juliette Drouet to her lover, Victor Hugo, offering insights into nineteenth-century French culture as well as an insider’s look at the character, behavior, working habits, and day-to-day life of France’s most monumental man of letters.

Uses a social-psychoanalytic model to argue that collective identity shapes foreign policy changes.

Challenges conventional assumptions about how international rivals form trusting relationships.

The first comparative study of two major Jewish labor movements.

Explores the link between mathematics and ontology.

Charts new trends in gender studies through a compelling analysis of Igbo society.

Using the original, little-known writings of Sufis Muhammad and 'Ali Wafa', this book explores the development of the idea of Islamic sainthood in the post-Ibn 'Arabi period.

Examines how Israel was caught by surprise in the opening stages of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

An introduction to Badiou's philosophical thought and its implications for other humanistic disciplines and the social sciences.

A biography of the prominent Turkish theologian and thinker.

Challenges existing views of crafts and service workers in Egypt in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Looks at how foreigners were regarded in three ancient civilizations, finding that cultural, not biophysical, differences were key in distinguishing "us" from "them. "

Argues that the analysis of movement and its correlative procession in the Divine Comedy is fundamental to an understanding of how Dante generates meaning in his poetic text.

Exposes the cultural roots of Spanish fascism.

Interrogates the "writing back to the center" approach to intertextuality and explores alternatives to it.

Essays on the experience of lesbians in contemporary Israeli society.

Traces how progressive liberals in Edwardian Britain responded to contemporary intellectual trends.