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.

Ethnographic study of textile factory workers in Alexandria, Egypt.

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

Examines the policy stances of two major Hispanic interest groups.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Argues for new water policies in the Nile River Basin.

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

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.

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

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

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

Argues that the rights of women in Muslim society are based on the preserved cultural standards of elites, not the ethical philosophy of the Quran.

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.

The first book about the only two Reform Movement kibbutzim in Israel.

Examines the transformative power of irony in the creation of Muslim Africa.

Examines cooperation and conflict over water in the Middle East.

Offers a sustained analysis of both high and low queer culture and its connections to cultural and political processes in Spain.

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.

Examines Russia’s energy policy with rival Eurasian supplier states from 1992 to 2002.

Examines the transitions to democracy in Africa.

Discusses the ideas of the most important living Muslim thinker and leader in contemporary Turkey.

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

Considers the role of Spiritualism in Victorian culture.

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).

Collecting all forty volumes of The History of al-Ṭabarī.

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.

Reflections on the enigma and secret of “literature.”

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Challenges conventional assumptions about how international rivals form trusting relationships.

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

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.

Examines the Góral, a little-studied ethnic group in Poland.

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

Provides the first sustained analysis of the collision between Marxism and nationalism in France at the time of the Dreyfus affair.

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.

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

Exposes the cultural roots of Spanish fascism.

A new translation of Sand's most popular novella, known for its brevity, liveliness, and exemplary storytelling, together with two of Sand's most admired short stories.

Nationwide study of the proposal and adoption of minority-opportunity districts at the local level.

Explores how medical and social maps helped shape modern perceptions of space.

A collection of lectures delivered during the Fulbright Hays Scholar program in Ghana.

Explores Dante’s love of books.

Addresses Jacoff’s own discomfort with Dante’s reiteration of the deicide charge against the Jews in Paradiso 7 and elsewhere.

Explores the role of language, history, and politics in Romantic literature and thought, from Kant to Yeats.

Examines the role of the theatre in Paris during the Nazi occupation.

Examines the internal politics of transnational environmental advocacy networks.

A scandalous bestseller of mid-nineteenth-century France, translated here for the first time into English.

Reevaluates the foundation myths of two rival factions in Egypt during the Ottoman era.

An exploration of gender and power relations in Yoruba religion—both Christianity and Yoruba traditional religion.

Examines how recent Mexican and Spanish films act as untroubling distractions from everyday routines.

A Russian émigré living in New York travels to Paris to try to reconstruct the secret life of another Russian woman who was murdered there on the eve of World War II.

Addresses the ideals and institutions through which Middle Eastern societies have confronted poverty and the poor.

An introduction to the thought of three major philosophers of twentieth-century Spain.

Sheds light on one of the most important religious thinkers in the modern Muslim world.

A detailed history of a small neighborhood community of Ottoman Istanbul.

Challenges conventional assumptions about the family and the modern Middle East.