Food and its preparation play an integral role in this novel of a young Italian woman struggling to find her own identity in a family of strong personalities and colorful figures.

Examines Victorian conceptions of home and identity by looking at portrayals and accounts of middle-class emigration to Australia.

Examines the relationship of precarious employment to state policies on citizenship and social inclusion in the context of postapartheid South Africa.

Second edition of the provocative study analyzing the social, cultural, and historical roots of modern Libya.

Inspiring portraits of contemporary African women leaders.

An introduction to four Western figures influenced by Sufism who wrote about an "inner," esoteric Islam.

A searching study of Eliphas Lévi and the French occult revival.

Examines the interplay between reading and writing in the works of Petrarch and Dante.

A journey into Albany’s historic past and the city’s role in three pivotal historical narratives: the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the construction of the Erie Canal.

Groundbreaking essays by Palestinian women scholars on the lives of Palestinians within the state of Israel.

Ethnographic study of textile factory workers in Alexandria, Egypt.

Examines how Israeli society has commemorated Yitzhak Rabin.

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.