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Birth and Death of the Housewife

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.

Shop Floor Culture and Politics in Egypt

Ethnographic study of textile factory workers in Alexandria, Egypt.

The Lebanese Army

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

Literary Remains

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

Nahum Goldmann

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

Who Speaks for Hispanics?

Examines the policy stances of two major Hispanic interest groups.

Byromania and the Birth of Celebrity Culture

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

Foreign Workers in Israel

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

Contending Nationalisms of Oromia and Ethiopia

By Asafa Jalata
Subjects: Area Studies

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

Rūmī's Mystical Design

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

Beyond Negritude

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

Four Centuries of Dutch-American Relations

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

Disciplining the Holocaust

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

Anxious Anatomy

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

Coming Home

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

The Legacy of Anne Conway (1631-1679)

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

The Death of Empedocles

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

Burning Darkness

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

Freedom, Faith, and Dogma

By V. S. Soloviev
Edited and translated by Vladimir Wozniuk
Introduction by Vladimir Wozniuk
Subjects: Religion And Spirituality

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.

Governing Hate and Race in the United States and South Africa

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.

Frameworks for Mallarmé

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

Narrating Muḥammad's Night Journey

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

Jewish Fundamentalism and the Temple Mount

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

Fairy Tales

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

With an Iron Pen

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

Digital Diaspora

Traces the rise of black participation in cyberspace.

Latino Voices in New England

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

The Mighty Scot

Turns a spotlight on the Victorian love affair with Scotland.

Excavating Victorians

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

Manly Leaders in Nineteenth-Century British Literature

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

Identity, Memory, and Diaspora

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

Recasting Culture and Space in Iberian Contexts

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

The Politics of Regime Structure Reform in Democracies

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

White Horizon

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

Cholera and Nation

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

Contesting Justice

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.

Dante and Paul's "Five Words with Understanding"

By Robert Hollander
Subjects: History

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

From Divine to Human: Dante's Circle vs. Boccaccio's Parodic Centers

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.

Poets on the Edge

Edited and translated by Tsipi Keller
Introduction by Aminadav Dykman
Subjects: General Interest
Series: SUNY series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture

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

Spiritual Dimensions of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi's Risale-I Nur

Edited by Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi'
Introduction by Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi'
Subjects: Area Studies

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

Zion in the Desert

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

Of Irony and Empire

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

Cooperating Rivals

Examines cooperation and conflict over water in the Middle East.

Queer Transitions in Contemporary Spanish Culture

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

Cuba

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

Teacher and Comrade

By Alan Wieder
Subjects: Education

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

The Ravine

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

Well-Oiled Diplomacy

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

Transitions and Consolidation of Democracy in Africa

Examines the transitions to democracy in Africa.

Contemporary Islamic Conversations

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

Such a Deathly Desire

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

Altered States

Considers the role of Spiritualism in Victorian culture.

The Heirs of the Prophet

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).

Set - History of al-Ṭabarī

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

André Gide and the Second World War

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

Valvèdre

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

Hybridity

Critical reevaluation of the concept of hybridity within postcolonial studies.

The Creation of the World or Globalization

Philosophical reflections on the phenomenon of globalization.

A Voice from Elsewhere

Reflections on the enigma and secret of “literature.”

Rethinking Islam and Liberal Democracy

By Yeşim Arat
Subjects: Area Studies

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

Kurdish Notables and the Ottoman State

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

Nervous Conditions

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

Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire

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

Dante from Two Perspectives: The Sienese Connection

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.

Cultures of Arab Schooling

Offers a rare glimpse into schools in contemporary Egypt.

Cosmology and Architecture in Premodern Islam

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

Staging History

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

The Wind and the Source

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

Institutions and the Politics of Survival in Jordan

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

Building Trust

Challenges conventional assumptions about how international rivals form trusting relationships.

Rhine Crossings

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

My Beloved Toto

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.

Being Goral

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

Globalizing Interests

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

Marxism and National Identity

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

Family Matters

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

Sanctity and Mysticism in Medieval Egypt

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.

The Watchman Fell Asleep

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

The Striking Cabbies of Cairo and Other Stories

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

The Devil's Pool and Other Stories

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.

Race, Ethnicity, and the Politics of City Redistricting

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

Mapping the Victorian Social Body

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

Africa Through Ghanaian Lenses

Edited by Samuel E. Quainoo
Subjects: Area Studies

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

Dante and the Jewish Question

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

Borders of a Lip

By Jan Plug
Subjects: Area Studies

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

The Drama of Fallen France

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

Global Environmentalism and Local Politics

Examines the internal politics of transnational environmental advocacy networks.

Nelida

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

A Tale of Two Factions

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

Women in the Yoruba Religious Sphere

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

Bored to Distraction

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

Ninochka

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.

Poverty and Charity in Middle Eastern Contexts

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

Three Spanish Philosophers

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

Islam at the Crossroads

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

A Neighborhood in Ottoman Istanbul

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

Family History in the Middle East

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