Area Studies
African Fiction and Joseph Conrad
Interrogates the "writing back to the center" approach to intertextuality and explores alternatives to it.
Quixotism
Exposes the cultural roots of Spanish fascism.
Sappho in the Holy Land
Essays on the experience of lesbians in contemporary Israeli society.
Margins of Disorder
Traces how progressive liberals in Edwardian Britain responded to contemporary intellectual trends.
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.
The Best of All Possible Islands
Uses the world's fair of 1992 to spotlight changes in the political cultures of Spain and Europe.
Lacan in the German-Speaking World
Addresses Lacan's reception in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, offering new perspectives for American readers.
Deleuze's Wake
Focuses on Deleuze's style, his conception of the self, and his understanding of philosophy's relationship to the arts.
Race, Ethnicity, and the Politics of City Redistricting
Nationwide study of the proposal and adoption of minority-opportunity districts at the local level.
Shattered Vessels
The first book-length study of the Israeli novelist David Shahar.
Mapping the Victorian Social Body
Explores how medical and social maps helped shape modern perceptions of space.
Dante the Book Glutton, or, Food for Thought from Italian Poets
Explores Dante’s love of books.
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.
Africa Through Ghanaian Lenses
A collection of lectures delivered during the Fulbright Hays Scholar program in Ghana.
Borders of a Lip
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.
Bored to Distraction
Examines how recent Mexican and Spanish films act as untroubling distractions from everyday routines.
Women in the Yoruba Religious Sphere
An exploration of gender and power relations in Yoruba religion—both Christianity and Yoruba traditional religion.
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.
Romantic Science
Uncovers the vital role that new scientific discoveries played in Romantic literary culture.
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.
The Nature of the Early Ottoman State
A revisionist interpretation of the early origins of the Ottoman Empire.
Family History in the Middle East
Challenges conventional assumptions about the family and the modern Middle East.
Revolutionaries and Reformers
Looks at Islamist movements seeking power today, and the difficult choices they face.
Israel on the Couch
Applies clinical pyschology to explain the dynamics of the Middle East peace process.
Ideology, Party Change, and Electoral Campaigns in Israel, 1965-2001
Explores the turbulent changes in Israel party politics since the mid-1960s.
Traditions and Transitions in Israel Studies
Introduces the cutting edge issues and current scholarship in the interdisciplinary field of Israel Studies.
Despotic Bodies and Transgressive Bodies
Examines crucial moments of transition in Spanish culture and society during both dictatorship and democracy.
Political Identity and Social Change
Explores issues of political identity and the social changes that ended apartheid in South Africa.
Living Forms
Examines Romantic poets’ and essayists’ fascination with the human form.
Imagined Londons
Explores the various representations and imaginations of London in literature and popular culture, from Victorian times to the present day.
Feast and Folly
Treats French cuisine as a "fine art," offering both historical background as well as a deep analysis of the social, political, and aesthetic aspects of cuisine and taste.
The Church of Solitude
A translation of Grazia Deledda's final novel, an autobiographically based portrayal of an Italian woman coming to terms with breast cancer at the cusp of the twentieth century.
Body of Text
Reconstructs the formative debates concerning ritual purity in Islamic law and practice.
The Medieval French Alexander
Explores the significance of Alexander the Great in French medieval literature and culture.
The Abyss Above
Uses the figure of the mad poet to explore the connections between madness and creativity.
Constructing Ottoman Beneficence
Presents the political, social, and cultural context behind Ottoman charity.
On the Edge of Empire
Explores the social and political history of the Qu`ayti and Kathiri sultanates of Hadhramawt during their gradual incorporation into the British Empire.
The Occupation of Justice
A critical examination of the decisions of the Supreme Court of Israel in cases relating to the Occupied Territories.
The Arab-Israeli Conflict Transformed
Makes the perhaps surprising argument that in the last quarter of the twentieth century the Arab-Israeli conflict has been winding down.
The Elections in Israel 1999
Considers the impact of the 1999 Israeli elections.
The Melting Pot in Israel
Covers early Israeli education policy regarding immigrant populations.
Somber Lust
A comprehensive study of Israel’s most internationally celebrated writer.
Policy Making at the Margins of Government
Traces the almost century-long struggle between Israel's largest healthcare provider, Kupat Holim, and successive Israeli governments.
Social Constructions of Nationalism in the Middle East
A comparative analysis of the social and cultural dimensions of nationalism in the Middle East.
Social Change in Iran
A multi-level insider's look at the changes transforming contemporary Iran.
The Rise of Surrealism
Examines the developments that paved the way for the Surrealist movement in literature and art.
Constitutions in a Nonconstitutional World
Uses the Arab experience to explain the appeal of constitutional documents to authoritarian political regimes.
Romancing the Cathedral
Through an analysis of political, art historical, and literary discourse, this book considers French fascination with the Gothic cathedral.
Whiteness Just Isn't What It Used To Be
Narratively explores how the changes in South Africa's social and political structure are changing the white population's identity and sense of self.
Israeli Planners and Designers
In their own words, the stories of the men and women who are the planners, architects, community organizers--the hidden builders--of the modern state of Israel.
A Comparative Political Economy of Tunisia and Morocco
Examines how rising economic integration with Europe impacts Tunisia and Morocco.
The Palestinian-Arab Minority in Israel, 1948-2000
Examines the difficulties of Palestinian-Arab political life in Israel.
Through the Lens of Israel
Essays on the formation of Israeli state and society during the twentieth century.
Conceptions of Postwar German Masculinity
Examines masculinity in German culture, society, and literature from 1945 to the present.
When Poetry Ruled the Streets
Offers a complete survey of the French May Events of 1968 through narrative, analysis, and documents.
The Films of Harold Pinter
Examines the screenplays of the master British dramatist and screenwriter Harold Pinter.
Memory and Mastery
Interdisciplinary explorations into the work of one of the premier writer-survivors of the Holocaust.
White Banners
Examines the fall of the Syrian Umayyad caliphate and the rise of the 'Abbasid state, predominantly from the view of the local inhabitants of medieval Syria.
On the Study of Greek Poetry
Available for the first time in English, this study offers insights into the genesis of German Romanticism.
Shiʿite Heritage
Explores Western and Muslim scholarship on multiple aspects of the Twelver Shi’ite tradition.
Dante Between Philosophers and Theologians: Paradiso X - XIII
Raises the radical question of how Dante’s understanding of poetry shaped his theology, his ethics, and, more generally his sense of the organization of knowledge or encyclopedia.
Islamic Legends Concerning Alexander the Great
English translation and introductory study of a previously unedited Hispano-Arabic legend of Alexander the Great.
Desire and Death, or Francesca and Guido Cavalcanti: Inferno 5 in Its Lyric Context
Explores the lyric context of Inferno 5.
Zayas and Her Sisters, 2
A collection of essays on the novelist María de Zayas and other seventeenth century Spanish women writers.
Totems for Defence and Illustration of Taboo: Sites of Petrarchism in Renaissance Europe
Argues that critical comments appended to early printed editions of Petrarch’s Rime sparse inflected the reception and understanding of Petrarch’s vernacular poetry in Renaissance Europe.
The Breaking of a Thousand Swords
A portrait of the Samarran Turk community while in the employ of the 'Abbasid caliphate during the ninth century.
On Other Grounds
Examines eighteenth-century French and English landscape gardens as representations of nationalist expression.
The Management of Islamic Activism
Shows how the laws governing civil society are used to regulate Islamic activism in Jordan.
The Peppers, Cracklings, and Knots of Wool Cookbook
A groundbreaking treatment of heritage survival in African and African American cooking.
La Valse and Foreign
Ten short stories and a dramatic monologue by one of contemporary Austria's most important and provocative writers.
Structures of Desire
Examines the cultural, historical, and ideological factors influencing British cinema during World War II and the postwar years, with attention to male-female relationships as well as to utopian desires for a better postwar world.
A Learned Society in a Period of Transition
Addresses the social significance of orthodox Islam during the medieval period in Baghdad.
Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light
The first study in English of Islamic thought in China, this book shows that this tradition was informed by both Sufism and Neo-Confucianism; translations of two classic works are included.
Mosul before Iraq
Using original source documents, this book portrays nineteenth-century Mosul--a large city currently in Iraq's "no-fly" zone.
French Cultural Studies
Addresses the theoretical and pedagogical implications of redefining French Studies as an interdisciplinary field, while providing practical examples of the kind of criticism that such a shift would entail.
The Military and Militarism in Israeli Society
Investigates the cultural and social constructions of issues related to war, the armed forces, and national security in Israel.
Constructing Boundaries
An interdisciplinary study discussing the impact of the national crisis in Mandatory Palestine on relations between Jewish and Arab workers and their respective labor movements.
Image and Imperialism in the Ottoman Revolutionary Press, 1908-1911
An illustrated work focusing on the ways in which satirical publications revealed evolution in Ottoman society.
Review Essays in Israel Studies
Introduces the cutting edge issues and current scholarship in the interdisciplinary field of Israel Studies.
Advances in African Linguistics
A selection of papers presented at the 28th Annual Conference on African Linguistics.
This Is No Place for a Woman
Surveys the works of three important female writers of postcolonial societies.
Hardened Images
Examines the nature of the interplay between the U. S. press and the American state on Africa, with a special focus on its armed struggles waged to complete the decolonization process.
Consumption Studies and the History of the Ottoman Empire, 1550-1922
An innovative application of consumption studies to the field of Ottoman history.
Figuring the East
Examines the ambiguous constructions of the Orient in the works of four major twentieth-century French writers.
Valentin Weigel (1533-1588)
This first English-language consideration of Valentin Weigel, an important but neglected figure in German intellectual history, examines his life and his writings on tolerance.
Turmoil in the Middle East
Berch Berberoglu examines the dynamic social forces and political turmoil that plague the contemporary Middle East.
The History of al-Ṭabarī Vol. 5
This volume of al-Tabari’s History provides the most complete and detailed historical source for the Persian empire of the Sasanids, whose four centuries of rule were one of the most glorious periods in Persia’s long history.
Subtractive Schooling
Provides an enhanced sense of what’s required to genuinely care for and educate the U. S.–Mexican youth in America.
Adorno's Nietzschean Narratives
Investigates the intellectual affinities of Adorno and Nietzsche, culminating in a discussion of their readings of Wagner, who serves as a medium and supplement for their critiques of modern culture.
Economic Interdependence in Ukrainian-Russian Relations
Explores the emerging political economy of the former Soviet Union.
The Elections in Israel 1996
Leading American and Israeli social scientists discuss the precedent-setting events of Israel’s 1996 elections.
Reading with Michel Serres
Explores the concept of time in the work of Michel Serres, demonstrating close analogies in his work to the discourses of science, literature, and philosophy.
All in the Family
A new and provocative argument about monarchism in the Middle East.
Birth of a National Icon
Examines the rise of the intellectual in fin-de-siecle France, setting this important phenomenon against the backdrop of an emerging mass democracy and concentrating on the key role played by the avant-garde.
Dialogue, Conflict Resolution, and Change
Explores Arab-Jewish encounters and relations in Israel from both conflict resolution and educational perspectives.
The French Connections of Jacques Derrida
Addresses for the first time the issue of Derrida's relation to French poetics, writing, thought, and culture.