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

Exposes the cultural roots of Spanish fascism.

Essays on the experience of lesbians in contemporary Israeli society.

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

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.

Uses the world's fair of 1992 to spotlight changes in the political cultures of Spain and Europe.

Addresses Lacan's reception in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, offering new perspectives for American readers.

Focuses on Deleuze's style, his conception of the self, and his understanding of philosophy's relationship to the arts.

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

The first book-length study of the Israeli novelist David Shahar.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Uncovers the vital role that new scientific discoveries played in Romantic literary culture.

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.

A revisionist interpretation of the early origins of the Ottoman Empire.

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

Looks at Islamist movements seeking power today, and the difficult choices they face.

Applies clinical pyschology to explain the dynamics of the Middle East peace process.

Explores the turbulent changes in Israel party politics since the mid-1960s.

Introduces the cutting edge issues and current scholarship in the interdisciplinary field of Israel Studies.

Examines crucial moments of transition in Spanish culture and society during both dictatorship and democracy.

Explores issues of political identity and the social changes that ended apartheid in South Africa.

Examines Romantic poets’ and essayists’ fascination with the human form.

Explores the various representations and imaginations of London in literature and popular culture, from Victorian times to the present day.

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.

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.

Reconstructs the formative debates concerning ritual purity in Islamic law and practice.

Explores the significance of Alexander the Great in French medieval literature and culture.

Uses the figure of the mad poet to explore the connections between madness and creativity.

Presents the political, social, and cultural context behind Ottoman charity.

Explores the social and political history of the Qu`ayti and Kathiri sultanates of Hadhramawt during their gradual incorporation into the British Empire.

A critical examination of the decisions of the Supreme Court of Israel in cases relating to the Occupied Territories.

Makes the perhaps surprising argument that in the last quarter of the twentieth century the Arab-Israeli conflict has been winding down.

Considers the impact of the 1999 Israeli elections.

Covers early Israeli education policy regarding immigrant populations.

A comprehensive study of Israel’s most internationally celebrated writer.

Traces the almost century-long struggle between Israel's largest healthcare provider, Kupat Holim, and successive Israeli governments.

A comparative analysis of the social and cultural dimensions of nationalism in the Middle East.

A multi-level insider's look at the changes transforming contemporary Iran.

Examines the developments that paved the way for the Surrealist movement in literature and art.

Uses the Arab experience to explain the appeal of constitutional documents to authoritarian political regimes.

Through an analysis of political, art historical, and literary discourse, this book considers French fascination with the Gothic cathedral.

Narratively explores how the changes in South Africa's social and political structure are changing the white population's identity and sense of self.

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.

Examines how rising economic integration with Europe impacts Tunisia and Morocco.

Examines the difficulties of Palestinian-Arab political life in Israel.

Essays on the formation of Israeli state and society during the twentieth century.

Examines masculinity in German culture, society, and literature from 1945 to the present.

Offers a complete survey of the French May Events of 1968 through narrative, analysis, and documents.

Examines the screenplays of the master British dramatist and screenwriter Harold Pinter.

Interdisciplinary explorations into the work of one of the premier writer-survivors of the Holocaust.

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.

Available for the first time in English, this study offers insights into the genesis of German Romanticism.

Explores Western and Muslim scholarship on multiple aspects of the Twelver Shi’ite tradition.

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.

English translation and introductory study of a previously unedited Hispano-Arabic legend of Alexander the Great.

Explores the lyric context of Inferno 5.

A collection of essays on the novelist María de Zayas and other seventeenth century Spanish women writers.

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.

A portrait of the Samarran Turk community while in the employ of the 'Abbasid caliphate during the ninth century.

Examines eighteenth-century French and English landscape gardens as representations of nationalist expression.

Shows how the laws governing civil society are used to regulate Islamic activism in Jordan.

A groundbreaking treatment of heritage survival in African and African American cooking.

Ten short stories and a dramatic monologue by one of contemporary Austria's most important and provocative writers.

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.

Addresses the social significance of orthodox Islam during the medieval period in Baghdad.

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.

Using original source documents, this book portrays nineteenth-century Mosul--a large city currently in Iraq's "no-fly" zone.

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.

Investigates the cultural and social constructions of issues related to war, the armed forces, and national security in Israel.

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.

An illustrated work focusing on the ways in which satirical publications revealed evolution in Ottoman society.

Introduces the cutting edge issues and current scholarship in the interdisciplinary field of Israel Studies.

A selection of papers presented at the 28th Annual Conference on African Linguistics.

Surveys the works of three important female writers of postcolonial societies.

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.

An innovative application of consumption studies to the field of Ottoman history.

Examines the ambiguous constructions of the Orient in the works of four major twentieth-century French writers.

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.

Berch Berberoglu examines the dynamic social forces and political turmoil that plague the contemporary Middle East.

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.

Provides an enhanced sense of what’s required to genuinely care for and educate the U. S.–Mexican youth in America.

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.

Explores the emerging political economy of the former Soviet Union.

Leading American and Israeli social scientists discuss the precedent-setting events of Israel’s 1996 elections.

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.

A new and provocative argument about monarchism in the Middle East.

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.

Explores Arab-Jewish encounters and relations in Israel from both conflict resolution and educational perspectives.

Addresses for the first time the issue of Derrida's relation to French poetics, writing, thought, and culture.