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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.

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.

Global Environmentalism and Local Politics

Examines the internal politics of transnational environmental advocacy networks.

Women in the Yoruba Religious Sphere

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

A Tale of Two Factions

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

Bored to Distraction

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

Poverty and Charity in Middle Eastern Contexts

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

Five Comedies

Two full-length and three one-act plays, translated here for the first time into English.

The Nature of the Early Ottoman State

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

Revolutionaries and Reformers

Edited by Barry Rubin
Subjects: Area Studies

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.

Living Forms

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

Imagined Londons

Edited by Pamela K. Gilbert
Subjects: Area Studies

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

Aryans, Jews, Brahmins

Explores the construction of the Aryan myth and its uses in both India and Europe.

Brickyards to Graveyards

Explores how the conditions that shaped Rwanda's labor organization and industries also shaped Rwanda's genocide.

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.

The Public Sphere in Muslim Societies

Multidisciplinary examination of the public sphere in “traditional” Muslim society.

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.

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.

Mail-Orders

Explores contemporary uses of letters and letter writing—including electronic mail—in literature, film, and art.

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.

The Norms of Answerability

By Greg M. Nielsen
Foreword by Caryl Emerson
Subjects: Area Studies

Explores the relevance of Bakhtin's thought to social theory.

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.

The Rise of Surrealism

By Willard Bohn
Subjects: Area Studies

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.

Ideology and Jewish Identity in Israeli and American Literature

Israeli and American critics debate what constitutes Jewish identity in modern Jewish literature.

Debating Islam in the Jewish State

Covers Israel's policy toward Islamic institutions within its borders, 1948-2000.

The Wisdom of the Mystic East

An expert on the thought of medieval Islamic philosopher Suhrawardi argues that philosophers have romanticized this work as a revival of “oriental” wisdom.

The Rhetoric of Sobriety

Explains the prohibition of alcohol in Islam using a wide range of materials from the early Islamic period.

The Palestinian-Arab Minority in Israel, 1948-2000

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

When Poetry Ruled the Streets

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

Conceptions of Postwar German Masculinity

Edited by Roy Jerome
Afterword by Michael S. Kimmel
Subjects: Area Studies

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

Memory and Mastery

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

The Films of Harold Pinter

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

Shiʿite Heritage

Edited and translated by L. Clarke
Subjects: Religion And Spirituality

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

Zayas and Her Sisters, 2

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

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

Edited and translated by Z. David Zuwiyya
Introduction by Z. David Zuwiyya
Subjects: Literature

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

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.

On Other Grounds

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

Merchants, Mamluks, and Murder

A historiography of Ottoman Basra, a trade center in the eighteenth century.

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.

The Management of Islamic Activism

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

African American Criminological Thought

Examines African American contributions, both historical and contemporary, to criminological thought.

The Peppers, Cracklings, and Knots of Wool Cookbook

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

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

By Sachiko Murata
Foreword by Tu Wei-ming
Subjects: Area Studies

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.

Negotiating Jerusalem

Explores the beliefs, attitudes, and values of ordinary Palestinians and Israeli Jews asking the question: Is it possible to reach a negotiated resolution to the Jerusalem question?

Mosul before Iraq

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

Selfish Gifts

By Lisa McNee
Subjects: Area Studies

Investigates the politics and poetics of women's gendered identity in West Africa.

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.

Advances in African Linguistics

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

This Is No Place for a Woman

By Joya Uraizee
Subjects: Area Studies

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

Hardened Images

By Asgede Hagos
Subjects: Area Studies

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

By Marie-Paule Ha
Subjects: Literature

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

Valentin Weigel (1533-1588)

By Andrew Weeks
Subjects: Area Studies

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 Leaven of the Ancients

Provides an account of Islamic philosopher Suhrawardi's revival of Neoplatonism.

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.

Leapfrogging Development?

Examines how developing countries have restructured their telecommunications in order to "leapfrog" or accelerate development.

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.

Simone Weil

Situates Weil’s writing within the French literary tradition, and recognizes her as a master stylist.

All in the Family

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

Birth of a National Icon

By Venita Datta
Subjects: Area Studies

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.

My Double Life

A translation of Ma Double Vie, the autobiography of the French actress Sarah Bernhardt, who was one of the classical theater's all-time greatest stars.

Melancholies of Knowledge

Scholars in the exact and social sciences join literary critics to consider the work of French author Michel Rio and to reflect on literature's place in intellectual discourse in an age dominated by science.

Constructing Spanish Womanhood

The first anthology in English on modern Spanish women's history and identity formation.

Delirium and Destiny

Written by one of twentieth-century Spain's most prominent intellectuals, this book--part memoir, part lyrical novel--is both a Bildungsroman about a young woman's intellectual formation during a crucial period of Spanish history (1929-1931) and a philosophical meditation upon the individual's place in society.

Dante and Petrarch: The Earthly Paradise Revisited

Explores the nature and significance of Petrarch’s indebtedness to Dante in the Rime sparse.

The Politics of International Health

Presents the history of the Children's Vaccine Initiative, examining its successes and failures in promoting the development of both new and improved vaccines for the Third World.

Countdown to Statehood

A study of Palestinian state formation in comparison to Zionist experiences.

Crime and Criminal Justice in Israel

Offers insights into the criminal justice system and the field of criminology in Israel.

France on Display

Explores national identity in twentieth-century France.

Images of Women in Maharashtrian Society

Edited by Anne Feldhaus
Subjects: Area Studies

Explores the conditions of women's lives in the modern state and traditional region of Maharashtra.