European Studies
Knausgård and the Autofictional Novel
A probing, generative analysis of Knausgård’s My Struggle, with implications for our understanding of the novel form more broadly in the twenty-first century.
Poetics of the Local
Considers how Irish poets have drawn on discourses of locality to articulate new forms of place and belonging amid Ireland’s transforming global identity.
The Last Noble Gendarme
Gripping account of the life of the Russian Tsar’s last chief of security and intelligence.
Miraculous Realism
An authoritative study of this postsecular film movement from the French-Belgian border region that rose to prominence at the turn of the twenty-first century.
Fairy Tales Framed
Translations of the forewords and afterwords by original fairy tale authors and commentaries by their contemporaries, material that has not been widely published in English.
Four Centuries of Dutch-American Relations
A comprehensive history of bilateral relations between the Netherlands and the United States.
Mystery of The Night Café
Explores the spiritual vision of Van Gogh’s painting The Night Café.
Recasting Culture and Space in Iberian Contexts
Anthropological case studies of the interplay of space, culture, and power in Iberia since 1850.
Globalizing Interests
Examines how national interest groups respond to the international pressures of globalization.
States of Liberalization
Explores the limits of economic liberalization within the European Union.
The Best of All Possible Islands
Uses the world's fair of 1992 to spotlight changes in the political cultures of Spain and Europe.
The Myth of Mondragon
Shows how the creation of an idealized image of the Mondragon cooperatives is part of a new global ideology that promotes cooperative labor-management relations in order to discredit labor unions and working-class organizations.
Post-Theory, Games, and Discursive Resistance
This anthology of mixed-genre writings on East European political culture examines the aesthetic character of Eastern Europe before and after 1989, the beginning of a "post-totalitarian age. "
Becoming Women/Becoming Workers
This book traces the experiences of young French and Algerian women students in a Parisian vocational school—how they negotiate their class, gender, and ethnic/racial identities in relation to school, ...
Development of Class Structure in Eastern Europe
Emphasizing the development of class structure, this book is the first in English to describe the historical and social development of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Romania from medieval feudalism ...
Class, Politics, and Early Industrial Capitalism
Ronald Aminzade provides an original analysis of how the development of early industrial capitalism transformed the political landscape in mid-nineteenth-century France and gave rise to the revolutionary ...