Explains why military interventions with humanitarian goals consistently fail.

Explores the thought of Isaac Abarbanel, courtier-financier and important Jewish thinker at the turn of the sixteenth century, from the perspective of his negotiation with Jewish tradition.

Offers a fresh perspective on the origins of business unionism.

Lithographs by American painter George Bellows, depicting the horrors and atrocities of World War I.

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 representations of women and femininity in Old English poetry and prose.

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

Argues that the political party remains an institution whose primary purpose is to allow elites to coordinate their activities in the political area.

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.

Attempts to comprehend the traumatic significance of Hiroshima in order to construct a new theory of history.

Places contemporary minimum wage debates in historical context, stressing the importance of political as opposed to economic variables.

A thorough analysis of the religious and ethnic identification of America's Jewish baby boomers.

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.

Argues that academics’ intellectual engagement with a public beyond the walls of their own specialties, and even beyond the walls of the academy, was long a commonplace and significant part of the work of professors and writers in the humanities.

Explores the lyric context of Inferno 5.

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.

Demonstrates the systematic connection between Kant's ethics and his philosophy of history.

A critical examination of the rise of national history in early-twentieth-century China.

An anthology of nineteenth-century literature about medicine and medical issues.

Presents an original and provocative argument about poverty policy in the United States.

Examines the impact of the Hundred Years' War on French and English literature of the period, revealing the ways in which history influences literature and literature intervenes in history.

Argues that history is written from the present tense, meaning that its purpose is to construct convincing political arguments about who or what caused a current problem and how that problem should be addressed.

Contextualizes the "Science Wars" from interdisciplinary sociological, historical, scientific, political, and cultural perspectives.

Looks at the forging of a new Jewish political culture at the turn of the century.

Offers historical and philosophical arguments for treating the humanities as sciences.