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.

Articulates a metaphysical position capable of rendering both science and religious experience simultaneously and mutually intelligible.

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

A historical and interpretive study of three aspects of Western esotericism from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.

A systematic study of Wang Bi's (226-249) commentary on the Laozi, this book provides the first systematic study of a Chinese commentator's scholarly craft and introduces a highly sophisticated Chinese way of reading the Taoist classic, one that differs greatly from Western interpretations.

Explores why the Christian basilica emerged.

The first comprehensive study of Ibn Sînâ’s Theodicy.

The first English edition and critical study of an anonymous thirteenth-century text about the disputations of a learned young woman with a series of wise men.

Analyzes the early presence of Franciscan monastic houses in Abruzzo in the thirteenth century.

Provides an in-depth introduction to the Christian theosophic tradition that began with Jacob Bo¬hme, bringing us into a startling new world of Christian experiential spirituality that is the Christian equivalent of Sufism and Kabbalism.

This diverse collection rethinks and reinvigorates the field of labor process.

Presents the first complete account of the thought of David Hartley, one of the most original minds of the eighteenth century.

Recounts the author’s experiences during the Holocaust, from the time of the Nazi invasion of Poland to the liberation of the Theresienstadt concentration camp by the Red Army in 1945.

Examines the celebrated case of Weirton, West Virginia where steelworkers and area residents fought to save a steelmill, community, and way of life.

Examines the career of the nation's most prominent liberal labor lawyer during a period of ascending labor power. Pressman was also one of the most prominent underground communists active in American political life from the early New Deal to the beginning of the Cold War.

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

Leading scholars in the field of religious studies show that scholasticism as a comparative category is useful in the analysis of a variety of religious and philosophical traditions and even in the task of cultural criticism.

An assessment of reason, being, and the good in a world fractured by the passage of the Holocaust.