An intellectual-political biography of Otto Heller, the most prominent and prolific communist theoretician of the Jewish question.

A critical interrogation of elements of Hobbes's political and natural philosophy and its capacity to enrich our understanding of the nature of democratic life.

Examines the deep roots of the American way of war.

Gripping account of the life of the Russian Tsar’s last chief of security and intelligence.

Examines the culture and chronology of increasingly complex urban societies in western Anatolia during the Early Bronze Age.

First translation into English of Fichte’s major work on the French Revolution.

Offers a powerful new interpretation of Engels’s contributions to modern social and political theory.

Assesses how America's film industry remembered World War I during the interwar period.

Combines personal accounts with insights from psychology to understand the continuing impact of Holocaust trauma in Lithuania.

An indispensable primary source in the history of Zionism.

Demonstrates how four books by dissident German intellectuals served as a rebuke to the Nazi regime.

Contrasts the experiences of German Jewish refugees from the Holocaust who fled to London and New York City.

Surveys how reunification in 1990 impacted historical scholarship in the former East Germany.

An eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and its aftermath, newly translated into English.

Tells the fascinating story of African American women who traveled to France to seek freedom of expression.

Uses historical case studies to illuminate women’s claims to emancipation and to sexual subjectivity during the tumultuous Wilhelmine and Weimar periods in Germany.

An interdisciplinary study of the rise of empirical observation in the Spanish arts and sciences as the principle vehicle for acquiring knowledge about the natural world.

A story of loss and survival.

Late eighteenth-century writings on race by Kant and four of his contemporaries.

Documents how energy resource acquisition has been the driving motivator for European and American international relations.

A historical investigation of the exclusion of Africa and Asia from modern histories of philosophy.

Examines the relationship between diverse iterations of Rosicrucianism and the philosophy of the Enlightenment.

An English translation of Biondo Flavio’s Italia Illustrata, with commentary.

Interviews with eighteen Jewish “hidden children” of France and Belgium, telling the story of their survival during World War II.

A comprehensive history of bilateral relations between the Netherlands and the United States.

Essays on Montesquieu and the influence of his thought from the eighteenth century to today.

Exposes the cultural roots of Spanish fascism.

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

Draws on the Bosnian situation to argue for a reconciliation between modernity and tradition.

Gleanings in Europe: The Rhine is an account of James Fenimore Cooper's travels in Europe at the time of the 1832 revolt in Paris, when he hoped General Lafayette would be declared President of France ...

In its determination to take absolute control, the Third Reich focused on the nation's youth, reserving for the schools the vital task of refashioning the German psyche. This book examines these propaganda ...

In nineteenth-century France, parents abandoned their children in overwhelming numbers—up to 20 percent of live births in the Parisian area. The infants were left at state-run homes and were then transferred ...

France (1837) was the third volume published in Cooper's Gleanings in Europe series, but first in the chronology of his European experience. Less sequential than his other travel narratives, France distills ...

Describing Italy as "the only region of the earth that I truly love," James Fenimore Cooper used the style of picturesque impressionism to convey his vision of Italy as the microcosm of an ordered and ...

A contemporaneous reviewer called James Fenimore Cooper's England "unquestionably the most searching and thoughtful, not TO say philosophical of any" of the books "published by an American on England." ...

The Prague Uprising of 1848 was part of the powerful series of revolutions that shook practically the entire European Continent as the middle classes and urban and rural workers pressed against the rule ...

In the summer of 1828 James Fenimore Cooper, his wife, and their five children set out from Paris for Switzerland, and Cooper wrote that he experienced a "glorious anticipation," for "a common-place converse ...