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Originally published by the University Press of New England under the title Confronting the Nation: Jewish and Western Nationalism, copyright ?993 by Trustees of Brandeis University.Author: George...

In the wake of anticolonial struggles and amid the two world wars, twentieth-century Southeast Asia churned with new political, cultural, and intellectual realities. Liberal democracies flourished...

Russia is a large, diverse, and complicated country whose far-flung regions maintain their own histories and cultures, even as President Vladimir Putin increases his political control. Powerful,...

In fourteen essays that speak to the full breadth of George L. Mosse's intellectual horizons and scholarly legacy, Masses and Man explores radical nationalism, fascism, and Jewish modernity in...

The Metamorphoses, written by the Roman poet Ovid, has fascinated readers ever since it was written in the first century CE, and here Celia M. Campbell offers a bold new interpretive approach...

William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was one of the most prominent and productive authors of the twentieth century--and his works have been among the most cinematically transformed in history. For...

Imperial Rome privileged the elite male citizen as one of sound mind and body, superior in all ways to women, noncitizens, and nonhumans. One of the markers of his superiority was the power of his...

English translation of six essays which originally appeared in the Danish journal Tilskueren (The Observer), between August 1889 and May 1890.Author: GEORG. HFFDING BRANDES (HARALD.), Harald...

Postcolonialism, the politics of ethnic and religious identity, and the role of women in African society and politics have become important, and often connected, foci in African studies. Here,...

What might it mean to take the dead seriously as political actors? asks Lia Kent in this exciting new contribution to critical human rights scholarship. In Timor-Leste, a new nation-state that...

Religion is deeply embedded in American history, and one cannot understand American history's broad dynamics without accounting for it. Without detailing the history of religions, teachers cannot...