In Lost Tribes and Promised Lands, celebrated historian and cultural critic Ronald Sanders offers a compelling and ideology-shattering history of racial prejudice and myth as shaped by political, reli
From the late nineteenth century through the post-Holocaust era, the world was divided between countries that tried to expel their Jewish populations and those that refused to let them in. The plight
This book looks at the African diasporas as a process characterized by identity transformations, lived experiences, and realities; including the capturing of the historical trends that are acted out i
A common thread in this book is the depiction of the African diasporas not only as a cultural epiphenomena (or interlocking communities), but also as a process characterized by identity transformation
A reference for students of American West culture moves beyond debates between "old" and "new" Western historians to address universal issues, sharing insights into the intersection between history an
"That more than a score of writers---seasoned veterans and relative newcomers to the literary scene---have produced a volume of short stories struggling and playing with the themes of Jewishness in Am
“Popular culture stories—found in comic strips, TV programs, magazines, and movies—gain their popularity by evoking our desires and anxieties. Aden offers a well-construc
This book is an innovative attempt by a leading film theorist to locate cinema--from the earliest experiments, via the work of Federico Fellini, Alfred Hitchcock, Roberto Rossellini, Orson Welles and
They were, in the words of one contemporary observer, "the Promised Lands." In all of Europe, only Northern Italy could rival the economic power and cultural wealth of the Low Countries in the later M
'No, no, I've got your word for it, I've got to die ... you promised me ... you told me ...' Turgenev's accounts of hunting in rural Russia, and the extraordinary characters he meets there. Introducin
John Leonard, “the fastest wit in the East” (The New York Times Book Review), is back with the offbeat, wide-ranging style that earned his last book, When the Kissing Had to Stop, a place
In 1844 the New Brunswick government passed an act allowing it to sell reserve lands promised to the Mi’kmaq and Maliseet in order to deal with the growing problem of squatters on Aboriginal land. Bri
Brice Fitzwilliam is finally paid his due: awarded the title and lands of Thaxted, the warrior waits to claim his promised virgin bride!But Gillian of Thaxted will be no man's prize! She will not sub
Poetry. TOMORROWLAND is a book-length poem of bodily transit and colonial forgetting. Its names and events perpetually arrive in a new world, whose versions here combine promised lands and historical
Before the Second World War, two golden "promised lands" beckoned the thousands of Baghdadi Jews who lived in Southeast Asia: the British Empire, on which "the sun never set," and the promised land of
