Many peace organizations were founded during the outbreak of World War I in the United States. But a league founded solely by women was nonexistent. In 1915, women from thirteen countries met in The H
This volume details the modernization of marriage and marital relations (as well as how gender impacted and was shaped as a result) in 19th and early 20th-century Egypt, when the contemporary Egyptian
International contributors in anthropology, education, journalism, and gender studies show that the experiences of youth differ widely according to gender, class, and ethnicity. They reveal that youth
Human rights advocates and conflict resolution practitioners may have the same goals but they make different assumptions, apply different methodologies, and have different institutional constraints an
Focusing in on two different time periods, the decline of British hegemony and its related economic and political institutions in the 1870s and the recent decline of the American hegemonic order of em
Although many think of the Kurds primarily as disgruntled residents of Iraq, in fact the are a significant segment of Turkish and Iranian societies and others as well. Natali (legal and political rese
In Faith and Politics in the Public Sphere, Ugur explores the politics of religious engagement in the public sphere by comparing two modernist conservative movements: the Mormon Church in the United S
In Faith and Politics in the Public Sphere, Ugur explores the politics of religious engagement in the public sphere by comparing two modernist conservative movements: the Mormon Church in the United S
Bonakdarian (imperial and comparative history, U. of South Dakota) explores the substantial British support for the Iranian constitutional and national struggle of 1906-1911, illuminating the oppositi
This story of intrigue and scandal in the life of an early American businessman set during the raucous Jacksonian era brings to light a nearly forgotten tale of high-stakes intrigue, scandal, and fina
Turkey, Egypt, and Syria: A Travelogue vividly captures the experiences of prominent Indian intellectual and scholar Shibli¯ Nu‘ma¯ni¯ (1857–1914) as he journeyed across the Ottoman Empire and Egypt i
Turkey, Egypt, and Syria: A Travelogue vividly captures the experiences of prominent Indian intellectual and scholar Shibli¯ Nu‘ma¯ni¯ (1857–1914) as he journeyed across the Ottoman Empire and Egypt i
An accomplished novelist, short story writer, and playwright, Richard Power (1928–1970) was most well–known for his 1969 novel The Hungry Grass. While many of h
An accomplished novelist, short story writer, and playwright, Richard Power (1928–1970) was most well–known for his 1969 novel The Hungry Grass. While many of h
One of the most important Irish novelists of the twentieth century, Kate O’Brien (1897–1974) was also a pioneer of women’s writing. In a career that spanned almost fifty years, nine novels, nine plays
One of the most important Irish novelists of the twentieth century, Kate O’Brien (1897–1974) was also a pioneer of women’s writing. In a career that spanned almost fifty yea
To understand how Albert Einstein’s pacifist and internationalist thought matured from a youthful inclination to pragmatic initiatives and savvy insights, Holmes gives readers access to Einstein in hi
To understand how Albert Einstein’s pacifist and internationalist thought matured from a youthful inclination to pragmatic initiatives and savvy insights, Holmes gives readers access to Einstein in hi
Irish Feminisms: Past, Present and Future is a collection of multidisciplinary essays from leading academics and activists that interrogates the various waves of Irish feminist activism over the last
"'If I had no sense of humor, I should long ago have committed suicide,' wrote the late Mahatma Gandhi, expressing the potent power of humor to sustain and uplift. Less obvious is humor's ability to o
A generous selection of the work of one of Ireland’s most admired young poets. Perry’s world is the compromised, chastened, technology-loving world we live in, but he manages to convey that it is not
These fourteen stories by the acclaimed master of Jewish-Russian fiction are set in the former USSR, Western Europe, and America. Dinner with Stalin features Soviet Jews grappling with issue
Volume two in a four volume set on memory and Irish identity, this collection of eighteen essays on the cultural memories of diaspora populations examines the creation of diaspora memory as distinct f
This book collects Serif Mardin’s seminal essays written throughout the span of his prolific career. Comprising some of the author’s finest and most incisive writings, these essays deal with the histo
In this noted anthology, the poet Adonis evokes the wisdom of Whitman’s Leaves of Grass (which he liberally excerpts and remolds), the modernism of William Carlos Williams, and the haunting urban imag
Although he gained his fame as a painter, Winslow Homer also was responsible for a large corpus of black-and-white wood engravings that appeared in Harper's Weekly , Every Saturday , and other magaz
