A history of the Maghreb Jews, stressing Zionist activities and emigration to the State of Israel. Ch. 2 (pp. 55-83), "Under Vichy and the Nazi-German Menace: The Jews of North Africa during the 1930s and 1940s, " deals with anti-Jewish measures (legislation, restrictions, and i…
Developments in the United States profoundly affect the lives of the greater part of the world's population. It is not only the impact of America's military and strategic power. American films and television, American consumer goods, American cultural values, lifestyle and econo…
Arif Dirlik's latest offering is a revisionist perspective on Chinese radicalism in the twentieth century. He argues that the history of anarchism is indispensable to understanding crucial themes in Chinese radicalism. And anarchism is particularly significant now as a source of…
'Socialism Goes Global' provides a broad history of the relationship between Eastern Europe and the decolonising world ranging from the nineteenth to the late twentieth century. At its core is the post-1945 period, when socialism's importance as a globalising force accelerated a…
George S.N. Luckyj provides a survey of the main literary trends of Ukraine, its chief authors, and their works, as seem against the historical background of the present century. Luckyj provides information about literary developments both in Ukraine and in the Ukrainian emigrat…