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Offers an account of the post-First World War Arab men and women who developed a hopeful vision of Arab culture and nationhood that clashed with traditional Arab customs, and explores the struggles of this secular, modernist way of thinking to gain a foothold in the last 25 year…
Fouad Ajami is a spellbinding chronicler, a teller of haunting tales that open up complex worlds and concepts. Here it is the tale of an "edifice of yearnings" created in the writings of a group of Arab men and women in the wake of World War I. They lived in proximity to the sti…
Jean-Baptiste Colbert saw governance of the state not as the inherent ability of the king, but as a form of mechanical mastery of subjects such as medieval legal history, physics, navigation, and the price lists of nails, sails, and gunpowder. In The Information Master, Jacob So…
Exploring the emergence and evolution of theories of nationhood that continue to be evoked in present-day Japan, Susan L. Burns provides a close examination of the late-eighteenth-century intellectual movement kokugaku, which means "the study of our country." Departing from earl…
Shows how a modern nationalism was constructed in Japan from existing notions of community, at a time before the idea of "nation."
"In Quest for Divinity, Mohamed A. Mahmoud presents an in-depth and balanced treatment of Taha's controversial yet significant thought. The author's ability to provide access to relevant literature in both Arabic and English offers readers a rare view of the considerable nuance …
"The Jews and Germany debunks a modern myth: that once upon a time there was a Judeo-German symbiosis, in which two cultures met and brought out the best in each other. Enzo Traverso argues that, to the contrary, the attainments of Jews in the German-speaking world were due to t…
