"What is the relationship between thought and practice in the domains of language, literature and politics? Is thought the only standard by which to measure intellectual history? How did Arab intellectuals change and affect political, social, cultural and economic developments f…
"What is the relationship between thought and practice in the domains of language, literature and politics? Is thought the only standard by which to measure intellectual history? How did Arab intellectuals change and affect political, social, cultural and economic developments f…
Introduction: the duty of the true race woman -- Organized anxiety : the National Association of Colored Women and the creation of the black public sphere -- "Proper, dignified agitation" : the evolution of Mary Church Terrell -- Queering Jane Crow : Pauli Murray's quest for an …
Considers the incorporation of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth into the Russian Empire, particularly in the Ukraine.
Peter Handke erzählt nichts weniger als "die endgültige und die einzig wahre Geschichte Don Juans". Genauer gesagt: Er läßt Don Juan selbst erzählen, sieben Tage lang in einem Maigarten nahe Port-Royal-des-Champs, und nur ab und an findet sich ein Kommentar desjenigen, dem die A…
Monograph on technocracy in the German Democratic Republic - explores political behaviour of the new social stratum of intellectual technicians and of those members of the political power Elite recruited from this group, and links various forms of social change to the government…
"The 1911 Revolution in China was a crucial event in the country's struggle to find a new political system, modernize its society and economy, and achieve a new world role. Mary Rankin demonstrates that the 1911 radicals bridged the gap between old-style scholar-rebels and twent…
'From Kabbalah to Class Struggle' is an intellectual profile of Meir Wiener, an Austrian Jewish intellectual and a student of Jewish mysticism who emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1926 and reinvented himself as a Marxist scholar and Yiddish writer.
"A provocative, intimate look at the evolution of America's political soul through the lives of six political figures--from Whittaker Chambers to Christopher Hitchens--who abandoned the left and joined the right. In Exit Right, Daniel Oppenheimer tells the stories of six major p…
"A provocative, intimate look at the evolution of America's political soul through the lives of six political figures--from Whittaker Chambers to Christopher Hitchens--who abandoned the left and joined the right. In Exit Right, Daniel Oppenheimer tells the stories of six major p…