Set in recently unified Italy, the narrative of Emotional Arenas is driven by a failed marriage, the wife's scandalous affair with a circus artiste, and the illicit couple's murder of the hapless husband. Imaginative reading of the criminal prosecution records and newspaper cove…
"This carefully researched and original monograph describes the lives and thoughts of a series of women who sought fairer economic, social and political roles for women during Japan's first half-century of modernization ... It is of interest not only to students of feminism but …
"This carefully researched and original monograph describes the lives and thoughts of a series of women who sought fairer economic, social and political roles for women during Japan's first half-century of modernization ... It is of interest not only to students of feminism but …
Explores how Islam can be reconciled with modernity to end terrorism, sectarian warfare and the repression of women and minorities.
Explores how Islam can be reconciled with modernity to end terrorism, sectarian warfare and the repression of women and minorities.
Ayaan Ali Hirsi makes a powerful case that a religious Reformation is the only way to end the terrorism, sectarian warfare and the repression of women and minorities that each year claim thousands of lives throughout the Muslim world"--Publisher
Ayaan Hirsi Ali argues, the world's 1.6 billion Muslims can be divided into a minority of extremists, a majority of observant but peaceable Muslims and a few dissidents who risk their lives by questioning their own religion. But there is only one Islam and, as Hirsi Ali shows, t…
Explores how Islam can be reconciled with modernity to end terrorism, sectarian warfare and the repression of women and minorities.
Today, Hirsi Ali argues, the world's 1.6 billion Muslims can be divided into a minority of extremists, a majority of observant but peaceable Muslims, and a few dissidents who risk their lives by questioning their own religion. But there is only one Islam, and as Hirsi Ali shows,…
"An American Language is a tour de force that revolutionizes our understanding of U.S. history. It reveals the origins of Spanish as a language binding residents of the Southwest to the politics and culture of an expanding nation in the 1840s. As the West increasingly integrated…
Presentación del editor: "An American Language is a tour de force that revolutionizes our understanding of U.S. history. It reveals the origins of Spanish as a language binding residents of the Southwest to the politics and culture of an expanding nation in the 1840s. As the Wes…
"An American Language is a tour de force that revolutionizes our understanding of U.S. history. It reveals the origins of Spanish as a language binding residents of the Southwest to the politics and culture of an expanding nation in the 1840s. As the West increasingly integrated…
"An American Language is a tour de force that revolutionizes our understanding of U.S. history. It reveals the origins of Spanish as a language binding residents of the Southwest to the politics and culture of an expanding nation in the 1840s. As the West increasingly integrated…
This history by celebrated Africanist David Birmingham begins in 1820 with the Portuguese attempt to create a third, African, empire after the virtual loss of Asia and America. In the nineteenth century the most valuable resource extracted from Angola was agricultural labor, fir…
Muslims today are creating a new era of Islamic Renewal. Islam's 'River of Life' has created oases from Morocco to China. This book captures the stories of ordinary Muslims living extraordinary lives, thanks to their rejuvenating springs. It gives us some of the most important v…
By all measures, the late twentieth century was a time of dramatic decline for the Islamic world, the Ummah, particularly its Arab heartland. Sober Muslim voices regularly describe their current state as the worst in the 1,400-year history of Islam. Yet, precisely at this time o…
This book explores some of the most fiercely debated issues facing the Islamic world today.
