Manès Sperber, translated from the German by Harry Zohn

The Unheeded Warning richly portrays the turbulent interwar period in Vienna and Berlin through the eyes of one of the century's foremost intellectuals and activists. Psychologist, novelist, essayist, and revolutionary, Manès Sperber begins his story in Vienna when he was thirteen years old and concludes the book—which is the second volume of his three-volume autobiography, All  More >

Robert M. Wren

This unique investigation provides the first major account of the explosion of literary talent that began in Nigeria in 1948 and ended as the civil war was intensifying in 1966. The book is structured around interviews with the men and women who led this generation of profound talent, all of whom attended University College, Ibadan, or its successor, the University of Ibadan. Speculating about  More >

Carroll Yoder

European colonialists assumed the prerogative to interpret the experiences of their “charges” and to decide the legitimacy of creative expression among Africans. Yoder examines that assumption, frankly discussing the racism and cultural chauvinism of nineteenth-century France, as well as colonial practices and the reactions to them as reflected in West African novels. Using a  More >

Geoffrey Barraclough, expanded and updated by Michael Burns

This work places present-day historical studies in a new and comprehensive perspective. Anyone who wishes to understand the past in the light of current knowledge and interpretations will profit from reading this book. It summarizes the developments associated with the explosion of new directions that young scholars have reached in re-interpreting old ideas. The author also examines the ferment  More >

Naomi Chazan, editor

The attempt by sovereign states to incorporate the territories of ethnically related populations in neighboring countries is an outgrowth of the complexities inherent in the lack of coincidence of national and state boundaries. Irredentism and International Politics represents a pioneering effort to examine the theory, determinants, dynamics, and consequences of this phenomenon. The authors  More >

Larissa Lomnitz and Ana Melnick

Over the past ten years, most Latin American countries have experienced dramatic economic changes as a result of their enormous debt burden, with a diminished economic role for the state and a consequent drastic cut in state social expenditures. The authors of this provocative book explore the clearly negative impact of these changes on the middle class in Chile, where the military government was  More >

T.L. Armstrong, editor

The current wave of juvenile intensive interventions appears to be gaining ever-increasing popularity and momentum. This book helps to ensure procedures that state the goals of the intervention, objectively clasify youths for possible participation, precisely match supervision and service types and levels to the appropriate clients, and produce hard outcome data about effectiveness.  More >

Rudy Koshar, editor

In contrast with traditional scholarship, which has seen a more or less uniform middle-class response to the political and economic crises of the age of fascism, this comparative study of the politics and ideology of the urban lower middle classes in Europe from 1918 to 1939 stresses the diversity and splintering of middle class constituencies under the pressures of the interwar period. Looking  More >

V.D. Lipman

This book is the first scholarly overview of Anglo-Jewish history covering the century and a half following the political emancipation in 1858 of the Jews in Britain, which is often viewed as a critical point in their history. V.D. Lipman studies the process by which the originally small Anglo-Jewish community expanded as a result of the mass immigration from Eastern Europe, assisting with the  More >

David Menashri

Menashri details the intricate political history of Iran's revolution, providing insightful portraits of its leading figures, as well as of their factions and the ideological conflicts among them. He also discusses Khomeyni's decisive role in almost all crucial events and decisions, Iran's internal problems—not the least of which is a worsening economy— and the history of  More >