Nancy L. Green

In a challenging new interpretation of Jewish immigrant history, Nancy L. Green traces the westward movement of East European Jews to France during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and explores their experiences as immigrant workers. By 1914 some 40,000 East European Jews had settled in France, many of them in Paris's Marais district, known in Yiddish as the Pletzl, or  More >

Robert M. Figlio, Simon Hakim, and George F. Rengert, editors

This is one the first books to examine crime trends from a metropolitan-wide perspective. Topics include: the “hardening” of the inner city; crime in suburbia; mobility patterns of offenders; the effect of neighborhood characteristics on crime; variations in police expenditures, and others.  More >

Robert W. Tucker

The Nuclear Debate explains public opposition to the nation's traditional nuclear weapons policies, clarifies the principal moral and political questions that underlie the debate, and discusses the future of this crucial issue.  More >

Michael Haynes

Much of the recent discussion about this important Marxist thinker seeks to define his role as a major theorist during Stalin's rise to power and in subsequent Soviet history. Michael Haynes's study approaches Nicolai Bukharin from a different focus, concentrating primarily on Bukharin's thought itself. Beginning with Bukharin's disuccsion of capitalism, Haynes examines how the  More >

Henry Denham

In this absorbing and revealing memoir, Henry Denham recalls his efforts to seek enemy intelligence for Britain while serving as a naval attache in Stockholm from 1941-1945. Despite Sweden's neutrality during World War II, the country nonetheless provided transit routes for refugees from German prisoner of war camps, served as a sentry post for Hitler's Europe, and manufactured the  More >

Michael C. Hillmann

A sensitive study of a great poet, one of only a handful of women who gained renown during the past 2,500 years of Persian history. During her life in post-Moseddeq, pre-Khomeini Iran, Farrokhzad (1935–1967) demonstrated a unique tenacity in striving for artistic freedom and individuality. Hillmann borrows freely from Farrokhzad's poetry and letters to weave a complex tapestry of the  More >

Chester E. Finn Jr. Diane Ravitch, and P. Holley Roberts

This provocative volume explores themes that were highlighted in Chester Finn's and Diane Ravitch's earlier work (with coauthor Robert Fancher) Against Mediocrity. It elucidates and responds to concerns that underlie current challenges to the humanities, including public apathy, vocationalism, inadequate teacher training, the trendiness of computer study, and the readily determinable  More >

Micahel N. Danielson and Ruşen Keleş

Turkey, like so many other nations in the twentieth century, has been transformed by rapid urbanization with the inevitable result of intense competition for land, jobs, public services, resources, and other rewards controlled by its highly centralized government. Focusing primarily on Istanbul and the modern planned city of Ankara, Micahel N. Danielson and Ruşen Keleş analyze the many aspects  More >

Driss Chraibi, translated by Robin A. Roosevelt

The first book in a trilogy that continues with Mother Spring and Birth at Dawn, this naturalistic allegory is about two Arabic-speaking police officers who set out in the Atlas Mountains in search of a revolutionary. Once in this mysterious region, the officers, with their postcolonial, Westernized manners, are challenged by the ferociously suspicious and independent-minded Berber  More >

Raul Hilberg

This student edition of The Destruction of the European Jews makes accessible for classroom use Raul Hilberg's landmark account of Germany's annihilation of Europe's Jewish communities in 1933-1945. Perhaps more than any other book, it answers the question: "How did it happen?"  More >