Explains the process whereby countries become locked into long-term international conflicts, and how they can escape that conflict spiral. This book analyzes how domestic institutions and interactions among nations converge to become incentives for either war or peace.
Examines the lives of five women writers, all upper-class British women, who rebelled against the conventions of their own societies and lived, travelled and explored the Middle East.
In 1928, Hilton Edwards and Micheál mac Liammóir founded the Dublin Gate Theatre. In examining an extensive corpus of archival resources, Van den Beuken reveals how the Gate became a site of avant-garde nationalism in the Ireland's tumultuous first post-independence decades.
Brings together Charlotte Perkins Gilman's first collection of poetry alongside 79 previously uncollected verses.
Drawing on stories he heard as a boy from female relatives, Jilali El Koudia presents a cross section of utterly bewitching narratives. Filled with ghouls and fools, kind magic and... Læs mere
In this anthology, the poet Adonis evokes the wisdom of Whitman's ""Leaves of Grass"" (which he liberally excerpts and remolds), the modernism of William Carlos Williams, and the haunting urban imagery of Baudelaire, Cavafy, and Lorca.
In 1905 Iranian women had been sold to pay taxes or taken as booty in a raid by tribesmen from a village. The narration... Læs mere
Two early works by S.Y. Abramovitsh, . Sholem Aleichem s Tevye reemerges from new translations of "Hodel" and "Chava". The... Læs mere
In Blood and Faith, Berry explores the causes of a shift away from, and resulting hostility toward, Christianity among white nationalists, as... Læs mere