For generations, the Italian peninsula was Europe's fragmented battlefield. This book is the definitive account of how the House of Savoy ended that chaos and forged a modern nation. It is a story of how ruthless Realpolitik prevailed over romantic zeal. Through access to private archives and meticulous research, this saga of a dynasty is told one ......
Ruth Morris's new book focuses on Mary Elizabeth Braddon's novels from 1880 to her death in 1915 and how the portrayal of Jewish characters and Jewish culture shifts throughout this timeframe. By tracing the fortunes of Anglo-Jewry through Braddon's fiction into the twentieth century, it draws contextually on significant world events such as the ......
In Plato's Republic, Socrates retells a life-changing conversation he had the day before with none other than the author's two older brothers. Here, as elsewhere, Socrates carefully listened to what his interlocutors said but also to what they did not say. The gap between the spoken and the unspoken is what motivates his penetrating and ......
Resonant Memory is a revelatory inquiry into the mathematical laws that govern history. The confluence of two revolutionary conceptions lies at the heart of this exciting new book by veteran diplomat and polymath Michael Gfoeller. On one side stands the theory of morphic resonance, which says that memory is inherent in nature. Decades of research, ......
Exploring Vladimir Nabokov's Creative Universe offers a fresh perspective on certain aspects of Nabokov's creative universe. The analysis begins with the writer's faith, viewed as the bedrock of his ethics. Consequently, all other themes discussed in Part I, from moral dilemmas to cruelty to animals, emanate from this source and intertwine into a ......
Nuclear Dialogues examines how a discursive process constructed the nuclear nonproliferation norm in international relations. Zoe I. Levornik's innovative new study traces the evolution of the norm from the dawn of the nuclear age to the present day and how it emerged and diffused through the actions of antinuclear activists and members of the ......
This path breaking study is the first biography in any language of the Russian industrialist, entrepreneur, and political leader Nikolai Fedorovich von Ditmar (1865-1919). Scion of a Baltic German noble family, von Ditmar studied physical sciences with the famous chemist Dmitrii Mendeleev and pursued a career as a railway engineer before ......
Black-Palestinian Solidarity Movements in the United States
Soon after a series of protests in Ferguson, Missouri, African-American protestors there and Palestinian protestors in the West Bank began to include the slogan "From Ferguson to Palestine, Occupation is a Crime" in their public statements. In Neither Thugs nor Terrorists, Randa Serhan uses cutting edge first-hand research to explore how these two ......
The Saga of a Russian-American Family Through War and Revolution
The collapse of the Russian Empire in 1917 had devastating consequences for millions of its subjects, many of whom fled from the violent chaos, becoming known as "White Russian" emigres. While their stories have been widely chronicled, less well known are the stories of the so-called Second Wave of Russian emigrants, who were swept across Europe ......
