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This study of the transnational exchange of identity discourses asks why the French see queer theory as an American conspiracy against the traditional family and national identity.

Integrating intellectual biography, philosophical interpretation, and a critical examination of the history of academic disciplines, this book restores philosopher Georg Simmel to his rightful place as a major figure and challenges the frameworks through which his contributions to modern thought have been at once remembered and forgotten

Reconstructing the history of the Islamic University of Medina, this book sheds light on efforts undertaken by Saudi actors to extend Wahhabi influence beyond the kingdom's borders and suggests a new framework for understanding Islamic transnational religious networks.

This book examines the economic roles played by Jews on the estates owned by the powerful Radziwill dynasty in the eighteenth century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, showing how they gained significant economic power and social status.

Confessions of the Shtetl explores Jewish conversions to a variety of Christian confessions in the Russian empire, with special attention to the relations of trust and attraction between Jews and Christians that facilitated religious conversions in the provincial heartland of Jewish Eastern Europe.

The first book-length examination of the lingering political legacy of the wartime imprisonment of people of Japanese ancestry in Canada and the United States.

Newsworthy is a riveting expose of the legal machinations of big media companies like Time, Inc., and how they came, in a sense, to "capture" the courts on the issue of privacy through Time, Inc. v. Hill (1967), in which the Supreme Court for the first time addressed the conflict between privacy and freedom of the press.

Unconventionally fusing the the history of faith and reason in Islam, this book traces the Qur'an-inspired intellectual revolution that took off in the Islamic world of the seventh century, revealing its highlights and following it through to its sixteenth-century demise.

This book examines the beliefs of law enforcement officers who support the use of torture and the implications of these beliefs for officers' responses to human rights activism and education.

This book consists of a sustained exchange between a libertarian economist and conservative political philosopher on the fundamental economic, moral, political and philosophical issues that divide libertarians and conservatives.

Making Moderate Islam reveals the assumptions about race and gender, as well as the political and economic pressures that, beginning in the mid-twentieth century, have structured demands for religious minorities' "moderation" in the United States.

Cavarero refutes a long-standing set of assumptions in moral philosophy by contesting the classical figure of the homo erectus or 'upright man,' and by proposing a feminist, altruistic, open model of the subject-one inclined toward others.

The Next Wave codifies how growth-oriented, women-owned business are overcoming their unique challenges as they scale up. Rooted in research, this book offers practical suggestions for entrepreneurs, investors, and policymakers to take these businesses to the next level.

Field Notes uncovers how Middle East studies as an academic field was built over the course of the 20th century-a process replete with contention, anxiety, dead ends, and consequences both unanticipated and unintended.