In this original and wide-ranging study, Gabriel Piterberg examines theideology and literature behind the colonization of Palestine, from the latenineteenth century to the present.
A través de dos planos temporales, un presente ubicado en la primera década del siglo XXI, y unas regresiones a los 90 del siglo anterior, conoceremos al personaje principal, bibliotecario treintañero afincado en San Sebastián, que tiene a su joven pareja en Madrid cursando un pomposo máster en arte contemporáneo, una amante que trabaja en una tienda de perfumes, un padre enfermo y un grupo de amigos de juventud con los que la distancia se acrecienta de día en día.
Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book delves into the thriving industry of religious infrastructure in Romania, where 4,000 Orthodox churches and cathedrals have been built in three decades.
The bulwark or antemurale myth whereby a region is imagined as a defensive barrier against a dangerous Other has been a persistent strand in the development of Eastern European nationalisms.
Focused on the German-speaking parts of the former Habsburg Empire, and on present-day Austria in particular, this book offers a series of highly innovative analyses of the interplay of nationalism s discursive and institutional facets.
Turkey has gone through significant transformations over the last century from the Ottoman Empire and Young Turk era to the Republic of today but throughout it has demonstrated troubling continuities in its encouragement and deployment of mass violence.
How are historians and social scientists to understand the emergence, the multiplicity, and the mutability of collective memories of the Ottoman Empire in the political formations that succeeded it?
Set in a multiethnic region of the nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire, this thoroughly interdisciplinary study maps out how the competing Romanian, Hungarian and German nationalization projects dealt with proper names.
Through retelling the story of Jesus and his followers, Open for Liberation restores the radical spirit of the Jesus movement and argues that social action is essential to faith.
A classic book that analyzes and defines media appeals specific to American pro-fascist and anti-Semite agitators of the 1940s, such as the application of psychosocial manipulation for political ends.
The autonomous province of Vojvodina in Serbia is little-known in the English-speaking world, even though it is a territory of high significance for the development of Serbian national identity.
The autonomous province of Vojvodina in Serbia is little-known in the English-speaking world, even though it is a territory of high significance for the development of Serbian national identity.
As the post-invasion reconstruction of Iraq has unfolded, the potential for Iraqi women to participate actively and visibly in the country's political structure has been one of its most notable results.
As the post-invasion reconstruction of Iraq has unfolded, the potential for Iraqi women to participate actively and visibly in the country's political structure has been one of its most notable results.
As established centrist parties across the Western world continue to decline, commentators continue to fail to account for the far-right's growth, for its strategies and its overall objectives.
As established centrist parties across the Western world continue to decline, commentators continue to fail to account for the far-right's growth, for its strategies and its overall objectives.
This book is an antidote to the forms of American nationalism, masculinity, exceptionalism, and self-anointed prowess that are currently being flexed on the global stage.
This book is an antidote to the forms of American nationalism, masculinity, exceptionalism, and self-anointed prowess that are currently being flexed on the global stage.
TERRA FIRMA is set in a not-so-distant Beckettian future years after a conflict known as the Big War, in which a tiny kingdom wrestles with the problems of running a nation and opposing notions of what makes a citizen, a country, and a civilization.
Building the Wall is a gripping political thriller from Robert Schenkkan, a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright and Academy award nominee.
At every home game of FC Barcelona, at 17 minutes and 14 seconds of play, the 100,000-capacity Camp Nou stadium is filled by the roar of "e;IN-DE-PEN-DEN-CI-A!
Europe has long imagined itself as the centre of the universe, although its precise geographical, cultural and social terrains have always been amorphous.
The crisis in Greece has elicited the full spectrum of responses - from optimism for a left parliamentary politics inspired by Syriza's electoral victory, to pessimism about the intransigence of the EU and calls for the reinstatement of full national sovereignty in Europe.
