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Another Country
German Intellectuals, Unification, and National Identity
How did German intellectuals react to unification and how have they conceived the country’s national identity and its new international position? This important book not only examines changing notions of nationhood and...
Imagining Spain
Historical Myth and National Identity
A leading historian explores the myths that define Spain’s view of its own past This book, the latest contribution by eminent historian Henry Kamen, is a unique analysis of the myths that Spaniards...
Alexandria
City of Memory
A luminous portrait of the now-vanished cosmopolitan city and those who inhabited it during the first half of the 20th century This book is a literary, social, and political portrait of...
Chairman of the Fed
William McChesney Martin Jr. and the Creation of the Modern American Financial System
This is the first biography of William McChesney Martin, Jr. (1906-1998), the first paid president of the New York Stock Exchange and the chairman of the Federal Reserve System under Presidents Truman to Nixon. The extent...
The Unitary Executive
Presidential Power from Washington to Bush
This book is the first to undertake a detailed historical and legal examination of presidential power and the theory of the unitary executive. This theory—that the Constitution gives the president the power to remove and...
Divided Souls
Converts from Judaism in Germany, 1500-1750
This pioneering book reevaluates the place of converts from Judaism in the narrative of Jewish history. Long considered beyond the pale of Jewish historiography, converts played a central role in shaping both noxious and...
Opera on Screen
What happens to opera when it’s presented on the screen? How does an opera change when it becomes a movie, a television presentation, or a video? This book is the first to explore opera and its treatment on the screen...
Olga Rudge & Ezra Pound
"What Thou Lovest Well . . ."
A loving and admiring companion for half a century to literary titan Ezra Pound, concert violinist Olga Rudge was the muse who inspired the poet to complete his epic poem, The Cantos, and the mother of his only...
Affirmative Action is Dead; Long Live Affirmative Action
Affirmative action is a much-debated policy, in employment as well as in education, in the Supreme Court as well as on the street. Yet as this book shows, affirmative action is both sensible and effective, differing little...
The Diary of Georgi Dimitrov, 1933-1949
Georgi Dimitrov (1882–1949) was a high-ranking Bulgarian and Soviet official, one of the most prominent leaders of the international Communist movement and a trusted member of Stalin’s inner circle. Accused by the Nazis...