BOOKS

Arab Versus European: Diplomacy and War in Nineteenth-Century East Central Africa
Norman R. Bennett

This major work analyzes competition between followers of two major world religions for mastery of the east central region of Africa. Bennett meticulously traces the process by which    More >

The Economics of Small Businesses: Their Role and Regulation in the US Economy
William A. Brock and David S. Evans

The authors have written a timely assessment of the important but neglected role played by small businesses in the US economy. The authors focus in particular on the varying impact of    More >

Women and Class in Africa
Claire Robertson and Iris Berger, editors

Long-neglected as a topic of study by sociologists, historians, and economists, the status of women in Africa is here examined by a group of well-known Africanists. Raising questions about    More >

Marie Curie: A Life
Françoise Giroud, translated by Lydia Davis

Perhaps the most illustrious woman of her era, Marie Curie is well known for her Nobel Prize-winning research in physics and chemistry and for her discovery, with her husband Pierre Curie,    More >

Parliaments and Parliamentarians in Democratic Politics
Ezra N. Suleiman, editor

In this authoritative volume, Ezra N. Suleiman and an international panel of political scientists examine the complexities of the political process in seven democratic countries. Noting that    More >

The City Where No One Dies [a novel]
Bernard Dadie, translated by Janis A. Mayes

In this witty and ironic reversal of the typical colonial travelogue, Dadié recounts the journey of a bemused African traveler who settles in Rome, continuing his inquiries into the    More >

Silence and Invisibility: A Study of the Literature of the Pacific, Australia, and New Zealand
Norman Simms

Simms explores the methodological and theoretical problems faced by creative writers in the Pacific, perceptively discussing not only the native author’s dilemma in expressing ideas    More >

India's Industrialists
Gita Piramal and Margaret Laniak Herdeck

This study of thirteen of India's leading industrial families pays particular attention to the key decisions, cultural traditions, and personality issues that have contributed to their    More >

Metropolitan Crime Patterns
Robert M. Figlio, Simon Hakim, and George F. Rengert, editors

This is one the first books to examine crime trends from a metropolitan-wide perspective. Topics include: the “hardening” of the inner city; crime in suburbia; mobility    More >

The Pletzl of Paris: Jewish Immigrant Workers in the Belle Epoque
Nancy L. Green

In a challenging new interpretation of Jewish immigrant history, Nancy L. Green traces the westward movement of East European Jews to France during the late nineteenth and early twentieth    More >

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