This career biography details the work and legacy of Helene Schweitzer, wife of physician Albert Schweitzer, highlighting her role in the couple’s humanitarian medical work in Africa and the founding
This volume details the modernization of marriage and marital relations (as well as how gender impacted and was shaped as a result) in 19th and early 20th-century Egypt, when the contemporary Egyptian
Ibrahim presents students, academics, and researchers with a detailed history of Sunni legal pluralism and its historical use to engage the developing needs of Islamic society. The author has organize
Zaferatos presents students, academics, researchers, and general interest readers with a practical, holistic approach to explaining the practice of Native American reservation planning. The author has
The author examines the social concern and left politics in Jewish American art from the Great Migration from Eastern Europe in the 1880s to the beginning of World War II. He analyzes political cartoo
Stevens offers this critical analysis of the Captain America comics, with chapters discussing sequential eras of the character in its response to current events. The preface introduces some general th
First published in 1959, The Autobiography of James Monroe collects the compelling fragments of Monroe’s unfinished autobiography, written after his retirement from the presidency. The memoirs trace h
The complex history of Lebanese Shi‘ites has traditionally been portrayed as rooted in religious and sectarian forces. The Abisaabs uncover a more nuanced account in which colonialism, the modern stat
During the decade that preceded Syria’s 2011 uprising and descent into violence, the country was in the midst of another crisis: the mass arrival of Iraqi migrants and a flood of humanitarian aid to h
In 1979, a group of women athletes at Michigan State University, their civil rights attorney, the institution’s Title IX coordinator, and a close circle of college students used the law to confront a
This volume collects 50 of the authors' columns published in Sports Business Journal from 2009 to 2015 on sports business topics related to marketing and sponsorship, the Olympics, sports in Canada an
In June 2017, the Jews of Libya commemorated the jubilee of their complete exodus from this North African land in 1967, which began with a mass migration to Israel in 1948–49. Jews had
In a time of increasing mass incarceration, US prisons and jails are becoming a major source of literary production. Prisoners write for themselves, fellow prisoners, family members, and teac
Unbridled passions threatened nineteenth-century America, a vulnerable young nation already feeling beset by foreigners, corruption, and disease. Purifying crusaders like Hamilton College phi
The 1979 revolution fundamentally altered Iran’s political landscape as a generation of inexperienced clerics who did not hail from the ranks of the upper class—and were not taint
In this book, Goodman examines the emergence and articulation of Bedouin identity in the Aqaba region of South Sinai alongside patterns of economic and social change, locating the source of both withi
Noting that more students live in suburban areas than other spaces, this volume proposes a place-conscious education to create participatory citizens in the suburbs, where place-conscious education ha
By focusing on orphans and destitute children in the late Ottoman Empire and thus regarding children as a significant part of history, Maksudyan says, she crosses the conventional rigid boundaries of
In this volume, a group of distinguished scholars reinterpret concepts and canons of Islamic thought in Arab, Persian, South Asian, and Turkish traditions. They demonstrate that there is no unitary "I
