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Examines Yeats's shifting relationship with the warring discourses of British cultural imperialism and Irish nationalism during Ireland's transition from colony to partially independent nation.

Examines conceptions of history and messianic redemption in the writings of the Catalonian rabbi and Talmudic scholar Nahmanides (1195-1270). This volume explores the history of encounters between Jewish and Christian interpretations of history and redemption.

Young Rain is a collection of poetry that examines and explores the radiance and spirituality of this mysterious world.

Offers insights about decentralization, federalism, and democratic change in the three largest federal nations in the Americas. This work contributes to our understanding of how representative and participatory democracy is constructed at state and local levels in the democracies of Brazil and Mexico, and is recast and sustained in the US.

Addresses the political, cultural, and historical debate that has ensued in Spain as a result of the discovery and exhumation of mass graves dating from the years during and after the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). This title includes essays that present an analysis of how Spain has sought to come to terms with the violence of Franco's regime.

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Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling contains ten darkly funny short stories by Maura Stanton. Anything can happen in this swiftly narrated book, which provides glimpses of Gertrude Stein playing Ping-Pong with a G.I. in Paris during World War II, a famous contemporary writer giving a haircut in a bar in Eureka, California, and Katherine Mansfield struggling to write her final stories in Montana, Switzerland.Stanton introduces the reader to other ...

Award-winning poet Walt McDonald is well known for the skill with which he is able to transform ordinary language into poetry. In this, his eighteenth volume of poetry, McDonald returns to familiar explorations of his native Texas landscape and the struggle to integrate wartime experiences into the rest of life.The 65 poems in All Occasions are about a boy who later flies as an Air Force pilot, who marries a woman so lovely and loving he's stu...

Cutting through the stereotypes that enable many people to dismiss the needs of the impoverished, Surviving in a Material World provides an eye-opening look at the material lives of the poor in America. Hill's vivid, detailed narratives allow readers to envision themselves in the real world of the poor, to imagine what it would be like to be faced with their particular circumstances and limited options.Social scientists have devoted considerab...