The Nature of Fascism draws on the history of ideas as well as on political, social and
psychological theory to produce a synthesis of ideas and approaches that will be invaluable …

Michael Stanislawski's provocative study of Max Nordau, Ephraim Moses Lilien, and
Vladimir Jabotinsky reconceives the intersection of the European fin de siècle and early …

Why did the social sciences become an integral part of Jewish scholarship beginning in the
late nineteenth century? What part did this new scholarship play in the ongoing debate over …

This book examines how modernizing German-speaking cultures, undergoing their own
processes of identification, responded to the narcissistic threat posed by the continued …

As a Darwinian, Max Nordau believed that the inhabitants of modern industrial cities would
eventually adapt to the myriad of stimuli which incessantly assaulted their senses. He …

Examines the discourse in the press on Jewish crime at the turn of the 19th century-in an
epoch when criminal and court-room reports became very popular and attracted a wide …

In this comparative study of the religion-state relationship in Turkey and Israel in the modern
era, Bounded Integration reveals the influence this dynamic interaction has had on …

Max Nordau (1849-1923) was a household name to educated late nineteenth-century
Europeans. It is a telling fact that most late twentieth-century readers will have little- or no …

Where and how a society defines sport and the body reflects how its members define
themselves. Coincidentally, sports in modern industrial and post-industrial societies have …

Recently, Jonathan Spiro has undertaken the Herculean task of recovering the ghost of the
conservationist and anti-immigrant racist Madison Grant from a very limited archival record …