In 1914 the Ottoman Empire was depleted of men and resources after years of war against Balkan nationalist and Italian forces. But in the aftermath of the assassination in Sarajevo, the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and not even...

In the history of Western thought, men have persistently asked three questions concerning the habitable earth and their relationships to it. Is the earth, which is obviously a fit environment for man and other organic life, a purposefully made creation?...

Text and photographs seek to recapture the life and architecture of Chicago between 1833 and 1933, celebrating the fallen and razed private and public buildings and monuments of the Place of the Wild Onion

Originally published 1979.

New perspectives from leading scholars on a defining age in American Jewish historyThe thematic essays in Yearning to Breathe Free each use a primary source—a book, newspaper, tract, or artwork—as an entry point into Gilded Age America and as a means to...

Text: English, German (translation)

People and Places is a delightful collection of 22 articles and reviews written by Richard Cobb over the past ten years. The selections-- many appearing here for the first time--include recollections of old university friends, essays on authors and...

Mary Gluck introduces us to a Lukács we have never met. Here is Lukács among his friends, lovers, and peers in those important years before 1918, when he converted to Communism and Marxism at the age of thirty-nine.Georg Lukács claimed in later life that...

Im Februar 1987, wenige Wochen vor seinem Tod, hielt Jacob Taubes vor einer kleinen Schar von Zuhörern 4 Paulus- Vorlesungen, die er als sein geistiges Vermächtnis auffaßte. Darin betritt er das Feld der Paulus-Forschung, eine Domäne der christlichen...

Describes the relations of the great European powers when Europe was still the centre of the world.