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China’s Spring

In Tiananmen Square, China had spawned one of the largest and best organized nonviolent political protest movements the world had ever seen.

Los Olvidados

The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance

by John Boswell


Romance Incarnate

Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality

by Emily W. Sunstein


The Mississippi Horrors

Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow

by Neil R. McMillen


The Incredible Shrinking Man

The Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao: From the Hundred Flowers to the Great Leap Forward

edited by Roderick MacFarquhar and Timothy Cheek and Eugene Wu, with contributions by Merle Goldman and Benjamin Schwartz


The Rise and Fall of Vienna’s Jews

The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph

by Robert S. Wistrich

Vienna and Its Jews: The Tragedy of Success, 1880s–1980s

by George E. Berkley

A History of Habsburg Jews, 1670–1918

by William O. McCagg Jr.

Judentum in Wien: Sammlung Max Berger November 12, 1987–June 5, 1988

catalog of the exhibition at the Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien,

The Rise of Political Anti-Semitism in Germany and Austria

(revised edition) Peter Pulzer

The Viennese: Splendor, Twilight and Exile

by Paul Hofmann

Vienna and the Jews, 1867–1938: A Cultural History

by Steven Beller

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The Liberal Goya

Goya and the Spirit of Enlightenment 9–July 16, 1989).

an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City (May

Goya and the Spirit of Enlightenment

catalog of the exhibition by Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez and Eleanor A. Sayre


The Strange Case of Paul de Man

Wartime Journalism: 1939––1943

by Paul de Man, edited by Werner Hamacher and Neil Hertz and Thomas Keenan

Responses: On Paul de Man's Wartime Journalism

edited by Werner Hamacher, edited by Neil Hertz, edited by Thomas Keenan

Critical Writings: 1953––1978

by Paul de Man, edited and with an introduction by Lindsay Waters

Reading de Man Reading

edited by Lindsay Waters, edited by Wlad Godzich


The Chinese Intellectuals and the Revolt

For foreigners who live in Beijing, it was already clear, listening to intellectuals, students, and ordinary citizens, that yet another modern Chinese crisis was looming. But no one anticipated the force and volume of what happened.

Golden Boy

Passage From Home

by Isaac Rosenfeld, with a new foreword by Mark Shechner

Preserving the Hunger: An Isaac Rosenfeld Reader

edited and introduced by Mark Shechner, foreword by Saul Bellow


A Gent of Dissent

The Price of Empire

by J. William Fulbright, with Seth P. Tillman


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