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Pathetic Symphony: A Biographical Novel About Tchaikovsky
	Mann, Klaus Subject: World Literature	Like Mephisto, Pathetic Symphony is a novel about important artists and their milieu. Drawing his material from documented sources, and without ever distorting historical truth or sacrificing biographical accuracy for the sake of the narrative, Klaus Mann here presents a … More Information

People and Issues in Latin American History
	Hanke, Lewis and Jane M. Rausch Subject: Latin America, World History	This two-volume edition of People and Issues in Latin American History presents a range of sources on and interpretations of important topics in the history of Latin America that enable students to debate the historical significance of individuals and issues. … More Information

A People’s History of Latin America
	Horna, Hernan Subject: Latin American History	The history of Latin America has been written principally with a top-down approach that focuses on leaders and the privileged. Hernán Horna brings us a history that centers on the experience of Native Americans, blacks, and the poor. It examines … More Information

Pilgrimage to Mecca: The Indian Experience, 1500–1800
	Pearson, Michael N. Subject: Asia, Middle East, Religion	For over a thousand years, tens and hundreds of thousands of Muslim Indians have been making the pilgrimage to Mecca, the annual Hajj. In the early modern period, they followed a route over the Indian Ocean, producing an entanglement of … More Information

Political Cartoons in the Middle East
	Göçek, Fatma Müge Subject: Middle East	The imagery of political cartoons provides a unique yet under-studied insight into how Middle Eastern societies think. By combining the indigenous comic tradition of shadow plays with the imported Western print form, and by drawing on both visual and verbal … More Information

Political Words and Ideas in Islam
	Lewis, Bernard Subject: Religion	This book brings together 11 essays on Islamic political thought by Bernard Lewis, the acknowledged doyen of Middle Eastern studies. Few historians have garnered such a broad audience as Lewis, whose works are widely read by scholars, politicians, journalists, and … More Information

Politics in a Half-Made Society: Trinidad and Tobago 1925–2001
	Meighoo, Kirk Subject: Caribbean	This book tells the story of 20th-century politics in Trinidad and Tobago, a multiracial Caribbean state located on two small islands. The enquiry begins in 1925 with the then-colony’s first elections for seats in the Legislative Council. It ends in … More Information

The Pond (La Charca): Puerto Rico’s 19th-Century Masterpiece
	Zeno-Gandia, Manuel (preface by Kal Wagenheim; introduction by Juan Flores) Subject: Caribbean, World Literature	Before the turn of the century, while the rich in Madrid, Paris and Rome capped their sumptuous dinners with sips of Puerto Rico’s exquisite black café, the anemic men, women and children who harvested the precious crop lived in squalid … More Information

Posmodernismo y Teatro en América Latina: Teorías y Practícas en el Umbral del Siglo XXI
	Rizk, Beatriz J. Subject: Latin America, World Literature	Main topics in contemporary Latin American theater include feminism, minorities and other marginalized people, and mixed genres and performances. In this work, Beatriz J. Rizk examines the impact of these topics on styles of Latin American expression on the threshold … More Information

The Price of Blood: History of Repression and Rebellion in Haiti Under Dr. François Duvalier, 1957–1962
	Diederich, Bernard Subject: Caribbean	This is the terrifying history of how Dr. François “Papa Doc” Duvalier used terrorism to reach power, and how he institutionalized terrorism as a weapon of the State. The book reports in detail the stories of the many unsuccessful attempts … More Information