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In this volume, which covers the caliphates of Sulaym¿n, ¿Umar II, and Yaz¿d II, al-¿abar¿ provides vivid and detailed accounts of the events spanning the period from 97-105/715-724. We listen to the stirring speeches of Qutaybah ibn Muslim, in which he urges his followers to renounce their allegiance to Sulaym¿n; are present at the disastrous third and final attempt to take Constantinople; watch from behind the scenes as Rajä ibn ¿aywah skillfully engineers the accession of 'Umar II; and follow the remarkable career of Yaz¿d b. al-Muhallab, first as governor and conqueror, then as prisoner, and finally as rebel.Throughout this volume we observe the struggle of the Umayyad regime to maintain control over a rapidly expanding but increasingly dissatisfied subject population. Governors are appointed and dismissed with dizzying rapidity, administrative boundaries are drawn and redrawn, Arab tribesmen express dissatisfaction with the diminishing rewards of military conquest, non-Arab converts chafe at the differential treatment they receive, and religious opponents revolt in the name of "the Book and the Sunnah." Important in their own right, the events of this period provide an essential key to a proper understanding of the 'Abbasid revolution that lay just over the horizon.A discounted price is available when purchasing the entire 39-volume History of al-¿abar¿ set. Contact SUNY Press for more information.

An accessible discussion of the thought of key figures of the Kyoto School of Japanese philosophy.

Assesses how America's film industry remembered World War I during the interwar period.

Examines the relationship between time and sexual difference in the work of French feminists Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray.

A rare look at the history of Himalayan peasant society and the relationship between culture and environment in the Himalayas.

Illustrates how the notion of an ecological society remains a decisively political question.

Examines the ways in which austerity policies are transforming US cities.

Expanded new edition of a classic examination of the psychological roots of our ecological crisis.

Shows how Israeli Communists developed a distinctive national identity outside the boundaries of Zionism.

This volume offers the most complete English translation to date of the prose and poetry of José María Heredia (b. Cuba, 1803; d. Mexico, 1839), focusing on Heredia's political exile in the United States from November 1823 to August 1825. Frederick Luciani's introduction offers a complete biographical sketch that discusses the complications of Heredia's life in exile, his conflicted political views, his significance as a travel writer and observer of life in the United States, and his reception by nineteenth-century North American writers and critics. The volume includes thoroughly annotated letters that Heredia wrote to family and friends in Cuba, describing his struggles and adventures living among other young expatriates in New York City--fellow conspirators in a failed plot to overthrow Spanish rule on the island. His travel letters, especially those that describe his trip to the Niagara frontier in 1824 along the Hudson River and the Erie Canal, offer discerning reflections on American landscapes, technological advances, political culture, and social customs. The volume also offers translations of the verse that Heredia composed during his New York exile, in which he gave impassioned voice to Cuba's struggle for independence from Spain, and which reflected the emerging Romantic sensibilities in Spanish-language poetry. With accurate, clear translations, this volume serves as an introduction to a figure who is enshrined in the canon of Latin American literature, but scarcely known to Anglophone readers.