A five-country study that spans five hundred years, this historically oriented work in sociology bids well to replace all previous works on the subject.

Training her analytic eye on manic depression and schizophrenia, Liah Greenfeld, in the culminating volume of her trilogy on nationalism, traces these dysfunctions to society’s overburdening demands for self-realization.

Joseph Ben-David died twenty-five years ago, in January 1986.

On the one hand, nationalism has made possible the realities of liberal democracy, human rights, and individual self-determination.

Basing its conclusions on over 25 years of original comparative historical research, this book bears the characteristic Liah Greenfeld imprint: fact-based discussion, logical rigor, unexpected connections, and an exceptionally wide range of ...

The Spirit of Capitalism answers a fundamental question of economics, a question neither economists nor economic historians have been able to answer: what are the reasons (rather than just the conditions) for sustained economic growth?

Using a wealth of data collected in Israel, this study depicts a complete system in which art is created and evaluated--the scale of Israeli society allowing for a comprehensive and detailed description of all the agents involved in the ...

Pensar con libertad es una reflexión profunda sobre el mundo moderno, la nación y la naturaleza de las ciencias humanas, en la que Liah Greenfeld -una de las sociólogas y politólogas más originales y prestigiosas de nuestro tiempo- ...