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Michael Kazin's bracing intervention asks us to consider why, despite circumstances of rising inequality and ample sources of discontent, it is the Right, not the Left, that has more effectively mobi-lized populist instincts and possibilities. His thoughtful historical answer is marked by an internal tension. Kazin ends by calling on the Left to "stop mourning" and "start organizing," but as his analytical history portrays a Left without adequate assets, one must wonder whether his call to arms is a form of wishful thinking. From where might the Left's initiatives come after a lost half-century? Persuasive answers to this pressing question will not be found, I believe, unless some features that he does not discuss are given more prominence.

MIGRATION AND EXILE HAVE CHARACTERISED THE WORLD SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME. AND FOR MOST OF THAT TIME, THE AMBIVALENT PRESENCE OF THE OTHER HAS AROUSED EXTREMES OF SENTIMENT WITHIN THE HOST COMMUNITY

Prologue : Before the second wave : scholarship on women from the early twentieth century into the 1960s -- Second-wave feminism and the rediscovery of women's history, 1968-1975 -- Feminist historians and the 'new' social history : 1968-1995 -- Is female to male as nature is to culture? : Feminist anthropology and the search for a key to all misogynist mythologies -- Beyond separate spheres : from women's history to gender history -- Gender history, cultural history and the history of masculinity -- Gender, poststructuralism and the 'cultural/linguistic turn' in history -- Gender and history in a postcolonial world -- From separate spheres to the public sphere : gender and the sexual politics of citizenship -- Gender and history in a post-poststructuralist world -- Women's and gender history as a work in progress

The First Civilizations And The Rise Of Empires -- Ancient India -- China In Antiquity -- The Civilization Of The Greeks -- The Roman World Empire -- The Americas -- Ferment In The Middle East: The Rise Of Islam -- Early Civilizations In Africa -- The Expansion Of Civilization In South And Southeast Asia -- The Flowering Of Traditional China -- The East Asian Rimlands: Early Japan, Korea, And Vietnam -- The Making Of Europe -- The Byzantine Empire And Crisis And Recovery In The West -- New Encounters: The Creation Of A World Market -- Europe Transformed: Reform And State Building -- The Muslim Empires -- The East Asian World -- The West On The Eve Of A New World Order.