England's Jews Michele Mitchell political power resided in the

political power resided in the hands of middle-class merchants

This innovative book places these "fallible authors" within the full intellectual context that gave them meaning

dean of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

In the process he reveals that the idealized vision of liberty associated with the Founding Fathers had a much more immediate and complex meaning than previously thought

Leland and a small group of former radical-activist African American colleagues inside and outside Congress exerted outsized influence to elevate Africa's significance in American foreign affairs and to move the United States from its Cold War orientation toward a foreign policy devoted to humanitarianism

England's Jews Michele Mitchell political power resided in theIn 1290, Jews were expelled from England and subsequently largely expunged from English historical memory. Yet for two centuries they occupied important roles in medieval English society. Englands Jews revisits this neglected chapter of English historyone whose remembrance is more important than ever today, as antisemitism and other forms of racism are on the rise. Historian John Tolan tells the story of the thousands of Jews who lived in medieval