In the fourth century B.C.E., Greek culture spread across a vast area: from the lands bordering the eastern Mediterranean Sea east across Asia Minor into India. Termed Hellenism, Greek culture and ideals blended with other cultures in these areas to...

Order theory is a branch of mathematics that studies various kinds of binary relations that capture the intuitive notion of a mathematical ordering. This article gives a detailed introduction to the field and includes some of the most basic definitions....

Lawrie Balfour, The Evidence of Things Not Said: James Baldwin and the Promise of American Democracy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001). Michael C. Dawson, Black Visions: The Roots of Contemporary African-American Political Ideologies (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001). Paul Gilroy,...

It represents something of a rite of passage, the mark of a certain level of development, when a scholarly field achieves sufficient critical mass to spawn anthologies. Such would appear to be the current stage of postcolonial studies, which in the past two...