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Women in Global Science

Advancing Academic Careers through International Collaboration

by Kathrin Zippel
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017

Scientific and engineering research is increasingly global, and international collaboration can be essential to academic success. Yet even as administrators and policymakers extol the benefits of global science, few recognize the diversity of international research collaborations and their participants,...

Care Across Generations

Solidarity and Sacrifice in Transnational Families

by Kristin E. Yarris
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017

Global inequalities make it difficult for parents in developing nations to provide for their children. Some determine that migration in search of higher wages is their only hope. Many studies have looked at how migration transforms the child–parent relationship. But what happens to other generational...

Old Texts, New Practices

Islamic Reform in Modern Morocco

by Etty Terem
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014

In 1910, al-Mahdi al-Wazzani, a prominent Moroccan Islamic scholar completed his massive compilation of Maliki fatwas. An eleven-volume set, it is the most extensive collection of fatwas written and published in the Arab Middle East during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Al-Wazzani's...

Republic of Capital

Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World

by Jeremy Adelman
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2002

This book is a political history of economic life. Through a description of the convulsions of long-term change from colony to republic in Buenos Aires, Republic of Capital explores Atlantic world transformations in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Tracing the transition from colonial...

The Politics of Compassion

The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China

by Bin Xu
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017

The 2008 Sichuan earthquake killed 87,000 people and left 5 million homeless. In response to the devastation, an unprecedented wave of volunteers and civic associations streamed into Sichuan to offer help. The Politics of Compassion examines how civically engaged citizens acted on the ground, how...

Judging Mohammed

Juvenile Delinquency, Immigration, and Exclusion at the Paris Palace of Justice

by Susan J. Terrio
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2009

In October 2005, three weeks of rioting erupted in France following the accidental deaths of two French boys of North African ancestry. Killed while fleeing the police, these boys were deemed dangerous based largely on their immigrant origins. In France, disadvantaged children of immigrant and foreign...

Partitions

A Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Territorial Separatism

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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019

Partition—the physical division of territory along ethno-religious lines into separate nation-states—is often presented as a successful political "solution" to ethnic conflict. In the twentieth century, at least three new political entities—the Irish Free State, the Dominions (later...

Illicit Flirtations

Labor, Migration, and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo

by Rhacel Parreñas
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011

In 2004, the U.S. State Department declared Filipina hostesses in Japan the largest group of sex trafficked persons in the world. Since receiving this global attention, the number of hostesses entering Japan has dropped by nearly 90 percent—from more than 80,000 in 2004 to just over 8,000 today....

Internationalism, National Identities, and Study Abroad

France and the United States, 1890–1970

by Whitney Walton
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009

This book—the first long-term study of educational travel between France and the United States—suggests that, by studying abroad, ordinary people are constructively involved in international relations. Author Whitney Walton analyzes study abroad from the perspectives of the students, schools,...
by Cynthia Davis
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010

Charlotte Perkins Gilman offers the definitive account of this controversial writer and activist's long and eventful life. Charlotte Anna Perkins Stetson Gilman (1860–1935) launched her career as a lecturer, author, and reformer with the story for which she is best-known today, "The Yellow...

Mother Folly

A Tale

by Françoise Davoine
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014

If your mentally ill patient dies, are you to blame? For Dr. Françoise Davoine, a Parisian psychoanalyst, this question becomes disturbingly real as one of her patients commits suicide on the eve of All Saints' Day. She herself has a crisis, as she reflects on her thirty-year career and questions...

Greece Before History

An Archaeological Companion and Guide

by Curtis Runnels, Priscilla M. Murray
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002

This book, a guide and companion to the prehistoric archaeology of Greece, is designed for students, travelers, and all general readers interested in archaeology. Greece has perhaps the longest and richest archaeological record in Europe, and this book reviews what is known of Greece from the earliest...

Dynasties and Democracy

The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in Japan

by Daniel M. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018

Although democracy is, in principle, the antithesis of dynastic rule, families with multiple members in elective office continue to be common around the world. In most democracies, the proportion of such "democratic dynasties" declines over time, and rarely exceeds ten percent of all legislators....
by Paul Midford
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011

In this book, Paul Midford engages claims that since 9/11 Japanese public opinion has turned sharply away from pacifism and toward supporting normalization of Japan's military power, in which Japanese troops would fight alongside their American counterparts in various conflicts worldwide. Midford...
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