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The Banana Men
American Mercenaries and Entrepreneurs in Central America, 1880-1930
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Ambitious entrepreneurs, isthmian politicians, and mercenaries who dramatically altered Central America's political culture, economies, and even its traditional social values populate this lively story of a generation of North and Central Americans and their roles in the transformation of Central...
The Price of China's Economic Development
Power, Capital, and the Poverty of Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
The People's Republic of China has experienced significant transformations since Deng Xiaoping instituted economic reforms in 1978. Subsequent leaders continued and often broadened Deng's policies, shifting the nation from agrarianism to industrialism, from isolation to internationalism, and from...
Lapham's Raiders
Guerrillas in the Philippines, 1942-1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
On December 8, 1941, the day after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese invaded the Philippine Islands, catching American forces unprepared and forcing their eventual surrender. Among the American soldiers who managed to avoid capture was twenty-five-year-old Lieutenant Robert Lapham,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Should parents receive vouchers to send their children to religious schools? What limits -- if any -- should the government place on abortion? Should the government permit and fund stem cell research? Should religious organizations have the right to prohibit the employment of homosexuals? Should public...
Lincoln before Lincoln
Early Cinematic Adaptations of the Life of America's Greatest President
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Remembered as the Savior of the Union, Abraham Lincoln is one of America's most revered presidents. There have been tens of thousands of books published about him since his death, but he has proved to be a surprisingly daunting subject for filmmakers. Despite a wealth of biographical material, relatively...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2005
Politics, while always an integral part of the daily life in the South, took on a new level of importance after the Civil War. Today, political strategists view the South as an essential region to cultivate if political hopefuls are to have a chance of winning elections at the national level. Although...
Take Sides with the Truth
The Postwar Letters of John Singleton Mosby to Samuel F. Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
During the Civil War, John Singleton Mosby led the Forty-third Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, better known as Mosby's Rangers, in bold and daring operations behind Union lines. Throughout the course of the war, more than 2000 men were members of Mosby's command, some for only a short time. Mosby had...
Before the Quagmire
American Intervention in Laos, 1954-1961
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
In the decade preceding the first U.S. combat operations in Vietnam, the Eisenhower administration sought to defeat a communist-led insurgency in neighboring Laos. Although U.S. foreign policy in the 1950s focused primarily on threats posed by the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, the...
by Shannon L. Mariotti, Joseph H. Lane Jr., Alex Zamalin
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Marilynne Robinson is arguably one of the most important writers of our time. Her voice resonates across the richly imagined American landscapes within which she grounds her stories of love and loss, alienation and belonging, injustice and redemption. Robinson's award-winning body of work -- including...
In Search of the Good Life
A Pedogogy for Troubled Times
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2007
The great German novelist Thomas Mann implored readers to resist the persistent and growing militarism of the mid-twentieth century. To whom should we turn for guidance during this current era of global violence, political corruption, economic inequality, and environmental degradation? For more than...
Freedom and Solidarity
Toward New Beginnings
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
The prevailing Western paradigm is modernity: a model focused on individual liberty, secularism, and the scientific control of nature. This worldview emerged from the break with the medieval and classical past and advanced a philosophy in which the solitary mind opposes the rest of the world. Although...
The Promise and Perils of Populism
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
From the protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square to the Tea Party in the United States to the campaign to elect indigenous leader Evo Morales in Bolivia, modern populist movements command international attention and compel political and social change. When citizens demand "power to the people,"...
Yes We Did?
From King's Dream to Obama's Promise
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Barack Obama's presidential victory demonstrated unprecedented racial progress on a national level. Not since the civil rights legislation of the 1960s has the United States seen such remarkable advances. During Obama's historic campaign, however, prominent African Americans voiced concern about his...
Growing Stories from India
Religion and the Fate of Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
The costs of industrial agriculture are astonishing in terms of damage to the environment, human health, animal suffering, and social equity, and the situation demands that we expand our ecological imagination to meet this crisis. In response to growing dissatisfaction with the existing food system,...