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Constructive Feminism
Women's Spaces and Women's Rights in the American City
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
In Constructive Feminism, Daphne Spain examines the deliberate and unintended spatial consequences of feminism's second wave, a social movement dedicated to reconfiguring power relations between women and men. Placing the women's movement of the 1970s in the context of other social movements that...
The Fascist Effect
Japan and Italy, 1915–1952
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
During the interwar period, Japanese intellectuals, writers, activists, and politicians, although conscious of the many points of intersection between their politics and those of Mussolini, were ambivalent about the comparability of Imperial Japan and Fascist Italy.
In The Fascist Effect, Reto Hofmann...
Causes of War
Power and the Roots of Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
What causes war? How can military conflicts best be prevented? A prominent political scientist here addresses these questions, offering ideas that will be widely debated.
Stephen Van Evera frames five conditions that increase the risk of interstate war: false optimism about the likely outcome...
The Ethics of Destruction
Norms and Force in International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2014
Many assume that in international politics, and especially in war, "anything goes." Civil War general William Sherman said war "is all hell." The implication behind the maxim is that in war, as in hell, there is no order, only chaos; no mercy, only cruelty; no restraint, only suffering.
Ward...
Life and Death in Captivity
The Abuse of Prisoners during War
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Why are prisoners horribly abused in some wars but humanely cared for in others? In Life and Death in Captivity, Geoffrey P. R. Wallace explores the profound differences in the ways captives are treated during armed conflict. Wallace focuses on the dual role played by regime type and the nature of...
Logics of Hierarchy
The Organization of Empires, States, and Military Occupations
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Political science has had trouble generating models that unify the study of the formation and consolidation of various types of states and empires. The business-administration literature, however, has long experience in observing organizations. According to a dominant model in this field, business...
The Fate of Freedom Elsewhere
Human Rights and U.S. Cold War Policy toward Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
During the first quarter-century of the Cold War, upholding human rights was rarely a priority in U.S. policy toward Latin America. Seeking to protect U.S. national security, American policymakers quietly cultivated relations with politically ambitious Latin American militaries—a strategy clearly...
Violence as a Generative Force
Identity, Nationalism, and Memory in a Balkan Community
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
During two terrifying days and nights in early September 1941, the lives of nearly two thousand men, women, and children were taken savagely by their neighbors in Kulen Vakuf, a small rural community straddling today’s border between northwest Bosnia and Croatia. This frenzy—in which victims were...
by Kevin Boyle
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 1995
A Choice Magazine "Outstanding Academic Book for 1996"
"Kevin Boyle has done a masterful job of identifying the unique contribution of the UAW, not only to American Liberalism, but also to the nation and to all people. As contemporary labor and society at large search for new directions, this...
A Not Too Greatly Changed Eden
The Story of the Philosophers' Camp in the Adirondacks
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
In August 1858, William James Stillman, a painter and founding editor of the acclaimed but short-lived art journal The Crayon, organized a camping expedition for some of America’s preeminent intellectuals to Follensby Pond in the Adirondacks. Dubbed the "Philosophers’ Camp," the trip included...
News and Politics in the Age of Revolution
Jean Luzac's "Gazette de Leyde"
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Jeremy D. Popkin's book is the first comprehensive examination of the European news industry during the era of the American and French Revolutions. He focuses on the Gazette de Leyde, the period's newspaper of record, and constructs a detailed picture of the'media market'of which it was a part.
The Neoliberal City
Governance, Ideology, and Development in American Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The shift in the ideological winds toward a "free-market" economy has brought profound effects in urban areas. The Neoliberal City presents an overview of the effect of these changes on today's cities. The term "neoliberalism" was originally used in reference to a set of practices that first-world...
Artillery of Heaven
American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The complex relationship between America and the Arab world goes back further than most people realize. In Artillery of Heaven, Ussama Makdisi presents a foundational American encounter with the Arab world that occurred in the nineteenth century, shortly after the arrival of the first American Protestant...
Contemporary Slavery
The Rhetoric of Global Human Rights Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This volume brings together a cast of leading experts to carefully explore how the history and iconography of slavery has been invoked to support a series of government interventions, activist projects, legal instruments, and rhetorical performances. However well-intentioned these interventions might...