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Playing the Market
A Political Strategy for Uniting Europe, 1985–2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the 1980s and 1990s, Nicolas Jabko suggests, the character of European integration altered radically, from slow growth to what he terms a "quiet revolution." In this book he traces the political strategy that underlay the move from the Single Market of 1986 through the official creation of the...
Empire of Conspiracy
The Culture of Paranoia in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Why, Timothy Melley asks, have paranoia and conspiracy theory become such prominent features of postwar American culture? In Empire of Conspiracy, Melley explores the recent growth of anxieties about thought-control, assassination, political indoctrination, stalking, surveillance, and corporate and...
Corruption as a Last Resort
Adapting to the Market in Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Why do ordinary people engage in corruption? In Corruption as a Last Resort, Kelly M. McMann contends that bureaucrats, poverty, and culture do not force individuals in Central Asia to pay bribes, use connections, or sell political support. Rather, corruption is a last resort when relatives, groups...
Weapons of the Wealthy
Predatory Regimes and Elite-Led Protests in Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Mass mobilization is among the most dramatic and inspiring forces for political change. When ordinary citizens take to the streets in large numbers, they can undermine and even topple undemocratic governments, as the recent wave of peaceful uprisings in several postcommunist states has shown. However,...
by Aby M. Warburg
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Aby M. Warburg (1866–1929) is recognized not only as one of the century’s preeminent art and Renaissance historians but also as a founder of twentieth-century methods in iconology and cultural studies in general. Warburg’s 1923 lecture, first published in German in 1988 and now available in...
Habits of the Heartland
Small-Town Life in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"So, how do Americans in a small town make community today? This book argues that there is more than one answer, and that despite the continued importance of small-town stuff traditionally associated with face-to-face communities, it makes no sense to think that contemporary technological, economic,...
Arctic Mirrors
Russia and the Small Peoples of the North
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
For over five hundred years the Russians wondered what kind of people their Arctic and sub-Arctic subjects were. "They have mouths between their shoulders and eyes in their chests," reported a fifteenth-century tale. "They rove around, live of their own free will, and beat the Russian people," complained...
Impious Fidelity
Anna Freud, Psychoanalysis, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Impious Fidelity, Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg investigates the legacy of Anna Freud at the intersection between psychoanalysis as a mode of thinking and theorizing and its existence as a political entity. Stewart-Steinberg argues that because Anna Freud inherited and guided her father's psychoanalytic...
Fictions of Dignity
Embodying Human Rights in World Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Over the past fifty years, debates about human rights have assumed an increasingly prominent place in postcolonial literature and theory. Writers from Salman Rushdie to Nawal El Saadawi have used the novel to explore both the possibilities and challenges of enacting and protecting human rights, particularly...
"Lost" Causes
Agenda Vetting in Global Issue Networks and the Shaping of Human Security
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Why do some issues and threats—diseases, weapons, human rights abuses, vulnerable populations—get more global policy attention than others? How do global activist networks decide the particular causes for which they advocate among the many problems in need of solutions? According to Charli Carpenter,...
Before the Gregorian Reform
The Latin Church at the Turn of the First Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Historians typically single out the hundred-year period from about 1050 to 1150 as the pivotal moment in the history of the Latin Church, for it was then that the Gregorian Reform movement established the ecclesiastical structure that would ensure Rome’s dominance throughout the Middle Ages and...
Spiritual Economies
Islam, Globalization, and the Afterlife of Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Europe and North America Muslims are often represented in conflict with modernity—but what could be more modern than motivational programs that represent Islamic practice as conducive to business success and personal growth? Daromir Rudnyckyj's innovative and surprising book challenges widespread...
Reframing Decadence
C. P. Cavafy's Imaginary Portraits
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
During his sojourn in England during the 1870s, a young Cavafy found himself enthralled by the aesthetic movement of cosmopolitan London. It was during these years that he encountered the canvases and personalities of Pre-Raphaelite painters, including Burne-Jones and Whistler, as well as works of...
by Rosemarie Bodenheimer
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
"A revealing and concealing intelligence lurks somewhere—but where, exactly?—in Dickens's writing. To capture something of that knowing Dickens who eludes us, I follow some representative clusters of thought and feeling that link Dickens's ways of talking in letters with his concerns in fiction...