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Out of Oakland
Black Panther Party Internationalism during the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
In Out of Oakland, Sean L. Malloy explores the evolving internationalism of the Black Panther Party (BPP); the continuing exile of former members, including Assata Shakur, in Cuba is testament to the lasting nature of the international bonds that were forged during the party's heyday. Founded in Oakland,...
Voyages
From Tongan Villages to American Suburbs
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Voyages, Cathy A. Small offers a view of the changes in migration, globalization, and ethnographic fieldwork over three decades. The second edition adds fresh descriptions and narratives in three new chapters based on two more visits to Tonga and California in 2010. The author (whose role after...
Religious Rhetoric and American Politics
The Endurance of Civil Religion in Electoral Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
From Reagan's regular invocation of America as "a city on a hill" to Obama's use of spiritual language in describing social policy, religious rhetoric is a regular part of how candidates communicate with voters. Although the Constitution explicitly forbids a religious test as a qualification to public...
Women's Work and Chicano Families
Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
At the time Women’s Work and Chicano Families: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley was published, little research had been done on the relationship between the wage labor and household labor of Mexican American women. Drawing on revisionist social theories relating to Chicano family structure...
Reassuring the Reluctant Warriors
U.S. Civil-Military Relations and Multilateral Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Why did American leaders work hard to secure multilateral approval from the United Nations or NATO for military interventions in Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo, while making only limited efforts to gain such approval for the 2003 Iraq War? In Reassuring the Reluctant Warriors, Stefano Recchia draws on...
Frontiers of Fear
Immigration and Insecurity in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
On both sides of the Atlantic, restrictive immigration policies have been framed as security imperatives since the 1990s. This trend accelerated in the aftermath of 9/11 and subsequent terrorist attacks in Europe. In Frontiers of Fear, Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia raises two central questions with...
Shaken Authority
China's Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
In Shaken Authority, Christian P. Sorace examines the political mechanisms at work in the aftermath of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake and the broader ideological energies that drove them. Sorace takes Communist Party ideas and discourse as central to how that organization formulates policies, defines...
by Miroslav Nincic
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Recent American foreign policy has depended heavily on the use of negative inducements to alter the behavior of other states. From public browbeating through economic sanctions to military invasion, the last several presidents have chosen to use coercion to advance U.S. interests when dealing with...
Making the Unipolar Moment
U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
In the late 1970s, the United States often seemed to be a superpower in decline. Battered by crises and setbacks around the globe, its post–World War II international leadership appeared to be draining steadily away. Yet just over a decade later, by the early 1990s, America’s global primacy had...
A Colonial Affair
Commerce, Conversion, and Scandal in French India
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
A Colonial Affair traces the 1716 conviction of Nayiniyappa, a Tamil commercial agent employed by the French East India Company, for tyranny and sedition, and his subsequent public torture, the loss of his wealth, the exile of his family, and his ultimate exoneration. Danna Agmon’s gripping microhistory...
The Control Agenda
A History of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
The Control Agenda is a sweeping account of the history of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), their rise in the Nixon and Ford administrations, their downfall under President Carter, and their powerful legacies in the Reagan years and beyond.
Matthew Ambrose pays close attention to...
Architects of Occupation
American Experts and Planning for Postwar Japan
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
The Allied occupation of Japan is remembered as the "good occupation." An American-led coalition successfully turned a militaristic enemy into a stable and democratic ally. Of course, the story was more complicated, but the occupation did forge one of the most enduring relationships in the postwar...
Incidental Archaeologists
French Officers and the Rediscovery of Roman North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
In Incidental Archaeologists, Bonnie Effros examines the archaeological contributions of nineteenth-century French military officers, who, raised on classical accounts of warfare and often trained as cartographers, developed an interest in the Roman remains they encountered when commissioned in the...
A World of Regions
Asia and Europe in the American Imperium
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Observing the dramatic shift in world politics since the end of the Cold War, Peter J. Katzenstein argues that regions have become critical to contemporary world politics. This view is in stark contrast to those who focus on the purportedly stubborn persistence of the nation-state or the inevitable...