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Stretched Thin
Poor Families, Welfare Work, and Welfare Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
When the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act became law in 1996, the architects of welfare reform celebrated what they called the new "consensus" on welfare: that cash assistance should be temporary and contingent on recipients' seeking and finding employment. However,...
Embryo Politics
Ethics and Policy in Atlantic Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Since the first fertilization of a human egg in the laboratory in 1968, scientific and technological breakthroughs have raised ethical dilemmas and generated policy controversies on both sides of the Atlantic. Embryo, stem cell, and cloning research have provoked impassioned political debate about...
Creating Kosovo
International Oversight and the Making of Ethical Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
In shaping the institutions of a new country, what interventions from international actors lead to success and failure? Elton Skendaj’s investigation into Kosovo, based on national survey data, interviews, and focus groups conducted over ten months of fieldwork, leads to some surprising answers....
Welfare through Work
Conservative Ideas, Partisan Dynamics, and Social Protection in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
High economic growth and relatively equitable distribution were among the most conspicuous characteristics of the postwar Japanese political economy. The lure of the Japanese model, however, has faded since the 1990s. Growth is in short supply and equality a thing of the past. In Welfare through Work,...
Fighting for Life
Contest, Sexuality, and Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
What accounts for the popularity of the macho image, the fanaticism of sports enthusiasts, and the perennial appeal of Don Quixote's ineffectual struggles? In Fighting for Life, Walter J. Ong addresses these and related questions, offering insight into the role of competition in human existence. Focusing...
Rethinking the World
Great Power Strategies and International Order
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Stunning shifts in the worldviews of states mark the modern history of international affairs: how do societies think about—and rethink—international order and security? Japan's "opening," German conquest, American internationalism, Maoist independence, and Gorbachev's "new thinking" molded international...
Losing Hearts and Minds
American-Iranian Relations and International Education during the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Matthew K. Shannon provides readers with a reminder of a brief and congenial phase of the relationship between the United States and Iran. In Losing Hearts and Minds, Shannon tells the story of an influx of Iranian students to American college campuses between 1950 and 1979 that globalized U.S. institutions...
The Transformation of a Religious Landscape
Medieval Southern Italy, 850–1150
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
The Transformation of a Religious Landscape paints a detailed picture of the sheer variety of early medieval Christian practice and organization, as well as the diverse modes in which church reform manifested itself in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
From the rich archives of the abbey...
By Force and Fear
Taking and Breaking Monastic Vows in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
An unwilling, desperate nun trapped in the cloister, unable to gain release: such is the image that endures today of monastic life in early modern Europe. In By Force and Fear, Anne Jacobson Schutte demonstrates that this and other common stereotypes of involuntary consignment to religious houses—shaped...
By Honor Bound
State and Society in Early Modern Russia
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Russians from all ranks of society were bound together by a culture of honor. Here one of the foremost scholars of early modern Russia explores the intricate and highly stylized codes that made up this culture. Nancy Shields Kollmann describes how these...
The Templars, the Witch, and the Wild Irish
Vengeance and Heresy in Medieval Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Early medieval Ireland is remembered as the "Land of Saints and Scholars," due to the distinctive devotion to Christian faith and learning that permeated its culture. As early as the seventh century, however, questions were raised about Irish orthodoxy, primarily concerning Easter observances. Yet...
by Abdulkader H. Sinno
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
"After we had exchanged the requisite formalities over tea in his camp on the southern edge of Kabul's outer defense perimeter, the Afghan field commander told me that two of his bravest mujahideen were martyred because he did not have a pickup truck to take them to a Peshawar hospital. They had succumbed...
The Soul of Armies
Counterinsurgency Doctrine and Military Culture in the US and UK
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
For both the United States and United Kingdom counterinsurgency was a serious component of security policy during the Cold War and, along with counterterrorism, has been the greatest security challenge after September 11, 2001. In The Soul of Armies Austin Long compares and contrasts counterinsurgency...
Small Works
Poverty and Economic Development in Southwestern China
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How can policymakers effectively reduce poverty? Most mainstream economists advocate promoting economic growth, on the grounds that it generally reduces poverty while bringing other economic benefits. However, this dominant hypothesis offers few alternatives for economies that are unable to grow,...