Palgrave Macmillan Us: 3342 books
The Atlantic Imperial Constitution
Center and Periphery in the English Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Drawing on recent trends in both Atlantic and center-periphery literature, this book examines the relationship between the English crown - monarch, privy council, and ancillary bodies - and its Atlantic colonies under the early Stuart monarchs, James I and Charles I, circa 1603-1642.
Why the West Fears Islam
An Exploration of Muslims in Liberal Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Jocelyne Cesari examines the idea that Islam might threaten the core values of the West through testimonies from Muslims in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the US. Her book is an unprecedented exploration of Muslim religious and political life based on several years of field work in Europe and in the United States.
Financing Armed Conflict, Volume 2
Resourcing US Military Interventions from the Spanish-American War to Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
This second part of a two-volume series examines in detail the financing of America’s major wars from the Spanish-American War to the Vietnam War. It interweaves analyses of political policy, military strategy and operations, and war finance and economic mobilization with examinations of the events...
by Eve Salisbury
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
This book addresses portrayals of children in a wide array of Chaucerian works. Situated within a larger discourse on childhood, Ages of Man theories, and debates about the status of the child in the late fourteenth century, Chaucer’s literary children—from infant to adolescent—offer a means...
by J. Thomàs
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
This book is a study of the relations between the US and Spain, particularly during the period from 1943 to 1945, when the Roosevelt Administration and the Joint Chiefs of Staff decided to challenge the Pro-Franco Regime, culminating in the Battle of Wolfram and the embargo of petroleum products.
Precarious Enterprise on the Margins
Work, Poverty, and Homelessness in the City
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
This book explores the contemporary conditions of marginal work within the context of persistent unemployment, poverty, and homelessness in wealthy nations. Drawing from research concerning three cities—Melbourne, San Francisco, and London—Jessica Gerrard offers a rich account of one of the most...
Training for Model Citizenship
An Ethnography of Civic Education and State-Making in Rwanda
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book explores the state in post-genocide Rwanda through an ethnography of a state-run civic education program and everyday forms of government.
In 2007, the Rwandan government introduced a nationwide civic education program, called Itorero, to teach all inhabitants about its vision of...
Indography
Writing the "Indian" in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Europeans invented 'Indians' and populated the world with them. The global history of the term 'Indian' remains largely unwritten and this volume, taking its cue from Shakespeare, asks us to consider the proximities and distances between various early modern...
Teaching America to the World and the World to America
Education and Foreign Relations since 1870
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
A fresh analysis of the study of American foreign relations history, this book shows the ways in which international education has shaped the US relationship with the world.
Muslim and Christian Understanding
Theory and Application of “A Common Word”
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
This book explores 'A Common Word Between Us and You', a high-level ongoing Christian-Muslim dialogue process. The Common Word process was commenced by leading Islamic scholars and intellectuals as outreach in response to the Pope's much criticized Regensburg address of 2007.
Pilgrimage, Politics, and International Relations
Religious Semantics for World Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
A standout contribution to post-secular IR theory, this book addresses issues of global politics, from cooperation to conflict, and shows how a religious metaphor, the pilgrim, can help us to rethink our concepts of self, agency, and community in a time of changing world order.
Foucault’s Heterotopia in Christian Catacombs
Constructing Spaces and Symbols in Ancient Rome
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
The catacombs of Rome have captured imaginations for centuries. This innovative study takes a fresh look at these underground spaces, and considers how art, space, texts, and practices can tell us more about the catacombs and the people who dug and decorated them.
Medieval Religion and its Anxieties
History and Mystery in the Other Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
This book examines the broad varieties of religious belief, religious practices, and the influence of religion within medieval society. Religion in the Middle Ages was not monolithic. Medieval religion and the Latin Church are not synonymous. While theology and liturgy are important, an examination...
Unequal Partners
American Foundations and Higher Education Development in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
This book offers a nuanced analysis of a US-led foundation initiative of uncommon ambition, featuring seven foundations with a shared commitment to strengthen capacity in higher education in Sub-Saharan African universities. The book examines the conditions under which philanthropy can be effective,...