Palgrave Macmillan Us: 3342 books
Punjabi Immigrant Mobility In the United States
Adaptation Through Race and Class
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
How did so many Punjabi immigrants come to find themselves behind the wheels of so many New York City taxi cabs, and what do their stories have to teach us about how immigrants must navigate life in a new society? Diditi Mitra analyzes how race and class influence settlement patterns in the United...
Fairy Tale Queens
Representations of Early Modern Queenship
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Most of today's familiar fairy tales come from the stories of Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and Hans Christian Andersen, but this innovative study encourages us to explore the marvelous tales of authors from the early modern period Giovanni Straparola, Giambattista Basile, Madame Marie-Catherine...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
This collection of essays uncovers a wide array of medieval writings on cosmopolitan ethics and politics, writings generally ignored or glossed over in contemporary discourse. Medieval literary fictions and travel accounts provide us with rich contextualizations of the complexities and contradictions of cosmopolitan thought.
Reclaiming Composition for Chicano/as and Other Ethnic Minorities
A Critical History and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Winner of Honorable Mention for the 2018 Conference on College Composition and Communication Outstanding Book Award
This book examines the history of ethnic minorities particularly Chicano/as and Latino/as--in the field of composition and rhetoric; the connections between composition and major...
A History of the FTAA
From Hegemony to Fragmentation in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Providing a critical account of the collapse of the FTAA negotiations and alterations to power relations in the Americas, this book argues that the collapse was rooted in a "crisis of authority" prompted by growing opposition in the Americas to US leadership and the neo-liberal reforms that had been promoted by Washington since the 1980s.
In Praise of Ordinary People
Early Modern Britain and the Dutch Republic
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
The discipline of social history has still not given enough attention to the ways in which the perceptions and roles of "ordinary" people changed over time. In these fascinating British and Dutch cases, we see how the study of this evolution imparts historical texture and enables us to understand early modernity with greater clarity.
Cosmopolitan Liberalism
Expanding the Boundaries of the Individual
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Cosmopolitanism in the contemporary debate is firmly based in the western tradition of liberal thought, which is culturally situated. The liberal conception of self alienates nature and childhood and its internal logic justifies colonialism and carries patriarchal and racialized baggage. Cosmopolitan...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
This book provides a much-needed study of the lived experience of militarization in the Caribbean from 1914 to the present. It offers an alternative to policy and security studies by drawing on the perspectives of literary and cultural studies, history, anthropology, ethnography, music, and visual...
Globalizing Lynching History
Vigilantism and Extralegal Punishment from an International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
The study of lynching in US history has become a well-developed area of scholarship. However, scholars have rarely included comparative or transnational perspectives when studying the American case, although lynching and communal punishment have occurred in most societies throughout history.
Racism and Education in the U.K. and the U.S.
Towards a Socialist Alternative
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Extends Marxist analysis to include key concepts from the work of neo-Marxists Antonio Gramsci and Louis Althusser. It looks in detail at racism in the U.K. and the U.S. and goes on to examine the differences between schooling and education, and their relationship to racism in those two countries and in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
Financing Armed Conflict, Volume 1
Resourcing US Military Interventions from the Revolution to the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
This first part of a two-volume series examines in detail the financing of America’s major wars from the American Revolution to the Civil War. It interweaves analyses of political policy, military strategy and operations, and war finance and economic mobilization with examinations of the events...
The Battle for the White House from Bush to Obama
Volume II Nominations and Elections in an Era of Partisanship
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Anthony Bennett guides us through the events of the four elections of the 21st century, showing how this era of partisanship has reshaped not only presidential nominations and elections, but the American presidency and politics itself.
A Thorn in Transatlantic Relations
American and European Perceptions of Threat and Security
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Americans and Europeans perceive threat differently. Americans remain more religious than Europeans and generally still believe their nation is providentially blessed. American security culture is relatively stable and includes the deeply held belief that existential threat in the world emanates from...
by Helene Dieck, Richard J Finneran
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Based on interviews with political decision-makers involved in post-Cold War case studies, this research reassesses the prevalent conclusion in the academic literature, according to which American public opinion has limited influence on military interventions, by including the level of commitment in the study of the decision-making process.