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Ironic Freedom
Personal Choice, Public Policy, and the Paradox of Reform
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Ironic Freedom asserts that freedom from governmental interference may make people vulnerable to other sources of coercion; these affects vary by gender, race, and class. Increasing negative freedoms may reinforce existing asymmetrical power relationships within society.
Globalization
A Short History of the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2010
How did globalization come to dominate our lives? What have been, are, and most likely will be globalization's potential benefits and costs? This book explores the world's most powerful force for good and evil from the Renaissance through today and beyond.
The Struggle for Memory in Latin America
Recent History and Political Violence
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
This book examines the struggles that unfolded in Latin America over the memory of the pasts of political violence experienced by the countries of the continent in the second half of the twentieth century: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the United States, Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.
by C. Peixoto-Mehrtens
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
This book focuses on how the political, cultural, and technical networks within the field of engineering provided the space within which an important professional middle class prospered in the city of São Paulo and made lasting contributions to the development of modern Brazil.
West African Migrations
Transnational and Global Pathways in a New Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Drawing on the interdisciplinary research projects of scholars from various social science and humanities disciplines, this book explores how African migration to Western countries after the neo-liberal economic reforms of the 1980s transformed West African states and their new transnational populations in Western countries.
by G. Cross
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
The importance of Franklin D. Roosevelt's thinking on international relations is self-evident. The truly enormous volume of historical writing on his views regarding U.S. foreign policy as president is testament to the momentous period during which he held office. Yet no consensus has emerged on what...
Culture, Health, and Religion at the Millennium
Sweden Unparadised
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
The book presents interpretations of culture, health, politics, and religion in Sweden today, Sweden transforms from the well-functioning but existentially bland economic wonder to a more fragmented and gloomy society. Contributors include scholars from film studies, literary studies, political science, religious studies and theology
Islamic Reform and Colonial Discourse on Modernity in India
Socio-Political and Religious Thought of Vakkom Moulavi
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
In Kerala, Vakkom Moulavi motivated Muslims to embrace modernity, especially modern education, in order to reap maximum benefit. In this process, he initiated numerous religious reforms. However, he held fairly ambivalent attitudes towards individualism, materialism and secularization, defending Islam against the attacks of Christian missionaries.
The Ethical Foundations of Early Daoism
Zhuangzi’s Unique Moral Vision
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
The Ethical Foundations of Early Daoism: Zhuangzi's Unique Moral Vision argues that we can read early Daoist texts as works of moral philosophy that speak to perennial concerns about the well-lived life in the context of the Way. Lee argues that we can interpret early Daoism as an ethics of attunement.
American Foreign Policy in Regions of Conflict
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
America s regional foreign policy priorities are shifting, toward Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa, and away from Europe and Russia. Wiarda examines these changes and the reasons for them in each of these regional areas in this comprehensive work on global perspective on American foreign...
Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era
Nuclear Antiaircraft Arms and the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Thousands of nuclear antiaircraft arms were designed, tested and deployed in the United States during Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency. These Army "Nike-Hercules" missiles, Air Force "Genie" rockets, and "BOMARC" and "Falcon" missiles were meant to counter...
by M. Bom
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This study of the female members of the Order or Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem in the High Middle Ages analyses their presence in the context of female monasticism and compares their position to the position of women in other religious military orders. Introducing questions of gender into the history of the military orders.
by S. Lean
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
What is the role of civic associations in generating electoral accountability, and how do efforts by national groups to ensure free and fair elections advance democratic consolidation? Lean advances our understanding of how civic activism can strengthen election processes and provides new insight into role of elections for democratic consolidation.
Turkish Foreign Policy
Islam, Nationalism, and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
This book explores how Turkey's contested national identity has affected its foreign policysince the late Ottoman era. The book takes a constructivist approach, asserting that identity matters for foreign policy decisions, but it separates itself from statist approaches by bringing identity question into domestic politics.