Palgrave Macmillan Us: 3342 books
The Decline and Fall of the United States Information Agency
American Public Diplomacy, 1989–2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Using newly declassified archives and interviews with practitioners, Nicholas J. Cull has pieced together the story of the final decade in the life of the United States Information Agency, revealing the decisions and actions that brought the United States' apparatus for public diplomacy into disarray.
by J. Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Through personal experience and a lively narrative, this book examines the difficulty of communicating in adversarial environments like Iraq and Afghanistan, the complexity of multi-linguistic communications, and the importance of directing American cultural power in the national interest.
From Shakespeare to Obama
A Study in Language, Slavery and Place
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
From Shakespeare to Obama discusses language, slavery, and place from the Portuguese enslavement of African people, through slavery in Shakespeare's plays, to President Obama's 2012 speech on "modern slavery." Balancing close reading with context, this expansive book offers new insight into questions of otherness, rhetoric, and stereotyping.
Making Markets More Inclusive
Lessons from CARE and the Future of Sustainability in Agricultural Value Chain Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Most studies of doing business at the "bottom of the economic pyramid" focus on viewing the poor as consumers, as micro-entrepreneurs, or as potential employees of local companies. Almost no analysis focuses on the poor as primary producers of agricultural commodities a striking omission...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
This book combines the insights of thirteen Shavian scholars as they examine the themes of marriage, relationships and partnerships throughout all of Bernard Shaw’s major works. It also connects Shaw’s own experiences of love and marriage to the themes that emerge in his works, showing how his...
Germany’s Economic Renaissance
Lessons for the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
In Germany's Economic Renaissance, veteran European correspondent Jack Ewing of The International New York Times explains how a country with some of the highest labor and energy costs in the world beat the odds to become the third-largest exporter of manufactured goods, after China and the United...
by R. Hasmath
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
When examining ethnic minorities' educational attainments in urban China and Canada, they outperform or are on par with the non-minority population. However, when analyzing high-wage, education-intensive occupations, this cohort are not as prevalent as the non-minority population. What accounts for...
Sinicizing International Relations
Self, Civilization, and Intellectual Politics in Subaltern East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
The book brings civilizational politics back to the studies of international relations and foreign policy through a study of the multiple meanings of international relations and related terms in East Asia and the intrinsic relation of international relations to individual choices of scholarly identity.
Decolonizing Time
Work, Leisure, and Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Decolonizing Time: Work, Leisure, and Freedom demonstrates the importance of time as a central category for political theory, providing not only a history of the fight for time through political, feminist, and critical theory, but also assessing this tradition in the context of the United States.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
In this book, leading scholars from East Asia and beyond debate Michael Oakeshott's views on liberal democracy and totalitarianism and their implications for East Asia today. His ideas on rationality in politics, the nature of liberal democracy, and how democracy can defeat anti-liberal politics are explored in ten penetrating essays.
Marx's Associated Mode of Production
A Critique of Marxism
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
This book aims to restore Marx’s original emancipatory idea of socialism, conceived as an association of free individuals centered on working people’s self- emancipation after the demise of capitalism. Marxist scholar Paresh Chattopadhyay argues that, Marx’s (and Engels’s) ideas have been...
Against Orthodoxy
Social Theory and Its Discontents
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
The book contains groundbreaking and immersive essays on crucial 20th Century scholars on social theory, discussed and analyzed from a radical, critical theory perspective. Aronowitz provides his unique and lauded critical eye toward the leading thinkers of our age, crafting an immersive set of essays on radical thought.
Interpreting Clifford Geertz
Cultural Investigation in the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Theorist Clifford Geertz's influence extends far beyond Anthropology. This volume reflects the breadth of his influence, looking at Geertz as a theorist rather than as an anthropologist. To date there has been no impartial, comprehensive, and authoritative work published on this critical figure.
Building Cosmopolitan Communities
A Critical and Multidimensional Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Building Cosmopolitan Communities contributes to current cosmopolitanism debates by evaluating the justification and application of norms and human rights in different communitarian settings in order to achieve cosmopolitan ideals. Relying on a critical tradition that spans from Kant to contemporary...