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Roman Catholics and Shi'i Muslims
Prayer, Passion, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2002
This timely work explores two influential religious traditions that might seem to have little in common: Twelver Shi'i Islam and Roman Catholicism. With the worldwide rise of religious fundamentalism, it is imperative that religious movements such as Christianity and Islam begin working harder to...
Wilhelm II
Volume 2: Emperor and Exile, 1900-1941
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Wilhelm II (1859-1941), King of Prussia and German Emperor from 1888 to 1918, reigned during a period of unprecedented economic, cultural, and intellectual achievement in Germany. This volume completes Lamar Cecil's prize-winning scholarly biography of the Kaiser, one of modern history's most powerful--and...
Prophets of Rebellion
Millenarian Protest Movements against the European Colonial Order
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Adas explores the relationship between millenarianism and violent protest by focusing on five case studies representing a wide range of social, political, and economic systems. The rebellions examined are: Netherlands East Indies (1825-30), New Zealand (c. 1864-67), Central India (1895-1900), German...
Engines of Innovation
The Entrepreneurial University in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
In Engines of Innovation, Holden Thorp and Buck Goldstein make the case for the pivotal role of research universities as agents of societal change. They argue that universities must use their vast intellectual and financial resources to confront global challenges such as climate change, extreme poverty,...
Negotiating Paradise
U.S. Tourism and Empire in Twentieth-Century Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Accounts of U.S. empire building in Latin America typically portray politically and economically powerful North Americans descending on their southerly neighbors to engage in lopsided negotiations. Dennis Merrill's comparative history of U.S. tourism in Latin America in the twentieth century demonstrates...
Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment
Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880-1920
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Richard Hamm examines prohibitionists' struggle for reform from the late nineteenth century to their great victory in securing passage of the Eighteenth Amendment. Because the prohibition movement was a quintessential reform effort, Hamm uses it as a case study to advance a general theory about the...
Separate and Unequal
Public School Campaigns and Racism in the Southern Seaboard States, 1901-1915
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
This is a revealing study of the crucial period in the educational development of the South as it involved the separate but equal" doctrine. It is based on extensive research in newspapers, public documents, official reports, and manuscripts, and it provides detailed evidence that the states...
The Duke's Province
A Study of New York Politics and Society, 1664-1691
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The late seventeenth century in America was important as an era of transition from rough settlement to established provincial life. It was a time when social, political, and economic problems caused strains that led to religious doubt, personal anxiety, riot, and one of the worst rebellions in the...
The Search for a New Order
Intellectuals and Fascism in Prewar Japan
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Fletcher explains how three writers--Ryu Shintaro, Royama Masamichi, and Miki Kiyoshi--who were supporters of democratic socialism became ideologues for the East Asian bloc ideal that rationalized Japan's dominance of Asia after 1937, and he demonstrates how and why they designed the New Order movement...
Missionary Capitalist
Nelson Rockefeller in Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
The first work to draw on Nelson A. Rockefeller's newly available personal papers as well as research in Latin American archives, Missionary Capitalist details Rockefeller's efforts to promote economic development in Latin America, particularly Venezuela, from the late 1930s through the 1950s.
Rockefeller's...
by Harry S. Ashmore
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
This book provides an impartial look at the whole picture of biracial education in the United States. It is also a history of segregation in education in the United States and the story of the South's effort to equalize educational opportunities for white and black children.
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by Rita Ricardo-Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
This study analyzes the entire health scene, providing valuable insights into the working of the health care practices, and offering policy recommendations for more effective distribution. Although the study focuses mainly on cost containment, it also explores the relationship between health and medical...
Legislating Privacy
Technology, Social Values, and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
While technological threats to personal privacy have proliferated rapidly, legislation designed to protect privacy has been slow and incremental. In this study of legislative attempts to reconcile privacy and technology, Priscilla Regan examines congressional policy making in three key areas: computerized...
by G. Ledyard Stebbins
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
In this incisive book, a distinguished geneticist has succeeded in relating the extraordinary biological discoveries of the last two decades to the basic questions about the origin and evolution of life on earth. The "molecular revolution" in biology--culminating in the discovery of the...