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The Virtues of Exit
On Resistance and Quitting Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Successful democracies rely on an active citizenry. They require citizens to participate by voting, serving on juries, and running for office. But what happens when those citizens purposefully opt out of politics? Exit—the act of leaving—is often thought of as purely instinctual, a part of the...
The Limits of Judicial Power
The Supreme Court in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Lasser examines in detail four periods during which the Court was widely charged with overstepping its constitutional power: the late 1850s, with the Dred Scott case and its aftermath; the Reconstruction era; the New Deal era; and the years of the Warren and Burger Courts after 1954. His thorough...
by Edward J. Berbusse
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Through a close examination of the United States military governments established in Puerto Rico, and with careful attention to the important Foraker Act of 1900, the author presents in detail the results of Puerto Rico's transition from the old world to the new.
Originally published in 1966.
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Relicts of a Beautiful Sea
Survival, Extinction, and Conservation in a Desert World
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Along a tiny spring in a narrow canyon near Death Valley, seemingly against all odds, an Inyo Mountain slender salamander makes its home. "The desert," writes conservation biologist Christopher Norment, "is defined by the absence of water, and yet in the desert there is water enough,...
The Tennessee Valley Authority
A Study in Public Administration
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
As an example of the efficient administration of a vast public enterprise, the T.V.A. furnished a basis for renewed faith in democratic institutions and for hope in the reconstruction of a war-torn world. The author discusses the background of the T.V.A., its multiple-purpose program, its development...
Rereading Doris Lessing
Narrative Patterns of Doubling and Repetition
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
According to Sprague, doubling in Lessing's novels is a perfect correlative for the complexity and contradiction Lessing perceives as central to the private and collective human experience. Her doubles and multiples not only indicate the fracturing or the formation of identity but they also are among...
The Mexican Press and Civil Society, 1940–1976
Stories from the Newsroom, Stories from the Street
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Mexico today is one of the most dangerous places in the world to report the news, and Mexicans have taken to the street to defend freedom of expression. As Benjamin T. Smith demonstrates in this history of the press and civil society, the cycle of violent repression and protest over journalism is...
by Samuel Hynes
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
The pattern in Hardy's poetry is the eternal conflict between irreconcilables that was, for him, the first principle, and indeed the only principle, of universal order. Hynes analyzes this pattern as it is manifested in the philosophical context of the poems, their structure, diction, and imagery....
Colonial Entanglement
Constituting a Twenty-First-Century Osage Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
From 2004 to 2006 the Osage Nation conducted a contentious governmental reform process in which sharply differing visions arose over the new government's goals, the Nation's own history, and what it means to be Osage. The primary debates were focused on biology, culture, natural resources, and sovereignty....
Claiming Turtle Mountain's Constitution
The History, Legacy, and Future of a Tribal Nation's Founding Documents
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
In an auditorium in Belcourt, North Dakota, on a chilly October day in 1932, Robert Bruce and his fellow tribal citizens held the political fate of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians in their hands. Bruce, and the others, had been asked to adopt a tribal constitution, but he was unhappy...
From Working Girl to Working Mother
The Female Labor Force in the United States, 1820-1980
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
In this fresh perspective on one of the major demographic trends in our history, Weiner skillfully interweaves evidence on women's employment, government social policy, and the contemporary debate about women's sphere to explore the interconnections between patterns of women's work and the ideologies...
Mother Worship
Theme and Variations
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
The authors identify the general symbol of the "Mother Goddess" as a common sanctified image, and they demonstrate some of the cultural variations in form or function of the symbol in specific sociocultural settings. Although the subject is approached from a wide variety of perspectives, the authors...
by Arnold Pritchard
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Although the varying attitudes toward the English crown and the order of English society were central to the differences between the loyalists and the militants, disagreements involved many questions other than political ones, including the role of the Jesuits in the English mission and the nature...
American Growth and the Balance of Payments, 1820-1913
A Study of the Long Swing
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The basic purpose of Williamson's study is to determine whether the Kuznets cycles, or long swings in the domestic economy, have had any consistent effect on U. S. foreign trade and, as a result, on the nation's balance-of-payments position. The author has chosen the period from 1820 to 1913 and has...