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The Revolution of ’28

Al Smith, American Progressivism, and the Coming of the New Deal

by Robert Chiles
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018

The Revolution of ’28 explores the career of New York governor and 1928 Democratic presidential nominee Alfred E. Smith. Robert Chiles peers into Smith’s work and uncovers a distinctive strain of American progressivism that resonated among urban, ethnic, working-class Americans in the early twentieth...

Memories of War

Visiting Battlegrounds and Bonefields in the Early American Republic

by Thomas A. Chambers
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012

Even in the midst of the Civil War, its battlefields were being dedicated as hallowed ground. Today, those sites are among the most visited places in the United States. In contrast, the battlegrounds of the Revolutionary War had seemingly been forgotten in the aftermath of the conflict in which the...

Under the Strain of Color

Harlem's Lafargue Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry

by Gabriel N. Mendes
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015

In Under the Strain of Color, Gabriel N. Mendes recaptures the history of a largely forgotten New York City institution that embodied new ways of thinking about mental health, race, and the substance of citizenship. Harlem's Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic was founded in 1946 as both a practical response...

The Tie That Bound Us

The Women of John Brown's Family and the Legacy of Radical Abolitionism

by Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013

John Brown was fiercely committed to the militant abolitionist cause, a crusade that culminated in Brown's raid on the Federal armory at Harpers Ferry in 1859 and his subsequent execution. Less well known is his devotion to his family, and they to him. Two of Brown’s sons were killed at Harpers...

The Poison Plot

A Tale of Adultery and Murder in Colonial Newport

by Elaine Forman Crane
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018

An accusation of attempted murder rudely interrupted Mary Arnold’s dalliances with working men and her extensive shopping sprees. When her husband Benedict fell deathly ill and then asserted she had tried to kill him with poison, the result was a dramatic petition for divorce. The case before the...

Myths of Empire

Domestic Politics and International Ambition

by Jack Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013

Overextension is the common pitfall of empires. Why does it occur? What are the forces that cause the great powers of the industrial era to pursue aggressive foreign policies? Jack Snyder identifies recurrent myths of empire, describes the varieties of overextension to which they lead, and criticizes...

Zion's Dilemmas

How Israel Makes National Security Policy

by Charles D. Freilich
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012

In Zion's Dilemmas, a former deputy national security adviser to the State of Israel details the history and, in many cases, the chronic inadequacies in the making of Israeli national security policy. Chuck Freilich identifies profound, ongoing problems that he ascribes to a series of factors: a hostile...
by Jane R. Zavisca
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

In Housing the New Russia, Jane R. Zavisca examines Russia’s attempts to transition from a socialist vision of housing, in which the government promised a separate, state-owned apartment for every family, to a market-based and mortgage-dependent model of home ownership. In 1992, the post-Soviet...

Playing the Market

A Political Strategy for Uniting Europe, 1985–2005

by Nicolas Jabko
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

In the 1980s and 1990s, Nicolas Jabko suggests, the character of European integration altered radically, from slow growth to what he terms a "quiet revolution." In this book he traces the political strategy that underlay the move from the Single Market of 1986 through the official creation of the...

Empire of Conspiracy

The Culture of Paranoia in Postwar America

by Timothy Melley
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016

Why, Timothy Melley asks, have paranoia and conspiracy theory become such prominent features of postwar American culture? In Empire of Conspiracy, Melley explores the recent growth of anxieties about thought-control, assassination, political indoctrination, stalking, surveillance, and corporate and...

Corruption as a Last Resort

Adapting to the Market in Central Asia

by Kelly M. McMann
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015

Why do ordinary people engage in corruption? In Corruption as a Last Resort, Kelly M. McMann contends that bureaucrats, poverty, and culture do not force individuals in Central Asia to pay bribes, use connections, or sell political support. Rather, corruption is a last resort when relatives, groups...

Weapons of the Wealthy

Predatory Regimes and Elite-Led Protests in Central Asia

by Scott B. Radnitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012

Mass mobilization is among the most dramatic and inspiring forces for political change. When ordinary citizens take to the streets in large numbers, they can undermine and even topple undemocratic governments, as the recent wave of peaceful uprisings in several postcommunist states has shown. However,...
by Aby M. Warburg
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016

Aby M. Warburg (1866–1929) is recognized not only as one of the century’s preeminent art and Renaissance historians but also as a founder of twentieth-century methods in iconology and cultural studies in general. Warburg’s 1923 lecture, first published in German in 1988 and now available in...

Habits of the Heartland

Small-Town Life in Modern America

by Lyn C. Macgregor
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

"So, how do Americans in a small town make community today? This book argues that there is more than one answer, and that despite the continued importance of small-town stuff traditionally associated with face-to-face communities, it makes no sense to think that contemporary technological, economic,...
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