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Culture and Power
The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Pierre Bourdieu is one of the world's most important social theorists and is also one of the great empirical researchers in contemporary sociology. However, reading Bourdieu can be difficult for those not familiar with the French cultural context, and until now a comprehensive introduction to Bourdieu's...
Making England Western
Occidentalism, Race, and Imperial Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
The central argument of Edward Said’s Orientalism is that the relationship between Britain and its colonies was primarily oppositional, based on contrasts between conquest abroad and domestic order at home. Saree Makdisi directly challenges that premise in Making England Western, identifying the...
by Emile Durkheim
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Ranging from Durkheim's original lecture in sociology to an excerpt from the work incomplete at his death, these selections illuminate his multiple approaches to the crucial concept of social solidarity and the study of institutions as diverse as the law, morality, and the family. Durkheim's focus...
The Charleston Orphan House
Children's Lives in the First Public Orphanage in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
The first public orphanage in America, the Charleston Orphan House saw to the welfare and education of thousands of children from poor white families in the urban South. From wealthy benefactors to the families who sought its assistance to the artisans and merchants who relied on its charges as apprentices,...
Frontier Seaport
Detroit's Transformation into an Atlantic Entrepôt
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Detroit’s industrial health has long been crucial to the American economy. Today’s troubles notwithstanding, Detroit has experienced multiple periods of prosperity, particularly in the second half of the eighteenth century, when the city was the center of the thriving fur trade. Its proximity...
Making the Mission
Planning and Ethnicity in San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, residents of the city’s iconic Mission District bucked the city-wide development plan, defiantly announcing that in their neighborhood, they would be calling the shots. Ever since, the Mission has become known as a city within a city, and a...
Not Just Roommates
Cohabitation after the Sexual Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
The late twentieth century has seen a fantastic expansion of personal, sexual, and domestic liberties in the United States. In Not Just Roommates, Elizabeth H. Pleck explores the rise of cohabitation, and the changing social norms that have allowed cohabitation to become the chosen lifestyle of more...
Hitler's Geographies
The Spatialities of the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Lebensraum: the entitlement of “legitimate” Germans to living space. Entfernung: the expulsion of “undesirables” to create empty space for German resettlement. During his thirteen years leading Germany, Hitler developed and made use of a number of powerful geostrategical concepts such as...
Reasons of Conscience
The Bioethics Debate in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
The implicit questions that inevitably underlie German bioethics are the same ones that have pervaded all of German public life for decades: How could the Holocaust have happened? And how can Germans make sure that it will never happen again? In Reasons of Conscience, Stefan Sperling considers the...
by Tirthankar Roy, Anand V. Swamy
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Since the economic reforms of the 1990s, India’s economy has grown rapidly. To sustain growth and foreign investment over the long run requires a well-developed legal infrastructure for conducting business, including cheap and reliable contract enforcement and secure property rights. But it’s...
Dreamscapes of Modernity
Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Dreamscapes of Modernity offers the first book-length treatment of sociotechnical imaginaries, a concept originated by Sheila Jasanoff and developed in close collaboration with Sang-Hyun Kim to describe how visions of scientific and technological progress carry with them implicit ideas about public...
The State and the Stork
The Population Debate and Policy Making in US History
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
From the colonial era to the present, the ever-shifting debate about America’s prodigious population growth has exerted a profound influence on the evolution of politics, public policy, and economic thinking in the United States. In a remarkable shift since the late 1960s, Americans of all political...
Agenda Setting, Policies, and Political Systems
A Comparative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Before making significant policy decisions, political actors and parties must first craft an agenda designed to place certain issues at the center of political attention. The agenda-setting approach in political science holds that the amount of attention devoted by the various actors within a political...
Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect
A New History
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
In 2011, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1973, authorizing its member states to take measures to protect Libyan civilians from Muammar Gadhafi’s forces. In invoking the “responsibility to protect,” the resolution draws on the principle that sovereign states are responsible...