Lexington Books: 3858 books
Between Two Worlds
Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Between Two Worlds: Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa is a special volume on Jean Price-Mars that reassesses the importance of his thought and legacy, and the implications of his ideas in the twenty-first century’s culture of political correctness, the continuing challenge of race and racism, and...
by Gwen Brown, Elizabeth Camille, Janis L. Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
To simply say the 2008 presidential election was historic seems like an understatement. The election was unique in many ways beyond the selection of the nation's first African-American as President. The drama of the election was also heightened by the historic nomination battle between Hillary Clinton...
by José E. Cruz
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Using Puerto Rican politics in New York City as a case study, particularly focusing on political elites, Puerto Rican Identity, Political Development, and Democracy in New York, 1960–1990 argues that ethnic identity is a positive force in political development. José E. Cruz suggests that in using...
Readings in Caribbean History and Culture
Breaking Ground
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
This collection of eleven essays is designed to highlight some important new voices who have been doing research on the general subject areas of the history and culture of the Caribbean. The essays in this volume also address a number of themes which are critical to developing an understanding of...
Controversial Chiefs in Colonial Kenya
The Untold Story of Senior Chief Waruhiu Wa Kung'u, 1890–1952
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Senior Chief Waruhiu wa Kung’u is one of colonial Kenya’s most controversial chiefs. His name has gone down in history as a traitor who was assassinated because he sold his country to the British colonizers. This book is the untold story of the controversial life of Senior Chief Waruhiu who served...
Urban Growth in Ethiopia, 1887–1974
From the Foundation of Finfinnee to the Demise of the First Imperial Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
This book highlights the positive achievements that Imperial Ethiopia made in its journey towards urbanization into the modern era, and undertakes a critical assessment of the economic, political, and social impediments that prevented the country from transitioning into a truly fully fledged modern...
American Ideal
Theodore Roosevelt's Search for American Individualism
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2008
This book examines the political thought of Theodore Roosevelt, specifically his ceaseless desire and effort to reconcile America's individualistic tradition with the more collectivistic ideals of his Progressive brethren. Many scholars and lay-people alike cast Roosevelt as either 'conservative'...
Eisenhower
The Public Relations President
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
In the 1950s, public relations practitioners tried to garner respectability for their fledgling profession, and one international figure helped in that endeavor. President Dwight D. Eisenhower embraced public relations as a necessary component of American democracy, advancing the profession at a key...
by Ritu Mathur
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This book explores how the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), a leading humanitarian actor, addresses the problem of weapons. A triangulation of strategies such as testimonialization, medicalization and legalization, are investigated, with the help of critical security studies literature,...
Full Spectrum Diplomacy and Grand Strategy
Reforming the Structure and Culture of U.S. Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Full Spectrum Diplomacy and Grand Strategy: Reforming the Structure and Culture of U.S. Foreign Policy, by John Lenczowski, offers a solution to one of the greatest weaknesses in U.S. foreign policy that has exacerbated the unprecedented anti-Americanism of recent years—the U.S. Government's inability...
John Dewey and the Habits of Ethical Life
The Aesthetics of Political Organizing in a Liquid World
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
This book uses John Dewey to articulate discursive practices that would help citizens form better intellectual and moral relationships with their fragmented, shifting political environment. These practices do not impart more or better information to citizens, but instead consist in dialog exhibiting...
John Dahl and Neo-Noir
Examining Auteurism and Genre
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
In John Dahl and Neo-Noir: Examining Auteurism and Genre, Paul Monaco provides a focused inquiry into the first three feature films that director John Dahl made for theatrical release: Kill Me Again (1989), Red Rock West (1993), and The Last Seduction (1994). Subsequent to their releases, these three...
Tempered in the Revolutionary Furnace
China's Youth in the Rustication Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2003
In Tempered in the Revolutionary Furnace, Yihong Pan tells her personal story, and that of her generation of urban middle school graduates sent to the countryside during China's Rustication Movement. Based on interviews, reminiscences, diaries, letters, and newspaper accounts, the work examines the...
Contesting Colonial Authority
Medicine and Indigenous Responses in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century India
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Poonam Bala’s Contesting Colonial Authority explores the interplay of conformity and defiance amongst the plural medical tradition in colonial India. The contributors reveal how Indian elites, nationalists, and the rest of the Indian population participated in the move to revisit and frame a new...