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Thomas More
Why Patron of Statesmen?
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
The year 2015 marks the 15****th anniversary of St. Pope John Paul II’s promulgation of Thomas More as Patron Saint of Statesmen and Politicians. Yet during these years no serious answer has been given by a community of scholars as to why More was named such. What were More’s guiding principles...
by William R. Nester
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
America’s colonial era began and ended dramatically, with the founding of the first enduring settlement at Jamestown on May 14, 1607 and the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776. During those 169 years, conflicts were endemic and often overlapping among the colonists, between...
Masters and Slaves
Revisioned Essays in Political Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2001
This collection of essays sheds light on the writings of leading figures in the history of political philosophy by exploring a nexus of questions concerning mastery and slavery in the human soul. To this end, Masters and Slaves elucidates archetypal human alternatives in their import for political...
Toward a catholic Christianity
A Study in Critical Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Toward a catholic Christianity tries to show how by working collaboratively the “people of God” can credibly meet them together. In this way, the diversity and unity within the Roman Catholic community are explicitly acknowledged and affirmed. For if that community is to become authentically Christian, it will need to become more genuinely catholic.
The Illusion of the Post-Colonial State
Governance and Security Challenges in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This book challenges the long-held conventional wisdom that Africa is a post-colonial society of sovereign nation-states despite the outward attributes of statehood: demarcated territories, permanent populations, governments, national currencies, police, and armed forces. While it is true that African...
Urbanization and Party Survival in China
People vs. Power
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
While the Chinese urban movement has successfully transferred surplus labor from the countryside to urban industries that urgently require free and cheap labor, numerous problems have arisen as a result of the unprecedented huge-scale process. Such conditions such as overcrowding, substandard housing,...
China's Soft Power Diplomacy in South Asia
Myth or Reality?
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
China's Soft Power Diplomacy: Myth or Reality? examines the Chinese version of soft power both in conceptual and operational terms, and explores its myriad implications for India, in particular, and South Asia in general. The book investigates how the institutionalization of cultural soft power would...
Confrontation over Taiwan
Nineteenth-Century China and the Powers
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
Confrontation over Taiwan: Nineteenth Century China and the Powers is a full and detailed account of international relations of Taiwan during the nineteenth century and specifically, the period between 1840 and 1895. During this time the western powers and Japan were engaged in imperialist designs...
Childbirth in Republican China
Delivering Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Delivering Modernity: Childbirth in Republican China (1911-1949) is the study of a pivotal period in which traditional midwifery, marked by private, unregulated old-style midwives, was transformed into modern midwifery through the adoption of a highly medicalized and state-sponsored birth model that...
Matriarchy, Patriarchy, and Imperial Security in Africa
Explaining Riots in Europe and Violence in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Matriarchy, Patriarchy and Imperial Security in Africa is an interdisciplinary treatment of a topic that is usually addressed by political scientists and military strategists. Rather than follow Thomas P. M. Barnett’s, Samuel Huntington’s and Edward Saïd’s top-down approach to the turn-of-the-twenty-first...
by Djene Rhys Bajalan, Oral Çalislar, Fuat Keyman
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
This edited volume, comprising chapters by leading academics and experts, aims to clarify the complexity of Turkey’s Kurdish question. The Kurdish question is a long-standing, protracted issue, which gained regional and international significance largely in the last thirty years. The Kurdish people...
Urban Reform and Sexual Vice in Progressive-Era Philadelphia
The Faithful and the Fallen
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This book examines the intersection and interplay between Progressive-Era rhetoric regarding commercialized vice and the realities of prostitution in early-twentieth-century Philadelphia. Arguing that any study of commercial sexual vice in a historical context is difficult given the paucity of evidence,...
Crisis and Commonwealth
Marcuse, Marx, McLaren
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Crisis and Commonwealth: Marcuse, Marx, McLaren advances Marcuse scholarship by presenting four hitherto untranslated and unpublished manuscripts by Herbert Marcuse from the Frankfurt University Archive on themes of economic value theory, socialism, and humanism. Contributors to this edited collection,...
Gender, Whiteness, and Power in Rodeo
Breaking Away from the Ties of Sexism and Racism
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
The lure of cowgirls and cowboys has hooked the American imagination with the lure of freedom and adventure since the turn of the twentieth century. The cowboy and cowgirl played in the imagination and made rodeo into a symbolic representation of the Western United States. As a sport that is emblematic...