Palgrave Macmillan Us: 3342 books
Brazil on the Global Stage
Power, Ideas, and the Liberal International Order
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
In the past generation, Brazil has risen to become the seventh largest economy and fourth largest democracy in the world. Yet its rise challenges the conventional wisdom that capitalist democracies will necessarily converge to become faithful adherents of a US-led global liberal order. Indeed, Brazil...
The U.S.-Japan Security Alliance
Regional Multilateralism
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
In this book, American and Japanese experts examine to what extent diverging priorities in the U.S.-Japan alliance are real and whether they are not remedied with political and diplomatic leadership and other processes. American and Japanese authors are paired to analyze the same topic, where doing so is possible, for comparing their perspectives.
The Drama of Marriage
Gay Playwrights/Straight Unions from Oscar Wilde to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
In studying performances of marriage in modern and contemporary British and American drama, Clum highlights the fact that - paradoxically - at a time when theatre was both popular entertainment and high culture, many of the most commercially and artistically successful plays about marriage were written...
Early-Twentieth-Century Frontier Dramas on Broadway
Situating the Western Experience in Performing Arts
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
Frontier dramas were among the most popular and successful of early-twentieth-century Broadway type plays. The long runs of contemporary dramas not only indicate the popularity of these plays but also tell us that these plays offered views about the frontier that original audiences could and did embrace.
American Playwriting and the Anti-Political Prejudice
Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Twenty years after Tony Kushner's influential Angels in America seemed to declare a revitalized potency for the popular political play, there is a "No Politics" prejudice undermining US production and writing. This book explores the largely unrecognized cultural patterns that discourage political playwriting on the contemporary American stage.
Performance, Identity, and Immigration Law
A Theatre of Undocumentedness
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
How has contemporary American theatre presented so-called undocumented immigrants? Placing theatre artists and their work within a context of on-going debate, Guterman shows how theatre fills an essential role in a critical conversation by exploring the powerful ways in which legal labels affect and change us.
Narco Cinema
Sex, Drugs, and Banda Music in Mexico’s B-Filmography
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
This book provides the first comprehensive study of narco cinema, a cross-border exploitation cinema that, for over forty years, has been instrumental in shaping narco-culture in Mexico and the US borderlands. Identifying classics in its mammoth catalogue and analyzing select films at length, Rashotte...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
The 'generation' has been largely forgotten in the fields of sociology and political science, especially regarding global politics. This volume re-engages the concept of a 'generation,' utilizing it to explore how it can help us understand a variety of processes and patterns in International Relations and Comparative Politics.
America's Transatlantic Turn
Theodore Roosevelt and the "Discovery" of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
This collection uses Theodore Roosevelt to form a fresh approach to the history of US and European relations, arguing that the best place to look for the origins of the modern transatlantic relationship is in Roosevelt's life and career.
After Apollo?
Richard Nixon and the American Space Program
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Once the United States landed on the moon in July 1969, it was up to President Nixon to decide what to do in space after Apollo. This book chronicles the decisions he made, including ending space exploration and approving the space shuttle. Those decisions determined the character of the US human space flight program for the next forty years.
by Johan Swinnen
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Food and agriculture have been subject to heavy-handed government interventions throughout much of history and across the globe, both in developing and in developed countries. Today, more than half a trillion US dollars are spent by some governments to support farmers, while other governments impose...
American Exceptionalism Revisited
US Political Development in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
American Exceptionalism Revisited provides a broad overview of the various features that signify American politics. These include the upholding of an exceptional political stability, involving a particular balance between legislative, executive and judicial powers, and the permanence of a unique party...
Zambia, Mining, and Neoliberalism
Boom and Bust on the Globalized Copperbelt
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
This book paints a vivid picture of Zambia's experience riding the copper price rollercoaster. It brings together the best of recent research on Zambia's mining industry from eminent scholars in history, geography, anthropology, politics, sociology and economics. The authors discuss how aid donors...
The Little Rock Crisis
What Desegregation Politics Says About Us
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
The Little Rock Crisis frames the story of the Little Rock 1957 desegregation crisis through the lens of memory. Over time, those memories – individual and collective – have motivated Little Rockians for social and political action and engagement.