Palgrave Macmillan Us: 3342 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This handbook constitutes a single collection of well researched articles and essays on African politics, governance and development from the pre-colonial through colonial to the post-colonial eras. Over the course of these interconnected periods, African politics have evolved with varied experiences...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
This volume examines the present status and future trends of textbook studies. Cutting-edge essays by leading experts and emerging scholars explore the field’s theories, methodologies, and topics with the goal of generating debate and providing new perspectives. The Georg Eckert Institute’s unique...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
This handbook investigates the current state and future possibilities of African Philosophy, as a discipline and as a practice, vis-à-vis the challenge of African development and Africa’s place in a globalized, neoliberal capitalist economy. The volume offers a comprehensive survey of the philosophical...
The US Strategic Pivot to Asia and Cross-Strait Relations
Economic and Security Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Providing a coherent and current account of how the U.S. manages to 'pivot to Asia' amid a rising China, this book provides an insightful glimpse into China-US relations, and the complexities of the two nations' economic and defense issues as China asserts is financial and military might in Asia and beyond.
The Role of Ideology in Syrian-US Relations
Conflict and Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
A study of US-Syria relations, this book analyzes the legacy of mistrust between the two states and continuities and discontinuities over time. It challenges the purely realist and power-political explanation that is dominant and points to a politically embedded set of ideas rooted in anti-colonial Arab nationalist ideology.
“Dual Containment” Policy in the Persian Gulf
The USA, Iran, and Iraq, 1991–2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
This book offers a concise account of US "dual containment" policy towards Iran and Iraq during the 1990s, an overlooked era between the tumult of the liberation of Kuwait and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In particular, it uses a theoretical framework derived from neoclassical...
Critical Race Theory and Education
A Marxist Response
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
This book, now in its second edition, focuses on the challenge to Marxism posed by Critical Race Theory as this relates to educational theory, policy, and practices with respect to both the US and UK. Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the realm of Education has a long history in the US, and is now a burgeoning...
The Scandal of White Complicity in US Hyper-incarceration
A Nonviolent Spirituality of White Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
The Scandal of White Complicity and US Hyper-incarceration is a groundbreaking exploration of the moral role of white people in the disproportionate incarceration of African-Americans and Latinos in the United States.
US Immigration Reform and Its Global Impact
Lessons from the Postville Raid
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
An insider's account of the Postville case, this book gauges the raid's human, social, and economic impact, based on interaction with the main participants and interviews with local citizens and arrestees in the US and Guatemala.
The Turning Point in US-Japan Relations
Hanihara’s Cherry Blossom Diplomacy in 1920-1930
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
This book analyses two international incidents in the 1920s shocked Japan and changed the way in which the country looked at the West. In the Paris Peace Conference, Japanese proposed Racial Equality Bill was defeated. In 1924, the US passed the immigration law that singularly excluded Japanese from...
Japan, the US, and Regional Institution-Building in the New Asia
When Identity Matters
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Providing a thorough and novel account of US and Japanese foreign policymaking toward regional institution-building in post-Cold War Asia, this study serves as the first comparative analysis of these two major actors in this realm of regional cooperation and demonstrates not only how but also when state identity shapes a state's foreign policy.
The Palgrave Handbook of Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity
Formulating a Field of Study
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
The study of altruism, morality, and social solidarity is an emerging field of scholarship and research in sociology. This handbook will function as a foundational source for this subject matter and field, and as an impetus to its further development.
Bringing Human Rights Education to US Classrooms
Exemplary Models from Elementary Grades to University
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
This book offers research-based models of exemplary practice for educators at all grade levels, from primary school to university, who want to integrate human rights education into their classrooms. It includes ten examples of projects that have been effectively implemented in classrooms: two from...
Financial Sustainability in US Higher Education
Transformational Strategy in Troubled Times
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
This book is a practical approach to insuring financial sustainability of US colleges, presented through the lens of organizational strategic thinking. The book does not simply offer models of how colleges can become financially sustainable in cost cutting, online education, international student...