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The International Human Rights Movement
A History
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
During the past several decades, the international human rights movement has had a crucial hand in the struggle against totalitarian regimes, cruelties in wars, and crimes against humanity. Today, it grapples with the war against terror and subsequent abuses of government power. In The International...
No Enchanted Palace
The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
No Enchanted Palace traces the origins and early development of the United Nations, one of the most influential yet perhaps least understood organizations active in the world today. Acclaimed historian Mark Mazower forces us to set aside the popular myth that the UN miraculously rose from the ashes...
The Crisis of American Foreign Policy
Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
Was George W. Bush the true heir of Woodrow Wilson, the architect of liberal internationalism? Was the Iraq War a result of liberal ideas about America's right to promote democracy abroad? In this timely book, four distinguished scholars of American foreign policy discuss the relationship between...
America's Mission
The United States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy - Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
America's Mission argues that the global strength and prestige of democracy today are due in large part to America's impact on international affairs. Tony Smith documents the extraordinary history of how American foreign policy has been used to try to promote democracy worldwide, an effort that enjoyed...
America in the World
A History in Documents from the War with Spain to the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2014
How should America wield its enormous power beyond its borders? Should it adhere to grand principles or act on narrow self-interest? Should it partner with other nations or avoid entangling alliances? Americans have been grappling with questions like these throughout the nation's history, and especially...
Power in the Portrayal
Representations of Jews and Muslims in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Islamic Spain
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Power in the Portrayal unveils a fresh and vital perspective on power relations in eleventh- and twelfth-century Muslim Spain as reflected in historical and literary texts of the period. Employing the methods of the new historical literary study in looking at a range of texts, Ross Brann reveals the...
The Persuadable Voter
Wedge Issues in Presidential Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
The use of wedge issues such as abortion, gay marriage, and immigration has become standard political strategy in contemporary presidential campaigns. Why do candidates use such divisive appeals? Who in the electorate is persuaded by these controversial issues? And what are the consequences for American...
Mafias on the Move
How Organized Crime Conquers New Territories
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Organized crime is spreading like a global virus as mobs take advantage of open borders to establish local franchises at will. That at least is the fear, inspired by stories of Russian mobsters in New York, Chinese triads in London, and Italian mafias throughout the West.
As Federico Varese...
State of the Union
A Century of American Labor - Revised and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
In a fresh and timely reinterpretation, Nelson Lichtenstein examines how trade unionism has waxed and waned in the nation's political and moral imagination, among both devoted partisans and intransigent foes. From the steel foundry to the burger-grill, from Woodrow Wilson to John Sweeney, from Homestead...
by Zachary Callen, J. Eric Oliver, Shang E. Ha
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
Local government is the hidden leviathan of American politics: it accounts for nearly a tenth of gross domestic product, it collects nearly as much in taxes as the federal government, and its decisions have an enormous impact on Americans' daily lives. Yet political scientists have few explanations...
Roosevelt's Lost Alliances
How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
In the spring of 1945, as the Allied victory in Europe was approaching, the shape of the postwar world hinged on the personal politics and flawed personalities of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. Roosevelt's Lost Alliances captures this moment and shows how FDR crafted a winning coalition by overcoming...
Sufism
A New History of Islamic Mysticism
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
A pathbreaking history of Sufism, from the earliest centuries of Islam to the present
After centuries as the most important ascetic-mystical strand of Islam, Sufism saw a sharp decline in the twentieth century, only to experience a stunning revival in recent decades. In this comprehensive new...
The Godfather Doctrine
A Foreign Policy Parable
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
The Godfather Doctrine draws clear and essential lessons from perhaps the greatest Hollywood movie ever made to illustrate America's changing geopolitical place in the world and how our country can best meet the momentous strategic challenges it faces.
In the movie The Godfather, Don Corleone,...
The 1970s
A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
The 1970s looks at an iconic decade when the cultural left and economic right came to the fore in American society and the world at large. While many have seen the 1970s as simply a period of failures epitomized by Watergate, inflation, the oil crisis, global unrest, and disillusionment with military...