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The Civil Law Tradition
An Introduction to the Legal Systems of Europe and Latin America, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Designed for the general reader and students of law, this is a concise history and analysis of the civil law tradition, which is dominant in most of Europe, all of Latin America, and many parts of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The fourth edition is fully updated to include the latest developments...
The Headscarf Debates
Conflicts of National Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
The headscarf is an increasingly contentious symbol in countries across the world. Those who don the headscarf in Germany are referred to as "integration-refusers." In Turkey, support by and for headscarf-wearing women allowed a religious party to gain political power in a strictly secular...
by Polly Ha
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
This book offers an alternative interpretation of pre-Civil War England, challenging the standard narrative that English presbyterianism was successfully extinguished from the late sixteenth century until its prominent public resurgence during the English Civil War. From their emergence in the 1570s,...
Human Rights for the 21st Century
Sovereignty, Civil Society, Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2009
A new moral, ethical, and legal framework is needed for international human rights law. Never in human history has there been such an elaborate international system for human rights, yet from massive disasters, such as the Darfur genocide, to everyday tragedies, such as female genital mutilation,...
(Re)Negotiating East and Southeast Asia
Region, Regionalism, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2009
This book seeks to explain two core paradoxes associated with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): How have diverse states hung together and stabilized relations in the face of competing interests, divergent preferences, and arguably weak cooperation? How has a group of lesser, self-identified...
Is There a Middle East?
The Evolution of a Geopolitical Concept
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Is the idea of the "Middle East" simply a geopolitical construct conceived by the West to serve particular strategic and economic interests—or can we identify geographical, historical, cultural, and political patterns to indicate some sort of internal coherence to this label? While the...
In the Time of Oil
Piety, Memory, and Social Life in an Omani Town
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Before the discovery of oil in the late 1960s, Oman was one of the poorest countries in the world, with only six kilometers of paved roads and one hospital. By the late 1970s, all that had changed as Oman used its new oil wealth to build a modern infrastructure. In the Time of Oil describes how people...
A Taste for Home
The Modern Middle Class in Ottoman Beirut
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
The "home" is a quintessentially quotidian topic, yet one at the center of global concerns: Consumption habits, aesthetic preferences, international trade, and state authority all influence the domestic sphere. For middle-class residents of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Beirut,...
Militants or Partisans
Labor Unions and Democratic Politics in Korea and Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
The exceptional experiences of South Korea and Taiwan in combining high growth and liberal democracy in a relatively short and similar timetable have brought scholarly attention to their economic and political transformations. This new work looks specifically at the operation of workers and unions...
Civic Engagements
The Citizenship Practices of Indian and Vietnamese Immigrants
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
For refugees and immigrants in the United States, expressions of citizenship and belonging emerge not only during the naturalization process but also during more informal, everyday activities in the community. Based on research in the Dallas–Arlington–Fort Worth area of Texas, this book examines...
by Ajay Verghese
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
The neighboring north Indian districts of Jaipur and Ajmer are identical in language, geography, and religious and caste demography. But when the famous Babri Mosque in Ayodhya was destroyed in 1992, Jaipur burned while Ajmer remained peaceful; when the state clashed over low-caste affirmative action...
Radical Equality
Ambedkar, Gandhi, and the Risk of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
B.R. Ambedkar, the architect of India's constitution, and M.K. Gandhi, the Indian nationalist, two figures whose thought and legacies have most strongly shaped the contours of Indian democracy, are typically considered antagonists who held irreconcilable views on empire, politics, and society. As...
Jinnealogy
Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
In the ruins of a medieval palace in Delhi, a unique phenomenon occurs: Indians of all castes and creeds meet to socialize and ask the spirits for help. The spirits they entreat are Islamic jinns, and they write out requests as if petitioning the state. At a time when a Hindu right wing government...
Nation and Family
Personal Law, Cultural Pluralism, and Gendered Citizenship in India
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
The distinct personal laws that govern the major religious groups are a major aspect of Indian multiculturalism and secularism, and support specific gendered rights in family life. Nation and Family is the most comprehensive study to date of the public discourses, processes of social mobilization,...