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The Future and Its Enemies
In Defense of Political Hope
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Humans may be the only creatures conscious of having a future, but all too often we would rather not think about it. Likewise, our societies, unable to deal with radical uncertainty, do not make policies with a view to the long term. Instead, we suffer from a sense of powerlessness, collective irrationality,...
by Niklas Luhmann
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
This second volume of Niklas Luhmann's two-part final work was first published in German in 1997. The culmination of his thirty-year theoretical project to reconceptualize sociology, it offers a comprehensive description of modern society. Beginning with an account of the fluidity of meaning and the...
Special Relations
The Americanization of Britain?
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
Special Relations reevaluates Anglo-American cultural exchange by exploring metropolitan London's culture and counterculture from the 1950s to the 1970s. It challenges a tendency in cultural studies to privilege local reception and attempts to restore the concept of Americanization in this critical...
Copyright's Highway
From the Printing Press to the Cloud, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
In Copyright's Highway, one of the nation's leading authorities on intellectual property law offers an engaging, readable, and intelligent analysis of the effect of copyright on American politics, economy, and culture. From eighteenth-century copyright law, to the "celestial jukebox," to the future...
Accepting Authoritarianism
State-Society Relations in China's Reform Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
Why hasn't the emergence of capitalism led China's citizenry to press for liberal democratic change? This book argues that China's combination of state-led development, late industrialization, and socialist legacies have affected popular perceptions of socioeconomic mobility, economic dependence on...
Confessions of the Shtetl
Converts from Judaism in Imperial Russia, 1817-1906
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Over the course of the nineteenth century, some 84,500 Jews in imperial Russia converted to Christianity. Confessions of the Shtetl explores the day-to-day world of these people, including the social, geographic, religious, and economic links among converts, Christians, and Jews. The book narrates...
The Indonesian Way
ASEAN, Europeanization, and Foreign Policy Debates in a New Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
On December 31, 2015, the ten-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) ushered in a new era with the founding of the ASEAN Community (AC). The culmination of 12 years of intensive preparation, the AC was both a historic initiative and an unprecedented step toward the area's regional integration....
Eating Grass
The Making of the Pakistani Bomb
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
The history of Pakistan's nuclear program is the history of Pakistan. Fascinated with the new nuclear science, the young nation's leaders launched a nuclear energy program in 1956 and consciously interwove nuclear developments into the broader narrative of Pakistani nationalism. Then, impelled first...
The Fountain of Knowledge
The Role of Universities in Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Today, universities around the world find themselves going beyond the traditional roles of research and teaching to drive the development of local economies through collaborations with industry. At a time when regions with universities are seeking best practices among their peers, Shiri M. Breznitz...
Public Universities and Regional Growth
Insights from the University of California
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Public Universities and Regional Growth examines evolutions in research and innovation at six University of California campuses. Each chapter presents a deep, historical analysis that traces the dynamic interaction between particular campuses and regional firms in industries that range from biotechnology,...
Little Did I Know
Excerpts from Memory
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
An autobiography in the form of a philosophical diary, Little Did I Know's underlying motive is to describe the events of a life that produced the kind of writing associated with Stanley Cavell's name. Cavell recounts his journey from early childhood in Atlanta, Georgia, through musical studies at...
Reading Colonial Japan
Text, Context, and Critique
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
By any measure, Japan's modern empire was formidable. The only major non-western colonial power in the 20th century, Japan controlled a vast area of Asia and numerous archipelagos in the Pacific Ocean. The massive extraction of resources and extensive cultural assimilation policies radically impacted...
The American Yawp
A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook, Vol. 1: To 1877
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
"I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."—Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Leaves of Grass
The American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively built American history textbook. Over 300 historians joined together to create...
Kuwait Transformed
A History of Oil and Urban Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
As the first Gulf city to experience oil urbanization, Kuwait City's transformation in the mid-twentieth century inaugurated a now-familiar regional narrative: a small traditional town of mudbrick courtyard houses and plentiful foot traffic transformed into a modern city with marble-fronted buildings,...