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Hamas Contained
The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Hamas rules Gaza and the lives of the two million Palestinians who live there. Demonized in media and policy debates, various accusations and critical assumptions have been used to justify extreme military action against Hamas. The reality of Hamas is, of course, far more complex. Neither a democratic...
Gendered Commodity Chains
Seeing Women's Work and Households in Global Production
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Gendered Commodity Chains is the first book to consider the fundamental role of gender in global commodity chains. It challenges long-held assumptions of global economic systems by identifying the crucial role social reproduction plays in production and by declaring the household as an important site...
Scripting Revolution
A Historical Approach to the Comparative Study of Revolutions
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
The "Arab Spring" was heralded and publicly embraced by foreign leaders of many countries that define themselves by their own historic revolutions. The contributors to this volume examine the legitimacy of these comparisons by exploring whether or not all modern revolutions follow a pattern...
Rhinestones, Religion, and the Republic
Fashioning Jewishness in France
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
During the course of her fieldwork in Paris, anthropologist Kimberly Arkin heard what she thought was a surprising admission. A French-born, North African Jewish (Sephardi) teenage girl laughingly told Arkin she was a racist. When asked what she meant by that, the girl responded, "It means I...
Nineteenth-Century Jewish Literature
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Recent scholarship has brought to light the existence of a dynamic world of specifically Jewish forms of literature in the nineteenth century—fiction by Jews, about Jews, and often designed largely for Jews. This volume makes this material accessible to English speakers for the first time, offering...
From Hot War to Cold
The U.S. Navy and National Security Affairs, 1945-1955
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2009
This book discusses the role of the U.S. Navy within the country's national security structure during the first decade of the Cold War from the perspective of the service's senior uniformed officer, the Chief of Naval Operations, and his staff. It examines a variety of important issues of the period,...
The River People in Flood Time
The Civil Wars in Tabasco, Spoiler of Empires
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
The River People in Flood Time tells the astonishing story of how the people of nineteenth-century Tabasco, Mexico, overcame impossible odds to expel foreign interventions. Tabascans resisted control by Mexico City, overcame the grip of a Cuban adventurer who seized the region for two years, turned...
Urban Indians in a Silver City
Zacatecas, Mexico, 1546-1810
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
In the sixteenth century, silver mined by native peoples became New Spain's most important export. Silver production served as a catalyst for northern expansion, creating mining towns that led to the development of new industries, markets, population clusters, and frontier institutions. Within these...
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...