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Managing Multiculturalism
Indigeneity and the Struggle for Rights in Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Indigenous people in Colombia constitute a mere three percent of the national population. Colombian indigenous communities' success in gaining collective control of almost thirty percent of the national territory is nothing short of extraordinary. In Managing Multiculturalism, Jean E. Jackson examines...
Freedom from Work
Embracing Financial Self-Help in the United States and Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
In this era where dollar value signals moral worth, Daniel Fridman paints a vivid portrait of Americans and Argentinians seeking to transform themselves into people worthy of millions. Following groups who practice the advice from financial success bestsellers, Fridman illustrates how the neoliberal...
Dangerous Leaders
How and Why Lawyers Must Be Taught to Lead
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Flint, Michigan's water crisis, the New Jersey "Bridgegate" scandal, Enron: all these incidents are examples of various forms of leadership failure. More specifically, each represents marked failures among leaders with legal training. When we look closer at one profession from which we often...
Scythe and the City
A Social History of Death in Shanghai
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
The issue of death has loomed large in Chinese cities in the modern era. Throughout the Republican period, Shanghai swallowed up lives by the thousands. Exposed bodies strewn around in public spaces were a threat to social order as well as to public health. In a place where every group had its own...
Contraceptive Diplomacy
Reproductive Politics and Imperial Ambitions in the United States and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
A transpacific history of clashing imperial ambitions, Contraceptive Diplomacy turns to the history of the birth control movement in the United States and Japan to interpret the struggle for hegemony in the Pacific through the lens of transnational feminism. As the birth control movement spread beyond...
Forgotten Disease
Illnesses Transformed in Chinese Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Around the turn of the twentieth century, disorders that Chinese physicians had been writing about for over a millennium acquired new identities in Western medicine—sudden turmoil became cholera; flowers of heaven became smallpox; and foot qi became beriberi. Historians have tended to present these...
Chinese Hegemony
Grand Strategy and International Institutions in East Asian History
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Chinese Hegemony: Grand Strategy and International Institutions in East Asian History joins a rapidly growing body of important literature that combines history and International Relations theory to create new perspectives on East Asian political and strategic behavior. The book explores the strategic...
by Ken Stone
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Animal studies may be a recent academic development, but our fascination with animals is nothing new. Surviving cave paintings are of animal forms, and closer to us, as Ken Stone points out, animals populate biblical literature from beginning to end. This book explores the significance of animal studies...
A Thrice-Told Tale
Feminism, Postmodernism, and Ethnographic Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1992
A Thrice-Told Tale is one ethnographer's imaginative and powerful response to the methodological issues raised by feminist and postmodernist critics of traditional ethnography. The author, a feminist anthropologist, uses three texts developed out of her research in Taiwan—a piece of fiction, anthropological...
Asia's Regional Architecture
Alliances and Institutions in the Pacific Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
During the Cold War, the U.S. built a series of alliances with Asian nations to erect a bulwark against the spread of communism and provide security to the region. Despite pressure to end bilateral alliances in the post-Cold War world, they persist to this day, even as new multilateral institutions...
Fallen Elites
The Military Other in Post–Unification Germany
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
Military officers are often the first to be considered politically dangerous when a state loses its authority. Overnight, actions once considered courageous are deemed criminal, and men once praised as heroes are redefined as villains. In Fallen Elites, Andrew Bickford examines how states make soldiers...
Newsworthy
The Supreme Court Battle over Privacy and Press Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
In 1952, the Hill family was held hostage by escaped convicts in their suburban Pennsylvania home. The family of seven was trapped for nineteen hours by three fugitives who treated them politely, took their clothes and car, and left them unharmed. The Hills quickly became the subject of international...
The Street Politics of Abortion
Speech, Violence, and America's Culture Wars
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade stands as a historic victory for abortion-rights activists. But rather than serving as the coda to what had been a comparatively low-profile social conflict, the decision mobilized a wave of anti-abortion protests and ignited a heated struggle that continues...
Gruesome Spectacles
Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Gruesome Spectacles tells the sobering history of botched, mismanaged, and painful executions in the U.S. from 1890 to the present. Since the book's initial publication in 2014, the cruel and unusual executions of a number of people on death row, including Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma and Joseph Wood...