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Colonialism, Catholicism, and Contraception
A History of Birth Control in Puerto Rico
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The authors analyze the tortuous course that Puerto Rico has followed in evolving a population policy, highlighting the island's rapic economic growth, its role as a laboratory for testing different methods of birth control, and the inevitable conflicts between church and state. The strands of colonialism,...
The Limits of Judicial Power
The Supreme Court in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Lasser examines in detail four periods during which the Court was widely charged with overstepping its constitutional power: the late 1850s, with the Dred Scott case and its aftermath; the Reconstruction era; the New Deal era; and the years of the Warren and Burger Courts after 1954. His thorough...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
The authors examine popular religion as a vital source of new values and experiences as well as a source of pressure for change in the church, political life, and the social order as a whole and deal with the issues of poverty and the role of the poor within the church and political structures. Exploring...
Dixie Dharma
Inside a Buddhist Temple in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Buddhism in the United States is often viewed in connection with practitioners in the Northeast and on the West Coast, but in fact, it has been spreading and evolving throughout the United States since the mid-nineteenth century. In Dixie Dharma, Jeff Wilson argues that region is crucial to understanding...
Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World
Recognition after Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
On January 1, 1804, Haiti shocked the world by declaring independence. Historians have long portrayed Haiti's postrevolutionary period as one during which the international community rejected Haiti's Declaration of Independence and adopted a policy of isolation designed to contain the impact of the...
Sovereign Entrepreneurs
Cherokee Small-Business Owners and the Making of Economic Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
By 2009, reverberations of economic crisis spread from the United States around the globe. As corporations across the United States folded, however, small businesses on the Qualla Boundary of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) continued to thrive. In this rich ethnographic study, Courtney...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Best remembered for his unfinished epic, the Aeneid, the poet Vergil was celebrated in his time both for the perfection of his art and for the centrality of his ideas to Roman culture. The Eclogues, his earliest confirmed work, were composed in part out of political considerations: when the Roman...
Revolution within the Revolution
Women and Gender Politics in Cuba, 1952-1962
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
A handful of celebrated photographs show armed female Cuban insurgents alongside their companeros in Cuba's remote mountains during the revolutionary struggle. However, the story of women's part in the struggle's success has only now received comprehensive consideration in Michelle Chase's history...
Creating a Common Table in Twentieth-Century Argentina
Doña Petrona, Women, and Food
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Dona Petrona C. de Gandulfo (c. 1896-1992) reigned as Argentina's preeminent domestic and culinary expert from the 1930s through the 1980s. An enduring culinary icon thanks to her magazine columns, radio programs, and television shows, she was likely second only to Eva Peron in terms of the fame she...
by Melina Pappademos
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
While it was not until 1871 that slavery in Cuba was finally abolished, African-descended people had high hopes for legal, social, and economic advancement as the republican period started. In Black Political Activism and the Cuban Republic, Melina Pappademos analyzes the racial politics and culture...
What's Wrong with the Poor?
Psychiatry, Race, and the War on Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
In the 1960s, policymakers and mental health experts joined forces to participate in President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. In her insightful interdisciplinary history, physician and historian Mical Raz examines the interplay between psychiatric theory and social policy throughout that decade,...
American Orientalism
The United States and the Middle East since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Douglas Little explores the stormy American relationship with the Middle East from World War II through the war in Iraq, focusing particularly on the complex and often inconsistent attitudes and interests that helped put the United States on a collision course with radical Islam early in the new millennium....
Spin Control
The White House Office of Communications and the Management of Presidential News
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Spin Control, originally published in 1992, chronicles the development of the powerful White House Office of Communications and its pivotal role in molding our perception of the modern presidency. In this new edition, John Maltese brings his analysis up to date with a chapter detailing the media techniques...
Congress at the Grassroots
Representational Change in the South, 1970-1998
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
However much politicians are demeaned and denounced in modern American society, our democracy could not work without them. For this reason, says Richard Fenno, their activities warrant our attention. In his pioneering book, Home Style, Fenno demonstrated that a close look at politicians at work in...