Until the end of World War I, urban growth in Johannesburg proceeded haphazardly. But under the impact of a wave of militant struggles by black workers the state became determined to better manage the
"In this touching, disturbing and meticulously researched play, each vulgar and bullying witticism reinforces the indoctrinating brutality with which young, susceptible minds were beaten into submissi
This book is about the poetry, vision, and deeply inhospitable context of one of South Africa’s most talented praise poets, D.L.P. Yali-Manisi. The author of five volumes of Xhosa poetry and performer
South Africa’s future is increasingly tied up with that of India. While trade and investment between the two countries is intensifying, they share long-standing historical ties and have much in common
Life of bone brings into sharp relief, and interrogates, the abutting practices of art and science, which have co-existed since the beginning of our species. It is based on an exhibition, scheduled to
The book contains a systematical investigation of ethics from a scholastic standpoint. It begins by examining the fundamental theory of action. After that, the author develops conceptions of duty and
How many vulnerable elders live in the Netherlands? Will this number increase remarkably in the years ahead? This report presents the first national description of elders in the Netherlands with multi
This book examines the performance of the public sector of twenty-eight OECD countries between 1995 and 2009. Outcomes in the fields of education, health, housing, and safety are related to the amount
Widowhood in an American City focuses on the roles and lifestyles of urban American widows fifty years of age or older. These women form a segment of two generations of one society; they present a his
Gender and the Life Course is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on the lives of women and men as they are affected by history, culture, demography, economic and political stratification, and t
The author considers several ideas about the role and status of Arab women in Muslim rural society in four hamlets in Deir al-Ghusin, Israel. Drawing on fieldwork he conducted from 1969 to 1970 and 19
"The future of the environment, and the destructive impact of unregulated market-led growth on it, has become the defining socio-political issue of the 21st century. This book, by taking a holistic ap
Several contributions in this volume focus on the modern Middle East, with other articles examining justifications for war, the return of war veterans, white nationalists, and the activities of the Mo
Ralph Ellison once wrote that the rules of performance in American culture are jazz-shaped. This book explores the Afro-Creole core culture of New Orleans as the mainspring of this energizing music. M
This study is concerned with the collective consequences of social rules. The theoretical analyses take as a starting point the notion of 'new institutionalism' in the social sciences. The analyses fo
This finely etched, on-site work examines the relationships between the changing political system and political culture in Israel, with particular focus on the decade of the 1980s. Written by a schola
Poverty and the maldistribution of land in core areas of developing countries, together with state schemes for the colonization of unruly frontiers, have forced indigenous peoples and settlers into an
Cupidity, corruption and conciliation are the themes of the three plays in this collection: The Mother of all Eating, a one-hander, with its central character a corrupt Lesotho official, is a grinding
The adaptation of herbivore behavior to seasonal and geo-graphic variations in vegetation quantity and quality is inadequately modeled by conventional methods. Norman Owen-Smith innovatively links the
With a special focus on state and local politics, this latest volume of the National Political Science Review contains four articles ranging from the need for crucial white support in statewide electi
