According to the author, the subordination of Chinese women continued under different models of sex equality in China in the twentieth century. InReconceiving Women's Equality in China Lijun Yuan disc
Violent non-state actors (VNSA) often serve a destabilizing role in nearly every humanitarian and political crisis faced by the international community. As non-state armed groups gain greater access t
Originally presented at a 2003 international conference on "Cultural Memory in France: Margins and Centers," the 14 papers collected here by Hargreaves (director, Winthrop-King Institute for Contempor
Woodrow Wilson's contribution to American foreign policy is well known, but his role in the development of American political thought and institutions is less recognized. In this volume, Wilson schola
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is Nietzsche's most problematic text. There appears to be no thematic connection between its four Parts and numerous sections. To make it even worse, the book contains a number
The original formulation of democracy--rule by the people--included the direct participation by citizens in legislative and political decision making, says Behrouze (mathematics and philosophy, Cuyaho
This unique interpretation of Alfarabi's thought stresses the ways in which the tenth-century Arab philosopher self-consciously broke the metaphysical tradition that began with Plato. By examining Alf
The standard reading of Michael Foucault as an implacable foe of all teleological approaches is wrong, declares Pickett (political science, Chadron State College). Admitting that there is plenty of te
Election Reform: Politics and Policy is the definitive work on the manner in which policymakers responded to the crisis that emerged from the 2000 presidential election. Editors Daniel Palazzolo and J
Ronald J. Pestritto's and Thomas G. West's earlier volume The American Founding and the Social Compact addressed the nature of the thought and philosophy of the men who shaped the American founding. I
It was not until the 20th century that the freedoms of speech and religion became prominent in American constitutional law; originally, the first ten amendments applied only to the federal government
Motivated by a desire to narrate and contextualize the deluge of 'French theory,' After the Deluege showcases recent work by today's brightest scholars of French intellectual history that historicizes
Bottum, books and arts editor of the Weekly Standard predicts that the great controversy beginning in the late 1990s about the role of Pope Pius XII during World War II is over. Lacking the prestigiou
Through the presentation of ten ethnographic studies of refugees and immigrants returning to their homeland, Markowitz (anthropology, Ben-Gurion U. of the Negev, Israel) and Stefansson (Institute of A
Scholars of English literature, a majority of them from Florida but also elsewhere in the US, find an ambivalence in Western culture toward war. Their 14 essays are presented in sections on Arms and t
In The Politics of Affective Relations, editors Daniel Bell and Hahm Chaihark refine our understanding of the East Asian conception of the self by examining how that conception was formulated, reprodu
Gordon (politics and government, Ben-Gurion University) assembles the work of leading intellectuals and rights activists from around the world to highlight the importance of human rights. Essays offer
Anthropologist Celia Rothenberg gives us a rare glimpse into the daily life of a contemporary Palestinian village, where women's lives are structured more by moral codes and societal norms than by pol
Democracy is changing, and the changes should be noted and studied, say scholars of public administration from the US, Denmark, and the Netherlands: ordinary citizens are becoming involved in various
The American Constitution held out the hope that ordinary people were capable of deciding their own fates, and in doing so it immeasurably elevated the dignity of common people. The organization and i
The Politics of Belonging represents an innovative collaboration between political theorists and political scientists for the purposes of investigating the liberal and pluralistic traditions of nation
A Virginia native and a specialist in religious history, Bond (history, Alabama A&M U.) presents an anthology of primary documents to demonstrate the wide variety of extant materials on religion in co
Following the format of Daniel Nelson's (ed.) 1981 Romania in the 1980s and 1992 Romania After Tyranny , social scientists collect, synthesize, and analyze data about the eastern European country s
Mahoney describes the emergence of American political science as a separate academic discipline in the era between the Civil War and the First World War, with the pivotal event of the founding of the
Mahoney (U. of California-Riverside and California State U.-San Bernardino) chronicles the beginnings of modern political science in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, concentrating on the ideolo
Simply put, says Stamos (philosophy, York U., Toronto), the problem is whether biological species are real and if so, what the nature of their reality is. He synthesizes the literature on the problem,
In his "relatively unmodified" revision of a 1990 work, Pontuso (political science, Hamden-Sydney College) discusses the critique of Marxism and communism that can be found in The Gulag Archipelago
Mori Arinori's Life and Resources in America sheds much light on the shape of an American society, government, and economy recovering from the Civil War. This book—originally published in English in W
This third book in the Global Perspectives on Social Issues series grants scholars and policy makers an overview of the steps being taken by governments and educational organizations worldwide to incr
Americans introduced themselves to the world by declaring their independence. They recognized that their 'unalienable rights' were secured by institutionalized government that derives its just powers
In The Sacred Monstrous author Wendy Hamblet traces the historical and social fact of violence through the work of Girard, Bloch, Lorenz and Burket. She takes up the charge advanced by social theorist
Deep Republicanism: Prelude to Professionalism establishes the importance of Machiavelli's radical republican agenda in understanding the major revolutions of the modern world. Donald Hodges's nuanced
Unlike many other books about the American founding, this new work by two of the most prominent scholars of American political history emphasizes the coherence and intelligibility of the social compac
In Out of the Revolution, Delores P. Aldridge and Carlene Young collect thirty-one of the nation's top scholars to provide a complete reference for understanding the impetus for, the development of, a
One of the world's leading entrepreneurs speaks about human creativity and its reflection of God's creative work. These are the words of a man who sees business as a vocation and seeks to walk the pat
Out of the Crucible offers an informative and inviting study of the novels and short stories of the lives of the zhiqing - the Chinese urban youths sent to rural areas during the rustication movement
This brief monograph presents a close reading of the first two chapter's of Beyond Good and Evil and offers an interpretation that places Nietzsche in opposition to the Platonic and Socratic traditi
Continuing the work he began in Serenade of Suffering: A Portrait of Middle East Terrorism, 1968-1993 (1999), Chasdi (international relations, College of Wooster) once again applies the "risk factor
Japan is now having to live with the positive and negative consequences of its explosive economic growth beginning after the end of World War II, says Alexander, an economist who has served in various
In Capitalism and Commerce, Edward Younkins provides a clear and accessible introduction to the best moral and economic arguments for capitalism. Drawn from over a decade of business school teaching,
