Revising his 1985 Ph.D. dissertation at Princeton University, Papelexandrou (art history, U. of Texas-Austin) explores the visual culture of Greeks during the eighth and seventh centuries BCE, particu
While Alexis de Tocqueville described America as the 'absolute democracy,' Karl Marx saw the nation as a 'defiled republic' so long as it permitted the enslavement of blacks. In this insightful politi
Taiwan's recent moves to democratize its political system have undermined the "one China" policy and demanded the redefinition of relations between Taiwan and China.Across the Taiwan Strait
This book explores why the Swedish Social Democratic Party (SAP) and the allied Swedish Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) have been reluctant to embrace calls from employers and bourgeois parties to
Herrick (Oklahoma State U.) and Fisher (U. of South Alabama) examine how legislators maintain their own citizenship as they represent their constituents and their mutual or conflicting interests. They
Held in Cairo in 1994, the International Conference on Population and Development signaled a shift in the focus of population policy from environmentally influenced demographic targets to feminist and
This work of legal history explores the intellectual underpinnings of law in the early republic by examining the thought of scientifically minded legal scholars. It understands legal science as a cohe
Allowing legislators to pick the voters that make up their districts is a fundamental conflict of interest and central concern for the popular sovereignty of American elections. In The Realities of Re
The Relay of Gazes is a demonstration that analysis of a variety of films and television programs is the key to revealing how dramatically Japan's image has evolved in recent decades. The films and pr
The "core actors" of the United States body politic are, in the words of Smith (criminal justice, Westfield State College), that "particular coterie of individual and small group actors who, in each g
A remarkably prescient thinker, Aleksandras Shtromas devoted his life to understanding totalitarianism and political change. This posthumous collection of writings, edited by Robert Faulkner and Danie
Writing as Resistance charts the inner workings of apartheid, through the encounters - imprisonment, exile, and homecoming - that crucially defined its violent reign and ultimate overthrow. Author Pau
Taking the friendly relations, at various times, between the United States and Iran, Israel, and Saudi Arabia as case studies, Miglietta (political science, Tennessee State U.) examines and critiques
The 2016 presidential race is arguably already over in 40 states and the District of Columbia. If recent presidential election trends are any indication of what will happen in 2016, Democrats in Texas
This project analyzes how political women rhetorically perform—discursively, visually, and physically—their positions of power and how these performances are read, time again, against and with other w
The first book-length study on the subject in any language, Tolstoy and the Religious Culture of His Time treats Tolstoy's experience not as a conversion moment but as the evolution of his religious o
This book sheds light on the causes and consequences of ethnic cleansing in the twentieth century Balkans with particular reference to the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. In providing a thorough and c
Presents nine personal essays written by noted Holocaust educators working in or with Holocaust museums, resource centers, or educational organizations in the US, UK, Israel, Canada, South Africa, Ger
Schlueter (political science, St. Ambrose University) offers a critical historical, constitutional, and philosophical examination of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s understanding of justice from within the
Kook makes the provocative argument that membership in democracies is inherently exclusionary, and that national exclusion is a tacit requirement for successfully democratic regimes.
As an Israeli-American, Kook (politics and government, Ben-Gurion U. of the Negev) alternated between homes in New York and Tel Aviv throughout her childhood, which led her to see similarities in the
Julia Kristeva and Elizabeth Grosz provide stimulating philosophical examinations of intellectual time in this collection of essays and case studies, noting the differences between feminist time and t
Organized by region, boasting an international roster of contributors, and including summaries of selected creative and critical works and a guide to selected terms and figures, Salhi's volume is an i
A Theory of Feelings examines the problem of human feelings, widely understood, from phenomenological, analytical, and historical perspectives. It begins with an analysis of drives and affects, and pu
The editors (both of the Institute for Society, Culture and Environment at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State U.) present the product of a September 2008 meeting bringing together social and
DeCesare (sociology, California State U., Northridge) considers how historical, intellectual, and structural forces have influenced the content and objectives of high school sociology courses between
Beginning in late Edo, the Japanese faced a rapidly and irreversibly changing world in which industrialization, westernization, and internationalization was exerting pressure upon an entrenched tradit
Comparative Political Philosophy: Studies Under the Upas Tree examines four major traditions of political philosophy and discusses similarities in their key ideas and assumptions. An intellectually da
This book disturbs the 'normal' and depoliticized meaning of virtue through a genealogical reading of the debates, conceptual struggles, and ambiguities that were cleansed by virtue ethicists to produ
Randy Bobbitt examines the political debates and underlying communications strategies over proposed state lotteries that took place in the Southeastern United States between 1986 and 2005. Based on re
Bowser (sociology and social services, California State U.), Quimby (sociology, Howard U.), and Singer (Center for Community Health Research at the Hispanic Health Council) bring together 11 studies o
The Gentleman in the Garden: The Influential Landscape in the Works of James Fenimore Cooper examines the profound and previously unrecognized relationship between landscape and social standing in the
Historian and lawyer Brian F. Carso, Jr., demonstrates that, although treason law was conflicted and awkward, the broader idea of treason gave recognizable shape to abstract ideas of loyalty, betrayal
