Benjamin: 3278 books
American Interpretations of Natural Law
A Study in the History of Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This book illustrates the deep roots of natural law doctrines in America's political culture. Originally published in 1931, the volume shows that American interpretations of natural law go to the philosophical heart of the American regime. The Declaration of Independence is the preeminent example...
The End of Overkill
Reassessing U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
U.S. security does not require nearly 1,600 nuclear weapons deployed on a triad of systems—bombers, land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs)—to deliver them. A new paper from Benjamin H. Friedman, Christopher A. Preble and Matt Fay...
Celibacies
American Modernism and Sexual Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
In this innovative study, Benjamin Kahan traces the elusive history of modern celibacy. Arguing that celibacy is a distinct sexuality with its own practices and pleasures, Kahan shows it to be much more than the renunciation of sex or a cover for homosexuality. Celibacies focuses on a diverse group...
by Benjamin Hale
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
“Oddly beautiful and impossible to look away from” (Los Angeles Times), the stories in The Fat Artist are suffused with fear and desire, introducing us to a company of indelible characters reeling with love, jealousy, megalomania, and despair.
In prose alternately stark, lush and hallucinatory,...
Deepening Local Democracy in Latin America
Participation, Decentralization, and the Left
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
The resurgence of the Left in Latin America over the past decade has been so notable that it has been called “the Pink Tide.” In recent years, regimes with leftist leaders have risen to power in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, and Venezuela. What does...
by Benjamin Kensey
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Albert Mullard's family, living in a small Southern town in the final years of the 19th Century, strike it rich when pure spring water begins bubbling up in their backyard. Albert and his sister, Jenny, are less interested in the implications of sudden wealth, happy enough that the cursed ants are drowned and their old dog Liberty has something cool to drink.
La Revolución
Mexico's Great Revolution as Memory, Myth, and History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The 1910 Revolution is still tangibly present in Mexico in the festivals that celebrate its victories, on the monuments to its heroes, and, most important, in the stories and memories of the Mexican people. Yet there has never been general agreement on what the revolution meant, what its objectives...
The New Deal's Forest Army
How the Civilian Conservation Corps Worked
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Propelled by the unprecedented poverty of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established an array of massive public works programs designed to provide direct relief to America’s poor and unemployed. The New Deal’s most tangible legacy may be the Civilian Conservation Corps’s...
Religious Revitalization among the Kiowas
The Ghost Dance, Peyote, and Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Framed by theories of syncretism and revitalization, Religious Revitalization among the Kiowas examines changes in Kiowa belief and ritual in the final decades of the nineteenth century. During the height of the horse-and-bison culture, Kiowa beliefs were founded in the notion of daudau, a force permeating...
Posthumous America
Literary Reinventions of America at the End of the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2018
Benjamin Hoffmann’s Posthumous America examines the literary idealization of a lost American past in the works of French writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
For writers such as John Hector St. John de Crèvecœur and Claude-François de Lezay-Marnésia, America was never more...
Dictators, Democracy, and American Public Culture
Envisioning the Totalitarian Enemy, 1920s-1950s
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2003
Focusing on portrayals of Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany, and Stalin's Russia in U.S. films, magazine and newspaper articles, books, plays, speeches, and other texts, Benjamin Alpers traces changing American understandings of dictatorship from the late 1920s through the early years of the Cold...
by Benjamin Eidelson
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Everyone agrees that discrimination can be a grave moral wrong. Yet this consensus masks fundamental disagreements about what makes something an act of discrimination, as well as precisely why (and hence when) such acts are wrong. In Discrimination and Disrespect, Benjamin Eidelson develops illuminating...
by Benjamin Vande Weerdhof Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Can we live a moral life without God? Are religions a force of good in the world? Is there life after death? In Why You Won’t Go to Hell, Benjamin Andrews argues that the time of religion is passing, and that humanity must create new laws and new systems to meet the challenges of a modern world based...
Pluriverse (Routledge Revivals)
An Essay in the Philosophy of Pluralism
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Pluriverse, the final work of the American poet and philosopher Benjamin Paul Blood, was published posthumously in 1920. After an experience of the anaesthetic nitrous oxide during a dental operation, Blood came to the conclusion that his mind had been opened, that he had undergone a mystical experience,...