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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Focusing empirically on how political and economic forces are always mediated and interpreted by agents, both in individual countries and in the international sphere, Constructing the International Economy sets out what such constructions and what various forms of constructivism mean, both as ways...
Strategic Coupling
East Asian Industrial Transformation in the New Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
In Strategic Coupling, Henry Wai-chung Yeung examines economic development and state-firm relations in East Asia, focusing in particular on South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore. As a result of the massive changes of the last twenty-five years, new explanations must be found for the economic success...
Rebels without Borders
Transnational Insurgencies in World Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Rebellion, insurgency, civil war-conflict within a society is customarily treated as a matter of domestic politics and analysts generally focus their attention on local causes. Yet fighting between governments and opposition groups is rarely confined to the domestic arena. "Internal" wars often spill...
Activists beyond Borders
Advocacy Networks in International Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists that coalesce and operate across national frontiers. Their targets may be international organizations or the policies of particular states. Historical examples...
Latinos in American Society
Families and Communities in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
It is well known that Latinos in the United States bear a disproportionate burden of low educational attainment, high residential segregation, and low visibility in the national political landscape. In Latinos in American Society, Ruth Enid Zambrana brings together the latest research on Latinos in...
The Contagious City
The Politics of Public Health in Early Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
By the time William Penn was planning the colony that would come to be called Pennsylvania, with Philadelphia at its heart, Europeans on both sides of the ocean had long experience with the hazards of city life, disease the most terrifying among them. Drawing from those experiences, colonists hoped...
The End of the West?
Crisis and Change in the Atlantic Order
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The past several years have seen strong disagreements between the U.S. government and many of its European allies, largely due to the deployment of NATO forces in Afghanistan and the commitment of national forces to the occupation of Iraq. News accounts of these challenges focus on isolated incidents...
The Specter of "the People"
Urban Poverty in Northeast China
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Despite massive changes to its economic policies, China continues to define itself as socialist; since 1949 and into the present, the Maoist slogan "Serve the People" has been a central point of moral and political orientation. Yet several decades of market-based reforms have resulted in high urban...
Empire of Language
Toward a Critique of (Post)colonial Expression
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The relationship between power and language has been a central theme in critical theory for decades now, yet there is still much to be learned about the sheer force of language in the world in which we live. In Empire of Language, Laurent Dubreuil explores the power-language phenomenon in the context...
Shakespeare's Medieval Craft
Remnants of the Mysteries on the London Stage
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
In Shakespeare’s Medieval Craft, Kurt A. Schreyer explores the relationship between Shakespeare’s plays and a tradition of late medieval English biblical drama known as mystery plays. Scholars of English theater have long debated Shakespeare’s connection to the mystery play tradition, but Schreyer...
Stagestruck
The Business of Theater in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Colonies
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Stagestruck traces the making of a vibrant French theater industry between the reign of Louis XIV and the French Revolution. During this era more than eighty provincial and colonial cities celebrated the inauguration of their first public playhouses. These theaters emerged as the most prominent urban...
What Galileo Saw
Imagining the Scientific Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century has often been called a decisive turning point in human history. It represents, for good or ill, the birth of modern science and modern ways of viewing the world. In What Galileo Saw, Lawrence Lipking offers a new perspective on how to understand...
From the Outside In
Suburban Elites, Third-Sector Organizations, and the Reshaping of Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
In From the Outside In, Carolyn T. Adams addresses the role of suburban elites in setting development agendas for urban municipalities and their larger metropolitan regions. She shows how major nongovernmental, nonmarket institutions are taking responsibility for reshaping Philadelphia, led by suburban...
Walking on Fire
Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Haiti, long noted for poverty and repression, has a powerful and too-often-overlooked history of resistance. Women in Haiti have played a large role in changing the balance of political and social power, even as they have endured rampant and devastating state-sponsored violence, including torture,...