Lexington Books imprint: 3858 books
Return From Exile
A Theory of Possibility
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
In modern thought, possibility has been exiled to other worlds, in a move best typified by Leibniz. And the move has obvious repercussions in popular culture, where possibility is lived mostly as an exotic evasion, whose outcome--consistently with the Leibnizian model--reinforces the hold of conventional...
The First Great Awakening in Colonial American Newspapers
A Shifting Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Gathering the attention and excitement of American colonists from Boston to Charleston, the religious revival of the 1740s traditionally known as the First Great Awakening provided colonial newspaper printers with their first story of transcolonial importance. At the time of the Awakening, American...
Lincoln's Sacred Effort
Defining Religion's Role in American Self-Government
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2000
Lucas Morel examines what the public life of Abraham Lincoln teaches about the role of religion in a self-governing society. Lincoln's understanding of the requirements of republican government led him to accommodate and direct religious sentiment toward responsible self-government. As a successful...
Reclaiming Marx's 'Capital'
A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
This book seeks to reclaim Capital from the myth of internal inconsistency, a myth that serves to justify the censorship of Marx's critique of political economy and present-day research based upon it. Andrew Kliman shows that the alleged inconsistencies are actually caused by misinterpretation. By...
Dirty Work
Immigrants in Domestic Service, Agriculture, and Prostitution in Sicily
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Dirty Work explores the lives and work of recent immigrants from Africa, Asia, and elsewhere to the southern Italian region of Sicily. Using extensive research, Cole and Booth focus on the experiences of foreigners employed in domestic service, prostitution, and agriculture. Investigation of these...
by José Antonio Piqueras, Anthony E. Kaye, Rafael Marquese
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
This book examines the historiography of nineteenth century slavery from the perspective of the “second slavery.” The concept of the second slavery emphasizes the relationship between local histories and world-economic transformations. It breaks with conventional narratives of slavery by emphasizing...
by Christoph Schiessl
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
This book follows the story of suspected Nazi war criminals in the United States and analyzes their supposed crimes during World War II, their entry into the United States as war refugees in the 1940s and 1950s, and their prosecution in the 1970s and beyond by the U.S. government, specifically by...
Montesinos' Legacy
Defining and Defending Human Rights for Five Hundred Years
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
Montesinos’ Legacy brings scholars together in honor of the 500th anniversary of Dominican Antonio de Montesinos’ famous sermon in defense of the rights of the indigenous Amerindians. The collection addresses the historical context for this sermon, but also the continued relevance of Montesinos...
Religion and Terrorism
The Use of Violence in Abrahamic Monotheism
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Religion and Terrorism: The Use of Violence in Abrahamic Monotheism provides theoretical analysis of the nature of religious terrorism and religious martyrdom and also delves deeply into terrorist groups and beliefs in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Religious terrorism is found in all three of...
The Jarring Road to Democratic Inclusion
A Comparative Assessment of State–Society Engagements in Israel and Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
This edited volume brings together chapters that offer theoretically pertinent comparisons between various dimensions of Israeli and Turkish politics. Each chapter covers a different aspect of state–society interactions in both countries from a comparative perspective, including the public role...
Nation States
The Cultures of Irish Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2007
Drawing on diverse cultural forms, and ranging across disciplinary boundaries, Nation States maps the contested cultural terrain of Irish nationalism from the Act of Union of 1800 to the present. In looking at Irish nationalism as a site of struggle, Mays examines both the myriad ways in which the...
Rebel Lands of Cuba
The Campesino Struggles of Oriente and Escambray, 1934–1974
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
The book is a comparative history of twentieth-century Cuban campesinos in two regions in Cuba marked by extreme differences in race, gender, and land tenure: Oriente and Escambray. It explores the ways these differences articulated with state formation from the pre-revolutionary period of 1934-1959...
Maximino Avila Camacho and the One-Party State
The Taming of Caudillismo and Caciquismo in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Maximino Avila Camacho and the One-Party State: The Taming of Caudillismo and Caciquismo in Post-Revolutionary Mexico is a political biography of General Maximino Avila Camacho (1891D1945), one of the most powerful regional politicians in Mexico from 1935 to 1945. He was a member of an officially...
Crime and Racial Constructions
Cultural Misinformation about African Americans in Media and Academia
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Crime and Racial Constructions: Cultural Misinformation about African Americans in Media and Academia focuses on how film images of dangerous, hedonistic blacks have assumed greater significance since blacks protested racial injustice during the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement of...