Lexington Books imprint: 3858 books
Escaping Servitude
A Documentary History of Runaway Servants in Eighteenth-Century Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Escaping Servitude is the story of indentured servants in early Virginia protesting with their feet. Breaking with historical orthodoxy insisting that Bacon’s Rebellion marked the death knell of white labor in the Chesapeake and that colonial Virginians achieved racial hegemony in the eighteenth...
by Steve J. Shone
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Lysander Spooner: American Anarchist is the first book-length exposition of the ideas of the American anarchist and abolitionist who lived mostly in Boston, Massachusetts, from 1808 to 1887. Few people today are familiar with Spooner. Nonetheless, there are many interesting strands of original thought...
The Enduring Relevance of Robert E. Lee
The Ideological Warfare Underpinning the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
The sesquicentennial of the American Civil War presents a unique opportunity to consider the motivation behind General Robert E. Lee’s efforts to defend the Confederacy against his once beloved United States. What will be learned from this book is that General Lee was following in the footsteps...
Civil Peace and the Quest for Truth
The First Amendment Freedoms in Political Philosophy and American Constitutionalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2004
The freedoms of speech and religion assumed a sacrosanct space in American notions of civil liberty. But it was not until the twentieth century that these freedoms became prominent in American constitutional law; originally, the first ten amendments applied only to the federal government and not to...
Pragmatism, Politics, and Perversity
Democracy and the American Party Battle
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
The political project of pragmatism has focused primarily on its defense of democracy as the best political system to maintain and improve human well-being over lifetimes and generations. Pragmatism Politics and Perversity: Democracy and the American Party Battle describes this project of Peirce,...
Picturing China in the American Press
The Visual Portrayal of Sino-American Relations in Time Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2007
Picturing China in the American Press juxtaposes what the ordinary American news reader was shown visually inTime Magazine between 1949 and 1973 with contemporary perspectives on the behind-the-scenes history of the period. Time Magazine is an especially fruitful source for such a visual-historical...
The CIA and Third Force Movements in China during the Early Cold War
The Great American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
When the Chinese Communists defeated the Chinese Nationalists and occupied the mainland in 1949–1950, U.S. policymakers were confronted with a dilemma. Disgusted by the corruption and, more importantly, failure of Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist armies and party and repelled by the Communists’...
Identity's Moments
The Self in Action and Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The work is an examination of the role of language in the constitution of self and in the presentation of identity. Following the path laid out by George Herbert Mead, Kenneth Burke and Mikhail Bakhtin the work presents self, identity and meaning as ongoing accomplishments between human actors who...
Power, Place, and State-Society Relations in Korea
Neo-Confucian and Geomantic Reconstruction of Developmental State and Democratization
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
No book has addressed the simultaneous phenomena of Korea’s rapid economic development and its vibrant democratization in a single coherent paradigm. The late developmentalist approach emphasizes the strong role of Korea’s state and bureaucratic efficiency but does not explain how political development...
North Korean Foreign Policy
Security Dilemma and Succession
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
North Korean Foreign Policy: Security Dilemma and Succession, by Yongho Kim, starts from the point of view that North Korea's provocations have been motivated more by fear than by her in-born provocative nature. Kim argues that North Korea's provocative foreign policy reflects its threat perception...
Sexual Violence in the Argentinean Crimes against Humanity Trials
Rethinking Victimhood
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
The origin of Sexual Violence in the Argentinean Crimes against Humanity Trials: Rethinking Victimhood can be found in the resistance that, using a traditional feminist perspective, alleges that testimonies of sexual violence in the context of Argentinian crimes against humanity trials inevitably...
The Eisenhower Presidency
Lessons for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The chapters in this volume address the lessons we might draw from the Eisenhower experience for presidential leadership today. Although most of the authors find much to admire in the Eisenhower record, they express varying opinions on how applicable his approach would be for our own time. On one...
by Anthony Neal
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
This book offers an examination of the signature weapon of Barack Obama’s presidency: his speeches. It provides an in-depth, analytical look at the words of Barack Obama through the social and cultural contexts that made the content of his speeches timeless. The book draws on the oral tradition...
by Peter Ruggenthaler
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Drawing on recently declassified Soviet archival sources, this book sheds new light on how the division of Europe came about in the aftermath of World War II. The book contravenes the notion that a neutral zone of states, including Germany, could have been set up between East and West. The Soviet...