Lexington Books imprint: 3858 books
Yugoslavia Unraveled
Sovereignty, Self-Determination, Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2003
Unlike many of the works on the Yugoslav wars written during and just after the crisis, Yugoslavia Unraveled delves beyond 'who did what to whom' to examine underlying issues regarding the sources of religious nationalism and inter-ethnic conflict, the territorial integrity and sovereignty of states,...
Circles on the Mountain
Bosnian Women in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
This book combines scholarly research with first-person interviews to examine the current state of women in Bosnia twenty years after the Balkan War—their emotional recovery, their economic situation, and their prospects for the future. It describes how two of the worst issues affecting Bosnian...
by Christopher Caldwell, Paul A. Cantor, James W. Ceaser
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Professions are institutions which, through their small size, self-governing elements, and sense of social mission, can assist in maintaining a sound civic culture. As mediating institutions in our democratic society that are neither entirely birthed by the state nor are entirely private, the individual...
by John Agresto, James W. Ceaser, Daniel E. Cullen
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
The essays in this book reflect on the paradoxical relationship of liberal education and liberal democracy. Liberal education emphasizes knowledge for its own sake, detached from all instrumental purposes. It also aims at liberation from the manifold sources of unfreedom, including political sources....
Athens, Arden, Jerusalem
Essays in Honor of Mera Flaumenhaft
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
This collection of essays aims to explore fundamental questions about God, human nature, and political life through careful readings of the Greek poets, the Hebrew Bible, and Shakespeare. The volume investigates the abiding tension between the Hebraic and the Hellenic dimensions of the Western soul...
The Relevance of Higher Education
Exploring a Contested Notion
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Most statements today about higher education begin with the assumption that it should be relevant. That it should be relevant, however, does not settle the matter. The significance of relevance depends on the power of something else that is more fundamental. Relevance may be a true standard of judgment,...
by John Agresto, Mark Bauerlein, Peter A. Benoliel
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
The Founders of this nation believed that the government they were creating required a civically educated populace. Such an education aimed to cultivate enlightened, informed, and vigilant citizens who could perpetuate and improve the nation. Unfortunately, America’s contemporary youth seem to lack...
The UnCivil University
Intolerance on College Campuses
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
In the name of academic freedom, the core values of higher education_honest scholarship, unbiased research, and diversity of thought and person_have been corrupted by an academy more interested in preserving its privileges than in protecting its own integrity. The American university has lost its...
Enlightenment and Secularism
Essays on the Mobilization of Reason
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Enlightenment and Secularism is a collection of twenty eight essays that seek to understand the connection between the European Enlightenment and the emergence of secular societies, as well as the character or nature of those societies. The contributors are drawn from a variety of disciplines including...
Biracial in America
Forming and Performing Racial Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Elected in 2008, Barack Obama made history as the first African American president of the United States. Though recognized as the son of a white Kansas-born mother and a black Kenyan father, the media and public have nonetheless pigeonholed him as black, and he too self-identifies as such. Obama’s...
Nuclear Tsunami
The Japanese Government and America's Role in the Fukushima Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Banking on safety myths, Japan promoted an aggressive policy of locating and building nuclear power plants in depopulated areas suffering from a significant decline of local industries and economies following America's nuclear campaign in World War II. This book shows how the bankruptcy of the central...
by Kate Brown, Dominic Boyer, Robert Edelman
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
What did it mean to be a Soviet citizen in the 1970s and 1980s? How can we explain the liberalization that preceded the collapse of the USSR? This period in Soviet history is often depicted as stagnant with stultified institutions and the oppression of socialist citizens. However, the socialist state...
Souls with Longing
Representations of Honor and Love in Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
The works of William Shakespeare vividly represent for our admiration and study a pageant of souls with longing in whose wake we ceaselessly follow. Through some of his most memorable characters, Shakespeare illuminates the nature and character—as well as consequences—of our distinctively human...
Shakespeare’s Thought
Unobserved Details and Unsuspected Depths in Eleven Plays
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Shakespeare’s Thought: Unobserved Details and Unsuspected Depths in Eleven Plays demonstrates that Shakespeare’s plays were conceived and executed as studies of great moral and political issues. After examining the divergent views of critics across the years, this book goes on to analyze eleven...