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Neither German nor Pole
Catholicism and National Indifference in a Central European Borderland
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
"This is a fascinating local story with major implications for studies of nationalism and regional identities throughout Europe more generally."
---Dennis Sweeney, University of Alberta
"James Bjork has produced a finely crafted, insightful, indeed, pathbreaking study of the...
Changing Places
Society, Culture, and Territory in the Saxon-Bohemian Borderlands, 1870-1946
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
"Changing Places is an interesting meditation on the varying identities and rights claimed by residents of borderlands, the limits placed on the capacities of nation-states to police their borders and enforce national identities, and the persistence of such contact zones in the past and present....
Lives of Lawyers Revisited
Transformation and Resilience in the Organizations of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
The past two decades have seen profound changes in the legal profession. Lives of Lawyers Revisited extends Michael Kelly’s work in the original Lives of Lawyers, offering unique insights into the nature of these changes, examined through stories of five extraordinarily varied law practices. By...
by Dennis Sweeney
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Saar river valley was one of the three most productive heavy industrial regions in Germany and one of the main reference points for national debates over the organization of work in large-scale industry. Among Germany's leading opponents of...
The Postwar Transformation of Germany
Democracy, Prosperity and Nationhood
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
As Germany celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany--the former West Germany-- leading scholars take stock in this volume of the political, social, and economic progress Germany made as it built a democratic political system and a powerful economy, survived...
by Zeev Maoz
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
Defending the Holy Land is the most comprehensive analysis to date of Israel's national security and foreign policy, from the inception of the State of Israel to the present. Author Zeev Maoz's unique double perspective, as both an expert on the Israeli security establishment and esteemed scholar...
Imperfect Institutions
Possibilities and Limits of Reform
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
The emergence of New Institutional Economics toward the end of the twentieth century profoundly changed our ideas about the organization of economic systems and their social and political foundations. Imperfect Institutions explores recent developments in this field and pushes the discussion forward...
Patchwork Nation
Sectionalism and Political Change in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
The unprecedented geographic and socioeconomic mobility of twentieth-century America was accompanied by a major reshuffling of political support in many parts of the country. Yet at the dawn of the new century these local and regional movements are still poorly understood. How can we account for persistent...
The Limits to Union
Same-Sex Marriage and the Politics of Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Revised and updated to include the most current information on same-sex marriage, The Limits to Union documents a legal struggle at its moment of greatest historical importance.
"The Limits to Union is a superb book about the complexities of recent political struggles over same-sex marriage....
Cultural Conundrums
Gender, Race, Nation, and the Making of Caribbean Cultural Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
Cultural Conundrums investigates the passions of race, gender, and national identity that make culture a continually embattled public sphere in the Anglophone Caribbean today. Academics, journalists, and ordinary citizens have weighed in on the ideological meanings to be found in the minutiae of cultural...
Kin of Another Kind
Transracial Adoption in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
"The study of transracial adoption has long been dominated by historians, legal scholars, and social scientists, but with the growth of the lively field of humanistic adoption studies comes a growing understanding of the importance of cultural representations to the social meanings and even the...
The "Vanity of the Philosopher"
From Equality to Hierarchy in Post-Classical Economics
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
The "Vanity of the Philosopher" continues the themes introduced in Levy's acclaimed book How the Dismal Science Got Its Name.
Here, Peart and Levy tackle the issues of racism, eugenics, hierarchy, and egalitarianism in classical economics and take a broad view of classical economics'...
To See Ourselves as Others See Us
How Publics Abroad View the United States after 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
"Holsti, the authority on American foreign policy attitudes, investigates others' views of us. It's not pretty. It matters. Read this."
---Bruce Russett, Dean Acheson Professor of International Relations, Yale University, and editor of the Journal of Conflict Resolution
"Clearly...
Secrecy and Cultural Reality
Utopian Ideologies of the New Guinea Men's House
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
Gilbert Herdt is Director of the Program in Human Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University, where he is also Professor of Human Sexuality Studies and Anthropology.