Palgrave Macmillan Us: 3342 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Relations across the Taiwan Strait were unstable for decades before May 2008. Several acknowledged "crises" raised the possibility of war between China and the US and/or Taiwan and at times political disputes wracked the US-Taiwan relationship. Nevertheless, the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) of 1979 helped maintain peace by deterring coercive actions by China against the island.
Queer Commodities
Contemporary US Fiction, Consumer Capitalism, and Gay and Lesbian Subcultures
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Queer Commoditiesis the first book-length analysis of same-sexuality and consumer capitalism in contemporary US fiction. Moving beyond the critical tendencies to identify gay and lesbian subcultures as either hopelessly immersed in consumer capitalism or heroically resistant to it, Guy Davidson argues...
A History of Digital Currency in the United States
New Technology in an Unregulated Market
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
This book presents detailed case studies of the first commercial internet digital currency systems developed between 1996 and 2004. Transactions completed with the new technology circumvented all US financial regulations, an opening that transnational criminals exploited. Mullan explains how an entire...
New Critical Essays on James Agee and Walker Evans
Perspectives on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
Coinciding with the increasing intersections between visual and literary studies, this timely reappraisal of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men sheds light on the book's unclassifiable status as part imaginative fiction, documentary effort, ethnographic study, and modernist prose.
US Human Rights Conduct and International Legitimacy
The Constrained Hegemony of George W. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Was the Bush administration was successful in legitimating its preferences with habeas corpus, torture, and extraordinary rendition? As American transforms in the post-Bush era, scholars have begun to assess the post-9/11 period in American foreign and domestic policy, asking difficult questions regarding torture and human rights.
Migrant Mobilization and Securitization in the US and Europe
How Does It Feel to Be a Threat?
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Immigrants and minorities in Europe and America have responded in diverse ways to security legislation introduced since 9/11 that targets them, labeling them as threats. This book identifies how different groups have responded and explains why, synthesizing findings in the fields of securitization, migrant integration, and migrant mobilization.
Outsourcing the Global War on Terrorism
Private Military Companies and American Intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
The US military strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan made use of private military and private security companies on an unprecedented scale. In this environment, actions and operations can greatly affect the efficacy of the US military - creating unintended diplomatic and tactical consequences.
by J. Logsdon
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
While there are many biographies of JFK and accounts of the early years of US space efforts, this book uses primary source material and interviews with key participants to provide a comprehensive account of how the actions taken by JFK's administration have shaped the course of the US space program over the last 45 years.
Dust Bowl
Depression America to World War Two Australia
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This book takes the Dust Bowl story beyond Depression America to describe the ‘dust bowl’ concept as a transnational phenomenon, where during World War Two, US and Australian national mythologies converged. Dust Bowl begins with Depression America, the New Deal and the US Dust Bowl where massive...
US Foreign Policy Decision-Making from Kennedy to Obama
Responses to International Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
This book analyzes the foreign policy decision-making processes of Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama during military intervention by way of contemporary foreign policy decision-making models (FPDMs).
by Frank J. Lechner
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
This book examines what makes the United States an exceptional society, what impact it has had abroad, and why these issues have mattered to Americans. With historical and comparative evidence, Frank J. Lechner describes the distinctive path of American institutions and tracks changes in the country’s...
New Developments in Critical Race Theory and Education
Revisiting Racialized Capitalism and Socialism in Austerity
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
This book considers new developments in Critical Race Theory (CRT) in times of austerity and assesses both the impact of British CRT or ‘BritCrit’, and CRT’s continuing growth in the US. Following transatlantic impact of the first and only book-length response from a Marxist perspective—Critical...
by C. Leah
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
This book is a historical and strategic analysis of the nuclear dimension of the US alliance with Australia, Australia's relationship with nuclear weapons, nuclear strategy, and US extended nuclear deterrence.
US Leadership in Political Time and Space
Pathfinders, Patriots, and Existential Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Spanning the history of American leadership, the book examines all facets of American thought leaders and innovators along with the models of ethics and courage they've provided for the American consciousness. From Thomas Paine to Rosa Parks, the book provides a multi-faceted approach to American leadership studies.