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Weimar through the Lens of Gender

Prostitution Reform, Woman's Emancipation, and German Democracy, 1919-33

by Julia Roos
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017

"This book will make a valuable contribution to the field of German history, as well as the histories of gender and sexuality. The argument that Weimar feminism did bring about tangible gains for women needs to be made, and Roos has done so convincingly." ---Julia Sneeringer, Queens College Until...
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Butterfly, the Bride

Essays on Law, Narrative, and the Family

by Carol Weisbrod
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009

Carol Weisbrod uses a variety of stories to raise important questions about how society, through law, defines relationships in the family. Beginning with a story most familiar from the opera Madame Butterfly, Weisbrod addresses issues such as marriage, divorce, parent-child relations and abuses, and...
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Harmony and the Balance

An Intellectual History of Seventeenth-Century English Economic Thought

by Andrea Lynne Finkelstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009

Frequently the achievements of pioneering economic writers are assessed by imposing contemporary theories of markets, economics, politics, and history. At last, here is a book that appraises the work of the leading English economic writers of the seventeenth century using intellectual concepts of...
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Understanding Torture

Law, Violence, and Political Identity

by John T. Parry
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011

"John Parry's Understanding Torture is an important contribution to our understanding of how torture fits within the practices and beliefs of the modern state. His juxtaposition of the often indeterminate nature of the law of torture with the very specific state practices of torture is both startling...
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The Psychological Assessment of Political Leaders

With Profiles of Saddam Hussein and Bill Clinton

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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010

In an age when world affairs are powerfully driven by personality, politics require an understanding of what motivates political leaders such as Hussein, Bush, Blair, and bin Laden. Through exacting case studies and the careful sifting of evidence, Jerrold Post and his team of contributors lay out...
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Institutions and Investments

Foreign Direct Investment in China during an Era of Reforms

by Jun Fu
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010

As China continues to be heralded as a rising economic power, the need for an understanding of its institutional effects--such as investment-related policies, regulations, and laws--on foreign direct investment increases as well. Institutions and Investments employs interdisciplinary perspectives...
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by Bradley Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010

"Interesting and fresh-represents an important and vigorous challenge to a discipline that at the moment is stuck in its own devices and needs a radical critique to begin to move ahead." --Paul McHugh, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine "Remarkable in its breadth-an...
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Seven Stories of Threatening Speech

Women's Suffrage Meets Machine Code

by Ruth A Miller
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011

Ruth A. Miller demonstrates the potential of taking nonhuman linguistic activity—such as the running of machine code—as an analytical model. Via a lively discussion of 19th-century pro- and antisuffragists, Miller tells a new computational story in which language becomes a thing that executes...
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Managing Motherhood, Managing Risk

Fertility and Danger in West Central Tanzania

by Denise Roth Allen
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009

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Defusing Democracy

Central Bank Autonomy and the Transition from Authoritarian Rule

by Delia Margaret Boylan
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010

Many of today's new democracies are constrained by institutional forms designed by previous authoritarian rulers. In this timely and provocative study, Delia M. Boylan traces the emergence of these vestigial governance structures to strategic behavior by outgoing elites seeking to protect their interests...
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All International Politics Is Local

The Diffusion of Conflict, Integration, and Democratization

by Kristian Skrede Gleditsch
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009

How does regional interdependence influence the prospects for conflict, integration, and democratization? Some researchers look at the international system at large and disregard the enormous regional variations. Others take the concept of sovereignty literally and treat each nation-state as fully...
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Interests and Integration

Market Liberalization, Public Opinion, and European Union

by Matthew Joseph Gabel
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009

Integration in Europe has been a slow incremental process focusing largely on economic matters. Policy makers have tried to develop greater support for the European Union by such steps as creating pan-European political institutions. Yet significant opposition remains to policies such as the creation...
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Capitalism, Not Globalism

Capital Mobility, Central Bank Independence, and the Political Control of the Economy

by William Roberts Clark
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009

Capitalism, Not Globalism shows that, while much has been made of recent changes in the international economy, the mechanisms by which politicians control the economy have not changed throughout the postwar period. Challenging both traditional and revisionist globalization theorists, William Roberts...
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In the Land of Mirrors

Cuban Exile Politics in the United States

by Maria de los Angeles Torres
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010

In the Land of Mirrors is a journey through the politics of Cuban exiles since the 1959 Cuban Revolution. It explores the development of Cuban exile politics and identity within a context of U.S. and Cuban realities, as well as within the broader inquiry of the changing nature of nation-states and...
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