Palgrave Pivot imprint: 999 books
by S. Salenius
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2014
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland was the First Lady of the United States when she assisted her brother, Grover Cleveland. She was also a literary scholar, novelist, and a poet who published work that empowered women. This book positions Cleveland in the historical context of the early twentieth century, when she helped shape female subjectivity and agency.
Screen Hustles, Grifts and Stings
Stings, Grifts, Hustles and the Long Con
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Screen Hustles, Grifts and Stings identifies recurrent themes and techniques of the con film, suggests precedents in literature and discusses the perennial appeal of the con man for readers and viewers alike. Core studies span from film (Catch Me If You Can, Paper Moon, House of Games) to television...
by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
The culture of twenty-first century America revolves around narcissistic death, violence, and visions of doom. Foster explores this culture of the apocalypse, from hoarding and gluttony to visions of the post-apocalyptic world.
Racism and Everyday Life
Social Theory, History and 'Race'
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
What does it mean to talk about everyday racism, and why should we do so? Racism and Everyday Life brings together the sociologies of racism and everyday life in a new way in order to reflect on these questions. Smith argues that racism and everyday life are not just 'act' and 'context' respectively,...
Racism and Everyday Life
Social Theory, History and 'Race'
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
What does it mean to talk about everyday racism, and why should we do so? Racism and Everyday Life brings together the sociologies of racism and everyday life in a new way in order to reflect on these questions. Smith argues that racism and everyday life are not just 'act' and 'context' respectively,...
Tycoons, Scorchers, and Outlaws
The Class War that Shaped American Auto Racing
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Tycoons, Scorchers, and Outlaws charts how auto racing was shaped by class tensions between the millionaires who invented it, the public who resented their seizure of the public roads, and the working class drivers who viewed the sport as a vocation, not a leisured pursuit.
The New Deal as a Triumph of Social Work
Frances Perkins and the Confluence of Early Twentieth Century Social Work with Mid-Twentieth Century Politics and Government
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
The New Deal as a Triumph of Social Work concerns the 'hand' the New Deal plays from the perspective of early American History in which government and business cooperation is assumed and economic rights are addressed collectively whereas political rights are considered individually. The New Deal reconfigures...
Global Modernity
A Conceptual Sketch
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
This book introduces the concept of global modernity as a paradigm for the analysis of the contemporary era. Building on Parson's distinction between social, cultural, personal and organismic systems, it presents a four-dimensional scheme that aims to identify modernity's key structural components.
by E. Halton
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
In 1873, John Stuart Stuart-Glennie elaborated a theory of 'the moral revolution' to characterize the historical shift from roughly 600 BCE in a variety of civilizations, as part of a critical theory of history. This book brings light to the now eclipsed theory and offers new contexts and understandings of the phenomenon.
Measuring Impact
Models for Evaluation in the Australian Arts and Culture Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
This book investigates the relationship developed between the researcher/evaluator and the commissioning arts and cultural producer in providing an opportunity to rethink the traditional process of reporting back on value and impact through the singular entity of funds acquittal. Using three commissioned...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
The National Perspectives on the Development of Public Relations: Other Voices series is the first to offer an authentic world-wide view of the history of public relations. It features six books, five of which cover continental and regional groups. This second book in the series focuses on Eastern Europe.
by R. Jahanbegloo
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Democratic government is something that has eluded Iran despite a series of non-violent revolutions aimed at establishing a system of governance that would promote both public freedom and political accountability. This explores the obstacles to the growth of democracy in Iran and posits a plan for non-violent action to help Iranians achieve it.
Japan and Reconciliation in Post-war Asia
The Murayama Statement and Its Implications
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Taking a comparative approach and bringing together perspectives from Japan, China, Korea, and Taiwan, this volume considers former Japanese prime minister Tomiichi Murayama's 1995 apology statement, the height of Japan's post-war apology, and examines its implications for memory, international relations, and reconciliation in Asia.
Japan’s Foreign and Security Policy Under the ‘Abe Doctrine’
New Dynamism or New Dead End?
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Japan is shifting onto a new trajectory for a more muscular national security policy, US-Japan alliance ties functioning for regional and global security, and the encirclement of China's influence in East Asia. The author explores how PM Abe Shinz?'s doctrine may prove contradictory and counter-productive to Japanese national interests.