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The Benevolent Deity
Ebenezer Gay and the Rise of Rational Religion in New England, 1696-1787
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
The years following the Great Awakening in New England saw a great theological struggle between proponents of Calvinism and the champions of Christian liberty, setting the stage for American Unitarianism. The adherents of Christian liberty, who were branded Arminians by their opponents, were contending...
Liberty on the Waterfront
American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Through careful research and colorful accounts, historian Paul A. Gilje discovers what liberty meant to an important group of common men in American society, those who lived and worked on the waterfront and aboard ships. In the process he reveals that the idealized vision of liberty associated with...
The Phenomenon of Torture
Readings and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Torture is the most widespread human rights crime in the modern world, practiced in more than one hundred countries, including the United States. How could something so brutal, almost unthinkable, be so prevalent? The Phenomenon of Torture: Readings and Commentary is designed to answer that question...
by Jan-Werner Müller
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Donald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, Marine Le Pen, Hugo Chávez—populists are on the rise across the globe. But what exactly is populism? Should everyone who criticizes Wall Street or Washington be called a populist? What precisely is the difference between right-wing and left-wing populism? Does populism...
Democracy Disrupted
The Politics of Global Protest
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Since the financial meltdown of 2008, political protests have spread around the world like chain lightning, from the "Occupy" movements of the United States, Great Britain, and Spain to more destabilizing forms of unrest in Tunisia, Egypt, Russia, Thailand, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Ukraine....
Forgotten Genocides
Oblivion, Denial, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Unlike the Holocaust, Rwanda, Cambodia, or Armenia, scant attention has been paid to the human tragedies analyzed in this book. From German Southwest Africa (now Namibia), Burundi, and eastern Congo to Tasmania, Tibet, and Kurdistan, from the mass killings of the Roms by the Nazis to the extermination...
by Roland Burke
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
In the decades following the triumphant proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, the UN General Assembly was transformed by the arrival of newly independent states from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. This diverse constellation of states introduced new ideas, methods,...
Rainforest Warriors
Human Rights on Trial
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Rainforest Warriors is a historical, ethnographic, and documentary account of a people, their threatened rainforest, and their successful attempt to harness international human rights law in their fight to protect their way of life—part of a larger story of tribal and indigenous peoples that is...
The Evolution of International Human Rights
Visions Seen
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
This widely acclaimed and highly regarded book, used extensively by students, scholars, policymakers, and activists, now appears in a new third edition. Focusing on the theme of visions seen by those who dreamed of what might be, Lauren explores the dramatic transformation of a world patterned by...
by Samuel Moyn
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
In Christian Human Rights, Samuel Moyn asserts that the rise of human rights after World War II was prefigured and inspired by a defense of the dignity of the human person that first arose in Christian churches and religious thought in the years just prior to the outbreak of the war. The Roman Catholic...
Hope in a Jar
The Making of America's Beauty Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
How did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a "kitchen physic," as homemade cosmetics were once called, become a multibillion-dollar industry? And how did men finally take over that rarest of institutions, a woman's business?
In...
Ellis Island Nation
Immigration Policy and American Identity in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Though debates over immigration have waxed and waned in the course of American history, the importance of immigrants to the nation's identity is imparted in civics classes, political discourse, and television and film. We are told that the United States is a "nation of immigrants," built...
by Seth Dowland
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
During the last three decades of the twentieth century, evangelical leaders and conservative politicians developed a political agenda that thrust "family values" onto the nation's consciousness. Ministers, legislators, and laypeople came together to fight abortion, gay rights, and major...
by Klaus P. Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
In February 1942, barely two months after he had declared war on the United States, Adolf Hitler praised America's great industrial achievements and admitted that Germany would need some time to catch up. The Americans, he said, had shown the way in developing the most efficient methods of production—especially...