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A New World of Labor
The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
The small and remote island of Barbados seems an unlikely location for the epochal change in labor that overwhelmed it and much of British America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. However, by 1650 it had become the greatest wealth-producing area in the English-speaking world, the center...
Town Born
The Political Economy of New England from Its Founding to the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, British colonists found the New World full of resources. With land readily available but workers in short supply, settlers developed coercive forms of labor—indentured servitude and chattel slavery—in order to produce staple export crops like rice,...
The War on Welfare
Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Why did the War on Poverty give way to the war on welfare? Many in the United States saw the welfare reforms of 1996 as the inevitable result of twelve years of conservative retrenchment in American social policy, but there is evidence that the seeds of this change were sown long before the Reagan...
Policy, Planning, and People
Promoting Justice in Urban Development
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
The contributors of Policy, Planning, and People argue for the promotion of social equity and quality of life by designing and evaluating urban policies and plans. Edited by Naomi Carmon and Susan S. Fainstein, the volume features original essays by leading authorities in the field of urban planning...
Everyday Politics
Reconnecting Citizens and Public Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Increasingly a spectator sport, electoral politics have become bitterly polarized by professional consultants and lobbyists and have been boiled down to the distributive mantra of "who gets what." In Everyday Politics, Harry Boyte transcends partisan politics to offer an alternative. He...
Rude Awakening
Threats to the Global Liberal Order
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
In the wake of World War II, a number of institutions designed to promote a liberal global economic and geopolitical order were established—the International Monetary Fund, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (forerunner of the World Trade Organization), and the World Bank in the economic...
by Ivan Krastev
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
In this provocative book, renowned public intellectual Ivan Krastev reflects on the future of the European Union—and its potential lack of a future. With far-right nationalist parties on the rise across the continent and the United Kingdom planning for Brexit, the European Union is in disarray and...
Faces of Moderation
The Art of Balance in an Age of Extremes
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Aristotle listed moderation as one of the moral virtues. He also defined virtue as the mean between extremes, implying that moderation plays a vital role in all forms of moral excellence. But moderation's protean character—its vague and ill-defined omnipresence in judgment and action—makes it...
On Risk and Disaster
Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Named one of Planetizen's Top 10 Books of 2006
Hurricane Katrina not only devastated a large area of the nation's Gulf coast, it also raised fundamental questions about ways the nation can, and should, deal with the inevitable problems of economic risk and social responsibility. This volume...
City
Rediscovering the Center
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Named by Newsweek magazine to its list of "Fifty Books for Our Time."
For sixteen years William Whyte walked the streets of New York and other major cities. With a group of young observers, camera and notebook in hand, he conducted pioneering studies of street life, pedestrian behavior,...
Beyond Rust
Metropolitan Pittsburgh and the Fate of Industrial America
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Beyond Rust chronicles the rise, fall, and rebirth of metropolitan Pittsburgh, an industrial region that once formed the heart of the world's steel production and is now touted as a model for reviving other hard-hit cities of the Rust Belt. Writing in clear and engaging prose, historian and area native...
by Shahram Khosravi
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
With more than half its population under twenty years old, Iran is one of the world's most youthful nations. The Iranian state characterizes its youth population in two ways: as a homogeneous mass, "an army of twenty millions" devoted to the Revolution, and as alienated, inauthentic, Westernized...
How Real Estate Developers Think
Design, Profits, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Cities are always changing: streets, infrastructure, public spaces, and buildings are constantly being built, improved, demolished, and replaced. But even when a new project is designed to improve a community, neighborhood residents often find themselves at odds with the real estate developer who...
Nightclub City
Politics and Amusement in Manhattan
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
In the Roaring Twenties, New York City nightclubs and speakeasies became hot spots where traditions were flouted and modernity was forged. With powerful patrons in Tammany Hall and a growing customer base, nightclubs flourished in spite of the efforts of civic-minded reformers and federal Prohibition...