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Middle Eastern Terrorism
From Black September to September 11
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
Since the first airplane hijacking by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in September 1970, Middle Eastern terrorists have sacrificed innocent human lives in the name of ideology. From Black September to the Munich...
Becoming Bureaucrats
Socialization at the Front Lines of Government Service
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Bureaucrats are important symbols of the governments that employ them. Contrary to popular stereotypes, they determine much about the way policy is ultimately enacted and experienced by citizens. While we know a great deal about bureaucrats and their actions, we know little about their development....
The Disaster Experts
Mastering Risk in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
In the wake of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, many are asking what, if anything, can be done to prevent large-scale disasters. How is it that we know more about the hazards of modern American life than ever before, yet the nation faces ever-increasing losses from such events? History shows that disasters...
A Legacy of Innovation
Governors and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
From La Follette to Faubus, from Rockefeller to Reagan, U.S. governors have addressed some of the most contentious policy questions of the twentieth century. In doing so, they not only responded to dramatic changes in the political landscape, they shaped that landscape. The influence of governors...
Heavenly Ambitions
America's Quest to Dominate Space
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2012
In the popular imagination, space is the final frontier. Will that frontier be a wild west, or will it instead be treated as the oceans are: as a global commons, where commerce is allowed to flourish and no one country dominates? At this moment, nations are free to send missions to Mars or launch...
The Right and Labor in America
Politics, Ideology, and Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
The legislative attack on public sector unionism that gave rise to the uproar in Wisconsin and other union strongholds in 2011 was not just a reaction to the contemporary economic difficulties faced by the government. Rather, it was the result of a longstanding political and ideological hostility...
Unsettling the West
Violence and State Building in the Ohio Valley
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
The revolutionary Ohio Valley is often depicted as a chaotic Hobbesian dystopia, in which Indians and colonists slaughtered each other at every turn. In Unsettling the West, Rob Harper overturns this familiar story. Rather than flailing in a morass, the peoples of the revolutionary Ohio Valley actively...
Laboring Women
Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was determined by their ability to work as well as their potential to bear children, who by law would become the enslaved property of the mother's master. In Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World...
Miami Transformed
Rebuilding America One Neighborhood, One City at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Six-year-old Manuel Diaz and his mother first arrived at Miami's airport in 1961 with little more than a dime for a phone call to their relatives in the Little Havana neighborhood. Forty years after his flight from Castro's Cuba, attorney Manny Diaz became mayor of the City of Miami. Toward the end...
Women at the Wheel
A Century of Buying, Driving, and Fixing Cars
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Ever since the Ford Model T became a vehicle for the masses, the automobile has served as a symbol of masculinity. The freedom of the open road, the muscle car's horsepower, the technical know-how for tinkering: all of these experiences have largely been understood from the perspective of the male...
An Army of Lions
The Civil Rights Struggle Before the NAACP
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
In January 1890, journalist T. Thomas Fortune stood before a delegation of African American activists in Chicago and declared, "We know our rights and have the courage to defend them," as together they formed the Afro-American League, the nation's first national civil rights organization....
by Julia Miller Vick, Jennifer S. Furlong
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
For more than 15 years, The Academic Job Search Handbook has assisted job seekers in all academic disciplines in their search for faculty positions. The guide includes information on aspects of the search that are common to all levels, with invaluable tips for those seeking their first or second faculty...
by Alcinda Honwana
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Young people have been at the forefront of political conflict in many parts of the world, even when it has turned violent. In some of those situations, for a variety of reasons, including coercion, poverty, or the seductive nature of violence, children become killers before they are able to grasp...
Forging Rights in a New Democracy
Ukrainian Students Between Freedom and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
The last two decades have been marked by momentous changes in forms of governance throughout the post-Soviet region. Ukraine's political system, like those of other formerly socialist states of Eastern Europe, has often been characterized as being "in transition," moving from a Soviet system...