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Topographical Stories
Studies in Landscape and Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Landscape architecture and architecture are two fields that exist in close proximity to one another. Some have argued that the two are, in fact, one field. Others maintain that the disciplines are distinct. These designations are a subject of continual debate by theorists and practitioners alike.
Here,...
The Way of Improvement Leads Home
Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
The Way of Improvement Leads Home traces the short but fascinating life of Philip Vickers Fithian, one of the most prolific diarists in early America. Born to Presbyterian grain-growers in rural New Jersey, he was never quite satisfied with the agricultural life he seemed destined to inherit. Fithian...
Battling Miss Bolsheviki
The Origins of Female Conservatism in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Why did the political authority of well-respected female reformers diminish after women won the vote? In Battling Miss Bolsheviki Kirsten Marie Delegard argues that they were undercut during the 1920s by women conservatives who spent the first decade of female suffrage linking these reformers to radical...
by Keena Lipsitz
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Tight political races with their emotionally charged debates, mud-slinging, and uncertain outcomes are stressful for voters and candidates alike, but that stress may be healthy for democracy. In Competitive Elections and the American Voter, Keena Lipsitz argues that highly contested electoral battles...
by William D. Phillips, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
The enslaved population of medieval Iberia composed only a small percentage of the general populace at any given point, and slave labor was not essential to the regional economy during the period. Yet slaves were present in Iberia from the beginning of recorded history until the early modern era,...
The Shame and the Sorrow
Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The Dutch, through the directors of the West India Company, purchased Manhattan Island in 1625. They had come to the New World as traders, not expecting to assume responsibility as the sovereign possessor of a conquered New Netherland. They did not intend to make war on the native peoples around Manhattan...
In the Crossfire
Marcus Foster and the Troubled History of American School Reform
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
As media reports declare crisis after crisis in public education, Americans find themselves hotly debating educational inequalities that seem to violate their nation's ideals. Why does success in school track so closely with race and socioeconomic status? How to end these apparent achievement gaps?...
by Charles E. Orser, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Scholars who investigate race—a label based upon real or perceived physical differences—realize that they face a formidable task. The concept has been contested and condoned, debated and denied throughout modern history. Presented with the full understanding of the complexity of the issue, Race...
From Abolition to Rights for All
The Making of a Reform Community in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
The Civil War was not the end, as is often thought, of reformist activism among abolitionists. After emancipation was achieved, they broadened their struggle to pursue equal rights for women, state medicine, workers' rights, fair wages, immigrants' rights, care of the poor, and a right to decent housing...
Sanctifying the Name of God
Jewish Martyrs and Jewish Memories of the First Crusade
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
How are martyrs made, and how do the memories of martyrs express, nourish, and mold the ideals of the community? Sanctifying the Name of God wrestles with these questions against the background of the massacres of Jews in the Rhineland during the outbreak of the First Crusade. Marking the first extensive...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Following the popular uprisings that swept across the Arab world beginning in 2010, armed forces remained pivotal actors in politics throughout the region. As demonstrators started to challenge entrenched autocratic rulers in Tunis, Cairo, Sana'a, and Manama, the militaries stormed back into the limelight...
by Brenda Shaffer
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
It is not uncommon to hear states and their leaders criticized for "mixing oil and politics." The U.S.-led Iraq War was criticized as a "war for oil." When energy exporters overtly use energy as a tool to promote their foreign policy goals, Europe and the United States regularly...
Robert McNamara's Other War
The World Bank and International Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Robert McNamara is best known for his key role in the escalation of the Vietnam War as U.S. secretary of defense under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. The familiar story begins with the brilliant young executive transforming Ford Motor Company, followed by his rise to political power...
The Sports Franchise Game
Cities in Pursuit of Sports Franchises, Events, Stadiums, and Arenas
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Power, prestige, and millions of dollars—these are the stakes in the sports franchise game. In this book, sports attorney Kenneth Shropshire describes the franchise warfare that pits city against city in the fierce bidding competition to capture major league teams. Rigorous research, fascinating...