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by Daniel Cottom
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Education is useless because it destroys our common sense, because it isolates us from the rest of humanity, because it hardens our hearts and swells our heads. Bookish persons have long been subjects of suspicion and contempt and nowhere more so, perhaps, than in the United States during the past...
China and Africa
A Century of Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The People's Republic of China once limited its involvement in African affairs to building an occasional railroad or port, supporting African liberation movements, and loudly proclaiming socialist solidarity with the downtrodden of the continent. Now Chinese diplomats and Chinese companies, both state-owned...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
When countries discover that they possess large deposits of oil and natural gas, the news is usually welcome. Yet, paradoxically, if they rely on their wealth of natural resources, they often set down a path of poor economic performance and governance challenges. Only a few resource-rich countries...
Dignity Rights
Courts, Constitutions, and the Worth of the Human Person
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
The right to dignity is now recognized in most of the world's constitutions, and hardly a new constitution is adopted without it. Over the last sixty years, courts in Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and North America have developed a robust jurisprudence of dignity on subjects...
by Glenda Sluga
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2013
The twentieth century, a time of profound disillusionment with nationalism, was also the great age of internationalism. To the twenty-first-century historian, the period from the late nineteenth century until the end of the Cold War is distinctive for its nationalist preoccupations, while internationalism...
by Saladin M. Ambar
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
A governor's mansion is often the last stop for politicians who plan to move into the White House. Before Barack Obama was elected president of the United States, four of his last five predecessors had been governors. Executive experience at the state level informs individual presidencies, and, as...
Sunbelt Capitalism
Phoenix and the Transformation of American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Few Sunbelt cities burned brighter or contributed more to the conservative movement than Phoenix. In 1910, eleven thousand people called Phoenix home; now, over four million reside in this metropolitan region. In Sunbelt Capitalism, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer tells the story of the city's expansion and...
Uncertain Democracy
U.S. Foreign Policy and Georgia's Rose Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
In November of 2003, a stolen election in the former Soviet republic of Georgia led to protests and the eventual resignation of President Eduard Shevardnadze. Shevardnadze was replaced by a democratically elected government led by President Mikheil Saakashvili, who pledged to rebuild Georgia, orient...
Eve's Journey
Feminine Images in Hebraic Literary Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
In Eve's Journey, Nehama Aschkenasy traces the migration of several female images and feminine situations from their early appearances in Biblical writings to their incarnations in modern Hebraic literature. Focusing on the evolution of early female archetypes and prototypes, Aschkenasy uncovers the...
Exotic Nation
Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
In the Western imagination, Spain often evokes the colorful culture of al-Andalus, the Iberian region once ruled by Muslims. Tourist brochures inviting visitors to sunny and romantic Andalusia, home of the ingenious gardens and intricate arabesques of Granada's Alhambra Palace, are not the first texts...
Jewish Magic and Superstition
A Study in Folk Religion
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Alongside the formal development of Judaism from the eleventh through the sixteenth centuries, a robust Jewish folk religion flourished—ideas and practices that never met with wholehearted approval by religious leaders yet enjoyed such wide popularity that they could not be altogether excluded from...
Consuming Pleasures
Intellectuals and Popular Culture in the Postwar World
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
How is it that American intellectuals, who had for 150 years worried about the deleterious effects of affluence, more recently began to emphasize pleasure, playfulness, and symbolic exchange as the essence of a vibrant consumer culture? The New York intellectuals of the 1930s rejected any serious...
Modern Women, Modern Work
Domesticity, Professionalism, and American Writing, 1890-1950
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Focusing on literary authors, social reformers, journalists, and anthropologists, Francesca Sawaya demonstrates how women intellectuals in early twentieth-century America combined and criticized ideas from both the Victorian "cult of domesticity" and the modern "culture of professionalism"...
International Bohemia
Scenes of Nineteenth-Century Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
How did this vagabond word, bohemia, migrate across national borderlines over the course of the nineteenth century, and what happened to it as it traveled? In International Bohemia, Daniel Cottom studies how various individuals and groups appropriated this word to serve the identities, passions, cultural...