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by Glenn Mitoma
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
The American attitude toward human rights is deemed inconsistent, even hypocritical: while the United States is characterized (or self-characterized) as a global leader in promoting human rights, the nation has consistently restrained broader interpretations of human rights and held international...
The Long Gilded Age
American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
From the end of the nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth, the United States experienced unprecedented structural change. Advances in communication and manufacturing technology brought about a revolution for major industries such as railroads, coal, and steel. The still-growing...
by Susan Slyomovics
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
In a landmark process that transformed global reparations after the Holocaust, Germany created the largest sustained redress program in history, amounting to more than $60 billion. When human rights violations are presented primarily in material terms, acknowledging an indemnity claim becomes one...
The Saving Lie
Truth and Method in the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book explores the distinction between selflessness and self-interestedness, between acting for one's own advantage and acting, even when disadvantageous, for reasons of duty or conscience. This apparently straightforward contrast (exemplified in the difference between rational-choice models in...
Shays's Rebellion
The American Revolution's Final Battle
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
During the bitter winter of 1786-87, Daniel Shays, a modest farmer and Revolutionary War veteran, and his compatriot Luke Day led an unsuccessful armed rebellion against the state of Massachusetts. Their desperate struggle was fueled by the injustice of a regressive tax system and a conservative state...
Unveiling Eve
Reading Gender in Medieval Hebrew Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
Unveiling Eve is the first feminist inquiry into the Hebrew poetry and prose forms cultivated in Muslim and Christian Spain, Italy, and Provence in the eleventh through fourteenth centuries. In the Jewish Middle Ages, writing was...
Washington Internships
How to Get Them and Use Them to Launch Your Public Policy Career
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
For students interested in a career in politics and public service, Washington Internships is an invaluable guide to landing that crucial first position in America's capital. Deirdre Martinez, a former policy analyst and legislative director, shares practical strategies for each phase of the internship...
The Markets for Force
Privatization of Security Across World Regions
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
The Markets for Force examines and compares the markets for private military and security contractors in twelve nations: Argentina, Guatemala, Peru, Ecuador, the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Russia, Afghanistan, China, Canada, and the United States. Editors Molly Dunigan and Ulrich...
Piety and Public Funding
Evangelicals and the State in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
How is it that some conservative groups are viscerally antigovernment even while enjoying the benefits of government funding? In Piety and Public Funding historian Axel R. Schäfer offers a compelling answer to this question by chronicling how, in the first half century since World War II, conservative...
American Justice 2017
The Supreme Court in Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
With the death of associate justice Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court was plunged into crisis. Refusing to hold hearings or confirm the nominee of a Democratic president almost a year away from a presidential election, the Republican-controlled Senate held the court hostage, forcing it to do its work...
1812
War and the Passions of Patriotism
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
As military campaigns go, the War of 1812 was a disaster. By the time it ended in 1815, Washington, D.C., had been burned to the ground, the national debt had nearly tripled, and territorial gains were negligible. Yet the war gained so much popular support that it ushered in what is known as the "era...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Since 2000, more than twenty countries around the world have held elections in which parties that espouse a political agenda based on an Islamic worldview have competed for legislative seats. Islamist Parties and Political Normalization in the Muslim World examines the impact these parties have had...
Representation
Elections and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
In any democracy, the central problem of governance is how to inform, organize, and represent the opinions of the public in order to advance three goals: popular control over leaders, equality among citizens, and competent governance. In most political analyses, voting is emphasized as the central...
Election 2014
Why the Republicans Swept the Midterms
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
The Republican party overwhelmingly carried the midterm elections of 2014, winning nearly every contested congressional and gubernatorial seat and taking the Senate after eight years of Democratic control. Many have characterized this sweep as a sign of a fundamental political shift toward the GOP....