A collection of original, state-of-the-art essays by some of the best young philosophers working on the myriad problems of…

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Drawing on many of the wars and peaces of recent decades, this book offers a persuasive new perspective on postwar justice.…

Analyses of leadership speeches by David Owen, David Steel, Neil Kinnock and Margaret Thatcher. The author examines how the…

This book shows how a political and cultural dynamic of amnesia and truth telling shapes literary constructions of history.…

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Including contributions from leading scholars in the field, each chapter provides a systematic cross-national analysis of…

This book describes the adaptation of American women to cross-cultural situations in Hong Kong from 1921 to 1969. The…

Challenging Global Gender Violence provides a qualitative and comparative analysis of women's experiences of violence,…

EU law consists of several thousand acts of which the overwhelming majority are made by the Commission. The Commission is…

Homeless Lives in American Cities explores how the American discourse on homelessness arose from Victorian social and…

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In 2008, the economic relationship between the United States and China almost collapsed due to a crisis at two American…

Pavel Pestel (1793-1826) was the key figure in the Decembrist's Southern Society and author of Russian Justice , Russia's…

Drawing on key concepts in sociology and management, this history describes a remarkable institute that has elevated medical…

Food Stamps, now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), has endured and expanded in recent years.…

The political economy landscape has shifted as multinational corporations increase their investment efforts, changing the…

The future success of China's rapidly growing economy remains uncertain. This book analyzes official documents, data and…

This book investigates male writers' use of female voices and female writers' use of male voices in literature and theatre…

This book compares the cultural politics of the U.S. space and Antarctic programs during the Cold War. It analyzes how…

This book explores the conflicted relationship writers have with their public image, particularly when they have written…

Emerging from a long and exhausting conflict against the Boers in South Africa, Edwardians are often perceived as rocked by…

Based on interviews with officials, requesters and journalists, as well as a survey of FOI requesters and a study of stories…

Covers topical issues for Africa's development, economics and politics of climate change, water management, public service…

This book uses a multi-method approach to explain why recent Iowa governors have been able to stay in office significantly…

With studies of, amongst others, Miguel de Cervantes, Anton Chekhov, Charles Baudelaire and Henry James, this landmark…

The first account of the emergence and demise of preventive health care for workers. It explores how trade unions,…

An analysis of the production and consumption of the communications of Make Poverty History , a high profile episode of…

This book examines the struggle over public education in mid-twentieth century America through the lens of a joint biography…

Bringing together memory theory, medieval cognition of images, and the English Corpus Christ drama in an innovative way,…

This book brings together a distinguished group of historians to explore the previously neglected relationship between…

This book broadly frames the scholarly conversation about southern radicalism, putting essays covering a range of historical…

The central concern of this ambitious study is to understand the impact of social change on people's lives - in the vital…

Saudi Arabia influences American policy through both conventional and unconventional methods, all due to the petro-dollars…

In Liberal Barbarism, Erik Ringmar sets out to explain the 1860 destruction of Yuanmingyuan - the Chinese imperial palace…

Using data for India and Peru, the authors compare and contrast four different approaches to poverty analysis at a…

Although these innovations represent a revolution in the structure of philanthropy, they introduce significant complexity to…

The United States is a liberal democratic state founded upon ideals of freedom and equality, thus the history of…

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This powerful study offers a vivid and often disturbing account of the Italian army's occupation of Slovenia during World…

Journalistic activity crosses national borders in creative and sometimes unexpected ways. Drawing on many interviews and…

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Contributing authors share a deep commitment to naming ways in which social exclusion has diminished the educational and…

This book presents a cutting-edge critical analysis of the trope of miscegenation and its biopolitical implications in…

The book presents a model of interaction effects between policymakers and the media which can shed light on the former's…

Traversing the themes of language, terror and representation, this is the first study to engage Coleridge through the…

Through thirteen essays, Teaching Theatre Today addresses the changing nature of educational theory, curricula, and teaching…

Georgian Bloomsbury completes the literary history of Old Bloomsbury that began with Victorian Bloomsbury (1987) and…

"Glocal" education melds the economic advantages of globalizing higher education with the benefits of incorporating local…

As the RtoP moves from norm to operationalization, greater analysis of action to halt crimes against humanity, war crimes,…

In eleven ethnographic chapters of Rethinking Ethnography in Central Europe examines how issues of global economic and…

This collection analyzes the affinities and interactions between Indic and Judaic civilizations from ancient to contemporary…