Offers an examination of labor's crisis and a plan for a bold way forward into the twenty-first century. This book charts…

This volume is a collection of essays which explores the role of war preparation and warmaking on the formation and…

Given that matters relevant to race remain confused and divisive in many corridors of American society, it is not surprising…

A study of the Argentine character, a prescription for the modernization of Latin America, and a protest against the tyranny…

Represents the major aspects of the author's work and provides an overview of her methodology in women's studies in religion…

Paik Nak-chung is one of Korea's most incisive contemporary public intellectuals. By training a literary scholar, he is…

Emphasizing the craft of writing and the process of collaboration, this title looks at how Hollywood is changing to meet the…

Suitable for policy makers, architects, developers, builders, and homeowners, this title focuses on the central question of…

As a curator of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, the author was in charge of one of the world's leading Hayden…

Examines the lives of the women who work in the Zona Galactica, a state-run brothel in Chiapas' capital city. By delving…

Guantanamo has become a symbol of what has gone wrong in the War on Terror. This history of the women and men who worked on…

Deftly questions the conventional wisdom that knowledge about a colonial culture is unilaterally defined by its rulers.…

This study discusses Egypt's nationalist response to the phenomenon of colonialism, as well as examining colonialism and…

Explores a group of potentially disabling conditions that are too often suffered in silence and isolation.…

Helps understand the intricate interplay of gender, race, and class. This book examines an immigration pattern to analyze…

With an anthropological approach, this work focuses on a central conundrum surrounding AIDS in Africa. It explores why HIV…

An intellectual history of Japanese social science, since the 1890s, this work considers the various forms of modernity that…

The West tends to understand the Middle East primarily in terms of geopolitics: Islam, oil, and nuclear weapons. But in the…

Most studies on reproductive rights make women their focus, but this work illuminates what men in the Mexican state of…

Charts how revolutions in genomics, bioinformatics, and remote sensing have pressed marine biologists to see the sea as…

What is the role of the material world in shaping the tensions and paradoxes of imperial sovereignty? The author argues that…

Presents a genealogy of realist performance through analysis of the music hall careers and film roles of Mistinguett,…

Takes the reader inside a Rhode Island juvenile prison to explore broader questions of how poor, disenfranchised young men…

In 2005, Bolivians elected their first indigenous president, Evo Morales. Ushering in a new "democratic cultural…

Presenting a comparative analysis of African American women's and white women's relationships to home and work, this study…

Offers an indictment of environmental education - along with a vision for the future. This title assesses the political…

Considers the structure and dynamics of ethnic violence - the deadly ethnic riot - an intense, sudden, lethal attack by…

Offers a study of the political economy of the Vega Baja region of Spain, tackling the question of how to understand the…

An ethnographic study of poverty and social welfare in the postsocialist world. Focuses on the everyday operations and civil…

Taking Oakland as a case study of urban politics and society in the United States, this examines the city's successive…

Identifying music as a vital site of cultural debate, this book captures the dynamic, contested nature of musical life in…

Features essays that combine research, critical analyses and theoretical approaches regarding the meaning and value of…

Human rights is all too often the first casualty of national insecurity. How can democracies cope with the threat of terror…

This text paints a portrait of Palestinian society on the verge of modernity. Through the voices of merchants, peasants and…

Offers an analysis of China's influence on international relations in Asia. This book explores the various dimensions of…

Offers guidance on how to plan a garden with birds, plants, and insects in mind; how to shape it with trees and shrubs,…

This text charts women's contributions to what the author calls the "War Story". It concentrates on the contemporary…

An assessment of the impact of Spain on the Americas. It presents a picture of the conquests of Cortes and Pizarro and of…

Selects some of the important work analyzing popular culture. Drawing upon developments in cultural theory and the…

This study examines the 45 years of post-war Japanese history, describing the related themes: Japan's extraordinary economic…

Develops a theory of cinematic intertextuality. Building on the insights of semiotics and contemporary film theory, this…

Examines the political role played by working men and women in prewar Tokyo and offers a reinterpretation of the broader…

This text examines the social meanings of music as they have been shaped not only by hearing, but also by seeing music in…

Linking the personal and the political, this book depicts the making of the working class in Britain as a 'struggle for the…

The popularity of Yunus Emre, who is often referred to as the Turkish national poet, has endured for six centuries. This…

Collects information about footbinding in China, using color and black-and-white photography to chronicle the history of the…

A compilation of interviews and public discussions with major contributors to independent filmmaking and film awareness. It…

The marriage of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne, for their contemporaries a model of true love and married happiness, was…