Tackling fraught but fascinating issues of cultural borrowing and appropriation, this groundbreaking book reveals that…

Why was eighteenth-century English culture so fascinated with the things its society discarded? This book explains how…

Investigates one of the most serious policy challenges facing US: the stubborn persistence of racial inequality in the…

An account of ethnic minority politics, this work explains when and how European institutions successfully used norms and…

How does the American public formulate its opinions about US foreign policy and military engagement abroad? This title takes…

Shows how concerns about status affect market competition. This book shows how anxieties about status influence whom a…

Examines how religious congregations in America have responded to changes in family structure, and how families participate…

Presents a comprehensive analysis of one of the significant thinkers of modern Europe. This book combines social and…

During the 1980s and 1990s, Brazil struggled to rebuild its democracy after 20 years of military dictatorship, experiencing…

On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of Princeton University, leading educators and commentators participated in a…

Looks at the mechanisms that govern how policy is enacted and implemented in the United States. This book includes essays on…

Drawing on a body of empirical evidence, this book examines how much progress college students actually make toward widely…

Looks at the difficulties of constitutional democracy. This book examines such fundamental questions as: What is…

Presents an argument that the process of collecting information on public preferences through surveys may bias our picture…

Traces the diplomatic maneuverings and political drama of national unification in nineteenth-century Germany and Italy. This…

Where did affirmative action in employment come from? This book presents a fresh perspective, tracing the roots of the…

Examines patterns of change and continuity in American foreign policy strategy by looking at four major turning points: the…

Integrates archival research with fresh interpretations of British fiction and film to provide a cultural history of the…

Focusing on relations between the Communist and anti-Communist alliances in Asia during the Cold War, this title explores…

Offers an analysis of "transnational citizenship" from the perspective of contemporary Europe. This title argues for the…

How do the ways we argue represent a practical philosophy or a way of life? This book analyzes arguments in literary,…

The concepts of utopia and dystopia have received much historical attention. Utopias have traditionally signified the ideal…

Conventional wisdom holds that the American military is overwhelmingly conservative and Republican, and extremely political.…

How does cooperation emerge in a condition of international anarchy? This book attempts to answer this fundamental question…

Stepping beyond traditional histories that have emphasized armed conflict from the view of victors, this work focuses on…

Offers a contribution to theoretical debates about political - religious and nationalist - violence. This book brings…

Offers a comprehensive political-economic history of the development of the world's multilateral trade institutions, the…

In a globalizing age, studying American literature in isolation from the rest of the world seems less and less justified.…

Examines four attempts to answer the question of national identity that Americans faced in the wake of the American…

Examines the relationship among civic education, the culture of war, and the quest for peace. Drawing on examples from…

Introduces and tests a theory of ethnic violence, which provides an explanation of not only most ethnic violence, civil…

Analyzing federal involvement in residential segregation, this book examines how the US Department of Housing and Urban…

Argues that political freedom is essential to both the preservation of constitutional government and the very substance of…

Uses the experiences of Asian Americans to reconfigure the ways in which American history can be understood. This book…

As a child, Inga Markovits dreamt of stealing and reading every letter contained in a mailbox at a busy intersection of her…

Johannes Climacus does what we are told to do - he actually doubts everything - he suffers through all the pain of doing…

What makes humans unique? This work presents an alternative to this puzzling question. Based on insights into the behavior…

Using quantitative data and interviews with investment promotion agencies, political risk insurers, and decision makers at…

Explores the pleasures and pitfalls of the academic life. This title discusses three of the perennial issues that have…

In 1989, the centenary of his death, Gerard Manley Hopkins continues to provoke fundamental questions among scholars: what…

Using statistical and ethnographic methods, this book offers a modern perspective on the way public opinion and ideologies…

'How much does it cost?' We think of this question as one that preoccupies the nation's shoppers, not its statesmen. This…

Examines the rule of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, especially from 1953 to 1979, in the context of his regime's dependence on…

Recent debates about inequality have focused almost exclusively on the distribution of wealth and disparities in income, but…

Hegel's Social Ethics offers a fresh and accessible interpretation of G. W. F. Hegel's most famous book, the Phenomenology…

A wide-ranging look at the interplay of opera and political ideas through the centuries The Politics of Opera takes readers…

Since the Taliban seized Kabul in 1996, the public has grappled with the relationship between Islamic education and radical…

The politics of legitimacy is central to international relations. When states perceive an international organization as…