Seeks to restore the jurisprudence of the late Justice of the Supreme Court George Sutherland - a jurisprudence anchored in…

Examines gender relations in East Germany from 1945 to the 1970s, focusing especially on the relationship between ordinary…

Offers an introduction to the world of women and men who did the hard computational labor of science. This book tells us…

Argues that the contemporary organization of global violence is neither timeless nor natural; it is distinctively modern.…

From the dawn of writing in Sumer to the sunset of the Islamic empire, this title traces four thousand years of speculation…

Presents a case for 'egocentric presentism', a view about the nature of first-person experience, about what happens when we…

Argues that the environmental scarcities will have profound social consequences - contributing to insurrections, ethnic…

Focuses on the 'woman question' in the Middle East, when gender became a highly charged nationalist issue tied up in complex…

Presents a series of essays on the changes that continue to sweep across anthropology. This book examines how the…

Provides a fresh perspective on the problem of civic engagement, challenging idealists who aspire to revolutionize…

Between 1908 and 1917, the American photographer and sociologist Lewis Hine (1874-1940) took some of the most memorable…

Presents the framework for a feminist jurisprudence - one that would return feminism to relevance by connecting it in fresh…

Challenges the notion that globalization encourages economic convergence. Analyzing the social, political, and economic…

Discusses the theories for managing the state system, the transition from autocratic states to communitarian nation states,…

Takes a different approach to a question central to comparative politics and economics: why do some leaders of fragile…

Evaluating changes in liberal political theory and jurisprudence, particularly American liberalism after WWII, this book…

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Shows that there was nothing inevitable about the surge in corporate size and power by century's end. This book concludes…

This is the first complete biography of Ernst Kantorowicz (1895-1963), an influential and controversial German-American…

Combining firsthand accounts of five differently situated Portuguese women, who describe their lives in a rural fishing…

In the 1930s, fewer than one in one hundred US labor union members were African American. By 1980, the figure was more than…

Postulates that a theory of international politics should include a revised principle of state autonomy based on the justice…

From local Kapellmeister to international icon, Joseph Haydn achieved success by developing a musical language aimed at both…

"Little else is required to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy…

International trade has shaped the modern world. This book examines the successive waves of globalization and…

Presents the examination of Christian fundamentalism. This title focuses on the words - sermons, speeches, books,…

The Puritans, in their own words, demonstrate the depth and variety of a culture that took root in New England in the 17th…

Shows how seemingly irrational business decisions, inspired in part by the self-interest of the owners but also by their…

Presents the author's story of a lifetime of writing and his understanding of the maze of greatly varied works that make up…

Examining the competing institutions that arose during the decline of feudalism (among them urban leagues, independent…

Since the early 1960s, scholarly thinking on the power of US presidents has rested on these words: "Presidential power is…

Explores topics that include the uneven role of peacekeepers in civil wars, the success of human rights treaties in…

Encourages us to look more closely at the issues of violence, ethnicity, and the state by focusing on specific instances of…

Suitable for students and researchers in political science and sociology, this book begins with the fundamental building…

In this work the authors assess democratization theory in light of the evidence of postcommunist states.…

Urges liberals not to surrender the concept of nationalism to conservative, chauvinist, or racist ideologies. This work…

A Jew in a violently anti-Semitic world, Sigmund Freud was forced to cope with racism even in the 'serious' medical…

Includes a poem that tells how Hades, lord of the underworld, abducted the goddess Persephone and how her grieving mother,…

Argues that post-traumatic stress disorder is a cultural product put together by the practices, technologies, and narratives…

An anthology of key primary texts that offer an introduction to Islamist political thought since the early twentieth century.…

Riots and demonstrations, the lifeblood of American social and political protest in the 1960's, are now largely a historical…

Discusses areas in which the colonial impact has generally been overlooked. This book contains essays, which form an…

Shows how, beginning with Lenin, the Communists established a state monopoly of the media that absorbed literature, art, and…

Includes essays that extend the author's investigations of the instability of the physical text. This title shows how…

Kierkegaard's authorship begins, as it was destined to end, with polemic. Kierkegaard's first published article touches on…

Situates liberalism in the convulsive 1960s and illuminates the challenges that face liberalism.…

The war on terrorism, say America's leaders, is a war of Good versus Evil. But in the minds of the perpetrators, the…

Gathers essays on the Italian Renaissance philosopher and cosmologist Giordano Bruno by one of the world's leading…

Shows how Greek tragedy uses gender relations to explore specific issues in the development of the social, political, and…