Made by the U.S.A., The International System is a historical account, embedded in a set of theoretical constructs, of the two hundred year drive by the United... Læs mere
In Lost in the American City , Jeremy Tambling looks at European reactions to America and American cities in the nineteenth-century.
The Korean peninsula underwent a continuous number of earth-shaking events in the twentieth century - although it is generally out of the earthquake zone. The issues of war and peace, left over from the Korean war, remain unresolved;
The Gilded Age Construction of American Homophobia is an analysis of the negative response to the discovery of the homosexual in late Nineteenth century America.
Nationalism and other forms of group identity underlie many of the destructive conflicts the world is experiencing today.
This book describes the challenges facing charities, explains how they must reassess their commitment, and pushes charities to be their best. It also examines how two sectors of society - business and government - would benefit from a similar corrective journey.
The links the conservative Right has sought to forge beyond the national over the last century have been too often neglected, and this volume sheds new light on transnationalism, the Right, and the ways the two interact.
This book demonstrates how oral history can provide a valuable way of understanding locality, which is important in light of major issues facing the world today, including global environmental concerns.
This book mediates a dialectics between power and subjectivity versus history and politics. The invention of Africa is not merely a residue of Africa's... Læs mere
Feste develops a framework of terrorism termination dynamics constructed from empirical cases and applies it to the current al Qaeda problem to offer a new method for tracking development of terrorist episodes with implications for U.S. foreign policy.
This volume addresses questions such as: How do the unique experiences of Blacks in America influence their... Læs mere
Offers readers a rich understanding of the experience of students who are first in their family... Læs mere