This volume brings together historians, economists, political scientists, and anthropologists to present a global... Læs mere
The US's once-enthusiastic commitment to restore trustworthy relations with the Muslim world has dwindled considerably since Obama's 2009 Cairo speech.... Læs mere
Exploring the cultural politics of Cuba's epic military engagement in the Angolan civil war, this book narrates the transformation of Cuban national identity from Latin African to Caribbean through the experience of internationalism in Angola.
This book uses both oral and conventional historical methods to describe and analyze the history of lung transplantation in the US. While drawing... Læs mere
A conceptualization of the literary aesthetic for a concern for the Self.Bringing Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's constructivist thinking into a practical domain, Sabrina Achilles rethinks the ways in which literature is understood and taught.
In this volume, some of the leading scholars on China's development examine China's responses to the global financial crisis and their implications for China's economy, society, and the international balances of power.
This book brings a variety of voices into conversation about the issues of identity, community, tension and violence, and peace in the West: from Sophocles to Alice Walker, from Lincoln to Martin Luther King, Jr. and from Euripides to Edward Said.
This book recounts the massacre at Sant'Anna di Stazzema and examines its after effects. During the Nazi occupation of Italy, SS officers were... Læs mere
What Water is Worth addresses both conventional and non-conventional values of water, discussing the value of water as it relates to conventional microeconomics, water's true utility and government regulation, and new and current practices in water management.
Using newly declassified archives and interviews with practitioners, Nicholas J. Cull has pieced together... Læs mere
This book explores how the cultural process of making any disease a "plague" results in discrimination against certain groups, as it has for... Læs mere
Case studies written by anthropologists, geographers, political scientists, and sociologists provide empirical detail and analytical... Læs mere