Challenges the democratic peace and diversionary war theories by emphasizing the importance of social trust, its origin as a by-product of effective governance exercised by strong states, and influence on international conflict.
This book is an innovative study offering the first examination of how three fourteenth-century English queens, Margaret of... Læs mere
Szefel investigates the use of poetry in addressing political reform at the turn of the twentieth century. It charts the... Læs mere
This book focuses on rape narratives as grounding for western thinking about community - from the polis to nation-states - specifically in... Læs mere
William Edmundson examines the spectacular life story of 'Colonel' John Thomas North, also known as 'The Nitrate King,' a mechanic in Leeds who... Læs mere
The authors probe the reasons and circumstances surrounding the death and torture of African American female victims, relying on such methodological approaches as comparative historical work, content and media analysis, as well as literary criticism.
This book offers the term 'ecophobia' as a way of understanding and organizing representations of contempt for the natural world. Estok argues that this... Læs mere
This volume explores African American historical fiction written by women in the last four decades of the twentieth century. Nunes' approach to the... Læs mere
Revises the semiotic paradigm of the early modern 'literary system' dominant since 1983 by adapting methods entailed in the... Læs mere
A sweeping study of Hollywood from Now, Voyager, The Heiress, and Flamingo Road to Carrie, the Alien... Læs mere
Reveals the representational paradoxes of liberal multicultural subjecthood, in which the... Læs mere
Leading intellectual figures in the school reform movement, all of them favoring approaches centered around the value of competition and choice, outline different visions for the goal of choice-oriented educational reform and the best means for achieving it.