Building on Max Weber's thesis that the dynamic of capitalism actually erodes individual freedom and the meaningfulness of social life - famously resulting in a culture... Læs mere
The volume focuses on three countries - Egypt, Israel, and Turkey (earlier the Ottoman Empire) - in the period between the mid-nineteenth and the early Twenty-first-centuries.
Drawing on the long and varied history of discourses of cultural hybridity across the caribbean, this book explores the rich and fraught cultural crossings that are often theorized homogeneously in postcolonial studies as 'hybridity'.
The changes that are engulfing the world today - the fall of nation-states and dictatorships, migrations and border crossings, revolution,... Læs mere
During World War I the U.S. demanded that all able-bodied men work or fight. White men who were husbands and fathers, owned property or worked at... Læs mere
A study of the Ford Foundation's support and of funding of human rights projects and NGOs, illuminating its extraordinary role in helping undermine and destroy major world repressive authoritarian and totalitarian regimes during the latter part of the twentieth century.
This collection makes available for the first time a rich archive of materials that illuminate the history of racial thought and practices in... Læs mere
Youth Fantasies is a collection of studies conducted in cross-cultural collaboration over the past ten years that theorizes 'youth fantasy';
This book brings together the horrifying real life stories of women who woke up one day and were not who they thought they... Læs mere
Educational Partnerships and the State is a compelling collection of essays by an international group of scholars that provides a critical exploration of the role of partnerships in contemporary educational reform.
World history has expanded dramatically in recent years, primarily as a teaching field, and increasingly as a research field. But good teaching also requires advanced training for teachers, and access to a stream of new research from scholars trained as world historians.
This book is about the global resurgence of culture and religion in international relations, and how these social changes are transforming our understanding of International Relation theory, and the key policy-related issue areas in world politics.