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Examines how food aid, population policies and policy against domestic violence reflected and reproduced existing inequalities based on race, class and gender in 1990s Peru.
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Examines the role in Chilean politics during the 1970s and 1980s of cultural beliefs and values surrounding the... Læs mere
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Examines decentralization and recentralization in the developing world, focusing on a... Læs mere
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An examination of humanitarianism in Western society. Argues that humanitarianism has become a staple part of modern media and celebrity culture.
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Analyzes populist movements in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, and Venezuela from a gender perspective. Considers... Læs mere
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Tells the story of an indigenous peoples' movement in the state of Guerrero, the Consejo Guerrerense 500 Anos de Resistencia Indigena, that gained unprecedented national and international prominence in the 1990s and yet was defunct by 2002.
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"Provides an interpretation of the development of the ontology of ideas from Descartes to Hume that reaffirms the vital role metaphysical concerns played in early modern thinking"--Provided by publisher.
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An examination of globalization's effects on human rights, world poverty, and inequality. Describes international human rights law and the international social movement for reform of globalization.
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First Pages proves the power of the title to connect the reader to the thematic, cultural, and literary context of the writing as a whole. Much like a façade to a... Læs mere
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This is the first comprehensive study of modernity’s preoccupation with willpower. Michael Cowan examines the emergence of “will therapy” and its impact... Læs mere
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Examines the crisis of a late eighteenth-century anthropology as it relates to the emergence of a modern consciousness that sees itself as condemned to draw its norms and very self-understanding from itself.
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A biography of Ernest Hemingway that places his life and art in the defining contexts of the women and places that were important to him, and the pattern of mental illness and suicide in his family.