This volume develops a set of provocative themes: globalization is not new; it is neither legally inevitable nor irreversible; and international legal systems and institutions can assert only a special and limited influence on globalizing developments.
This work considers a recurrent figure in American literature: the solitary white man moving through urban space. It looks to... Læs mere
Colonial civil servant, Fabian socialist, and eminence grise of the Bloombury Circle, Leonard Woolf was one of the most prolific writers on international relations of the early to mid-Twentieth Century.
At the intersection of the warmth of hearth and home and the dangers of the street lies the tenuous position of women engaged in reproductive labour, those involved in the sex trade and those in domestic positions.
From the early years of the African slave trade to America, blacks have lived and laboured in urban environments.
This collection of essays, unlike other books on this subject, emphasizes strategic, technological, and economic factors. Nuclear India in the Twenty-First... Læs mere
By analyzing works by Alejo Carpentier, José Donoso, Severo Sarduy and Manuel Puig (author of Kiss of the Spiderwoma n),... Læs mere
This essential teaching guide focuses on an emerging body of literature by U.S. Latina and Latin American Women writers.
Empowered by new wealth and by their faith, early modern Londoners began to use philanthropy to assert their... Læs mere
Sansone argues that understanding more complex and ambiguous notions of culture and identity will expand the international discourse on race and... Læs mere
Coming of Age in Times of Crisis is an anthropological study of the intersecting roles of gender and schooling in the lives of rural Venezuelan youth as they make the transition to adulthood during times of national political and economic crisis.
Monhollon uncovers the voices of ordinary people on all sides of the political spectrum in the university town of Lawrence, Kansas, and reveals how... Læs mere