Emphasizing shared patterns of thought, the contributors trace the contours of political thought in a divided nation with a difficult past, and ion the shadow of the culture and political values of the United States.
In this book, Michael Krepon analyzes nuclear issues such as missile defenses, space warfare, and treaties, and argues that the United States is on a dangerous course.
The African Stakes in the Congo War analyzes the Congo conflict by looking at the roles played by various states and factors in the conflict.
The cross-cultural feminist focus of this anthology allows the contributors to consider the various ways in which global... Læs mere
In this new collection of essays on the Vietnam War, eminent scholars of the Second Indo-china conflict consider several key factors that led to the defeat of the United States and its allies.
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