History of the Americas Books
Georgetown University Press The Declaration of Independence and the
Book SynopsisIn 1787, We the people were the three words that not only engendered a new and cohesive nation; they went on to change the face of the world as well. This book prefaces the volume with a succinct history and interpretation of the place and meaning of both the Declaration and the Constitution in American life.
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Bold Type Books How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic
Book SynopsisThe chemical compound DDT first earned fame during World War II by wiping out insects that caused disease and boosting Allied forces to victory. Americans granted it a hero''s homecoming, spraying it on everything from crops and livestock to cupboards and curtains. Then, in 1972, it was banned in the US. But decades after that, a cry arose to demand its return. This is the sweeping narrative of generations of Americans who struggled to make sense of the notorious chemical''s risks and benefits. Historian Elena Conis follows DDT from postwar farms, factories, and suburban enclaves to the floors of Congress and tony social clubs, where industry barons met with Madison Avenue brain trusts to figure out how to sell the idea that a little poison in our food and bodies was nothing to worry about.In an age of spreading misinformation on issues including pesticides, vaccines, and climate change, Conis shows that we need new ways of communicating about science-as a constantly evolving discipline, not an immutable collection of facts-before it''s too late.
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Great Plains Publications Ltd On The Road To Abandoned Manitoba: Taking the
Book SynopsisIn this book, scientist-historian Gordon Goldsborough hits the road in search of adventure and little-known stories from Manitoba's past. Among the places he visits are underground radiation monitoring posts from the Cold War, a remote hydroelectric generating station, cruise ships on the Red River, and the original route of the Trans-Canada Highway.Trade Review"WINNER, BOOK OF THE YEAR, MORE ABANDONED MANITOBA. MCNALLY ROBINSON #1 BESTSELLER, ABANDONED MANITOBA"Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION- On the Road (the old, abandoned highways of Manitoba)- Updates from the previous books (Steamboat Alpha, Atkinson house, Elva grain elevator, Port Nelson, Mallard Lodge, etc.)SITES1. Buller Monument2. Carnegie Library3. Lemiez Sculpture Garden4. Kanuchuan Hydroelectric Generating Station5. Radiation Fallout Reporting Posts6. Sargenia Stone Terraces7. Brandon House8. Duck Factory No. 19. Red River West Channel10. Red River Cruise Ships11. Winnipeg Canoe Club12. Palace Theatre13. Manitoba Hydro Office Building14. Good Harbour Fishing Station15. North Transcona Railway Yard and Transfer Elevator16. Neighbourhood Chain Stores17. CKX Radio Building18. Summerville Curling Rink19. Dene Village and Akudlik20. Salvation Army Citadel21. Winnipeg Garbage Incinerator22. Victoria Court23. Tilston Coal Shed24. Pineland Forest Nursery25. Haynes Chicken Shack26. Brandon Hills Fire Tower27. West Hawk Gold Mine28. Winnipeg Old Exhibition Grounds29. Roseisle Hutterite Cemetery30. Emerson Telephone Exchange Building31. Manitoba Refinery Building32. RCAF BirdCONCLUSION- The neglect of history in Manitoba- The state of archives in Manitoba (archivist survey)- Geographic coordinates for featured sites
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HarperCollins Publishers Hidden Figures The Untold Story of the African
Book SynopsisThe Top 10 Sunday Times BestsellerNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREOscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted ScreenplaySet amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA's African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America's space program.Before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as Human Computers', calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts, these colored computers' used pencil and paper to write the equations that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.Moving from World War II through NASA's golden age, touching on the civil rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the women's rights movement, Hidden Figures interweaves a rich history of mankind's greatest adventure with the intimate stories of five courageous women whose work forever changed Trade ReviewA TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2016 ‘Clearly fueled by pride and admiration, a tender account of genuine transcendence and camaraderie.The story warmly conveys the dignity and refinements of these women’ New York Times Book Review ‘Much as Tom Wolfe did in ‘The Right Stuff’, Shetterly moves gracefully between the women’s lives and the broader sweep of history … Shetterly blends impressive research with an enormous amount of heart in telling these stories … Genuinely inspiring book’ Boston Globe ‘A fascinating and important document about the hitherto unknown impact of NASA’s endeavours’ BBC Sky at Night magazine ‘Shetterly’s highly recommended work offers up a crucial history that had previously and unforgivably been lost. We’d do well to put this book into the hands of young women who have long since been told that there’s no room for them at the scientific table’ Library Journal ‘Inspiring and enlightening’ Kirkus ‘Exploring the intimate relationships among blackness, womanhood, and 20th-century American technological development, Shetterly crafts a narrative that is crucial to understanding subsequent movements for civil rights’ Publishers Weekly ‘This an is incredibly powerful and complex story, and Shetterly has it down cold. The breadth of her well-documented research is immense, and her narrative compels on every level. The timing of this revelatory book could not be better, and book clubs will adore it’ Booklist ‘Meticulous … the depth and detail that are the book’s strength make it an effective, fact-based rudder with which would-be scientists and their allies can stabilise their flights of fancy’ Seattle Times
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC American Colonial Ranger
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Oxford University Press The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution
Book SynopsisThe author explores the international impact and social significance of antislavery thought in a critical era of political and industrial revolution. He examines the implications and historical consequences of challenging the long-accepted institution of slavery. The study not only provides a comparative account of early antislavery movements, but also uses the controversies over slavery to analyse shifting attitudes towards labour, social order, political representation, and the authority of law and religion. The focus is on the Anglo-American experience, but Davis makes illuminating comparisons with the history of slavery in France and Latin America. The book also offers portraits of important historical figures, including Thomas Jefferson, Granville Sharp, Bryan Edward, and Moreau de Saint-Mery, and accounts of key groups, movements, and bodies of literature. Through the history of slavery, Davis explores many areas of the social and intellectual history of the revolutionary era, creating a new reading of the entire age.Trade ReviewThe Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution by David Brion Davis is a work of majestic scale, written with great skill. It explores the growing consciousness, during a half century of revolutionary change, of the oldest and most extreme form of human exploitation. Concentrating on the Anglo-American experience, the historian also pursues his theme wherever it leads in western culture. His book is a distinguished example of historical scholarship and art. * From the citation for the 1975 National Book Award *Table of ContentsPreface to the New Edition Preface Notes on Terms A Calendar of Events Associated with Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Emancipation, 1770-1823 1: What the Abolitionists Were Up Against 2: The Seats of Power, I 3: The Seats of Power, II 4: The Boundaries of Idealism 5: The Quaker Ethic and the Antislavery International 6: The Emancipation of America, I 7: The Emancipation of America, II 8: The Preservation of English Liberty, I 9: The Preservation of English Liberty, II 10: Antislavery and the Conflict of Laws 11: The Good Book Epilogue: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Phenomenology of Mind
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Dover Publications Inc. The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom
Book SynopsisInterviews and excerpts from diaries, letters, biographies, memoirs, speeches, and other firsthand accounts shed much light on the origins of a system that provided aid to fugitive slaves. 46 black-and-white illustrations.
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Stanford University Press A Preponderance of Power National Security the
Book SynopsisThis is the most comprehensive history to date of the Truman Administration's progressive embroilment in the cold war, and it presents a stunning new interpretation of U.S. national security policy during the formative stages of the Soviet-American rivalry. Illustrated with 15 halftones and 10 maps.Trade Review"Magisterial . . . This book is without question a major achievement. It is a masterly work of synthesis, weaving together in a single coherent study the various and often contradictory trends in previous historical writing on the Cold War's origins. It is indefatigably researched . . . and most important, it is an intellectually honest work. . . . A fine book."—The Atlantic"A brilliant new book. . . . An invaluable contribution."—The Nation"The best book to date on the Truman administration and the origins of the Cold War."—Detroit Free Press
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Johns Hopkins University Press The American Lab
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe American Lab is highly recommended reading not just for science collections; but for anyone who would better understand the intersection of and connections between political, scientific, educational, and military communities.—Donovan's Literary ServicesUp to now, the growing lexicon of scholarship on the U.S. national laboratories has lacked work on the history of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, aside from one dissertation and a classified document. This book by a former laboratory director, which covers the defense laboratory's history from its beginnings to 2008, provides the first comprehensive, easily accessible account . . . Given the enormous national investment in this complex, the work and devices it produces, and its impact on research and development, Tarter's book offers crucial, previously missing information.—Catherine Westfall, Michigan State University, IsisToday we know Silicon Valley as a veritable field of dreams for startups, but in The American Lab, the former director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, C. Bruce Tarter, recounts how a culture that valued debate, questioning, and passion made Livermore not only the first successful startup in the San Francisco Bay Area but a uniquely American lab.—Sarah Wells, MIT Technology ReviewTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Part I. Making the Cold War Cold, 1952-1971 Chapter 1. Origins Chapter 2. Getting Started Chapter 3. The Foundation of Deterrence Chapter 4. Arms Control, Atoms for Peace, and the Test Ban Chapter 5. Organization and Evolution of the Laboratory Chapter 6. Development of the Stockpile Chapter 7. Nuclear Excursions Chapter 8. Transition Part II. Lasers, Lasers, Nothing but Lasers, 1971-1988 Chapter 9. Changing of the Guard Chapter 10. The Nuclear Weapons Program Chapter 11. Lasers Chapter 12. The Energy Crisis and New Programs Chapter 13. Evolution of the Broader Lab Chapter 14. Star Wars Chapter 15. End of the Era Part III. Renaissance, Repression, and Reorganization, 1988-2008 Chapter 16. End of the Cold War Chapter 17. Post-Cold War Changes Chapter 18. Early Days with the New Administration Chapter 19. Stockpile Stewardship and the Presidential Decision Chapter 20. Growth of the Lab Chapter 21. The Troubles and Their Weathering Chapter 22. Summing UpChapter 23. Transitional Years Epilogue Acronyms and Abbreviations Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Inc We Are Not One People Secession and Separatism in
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewUnity is regarded as one of the founding myths of the US, but the authors of this book explore the subject of disunion in the national psyche and maintain that it is a founding tradition as well...this book brings important thoughts to contemporary discussions of union and disunion in the US. * Choice *We are not One People offers a new way to understand the challenge of balancing interests in multicultural societies that seek political unity. * Kyle Scott, Sam Houston State University, USA *Table of ContentsPrologue Chapter 1: Bands, Bonds, and Affections Chapter 2: Secession All the Way Down: Libertarians Opt Out Chapter 3: "A Slave Republic": Secession and Southern Slavery Chapter 4: White Devils and Black Separatists Chapter 5: "Dykes First": Lesbian Separatism in America Chapter 6: Exodus as Secession: Achieving God's Terrestrial Kingdom Chapter 7: Conclusion Index
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University of Pennsylvania Press Dispossessed Lives
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A]n astonishing and discipline-changing piece of scholarship. Interested in black feminist theory, gender, sexuality, slavery, and the urban Caribbean, [Fuentes'] interdisciplinary deep dive into the archives collides with so-called conventional understandings of historical methodology, historiography, knowledge production, and especially historical archival research . . . scholars can no longer rationalize the absence of marginalized figures like the women in this book because the archival documents do not explicitly reveal them. Moreover, one will be hard pressed to tread heavily ever again over those documents-or their already fragment-rendered subjects-after reading this incredibly important work." * Journal of Early American History *"Dispossessed Lives reflects the tremendous complexity embedded in projects that attempt to extricate the histories of enslaved women from an archive seemingly bent on their erasure. Through artful discussions of the bondwomen who comprise her chapters, reading into silence as well as sound, Fuentes encourages historians to assess the limits of enslaved agency, highlighting the real, violent strictures that shaped the lives and afterlives of enslaved women residing in eighteenth-century Bridgetown. In doing so, Fuentes demonstrates what is possible when we approach familiar evidence with fresh eyes and innovative strategies." * Journal of African American History *"Dispossessed Lives is an impassioned and meticulously researched call to rethink how history, as a discipline, can approach the absence of archival evidence concerning enslaved women's lives in the Americas . . . [Fuentes] makes a compelling argument about the practice of history as a discipline itself, in addition to mapping new archival territory." * Textual Cultures *"Dispossessed Lives exemplifies the best new historical scholarship on slavery and gender. Marisa Fuentes's compelling study of women's lives in and around Bridgetown leaves the reader with a clear sense of who these women were and how they navigated the terrain of a Caribbean slave society. At the same time, Fuentes's engagement with the problems of the archive testifies to the powerful entanglements that constitute the afterlife of slavery. This is an important study that fundamentally reshapes the questions we are compelled to ask about the histories of slavery in the Atlantic world." * Jennifer L. Morgan, New York University *"Original in both content and structure, Dispossessed Lives offers a nuanced interpretation of race, gender, sexuality, and the power of the archive in the eighteenth-century urban British Atlantic. Marisa J. Fuentes is masterful with her use of extremely scarce primary source material, forcing us to rethink methodology and teaching us how to understand what is not present in the archives." * Erica Armstrong Dunbar, University of Delaware *"Dispossessed Lives is an important and complex work that demonstrates how historians can employ a range of interdisciplinary methodologies in order to tease out, in sensitive and thoughtful ways, the hidden corporeality of enslavement, or, put another way, the lives, deaths, and bodies of enslaved women that are buried in the archive." * Melanie J. Newton, University of Toronto *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Jane: Fugitivity, Space, and Structures of Control in Bridgetown Chapter 2. Rachael and Joanna: Power, Historical Figuring, and Troubling Freedom Chapter 3. Agatha: White Women Slaveowners and the Dialectic of Racialized Gender Chapter 4. Molly: Enslaved Women, Condemnation, and Gendered Terror Chapter 5. "Venus": Abolition Discourse, Gendered Violence, and the Archive Epilogue Notes Index Acknowledgments
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Oxford University Press Inc Brazil
Book SynopsisRevised for its third edition, Brazil: Five Centuries of Change vividly traces the development of Brazil over the last 500 years.Trade ReviewWith clear and comprehensible explanations of the zigzag trajectory of Brazil's recent politics, this edition brings the story right up to the present, presenting information on mid-2021 pandemic conditions, and exposes the historical foundations of contemporary crises ... The book is an altogether fitting practical tribute to the work of the late Professor Skidmore. * A. B. Cochran, CHOICE *Outstanding update and revision. The new material on post-2000 typical of Skidmore's deft style * following a basic economic and political narrative, while at the same time revealing important information about society and culture. No other book comes even close to Green and Skidmore's coverage of the 20th century. -James H. Sweet, University of Wisconsin *Brazil is scholarly without being stuffy, and covers the broad sweep of Brazilian history. - Mary Ann Mahoney, Central Connecticut State UniversityTable of ContentsList of Exhibits and Images Preface Introduction Why Read a History of Brazil? Chapter 1 The Making of Colonial Brazil, 1500-1694 The First Occupants of the Land Everyday Life, War, and Rituals Portuguese Overseas Expansion Early Consolidation of the Portuguese Monarchy Setting up a Global Trading Network The Portuguese Encounter Land to the West First European Impressions Portuguese Land Claims Brazilwood and Indigenous Slavery Go-betweens Imperial Reorganization French Claims The Sugar Industry Enslaved Africans Resistance to Slavery Unification of Spain and Portugal Dutch Occupation of the Northeast Emergence of the Myth of the Bandeirante Imperial Control Gold Chapter 2 A New Colonial Order, 1695-1821 Manumission of slaves Religious Orders Conflicts in the Mining Region Tensions in the Northeast Pombaline Reforms Indigenous Resistance The Influence of Enlightenment Ideas The Mineira Conspiracy Tailors' Revolt in Salvador The Portuguese Court Comes to Brazil Creating a New Portuguese America Indigenous Resistance Pernambuco Revolution, 1817 A Portuguese Revolt and its Impact on Brazil Chapter 3 Independent Brazil and the Consolidation of a Nation, 1822-1850 Brazilian Hierarchies A Constitution The Emperor's Tribulations The Regency Regional Revolts Recentralization Pedro II as Emperor The Rise of Coffee Land Ownership Growing Challenges to Slavery Chapter 4 Late Imperial Brazil, 1851-1889 Gradually Ending Slavery The Emperor and His Pedestal The Paraguayan War The Effects of the War The Viscount of Mauá The Great Drought and the Amazon Rubber Boom New Roles for Middle-class Women Positivism, Republicanism, and the Military Question The Move toward Abolition Immigration The End of the Empire Chapter 5 Republican Brazil, 1889-1929 Modernizing Brazil" Whitening Brazil The Reality behind the Façade Indigenous Brazil Coffee Price Fluctuations and Emerging Industry The Roots of Industrialization Worker Organization and Employers' Strategy Evaporation of the Oligarchical Consensus A Message from Below Economic Strains The Shock of World War I The Economy after the War Brazil's Uneven Development Rebellion in the Army The Modern Woman and an Emerging Feminist Movement Modernism, Brazilian Style Rise of Anti-Liberal Thought The Disintegration of the Old Politics The Revolution of 1930 Chapter 6 Getúlio Vargas in Power, 1930-45 Swing toward Centralization Electoral rights Ideological Polarization Getúlio Vargas as Dictator The Vargas Style Corporatist Inroads A New Search for National Identity Juggling the International Options World War II and the Rise of U.S. Influence Brazil and the War Effort Collapse of the Dictatorship at Home Chapter 7 Experiments in Democracy, 1946-64 The 1945 Election and the Dutra Period Vargas Returns From Oligarch to Populist Vargas's Legislative Program Runs into Trouble Vargas's Demise Suicide Population Growth, Regional Disequilibria, and Migration A New President, Juscelino Kubitschek, Elected Political Strategy The Economic Development Program A New Capital Dealing with the World Economy The Brief Presidency of Jânio Quadros The Succession of João Goulart Populists versus the Military Brazilian Culture The National Union of Students The Economic Crisis Escalates Chapter 8 Rule of the Military, 1964-1985 The Generals in Power Growing Repression, Growing Opposition Strengthening the Military Regime Indigenous Policy under Military Rule Growing Opposition Crackdown The Economic Miracle Hyper-Nationalism The Arrival of the Guerrillas Cultural Resistance Mass Media during the Dictatorship The Use of Torture Exile An Economic Turn for the Worse The Winners and Losers The Road to Redemocratization Manipulating the Electoral System and Continued Repression New Social Movements The Working Class Takes Center Stage The Last General Chapter 9 The Return to Democracy, 1985-1994 An Unintended Succession Sarney and the New Democracy The Cruzado Plan The Debt Crisis and the Economy Lost Investment and a Brain Drain Widening Gaps between Rich and Poor Education and Medical Care Roads and Communications Public Health: A Success Story Changes Affecting Women Race Relations The Political Spectrum in the New Democracy The Left The Right The Center The Armed Forces Presidential Elections New Policies The End Another Vice President in Command Back to Stabilization: The Plano Real The Presidential Election of 1994 Chapter 10 Consolidating Democracy, 1994-2006 The Cardoso Government's First Term More Economic Problems A Second Term in Office Social Justice Delayed On-going Challenges The Presidential Race Lula's Governmental Team The PT in Power Exports Take Center Stage Poverty Alleviation and Education Enhancement The PT Tastes Scandal The Last Year of Lula's First Term Prisons Riots 2006 Elections Chapter 11 A Nation Polarized, 2006-present Lula Reaches New Heights Recognition Abroad Continuity at Home Presidenta in Power The 2013 Protests Operation Car Wash (Lava Jato) A Fourth PT Term A Conservative Tidal Wave The Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff Temer government Lula Ensnared The 2018 Election The Past Returns Suggestions for Further Reading Film, History, Culture, and Society Index
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WW Norton & Co In Deep
Book SynopsisA two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist’s investigation of the "deep state".Trade Review"Pulitzer-winner David Rohde dismisses the Deep State theory–but also shows government does pursue entrenched interests… Under the subtitle “The FBI, the CIA, and the Truth About America’s ‘Deep State’”, the two-time Pulitzer-winner rejects the nomenclature of conspiracy theorists." -- The Guardian"… when the author gets to Trump… the two disparate threads of his narrative come neatly together. Here Rohde skilfully makes clear that it is precisely by pedalling the myth of the Deep State that the President has been able to undermine efforts at oversight." -- Lawrence Douglas - Times Literary Supplement"… a tour of the decades-long effort to square that most unsquareable of democratic challenges: how to run clandestine intelligence and security agencies in a system that is ostensibly accountable to the people." -- Financial Times"David Rohde’s In Deep demolished the theory of the “deep state”." -- 2020 in US politics books - The Guardian"Fascinating.... The idea of the deep state, Rohde writes, is inextricably linked to a particular view of presidential power.... After reading In Deep, one can’t help wondering how much Trump’s suspicion of and disdain for expertise and experience (and the so-called ‘policy elite’) has affected his response to the coronavirus. The sad policy question is: How many lives have been lost because of his belief in the deep state?" -- Dina Temple-Raston - The Washington Post"In Deep is a compassionate critique of the simmering grievance that has now found its way to the White House, where it threatens to upend the tenets of American democracy: truth, justice, and, above all, the rule of law. Reported in stunning and tenacious detail, In Deep is a wholly satisfying read—and a necessary one for anyone wanting to understand the forces at play in our government today." -- Andrea Bernstein, Peabody Award–winning co-host of the WNYC/ProPublica podcast Trump, Inc. and author of American Oligarchs ."David Rohde has written a remarkable book that is both urgent reporting and sweeping history. He brings the same vitality and precision that animated his storied reporting on war zones to this portrait of the decades-long battle over the powers of the intelligence community, and the erosion—under recent administrations of both parties—of rules put in place to protect American citizens’ rights. And he brings fresh insight to the phrase ‘deep state,’ and the role it may play in the future of American politics." -- Ronan Farrow, author of Catch and Kill
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to American Catholicism
Book SynopsisThis Companion provides a comprehensive overview of American Catholicism''s historical development and distinctive features. The essays - all specially commissioned for this volume - highlight the inner diversity of American Catholicism and trace the impact of American Catholics on all aspects of society, including education, social welfare, politics, and intellectual life. The volume also addresses topics of contemporary concern, such as gender and sexuality, arts and culture, social activism, and the experiences of Black, Latinx, Asian-American, and cultural Catholics. Taken together, the essays in this Companion provide context for understanding American Catholicism as it is currently experienced, and help to situate present-day developments and debates within their longer trajectory.Trade Review'… an outstanding overview of the US's distinctive Catholic history … Recommended.' R. A. Boisclair, Choice ConnectTable of ContentsPart I. Historical Overview: 1. American Catholicism's early foundations Maura Jane Farrelly; 2. The immigrant church, 1820-1908 Steven M. Avella; 3. The Catholic century James M. O'Toole; Part II. Catholic Life and Culture: 4. Catholic worship Katharine E. Harmon; 5. Catholic intellectual life William L. Portier; 6. Catholic education James T. Carroll; 7. Social welfare and social reform Mary Elizabeth Brown; 8. Women religious Mary Beth Fraser Connolly; 9. Catholics and politics Lawrence J. McAndrews; 10. Arts and culture Debra Campbell; 11. Anti-Catholicism in the United States Mark Massa, SJ; 12. Gender and sexuality James P. McCartin; 13. American Catholics in a global context Angelyn Dries; Part III. Many Faces of Catholicism: 14. American Catholic laywomen and feminism Paula M. Kane; 15. Black Catholics Cecilia A. Moore; 16. Latinx Catholicism Lauren Guerra and Brett C. Hoover; 17. Asian American Catholics Robert E. Carbonneau; 18. Cultural Catholicism Tom Beaudoin; Conclusion: 19. US Catholicism in the twenty-first century Mary L. Gautier.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Dead Kennedys' Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Book SynopsisIn 1978, San Francisco, a city that has seen more than its share of trauma, plunged from a summer of political tension into an autumn cascade of malevolence that so eluded human comprehension it seemed almost demonic. The battles over property taxes and a ballot initiative calling for a ban on homosexuals teaching in public schools gave way to the madness of the Jonestown massacre and the murders of Mayor George Moscone and city supervisor Harvey Milk at the hands of their former colleague, Dan White. In the year that followed this season of insanity, it made sense that a band called Dead Kennedys played Mabuhay Gardens in North Beach, referring to Governor Jerry Brown as a "zen fascist," calling for landlords to be lynched and yuppie gentrifiers to be sent to Cambodia to work for "a bowl of rice a day," critiquing government welfare and defense policies, and, at a time when each week seemed to bring news of a new serial killer or child abduction, commenting on dead and dying children. But it made sense only (or primarily) to those who were there, to those who experienced the heyday of "the Mab." Most histories of the 1970s and 1980s ignore youth politics and subcultures. Drawing on Bay Area zines as well as new interviews with the band and many key figures from the early San Francisco punk scene, Michael Stewart Foley corrects that failing by treating Dead Kennedys' first record, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, as a critical historical document, one that not only qualified as political expression but, whether experienced on vinyl or from the stage of "the Mab," stimulated emotions and ideals that were, if you can believe it, utopian.Trade ReviewAuthor Michael Stewart Foley explores the band’s genesis from two equally critical points of view in his eponymous book in the 33 1/3 series, the political and social factors alive in California at the time as well as the stew of underground creativity that fed punk’s fetid blossom … Foley’s book does the album a good turn, his eye for the social inspirations behind Biafra and others, as well as the creative are essential to its understanding. * Bearded Magazine *Michael Stewart Foley's Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables is a must read not only for punks young and old, but for anyone who has ever felt even the slightest revolutionary pang in their soul … Through interviews with Jello Biafra, East Bay Ray, and Klaus Fluoride (as well as many other important figures close to, or in the scene at the time) and a mountain of research, Foley puts together a book that is academic, personal, informative, and most importantly, convincing. For those already familiar with Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, this book further solidifies its greatness among records in any genre. For those new to the album, this book provides an extensive and comprehensive look into a body of work whose release exploded on the scene because of the pressures caused by the era, events, and people that all came together to create it. -- Matt Caltabiano * Under the Rader *Wish all books dealing with ‘Punk Rock’ were as well researched as this one! -- V. Vale, Editor * Search and Destroy *In his book on Dead Kennedys' 1980 debut, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, historian Michael Stewart Foley traces the origins of the radicalized California punk band's political views by chronicling all the turmoil in the late 1960s and into the 1970s, as the hippie ideal curdled into the Me Generation … what truly separated the Kennedys from their peers—and what transformed their angst into something powerful and useful—was the humor with which they tackled current events, as singer Jello Biafra in particular understood that a wicked sense of irony was the only weapon against a world that had grown so insane. -- Stephen M. Deusner * Pitchfork *Michael Stewart Foley's new book on Dead Kennedys' debut album, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, rests a jarring assertion: ‘By ... the summer of 1978, San Francisco had established itself as home to the most political punk scene in the country.’ His evidence — a litany of benefit efforts, topical songs, and punks' steady solidarity with other marginalized groups — is solid, so why does the statement leap off of the page? Perhaps because of how infrequently it's made … the sort of retrospective historical works that would involve a claim such as Foley's are few and far between, all of which underscores the need for this book. * East Bay Express *With Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, historian Michael Stewart Foley offers up a portrait of San Francisco in the late 1970s, detailing the hectic and violent events that influenced the band to create such a classic record ... Anyone interested in the band, counter culture, or American history would be advised to pick this book up. It's not just a simple play by play of the album's production (which, honestly, would have been fine), but a detailed account of a specific time in history. With this informative (if short) book, Michael Stewart Foley details a band who didn't want to 'make it' in the usual sense. They just wanted to make a loud enough noise that people turned around and paid attention to what was going on around them. * Punk News *Well worth your time. Get the book, put the album on loud, and rejoice. * Thumped *A very readable little nugget that DK fans, especially those who understood there was far more to the band than simple 'shock and roll', will thoroughly enjoy ... [An] enjoyable thought provoking read. * Total Music Magazine Online *There have been a handful of punk albums covered in the series … and they tend to be stand-outs. That remains true with this release, which may now be my favorite in the entire series … [Foley’s] tone is pitch-perfect, reflecting both his academic training and his punk rock roots, producing the equivalent of a scholarly spit-ball that complements the pissy intelligence of the DKs’ masterpiece. His writing is effortless, even when he is flexing his intellectual muscles … As I read Foley’s book, I found myself constantly re-listening to the album with fresh ears, my appreciation and admiration of it growing every time. -- Kevin Dunn * RazorCake *An accomplished historian with an appreciation for the punk ethic, Foley sketches the social and political conditions of the late 1970s and the band's take-no-prisoners response to them. He's also alert to San Francisco's distinctive punk scene and its unapologetically political stance. His essay is a welcome complement to the extensive literature on the city's utopian mood and music of the 1960s. … Very worthwhile. -- Peter Richardson, San Francisco State University * Peter Richardson *Give it some time and Michael Stewart Foley’s book on Dead Kennedys’ Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables will probably rank among the best of the 33 1/3 series. It’s a fine portrait of politics that gave birth to the Bay Area punk scene, all the while tracing a counterculture throughline from the Yippies of the 60s to the punks of at the beginning of the ’80s. Dead Kennedys sneered in the face of both Ronald Reagan and Jerry Brown, and also at the birth of New Wave, which presented new sonic possibilities but also a crass mellowing out into palatable pop chart fodder once it was co-opted by the mainstream. -- Hubert Vigilla * Ruby Hornet *Foley comes at this well known [sic] album from something other than the standard 'review' perspective positing the theory that it was in fact the late 70's American dream gone sour and subsequent counter culture politics that created bands like the Dead Kennedy's in the first place … is in fact a very readable little nugget that DK fans, especially those who understood there was far more to the band than simple 'shock and roll', will thoroughly enjoy. Beyond that it should also appeal to pretty much anyone who has a passing interest in the US post punk/hardcore scene. * Total Music Magaz *Michael Stewart Foley’s Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables casts Dead Kennedys as a product of the darkness and seemingly hopelessness of the late 1970s. Foley shows their forming and the release of their debut album to represent a catalyst for the frustration of a generation that was given the promise of prosperity in the 1960s and then proceeded to watch that promise be dismantled by the Vietnam War, Watergate and the rise of gentrification in San Francisco during the post-Summer of Love era … In doing so, Foley also casts a favorable light on the political stance of punk and suggests that their dire situation as a marginalized community organizing against an oppressive system was not only necessary but almost natural … This book is essential to your understanding of punk as a threat and why this iconic album represents that. -- Nick Kuzmack * SLUG *…an incisive blend of urban history, socio-political witnessing, and pop culture insight. Peeling back the band’s mythos, [Foley] deftly sorts through family backgrounds, the countercultural movements of the 1960s and 1970s, and the nuanced and fecund microcosm of San Francisco during punk’s genesis, all at a breathless pace. The book is compact, yet exploratory, dense as well as poetic … Foley balances the eyes-wide-open vibe of a fan’s journal with his strenuous academic precision, so readers feel immersed in, but not overwhelmed by, the incendiary band’s tale. -- David Ensminger * Houston Press *Full of compelling portraits of key players, trenchant musicological and visual cultural analysis, and rich journalistic-cum-historical depictions of the state of California and San Francisco politics at the end of the 1970s, Foley’s book is a success that will appeal both to scholars and to fans. In unveiling a portrait of the Dead Kennedys and punk as creators of ‘a soundtrack of collective resistance’ (p. 9), Foley not only rescues San Francisco punk from the condescension of posterity, but provides a model of how to write historically about youth subcultures and popular music. -- Timothy Scott Brown, Northeastern University, USA * The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 – I Don’t Need This Fucking World Chapter 2 – Mellow Out or You Will Pay Chapter 3 – The Sun Beams Down on a Brand New Day Chapter 4 – It’s Time to Taste What You Most Fear Chapter 5 – There’s No Way Like the American Way Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Routledge Reckoning with Change in Yucataan
Book SynopsisReckoning with Change in YucatÃn engages with how best to look upon and respond to change, arguing that this debate is an important arena for negotiating local belonging and a force of transformation in its own right. For residents of Chunchucmil, a historic rural community in YucatÃn, Mexico, history is anything but straightforward. Living in what is both a defunct 19th-century hacienda estate and a vibrant Catholic pilgrimage site, ChunchucmileÃos reckon past, present, and future in radically different ways. For example, while some use the aging estate buildings to weave a history of economic decline and push for revitalization by hotel developers, others highlight the growing fame of the Virgin of the Rosary in the attached church and vow to defend the site from developer interference. By exploring how past and future are channeled through changing built environments, landscapes, sacred relics, and legal documents, this ethnographic study details how the politics of change provide ChunchucmileÃos with a common language for debating commitments to place and each another in the present. Against Western notions of âHistoryâ as a relatively coherent account of change, the book suggests we reframe it as an ongoing performance that is always fractured, democratic, and morally tinged.
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The History Press Ltd The Ku Klux Klan
Book SynopsisFor the past 150 years, the Ku Klux Klan has murdered and tortured its way through US history. By reputation it is one of the most notorious and ultra-violent terrorist groups in the world; even today the Klan occasionally rears its ugly, trademarked, hooded head. But the truth is that it has been in terminal decline since the 1960s and the myth is now far more dangerous than the reality.From its Civil War origins as an insurgency in the defeated South, the Klan became a mass movement in the 1920s and a byword for bigotry and racism in the civil rights era. Since then, however, its numbers have fallen; yet it remains a potent symbol of white supremacist terror in our polarised world. Drawing on twenty years of primary research, The Ku Klux Klan: An American History seeks to demystify one of the most hated, feared and poorly understood organisations in history.
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ERIS The American Dream Is at the Expense of the
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Duke University Press The Spectacular Generic
Book SynopsisIn The Spectacular Generic, Cori Hayden examines how generic drugs have transformed public health politics and everyday experiences of pharmaceutical consumption in Latin America. Focusing on the Mexican pharmacy chain Farmacias Similares and its proprietor, Víctor González Torres, Hayden shows how generics have become potent commodities in a postpatent world. In the early 2000s, González Torres, a.k.a. “Dr. Simi,” capitalized on the creation of new markets for generic medicines, selling cheaper copies of leading-brand drugs across Latin America. But Dr. Simi has not simply competed with the transnationals; his enterprise has also come to compete with the Mexican state, reorganizing the provision of medicine and basic health care for millions of people. Hayden juxtaposes this story with Dr. Simi’s less successful efforts in Argentina, where he confronted a radically different configuration of pharmaceutical politics. Building from these divTable of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Rx for MX: Dr. Simi’s Mexican Revolution 1 1. Same and Not the Same 29 2. Simipolitics: State and Not the State 71 3. No Patent, No Generic 106 4. Access, Excess 144 5. Supergeneric vs. Mere Commodity 178 Coda 197 Notes 201 References 217 Index 237
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Permuted Press Countdown to Dallas: The Incredible Coincidences,
Book SynopsisJohn F. Kennedy’s fascination with death—particularly his own—and Lee Harvey Oswald’s love of violence and desire for fame made November 22, 1963 practically inevitable.With new details from the very latest documents declassified by the CIA and FBI! The so-called “crime of the century”—the assassination of President John F. Kennedy—was almost preordained to happen. Like all presidents from decades before him, JFK played it loose with security—open cars, Secret Service agents at a distance, and a desire to be seen. Yet conspiracy buffs are certain the security setup on November 22, 1963 was unusual and suspicious. It wasn’t. And what of Lee Harvey Oswald, the drifter, the vicious wife-beating, fame-seeking narcissist? Everything in his background—dating back to his violent, disturbing grade school years, including his stated desire to murder President Dwight Eisenhower—defines the real Lee Oswald. The Oswald that conspiracists rarely talk about—the Oswald who was perched in the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository as JFK drove by—was headed for this moment of infamy years before he pulled the trigger. In Countdown to Dallas, author Paul Brandus tracks the backgrounds of both Kennedy and Oswald, the very different era in which they lived, and the incredible string of circumstances that brought them together for a few fateful moments in Dallas. He reveals: There was indeed a second person on the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository in the minutes prior to the assassination—but it’s not what you think. How Oswald REALLY got his job at the Depository. The OTHER president that Oswald previously discussed wanting to kill. What Oswald’s favorite TV show and favorite opera reveal about his personality and his willingness to use violence. The sinking of the Titanic—and how we process it more than a century later—is an example of how we continue to process information about the Kennedy assassination. Trade Review“Paul Brandus has produced a gem of a book, a completely up-to-date look at what led up to President Kennedy’s assassination, a comprehensive tick-tock of Lee Oswald’s dismal life, clarifying timelines of the events that awful day in November 1963, and a careful examination of the conspiracy theories and suspects that have been proposed in the six decades since. Brandus has also incorporated the findings from secret documents released in recent years, so if you think you already know all of the story, think again—and read this well-written, fascinating volume.” -- Dr. Larry J. Sabato, Author, The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy; Director, Center for Politics, University of Virginia“Paul Brandus is a unique storyteller who seeks the truth. In fact, he is driven to illuminate the truth and protect it from being easily dismissed. His ability to detail dramatic, stunning, and emotional stories makes Paul a one-of-a-kind author. His skills are unleashed in a profound way in his new book, Countdown to Dallas.” -- Michael C. DeAloia, Chief Executive Officer, Evergreen Podcasts“Drawing on recently declassified documents, Brandus characterizes Lee Harvey Oswald as a violent, politically extreme, and mentally disturbed man… Brandus relies heavily on FBI surveillance reports and other postassassination investigations to piece together the year leading up to the murder, showing how financial difficulties, turbulence in the marriage, and mental instability pushed Oswald over the edge… He builds a well-supported and well-reasoned case that Oswald acted alone.” -- Publishers Weekly“You may feel as if you’ve read everything there is to read about this subject, but Brandus takes readers on a different path, showing how the lives of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald ran parallel to one another in many ways. Brandus shows how Oswald leaned toward violence his entire life and was, in fact, on a collision-course with history—although not initially with Kennedy, in an interesting twist of fact-finding. Readers will be astounded at the wealth of new information included in this book and they’ll be left wondering if, at any point, Oswald's horrible act of assassination could have somehow been stopped. This is the perfect choice for historians, speculative nonfiction readers, and for anyone who still holds a great deal of fascination for what is arguably one of the most world-changing events of the twentieth century.” -- Terri Schlichenmeyer, Price County Review
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Harvard University Press Necropolis
Book SynopsisIn antebellum New Orleans, whites and Blacks died in droves from yellow fever. But the fortunes of survivors were less equal. Kathryn Olivarius explores the resulting framework of immunocapital. For whites, immunity signaled creditworthiness. For enslaved Blacks, immunity enhanced their exploitability, relegating them to the harshest labor.Trade ReviewThis book is prescient for the questions it provokes about our experiences of COVID-19…Necropolis shows how elite white people exploited disease in this uniquely unhealthy space for their own personal gain…Olivarius’s new perspectives on yellow fever, immunocapitalism, and the politics of acclimation are a powerful addition to this important body of scholarship that will influence a generation of scholars to come on the intersections of racism, slavery, and public health. -- Richard M. Mizelle, Jr. * The Lancet *More than two years into the Covid-19 pandemic, the social, economic and political implications of public health crises are more apparent than ever—as is the fact that people of color and poorer communities often bear the brunt of these contagions’ consequences. [This] new analysis of yellow fever in antebellum New Orleans highlights striking parallels with the ongoing pandemic. -- Karin Wulf * Smithsonian *Olivarius’s account is rich in thick descriptions of this fevered environment. She adeptly resurrects voices not just from elite men but from women, the impoverished, and even from former slaves…An excellent reconsideration of the impact of yellow fever on a major southern trading port in the antebellum era. -- Margaret Humphreys * Civil War Book Review *Necropolis makes a compelling argument for the near-determinative nature of disease in antebellum New Orleans…It is also hard to imagine [a book] more thought-provoking or more appropriate as a mirror to our current moment. Thus, Necropolis will stimulate all readers—as much the general public as students of medical history, American slavery, capitalism, or the South writ large. -- Robert Colby * H-Net Reviews *Necropolis offers revelatory insights into how capitalism controls responses to disease, and how disease exacerbates inequalities, arguments that feel particularly prescient in the midst of an ongoing coronavirus pandemic…An engrossing and timely work of scholarship. -- Kevin McQueeney * Journal of Southern History *Olivarius puts a rich trove of primary sources to good use, lending the volume authenticity in its arguments and engaging readability while demonstrating the lengths to which New Orleans residents went to preserve the cyclical epidemic status quo, which preserved Creole dominance and limited the success of American and European immigrants. * Choice *Captivating…Olivarius illuminates the complex workings of ‘immunocapitalism’ and paints a vivid picture of antebellum New Orleans. This is a timely and thought-provoking look at how disease outbreaks have exacerbated inequality in America. * Publishers Weekly *A brilliant book. Olivarius’s insightful reading of sources and beautiful writing give us a new and important way to think about slavery, race, health, and hierarchy. This transformative work is a pivotal addition to the scholarship on American slavery. -- Annette Gordon-Reed, author of On JuneteenthOlivarius delivers a stunning account of ‘high-risk, high-reward’ profiteering in the yellow fever–ridden Crescent City. Nineteenth-century New Orleans appears as a world in which a deadly virus altered every aspect of a brutal social system, exacerbating savage inequalities of enslavement, race, and class—inequalities that will have readers pondering the choices we make as a society in epidemics of our own. -- John Fabian Witt, author of American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19A real page-turner. Necropolis propels the reader along, not least because the parallels to our coronavirus pandemic are impossible to ignore. Olivarius is convincing in her argument that disease was an important way to wield power—political, economic, and racial. This fresh, beautifully written book makes original contributions to the literatures on medicine, capitalism, politics, and welfare. -- Leslie M. Harris, author of In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626–1863In flowing prose, Olivarius offers an intriguing account of the systematic relationship between yellow fever and power in nineteenth-century New Orleans. Her innovative term ‘immunocapitalism’ brings together multiple threads to show the ways in which yellow fever was not simply a natural phenomenon, no matter how much those who profited because of its inequitable impact tried to naturalize it. Deeply researched, extremely well written, and provocatively argued, Necropolis is a rich and fascinating book. -- Edward E. Baptist, author of The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American CapitalismThe remarkable thing about Necropolis is that its subject has been hiding in plain sight all along. In nineteenth-century New Orleans, yellow fever was more than an episodic worry; it saturated everyday consciousness, splitting the world between those who had gained immunity and those who had not. No effort was spared to prove that the scourge’s supposedly deterministic properties not only necessitated African enslavement, but also produced the foreign exchange that kept the urban economy humming. Olivarius unpacks this story with skill and feeling in a book of truly impressive research and scope. -- Lawrence N. Powell, author of The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd History Has Begun: The Birth of a New America
Book SynopsisPopular consensus says that the US rose over two centuries to Cold War victory and world domination, and is now in slow decline. But is this right? History’s great civilisations have always lasted much longer, and for all its colossal power, the US was overshadowed by Europe until recently. What if this isn’t the end? Bruno Maçães offers a compelling vision of America’s future, both fascinating and unnerving. From the early American Republic, Maçães takes us to the turbulent present, when, he argues, America is finally forging its own path. We can see the birth pangs of this new civilisation in today’s debates on guns, religion, foreign policy and the significance of Trump. What will its values be, and what will this new America look like?Trade Review'There’s no better man to guide us on the differences between Europe and America than Bruno Macaes. ... ['History Has Begun'] is required reading for anyone who wants to understand the country that invented itself — and the modern world.' -- The Sunday Times‘Brilliant and wildly provocative, [Maçães] not so much turns history on its head, as inside out … a wonderfully contrarian essay on the future of world politics … challenging to the last sentence, it has been the stimulating and fun read of the year so far.’ -- The Evening Standard‘A refreshingly bold and deeply thought-stirring book.’ -- John Gray, The New Statesman‘A fascinating survey of the decline and possible rise of the American empire.’ -- The Wall Street Journal‘[A] unique voice … exhilarating.’ -- The Wire‘As a kind of counterpoint to his insightful books on the rise of Eurasia and China’s One Belt One Road initiative, Bruno Maçães has written an absorbing, ruminative essay on the United States. Whereas his exploration of Eurasia was a true journey over that vast landmass, here he encounters America in his library and his imagination. Between Europe, oppressed by history, and China, intoxicated by technology, the United States still offers some hope of reconciling power and liberty.’ -- Niall Ferguson, Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford, and author of 'Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire' and 'The Square and the Tower''The future never matches the conventional wisdom. Bruno Macaes gives us the special gift of charting a future for the United States and the world that may be very different, and quite possibly much better, than what we expect.' -- Marc Andreessen, entrepreneur, investor and cofounder of Netscape'This insightful book makes bold and counterintuitive arguments. The international system is poised for the flourishing of cultural and political diversity among nation states. At the same time, this can and should be another American Century. This round requires the United States creatively to remake itself inside and out.' -- Kiron K. Skinner, Former Director of the Office of Policy Planning, Department of State'Bruno Macaes has written an erudite, thought-provoking exploration of how the world is affected by a post-truth America, an America where the line between reality and entertainment is no longer discernible, and where the hallowed concept of the "West" is losing its meaning.' -- Yaroslav Trofimov, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, 'Wall Street Journal''A rich, digressive, aphoristic book.'
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Ebury Publishing Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year
Book Synopsis You’re entitled to your own opinion but not your own factsFantasy is the USA’s primary product. From the Pilgrim Fathers onward America has been a place where renegades and freaks came in search of freedom to create their own realities with little objectively regulated truth standing in their way. The freedom to invent and believe whatever the hell you like is, in some ways, an unwritten constitutional right. But, this do-your-own-thing freedom also is the driving credo of America's current transformation where the difference between opinion and fact is rapidly crumbling. So how did we get to this weird pseudo-reality, where science and objective facts are dismissed in favour of opinions and wild speculation, or indeed, fantasies? The post truth, fake news, free-for-all mentality isn’t exactly a new phenomenon. If you want to understand Trump's America, how the lines between reality and illusion have become dangerously blurred, you have to go back to the very beginning and take a dizzying road trip across five centuries of crackpot delusion and make-believe from Salem to Scientology.Fantasyland is a journey that connects the dots between crazed franchises of true believers – a rich freak show tapestry from Mormons to Flat-Earthers and satanic panic, new age quacks to anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists of every stripe, creationists to climate change deniers, UFO-obsessives to gun-toting libertarians, showmen hucksters from P T Barnum to Trump himself, all topped off with a dangerous dose of anti-government paranoia and pseudoscience. Along the way, New York Times bestselling author Kurt Andersen has created a unique and raucous history of America and a new paradigm for understanding our post-factual world.Trade ReviewNot only a must-read for anyone wanting to understand Trump’s America but also a laugh-out-loud undiluted pleasure -- Will Storr, author of SelfieThis is an important book - the indispensable book - for understanding America in the age of Trump. It’s an eye-opening history filled with brilliant insights, a saga of how we were always susceptible to fantasy, from the Puritan fanatics to the talk-radio and Internet wackos who mix show business, hucksterism, and conspiracy theories. -- Walter Isaacson, author of Steve JobsFantasyland presents the very best kind of idea – one that, in retrospect, seems obvious, but which took a seer like Kurt Andersen to piece together. The thinking and the writing are both dazzling; it is at once a history lesson and an oh-so-modern cri de coeur; it’s an absolute joy to read, and will leave your brain dancing with excitement long after you’re done -- Stephen Dubner, co-author of FreakonomicsAn absorbing, must-read polemic. * Newsday *The most important book that I have read this year. -- Lawrence O'Donnell * The Last Word, MSNBC *
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Basic Books Lying in State: Why Presidents Lie -- And Why
Book SynopsisIf there's one thing we know about our current president, it's that he lies. Donald Trump's lies are so ubiquitous, so incessant, and so habitual that they have become inescapable -- from his false claims about the size of his inauguration crowd to his whole cloth invention of a terrorist attack in Sweden to his assertion that Democrats are planning to give free cars to undocumented immigrants. But while he may lie more frequently and brazenly than any other American president, he is certainly not the first to mislead the public.With Lying in State, bestselling historian and commentator Eric Alterman asks how we ended up with such a pathologically dishonest commander in chief -- and what consequences his serial mendacity might have for the future. To answer these questions, Alterman explores the long history of presidential lying, showing that from early on, the United States has persistently expanded its power and hegemony on the basis of presidential lies. Over time, these deceptions have had a cumulative and pernicious effect: each lie a president tells makes it easier and more acceptable for subsequent presidents to lie. Worse still, the media have largely abandoned their responsibility as referees of news and information, uncritically repeating presidential lies and failing to issue corrections even after lies are revealed. Donald Trump, then, represents not an aberration but the culmination of an age-old trend.Full of vivid historical examples and trenchant analysis, Lying in State is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how we arrived in this age of alternative facts.
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Harvard University Press Why They Marched
Book SynopsisLively and delightfulzooms in on the faces in the crowd to help us understand both the depth and the diversity of the women's suffrage movement. Some women went to jail. Others climbed mountains. Visual artists, dancers, and journalists all played a partFar from perfect, they used their own abilities, defects, and opportunities to build a movement that still resonates today.Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, author of Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make HistoryAn intimate account of the unheralded activism that won women the right to vote, and an opportunity to celebrate a truly diverse cohort of first-wave feminist changemakers.Ms. Demonstrates the steady advance of women's suffrage while also complicating the standard portrait of it.New YorkerThe story of how American women won the right to vote is usually told through the lives of a few iconic leaders. But movements for social change are rarely so tidy or top-heavy. Why They Marched profiles nineteen womensome famous, many unknownwho worked tirelTrade Review[Ware] places 19 women who've been overlooked because of race, class or sexuality back on the front lines of the fight for the ballot. Their stories provide readers with an intimate account of the unheralded activism that won women the right to vote, and an opportunity to celebrate a truly diverse cohort of first-wave feminist changemakers. * Ms. *Her cast of characters usefully illustrates the geographic, racial, religious, and socioeconomic range of the suffrage movement. Ultimately, though, the diversity of the voting-rights advocates is less shocking than the diversity of voting rights themselves…Demonstrates the steady advance of women’s suffrage while also complicating the standard portrait of it: the right to vote is less a switch than a dial, one that can be turned up or dimmed down. -- Casey Cep * New Yorker *Looks at 19 activists from around the country, from a variety of races and backgrounds, revealing that the movement was made up of a wider and much more diverse group than is typically noted in the history books…It comes at a potent moment as the nation next year will see the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which deals with women’s suffrage, and a presidential election that has drawn a record number of women candidates. * Boston Globe *A smart, eclectic collection of 19 mini-biographies of Americans who worked for women’s suffrage…Ware’s excellent compendium expertly shows there are new ways to tell the suffrage story. This is a must-read for those interested in women’s and American history. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *Ware does a wonderful job of highlighting people and subjects often passed over when exploring the fight for women’s rights…[She] does not shy away from some of the controversies often hidden when studying suffragism, namely racism, and is able to give both a broad and detailed look at the movement. * Library Journal (starred review) *Refreshingly, Ware…focuses on many of the lesser-known but equally audacious, talented women who joined the fight, profiling 19 courageous individuals…Important American history that is also timely given recent attempts at voter suppression. * Kirkus Reviews *A complete historical portrait of the suffrage movement. Ware delves into the racism and Eurocentrism of the suffrage movement, as well as portraying suffragists from the South and West, Mormon suffragists, and pockets of suffrage history just brought to light. A tremendous work…this is my newest favorite history book. -- Nancy Snyder * Book Riot *As we see abortion rights attacked so fiercely in the U.S., this book is a reminder that winning the vote was not the end of the fight. It was the beginning of a continuing battle for real equality. -- Jan Nielsen * Socialist Worker *One woman can refuse to pay taxes. A dozen can issue a manifesto. But it takes a multitude to mount a parade. Susan Ware’s lively and delightful book zooms in on the faces in the crowd to help us understand both the depth and the diversity of the women’s suffrage movement. Some women went to jail. Others climbed mountains. Visual artists, dancers, and journalists all played a part. Suffragists tangled with each other as well as with opponents. Far from perfect, they used their own abilities, defects, and opportunities to build a movement that still resonates today. -- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, author of Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make HistoryThis entertaining and lively history of the women’s suffrage movement is full of surprises, featuring accounts of people and events that are not well known and highlighting women from minority groups and from regions other than the Northeast. What a fresh take on the traditional narrative that begins with Seneca Falls and ends with the victory in 1920. I found myself looking forward to each new section. -- Marjorie J. Spruill, author of One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Woman’s Suffrage MovementSusan Ware’s book should be required reading for anyone who cares about our democracy and has forgotten how hard women had to fight for their right to participate in building a better future. She reminds us how far we’ve come—and how far we have yet to go. -- Tanya Selvaratnam, author of The Big LieAn endlessly readable ode to lesser-known—but equally important—women from a variety of backgrounds, all dedicated to the cause of women’s suffrage…Ware is intentional in naming the racism of white suffragists and not backing away from shining a long-overdue light on the imperfections and inequities of the movement…While meticulously researched to satisfy the most seasoned suffrage scholar, the book is written most prominently for the enjoyment of armchair historians. -- Karla J. Strand * Canadian Journal of History *A wonderful use of material history, which students will find engaging and entertaining…A thoroughly researched and fascinating read on a diverse suffrage movement that will help spur interest in the movement well after the Anthony Amendment’s centennial. -- Rachel Gunter * H-Net Reviews *Moving, inspiring, and empowering, this is a testament to political action, the bond between women, and the power of raising your voice. * A Mighty Girl *In this history of women’s suffrage, Ware spends time with the individuals who never received recognition for their efforts in the cause…Ware explores the thousands of ways that the idea of universal suffrage circulated and identifies who allowed it to circulate. We see minds changing, which would eventually lead to laws changing too. -- Gal Beckerman * The Atlantic *
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Cameron & Company Inc The Way of Florida A Novel
Book SynopsisRelentless, urgent and above all musical, Russell Persson''s expertly crafted The Way of Florida recasts the tragic story of the failed Narváez expedition. This tale has trickled down through the centuries via La Relación, the official report published in 1542, as well as many other subsequent retellings. A calamitous attempt to establish Spanish colonies along the Gulf Coast, of the 300 crew sent inland to explore, only four survived this eight-year ordeal. In bracing, beautiful language this timely narrative of botched colonialism, now in its first American Edition, radically reimagines the parameters and responsibilities of the historical novel. Linguistically rich, sinuous, and maybe even heroic, The Way of Florida offers historical fiction like you have never read it before.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Need to Know
Book SynopsisOne of The New Yorker''s Best Books of the Year * A Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize FinalistAuthoritative. . . . [Reynolds''s] contribution to our understanding of the rise of American intelligence is unparalleled. —Journal of Intelligence History“The most thorough and detailed history available on the origins of U.S. intelligence.” —Michael Morell, former Deputy Director and Acting Director, CIAHistorian and former CIA officer Nicholas Reynolds, the New York Times bestselling author of Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy, uncovers the definitive history of American intelligence during World War II, illuminating its key role in securing victory and its astonishing growth from practically nothing at the start of the war. The entire vast, modern American intelligence system—the amalgaTrade Review"Authoritative. ... Reynolds's contribution to our understanding of the rise of American intelligence is unparalleled." — Journal of Intelligence History “Need to Know is the most thorough and detailed history available on the origins of U.S. intelligence. I expect it to become part of the required reading for university classes on intelligence for some time to come. Kudos to Nick Reynolds for giving us Need to Know.” — Michael Morell, Former Deputy Director and Acting Director, CIA “An excellent, wide-ranging introduction to the creation of American Intelligence in World War II.” — The Journal of Military History "Need to Know is a detailed history of the origins of American intelligence capability....Reynolds traces how the intelligence establishment we know today was built from scratch starting during the run-up to the Second World War. The storyline is supported by extensive research." — Foreign Service Journal "Reynolds examines the genesis of the Central Intelligence Agency in the inter war years and particularly in the Second World War. He has used his academic research and practical expertise in the intelligence services to examine the complex set of personalities, rivalries and political manoeuvring which led to the development of the CIA and its global reach and influence." — British Modern Military History Society “Of several recent books that coincide with the seventy-fifth anniversary of the [CIA’s] founding. … Reynolds’s book is the best of the recent batch, and the most readable.” — The New Yorker, Best Books of 2022 “A readable, thoughtful book on an important subject….This is an exceptionally well cited book….Need to Know belongs in the required or at least highly recommended readings portions of syllabi in intelligence studies programs.” — William Nolte, The Cipher Brief (rated 4 out of 4 “trench coats”) “[A] vast, complex, character-rich history. … A comprehensive, authoritative examination of the genesis of America’s national security apparatus.” — Kirkus Reviews "An exhaustively researched critical history of American military intelligence from 1940 to the beginning of the Cold War. ... Reynolds’s scrupulous and well-rounded approach reveals the good, the bad, and the reckless in the early days of U.S. intelligence. Espionage buffs will be fascinated." — Publishers Weekly "Reynolds masterfully synthesizes the contributions of a number of consequential figures to the burgeoning intelligence industry that WWII bequeathed to modern America." — Booklist "Based on extensive primary research, this striking and compelling account should be read by anybody interested in the development of U.S. intelligence agencies and special operations during World War II." — Library Journal “Need to Know is imaginative, bold in framework, and extremely well-executed.” — Richard B. Frank, author of Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, July 1937- May 1942 "A revelatory account of the covert efforts of the Allied forces to turn the tide of World War II. ... A thrilling account." — Seattle Book Review "Nicholas Reynolds does a great service to the field of intelligence history by producing a narrative on this essential topic that is as accessible to general readers as it is insightful for scholars. The book offers the rare combination of illuminating scholarship and great readability. ... Reynolds’s novel big-picture approach offers a subtle, fresh perspective. ... A notable strength of Need to Know is the book’s ability to capture the humanity and complexity behind the wartime evolution of what the world now knows as the US national security regime." — Sara B. Castro, US Air Force Academy "Reynolds intended to write an overview for specialists and generalists, and he succeeds. In my own library, I have placed it next to Christopher Andrew’s For the President’s Eyes Only and the books and published primary sources I gather on the emergence of the intelligence community. ... Certainly, the reading public would enjoy and benefit from reading it, too, as it is well informed, perceptive, and a pleasure to read." — James Lockhart, Rabdan Academy/Zayed Military University, Abu Dhabi
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Penguin Books Ltd Cuba
Book SynopsisFrom award-winning historian Hugh Thomas, Cuba: A History is the essential work for understanding one of the most fascinating and controversial countries in the world. Hugh Thomas''s acclaimed book explores the whole sweep of Cuban history from the British capture of Havana in 1762 through the years of Spanish and United States domination, down to the twentieth century and the extraordinary revolution of Fidel Castro. Throughout this period of over two hundred years, Hugh Thomas analyses the political, economic and social events that have shaped Cuban history with extraordinary insight and panache, covering subjects ranging from sugar, tobacco and education to slavery, war and occupation. Encyclopaedic in range and breathtaking in execution, Cuba is surely one of the seminal works of world history. ''An astonishing feat ... the author does more to explain the phenomenon of Fidel''s rise to power than anybody else has done so
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Oxford University Press Inc The U.S. Supreme Court
Book SynopsisTrade Review[A] new one-of-a-kind book on the Supreme Court." * SCOTUSblog *Linda Greenhouse has long been one of the most astute observers of the U.S. Supreme Court and most trusted translators of its mysteries and traditions. This elegant and concise guide is invaluable for beginners and veteran court watchers alike. An ideal introduction to the Court for students and citizens of all ages. * Jeffrey Rosen, professor of law, George Washington University, and legal affairs editor, The New Republic *There is hardly anyone in the country, outside the Court, who knows the institution and its practices as well as Linda Greenhouse does. * Melvin I. Urofsky, author of Louis D. Brandeis: A Life *Greenhouse cogently illustrates the history, functions, composition and importance of the Supreme Court. In a slim volume that you can literally carry around in your pocket, you will find a wealth of knowledge." * Yale Daily News *[A]n amuse-bouche of a book . . . short, but pithy. After finishing this book, readers should be inspired to take up [Greenhouse's] implicit invitation to read about the Court and its impact on shaping American law in a more substantial, meatier format. * Judicature *For those interested in how cases come to be heard by the Court, the process leading to a decision and the Court's relationship with the other branches of the federal government and the public, this is an excellent way to begin. * Washington Independent Review of Books *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Chapter One: Origins Chapter Two: The Court at Work (1) Chapter Three: The Justices Chapter Four: The Chief Justice Chapter Five: The Court at Work (2) Chapter Six: The Court and the Other Branches Chapter Seven: The Court and the Public Chapter Eight: The Court and the World Appendix 1: Article III, U.S. Constitution Appendix 2: The Supreme Court's Rules (excerpts) Appendix 3: Chart of the Justices References Further Reading Websites Index
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Oxford University Press Inc The Return of Great Power Rivalry
Book SynopsisThe United States of America has been the most powerful country in the world for over seventy years. The U.S. National Security Strategy declares, however, that the return of great power competition with Russia and China is the greatest threat to U.S. national security. Further, many analysts predict that America''s autocratic rivals will succeed in disrupting or displacing U.S. global leadership. Brilliant and engagingly written, The Return of Great Power Rivalry, Matthew Kroenig argues that this conventional wisdom is wrong. Drawing on an extraordinary range of historical evidence and the works of figures like Herodotus, Machiavelli, and Montesquieu-and cutting-edge social science research, Mattew Kroenig advances the riveting argument that democracies tend to excel in great power rivalries. He contends that democracies actually have unique economic, diplomatic, and military advantages in long-run geopolitical competitions. He considers autocratic advantages as well, but shows that these are more than outweighed by their vulnerabilities. Kroenig then shows these arguments through the seven most important cases of democratic-versus-autocratic rivalries throughout history, from the ancient world to the Cold War. Finally, he analyzes the new era of great power rivalry among the United States, Russia, and China through the lens of the democratic advantage argument. By advancing a hard-power argument for democracy, Kroenig demonstrates that despite its many problems, the U.S. is better positioned to maintain a global leadership role than either Russia or China. A vitally important book for anyone concerned about the future of global geopolitics, The Return of Great Power Rivalry provides both an innovative way of thinking about power in international politics and an optimistic assessment of the future of American global leadership.Trade ReviewThe breadth of Kroenig's historical case studies and the parsimony of his analyses help this book stand out, making it a must-read for understanding the current international environment. Essential. Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals. * J. R. Clardie, Northwest Nazarene University, CHOICE *In Return of Great Power Rivalry, Matthew Kroenig, a rising star among the next generation of strategic thinkers, brilliantly counters the current political narrative of autocratic ascendancy and democratic decline. Drawing on historical examples of great power competition between autocracies and democracies from Ancient Greece to the Cold War, he highlights democracy's enduring, structural advantages. By underscoring the importance of strong political institutions, his reflections serve as a handbook for contemporary leaders on how to prevail in a new, and more complex, era of great power competition. * Fredrick Kempe, President and CEO, the Atlantic Council, and New York Times bestselling author of Berlin 1961: The Most Dangerous Place on Earth *Professor Kroenig makes a powerful and provocative case that the world's democracies, and especially the United States, enjoy deep and lasting advantages over their autocratic rivals. He brings to this investigation a rare combination of first-rate scholarship and a lively prose that all readers will find engaging and informative. An important work for our times. * Robert Kagan, Stephen & Barbara Friedman Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, and New York Times bestselling author of The World America Made *In The Return of Great Power Rivalry, Professor Kroenig explains why democracies have prevailed over their autocratic rivals in the past and outlines how the United States and its democratic allies can better compete with the more sophisticated autocratic challenges we face today. This is an important book on the defining issue of our time with real implications for policymakers and scholars alike. * General James L. Jones Jr., UMSC (Ret.), Former National Security Advisor to US President Barack Obama *We already know that democracies are more humane and usually better governed than autocracies are. But despots like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping continue to claim that their regimes are better at delivering national security and greatness in the global arena. Matthew Kroenig confronts the autocrats' claims head-on and demolishes them. In remarkably accessible and delightful written text, he mines social science theory and two-and-a-half millennia of history to show that democracies are more powerful-not just fairer and better governed-than autocracies are. At a time when the global struggle between democracy and autocracy is reaching a critical new stage, this book promises to touch nerves and influence minds from Washington to Moscow to Beijing. Policy-relevant social science at its best! * M. Steven Fish, Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley and author of Democracy Derailed in Russia: The Failure of Open Politics *In this age of widespread pessimism about the future of democracy, this book makes a powerful argument: democracy is not only better for the people, but may have the edge against autocracies in the coming great power rivalry. It is an erudite, well-argued and uplifting book. * Daron Acemoglu,, Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and co-author of Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty *Table of ContentsAlso by This Author Preface Introduction PART I. Democracy Versus Autocracy Chapter 1. The Democratic Advantage in Theory Chapter 2. The Autocratic Advantage? PART II. The Democratic Advantage in History Chapter 3. The Democratic Advantage by the Numbers Chapter 4. Athens, Sparta, and Persia Chapter 5. The Roman Republic, Carthage, and Macedon Chapter 6. The Venetian Republic and its Rivals Chapter 7. The Dutch Republic and the Spanish Empire Chapter 8. Great Britain and France Chapter 9. The United Kingdom and Germany Chapter 10. The United States and the Soviet Union PART III. The Democratic Advantage Today Chapter 11. The Russian Federation Chapter 12. The People's Republic of China Chapter 13. The United States of America PART IV. The Democratic Advantage in the Future Chapter 14. Implications for American Leadership Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Forever Prisoners How the United States Made the
Book SynopsisStories of non-US citizens caught in the jaws of the immigration bureaucracy and subject to indefinite detention are in the headlines daily. These men, women, and children remain almost completely without rights, unprotected by law and the Constitution, and their status as outsiders, even though many of have lived and worked in this country for years, has left them vulnerable to the most extreme forms of state power. Although the rhetoric surrounding these individuals is extreme, the US government has been locking up immigrants since the late nineteenth century, often for indefinite periods and with limited ability to challenge their confinement. Forever Prisoners offers the first broad history of immigrant detention in the United States. Elliott Young focuses on five stories, including Chinese detained off the coast of Washington in the late 1880s, an insane Russian-Brazilian Jew caught on a ship shuttling between New York and South America during World War I, Japanese Peruvians kidnapped and locked up in a Texas jail during World War II, a prison uprising by Mariel Cuban refugees in 1987, and a Salvadoran mother who grew up in the United States and has spent years incarcerated while fighting deportation. Young shows how foreigners have been caged not just for immigration violations, but also held in state and federal prisons for criminal offenses, in insane asylums for mental illness, as enemy aliens in INS facilities, and in refugee camps. Since the 1980s, the conflation of criminality with undocumented migrants has given rise to the most extensive system of immigrant incarceration in the nation''s history. Today over half a million immigrants are caged each year, some serving indefinite terms in what has become the world''s most extensive immigrant detention system. And yet, Young finds, the rate of all forms of incarceration for immigrants was as high in the early twentieth century as it is today, demonstrating a return to past carceral practices. Providing critical historical context for today''s news cycle, Forever Prisoners focuses on the sites of limbo where America''s immigration population have been and continue to be held.Trade ReviewA timely, welcome, and innovative addition to the rich scholarship on mass incarceration...[and] immigration....This is an ambitious book, one that deftly incorporates the now rather well-known history of anti-immigrant politics, exclusionary laws and practices, nativist policies, Supreme Court decisions, and foreign entanglements. However, by placing immigrant detention at the center of his work, Young forces readers to grapple with the magnitude of why and how the United States has incarcerated millions of immigrants, as well as the experiences of those who found themselves confined behind bars. Furthermore, by profiling the experiences of immigrants who were housed in hospitals, insane asylums, and charitable establishments, Young includes institutions that might at first glance seem like a part of the history of mental health or philanthropy and not a part of the broader history of immigrant detention. * Kathleen Mapes, American Historical Review *In Forever Prisoners, Elliott Young homes in on case studies of communal and individual detention in the United States from the nineteenth century to the present. He seeks to prove how the country's two vast systems of policing and immigrant detention have been inextricably linked during this entire time period, and not just in recent decades. Over the centuries, the United States has used different places to incarcerate immigrants—prisons, islands, insane asylums, hastily-constructed camps—and maintained an historical and consistent concern about detaining foreigners. * Lori A. Flores, Reviews in American History *Forever Prisoners offers a compelling account of the evolving immigration detention system. With thoughtful sources detailing the lives and voices of non-citizen detainees, the book reads like an intimate account of the world of individuals locked in the oppressive U.S. immigration system and the history that developed it. * Miguel Girón, Southwestern Historical Quarterly *Throughout, Young brings complex legal, institutional, and demographic history to life through individual stories. The book is uniquely situated at the interstice of two subjects that have generated voluminous literature but have been treated separately -- undocumented immigration and mass incarceration ... this moving work humanizes immigration, past and present. * T. Mackaman, CHOICE *Forever Prisoners is a searing indictment of US immigration policy as revealed through case studies of Chinese incarceration at McNeil Island Prison, the imprisonment of immigrants deemed 'insane; during the Progressive Era, the abduction and imprisonment of Japanese-Peruvian citizens by American agents during WW II, the indefinite imprisonment of Cuban Marielito refugees in the 1980s and 1990s, and the criminalization and deportation of undocumented immigrants under the Obama and Trump presidencies....Throughout, Young brings complex legal, institutional, and demographic history to life through individual stories. The book is uniquely situated at the interstice of two subjects that have generated voluminous literature but have been treated separately—undocumented immigration and mass incarceration....This moving work humanizes immigration, past and present. * Choice *An altogether sobering look at a system of punishment founded on racial injustice and going strong. * Kirkus *We have long needed a history of immigrant detention, and Forever Prisoners delivers. Drawing on archival documents as well as his own experience as an expert witness in recent asylum cases, Young brilliantly continues the dismantling of America's 'nation of immigrants' myth and instead shows how our long history of criminalizing migration has led us to build the world's largest system for imprisoning immigrants, a nation of immigrant prisons. This is an essential read for anyone invested in building a more just society. * Erika Lee, author of America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States *Tightly organized around five compelling case studies, Young explores the broader carceral landscape of prisons, insane asylums, war camps, and detention centers that have caged non-citizens in the United States since the late nineteenth century.Full of surprising historical details and offering important insights drawing from immigration and prison studies, the book makes visible the full human and racial dimensions of this country's immigration policies, and speaks with an urgent voice to contemporary debates surrounding US immigration policy and the carceral state. * Julian Lim, author of Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands *By centering the stories of foreign-born people subjected to imprisonment, Elliott Young's Forever Prisoners demonstrates how this particular detention regime has not only escalated in the past several decades but, more important, grows out of deep roots reaching back to the nineteenth century origins of immigration restriction. Young widens our view of what counts as immigrant detention over time and how the United States has ensnared differently outcast groups into its varied cages — including offshore islands, mental institutions, martial detention camps, and refugee camps, as well detention centers, jails, and prisons. Forever Prisoners is crucial book for anyone interested in the convergence of prison and immigration regimes. * A. Naomi Paik, author of Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Building the Largest Immigrant Detention Regime on the Planet Chapter One: Chinese at McNeil Island Federal Prison in the Late Nineteenth Century Chapter Two: Nathan Cohen, the Man Without a Country Chapter Three: Japanese Peruvian Enemy Aliens during World War Two Chapter Four: "We Have No End." Mariel Cuban Prison Uprising in Oakdale and Atlanta Chapter Five: "A Particularly Serious Crime." Mayra Machado in an Age of Crimmigration Conclusion: Indefinite Detention from Guantanamo, Cuba to Jena, Louisiana Notes Index
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Oxford University Press Inc The Middle Way
Book SynopsisA portrait of the effectiveness of moderation in US foreign policy, as illustrated by three of America''s most consequential and widely-admired postwar presidents: Dwight Eisenhower, George H.W. Bush, and Barack Obama.When thinking about Americas role in the world, Dwight Eisenhower, George H. W. Bush, and Barack Obama may not seem to have a lot in common. But they do. While divided by background, generation, and political party, they exemplify a distinct and underappreciated tradition of American leadership: The Middle Way. As the scholar and former senior foreign policy official Derek Chollet shows in this deeply researched book, these three presidents took a centrist -- and effective -- approach to foreign policy. With so many challenges facing the United States, Chollet makes the case for why the nation must reclaim this brand of leadership, learn from it, and champion it.This timely book blends history, politics and biography to reveal how these presidents viewed the world and approached the task of leadership. By providing behind-the-scenes accounts and incisive analysis of the foreign policies of Ike, Bush 41, and Obama, The Middle Way offers a fresh way of thinking about American power. It shows how these three leaders defined a foreign policy archetype too often obscured by partisan blinders and historical amnesia. With vivid story-telling and astute insights, Chollet makes a compelling argument for how we should remember the past, think about the present, and approach the policy challenges of tomorrow. Eisenhower, Bush, and Obama demonstrated how the United States can exercise prudent and powerful authority in the world, and they stand as exemplars of decency, humility, optimism, confidence, and pragmatism. Together, they set the bar for the kind of global leadership needed today -- and The Middle Way reminds both Americans and the world that this proud legacy not only persists, but is needed more than ever.Trade ReviewEisenhower, Bush Sr., and Obama - besides being perhaps the un-Trumpiest presidents ever - exemplified a way of thinking about American leadership in the world that seems ripe for the resurrecting, according to Derek Chollet in this fascinating new book. If nothing else, read it to remember that pragmatism, expertise, and careful decision-making were once welcomed in the Oval Office. * Susan Glasser, staff writer for The New Yorker and co-author of The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III *An important, timely, elegant, and provocative work of diplomatic history from one of the finest thinkers and practitioners of his generation. If Americans are ever to find their way again in the world, this book is an essential starting point. * William J. Burns, President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State *As welcome and timely as it is rigorous and insightful, this complex and incisive history is the very definition of a usable past; we can all benefit from reading it. * Richard H. Immerman, Temple University *The values of moderation, prudence, and judgment that characterize the 'Middle Way' internationalism of Eisenhower, Bush Sr., and Obama have been given short shrift by analysts and historians with a weakness for bold ideology. In this cogent, clear-eyed, and important book, Chollet does more than uncover hidden links between these three like-minded presidents; he wins the argument that for all of their shortcomings, this common-sense approach is a superior way to conduct American foreign policy. * Jonathan Alter, author of His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life *Few writers would have the temerity to examine the disparate personalities and careers of Eisenhower, Bush Sr., and Obama. Yet in this elegantly written book Chollet vividly highlights a common set of values, attitudes, and policies that served the country well. As Americans assess their presidential aspirants going forward, Chollet offers us an arresting prism to think about our past and envision our future. * Melvyn P. Leffler, University of Virginia *Because moderate policies are not flashy, they are often underrated. But as Chollet shows in his thoughtful, well-researched study, even if they are messy, they often do a better job of coping with a complex and changing world than do the starker alternatives. * Robert Jervis, Columbia University *A book for foreign-policy wonks to debate and cherish. * Kirkus *Table of ContentsPreface: Three Presidents Introduction: The Middle Way Chapter One: Worldview Chapter Two: Strategy Chapter Three: Crisis Chapter Four: Politics Chapter Five: Legacy Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Inc George Platt Lynes The Daring Eye
Book SynopsisA precocious American youth who entered the orbit of American and British expatriates populating Paris and the South of France in the 1920s, George Platt Lynes went on to become a supremely assured portrait photographer documenting the great figures of literature, painting, opera, and dance of mid-twentieth century. This new biography tells his story in full.Trade ReviewIn 1927, Lynes had met a couple, Glenway Wescott and Monroe Wheeler, eventually a writer and an arts administrator (at the Museum of Modern Art in New York) respectively. .... The following year he joined them in the south of France. The relationship became triangular, though not equilaterally: poor Wescott was somewhat edged to one side, even though the three of them lived together for more than a decade. As Ellenzweig rightly comments, 'these three men designed a way of life that appears as inventively bohemian as the roundelay of London's Bloomsbury Group.' ... Both scholarly and gossipy, this book has a cast of hundreds ... but Ellenzweig marshals his material with a steady hand. * Gregory Woods, Emeritus Professor of Gay & Lesbian Studies, Nottingham Trent University, UK, and author of Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World *This book is rich in details about his life and the world that produced him. It is the sort of book that you can open to a random page and be caught by some detail that will have you racing to Google to learn more... For anybody looking to study or recreate gay life in the mid 20th century, this is a deluxe road map. * Skot Armstrong, ArtilleryMag.com *Ellenzweig spent many years researching his Lynes book, and his energy and enthusiasm for his subject never flag. He is a tireless scholar, but he is also an insightful critic who can do a close read of any of the Lynes photos printed in the book and make you understand them more intimately. I read George Platt Lynes: The Daring Eye slowly because I didn't want it to end. This is a significant and painstaking and immersive book, shining a light on all aspects of a very flawed man who himself was one of the first artists to shine a light on the beauty of the male form in photographs. * Dan Callahan, Out In Print *Ellenzweig's splendid biography shows more thoroughly than ever before the full range of his talent. * Joseph M. Ortiz, The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide *One of the great virtues of Ellenzweig's sweeping book ... is that it's as much cultural history as personal biography. Lynes was able to photograph so many luminaries because he moved in their circles, and his evident talent made him a likely collaborator on many of their artistic projects. Ellenzweig provides in-depth accounts of these figures and projects as they came into Lynes' orbit, from Paul Cadmus' portrait of Lynes and their friends, to [Lincoln] Kirstein's establishment of the New York City Ballet under [George] Balanchine, and to the dazzling premier of Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein's opera Four Saints in Three Acts. In this respect The Daring Eye follows the model of Martin Duberman's The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein and Jerry Rosco's Glenway Wescott Personally, two biographies of Lynes' friends that show the extent to which 20th-century art was driven by a transatlantic circle of gay friends and lovers. * Joseph M. Ortiz, Gay & Lesbian Review *Ellenzweig takes on a herculean task of carefully documenting the life of one of the unsung icons of gay imagery as well as that of a master photographer. * Jeffrey Felner, New York Journal of Books *George Platt Lynes: The Daring Eye bursts with detail about painters, sculptors, writers, photographers, performers, patrons and socialites during a thrilling time for art. From the end of World War I into the fifties, the emergence of modernism and expressionism profoundly influenced American and European culture. Allen Ellenzweig brings that world to life alongside George Platt Lyne's artistic brilliance, complex temperament and untamed sensuality. The book is a breathless ride. * Claudia Keenan, BookTrib (booktrib.com) *Ellenzweig gives the great photographer George Platt Lynes his full due in this intimate, expansive, richly detailed biography. Lynes lived a tragically short life but his work and friendships put him at the center of 20th century American history. His portraits of artists and his pioneering work in the male nude both receive here the attention they deserve.The book is an encyclopedia of cultural and social changes before, during, and after World War II, exploring not just photography, but literature, dance, music, fashion, museum life, and sexuality. The huge cast includes Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, Paul Cadmus, Katherine Anne Porter, Cecil Beaton, Lincoln Kirstein, and Alfred Kinsey, as well as Lynes's lovers, Glenway Wescott and Monroe Wheeler. But my favorite figure is George's younger brother, Russell Lynes, the historian, who remained loyal and supportive to his charming, high-energy brother throughout his life * Christopher Bram, author of Father of Frankenstein *This masterly biography is a triumph of comprehensive research and highly sophisticated analysis. Ellenzweig's graceful, nuanced assessments expand our understanding not only of Lynes the individual, but of an entire epoch of cultural history. This is scholarship of the first rank, as well as psychological acuity of remarkable depth. * Martin Duberman, author of The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein *At last! A sweeping biography of George Platt Lynes, whose exquisite fashion photography, portraits of major cultural figures, and male and female nudes have attracted considerable interest in recent years. Drawing on his extensive research in Lynes's intimate correspondence and journals, Ellenzweig has unearthed illuminating new details about the once charmed and ultimately tragic life of this daring mid-century photographer and his influential gay circle. * George Chauncey, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia University, and author of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 *George Platt Lynes dramatically staged and photographed a cosmopolitan network of friends, collaborators, and lovers during the 1930s and 1940s, revolutionizing such genres as the male nude, dance photography, portraiture, and fashion photography. Allen Ellenzweig's deeply researched and engagingly written biography provides context for the (re)discovery of an influential modern culture-maker. * Tirza Latimer, Professor Emerita, History of Art and Visual Culture, California College of the Arts, San Francisco *Table of ContentsPart One: The Precocious Pup Chapter 1: Past is Prologue-1955 Chapter 2: Imperial Fantasies Chapter 3: The Great Barrington Boy Chapter 4: "Baby George" at the Stein Salon Chapter 5: Missing Miss Stein and Hating Yale Part Two: Three-Cornered Hats Chapter 6: The Triangle Takes Shape Chapter 7: The Hotel Welcome, Jean Cocteau, and the Return to Paris Chapter 8: A New Career Chapter 9: Camera Work Chapter 10: You've Got to Have Friends Chapter 11: Gertrude in Clover Amiably Chapter 12: Twice a Debutante Part Three: Three-Cornered Hats Times Two Chapter 13: The Mural Show and a Threat of Marriage Chapter 14: A Death in the Family Chapter 15: Four Saints and a ménage-à-trois Chapter 16: 50 Photographs and a Family Wedding without Pictures Chapter 17: A Country House; Cocteau in Coney Island; The Sleepwalker Chapter 18: A Return to Paris; Bachelor and PaJaMa Parties Part Four: The Height of Fashion Chapter 19: Models, Myths, 640 Madison Avenue Chapter 20: The Affair Beaton and a Conversation Piece Chapter 21: An Anthology of Faces at Pierre Matisse Part Five: Battles on the Homefront Chapter 22: The War Comes Home Chapter 23: Breaking Away Chapter 24: Fortune Tellers and Paying Debts Chapter 25: "Finis" Part Six: Paradise Lost Chapter 26: Exiles in Paradise Chapter 27: Vogue-vagueness Chapter 28: Dr. Kinsey, E.M. Forster, and Bob: the dinner party Chapter 29: Pornographers, Visual and Verbal Chapter 30: The Great Barrington Boy II Chapter 31: A Naked Legacy Chapter 32: Vapors and Friends Chapter 33: A Gutsy and Courageous Performance Index
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OUP USA The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution
Book SynopsisThe Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution introduces scholars, students and generally interested readers to the formative event in American history. In thirty-three individual essays, the Handbook provides readers with in-depth analysis of the Revolution's many sides.Table of ContentsList of Maps ; Contributors ; Introduction: American Revolutions,Edward G. Gray and Jane Kamensky ; Part I. Cultures and Crises ; 1. Britain's American Problem: The International Perspective, P. J. Marshall ; 2. The Unsettled Periphery: The Backcountry on the Eve of the American Revolution, William B. Hart ; 3. The Polite and the Plebian, Michael Zuckerman ; 4. Political Protest and the World of Goods, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich ; 5. The Imperial Crisis, Craig B. Yirush ; 6. The Struggle Within: Colonial Politics on the Eve of Independence, Michael A. McDonnell ; 7. The Democratic Moment: The Revolution and Popular Politics, Ray Raphael ; 8. Independence before and during the Revolution, Benjamin H. Irvin ; Part II. War ; 9. The Continental Army, Caroline Cox ; 10. The British Army and the War of Independence, Stephen Conway ; 11. The War in the Cities, Mark A. Peterson ; 12. The War in the Countryside, Allan Kulikoff ; 13. Native Peoples in the Revolutionary War, Jane T. Merritt ; 14. The African Americans' Revolution, Gary B. Nash ; 15. Women in the American Revolutionary War, Sarah M. S. Pearsall ; 16. Loyalism, Edward Larkin ; 17. The Revolutionary War and Europe's Great Powers, Paul W. Mapp ; 18. Funding the Revolution: Monetary and Fiscal Policy in Eighteenth-Century America, Stephen Mihm ; Part III. A Revolutionary Settlement ; 19. The Impact of the War on British Politics, Harry T. Dickinson ; 20. The Trials of the Confederation, Terry Bouton ; 21. A More Perfect Union: The Framing and Ratification of the Constitution, Max M. Edling ; 22. The Evangelical Ascendancy in Revolutionary America, Susan Juster ; 23. The Problems of Slavery, Christopher Leslie Brown ; 24. Rights, Eric Slauter ; 25. The Empire That Britain Kept, Eliga H. Gould ; Part IV. New Orders ; 26. The American Revolution and a New National Politics, Rosemarie Zagarri ; 27. Republican Art and Architecture, Martha J. McNamara ; 28. Print Culture after the Revolution, Catherine O'Donnell ; 29. Republican Law, Christopher L. Tomlins ; 30. Discipline, Sex, and the Republican Self, Clare A. Lyons ; 31. The Laboring Republic, Graham Russell Gao Hodges ; 32. The Republic in the World, 1783-1803, J. M. Opal ; 33. America's Cultural Revolution in Transnational Perspective, Leora Auslander ; Index
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Oxford University Press Inc The Middlebrow Musical
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Oxford University Press Inc Standing Their Ground
Book SynopsisThe transformation of agriculture was one of the most far-reaching developments of the modern era. In analyzing how and why this change took place in the United States, scholars have most often focused on Midwestern family farmers, who experienced the change during the first half of the twentieth century, and southern sharecroppers, swept off the land by forces beyond their control. Departing from the conventional story, this book focuses on small farm owners in North Carolina from the post-Civil War era to the post-Civil Rights era. It reveals that the transformation was more protracted and more contested than historians have understood it to be. Even though the number of farm owners gradually declined over the course of the century, the desire to farm endured among landless farmers, who became landowners during key moments of opportunity. Moreover, this book departs from other studies by considering all farm owners as a single class, rejecting the widespread approach of segregating bTrade ReviewWinner of the H.L. Mitchell Award of the Southern Historical AssociationWinner of the Theodore Saloutos Award of the Agricultural History SocietyTable of ContentsContents Map of Southeastern North Carolina Introduction Chapter 1: On Their Farms and Among Their Pines: The Lower Cape Fear on the Eve of the Civil War Chapter 2: Land for the Poor: The Rise of Small Farm Owners in the Age of Commercial Agriculture Chapter 3: Keep the Stock Law Off Of Us: Defending the Open Range Chapter 4: You Can't Eat Tobacco: The Politics of Self Sufficiency Chapter 5: The Right of the Little Man to Live: Small Farm Owners and the Agricultural Adjustment Act Chapter 6: From Foxholes to Farms: The GI Bill and the Enduring Agrarian Ideal Chapter 7: Nice Work If You Can Get It: Small Farm Owners and Part-Time Work Chapter 8: These Catastrophe Days: Federal Farm Policy During the 1950s Chapter 9: Nailing the Small Farmer in the Coffin: The Politics of Tobacco and the Agrarian Ideal Conclusion Bibliography Notes Index
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Oxford University Press Mission Failure America and the World in the PostCold War Era
Book SynopsisMission Failure argues that, in the past 25 years, the U.S. military has turned to missions that are largely humanitarian and socio-political - and that this ideologically-driven foreign policy generally leads to failure.Trade ReviewThe story is fascinating. Also, since one knows the conclusion, one has to ask whether that conclusion is fair and then what it means for future policy over the next few decades. Consequently, being able to critique a well-written analysis such as this is constantly fun and interesting for anyone interested in contemplating foreign policy decision making. Even though one may not agree with Mandelbaum every step of the way, he is objective in his overview and offers outstanding analysis in every chapter. * John M. Bublic, Barton College *[Mission Failure is] going to be one of the most talked about foreign policy books of the year...a must-read." - Thomas Friedman, The New York TimesSpecialists and general readers alike will appreciate his sure historical grasp, evenhanded assignment of fault, careful assessment of shifting domestic political considerations, and understanding of the foreign cultural barriers that so frustrated American intentions. A skilled, persuasive appraisal of a unique moment in our foreign policy history." - Kirkus Reviews (starred)Mission Failure is a commanding, synoptic review of US foreign policy choices and their outcomes (often unintended and unhappy) from 1993 to 2014. It is beautifully written and has that rarity in modern, policy-relevant books: deep knowledge of history, combined with the granular understanding of US policymaking-qualities that longtime readers of Mandelbaum's work have come to expect and appreciate." - Charles Lipson, University of Chicago, and author of Reliable Partners: How Democracies Have Made a Separate PeaceMission Failure is a startlingly original, creative new book-essentially an epitaph for America's foreign policy in the quarter-century since the end of the Cold War. This is a trenchant critique of the faltering efforts by both Republican and Democratic presidents to refashion governments and societies around the world, from Somalia and Bosnia to China, Iraq and Libya." - James Mann, author of Rise of the Vulcans and The ObamiansThis book, from one of the major analysts of American foreign policy, is well-written, wide in scope, and insightful and penetrating in its vivid dissection of what might call the Twenty Years Disaster. It is a provocative must-read that will be of interest not only to specialists, but to the general public in whose name the cascading foreign policy failure has been carried out." - John Mueller, author of Chasing Ghosts: The Policing of TerrorismA superbly written, masterful, and deeply provocative work by Michael Mandelbaum. He makes a compelling argument in opposition to what he terms a values-based rather than interest and security-based foreign policy and to the waste of America's foreign policy capital, resources and credibility in fruitless efforts to transform foreign societies." - Robert J. Lieber, Georgetown University, author of Retreat and Its Consequences: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Problem of World OrderMission Failure explains how nation-building came to be the chief focus of US foreign policy in the past generation, and unblinkingly underlines how large a failure that has been. Michael Mandelbaum is one of the country's most acute analysts of US foreign policy, and his book should be required reading for policymakers today." - Francis Fukuyama, Stanford University, and author of The End of History and the Last ManA well-told, lucid, thoughtful survey of world affairs…any student of the last quarter century would be well served to read this volume." - Wall Street JournalTable of ContentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: China, the Global Economy, and RussiaA New Administration in a New WorldChina and Human RightsEconomics as Foreign PolicyRussia: The Good DeedRussia: The Bad DeedChapter 3: Humanitarian InterventionThe InnovationSomalia, Haiti, RwandaBosniaKosovoFamous VictoriesChapter 4: The War on Terror and AfghanistanTo the World Trade CenterThe War on TerrorAfghanistan: SuccessAfghanistan: FailureAfghanistan: The Long GoodbyeChapter 5: IraqFrom War to WarFrom Success to FailureThe Wars After the WarThe Home FrontExit and ReentryChapter 6: The Middle EastThe Center of the WorldThe Peace ProcessLand for WarThe Democracy AgendaThe Arab SpringChapter 7: The RestorationThe End of the Post-Cold War EraThe Bubbles BurstThe RoguesThe Rise of ChinaThe Revenge of RussiaChapter 8: Conclusion
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Oxford University Press The Monarchy of Fear
Book Synopsis''A manifesto for hope''Literary ReviewFrom one of the world''s most celebrated moral philosophers comes a thorough examination of the current political crisis and recommendations for how to mend a divided country.For decades, Martha C. Nussbaum has been an acclaimed scholar and humanist, earning dozens of honours for her books and essays. In The Monarchy of Fear she turns her attention to the current political crisis that has polarized America since the 2016 election.Although today''s atmosphere is marked by partisanship, divisive rhetoric, and the inability of two halves of the country to communicate with one another, Nussbaum focuses on what so many pollsters and pundits have overlooked. She sees a simple truth at the heart of the problem: the political is always emotional. Globalization has produced feelings of powerlessness in millions of people in the West. That sense of powerlessness bubbles into resentment and blame. Blame of immigrants. Blame of Muslims. Blame of other races. Trade ReviewReview from previous edition Nussbaum develops her analysis of fear, anger, disgust and envy with a rich array of examples from literature and the law (two longstanding areas of interest for her). And the results are illuminating. * Jonathan Derbyshire, Financial Times *ambitious new book ... Nussbaum's fundamental idealism is undiminished by the coarseness of our time. * Charles Kaiser, The Guardian *One of the virtues of this slender volume is how gradually and scrupulously it moves, as Nussbaum pushes you to slow down, think harder and revisit your knee-jerk assumptions. * New York Times *A fascinating book ... boy, does Nussbaum write well. It's incredibly readable. * John Shand, Times Higher Education *New readers get what amounts to a vivid introduction to a lot of [Nussbaum's] recent work ... A manifesto for hope and mutual sympathy is a welcome change from the dystopian tone of much contemporary political commentary. * Alan Ryan, Literary Review *[Nussbaum's] writing over 30 years has done so much to bring human impulses into the realm of political discourse. When she argues that we can reduce social envy by increasing what is constituted as a universal 'right' ... or connects Nelson Mandela's magnanimous treatment of his enemies to his freedom from bodily disgust ... it's clear that she has given more thought to such processes than virtually anyone else alive. * Leo Robson, New Statesman *Nussbaum is one of the most accomplished political and moral philosophers of our time...there is almost no domain of political and moral life and thought that her work and apparently endless curiosity have not explored. * William Adams, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts *Nussbaum is an elegant and lyrical writer, and she movingly describes the pain of recognizing one's vulnerability... * Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker *A philosopher considers Trumpism through the lens of history, classical thought, and a bit of Hamilton. Like any clearheaded thinker, Nussbaum was unsettled by Trump's election, but she's troubled also by the way people of all political persuasions have succumbed to fear and mindless fear-slinging. She tries to keep Trump at arm's length and focus instead on what philosophers and psychologists going back to antiquity have had to say about fear...its role in stoking anger, disgust, and envy, and how those emotions in turn perpetuate divisive politics (sexism and misogyny especially). That approach gives this important book both up-to-the-moment relevance and long-view gravitas...An engaging and inviting study of humanity's long-standing fear of the other. * Kirkus Reviews *Table of ContentsPreface 1: Introduction 2: Fear, Early and Powerful 3: Anger, Child of Fear 4: Fear-Driven Disgust: The Politics of Exclusion 5: Envy's Empire 6: A Toxic Brew: Sexism And Misogyny 7: Hope, Love, Vision Acknowledgments
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Oxford University Press Inc Reluctant Race Men
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Oxford University Press Inc Lincoln
Book SynopsisBeneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private tunnels of self-taught study, a restless philosophical curiosity, and a profound grasp of the fundamentals of democracy. Now, in Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction, the award-winning Lincoln authority Allen C. Guelzo offers a penetrating look into the mind of one of our greatest presidents. If Lincoln was famous for reading aloud from joke books, Guelzo shows that he also plunged deeply into the mainstream of nineteenth-century liberal democratic thought. Guelzo takes us on a wide-ranging exploration of seven problems that confronted Lincoln and liberal democracy--equality, opportunity, the rule of law, slavery, freedom, and reconciliation. The book sets these problems and Lincoln''s responses against the larger world of American and trans-Atlantic liberal democracy in the 19th century, comparing Lincoln not just to Andrew Jackson or John Calhoun, but to British thinkers such as Richard Cobden, Jeremy Bentham, and John Bright, and to French observers Alexis de Tocqueville and François Guizot. The Lincoln we meet here is an Enlightenment figure who struggled to create a common ground between a people focused on individual rights and a society eager to establish a certain moral, philosophical, and intellectual bedrock. Lincoln insisted that liberal democracy had a higher purpose, which was the realization of a morally right political order. But how to interject that sense of moral order into a system that values personal self-satisfaction--the pursuit of happiness--remains a fundamental dilemma even today. Abraham Lincoln was a man who, according to his friend and biographer William Henry Herndon, lived in the mind. Guelzo paints a marvelous portrait of this Lincoln--Lincoln the man of ideas--providing new insights into one of the giants of American history. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade Review"Written with grace and flair, this brief biography of Lincoln draws on the author's unexcelled knowledge of the subject to offer incisive interpretations of Lincoln's early life, his antebellum career, his ideology of free labor, his rise to the presidency, and his leadership in a war that preserved the United States as one nation and freed it from the blight of slavery."--James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom "The small volume provides an impressive amount of historical and intellectual context, and offers an expert summary of Lincoln's thought." --Indiana Magazine of History "Successfully distills an epic life into the essence of [the] man in [a] pocket-size volume." - Washington Times "Guelzo's book will fill a notable void in the always expanding field of Lincoln studies. This new volume from Oxford should enjoy pride of place as the best short biography of Lincoln available."--Rick Beard, Executive Director, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
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Oxford University Press Inc Cooperating with the Colossus
Book SynopsisDuring the Second World War, the United States built over two hundred defense installations on sovereign soil in Latin America in the name of cooperation in hemisphere defense. Predictably, it proved to be a fraught affair. Despite widespread acclaim for Pan-American unity with the Allied cause, defense construction incited local conflicts that belied the wartime rhetoric of fraternity and equality. Cooperating with the Colossus reconstructs the history of US basing in World War II Latin America, from the elegant chambers of the American foreign ministries to the cantinas, courtrooms, plazas, and brothels surrounding US defense sites. Foregrounding the wartime experiences of Brazil, Cuba, and Panama, the book considers how Latin American leaders and diplomats used basing rights as bargaining chips to advance their nation-building agendas with US resources, while limiting overreach by the Colossus of the North as best they could. Yet conflicts on the ground over labor rights, discriminaTrade ReviewBurrowing deep into the national archives in Brazil, Cuba, and Panama, Herman has produced a splendid, well-balanced history of an extraordinary but seldom studied period in inter-American relations. She pushes back against the still prevalent academic caricature of the United States as an all-powerful imperial actor, aligning herself instead with a younger generation of scholars that has emphasized Latin American agency and the ability of Latin Americans to astutely bargain with Washington....Herman deftly demonstrates how onsite U.S. commanders and diplomats cooperated with local authorities to find informal, flexible solutions to potentially tricky issues....Such pragmatic accords successfully managed the inherent tensions between international security cooperation and national sovereignty, enabling a brilliant if brief chapter of solidarity in the Western Hemisphere. * Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs *Rebecca Herman's Cooperating with the Colossus is a superb book. Wonderfully written and impressively researched, Herman's history greatly expands our understanding of the way Washington used Latin America as a testing ground for the creation of its worldwide military-base archipelago. Cooperating with the Colossus will immediately find a deserved place in the canon of international diplomatic history. * Greg Grandin, Yale University *The World War II years were a 'transformative crucible' in US relations with Latin America, Rebecca Herman demonstrates, requiring negotiation between the projection of American power in the name of protecting democracy, and incursions in the sovereignty of other nations. An outstanding, nuanced, and deeply researched study. * Mary L. Dudziak, author of War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences *Cooperating with the Colossus provides a strikingly new perspective on the close encounters between US authorities and Latin American nations during World War II. Rebecca Herman brilliantly brings together the micro-level social tensions that erupted along the 'borderlands' of US military bases in Latin America during the war, and the macro-level impact of US basing on political concerns regarding national sovereignty in the region. Drawing on a vast array of sources from multi-national archival research, Herman delves into the extensive clashes and protests sparked by matters of racial discrimination, criminal jurisdiction, labor rights, and gender norms as US bases multiplied in Brazil, Cuba, and Panama. And then she goes a step further and offers us a stunning synthesis of these local dramas that amounts to a radical reinterpretation of the era of 'The Good Neighbor. * Barbara Weinstein, New York University *The book examines the expansion of US military basing in Latin America as part of the Allied war effort. But it does more than that. Herman's multifaceted and multilevel history takes a renewed look at cooperation in asymmetrical relationships during a consequential moment. Thus, Cooperating with the Colossus joins a handful of existing books as a veritable must-read book on wartime inter-American relations. * Tom Long, International Affairs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: The Specter of Guantanamo Chapter Two: High Politics and Horse-Trading Chapter Three: Base Labor Chapter Four: Discrimination in the Canal Zone Chapter Five: Sex, Honor, and Moral Hygiene Chapter Six: Criminal Jurisdiction Chapter Seven: Cooperation at the War's End Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Only the Clothes on Her Back Clothing and the
Book SynopsisOnly the Clothes on Her Back illuminates the ways in which women, men of color, and poor people used textiles as a form of property that enabled them to gain access to the legal system and to exercise political power.Trade ReviewOnly the Clothes on Her Back is an illuminating book-one likely to refashion our understanidng of American economic, legal, material and social history. * Eva Sheppard Wolf, Journal of Southern History *Reading Only the Clothes on Her Back is a unique experience because Edwards (Princeton Univ.) makes economic history enjoyable...Edwards has written an analysis of aspects of fabrics that this reviewer did not know existed and written it very well indeed. * Choice *A masterpiece....well-written, deeply thought-provoking....Edwards has clearly poured her expertise into this account of the history of textiles in the USA and their unique legal standing. Using elements of microhistory, Edwards presents detailed case studies to cement her argument and emphasizes the importance of garments to women who otherwise had little to no legal standing. Marginalized people, largely women and slaves, could own textiles, trade them, and expect courts to maintain their claim to the items.... Edwards teases out the strands of this tangled web of textile history and excellently portrays the connection between fabric and burgeoning globalization....While focusing almost entirely on the USA, the global nature of the subject makes excellent reading for historians of all nations. * Caroline M. McWilliams, Twentieth Century British History *Reading Only the Clothes on Her Back is a unique experience because Edwards makes economic history enjoyable. Looking at the implications of women's roles in cloth production, she argues that textiles and finished garments constituted a rare commodity that even married women, unmarried daughters, and/or enslaved women controlled apart from their husbands and masters. Each chapter begins with a well-researched anecdote about some aspect of the trade, which does double duty, imbuing what otherwise might be just dry facts with humanity and also infusing the book with humor—the stories are often hilarious....Edwards has written an analysis of aspects of fabrics that this reviewer did not know existed and written it very well indeed. Highly recommended. General readers through faculty. * Choice *Laura Edwards has produced a masterpiece that forever changes how we see the nineteenth century's ubiquitous textiles and the women who worked, stole, hoarded and wore them. Only a scholar like Edwards, with insights that go beyond conventional notions of property and ownership, could recover the astonishing stories about how those without rights still exercised legal dominion over fabric and their economic lives. Only the Clothes on Her Back smartly debunks simple cultural truisms about women and their adornments, revealing how ordinary Americans, even those marginalized in public law, connected to global markets and remade those forces by their own terms in the local courthouses of the early Republic. * Martha S. Jones, author of Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America *With elegance, creativity, and a fitting touch of wit, Laura Edwards unfolds the world of early American textiles in this brilliantly original study of gender, race, material exchange, and the law. The seemingly small arena of gowns, sheets, and hosiery as revealed through her careful research proves massively impactful to those who were marginalized by society as well as to merchants and manufacturers. While enslaved people, free Blacks, and white women could not claim personal rights, they could and did own all manner of fabrics, which they saved, traded, and defended in a complex legal culture that defies our modern expectations but would not last. The Clothes on Her Back transforms our understanding not only of lace, looms, and law, but also of nineteenth-century American lives. * Tiya Miles, author of All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake *In Only the Clothes on Her Back, Laura Edwards combines daunting archival research with a brilliant synthesis of generations of scholarship to put women, both Black and white, at the heart of American legal and economic history between the Revolution and the Civil War. Laced with wit, and knitting race, class, and gender into a seamless fabric, Edwards poignantly and powerfully brings home what was gained and lost when America became 'a nation of rights.' * Dylan C. Penningroth, University of California, Berkeley *In this revelatory book, Laura Edwards explains the extraordinary significance that textiles once held in the American economy and legal system. A book of scrupulous research and a profoundly revisionist account of the workings of property, gender and the law in America between the Revolution and the 1860s. * Deborah Cohen, Northwestern University *In Only the Clothes on Her Back, Edwards has addressed an important but underexplored aspect of nineteenth-century economic life. She reveals the ways in which textiles shaped, and were shaped by, people at the margins of economic and legal culture in America. She shows how clothing can be a useful and generative lens through which to understand law and power in the nineteenth century. Edwards's triumph is that she has shown through her deft and incisive analysis that textiles influenced much more than the clothes that people wore. Instead, textiles shaped the very nature of law and economy during the nineteenth century. * Justene Hill Edwards, H-Diplo *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Elizabeth's and Caty's Failed Escapes: The Materials of Legal Meaning Part One: Old Clothes in a New Country Chapter 1: Polly's Yarn: Legal Principles Chapter 2: Roger Taney's Long Underwear: Federalism Chapter 3: Mr. Robinson's Failure: Merchants Chapter 4: Rebecca Coles's Factory: Manufacturers Part Two: Protective Coverings in a Hostile World Chapter 5: The Prison Society's Problem: Currency Chapter 6: Jane Cooley's Loom: Capital Chapter 7: Margaret Ten Eyck's Accounts: Credit Chapter 8: Eliza Cauchois's Shift: Exchange Part Three: Rags Chapter 9: Sarah Allingham's Sheet: Enforcement Chapter 10: Catherine Brennan's Haul: Criminality Chapter 11: Charles Lohman's Silk Dresses: Suppression Chapter 12: Mrs. Harris's Marriage: Erasure Conclusion: Mary Todd Lincoln's Old Clothes: Just Material Notes Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Politics of Uncertainty
Book SynopsisIn 1989 three Soviet republics--Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, known as Baltic countries--started a determined push for independence, risking to destabilize the Soviet Union and to derail international negotiations on German reunification. Politics of Uncertainty traces Soviet and American responses to Baltic claims for independence and, in doing so, sheds light on the end of the Cold War.Trade ReviewThe Soviet Union's sudden and surprising collapse continues to resonate, nowhere more so than in the Baltics. Long subjugated, sometimes pawns, and oftentimes a thorn in the side of Kremlin leaders, the region's recent past tells us much about life next to a superpower. No scholar has better brought the Baltics and the end of the Cold War into focus than Una Bergmane, whose Politics of Uncertainty is certain to set the standard for any future study of this critical geopolitical hotspot. * Jeffrey A. Engel, Center for Presidential History, Southern Methodist University *An excellent work of scholarship, thoroughly researched, original, and incisive. Based on a vast array of sources from the USA, USSR, and Europe, Bergmane gives us a whole new perspective on the Balts' independence struggle and their crucial role in Soviet collapse and the Cold War endgame. This book is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the strategic significance of the Baltic region today. * Kristina Spohr, author of Post Wall, Post Square: Rebuilding the World after 1989 *Bergmane is a brilliant chronicler of the Baltic quest for independence from Moscow's rule. Juxtaposing Baltic, Russian, and American sources, she tells a very nuanced and yet highly readable story of how Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania negotiated their exit from the USSR, helping to undermine the Soviet empire in the process. A required read for any student of the Soviet collapse. * Sergey Radchenko, author of Unwanted Visionaries: The Soviet Failure in Asia at the End of the Cold War *While the passing of Mikhail Gorbachev was met with appreciative recollections of his legacy of peace and democratization, Russia's brutal war against Ukraine reminds us that the causes and consequences of Soviet disintegration have not been fully established. As the world re-focuses on the process of Russia's imperial decline, Una Bergmane's analysis of the Baltic role in Soviet collapse is revelatory. With its rare and balanced analysis of the internal and international forces in play at the end of the Cold War, Politics of Uncertainty is essential reading for the post-post-Cold War world. * Violeta Davoliūtė, Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: The Origins of the Baltic Question Chapter 2: "Have you not noticed our absence?" The Baltic Question during the Annus Mirabilis of 1989 Chapter 3: Building a New World Order? The Lithuanian Crisis of Spring 1990 Chapter 4: The End of Perestroika? The Baltic Quest for Visibility and the Soviet Crackdown Chapter 5: The Rise of Republics, the Fall of the Center: The Baltic Exception and the Collapse of the USSR Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment
Book SynopsisThis accessible and authoritative introduction tells the American story of religious liberty from its colonial beginnings to the latest Supreme Court cases. The authors analyze closely the formation of the First Amendment religion clauses and describe the unique and enduring principles of the American experiment in religious freedom - liberty of conscience, free exercise of religion, religious equality, religious pluralism, separation of church and state, and no establishment of religion. Successive chapters map all of the 240+ Supreme Court cases on religious freedom - covering the free exercise of religion; the roles of government and religion in education; the place of religion in public life; and the interaction of religious organizations and the state. The concluding reflections argue that protecting religious freedom is critical for democratic order and constitutional rule of law, even if it needs judicious balancing with other fundamental rights and state interests.Clear, compreTrade ReviewThis magisterial revision of Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment is an accessible and authoritative guide through the remarkable but tortuous history of America's unique approach to religious freedom. Clear without over-simplification, comprehensive without pedantry, it portrays a system that enabled the United States to become a society where members of all religions and no religion could not only live together in relative harmony but flourish. * Mary Ann Glendon, Learned Hand Professor of Law emerita, Harvard University *This book by John Witte and Joel Nichols is probably the best combination that exists of historical background, theoretical understanding, and legal doctrines of the religion clauses. It allows scholars, students, and other citizens to grasp the history behind the clauses without undertaking full-scale research on their own. The book is also a superb source to understand modern controversies and how courts are dealing with them. * Kent Greenawalt, University Professor, Columbia Law School *In evenhanded and clear prose, Witte and Nichols provide a clear and comprehensive history of religious liberty in the United States. Broad in scope, updated with the latest developments, and supplemented with impressive appendices that catalog state constitutional provisions and Supreme Court decisions, this text offers cogent analysis from leading scholars of law and religion. Already a trusted and valuable classroom resource, this book will also enlighten those seeking a deeper understanding of the contours of this important topic. * Amy E. Black, Professor of Political Science, Wheaton College *The authors provide clear description of complicated case law and public policy for students and citizens. They reveal patterns and principles on a subject often caricatured by wild generalizations and widespread confusion. Academics and experts across a range of fields and professions will appreciate their fine analysis and comprehensive scholarship. The authors refute a weak postmodernist critique of religious freedom and offer a provocative perspective on the history of liberty of conscience. * Reading Religion *In the inevitably contentious field of church-state constitutional issues in America, it is rare to find a volume that is as accessible, thoughtful, and measured as Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment by John Witte, Jr. and Joel A. Nichols. Their remarkable ability to create order in the midst of the chaos of the ever-changing constitutional law of religious liberty makes this an ideal volume for classroom use, and this new fourth edition updates the church-state story through the US Supreme Court s 2015 decisions. * Journal of Church and State *Table of ContentsList of Tables ix Preface xi Introduction 1 The American Experiment in Historical Context The First Millennium The Papal Revolution The Protestant Reformation Religious Establishment versus Religious Freedom in Europe Colonization and Experimentation 2 The Theology and Politics of the Religion Clauses Puritan Views Evangelical Views Enlightenment Views Civic Republican Views Summary and Conclusions 3 The Essential Rights and Liberties of Religion Liberty of Conscience Free Exercise of Religion Religious Pluralism Religious Equality Separation of Church and State Disestablishment of Religion Summary and Conclusions 4 Forging the First Amendment Religion Clauses Religion and the Continental Congress The 1787 Constitutional Convention Ratification and Proposed Amendments Drafting the First Amendment Religion Clauses "Original Intent": Interpreting the Final Text Summary and Conclusions 5 The Free Exercise of Religion: Mapping the Doctrinal Terrain Bringing a Free Exercise Case Factual Clusters of Free Exercise Cases Shifting Standards of Review in Free Exercise Cases vi Contents 6 First Amendment Religious Exercise, Expression, and Exemption Free Exercise and Polygamy (1879- 1890) Free Exercise and Conscientious Objection (1918- 1971) Freedom and Equality of Religious Expression (1940- 2015) Liberty of Conscience and Free Exercise Exemptions (1943- 1989) Summary and Conclusions 7 The Free Exercise of Religion: Neutrality, Nondiscrimination, and Statutory Rights Neutralizing the Free Exercise Clause (1982- 1990) Neutrality and No State Discrimination Against Religion (1993- ) Neutrality and Nondiscrimination in State Aid to Religious Education Neutrality and Nondiscrimination in the Time of Covid State Neutrality in Balancing Religious Liberty and Sexual Liberty Free Exercise of Religion as a Statutory Right (1993- ) RFRA Cases in the Supreme Court RLUIPA Cases in the Supreme Court Summary and Conclusions 8 Modern Establishment Law: Mapping the Doctrinal Terrain Bringing an Establishment Clause Case Mapping the Establishment Clause Cases Separationism Accommodationism Neutrality and the Lemon Test Endorsement No Coercion Equal Treatment/ Equal Access History and Tradition Summary and Conclusions 9 Religion and Public Education: No Establishment of Religion, But Equal Access for Religion Separationist Cases (1948- 2000) Equal Access Cases (1981- ) Limits on Equal Access? Summary and Conclusions 10 Government and Religious Education: From Accommodation to Separation to Equality Accommodationist Cases (1908- 1977) Separationist Cases (1971- 1985) Equal Treatment Cases (1983- 2002) Statutes, Free Exercise, and Equal Access Rights (2004- ) Summary and Conclusions 11 Religion and Public Life Sabbath Day Rules 282 Legislative Chaplains and Prayers Religious Symbols Patterns and Principles Summary and Conclusions 12 The Freedoms of Religious Organizations Religious Polity and Structures Religious Structures Legal Structures Religious Property Disputes Standard Legal Principles (1815- 1914) Deference (1872- 1976) Neutral Principles (1979- ) Labor and Employment Social Services and Taxation Social Services Taxation Summary and Conclusions Concluding Reflections Signs of Trouble Enduring Principles, New Applications Appendix 1: Drafts of Federal Religion Clauses (1787- 1789) Appendix 2: United States Supreme Court Decisions Relating to Religious Liberty (1815- 2021) Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Fundamentalism and American Culture
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOne of Christianity Today's 100 Books of the CenturySuperb...to be recommended to all students of early twentieth-century culture and religion. * American Historical Review *Scholarship at its best. * Religious Studies Review *Marsden reveals a great deal of history, showing the origins, development and growth of evangelicalism and fundamentalism. His is a focused yet broad scholarly work that has stood the test of time, a worthwhile history resource on fundamentalism in America. * Congregational Libraries Today *Table of ContentsPreface to the Third Edition Introduction Part One Before Fundamentalism I. Evangelical America at the Brink of Crisis II. The Paths Diverge III. D. L. Moody and a New American Evangelism Part Two The Shaping of a Coalition This Age and the Millennium IV. Prologue: The Paradox of Revivalist Fundamentalism V. Two Revisions of Millennialism VI. Dispensationalism and the Baconian Ideal VII. History, Society, and the Church Holiness VIII. The Victorious Life IX. The Social Dimensions of Holiness X.
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Oxford University Press Inc Edward M. Kennedy An Oral History Oxford Oral
Book SynopsisFor Kennedy devotees, as well as readers unfamiliar with the lion of the Senate, this book presents the compelling story of Edward Kennedy''s unexpected rise to become one of the most consequential legislators in American history and a passionate defender of progressive values, achieving legislative compromises across the partisan divide.What distinguishes Edward Kennedy: An Oral History is the nuanced detail that emerges from the senator''s never-before published, complete descriptions of his life and work, placed alongside the observations of his friends, family, and associates. The senator''s twenty released interviews reveal, in his own voice, the stories of Kennedy triumph and tragedy--from the Oval Office to the waters of Chappaquiddick. Spanning the presidencies of JFK to Barack Obama, Edward Kennedy was an iconic player in American political life, the youngest sibling of America''s most powerful dynasty; he candidly addresses this role: his legislative accomplishments and failures, his unsuccessful run for the White House, his impact on the Supreme Court, his observations on Washington gridlock, and his personal faults.The interviews and introductions to them create an unsurpassed and illuminating volume. Gathered as part of the massive Edward Kennedy Oral History Project, conducted by the University of Virginia''s Miller Center, the senator''s interviews allow readers to see how oral history can evolve over a three-year period, drawing out additional details as the interviewee becomes increasingly comfortable with the process and the interviewer. Yet, given the Kennedys'' well-known penchant for image creation, what the senator doesn''t say or how he says what he chooses to include, is often more revealing than a simple declarative statement.Table of ContentsPreface Editorial Note Chapter 1: Growing up Kennedy: Lessons from a Political Dynasty Chapter 2: The Making of a President: Campaigning for JFK and a Brother in the White House Chapter 3: Joining the Family Business: Teddy Goes to the Senate Chapter 4: Striving for Equality: Civil Rights-The Work Begins Chapter 5: Striving for Equality: Civil Rights-The Cause Continues Chapter 6: Transforming from Hawk to Dove: The Vietnam Dilemma Chapter 7: Trying to Restore Camelot: Bobby's 1968 Presidential Campaign and Its Aftermath Chapter 8: Challenging a President: The Quest for the 1980 Nomination Chapter 9: Shaping the Supreme Court: Judicial Appointment Battles Chapter 10: Holding on to a Senate Seat: The 1994 Campaign Struggle Chapter 11: Pursuing Peace: Kennedy's Irish-Catholic Roots and Northern Ireland Chapter 12: Creating a Melting Pot: Immigration Chapter 13: Escaping a Quagmire: The Iraq War Chapter 14: Fighting for Universal Health Care: The Dream of a Lifetime Chapter 15: Coming Home to Port: Summaries of a Historic Life Epilogue: Observations on Oral History Appendix: List of Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project Interviews Index
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Oxford University Press Inc The Return of Great Power Rivalry Democracy
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn this timely return to an old debate, Kroenig makes the case that democratic states tend to 'do better' than other types of states in great-power rivalries...The value of the book lies in framing an important question for today: In the United States' growing competition with China, will its democracy be an advantage or a hindrance? * Foreign Affairs *The Return of Great Power Rivalry delivers on its central promise, compellingly demonstrating how and why liberal democracies have generally outperformed their autocratic counterparts throughout history, both ancient and recent. * National Review *[A] timely contribution to International Relations scholarship on the rise and fall of great powers. * Asian Affairs *The breadth of Kroenig's historical case studies and the parsimony of his analyses help this book stand out, making it a must-read for understanding the current international environment. Essential. Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals. * J. R. Clardie, Northwest Nazarene University, CHOICE *Effective strategy requires understanding yourself and your adversaries. Matthew Kroenig provides a masterful analysis of America's democratic advantages and China's autocratic vulnerabilities. The Return of Great Power Rivalry is a must read for anyone interested in understanding the US-China rivalry and how the free world can compete to secure a better future. * H.R. McMaster, author of Battlegrounds *In Return of Great Power Rivalry, Matthew Kroenig, a rising star among the next generation of strategic thinkers, brilliantly counters the current political narrative of autocratic ascendancy and democratic decline. Drawing on historical examples of great power competition between autocracies and democracies from Ancient Greece to the Cold War, he highlights democracy's enduring, structural advantages. By underscoring the importance of strong political institutions, his reflections serve as a handbook for contemporary leaders on how to prevail in a new, and more complex, era of great power competition. * Fredrick Kempe, President and CEO, the Atlantic Council, and New York Times bestselling author of Berlin 1961: The Most Dangerous Place on Earth *Professor Kroenig makes a powerful and provocative case that the world's democracies, and especially the United States, enjoy deep and lasting advantages over their autocratic rivals. He brings to this investigation a rare combination of first-rate scholarship and a lively prose that all readers will find engaging and informative. An important work for our times. * Robert Kagan, Stephen & Barbara Friedman Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, and New York Times bestselling author of The World America Made *In The Return of Great Power Rivalry, Professor Kroenig explains why democracies have prevailed over their autocratic rivals in the past and outlines how the United States and its democratic allies can better compete with the more sophisticated autocratic challenges we face today. This is an important book on the defining issue of our time with real implications for policymakers and scholars alike. * General James L. Jones Jr., UMSC (Ret.), Former National Security Advisor to US President Barack Obama *We already know that democracies are more humane and usually better governed than autocracies are. But despots like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping continue to claim that their regimes are better at delivering national security and greatness in the global arena. Matthew Kroenig confronts the autocrats' claims head-on and demolishes them. In remarkably accessible and delightful written text, he mines social science theory and two-and-a-half millennia of history to show that democracies are more powerful-not just fairer and better governed-than autocracies are. At a time when the global struggle between democracy and autocracy is reaching a critical new stage, this book promises to touch nerves and influence minds from Washington to Moscow to Beijing. Policy-relevant social science at its best! * M. Steven Fish, Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley and author of Democracy Derailed in Russia: The Failure of Open Politics *In this age of widespread pessimism about the future of democracy, this book makes a powerful argument: democracy is not only better for the people, but may have the edge against autocracies in the coming great power rivalry. It is an erudite, well-argued and uplifting book. * Daron Acemoglu, , Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and co-author of Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty *
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Oxford University Press Inc Peace and Friendship
Book SynopsisFor over 35 years, the dominant histories of the American West have been narratives of horrific conflicts. As dark and as bloody as western grounds have often been however, there were also important episodes of concord, instances of barriers breached, accords reached, and of people overcoming their differences as opposed to being overcome by them. Peace and Friendship highlights the instances of cohabitation, deepening our understanding of how the West cameto be: through colonization, violence, misunderstanding, and, surprisingly, at times, peace.Trade ReviewIs the story of the American West inevitably a tale of violence and exploitation? Well, mostly, but not always, and the exceptions matter. In Peace and Friendship, Stephen Aron explores fascinating historical interludes of accommodation, convergence, and harmony among people at odds. Familiar characters and places, from Daniel Boone and Lewis and Clark to the Oregon Trail and Dodge City, are here, but we will never again see them the same way. Arons unconventional view of the Western past may even help us imagine our way to a less traumatic future. * Virginia Scharff, Distinguished Professor of History Emerita, University of New Mexico *Peace and Friendship is a brave book that stands apart in its focus on those moments of frontier compromise and comity (however fleeting) that have typically been overlooked or dismissed, especially since the emergence of the New Western History of the 1980s.Steve Aron has deftly gathered a handful of famous and unfamiliar episodesspanning an enormous stretch of time and space, from the Ohio Valley to the Great Plains to the Pacific Northwestto tell a story that is more layered and complex than the now-standard narrative emphasizing relentless conquest and decline. * Andrew R. Graybill, Professor of History and Director of the Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University *Democracy, as Aron puts it, made demography destiny. This gives his fine book a melancholy tone, a sense both of what might have been and of why it was unlikely to be. * Elliott West, University of Arkansas *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: Chillicothe - Forget What Happened Chapter Two: Apple Creek -- Rising Chapter Three: Fort Clatsop - A Pacific Coast Chapter Four: Apple Creek - Falling Chapter Five: Chimney Rock - Uncircle the Wagons Chapter Six: Dodge City - Don't Shoot First Final Lessons Notes Bibliography Index
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