Human rights, civil rights Books
University of California Press Disability in Local and Global Worlds
Book SynopsisExplores the global changes in disability awareness, technology, and policy from the viewpoint of disabled people and their families in a range of local contexts. This book reports on ethnographic research in Brazil, Uganda, Botswana, Somalia, Britain, Israel, China, India, and Japan. It addresses the definition of human rights in local contexts.
£27.00
University of California Press A Seat at the Table
Book SynopsisA collection of illuminating conversations, where renowned historian of world religions Huston Smith invites ten influential American Indian spiritual and political leaders to talk about their five-hundred-year struggle for religious freedom.Table of ContentsPreface The Indian Way of Story Introduction: The Primal Religions Huston Smith 1. The Spiritual Malaise in America: The Confluence of Religion, Law, and Community A conversation with Vine Deloria Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux) 2. Five Hundred Nations within One: The Search for Religious Justice A conversation with Walter Echo-Hawk (Pawnee) 3. Ecology and Spirituality: Following the Path of Natural Law A conversation with Winona LaDuke (Anishinaabeg) 4. The Homelands of Religion: The Clash of Worldviews Over Prayer, Place, and Ceremony A conversation with Charlotte Black Elk (Oglala Lakota) 5. Native Language, Native Spirituality: From Crisis to Challenge A conversation with Douglas George-Kanentiio (Mohawk-Iroquois) 6. The Triumph of the Native American Church: Celebrating the Free Exercise of Religion A conversation with Frank Dayish Jr. (Navajo) 7. The Fight for Native American Prisoners' Rights: The Red Road to Rehabilitation A conversation with Lenny Foster (Navajo) 8. Stealing Our Spirit: The Threat of the Human Genome Diversity Project A conversation with Tonya Gonella Frichner (Onondaga) 9. The Fight for Mount Graham: Looking for the Fingerprints of God A conversation with Anthony Guy Lopez (Lakota Sioux) 10. Redeeming the Future: The Two Instructions of Spiritual Law A conversation with Oren Lyons (Onondaga) 11. The Healing of Indian Country: Kinship, Custom, Ceremony, and Oratory A conversation with Vine Deloria Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux) Afterword Huston Smith Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
£20.70
University of California Press The Guantánamo Effect
Book SynopsisPresents the story of post-9/11 America and the nation's descent into the netherworld of prisoner abuse. This book describes events surrounding Guantanamo detainees capture, their years of incarceration, and the myriad difficulties preventing many from resuming a normal life upon returning home.Trade Review"Most of this succinct and worrying book is about detention itself, but an intriguing section goes on to look at ex-detainees trying to piece together the semblance of lives after their ordeal." -- Jeremy Harding London Review Of Books
£27.00
University of California Press Closing the Rights Gap
Book SynopsisCompares a range of case studies from around the world in order to clarify the conditions under which and institutions through which economic, social, and cultural rights are progressively realized in practice.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Maps List of Tables and Boxes List of Contributors Preface Introduction: Making Sense of the Multiple and Complex Pathways by which Human Rights Are Realized (LaDawn Haglund and Robin Stryker) PART ONE: PROMISES AND CHALLENGES OF ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND CULTURAL RIGHTS (ESCR) REALIZATION AT THE INTERNATIONAL LEVEL 1. Do Non--Human Rights Regimes Undermine the Achievement of Economic and Social Rights? (M. Rodwan Abouharb, David L. Cingranelli, and Mikhail Filippov) 2. Linking Law and Economics: Translating Economic and Social Human Rights Norms into Public Policy (William F. Felice) 3. Advances and Ongoing Challenges in the Protection of Indigenous Peoples' Rights within the Inter-American System and the United Nations Special Procedures System (Leonardo J. Alvarado) PART TWO: THE ROLE OF DOMESTIC LAW AND COURTS IN ESCR REALIZATION 4. The Impact of Legal Strategies for Claiming Economic and Social Rights (Varun Gauri and Daniel Brinks) 5. The Role of Human Rights Law in Protecting Environmental Rights in South Asia (Sumudu Atapattu) 6. The Morality of Law: The Case against Deportation of Settled Immigrants (Doris Marie Provine) PART THREE: BEYOND JUDICIAL MECHANISMS AS MEANS TO ESCR REALIZATION 7. Social Movements and the Expansion of Economic and Social Human Rights Advocacy among International NGOs (Paul J. Nelson) 8. The Challenge of Ensuring Food Security: Global Perspectives and Evidence from India (Shareen Hertel and Susan Randolph) 9. Achieving Rights to Land, Water, and Health in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Heinz Klug) 10. Social Accountability in the World Bank: How Does It Overlap with Human Rights? (Hans-Otto Sano) PART FOUR: MEASURING ESCR REALIZATION 11. Making the Principle of Progressive Realization Operational: Economic and Social Rights Obligations (Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Terra Lawson-Remer, and Susan Randolph) 12. Deepening Our Understanding of Rights Realization through Disaggregation and Mapping: Integrating Census Data and Participatory GIS (Rimjhim Aggarwal and LaDawn Haglund) 13. Studying Courts in Context: The Role of Nonjudicial Institutional and Socio-Political Realities (Siri Gloppen) Conclusion: Emerging Possibilities for Social Transformation (Robin Stryker and LaDawn Haglund) Index
£50.40
University of California Press King and the Other America
Book SynopsisAn elegant and timely history of how black intellectuals have long made a case for the intersections between class and race.The Nation Ameticulously researched look into the development of King's thought. . . . Laurent's important new book highlights the depth of the wisdom and organizing skill he brought to the movement for economic justice.The Progressive Shortly before his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr. called for a radical redistribution of economic and political power to transform the whole of society. In 1967, he envisioned and designedthe Poor People's Campaign, an interracial effort that was carried out after his death.This campaign brought together impoverished Americans of all races to demand better wages, better jobs, better homes, and better education.King and the Other America explores this overlooked and obscured episode of the late civil rights movement,deepening our understanding of King's commitment to social justice and also of the long-term trajectory of theTrade Review“In her debut book, Laurent (American Studies/Paris Institute of Political Studies) draws on extensive research into Martin Luther King Jr.'s writings, speeches, and papers as well as archival and published sources to make a strong argument that his campaign for social justice went beyond race to encompass broad, transformative social and economic changes for all poor Americans. . . . King's analysis of social issues, as delineated in Laurent's useful reappraisal, seems as relevant today.” * Kirkus Reviews *"A meticulously researched look into the development of King’s thought. . . . As we commemorate King’s life and legacy, Laurent’s important new book highlights the depth of the wisdom and organizing skill he brought to the movement for economic justice." * The Progressive *“This powerful work invites a major reconsideration of American civil rights history, the significance of the Poor People’s Campaign of 1968, and especially of King’s deeply egalitarian socialist vision of society. The book transcends and negates traditional notions that King was a civil rights leader committed exclusively to the liberation of his African-American people. Without ever abandoning that objective, he expanded his range of activism in pursuing a vision of a fair and just society for all oppressed people. Laurent’s book above all restores King to his rightful and still profoundly under-recognized place in the history of militant African-American liberation figures.” * Truthdig *“The story [Laurent] tells is one that evokes the passions of the period known as the Sixties while carefully explaining the personalities and politics of the movement for economic and social justice at the time. Given the centrality of King to the Poor People’s Campaign, it is only natural that Laurent’s text makes King the centerpiece of her narrative.” * CounterPunch *"In her new book King and the Other America, historian Sylvie Laurent helps rescue the Poor People’s Campaign from this unfair reputation and makes a compelling case that it deserves to be not only better remembered but also more closely studied and emulated by the left today. . . . King and the Other America helps make another important argument. Situating the economic egalitarianism of the Poor People’s Campaign and Martin Luther King Jr.’s later years in a far longer history of black activism and social-democratic thinking, she helps map out the deeper intellectual and political roots of an entwined racial and economic egalitarianism that has been at the center of much of African-American politics for nearly a century. By doing so, Laurent offers us an elegant and timely history of how black intellectuals have long made a case for the intersections between class and race." * The Nation *“Engaging . . . . Our political scene is never far removed from Laurent’s narrative. . . . A book for this moment, King and the Other America raises fresh questions about the validity of any historical sweep that fails to seriously consider the case of the Poor People’s Campaign and its legacy.” * Black Perspectives *Table of ContentsForeword by William Julius Wilson Introduction Part I. The Long March 1. The Patriarchs 2. The Prophets of Justice 3. The City and the Church 4. The Torchbearer Part II. The Campaign 5. The Pauper 6. An “American Commune” 7. A Counter-War on Poverty Part III. The Vision 8. Facing Structural Injustice 9. A “Right Not to Starve” Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press Reproduction Reconceived
Book SynopsisThe landmark case Roe v. Wade redefined family: it is now commonplace for Americans to treat having children as a choice. But the historic decision also coincided with widening inequality, an ongoing trend that continues to make choice more myth than reality. In this new and timely history, Matthiesen shows how the effects of incarceration, for-profit healthcare, disease, and poverty have been worsened by state neglect, forcing most to work harder to maintain a family. Trade Review"Reproduction Reconceived is an urgent reminder that a renewed fight for the right to choose must do more than restore legal access to abortion." * Chicago Review *"Reproduction Reconceived is based on extensive research. . . .Its arguments and conclusions shed new light on the harsh conditions that encumber so many women’s efforts at family-making, call for a change in values that fully appreciate and support the essential work of private and public caregiving, and insist that making reproductive choice a reality demands the elimination of inequities based on gender, race, class and sexuality.' * Society for U.S. Intellectual History *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Labor of Illegibility: Lesbian and Single Motherhood According to the Law 2. The Labor of Captivity: Incarcerated Mothers and Their Children 3. The Labor of Survival: Racism, Poverty, and the Uses of Infant Mortality Rates 4. The Labor of Risk: Or, How to Have a Family in the HIV/AIDS Epidemic 5. The Labor of "Choice": Navigating the Abortion Debate and Lifelines of Last Resort Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£64.00
University of California Press The Myth of International Protection War and
Book SynopsisIn this viscerally intense, ethnographically based work, Claudia Seymour relates the heart-wrenching stories of young people in the Democratic Republic of Congoyoung people who live on the front lines of conflict, in neighborhoods and villages destroyed by war, and on the streets in conditions of poverty and destitution. Seymour, a former child protection adviser and human rights investigator for the United Nations, chronicles her personal journey, which begins with the will to do good yet ends with the realization of how international aid can contribute to greater harm than good. The idea of protection and universalized human rights is turned on its head as Seymour uncovers the complicities and hypocrisies of the aid world. In the promotion of inalienable human rights, aid organizations ignore the complex historical and socioeconomic dynamics that lead to the violations of such rights. Offering a new perspective, The Myth of International Protection reframes how the world sees the DRC and urges global audiences to consider their own roles in fueling the DRC's seemingly endless violence.
£64.00
University of California Press How to Read a Protest
Book SynopsisExplores protesting as an act of faith . . .How to Read a Protestargues that the women's marches of 2017 didn't just help shape and fuel a momentthey actually created one.Masha Gessen,The New Yorker O, the Oprah Magazine's 14 Best Political Books to Read Before the 2018 Midterm ElectionA fascinating and detailed history of American mass demonstrations.Publishers Weekly When millions of people took to the streets for the 2017 Women's Marches, there was an unmistakable air of uprising, a sense that these marches were launching a powerful new movement to resist a dangerous presidency. But the work that protests do often can't be seen in the moment. It feels empowering to march, and record numbers of Americans have joined anti-Trump demonstrations, but when and why does marching matter? What exactly do protests do, and how do they help movements win? In this original and richly illustrated account, organizer and journalist L.A. Kauffman delves into the history of America's major demonstraTrade Review"A fascinating and detailed history of American mass demonstrations" * Publishers Weekly *"Explores protesting as an act of faith . . . How to Read a Protest argues that the women's marches of 2017 didn't just help shape and fuel a moment—they actually created one." -- Masha Gessen * The New Yorker *“At a little over a hundred pages, it’s a quick read but Kauffman’s familiarity with the mechanics of mass protest and the history of the U.S. left over the past half-century are evident throughout.” * The Indypendent *“A quick and easy read, filled with amazing historical images. Kauffman was a mobilizing coordinator for some of the largest Iraq War demonstrations, and her sources and mentors include some of the most driven organizers in movement building in the US since 1963. If you’ve ever organized a protest or put your theory into praxis, you’re going to find this book a real page-turner.” * AfterEllen *Listed as one of the "14 Best Political Books to Read Before the 2018 Midterm Election." "A seasoned activist shares her wisdom on the struggle for social change, using political movements such as Black Lives Matter, the Women's March, and the Bonus Army as examples." * O, The Oprah Magazine *“For a first draft of history still in the making, Kauffman is right to focus on the broad scale and wide impact of the Women’s Marches of 2017. As she persuasively shows, marches need not be the apex of a movement’s rise; they can also be its generative soil." * The New Republic *“How to Read a Protest begins, “Protests work?—?just not, perhaps, the way you think.” There are few people better placed to explain that than Kauffman.” * Hong Kong Free Press *"Drawing on 30-plus years as a grassroots organizer, L.A. Kauffman sheds new light on how and why protests work.” * Sojourners *“Kauffman sheds new light on the catalytic power of collective action and the decentralized, bottom-up, women-led model that has transformed what movements look like and what they can accomplish.” * EcoWatch *Table of ContentsHOW TO READ A PROTEST Acknowledgments A Note on Protest Numbers Notes Selected Bibliography and Recommended Reading Photo Credits Index
£14.24
University of California Press Refusal to Eat
Book SynopsisThe first global history of hunger strikes as a tactic in prisons, conflicts, and protest movements. The power of the hunger strike lies in its utter simplicity. The ability to choose to forego eating is universally accessible, even to those living under conditions of maximal constraint, as in the prisons of apartheid South Africa, Israeli prisons for Palestinian prisoners, and the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay. It is a weapon of the weak, potentially open to all. By choosing to hunger strike, a prisoner wields a last-resort personal power that communicates viscerally, in a way that is undeniableespecially when broadcast over prison barricades through media and to movements outside. Refusal to Eat is the first book to compile a global history of this vital form of modern protest, the hunger strike. In this enormously ambitious but concise book, Nayan Shah observes how hunger striking stretches and recasts to turn a personal agony into a collective social agony in conflicts aTrade Review"Shah recognises that the hunger strike is a nonviolent performance that reconnects the prisoner to her community and to the world of journalism and public debate. But it is also a weapon that can transform the vulnerable and disempowered body of the captive into a remarkably effective instrument in a war for legitimacy. . . . Reaching beyond the prison wall, the voice of the hunger striker implicates us all in its challenge to decide what world we seek to inhabit." * Irish Times *“The hunger strike’s significance lies in allowing captives and outsiders to disturb the carceral system’s control of space and time. These graphic, saddening stories are uncomfortable to read, but they are crucial to understanding that often complex dynamic.” * Times Literary Supplement *"The real originality of Refusal to Eat rests in its exploration of lesser-known hunger strikes. . . . There is much value in bringing all these hunger strikes together. Doing so renders visible many common threads in hunger strikers’ experience, and also their management by doctors’ governments across multiple geographical, historical and conflict contexts. Refusal to Eat speaks to a broad audience, having much to say to bioethicists as well as historians. . . . [and] both academic and non-scholarly audiences." * Journal of Social History *"Shah’s book amplifies important voices and expands the arsenal of evidence that can be used to interrogate and dismantle carceral systems." * Punishment and Society *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Hunger Striking in the Crisis of Imperial Democracy 1 • Suffragists and the Shaping of Hunger Striking 2 • The Medical Ethics of Forcible Feeding and a Brief History of Four Objects 3 • Irish Republicans Innovating Hunger Strikes for Anticolonial Rebellion 4 • Gandhi's Fasts, Prisoner Hunger Strikes, and Indian Independence Part Two: Hunger Striking and Democratic Upheavals 5 • Solidarity and Survival in the Tule Lake Stockade 6 • South African Anti-apartheid Hunger Strikes 7 • Controversies of Medical Intervention in Northern Ireland 8 • Biomedical Technologies, Medical Ethics, and the Management of Hunger Strikers 9 • Australian Refugee Detention, Trauma, and Mental Health Crisis 10 • Captives in U.S. Detention and Their Networks of Resistance and Solidarity Conclusion: Hunger-Striking Contingencies Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press Advancing Equality How Constitutional Rights Can
Book SynopsisIn a world where basic human rights are under attack and discrimination is widespread, Advancing Equality reminds us of the critical role of constitutions in creating and protecting equal rights. Combining a comparative analysis of equal rights in the constitutions of all 193 United Nations member countries with inspiring stories of activism and powerful court cases from around the globe, the book traces the trends in constitution drafting over the past half century and examines how stronger protections against discrimination have transformed lives. Looking at equal rights across gender, race and ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation and gender identity, disability, social class, and migration status, the authors uncover which groups are increasingly guaranteed equal rights in constitutions, whether or not these rights on paper have been translated into practice, and which nations lag behind. Serving as a comprehensive call to action for anyone who cares about their country's future, Advancing Equality challenges us to remember how far we all still must go for equal rights for all. Afree open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more atwww.luminosoa.org.
£27.00
University of California Press Taking Children A History of American Terror
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a formidable book, one that cuts against the Trump exceptionalism that suffuses much mainstream liberal discourse." * Boston Review *“An incisive history of kidnapping as American policy. . . . Connects these into a seamless tale of torment, torture and arrogance; a description of US history if there ever was one. It is a history that demands a reckoning.” * CounterPunch *“A forceful and captivating book that readers won’t be able to put down, and that listeners from all sort of backgrounds will definitely want to hear more about.” * New Books Network *Briggs . . . recounts outrages that are only a few decades old. Resurrecting this forgotten history, she demonstrates its continuity with the recent separation of migrant families.” * Reason *“A meticulously-researched, humane, and highly readable work of scholarship. . . . Essential reading for all those with an interest in human rights, social justice issues, child welfare, immigration and American history. It should inspire a generation to challenge and resist the cruel practice of taking children for political ends.” * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"A wide- ranging and uncomfortably revealing account of what might be called the tradition of family separation." * New York Review of Books *"Briggs’ storytelling style in this incisive and well-researched text will keep readers engaged and moving quickly through its pages. . . .Taking Children is an important read for social work students considering a career in child welfare or family services and for professionals and lawmakers interested in movements to reform systems that have historically served to control and police the behavior of individuals and communities of color." * Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work *"Taking Children serves as a powerful manifesto. . . .to promote greater solidarity and activism among many different groups that have been so unjustly targeted for child removal." * Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal *"Briggs’ sympathy is clear. . . . A useful background resource for courses on immigration issues." * Religious Studies Review *"Taking Children[’s]… accessible and engaging language would serve undergraduate gender and women’s studies classes well. Pedagogical discussions inspired by this book might explore historical memory and mythmaking, grassroots activism, and the symbolic significance of children in the American imagination." * Resources for Gender and Women's Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: American Amnesia 1. Taking Black Children 2. Taking Native Children 3. Taking Children in Latin America 4. Criminalizing Families of Color 5. Taking the Children of Refugees Conclusion: Taking Children Back—Resistance Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£18.90
University of California Press Human Rights and Reform
£63.90
University of California Press AlHaq
Book SynopsisA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. The leadership and legacy of al-Haq, from its origins in Palestine to its international impact Established in Ramallah in 1979, al-Haq was the first Palestinian human rights organization and one of the first such organizations in the Arab world. This inside history explores how al-Haq initiated methodologies in law and practice that were ahead of its time and that proved foundational for many strands of today's human rights work in Palestine and elsewhere. Lynn Welchman looks at both al-Haq's history and legacy to explore such questions as: Why would one set up a human rights organization under military occupation? How would one go about promoting the rule of law in a Palestinian society deleteriously served by the law and with every reason to distrust those charged with implementing its protections? How would one work to educate overseas allies and activate international law in defense of Palestinian rights? This revelatory story speaks to the practice of local human rights organizations and their impact on international groups.
£27.00
University of California Press The Olive Branch from Palestine
Book SynopsisThe Olive Branch from Palestine provides a new narrative of the Palestinian effort to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and offers a bold plan for ending this conflict today, a proposal that focuses on Palestinian agency and the power of the Palestinians to bring about the two-state solution, even in the absence of a fully committed Israeli partner. In part 1, Jerome Segal provides an analytical and historical study of the 1988 Palestinian Declaration of Independence, a remarkable act of unilateral peacemaking through which the PLO accepted the legitimacy of the 1947 Partition Resolution and thereby redefined Palestinian nationalism. In part 2, he proposes a new strategy in which, outside of negotiations, the Palestinians would advance, in full detail, the end-of-claims/end-of-conflict peace plan they are prepared to sign, one that powerfully addresses the Palestinian refugee question and is supported by the refugees themselves yet does not undermine Israel as a Jewish-majority Table of ContentsContents Foreword, by Noam Chomsky Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • The Unilateral Surprise 2 • The Evolution of the Palestine Liberation Organization Prior to the Declaration 3 • 1988: Leading Up to the Declaration 4 • How the Declaration Was Drafted 5 • Darwish 6 • Two Declarations: Israeli and Palestinian Side by Side 7 • Reactions to the Declaration and Meeting the US Conditions 8 • The Struggle with the United States over Recognition of the New State 9 • PLO Strategy and the Declaration 10 • Early Statehood and Opportunities to Return to the Declaration 11 • The Path Out of the Current Impasse: Palestinian Peacemaking Conclusion: The Significance of the Declaration Appendix: State of Palestine Declaration of Independence Notes Index
£22.50
University of California Press Taking Children
Book SynopsisYou have to take the children away.Donald Trump Taking Children argues that for four hundred years the United States has taken children for political ends. Black children, Native children, Latinx children, and the children of the poor have all been seized from their kin and caregivers. As Laura Briggs's sweeping narrative shows, the practice played out on the auction block, in the boarding schools designed to pacify the Native American population, in the foster care system used to put down the Black freedom movement, in the US's anti-Communist coups in Central America, and in the moral panic about crack babies.In chilling detail we see how Central Americans were made into a population that could be stripped of their children and how every US administration beginning with Reagan has put children of immigrants and refugees in detention camps. Yet these tactics of terror have encountered opposition from every generation, and Briggs challenges us to stand and resist in this powerful correcTrade Review"This is a formidable book, one that cuts against the Trump exceptionalism that suffuses much mainstream liberal discourse." * Boston Review *“An incisive history of kidnapping as American policy. . . . Connects these into a seamless tale of torment, torture and arrogance; a description of US history if there ever was one. It is a history that demands a reckoning.” * CounterPunch *“A forceful and captivating book that readers won’t be able to put down, and that listeners from all sort of backgrounds will definitely want to hear more about.” * New Books Network *Briggs . . . recounts outrages that are only a few decades old. Resurrecting this forgotten history, she demonstrates its continuity with the recent separation of migrant families.” * Reason *“A meticulously-researched, humane, and highly readable work of scholarship. . . . Essential reading for all those with an interest in human rights, social justice issues, child welfare, immigration and American history. It should inspire a generation to challenge and resist the cruel practice of taking children for political ends.” * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"A wide- ranging and uncomfortably revealing account of what might be called the tradition of family separation." * New York Review of Books *"Briggs’ storytelling style in this incisive and well-researched text will keep readers engaged and moving quickly through its pages. . . .Taking Children is an important read for social work students considering a career in child welfare or family services and for professionals and lawmakers interested in movements to reform systems that have historically served to control and police the behavior of individuals and communities of color." * Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work *"Taking Children serves as a powerful manifesto. . . .to promote greater solidarity and activism among many different groups that have been so unjustly targeted for child removal." * Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal *"Briggs’ sympathy is clear. . . . A useful background resource for courses on immigration issues." * Religious Studies Review *"Taking Children[’s]… accessible and engaging language would serve undergraduate gender and women’s studies classes well. Pedagogical discussions inspired by this book might explore historical memory and mythmaking, grassroots activism, and the symbolic significance of children in the American imagination." * Resources for Gender and Women's Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: American Amnesia 1. Taking Black Children 2. Taking Native Children 3. Taking Children in Latin America 4. Criminalizing Families of Color 5. Taking the Children of Refugees Conclusion: Taking Children Back—Resistance Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£18.90
University of California Press Shackled
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents Preface Part I 1 ICE Air 2 On the Tarmac 3 Civil War 4 Shiqaal Subclan 5 Foreigner 6 The Struggle 7 Glades County Jail 8 Krome Service Processing Center Part II 9 Stay of Deportation 10 Jurisdiction 11 Contempt of Court 12 Motion to Reopen 13 Day in Court 14 Journey’s End Epilogue Acknowledgments Sources and Notes Index
£22.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Secret State
Book SynopsisThis is a history of the secret activities of the British government in response to threats to the nation''s well-being and stability during the twentieth century. It is based on intensive and widespread research in private and public archives and on documents many of which have only recently come to light or been made available. The dangers perceived by the state have been manifold and various, coming from within and from abroad. Anarchists, fascists, socialists, communists, the IRA, trades-unionists and animal activists as well as spies, terrorists and saboteurs have been the subject of undercover investigation, along with almost every large-scale movement from suffragettes to campaigners for peace and nuclear disarmament. The author describes the methods and people employed, and the mixed nature of their results. The British state has always seen itself as civil and liberal, but as Dr Thurlow shows it has sometimes been far from open. The government has had many weapons aTrade Review"The range of studies is quite breathtaking .... The whole book is a fascinating read, despite Thurlow's liberal politics and the fact that most of the relevant files are still unreleased." Socialist Review "An important contribution to our understanding of the relationship between the traditions of individual freedom and the internal security needs of the state in modern Britain." American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. The Strange Death of Liberal England (1900-1914). 2. The First World War (1914-1918). 3. John Bull's Other Island (1910-1923). 4. Reds in the Bed (1917-1939). 5. The March of the Blackshirts (1923-1939). 6. The Second World War (1939-1945). 7. The Cold War (1945-1989). 8. Pushing and Shoving (1958-1993). 9. The Orange and the Green (1968-1993). Conclusion. Index.
£46.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Catholic Emancipation
Book SynopsisEvents leading up to an early 19th century emancipation of CatholicsThis book examines how England was still barring Catholics from politics during the 1800s. Catholic Emancipation: A Shake to Men''s Minds traces the events that led to the election of Daniel O''Connell and an attempt to change the law. Though the English king was opposed to the changes, O''Connell was allowed to serve in the Commons beginning in 1829. The author looks at this political emancipation in relation to other issues of the era, such as calls for parliamentary reform, the shifting influence of the monarchy, and Irish nationalism.Table of ContentsIntroduction; trials of a soldier turned politician; the turning point; search for a solution; Ireland on the brink; Protestant protests; Le roi le veut.
£69.30
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Geography and Social Justice
Book Synopsisaeo First systematic attempt to link planning and geography with social justice as developed in moral and political philosophy. aeo Bridges the gap between abstract theory and practical action. aeo Shows how the geographical dimension of justice can resolve issues of universal standards and behaviour.Trade Review"In this intelligent and caring text, there is a timely and powerful case for geographers to engage with the world of moral problems." Geography "As a survey of both theoretical and empirical material, Geography and Social Justice will be a valuable classroom text for upper-level undergraduate and introductory graduate courses in human geography." Annals of the AAG "I consider Smith's book a major advance because it examines and integrates conceptual and theoretical issues from related disciplines and because the case studies illustrate the spatial and social dynamics of injustice in various societies ... It is important for geographers to build bridges to other disciplines and to demonstrate that our methodologies, conceptual thinking, and perspectives will help us search for common ground. Smith's book does this and does it well ... I strongly recommend the book to those inside and outside geography with interests in this emerging transdisciplinary area of interest." Journal of GeographyTable of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. Acknowlegements. 1. Introduction: The Return of Social Justice. Scientific and Moral Perspectives. Ethics, Morality and Social Justice in Geography. The Changing World. The Text. Part I: Theory:. 2. Elements of Justice. The Concept of Justice. Ethics and Morality. Rights. Membership. Space. Time. Inequality and Difference. 3. Theories of Social Justice:. (i) Mainstream. Egalitarianism. Utilitarianism. Libertarianism. Contractarianism. 4. Theories of Social Justice: (ii) Reaction. Marxism. Communitarianism. Feminism. 5. Returning to Equality: Justice as Equalization. Social Justice as Equalization. Minimum Standards. From Needs to Well-being. Producing Well-being. Measuring inequality and Equalization. Returning to Geography. Part II: Case Studies:. 6. Inequality in the United States City: What Price the American Dream?. The Question of Scale. Inequality in Atlanta, Georgia. The Political Economy of Disequalization in Atlanta. Some other Cities. The Enduring American Dilemma. Epilogue. 7. Inequality in the East European City. The City under Socialism. Equalization and Disequalization in Moscow. Some other Cities. Distribution under socialism. Social Justice after Socialism. Epilogue. 8. South Africa after Apartheid. The aparthied legacy. The Land Question. Redistribution for Equalization. Social Justice after Apartheid. Epilogue. 9. Territory, Community and Home. Community Destruction in South Africa. Erasing the Jewish Ghetto. Resettlement in Palestine. Displacement by Market Forces. Loss of Place. Epilogue. 10. Conclusion: Returning to Social Justice. Market (in)justice. Egalitarian Social Justice. The Possibility of Universals. Social Justice and Geography. Bibliography. Further Reading. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd South Africa in the Twentieth Century
Book Synopsis* Includes coverage of all the major political events that have shaped the turbulent history of South Africa. * Explores the ways in which power at central government level has been played out on the national stage.Trade Review"An exceptional survey of the political history of South Africa." Times Literary Supplement. "Barber ... has written a detailed, interesting, and accurate analysis of an extraordinary country during an exceptional time" CHOICE. "South Africa in the Twentieth Century is designed to introduce students of contemporary history, politics and international relations to key regions and themes which have dominated discussion of the past century. It does so admirably ... this is a book whose sheer erudition will guarantee it a prominent place on the shelves of anyone wishing to understand South Africa in the twentieth century." Contemporary British History "This book is very accessible and engrossing, but is nevertheless of a high academic standard ... South Africa in the Twentieth Century is a major contribution to the literature on South African politics. It is essential reading not only for any scholar interested in South African politics but also for those with wider interests in questions of national self-identification and the way this affects political behaviour." Progress in Development StudiesTable of ContentsPart I: The Clash of British Imperialism and Afrikaner Nationalism:. 1. Prelude to War: Afrikaner and British Imperial Nationalism. 2. War, Peace and Reconstruction. 3. Afrikaners, Blacks and Reconstruction. Part II: The White Union and Black Reaction:. 4. Responsible Government and the Union. 5. The New Union: White and Black Political Activity. 6. The Great War and its Aftermath. 7. The Pact Government and Segregation 1924-9. 8. From Pact to Fusion: Economic Depression and Black Opposition: 1929-39. Part III: World War II and Apartheid:. 9. World War II and its Aftermath 1939-48. 10. African Nationalism Transformed: 1939-48. 11. The National Party Government 1948-61. 12.African Opposition: Communists, Congress and the Pan Africanist Congress. Part IV: The Wind of Change:. 13. The New Republic, Sharpeville and the Granite Response. 14. Vorster and the Development of the Bantustans. 15. Black Resistance Inside and Outside the Republic. Part V: Renewed Black Challenge: . 16. Soweto and its Aftermath. 17. Reform, Security and White Divisions Under P. W. Botha. 18. The Black Rising: and Answering Fire with Fire. 19. Retreat from the Rubicon: The Failure of Reform. Part VI: Forging the New South Africa:. 20. In Search of a New South Africa. 21. Reaching Agreement: Negotiation, Tension and Violence. 22. Towards the Promised Land. References. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Social Ethics
Book SynopsisSocial Ethics: A Student''s Guide is an animated introduction to moral philosophy and the key ethical issues of today. In clear and direct language, Teichman provides a vigorous philosophical assessment of the arguments for and against euthanasia, the debate between advocates of pro-life and pro-choice in the question of abortion, the relationship between human beings and other animals, the possibility of machines thinking in the way that human beings think, the politics of the environment, and the nature and relevance of professional ethics. In so doing, Teichman offers a radical alternative to the current consequentialist orthodoxy in ethics. By placing fundamental importance on human life and human rights, Social Ethics makes a refreshing and distinctive contribution to contemporary ethical debate. It will serve as the ideal text for undergraduate courses in applied, practical and social ethics.Trade Review"Her style is clear and matter-of-fact, and it is easy to find one's way in her book. Teichmas has also an interesting approach to ethics and I have experienced the study of her book as rewarding. So her book can certainly be recommended." Finngeir Hiorth "It is very well-written, and stimulating on professional ethics and animals; still more so on euthanasia ... It is an enjoyable book. I think it will be eagerly read by students." Professor G E M Anscombe, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsPreface. Part I: Ethical Bedrock:. 1. Morality and Humanity. 2. Egoism, Relativism, Consequentialism. 3. Ethical Bedrock. Part II: A Defence of Humanism:. 4. Human Beings and Persons. 5. Human Beings and the Other Animals. 6. Human Beings and Machines. Part III: Deaths and Lives:. 7. Euthanasia: For and Against. 8. Euthanasia: Logic and Practice. 9. Abortion. 10. Professional Ethics. Part IV: Ideology and Value:. 11. Feminism and Masculism. 12. Freedom of Thought and Expression. 13. The Right, the Left and the Green. Appendix I: Natural Rights as Justifying the Authority of the State. Appendix II: The Controversy about Euthanasia, a Sample Case. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Religious Pluralism in The West
Book SynopsisThis study presents an historical overview of the themes relating to religious intolerance, tolerance and liberty. The readings contained within the anthology cover the attitudes of religious pluralism from antiquity to the present day.Trade Review"Professor Mullan does a great service in assembling key documents that trace pluralism's historical origins and the philosophical, theological and political challenges it represents." William McKinney, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley "This is an anthology of writings relating to religious intolerance, toleration, and liberty."Elizabeth Arweck, King's College LondonTable of ContentsThe Laws of Plato, trans. A. E. Taylor. Tertullian, The Writings, 3 vols., eds. A. Roberts and J. Donaldson (Edinburgh, 1869-1870). Lactantius, Works, 2 vols., eds. A. Roberts and J. Donaldson (Edinburgh, 1871). Julius Firmicus Maternus, The Error of the Pagan Religions, ed. Clarence A. Forbes. Ernest Baker, ed. From Alexander to Constantine: Passages and Documents illustrating the History of Social and Political Ideas 336 B. C. -A. D. 337. The Homilies of S. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, on the Gospel of Matthew, trans. G. Prevost; 3 vols. Augustine, Letters, vol. I, in Works, 15 vols., ed. Marcus Dods. Walter Wakefield and Austin Evans, Heresies of the Middle Ages. The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas, 22 vols. Marsilius of Padua, Defensor Pacis, trans. Alan Gewirth. Thomas More, Utopia, trans. G. C. Richards. Temporal Authority. Volume 45 edited by W. I. Brandt. Henry C. Vedder, Balthasar Hubmaier: The Leader of the Anabaptists. George H. Williams and Angel M. Mergal, eds., Spiritual and Anabaptist Writers. Sebastian Castellio, Advice to a Desolate France. In the course of which the reason for the present war is outlined, as well as the possible remedy and, in the main, advice is given as to whether consciences should be forced, trans. W. Valkhoff. Jacobus Acontius, Satan's Strategies. Books V-VIII, intro. by Charles D. O'Malley. Juan de Mariana, The King and the Education of the King, trans. George Albert Moore. James Arminius, Works, 3 vols. ; trans. James and William Nichols. Thomas Helwys, A short declaration of the mystery of iniquity. [Roger Williams], The bloody tenant, of persecution, for cause of conscience, discussed, in a conference between Truth and Peace. Samuel Rutherford, A free disputation against pretended liberty of conscience. John Milton, A treatise of civil power in ecclesiastical causes, in The Prose Works of John Milton. Henry More, An explanation of the grand mystery of godliness. Pierre Bayle, Pierre Bayle's "Philosophical Commentary": A modern translation and critical interpretation, ed. Annie Godman Tannenbaum. Pierre Bayle, A Philosophical Commentary, 2 vols. John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration. Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract and Discourses, trans. G. D. H. Cole. Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionaries, trans. Theodore Besterman. Claude Adrien Helvetius, A Treatise on Man, his intellectual faculties and his education, 2 vols., trans. W. Hooper. Joseph Priestley, An Essay on the First Principles of Government, in Theological and Miscellaneous Works, 25 vols. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia in the 'The Writings of Thomas Jefferson,' 19 vols. ; ed. Andrew A. Lipscombe. John Brownlow, Liberty of Conscience; or a dialogue between a catholic priest and his separated brethren, to explain the nature and make know the worth of Religious Liberty. Felicite Lamennais, Words of a Believer and The Past and Future of the People, trans. L. E. Martineau. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty. [Anonymous], The Ultimate Principle of Religious Liberty. Mandell Creighton, Persecution and Tolerance. Arthur Vermeersch, Tolerance, trans. W. Humphrey Page. Francesco Ruffini, Religious Liberty, trans. J. Parker Heyes. Reinhold Niebuhr, The Nature and Destiny of Man, 2 vols. A. F. Carrillo de Albornoz, The Basis of Religious Liberty. Gustav Mensching, Tolerance and Truth in Religion, trans. H-J Klimkeit. Philip Wogaman, Protestant Faith and Religious Liberty. Herbert G. Wood, Religious Liberty To-day. World Council of Churches. Declaration on Religious Liberty. Amsterdam, 1948, in A. F. Carrillo de Albornoz, The Basis of Religious Liberty. Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 1948, M. Searle Bates, Religious Liberty: An Inquiry. De dignitate humanae vitae, in Walter M. Abbott, ed. The Documents of Vatican II.
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Harvard University Press A New Deal for the World
Book SynopsisIn a work of sweeping scope and luminous detail, Elizabeth Borgwardt describes how a cadre of World War II American planners inaugurated the ideas and institutions that underlie our modern international human rights regime. Borgwardt finds the key in the 1941 Atlantic Charter and its Anglo-American vision of “war and peace aims.”Trade ReviewBorgwardt's meticulously researched study shows how a few war-inspired phrases from Churchill and Roosevelt metamorphosed into moral principles that transformed overseas empire and domestic racism from facts of life into scandals demanding attention. Every reader of U.S. history and international relations will have to confront the evidence presented in this learned, surprising, and indispensable book, which demonstrates the profound--and unanticipated--consequences of the ideas of security, justice, and human rights in shaping power politics in the postwar world. -- James T. Kloppenberg, author of The Virtues of LiberalismWhen Roosevelt and Churchill met in Placentia Bay in 1941 and signed the Atlantic Charter, they created the momentum that led to the UN Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the human rights revolution. This book is a surpassingly readable and reliable study of this founding moment. It is also an inspiring evocation of consummate leadership and political vision. -- Michael Ignatieff, author of The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of TerrorElizabeth Borgwardt's splendid book does much more than remind us of a different American outlook on world affairs. It brilliantly explores the origins of that international outlook in the domestic politics and state-building of New Deal America. In the postwar world, every country's national security would hinge on international human rights and the establishment of secure political and economic institutions. -- William E. Forbath, author of Law and the Shaping of the American Labor MovementAn ambitious, original, and innovative work that argues for the 1940s as a transformative period in international relations, when American public opinion shifted to support a new internationalism. This was not simply the work of liberal, reforming elites but a sea change in the way Americans thought about their place in the world. -- Kenneth Cmiel, author of Democratic EloquenceIf you want to understand the origin of modern international rights, read this book. It powerfully and vividly recreates the moment when American leaders contributed the confident experimentalism and legal pragmatism of the New Deal to the challenge of securing a world where all people can live free from fear and want. Borgwardt persuasively demonstrates how ideas shape institutions, aspirations, and world history, and how they bridge the gap between devastating violence and hopes for justice and peace. Now, when the legacies of these institutions are so much under global challenge--and even repudiated at times by American leadership--A New Deal for the World reminds us that this dynamic interaction among words, institutions, and contexts has ripple effects that last long beyond founding moments. -- Martha Minow, author of Between Vengeance and ForgivenessA superb, instructive, and even gripping treatment of America's role in the development of human rights. Too often, the United States is portrayed as a kind of obstacle to movements for human rights worldwide. Borgwardt sets the record straight, with illuminating and sometimes moving detail. -- Cass R. Sunstein, author of Why Societies Need DissentElizabeth Borgwardt’s fascinating book shows how Roosevelt’s administration projected the lessons of the New Deal onto a global stage by linking individual security (realized though domestic social welfare programmes) with international security (realized by halting aggression and maintaining peace)… Borgwardt skilfully conveys the light and shade of American politics during the years bracketed between the Atlantic conference and the opening of the Nuremberg trial… Whatever the future may hold, A New Deal for the World stands as a valuable and perceptive account of a unique period of American ascendancy, when a combination of pragmatism and idealism inspired the nation to play a decisive role in the history of human rights. -- Kirsten Sellars * International Affairs *In August 1941, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill met off the coast of Newfoundland to discuss the course of World War II and their ideas for the postwar world. This meeting serves as the departure point for Elizabeth Borgwardt's absorbing and passionately argued study...[A New Deal for the World] provides a fascinating chronicle of how diplomatic interactions shaped human rights law, and it challenges its readers to think further about this history's broader significance. -- Jason Scott Smith * Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History *This is an extraordinarily well-written volume, and Borgwardt should be commended for her enormous contribution to the literature on U.S. diplomatic history and international human rights. -- Simon Payaslian * Journal of American History *This beautifully written book sheds new light on the founding moments of post-war international society...[An] excellent and important book. -- Alex Bellamy * Political Studies Review *Demonstrates Borgwardt’s familiarity with a wide range of academic disciplines—including political philosophy, international relations, and economics...The strength of her argument is in presenting an official, “top-down” version of the contributions of American foreign policy to the modern international human-rights regime. -- Debra DeLaet * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *This is a first-rate work of history. Borgwardt has done extensive research in both Britain and the United States, and her bibliography and references to published materials are staggering...[It] should stand out in contrast to a litany of catastrophes and a smarter-than-they-were dismissal...this rich account of the achievements of some of the greatest minor utopians in the century is just such a work. -- John Milton Cooper * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Charting a New Course for Human Rights Part I: Somewhere in the Atlantic, August 1941 1. The Ghost of Woodrow Wilson 2. Forging a New American Multilateralism Part II: Bretton Woods, July 1944 3. The Perils of Economic Planning 4. Investing in Global Stability Part III: San Francisco, June 1945 5. The Chimera of Collective Security 6. Learning to Work Together by Working Together Part IV: Nuremberg, August 1945 7. The Limits of Law 8. Internationalizing New Deal Justice Part V: America in the World 9. Forgotten Legacies of the Atlantic Charter 10. An Expanding Vision of the National Interest Atlantic Charter Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
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Harvard University Press Democracys Prisoner
Book SynopsisIn 1920, socialist leader Eugene V. Debs ran for president while serving a ten-year jail term for speaking against America's role in World War I. In this book, Freeberg shows that the campaign to send Debs from an Atlanta jailhouse to the White House was part of a wider national debate over the right to free speech in wartime.Trade ReviewDemocracy's Prisoner powerfully reminds us of the pressure that war places on our First Amendment rights. The fight to free Debs almost a century ago was the first time that Americans organized to defend the right to speak against war. A timely lesson for us today. -- Nadine Strossen, President, American Civil Liberties UnionA beautifully crafted narrative of Debs' prosecution, incarceration, and the fight to free him that effectively recreates the dramatic crisis of the left and the rise of a civil liberties lobby during and just after World War I. An excellent and compelling book. -- Michael Kazin, author ofWilliam Jennings Bryan: A Godly HeroDemocracy's Prisoneris a superb account of the battle over free speech and civil liberties in the WW I era, beautifully argued and engrossing to read. Freeberg brings a wonderfully fresh perspective to this study of citizens' heroism, showing us the courage and shrewdness of the ever admirable Debs. But perhaps more important, he reveals for the first time the critical role that ordinary citizens, led by a political novice, played in mobilizing moderate Americans on his behalf. This book could not be more timely. -- Christine Stansell, author of American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New CenturyThis account of the trial and jailing of Eugene V. Debs for sedition in opposing WWI will be read by many as a warning for our times, yet it stands on its own as solid history...Freeberg relates this tale in a fast-paced narrative...The most enduring consequence of this whole affair is the fuel it contributed to the growth of civil liberties consciousness and organization in the United States. Not for the first time, administrations brought about the very results they most opposed. * Publishers Weekly *Freeberg argues that Debs's case illustrates the problems associated with silencing public discourse, most especially during a time of war. Debs was never a threat to national security; instead, he was a principled individual expressing his political beliefs. This excellent introduction to Debs and the Socialist Party is also an engaging examination of an issue that still tensely engages us today. -- Michael LaMagna * Library Journal *The Eugene V. Debs story is a moving, albeit instructive one, though he likely will never be given his due as one of the great figures of American history. Jailed for speaking out against the so-called “war to end all wars,” Socialist Debs ran for president in 1920, garnering a million votes. By the way, when he was finally released from that same Atlanta penitentiary, the whole of the prison’s population--guards and prisoners--cheered him. -- Robert Birnbaum * The Morning News *If history is what the present wants to know about the past, Democracy’s Prisoner is teeming with lessons. But above all, it’s the story of one extraordinary man’s showdown with the establishment--and how that confrontation turned into a complex political struggle whose outcome was up for grabs. Carefully researched and expertly told, Debs’ story also brings a fascinating era into sharp, vivid focus. -- Peter Richardson * Los Angeles Times Book Review *Freeberg's Democracy's Prisoner explores the arrest, prosecution, and imprisonment of Eugene V. Debs and the subsequent campaign to free him from a federal penitentiary. America's best-known socialist, Debs was loved by the party faithful and despised by conservatives as a traitor. For speaking out against the war, he became one of some 2,000 people arrested, and 1,200 convicted, for challenging the Wilson administration's war policy. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Debs immediately became a cause célèbre to socialists, trade unionists, and civil libertarians...In [his] timely, readable, and engaging book, Freeberg reminds us of the fragility of rights in the context of fear, providing us with cautionary tales about what is lost when unquestioned political obligations trump the preservation of liberty. -- Eric Arnesen * Boston Globe *Freeberg has written an exhaustive account of the three-year campaign to free Debs from federal custody while the nation struggled over civil rights and government power in the last days of the Wilson administration, which included the notorious "Palmer Raids" on suspected dissidents. -- Bob Hoover * Pittsburgh Post-Gazette *Eugene Debs is a largely forgotten man today, an odd footnote in American history of the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But this fascinating book about his climactic last years makes clear that he really mattered. In both political and legal ways he played a significant part in reducing intolerance of dissent in this country, and bringing to life the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech. -- Anthony Lewis * New York Review of Books *Sending Debs to prison made him the center of a campaign for freedom of speech for dissenters and antiwar activists. And when the courts eventually recognized a constitutional right to dissent, they were following a broad public debate spurred by talented organizers and activists who came from places ranging from Debs's own Socialist Party to the new American Civil Liberties Union to the rank-and-file locals of the American Federation of Labor. Freeberg's beautifully written book combines a political biography of Debs in his years of crisis with a broader argument about the unintended consequences of the campaign to win his release. -- Jon Wiener * Dissent *An important contribution for those interested in Eugene Debs and the early days of the American Socialist Party. -- R. J. Goldstein * Choice *Table of Contents* List of Illustrations * Prologue: Free Speech Campaign * Dangerous Man * Never Be a Soldier * War Declarations * Canton Picnic * Cleveland * Appeal * Long Trolley to Prison * Moundsville * Atlanta Penitentiary * An Amnesty Business on Every Block * Candidate 9653 * The Trials of A. Mitchell Palmer * The Last Campaign * Lonely Obstinacy * Free Speech and Normalcy * Last Flicker of the Dying Candle * Epilogue: Amnesty and the Birth of Civil Liberties * Notes * Archives Consulted * Acknowledgments * Index
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Harvard University Press Lessons in Censorship How Schools and Courts
Book SynopsisAmerican public schools censor controversial student speech that the Constitution protects. Catherine Ross brings clarity to court rulings that define speech rights of young citizens and proposes ways to protect free expression, arguing that the failure of schools to respect civil liberties betrays their educational mission and threatens democracy.Trade ReviewRoss…makes a compelling case in Lessons in Censorship for the importance of according students free speech not only as a constitutional right, but also as a vital democratic practice. -- Joan Wallach Scott * The Nation *It is a revealing book about judicially sanctioned censorship… Well-argued and well-researched… Turn the pages of Lessons in Censorship and you will discover what it means for students to think freely and how courts have fashioned baseless arguments designed to squelch such thinking… Lessons in Censorship is a book that should be read and discussed by school officials at all levels of education. It is a work that should be pored over by school board officials and lawyers who represent school districts and college campuses. And its message should carry over into the memoranda and briefs that lawyers file to inform judges. -- Ronald K. L. Collins * Concurring Opinions *We teach our children to celebrate freedom of speech but what freedom do they have when their schools too often punish them for exercising it? Catherine Ross’s powerful and lucid exposé of the increasingly routine censorship of student speech is well worth our attention and concern. -- Floyd Abrams, Cahill Gordon & Reindel, LLPA magnificent book. Catherine Ross has given us a beautifully written and original contribution to our understanding of the nexus of constitutional law, lower courts, and everyday life in our public schools. She persuasively demonstrates that schools and judges too often teach ‘lessons in censorship’ that threaten the First Amendment and our vital culture of democracy. -- Erwin Chemerinsky, University of California, Irvine School of LawEvery student, parent, teacher, and principal should read—and heed—the lessons about the First Amendment rights of students in this terrific and timely book. -- Glenn Altschuler, Cornell UniversityAn extraordinary book. Ross offers the best account I have read about why we have free speech and why we value it so much—insightful and accessible. Beyond explaining what students can say, and how they can say it, and how limits have developed over the last ninety years, Lessons in Censorship powerfully argues that speech rights in public school are essential to the health of democratic governance—every concerned citizen must read this book. -- Gene Policinski, author of the weekly column Inside the First AmendmentIn a new era of heightened demands for trigger warnings on collegiate syllabi and in campus ‘safe spaces’ about potentially disturbing speech, the book could not be more timely. -- S. B. Lichtman * Choice *[Ross] provides a convincing critique of the state of the law, an urgent warning about what students experience in school, and concrete suggestions for protecting student speech…Her book is an important reminder that censorship of students begins long before they get to college. -- David Moshman * Huffington Post *Lessons in Censorship is not only a comprehensive and colorfully written treatment of the Court’s student-speech jurisprudence, but it also reminds us that we must remain vigilant in our protection of free speech in the classroom and the courtroom. After bringing clarity to the Court’s often opaque student-speech decisions in the wake of Tinker, Ross demonstrates that modern free speech controversies go beyond the schoolhouse gate and reflect the heated battles being waged in the culture wars… The ambitious agenda of Lessons in Censorship is to make sense of student-speech controversies in our schools-ranging from online bullying, to adolescent humor, to unpopular political speech-and explain the constitutional law that governs student speech… Ross accomplishes the delicate task of writing for a sophisticated legal audience while at the same time making her prose and analysis accessible to parents, teachers, and school administrators… Ross manages to maintain the attention of both audiences with her clear and engaging voice. -- William S. Koski * Texas Law Review *
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Harvard University Press Serving Their Country
Book SynopsisOver the 20th century, American Indians fought for the right to be both American and Indian. Rosier traces how Indians defined democracy, citizenship, and patriotism in domestic and international contexts. Native Americans served as a visible symbol of an America searching for rights and justice; American history is incomplete without their story.Trade ReviewA superb, innovative book. The story of Native Americans in the Cold War is without doubt one of the most important in the relationship between race and foreign affairs, and Rosier is the first to tell it in full. Impressively researched and engagingly written, this book fills a major gap in the literature and will have widespread appeal. -- Thomas Borstelmann, author of The Cold War and the Color LineThis pathbreaking book offers a fresh perspective on twentieth-century Indian politics, patriotism, and tribalism by tracking important intersections between domestic and international affairs. The Cold War and global colonization movements emboldened Native Americans to demand their rights. Simultaneously, events required them to defend their homelands from enemies both within and without the country. To be Indian and American poses no contradiction, as Rosier so wisely points out, if the nation lives up to its ideals and its treaty obligations. -- Sherry L. Smith, author of Reimagining IndiansIn this extensively researched and well-documented study, Rosier examines modern Native American political history within an international context. -- Deborah Dawson * Booklist *Fascinating...This is an important book, certain to generate considerable discussion. -- Brian Hosmer * Pacific Historical Review *Serving Their Country presents a compelling argument...Rosier has produced an important book that will provide scholars with much to engage, discuss, and debate. -- Daniel M. Cobb * American Historical Review *A fascinating study documenting how federal American Indian policies intersected with national and international issues...Although other historians have written about specific eras in which this intersection occurred, Rosier's intriguing and sweeping study adds much to the literature. -- Laurence M. Hauptman * Journal of American History *By putting Indian affairs in a broader, international context he does the field a great service. -- Joy Porter * Journal of American Studies *Table of Contents* Contents * List of Abbreviations * Prologue: An Empire for Liberty *1. Westward the Course of Empire *2. The Defense of the Reservation *3. World War II Battlegrounds *4. The Cold War on the Indian Frontier *5. Nation Building at Home and Abroad *6. The Last Indian War * Epilogue: Indian Country in the Twenty-first Century * List of Archival Sources * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index
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Harvard University Press Health and Human Rights
Book SynopsisHealth and Human Rights: Basic International Documents assembles in one book the basic instruments of international law and policy that express the values of human rights for advancing health. Topics include ethics; biotechnology; right to health; freedom from torture; women and reproductive health; children; right to a clean environment; and more.
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Harvard University Press Why White Liberals Fail
Book SynopsisAnthony Badger explains why liberal campaigns for race-neutral economic policies failed to win over white Southerners. When federal programs did not deliver the economic benefits that white Southerners expected, the appeal of biracial politics was supplanted by the values-based lure of conservative Republicans.Trade ReviewAnthony J. Badger’s analysis of liberal white Southerners since the 1930s suggests how difficult it is going to be to bring the white working class back into the fold…Badger identifies promising moments in several decades, including (after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965) successful biracial electoral coalitions. Yet today there are fewer white Democrats in the South than ever…Badger runs from race, and racism, as explanations, but as he himself concedes, he never gets far. -- James Goodman * New York Times Book Review *[An] important book…For the casual reader, this is a fast-paced introduction to Southern history. For those of us who know and admire Tony Badger, this book is a wonderful overview of a celebrated career, offering personal insight into his evolving study of a region that cries out to be better understood. To know the South is to love it, be confused and horrified by it, and then to fall in love with it all over again. -- Tim Stanley * The Telegraph *This book’s refusal to settle for easy answers is one of its key strengths…Nuanced and thoughtful. -- Daniel K. Williams * Journal of Southern History *Badger, Britain’s leading historian of the US South, explains why liberal Democrats failed to keep the South aligned with the national party after the New Deal. * Choice *Anthony Badger is a master of Southern politics, and this book is a highly readable account of the decades of racist politics that brought us to our present moment. Replete with interesting stories and vivid characters, and backed up by exhaustive research, this is an in-depth account of how white Southerners restructured white supremacy to work in four different political time periods: the New Deal, the post–World War II period, the Civil Rights movement, and the Trump moment. Badger demonstrates how structural racism can be remodeled to incorporate political ‘progress,’ and cloaked in many colors. -- Glenda Gilmore, author of Defying DixieThis is a provocative summary of the history of twentieth-century white Southern liberalism. It is also an honest and engaging personal account of a distinguished scholar trying to make sense of it. -- Joseph Crespino, author of Atticus FinchWhy White Liberals Fail explores how racial fears and the structure and culture of white supremacy influenced the response of moderate politicians to pivotal moments of social disruption in the South. Badger offers a fresh analysis of how Southern politicians met the challenges they faced in the years before the civil rights movement, and explores the consequences of the deeply racialized politics of the South for the trajectory of American history ever since. He brilliantly broadens the lens for understanding our current moment, and sheds critical light on the trajectory of Southern liberalism and American politics in the decades since Jim Crow’s demise. -- Patricia Sullivan, author of Justice Rising
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Harvard University Press Empire and Righteous Nation
Book SynopsisHistorian Odd Arne Westad provides a concise, insightful overview of 600 years of relations between China and the Koreas. The story traces the transition from Korean cultural and political dependence to the tensions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, providing essential background to a complex contemporary geopolitical dynamic.Trade ReviewThe relationship between China and Korea is one of the most important, and least understood, in Asia. With the wisdom and clarity we have come to expect from Westad, this book illuminates the long history of these two neighbors. He tells a story both of closeness brought about by Confucianism and Communism and of prickliness that comes from two fierce and rival nationalisms, providing compelling insights on the future of this volatile partnership. -- Rana Mitter, author of China’s Good WarIn this incisive and engaging overview, Westad offers a new framework for understanding China and Korea that weaves their interconnected histories together in a concise, thoughtful way. The themes of ‘empire’ and ‘righteous nation’ offer some excellent insights into both the differences between the two countries and their long, complex relationship. -- Gregg Brazinsky, author of Nation Building in South KoreaWestad offers a sweeping historical overview of what is arguably the most important relationship in Asia today, that between China and the Korean Peninsula. How that relationship is managed and plays out in the coming years is central to questions of national and regional interests as well as to global issues of war and peace. Unique in its broad perspective and engagingly written, this is a timely must-read primer on the China–Korea relationship in its longue durée and its impact on and implications for our world today. -- Carter J. Eckert, author of Park Chung Hee and Modern KoreaA smart and engaging work, with a provocative, sweeping narrative that is a pleasure to read. Anyone interested in Sino–Korean relations and the current standoff on the peninsula would be well advised to start with this book. -- Andre Schmid, author of Korea Between Empires, 1895–1919Valuable and wide-ranging…As two thousand years of history have shown, China’s role in Korea is a complex one. Westad’s short and stimulating study provides many clues to understanding that relationship. -- J. E. Hoare * Literary Review *
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Harvard University Press inharmsway
Book SynopsisThis volume contains the oral testimony of victims of pornography, recorded at hearings on a groundbreaking civil rights law drafted by Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon. From the first hearings in Minneapolis in 1983 to those in Massachusetts in 1992, the witnesses offer their personal experiences of sexual subordination due to pornography.Trade ReviewIn Harm's Way [is] essential reading. In the Eighties Professor Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin drafted an anti-pornography civil rights law in support of which witnesses to the harm done by pornography were called at public hearings in Minneapolis (1983), Indianapolis (1984), Los Angeles (1985), and Boston (1992). Those horrified by the idea of any form of censorship may be shocked to learn that this is the first time the full texts (transcripts plus excellent introductions) have found a publisher in the United States. -- Bel Mooney * The Times *Dworkin's and MacKinnon's work has informed debates about pornography and its effects all over the world. Though many...have disputed the wisdom of enacting legal proscriptions that may be invoked to suppress literature beyond the contemplation of their framers, the message underlying the campaign is powerful and far-reaching...The voices of the pornography survivors...make the most compelling--and the most distressing--reading...[This is] an important social document. We should be grateful for Dworkin's and MacKinnon's perseverance in bringing it to the light of day. * Times Higher Education Supplement *[In Harm's Way] brings the reader actual transcripts of hearings conducted relative to proposed ordinances in Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, and Massachusetts. MacKinnon wrote chapter one and Dworkin wrote chapter two to introduce the subject of pornography, its victims, and the history of public policy developments on the issue...In addition...MacKinnon...provide[s] elucidation and answer[s] arguments presented by opponents of the legislation [at other points in the text]...Dworkin presents a rather eloquent personal story of her life in a society that she believes routinely and systematically denies rights to women. In relating her story of living with a man who abused and terrorized her, she shares the misery of having unsuccessfully sought refuge and assistance from others...The authors are to be applauded for their evenhandedness in including not only the stories of the victims with whom they sympathize but also the comments of those who made serious arguments against the validity, legality, usefulness, and consequences of [their] proposals. -- Gloria C. Cox * Law and Politics Book Review *Everyone who has ever taken sides in the debate about permissible limits to free speech in our society should read this book. It should be read by those who believe that freedom of speech should be absolute, as well as by those who yearn for more regulation of sexually explicit materials on the Internet, in books and magazines and on film...It is a fascinating collection of testimony on both sides of this issue. It is unlike other books on this debate since...it presents the facts as they stand and lets the reader decide. * Bimonthly Review of Law Books *Highly recommend[ed]...What makes [In Harm's Way] both unique and important is that [it] give[s] voice to unpopular and stifled views. [It] defiantly call[s] for social chance and pose[s] difficult questions in a world addicted to instant gratification and slick PR campaigns...A must for anyone interested in the future of love, sex and gender relations. -- A. J. S. * Media Watch *These hearings provide the underpinnings for a legal initiative that has gotten enormous attention, that raises a host of important and interesting issues, and that has often been misunderstood. [It constitutes] an important addition for academics and for others to the pornography debate. -- Cass Sunstein, University of Chicago Law SchoolThere can be no doubt about the sincerity or the truth of the editors' belief that the material in this book belongs in the public domain. In cooperating with legislators in attempting to bring it about that pornography's dissemination be recognized as an actionable form of sex discrimination, MacKinnon and Dworkin's assumption was not only that women have been harmed by pornography, but that they have been silenced by it: so long as pornographers benefit (materially) from their (alleged) right to free speech (alleged by advocates of First Amendment protection for pornography), women lose out from their inability to exercise the same right. The hearings, whatever their legal upshot, thus empowered women--by enabling them to give voice to the damage pornography had done them. Publication of the transcripts in book form constitutes a further defense of women's rights. -- Jennifer Hornsby, Birkbeck College, University of LondonThe feminist anti-pornography movement has been extraordinarily successful. Although none of the proposed laws that are the subject of this book are now on the books, the movement whose inception dates roughly to the beginnings of the Minneapolis hearings has been highly successful in changing the views of many people about the harms of pictorial materials embodying or endorsing sexual violence against women, and about the circumstances of the production of a substantial amount of highly sexually explicit material. It would be a mistake to underestimate from the lack of formal legal success the political, social, and cultural importance, and in many respects, success, of the feminist anti-pornography movement. This effect is not only American but worldwide, and the presence of active, and often successful, associated movements in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, and many other countries is largely a product of the events whose formal documentation is the bulk of this book. This material is a valuable part of history. -- Frederick Schauer, John F. Kennedy School of GovernmentHere, in this book, is the source of the most powerful assault on patriarchy in modern jurisprudence. MacKinnon and Dworkin's work is sometimes misunderstood as anti-sex. In fact, their theories and their practical work oppose the use, abuse, and dehumanization of women, and are built on the practice of listening to women, as these hearings conclusively reveal. -- Mari Matsuda, Georgetown Law SchoolIn the words of real experience and personal testimony, In Harm's Way shows that pornography is to females what Nazi literature is to Jews and Klan propaganda is to Blacks. Whether or not all such hate literature is protected by the First Amendment, all must be rejected if we are to live together with dignity and safety. -- Gloria SteinemThese are the hearings that began it all: a conversation so heated and inspiring that the ideas are still forceful, still fought over, still evolving towards resolution. -- Patricia Williams, author of The Rooster's Egg and The Alchemy of Race and RightsTable of ContentsIntroductions The Roar on the Other Side of Silence by Catharine A. MacKinnon Suffering and Speech by Andrea Dworkin The Hearings The Minneapolis Hearings Minneapolis: Exhibits Minneapolis: Memo on Proposed Ordinance Minneapolis: Press Conference The Indianapolis Hearing Indianapolis: Appendices The Los Angeles Hearing The Massachusetts Hearing Massachusetts: Written Submissions The Ordinances Appendix: American Booksellers Ass'n. Inc. v. Hudnut Index
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Harvard University Press To Keep and Bear Arms
Book SynopsisJoyce Malcolm illuminates the historical facts underlying the current passionate debate in America about gun-related violence, the Brady Bill, and the National Rifle Association, revealing the original meaning and intentions behind the individual right to "bear arms."Trade ReviewJoyce Malcolm's book reminds us forcibly that arguments for gun ownership were, until quite recently, respectable and persuasive, and that gun control and peaceable behaviour appear to be unrelated phenomena. -- David Wootton * London Review of Books *A groundbreaking book on the history of gun rights. -- John J. Miller * National Review *A work of genuine excellence, as persuasive in its argument as it is unsettling in its implications...Malcolm's prose is both vigorous and elegant, and occasionally even witty, a virtue rarely to be found in a constitutional treatise. The book should generate a healthy debate about the future of gun control in America. -- Douglas R. Egerton * American Historical Review *A wide audience, including social scientists, historians, lawyers, and anyone interested in the gun-ownership debate, should welcome this concise, well-written history. -- Allan D. Olmsted * Contemporary Sociology *[Malcolm] provides a skillful analysis of how the Englishmen's duty to bear arms was transformed into a right to bear arms. -- Robert E. Shalhope * Journal of American History *Table of Contents* Preface *1. A People Armed *2. Bearing Arms through War and Revolution *3. The Dissidents Disarmed *4. The Gentleman's Game *5. Enforcement of Arms Restrictions *6. James II and Control of Firearms *7. Arms for Their Defence: The Making of a "True, Ancient, and Indubitable Right" *8. The Second Amendment and the English Legacy * Afterword * Abbreviations * Notes * Index
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Harvard University Press When Free Exercise and Nonestablishment Conflict
Book SynopsisCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. The First Amendment aims to separate church and state, but Kent Greenawalt examines many situations in which its two clausesthe Nonestablishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clausepoint in opposite directions. How should courts decide?Trade ReviewKent Greenawalt has been writing about the religion clauses for many years, and his work is so voluminous that only a few specialists are familiar with it. This book, beautifully written and demonstrating the author’s easy mastery of complex legal theories, presents the major Greenawaltian themes in a shorter form, with some new arguments in response to current issues, such as Hobby Lobby and the controversy over gay rights and religion. -- Andrew Koppelman, author of Defending American Religious NeutralityGreenawalt is a leading figure on religious freedom in the United States, and he has written a compelling and sophisticated book. Not only is his mastery of First Amendment jurisprudence evident here, but also his deep understanding of related areas, such as political philosophy and legal interpretation. Greenawalt’s unique methodology illustrates how it is possible to assess constitutional values with care and precision across a breathtaking range of cases and issues. -- Nelson Tebbe, author of Religious Freedom in an Egalitarian AgeGreenawalt delivers just what he promises in this volume’s matter-of-fact title: a detailed examination of the various tensions between the free exercise and establishment clauses of the First Amendment. Chapters cover a wide range of issues, from religious practice within government institutions (namely the military and prisons) to various religious exemptions from laws concerning drug use, medical insurance, and zoning restrictions. -- R. J. Meagher * Choice *
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Harvard University Press The Novel of Human Rights
Book SynopsisJames Dawes defines a new, dynamic American literary genre, which takes as its theme a range of atrocities at home and abroad. This vibrant and modern genre incorporates key debates within the human rights movement in the U.S. and in turn influences the ideas and rhetoric of that discourse.Trade ReviewJames Dawes is one of the founders of the interdiscipline of literature and human rights, with his important That the World May Know and Evil Men. His new book provides a map for traveling the complex paths laid out by the evolving human rights project and by literary artists who represent both rights violations and remedies in their work. The Novel of Human Rights is a landmark. -- Elizabeth Swanson, Babson CollegeHuman rights and literature scholars have worked around the edges of genre issues, but this book establishes an entirely new conceptual framework. It builds the case that the human rights novel is a definable genre, produced by deep and wide social, political, and cultural forces. Dawes’s insightful analysis of individual works and the genre advances our understanding of those forces, why we face the ethical dilemmas we face in contemporary local and global politics, and how we might think our way through these dilemmas to a better future. -- Greg Mullins, Evergreen State CollegeArgues persuasively that one of the places we might still find vibrant and critical human rights is in the contemporary American novel…A welcome example of slow reading, hard thinking and the value of reality-testing in dire political times. * Times Higher Education *
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Harvard University Press The Rise of the Right to Know
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIt’s hard to say anything new about the 1960s, but Michael Schudson has done it—in a big way. An originally conceptualized and eye-opening history, The Rise of the Right to Know identifies the emergence of transparency or openness in the 1960s and ’70s as a leading principle in American political culture. Across a wide range of political and social spheres, he traces the historic shift in our culture from the hidden to the open, the elite to the populist, the expert to the personal, and the rarefied to the accessible—rooted in the liberal, democratic demand that citizens have a right to know about the decisions that shape their lives. This book made me rethink the postwar era and its importance as very few works of scholarship have. -- David Greenberg, Rutgers UniversityMichael Schudson makes a convincing argument that during [the Cold War era] an unprecedented culture of government openness emerged primarily in domestic institutions. Schudson recounts in detail how the public gained the right of access to government documents; to agencies’ predictions of the environmental consequences of their actions; to basic information about processed foods; and to the deliberations and individual votes of Congress. Thanks to Schudson’s own research and reporting, each of these accounts features an unexpected cast of characters, and each shows how big changes can begin with the actions of a few impassioned individuals. -- Mary Graham * American Prospect *[A] learned history. -- Jack Shafer * Bookforum *By piecing together the story of new laws on freedom of information, consumer labeling and environmental impact reports, [Schudson] shows that these laws were part of a longer, slower change, which began well before the Summer of Love. Law entrenched new information rights but nothing would have reached the statute book without a relaxation of the political and cultural climate… One of the many strengths of The Rise of the Right to Know is its insistent emphasis on culture and its interaction with law… What Schudson shows is that enforceable access to official information creates a momentum towards a better use of what is disclosed and a refinement of how disclosure is best done. -- George Brock * Times Literary Supplement *This book is a reminder that the right to know is not an automatic right. It was hard-won, and fought for by many unknown political soldiers. Even democratic governments do not necessarily consider that openness is a virtue and will resist attempts to prise the lid off their secrets as a matter of course. -- Monica Horten * LSE Review of Books *This book is illuminating on many levels… This is an optimistic book, suggesting that we are better off with our greater access to information. The book also is a refreshing clarification of history… This book is full of such great anecdotes, woven through an account that melds historical narrative, documentary excavation, ethnography, content analysis, personal insight, and intellectual reflection into a much larger story about the process of cultural change… Scholars, students, citizens—read it! -- Judy Polumbaum * Journal of Communication Inquiry *
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Princeton University Press How Far the Promised Land World Affairs and the
Book SynopsisExplores the relationship between overseas developments and the most important reform movement in modern American history, the struggle for racial justice. This book argues that civil rights leaders were interested in the world beyond America and incorporated their understanding of overseas matters into their reform program.Trade Review"Jonathan Rosenberg, describing 'color-conscious internationalism', demonstrated how the men and women who struggled to win equality for black Americans used world affairs--and especially wars--to advance their cause... Rosenberg does a superb job of analyzing the interplay of world affairs and the quest for racial justice in the United States from 1914 to the 1960s."--Warren I. Cohen, International History ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi INTRODUCTION: Color-Conscious Internationalism and the Twentieth-Century Struggle 1 PART I: World War I and the Peace Settlement PRELUDE: "Yours for World Democracy": Journeys to Paris 15 CHAPTER ONE: "Let Us Be True to Our Mission": Race Reform and the World War 19 CHAPTER TWO: "The Morning Cometh": The Signi .cance of the Peace 51 PART II: Between the Wars CHAPTER THREE: "From Deep in the Heart of Russia": The Reformers Look Abroad in the 1920s 75 CHAPTER FOUR: "Sounds Suspiciously like Miami": The Turbulent World of the 1930s 101 PART III: From World War II to Vietnam CHAPTER FIVE: "Democracy Should Begin at Home": The Struggle for Equality and the Second World War 131 CHAPTER SIX: "To Help Save the World": Seeking Race Reform,1945 -1950 156 CHAPTER SEVEN: "Struggling to Save America": The Reformers and the World of the 1950s 185 CHAPTER EIGHT: "I've Seen the Promised Land": Triumph and Tragedy in the 1960s 214 POSTLUDE: World Affairs and the Domestic Crusade 229 Notes 235 Index 311
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Princeton University Press Little Rock Race and Resistance at Central High
Book SynopsisThe desegregation crisis in Little Rock Central High School is a landmark of American history. Providing fresh perspectives on the individuals, especially the activists and policymakers, involved in this event, this title examines American racial politics in relation to changes in youth culture, sexuality, gender relations, and economics.Trade Review"The author applies class and gender perspectives to enhance understanding of the roles women played in the crisis, especially the Mothers' League of Central High School and the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools. Anderson's book belongs in every college, university, and public library."--Choice "Karen Anderson's Little Rock is recommended for its acute examination of race and gender issues in the South in the 1950s."--Oscar R. Williams, Journal of African American History "Little Rock is based on research in a wide variety of sources, from manuscript archives and newspapers to organizational and school records and oral histories, as well as the vast secondary literature on this topic. The result is a well-written account of an important battle in the struggle for racial equality in the United States. Scholars of civil rights, politics, and law in the United States will find this work worthwhile and enjoyable."--Brian J. Daugherity, Journal of Southern History "Little Rock contributes much to our understanding of southern American desegregation... By acknowledging the connections between multifarious oppressions, Little Rock usefully contextualizes what could otherwise be taken for granted as only a story about race without downplaying the obvious racially based elements of conflict surrounding educational integration."--Steven L. Foy, European Legacy "[T]his volume brilliantly details the moral shortfalls of people who sought 'the appearance of federal compliance rather than actual racial justice, leaving behind a legacy of white flight, poor urban schools, and institutional racism.'"--Ruth Tait, Ethnicity and Race in a Changing WorldTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Not Here, Not Now, Not Us 1 Chapter 1: Mapping Change: Little Rock Forges a Desegregation Plan 19 Chapter 2: "Occupied Arkansas": Class, Gender, and the Politics of Resistance 55 Chapter 3: Uncivil Disobedience: Th e Politics of Race and Resistance at Central High School, 1957-1958 94 Chapter 4: Th e Politics of School Closure: Massive Resistance Put to the Test, 1958-1959 137 Chapter 5: Th e Politics of Fear and Gridlock 166 Chapter 6: Politics as Usual: Reviving the Politics of Tokenism 190 Conclusions: Little Rock and the Legacies of Brown v. Board of Education 228 Abbreviations 245 Notes 247 Index 315
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Princeton University Press The Europeanization of the World
Book SynopsisPuts forward a defense of Western civilization and the gifts it has bequeathed to the world - in particular, human rights and constitutional democracy - at a time when many around the globe equate the West with hubris and thinly veiled imperialism. This book traces the development and implications of this idea from antiquity onwards.Trade Review"Headley flies in the face of post-1960s criticism of the West to argue that the Renaissance and the Reformation laid the groundwork for the world's present understanding of human rights and constitutional democracy... Headley offers considerable evidence for these Western contributions to pushing diverse cultures toward a new, globalized way of life... In a brief epilogue, [he] sets aside his scholarly mien to launch a devastating critique of American policies at home and abroad since 2001... A densely written defense of the Western tradition."--Kirkus Reviews "This is a provocative, compelling, and successful book that traces the culture-transcending qualities of the idea of a common humanity and political dissent in Europe... Balanced and deeply intelligent, Headley's book recasts the role of European civilization in shaping our future."--A.R. Brunello, Choice "John Headley's lucid study of the intellectual origins of human rights and democracy in the European tradition rewards the careful reader... Headley has written an excellent book, penetrating and well-written. The two sections on the United States described above arc in brief, isolated sections, and have little to do with the rest of the book. The reader stands to gain a great deal from this senior scholar's broad analysis of these distinctly European values."--John F. Kicza, Renaissance Quarterly "There is much in this book for Renaissance scholars, historical sociologists, and students of contemporary history. For the ... historically oriented sociologist, the book is an important contribution to understanding the European heritage."--Gerard Delanty, American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations xi Preface xiii Introduction 1 Chapter 1: The Renaissance Defining and Engagement of the Global Arena of Humanity 9 Imperial and Global Motifs in the Advent of the New Geography 13 The Fully Habitable World for Renaissance Europe 31 Chapter 2: The Universalizing Principle and the Idea of a Common Humanity 63 The Universalizing Process: From Christendom to the Civilization of Europeans 66 The Career of Natural Rights in the Early Modern Period 103 Chapter 3: The Emergence of Politically Constituted Dissent in the European World 149 The Initial Constituting of Political Dissent: Thomas More's Horrific Vision 154 Party and Opposition in the Eighteenth-Century Anglo-American Experience 168 Aftermath 195 Epilogue 207 Notes 219 Bibliography 243 Index 269
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Princeton University Press Privacy
Book SynopsisDescribes a day in the life of an average modern citizen - in other words, a person under almost constant scrutiny. This title traces the status of privacy from ancient Rome onwards, explains how liberty and freedom of thought depend on privacy, and points to some of the places where privacy is under greatest threat, from health to personal space.Trade Review"Excellent... At once rhetorically sparse and alarming...Avoiding well-trodden ground, Sofsky is original in suffusing the physical abuses that the state perpetrates against the privacy of the individual."--AdamSmith.org blog "In this absorbing and upsetting little book, half pungent polemic and half meditation, Sofsky describes how, by means of CCTV cameras and the tracing of mobile phone calls, bus pass use, credit card purchases, e-mail, indeed in almost all ordinary interactions whether in shops or with bureaucracies, every individual is transparently and luminously traceable, leaving a glowing smear behind him as wide as a motorway, and as easy for anyone to follow if they wish... This is an important and very timely book. Its message, implied throughout, is that as one of the great values of civilisation and one of the essentials of personal and psychological integrity, privacy is worth fighting to regain."--A. C. Grayling, The Times (London) "A manifesto in the classic sense... [T]he author takes us on a personal journey that discusses the cultural roots of privacy, the origins of property and the pivotal nature of freedom of thought. Sofsky covers an enormous amount of territory on his voyage, and digs deep into our core social values to discuss the origins of our behaviours, interactions and innate needs."--John Gilbey, Nature "In a critique of the decline of personal privacy, Wolfgang Sofsky blames not technology, the government or fears of crime and terrorism but apathy by the citizenry, and a growing culture of fame seeking or a willingness to share private data... A very timely book, in this age of surveillance cameras, credit agencies, computerized tracking and even more, newer intrusions into our lives we don't even yet know about. Or sadder, probably freely signed up for."--Sacramento Book Review "In this spirited, if at times a little too generalised, defence of privacy, Sofsky rages against not only governmental and technological surveillance but also against the slackness of average citizens who have allowed, and even welcomed, this invasion of their souls."--Fiona Capp, The Age "Most accept the watching. Wolfgang Sofsky does not... We have allowed our privacy to be sacrificed to spurious promises of security and bureaucratic efficiency. Privacy, he argues in Privacy: A Manifesto, is the individual's fortress. It is an area free of domination, the only one under the individual's control."--Jock Given, Australian Literary Review "Sofksy's clear and precise language which shows the reader the issues concerning privacy forcefully. But above all, Sofsky's fundamental argumentation, starting from the body of an individual, is a valuable contribution to the discussion concerning the relationship between privacy and surveillance. It can serve as a stable fundament for discussions concerning the value of privacy which often only fall back on legal rules and their interpretation."--Georg Koppen, Metapsychology Online Reviews "The integrity of our personal lives has been so thoroughly compromised we hardly know what's public and what's private any more, what's important and what's not. Dazed by stimuli, we are immobilised in our decision-making. Sofsky, a German sociologist, calls for us to resist and reassert the powers of independent thought."--Miriam Cosic, Australian "The chief achievement of this book is to explain why privacy matters... Privacy: A Manifesto is as fine a defence of individual autonomy as you will find. You feel that Sofsky is not merely defending the idea of individual autonomy but has absorbed it as an ethic into his very bones."--Josie Appleton, Spiked Review of BooksTable of ContentsChapter 1: Traces 1 Chapter 2: Power and Privacy 11 Chapter 3: Retrospectives 23 Chapter 4: Freedom and Privacy 30 Chapter 5: Territories of the Self 36 Chapter 6: Secrets of the Body 49 Chapter 7: Private Spaces 65 Chapter 8: Property 79 Chapter 9: Information 94 Chapter 10: Freedom of Thought 109 Notes 131
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Princeton University Press Reluctant Accomplice
Book SynopsisA work on the wartime letters of Dr Konrad Jarausch, a German high-school teacher of religion and history who served in a reserve battalion of Hitler's army in Poland and Russia, where he died of typhoid in 1942.Trade Review"It's difficult or impossible to summon sympathy for a soldier in Hitler's army--even one with no hatred for Jews--but the letters home of Konrad Jarausch do peel away stereotypes."--Neal Gender, American Jewish World "A detailed and disturbing portrait of a so-called average German soldier of the time... Jarausch has edited 350 of his father's letters, sent from occupied Poland and the PoW camps in Russia between 1939 until his death. His father was too old at 40 to be involved in fighting but he was close enough to the front to give gruesome accounts of the enormous Russian death toll in the camps... [W]hat these letters reveal in astonishing detail is that his belief in German superiority begins to weaken as he notices and hears of the murderous German reprisals, shootings and ethnic cleansing."--Louis Nowra, The Australian "Thought-provoking in its ambiguities... By age, temperament and conviction, then, Jarausch seemed designed for the role of skeptic about the Nazi regime. Reluctant Accomplice charts the growth of Jarausch's belief that Hitler's war was a disaster, for humanity and for Germany itself... The case of Jarausch suggests that, in a situation where radical evil holds sway, goodness has to become equally radical in order to combat it."--Adam Kirsch, The Tablet "Reluctant Accomplice: A Wehrmacht Soldier's Letters from the Eastern Front (Princeton University Press), is a revealing glimpse into the mind of a patriotic German who was skeptical of the Nazi leadership and soured on the fascist regime."--Sheldon Kirshner, Canadian Jewish News "Jarausch's voluminous set of correspondence offers a thoughtful and detailed account of life as a German soldier on the Eastern Front... It shows just how much coming to terms with the Nazi past is still an ongoing process."--Hester Vaizey, European History Quarterly "This remarkable compilation of wartime letters is nothing short of one of the most humbling and insightful reads you're likely to come across this year."--David Marx, David Marx Book Reviews "Reluctant Accomplice is a fascinating, important, and highly readable collection. The documents add depth, complexity, and a tragically human dimension to our understanding of how German soldiers experienced the war on the Eastern Front."--Alan E. Steinweis, Journal of Modern History "In this outstanding edition, Konrad H. Jarausch and his assistants Klaus J. Arnold and Eve M. Duffy have done an excellent job. The book contains an impressive biographical essay about the son's search for the father he never knew. Writers may succeed in producing approaches of this kind--at least sometimes. But historians? Usually such attempts fall flat. Yet this edition impressively proves the contrary--it is indeed possible."--Christian Hartmann, English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsPreface vii Foreword by Richard Kohn xiii In Search of a Father: Deaing with the Legacy of Nazi Complicity 1 Part I: The Polish Campaign 45 Letters from Poland, September 1939 to January 1940 53 Part II: Training Recruits 139 Letters from Poland and Germany, January 1940 to August 1941 146 Part III: War of Annihilation in Russia 237 Letters from Russia, August 1941 to January 1942 246 Acknowledgments 367 Notes to "In Search of a Father" 369 Selected Suggestions for Further Reading 381 Index 383
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Princeton University Press A World Divided
Book SynopsisThrough vivid histories drawn from virtually every continent, Weitz describes how, since the 18th century, nationalists have struggled to establish their own states that grant human rights to some people. At the same time, they have excluded others through forced assimilation, ethnic cleansing, or even genocide.Trade Review"Finalist for the PROSE Award in World History, Association of American Publishers""Engaging mounting scholarship on the history of human rights, A World Divided approaches the topic by focusing on nation-states as central to understanding human rights. . . . [Weitz’s] book provides a useful entryway to understanding human rights struggles for undergraduates and the general public." * Choice *"[A] wide-ranging and important book is about the global struggle for human rights."---David Lorimer, Paradigm Explorer"An impressive tale with a wide-ranging reflection on the entanglement of two forces that have profoundly shaped the history of the past two hundred and fifty years: the nation-state and human rights."---Jan Eckel, H-Diplo
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Princeton University Press Hidden in Plain Sight
Book SynopsisTells the tragic story of children's rights in America. This title asks why the United States, alone among nations, rejects the most universally embraced human-rights document in history, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2009 APSA's Best Book Award, Human Rights Section "With this thoroughly annotated, well-written book, Woodhouse performs an admirable job in helping readers to understand the complicated and ambiguous issue of children's rights in the US. Documenting some of the most egregious examples of the abuse and neglect of children with stories both personal and universal, she leads readers down the historical trail of legislative and judicial decisions made on children's behalf, and suggests others ripe for the making."--J. C. Altman, Choice "This book is timely. Hidden in Plain Sight: The Tragedy of Children's Rights ... will serve as a guide for all professions involved with children. The author has provided a discussion of the elemental rights of children, using historical narratives to illustrate the presence and lack of rights afforded them... It is an important book and hopefully will result in definitive guidelines that will include needs-based and capacity-based standards that the legal, economic, and psychosocial professions can apply in determining the best interests of children."--Viola Mecke, PsychCRITIQUES "This is a substantive book from an academic perspective while maintaining a very readable dialogue. And for absolute certainty, wherever you stand or thought you stood on the issue of children's rights, once you have read this book, you will never look at a children's story the same again."--Elizabeth Falter, Nursing Administration Quarterly "[Woodhouse] provides a narrative balanced with historical examples, including Anne Frank and the children of Dred Scott, as well as contemporary examples, like children of illegal immigrants, to explain the need for a defined structure of children's rights in the United States. Recognizing the ways that America has failed its children, Woodhouse advocates for a much-needed perspective and commitment when it comes to thinking about how we treat our country's most vulnerable youth... As a founder and director of the Center on Children and Families at the University of Florida and the Chair in Family Law at the University of Florida Levin, Woodhouse is uniquely situated to write about advocating for children's rights."--Erika Asgiersson, Campus Progress.comTable of ContentsIllustrations ix Foreword by Ruth O'Brien xi Preface xv Introduction: Ain't I a Person? 1 Chapter 1: How to Think about Childhood 15 Chapter 2: How to Think about Children's Rights 29 Part 1: The Privacy Principle: Stories of Bondage and Belonging Chapter 3: Boys in Slavery and Servitude: Frederick Douglass 51 Chapter 4: Girls at the Intersection of Age, Race, and Gender: Dred Scott's Daughters 75 Chapter 5: Growing Up in State Custody: "Tony" and "John G." 93 Part 2: The Agency Principle: Stories of Voice and Participation Chapter 6: The Printer's Apprentice: Ben Franklin and Youth Speech 111 Chapter 7: Youth in the Civil Rights Movement: John Lewis and Sheyann Webb 133 Part 3: The Equality Principle: Stories of Equal Opportunity Chapter 8: Old Maids and Little Women: Louisa Alcott and William Cather 159 Chapter 9: Breaking the Prison of Disability: Helen Keller and the Children of "Greenhaven" 180 Part 4: The Dignity Principle: Stories of Resistance and Resilience Chapter 10: Hide and Survive: Anne Frank and "Liu" 213 Chapter 11: Children at Work: Newsboys, Entrepreneurs, and "Evelyn" 234 Part 5: The Protection Principle: Stories of Guilt and Innocence Chapter 12: Telling the Scariest Secrets: Maya Angelou and "Jeannie" 259 Chapter 13: Age and the Idea of Innocence: "Amal" and Lionel Tate 279 CONCLUSION: The Future of Rights 304 Notes 315 Bibliography 337 Index 349
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Princeton University Press Democratic Rights The Substance of
Book SynopsisWhen the Supreme Court in 2003 struck down a Texas law prohibiting homosexual sodomy, it cited the right to privacy based on the guarantee of 'substantive due process' embodied by the Constitution. This book argues that ideal democracy is comprised of three core values - political autonomy, equality of interests, and reciprocity.Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2007 "Develops a 'value theory of democracy' grounded in political autonomy, equality of interests, and reciprocity."--Nina C. Ayoub, Chronicle of Higher Education "[B]rettschneider has produced an innovative, imaginative new perspective on judicial review. He makes a persuasive case that democracy itself demands the legal recognition of certain substantive rights...[N]o one interested in rights or democratic theory can afford to ignore this book."--A.D. Sarat, Choice "Democratic Rights is not only ambitious but distinctive ... and marked by virtues that one does not always find in such books, being clearly written, carefully argued, and admirably concise. It is a book, in short, that is well worth the attention of democratic theorists and anyone who wants to know how far contractualism can take us in political and legal philosophy."--Richard Dagger, Criminal Law and PhilosophyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER ONE The Value Theory of Democracy 7 I. Introduction 7 II. Procedural Democractic Theories 11 III. Procedure-Independent Theories: Epistemic and Democratic 17 IV. Conclusion 26 CHAPTER TWO Paradigmatic Democratic Rights and Citizens as Addressees of Law 28 I. Introduction 28 II. Citizens as Authors and Addressees: Co-Originality and Citizens' Status 29 III. Rule of Law 38 IV. Freedom of Expression and Conscience 44 V. Conclusion 52 CHAPTER THREE Democratic Contractualism: A Framework for Justifiable Coercion 54 I. Introduction 54 II. A Lexicon of Citizenship 55 III. The Principle of Democracy's Public Reason 61 IV. The Inclusion Principle 64 V. Conclusion 69 CHAPTER FOUR Public Justification and the Right to Privacy 71 I. Introduction 71 II. Situating Democratic Privacy: A Critique of Liberal and Republican Accounts 73 III. Relevance and the Boundaries of Privacy 78 IV. Privacy, Equality, and Democratically Justifiable Coercion 85 V. Conclusion 94 CHAPTER FIVE The Rights of the Punished 96 I. Introduction 96 II. The Need for Justification to Criminals qua Citizens: The Problem with Punishment as War 98 III. State Punishment as an Issue of Political Morality: Punishing Criminals qua Persons versus Criminals qua Citizens 101 IV. Democratic Rights Against Punishment 105 V. Capital Punishment 108 VI. Conclusion 112 CHAPTER SIX Private Property and the Right to Welfare 114 I. Introduction 114 II. The Right to Private Property and State Coercion 115 III. Democratic Contractualism and the Right to Private Property 119 IV. Democratic Proposals for Welfare Rights 126 V. Objections 132 VI. Conclusion 135 CHAPTER SEVEN Judicial Review: Balancing Democratic Rights and Procedures 136 I. Introduction 136 II. The Limits of a Pure Outcomes-Based Theory 140 III. The Failure of Pure Procedural Theories 145 IV. Impure Procedural and Outcomes-Based Theories 146 V. The Flaws with Formal Democratic Arguments and the Need for Examples in a Theory of Democracy 150 VI. The Objection from Benevolent Dictatorship 157 VII. Conclusion 158 Conclusion: Democratic Rights and Contemporary Politics 160 Bibliography 163 Index 169
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Princeton University Press The Young Turks Crime against Humanity
Book SynopsisIntroducing evidence from more than 600 secret Ottoman documents, this book demonstrates in unprecedented detail that the Armenian Genocide and the expulsion of Greeks from the late Ottoman Empire resulted from an official effort to rid the empire of its Christian subjects.Trade ReviewCo-Winner of the 2013 Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies One of ForeignAffairs.com's Best Books on the Middle East for 2012 "Akcam has long courted controversy in Turkey, where he was jailed as a student activist in the 1970s before claiming asylum in Germany, but his intellectual courage is beyond question. Moreover, while Turkey's official account of what happened in 1915 is unchanged, Turkish public and intellectual opinion is now much more open to debate. This dispassionate, scholarly study is a valuable contribution to help that debate move on."--Delphine Strauss, Financial Times "[T]he fact that a Turkish historian with access to the Ottoman archives has written this book is of immeasurable significance."--Foreign Affairs "Akcam has long been the most vocal Turkish scholars regarding the Ottoman participation in genocidal acts against Armenians. Here, using Ottoman archival sources, the author makes his case that the Young Turk government had planned prior to WWI to remove the empire's Christian and no-Turkish Muslim population... The author's discussion of the removal and execution of the Armenians is extremely detailed and well documented, and his usage of Ottoman sources, although questioned by Turkish nationalist scholars, is a very important addition to the study of this issue."--Choice "[A] major breakthrough in the our understanding of the social engineering that led to the near destruction of the Armenians of Anatolia, and of the dual-track mechanism for organizing it that the Young Turks employed... [A] must for serious scholars of the Armenian Genocide."--John M. Evans, former U.S. Ambassador to Armenia (2004-2006), American Diplomacy "Taner Akcam's study represents a giant step forward. He produced a most important book, all the more so because the ideology of Islamism has endured, and most recently some of its outstanding proponents have seized power in the Middle East."--Dr. Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East "Taner Akcam's study represents a giant step forward. He produced a most important book, all the more so because the ideology of Islamism has endured, and most recently some of its outstanding proponents have seized power in the Middle East."--Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, Jewish Political Studies Review "The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity is an informative work whose usefulness is greatly enhanced by several well-drawn maps. Akcam draws upon rich archival sources--particularly the Prime Ministerial Ottoman Archive in Istanbul and the archives of the Ministry of the Interior, as well as Turkish court proceedings immediately after the war--to advance an argument about the deliberate 'demographic engineering' planned and implemented by the Ottoman state before and during the First World War."--Peter Gatrell, European Review of History "This book, an edited translation of the now outdated 2008 Turkish original, is a welcome addition to the scholarship."--Ugur Ungor, European History Quarterly "The book is a welcome addition to the scholarship on the Armenian genocide. Clearly structured ... the book offers some captivating discussions."--Ugur Umit Ungor, Journal of Ecclesiastical History "Akcam's impressive brick-by-brick dismantling of the official Turkish historiography will certainly become a landmark study of the Armenian Genocide and will help serve as yet another nail in the coffin of state-sponsored genocide negationism."--Artyom H. Tonoyan, Journal of Church and State "Taner Akcam's work is valuable in providing references for the relationship between the settlement policies of the CUP during WWI and the deportation policy against the non-Muslim population. It contains a great number of sources belonging to both Ottoman and foreign sources."--Hazal Duran, Insight Turkey "[T]his is a powerful and important contribution to many fields of study... I highly recommend this book to both specialists and generalists."--Kent F. Schull, Chicago Journals "The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity is a welcome and important addition to the long list of books by Taner Akcam on the history of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey."--Yair Auron, European Legacy "This is an important book in that its evidence comes primarily from Ottoman documents produced by the perpetrators--sources that were previously thought to be either inaccessible or irrelevant to the issues."--Robert Melson, Holocaust and Genocide StudiesTable of ContentsPreface ix Guide to Ottoman Turkish Words and Names xxxvii Abbreviations xxxix CHAPTER ONE Ottoman Sources and the Question of Their Being Purged 1 CHAPTER TWO: The Plan for the Homogenization of Anatolia 29 CHAPTER THREE: The Aftermath of the Balkan Wars and the"Emptying" of Eastern Thrace and the Aegean Littoral in 1913-14 63 CHAPTER FOUR: The Transformation of Ottoman Policies toward the Ottoman Greeks during the First World War 97 CHAPTER FIVE: The Initial Phase of Anti-Armenian Policy 125 CHAPTER SIX: Final Steps in the Decision-Making Process 157 CHAPTER SEVEN: Interior Ministry Documents and the Intent to Annihilate 203 CHAPTER EIGHT: Demographic Policy and the Annihilation of the Armenians 227 CHAPTER NINE: Assimilation: The Conversion and Forced Marriage of Christian Children 287 CHAPTER TEN: The Question of Confi scated Armenian Property 341 ELEVEN Some Official Denialist Arguments of the Turkish State and Documents from the Ottoman Interior Ministry 373 CHAPTER TWELVE: Toward a Conclusion 449 Selected Bibliography 453 Index 471
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Princeton University Press Making Human Rights a Reality
Book SynopsisIncludes bibliographical references (pages 199-265) and index.Trade ReviewA Winner of the 2015 ISA Annual Best Book Award, International Studies Association "Over the last 60 years, the international community has constructed a global human rights system, embodied in an expanding array of principles, declarations, treaties, courts, and transnationally organized lawyers and activists. Yet, as Hafner-Burton makes clear in this important book, the system's aspirations have far outstripped its ability to enforce international law and protect norms."--Foreign Affairs "The book exemplifies exactly what I am training my doctoral students to do in their writing projects: instead of creating a research design of their own, to review existing scholarship to arrive at an empirically-informed argument relevant to policy-makers that challenges existing wisdom or weighs in constructively in a debate... Hafner-Burton's call for human rights scholarship to be useful to steward states and for steward states to pay attention, resonates loud and clear."--Charli Carpenter, Duck of Minerva "Hafner-Burton effectively bridges the worlds of scholarship and practice in developing a compelling, informed, and accessible argument regarding how to promote global human rights more effectively. This fantastic book makes meaningful contributions to the academic study of human rights and also offers a compelling vision of a practical strategy for advancing human rights that should be of interest to policymakers and practitioners. Ultimately, Hafner-Burton offers a clear-headed and compelling argument in this highly readable book that should be of interest to anyone committed to making human rights a reality."--Debra L. DeLaet, International DialogueTable of ContentsPreface ix Research xiii Introduction xv 1 The Problem of Human Rights 1 Part I The Calculus of Abuse 19 2 Contexts 21 3 Rationales 29 Part II International Law 41 4 The International Human Rights Legal System 44 5 Scholarly Perspectives 67 6 Practitioner Perspectives 86 7 System Reform 116 Part III A Stewardship Strategy 135 8 The Status Quo 138 9 Nongovernmental Organizations 151 10 National Human Rights Institutions 164 11 Triage 176 12 Making More of Law and Power 193 Notes 199 Index 267
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Princeton University Press The Individualists
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Individualists is a superb work of intellectual history. Anyone wishing to understand a modern political denomination encompassing such diverse creatures as the anarchist Albert Jay Nock, the priestess of capitalism Ayn Rand, the politician Rand Paul and the billionaire philanthropist Charles Koch ought to have a copy on his shelf."---Barton Swaim, Wall Street Journal"One of the best guides you’ll find to the libertarian universe."---Jesse Walker, Reason"Zwolinski and Tomasi’s historical survey of the libertarian movement, warts and all, is uncommonly honest and comprehensive. Purely as exegesis, the book is without peer, and anyone who wants to know what libertarianism is should run, not walk, to pick it up."---Matt McManus, Jacobin"Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi [are] both committed libertarians who are appalled at the movement’s turn toward a harder-edged conservatism. . . . As they see it, libertarianism once had a left-of-center valence—and could still reclaim it"---Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker"If there is one lesson to take away from The Individualists, it’s that the meaning of libertarianism has always been contested and in flux, a movement more capacious than it is often given credit for. . . . [It] doesn’t shy away from the ugly parts of libertarianism, but it highlights much more that libertarians can take pride in."---Jacob Grier, Washington Examiner"Some books become good friends. They not only stimulate our minds, but they also speak to our very souls. The Individualists . . . is such a book. . . excellent, wisely written, and beautifully crafted.”"---Bradley J. Birzer, Law & Liberty"This represents the key division running through the delightful new book The Individualists, a fabulous intellectual history from Matt Zwolinksi and John Tomasi, two sympathetic biographers of the ideology who nonetheless acknowledge that their co-ideologists can be a bit impractical, even zany. . . . The Individualists is a clarifying work that both explains and demonstrates how libertarianism operates as a coherent philosophy and how it differs from other members of its philosophical family. Its authors write with a palpable love of ideas and even of the sometimes-goofy, often-curmudgeonly characters who propagated them—and who find the idea of a driver’s license a license to totalitarianism."---Tal Fortgang, Commentary
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Princeton University Press The Young Turks Crime against Humanity The
Book SynopsisIntroducing evidence from more than 600 secret Ottoman documents, this book demonstrates in unprecedented detail that the Armenian Genocide and the expulsion of Greeks from the late Ottoman Empire resulted from an official effort to rid the empire of its Christian subjects.Trade ReviewCo-Winner of the 2013 Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies One of ForeignAffairs.com's Best Books on the Middle East for 2012 "Akcam has long courted controversy in Turkey, where he was jailed as a student activist in the 1970s before claiming asylum in Germany, but his intellectual courage is beyond question. Moreover, while Turkey's official account of what happened in 1915 is unchanged, Turkish public and intellectual opinion is now much more open to debate. This dispassionate, scholarly study is a valuable contribution to help that debate move on."--Delphine Strauss, Financial Times "[T]he fact that a Turkish historian with access to the Ottoman archives has written this book is of immeasurable significance."--Foreign Affairs "Akcam has long been the most vocal Turkish scholars regarding the Ottoman participation in genocidal acts against Armenians. Here, using Ottoman archival sources, the author makes his case that the Young Turk government had planned prior to WWI to remove the empire's Christian and no-Turkish Muslim population... The author's discussion of the removal and execution of the Armenians is extremely detailed and well documented, and his usage of Ottoman sources, although questioned by Turkish nationalist scholars, is a very important addition to the study of this issue."--Choice "[A] major breakthrough in the our understanding of the social engineering that led to the near destruction of the Armenians of Anatolia, and of the dual-track mechanism for organizing it that the Young Turks employed... [A] must for serious scholars of the Armenian Genocide."--John M. Evans, former U.S. Ambassador to Armenia (2004-2006), American Diplomacy "Taner Akcam's study represents a giant step forward. He produced a most important book, all the more so because the ideology of Islamism has endured, and most recently some of its outstanding proponents have seized power in the Middle East."--Dr. Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East "Taner Akcam's study represents a giant step forward. He produced a most important book, all the more so because the ideology of Islamism has endured, and most recently some of its outstanding proponents have seized power in the Middle East."--Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, Jewish Political Studies Review "The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity is an informative work whose usefulness is greatly enhanced by several well-drawn maps. Akcam draws upon rich archival sources--particularly the Prime Ministerial Ottoman Archive in Istanbul and the archives of the Ministry of the Interior, as well as Turkish court proceedings immediately after the war--to advance an argument about the deliberate 'demographic engineering' planned and implemented by the Ottoman state before and during the First World War."--Peter Gatrell, European Review of History "This book, an edited translation of the now outdated 2008 Turkish original, is a welcome addition to the scholarship."--Ugur Ungor, European History Quarterly "The book is a welcome addition to the scholarship on the Armenian genocide. Clearly structured ... the book offers some captivating discussions."--Ugur Umit Ungor, Journal of Ecclesiastical History "Akcam's impressive brick-by-brick dismantling of the official Turkish historiography will certainly become a landmark study of the Armenian Genocide and will help serve as yet another nail in the coffin of state-sponsored genocide negationism."--Artyom H. Tonoyan, Journal of Church and State "Taner Akcam's work is valuable in providing references for the relationship between the settlement policies of the CUP during WWI and the deportation policy against the non-Muslim population. It contains a great number of sources belonging to both Ottoman and foreign sources."--Hazal Duran, Insight Turkey "[T]his is a powerful and important contribution to many fields of study... I highly recommend this book to both specialists and generalists."--Kent F. Schull, Chicago Journals "The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity is a welcome and important addition to the long list of books by Taner Akcam on the history of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey."--Yair Auron, European Legacy "This is an important book in that its evidence comes primarily from Ottoman documents produced by the perpetrators--sources that were previously thought to be either inaccessible or irrelevant to the issues."--Robert Melson, Holocaust and Genocide StudiesTable of ContentsPreface ix Guide to Ottoman Turkish Words and Names xxxvii Abbreviations xxxix CHAPTER ONE Ottoman Sources and the Question of Their Being Purged 1 CHAPTER TWO: The Plan for the Homogenization of Anatolia 29 CHAPTER THREE: The Aftermath of the Balkan Wars and the"Emptying" of Eastern Thrace and the Aegean Littoral in 1913-14 63 CHAPTER FOUR: The Transformation of Ottoman Policies toward the Ottoman Greeks during the First World War 97 CHAPTER FIVE: The Initial Phase of Anti-Armenian Policy 125 CHAPTER SIX: Final Steps in the Decision-Making Process 157 CHAPTER SEVEN: Interior Ministry Documents and the Intent to Annihilate 203 CHAPTER EIGHT: Demographic Policy and the Annihilation of the Armenians 227 CHAPTER NINE: Assimilation: The Conversion and Forced Marriage of Christian Children 287 CHAPTER TEN: The Question of Confi scated Armenian Property 341 ELEVEN Some Official Denialist Arguments of the Turkish State and Documents from the Ottoman Interior Ministry 373 CHAPTER TWELVE: Toward a Conclusion 449 Selected Bibliography 453 Index 471
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Princeton University Press Reluctant Accomplice A Wehrmacht Soldiers Letters
Book SynopsisReluctant Accomplice is a volume of the wartime letters of Dr. Konrad Jarausch, a German high-school teacher of religion and history who served in a reserve battalion of Hitler's army in Poland and Russia, where he died of typhoid in 1942. He wrote most of these letters to his wife, Elisabeth. His son, acclaimed German historian Konrad H. Jarausch,Trade Review"It's difficult or impossible to summon sympathy for a soldier in Hitler's army--even one with no hatred for Jews--but the letters home of Konrad Jarausch do peel away stereotypes."--Neal Gender, American Jewish World "A detailed and disturbing portrait of a so-called average German soldier of the time... Jarausch has edited 350 of his father's letters, sent from occupied Poland and the PoW camps in Russia between 1939 until his death. His father was too old at 40 to be involved in fighting but he was close enough to the front to give gruesome accounts of the enormous Russian death toll in the camps... [W]hat these letters reveal in astonishing detail is that his belief in German superiority begins to weaken as he notices and hears of the murderous German reprisals, shootings and ethnic cleansing."--Louis Nowra, The Australian "Thought-provoking in its ambiguities... By age, temperament and conviction, then, Jarausch seemed designed for the role of skeptic about the Nazi regime. Reluctant Accomplice charts the growth of Jarausch's belief that Hitler's war was a disaster, for humanity and for Germany itself... The case of Jarausch suggests that, in a situation where radical evil holds sway, goodness has to become equally radical in order to combat it."--Adam Kirsch, The Tablet "Reluctant Accomplice: A Wehrmacht Soldier's Letters from the Eastern Front (Princeton University Press), is a revealing glimpse into the mind of a patriotic German who was skeptical of the Nazi leadership and soured on the fascist regime."--Sheldon Kirshner, Canadian Jewish News "Jarausch's voluminous set of correspondence offers a thoughtful and detailed account of life as a German soldier on the Eastern Front... It shows just how much coming to terms with the Nazi past is still an ongoing process."--Hester Vaizey, European History Quarterly "This remarkable compilation of wartime letters is nothing short of one of the most humbling and insightful reads you're likely to come across this year."--David Marx, David Marx Book Reviews "Reluctant Accomplice is a fascinating, important, and highly readable collection. The documents add depth, complexity, and a tragically human dimension to our understanding of how German soldiers experienced the war on the Eastern Front."--Alan E. Steinweis, Journal of Modern History "In this outstanding edition, Konrad H. Jarausch and his assistants Klaus J. Arnold and Eve M. Duffy have done an excellent job. The book contains an impressive biographical essay about the son's search for the father he never knew. Writers may succeed in producing approaches of this kind--at least sometimes. But historians? Usually such attempts fall flat. Yet this edition impressively proves the contrary--it is indeed possible."--Christian Hartmann, English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsPreface vii Foreword by Richard Kohn xiii In Search of a Father: Deaing with the Legacy of Nazi Complicity 1 Part I: The Polish Campaign 45 Letters from Poland, September 1939 to January 1940 53 Part II: Training Recruits 139 Letters from Poland and Germany, January 1940 to August 1941 146 Part III: War of Annihilation in Russia 237 Letters from Russia, August 1941 to January 1942 246 Acknowledgments 367 Notes to "In Search of a Father" 369 Selected Suggestions for Further Reading 381 Index 383
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Princeton University Press Terror in Chechnya Russia and the Tragedy of
Book SynopsisTerror in Chechnya is the definitive account of Russian war crimes in Chechnya. Emma Gilligan provides a comprehensive history of the second Chechen conflict of 1999 to 2005, revealing one of the most appalling human rights catastrophes of the modern era--one that has yet to be fully acknowledged by the international community. Drawing upon eyewitnTrade ReviewWinner of the 2011 Lemkin Award, Institute for the Study of Genocide "Emma Gilligan's book chronicles Moscow's brutal response to the republic's demand for freedom, an onslaught that has shattered Chechen society, fuelled armed resistance across the Caucasus and bred a new generation of violent extremists. She focuses on the second Chechen war, started by Boris Yeltsin in autumn 1999 and pursued by Vladimir Putin when he stepped up from the prime minister's post to the Kremlin in 2000... Her thorough research is enlivened by testimony from Chechen victims of Russian troops and their local henchmen."--Irish Times "Gilligan provides the definitive history of Russian policies toward Chechnya in the period from 1999 to the present. Utilizing first-person interviews and documents from Russian, US, and international nongovernmental organizations, she narrates the events of the First and Second Chechen wars, the rise of Chechen terrorism, and the events at Beslan within a larger context of human rights, making comparisons to other 20th-century situations including those in Bosnia... She has created a history remarkably free of technical jargon and specialist vocabulary that should serve as a good introduction to the subject and region for students and scholars of history, political science, and international law."--Choice "Terror in Chechnya is perhaps the most important book about the Chechen war available in English today."--Anna Brodsky, Russian Review "[Gilligan's] book is an important contribution to the literature. Her multilayered approach, her ability to highlight competing perspectives, and her insights into the way future investigations of human rights abuses could be conducted make her work a valuable contribution to the study of human rights."--Maria Raquel Freire, Perspectives on Politics "[T]he Chechen conflict, as a research subject, should be more frequently addressed to from the various perspectives. Gilligan's book is a solid pioneering piece of work in this direction."--Kiryl Kascian, Central European Journal of International and Security Studies "Emma Gilligan's book is an invaluable guide to the tragic consequences for Chechnya--and Russia--of a twin dynamic that has dominated post-Soviet Russian politics: the use of violence to maintain the territorial dimensions of the state, and the resilience of authoritarian politics."--Simon Cosgrove, Europe-Asia StudiesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Ac know ledg ments xi Introduction 1 PART ONE: THE CRIMES CHAPTER 1: THE BOMBING, 1999? 2000 23 The Prelude to War 23 The Assault on Chechnya 32 CHAPTER 2: THE ZACHISTKA, 2000? 2002 50 The Massacre at Novye Aldy 54 Torture at Chernokozovo 58 Temporary Filtration Points 62 CHAPTER 3: THE DISAPPEARANCES, 2002? 5 77 Th e Early Cases 78 Chechenization 83 Summary Executions and Mass Graves 91 CHAPTER 4: FINDING REFUGE 98 Evacuation Routes 99 The Humanitarian Response and Forced Migrant Status 103 Forced Evictions and the Politics of Normalization 110 Asylum in Eu rope 118 PART TWO: THE RESPONSE CHAPTER 5: CHECHEN RETALIATION 123 Budennovsk and Kizliar 127 Dubrovka and Operation Boomerang 130 Beslan 138 CHAPTER 6: CIVIL SOCIETY REACTS 144 The Journalists: Babitskii, Politkovskaia, Abdulaeva, and Aliev 146 The Moscow Human Rights Community 157 Local Chechen Re sis tance 161 CHAPTER 7: INTERNATIONAL FAILURE 165 The UN Commission on Human Rights 166 The Council of Europe 168 The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) 174 The United States and the War on Terror 177 A War Crimes Tribunal for Chechnya 179 CHAPTER 8: SEEKING JUSTICE IN EU ROPE: CHECHENS AT THE EUROPE AN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS 183 NGO Justice 186 Human Rights Case I: Isaeva, Iusupova and Bazaeva v. Russia 188 Human Rights Cases II and III: Bazorkina v. Russia and Luluev v. Russia 192 Human Rights Case IV: Chitaev and Chitaev v. Rus sia 197 Public Hearings 199 CONCLUSION 204 Notes 213 Bibliography 241 Index 265
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