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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this slim and elegantly written volume, Mr. Goldman has distilled an immense array of arguments about America’s meaning. The book is a pleasure to read." * The Wall Street Journal *"Samuel Goldman’s After Nationalism explores competing narratives regarding American identity. While we can agree that America became independent after the Revolutionary War, we have long disagreed over what type of nation that conflict brought forth. Goldman’s lucid work describes three of the most widely held accounts, each of which reverberates in current debates." * The Washington Post *"[R]ich and thoughtful...Goldman ultimately comes out against what he calls our 'present nationalist revival' (primarily of the Right, and also of the Left). But among this book’s many virtues is Goldman’s ability to present a genuinely sympathetic case for his opponents’ views. If understanding the appeal of a political movement is a precondition for criticizing it, then Goldman is in a better position to offer such criticism than nearly any of his fellow contributors to that crowded subgenre, the Post-2016 Critique of Nationalism." * National Review *"After Nationalism is a gripping, fast-paced, and probing study into how American political leaders and thinkers—ranging from John Jay to Abraham Lincoln to Fredrick Douglass to Dwight Eisenhower—have debated the essence of American identity and what binds the nation together." * Christianity Today *"Goldman’s book can easily be finished in a single day by an enthusiastic reader, clocking in at a mere 153 pages, but he accomplishes much in that short span: nothing less than a compelling reflection on the meaning of our country’s existence....Were more people blessed with Goldman’s perspicacity, especially those of us who argue and write about politics, our country would be far better off than it is now." * Commonweal *"After Nationalism is an important book that merits serious attention from both academics and the general public alike. A true scholar, Goldman displays an impressive mastery of relevant sources and an affinity for synthesis. Moreover, non-specialists will find the presentation free of jargon, accessible, and relevant. Goldman’s place is not among modern masters of long narrative. Rather, he belongs in the company of those theorists and observers who have grappled seriously and insightfully with the elusive concept of national identity." * Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs *"Samuel Goldman offers readers a concise, learned, and profound reflection on the elusive nature of American national identity, whether defined in terms of covenant, crucible, or creed. Given the current divided condition of our polity and culture, I am hard-pressed to conceive of a more timely and essential book." * Andrew Bacevich, president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft *"Nationalism has enduring appeal in different precincts of the American right and left, and Donald Trump's presidency made its defenders seem both more noticeable and more noxious. In this interesting and smart book, Samuel Goldman insists that calls to restore American cohesion are usually either abstract but empty or specific but implausible. The only credible way to unify Americans, Goldman concludes, would start with their plurality." * Samuel Moyn, Yale University *Table of ContentsContents Introduction Chapter 1. The New English Covenant Chapter 2. Broken Crucible Chapter 3. A Warlike Creed Chapter 4. Memory, Nostalgia, Narrative Chapter 5. After Nationalism Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisIn The Black Republic, Brandon R. Byrd explores the ambivalent attitudes that African American leaders in the post-Civil War era held toward Haiti, the first and only black republic in the Western Hemisphere. Following emancipation, African American leaders of all kinds—politicians, journalists, ministers, writers, educators, artists, and diplomats—identified new and urgent connections with Haiti, a nation long understood as an example of black self-determination. They celebrated not only its diplomatic recognition by the United States but also the renewed relevance of the Haitian Revolution.While a number of African American leaders defended the sovereignty of a black republic whose fate they saw as intertwined with their own, others expressed concern over Haiti''s fitness as a model black republic, scrutinizing whether the nation truly reflected the civilized progress of the black race. Influenced by the imperialist rhetoric of their day, many African AmerTrade Review"In this far-ranging and deeply researched book, Brandon R. Byrd examines post–Civil War African American engagement with Haiti. Byrd boldly extends the record on African American views of Haiti right up to the US occupation of Haiti in the early twentieth century...Byrd’s work is an important corrective and deserves praise for bringing together in one study the broad question of Haiti’s presence in African American consciousness. His book will be an immensely valuable reference tool for scholars into the future and is amajor contribution to the growing scholarship on African Americans enduring preoccupation and identification with Haiti." * The Journal of African American History *"Byrd reinterprets intellectual history by placing Haiti at the centre of the Black Atlantic’s freedom dreams. Though scholars suggest that Haiti was fertile ground for Black thinkers to nurture ideas about self-determination, Byrd guides us through their imagined garden, exposing its lushness during the oft-overlooked post-emancipation period. This gorgeously written and rigorously researched text makes an indispensable contribution to Black history and will transform how intellectual historians engage with the Black Atlantic." * American Nineteenth Century History *"[D]eep and elegant . . . Byrd fills a signiflcant gap in scholarship by focusing on the relationship of Haiti and the U.S. during emancipation, Reconstruction, and the establishment of Jim Crow . . . Byrd's argument is striking and sound. His book reminds readers that American identity has always been bound up, for better or worse, with the fate of its neighbors." * Anglican and Episcopal History *"Brandon Byrd's examination of African Americans' concern with Haiti during the years from the US Civil War to the start of the occupation fills an important gap in scholarship. Using materials ranging from diplomatic archives to plays and public celebrations, Byrd shows the many ways in which black Americans imagined the Caribbean republic as their own status changed, from the hopes of the Reconstruction period to the increasingly difficult conditions of the Jim Crow era. He also convincingly demonstrates that any history of US foreign relations during this period needs to take the opinions and actions of African Americans into account." * H-DIPLO *"An innovative intellectual history of black possibility, The Black Republic wonderfully recovers a forgotten period in American history when the future of the world was unknown and Haiti loomed over the political visions of white supremacists and black revolutionaries alike. Brandon R. Byrd demonstrates how merely the idea of Haiti has long been central to the Western political imagination-as a litmus test for black self-determination, a warning about the dangers of Negro rule, or as a crossroads for America's imperial ambitions." * Davarian L. Baldwin, author of Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life *"In this extraordinary book, Brandon R. Byrd both rewrites the history of Black internationalism, locating Haiti firmly at its center, and offers a refreshingly nuanced reconsideration of the many ways that US African Americans engaged with the 'Black Republic' after the American Civil War." * Marlene L. Daut, author of Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism *"Brandon R. Byrd tracks the history of an idea, possibly even an aspiration, of how Haiti haunted African American political thought in myriad ways, while also demonstrating the vexed relationship various U.S. black thinkers had with the first black independent republic. The Black Republic will prove an invaluable work of scholarship that will transform how historians and scholars more generally approach black political thought and black intellectual life." * Minkah Makalani, author of In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917-1939 *Table of ContentsPrologue Introduction. The Ideas of Haiti and Black Internationalism Chapter 1. Emancipation, Reconstruction, and the Quandary of Haiti Chapter 2. The Reinventions of Haiti After Reconstruction Chapter 3. The Vexing Inspiration of Haiti in the Age of Imperialism and Jim Crow Chapter 4. Haiti, the Negro Problem, and the Transnational Politics of Racial Uplift Chapter 5. W. E. B. Du Bois, the Occupation, and Radical Black Internationalism Epilogue Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"If we want to understand the driving forces and the scope of the wide-ranging shifts in our societies on both sides of the Atlantic and beyond, it is essential, then, to be more precise about neoliberalism as an analytical concept and as a tool to grasp historical change. This is one of the goals of Gary Gerstle, Nelson Lichtenstein, and Alice O’Connor’s recent look at the New Deal order and its transformation. Refining the earlier claim of a radical shift brought about by the presidency of Ronald Reagan, the authors instead point at an accumulation of changes which, ultimately, signaled the inception of a new ‘neoliberal order.'" * Reviews in American History *"[An] important synthesis of twentieth-century US history with [a] much-needed framework for the ‘Neoliberal Order’ which could be said to have defined the US political-economy from 1980 to 2016… [A]n extremely valuable book for anyone looking to understand the limits and unfulfilled promise of the New Deal state." * The New England Quarterly *"As both a historical and historiographical marker of persistence and transformation, this outstanding volume invites readers to consider anew the New Deal's legacies and successors. Offering inventive analytical reflections that illuminate recent decades of the American experience, the book's bracing essays prompt fresh thought about periodization, historical causation, the scope of possibility, and a good deal more." * Ira Katznelson, author of Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time *"An ambitious and exciting collection. After twenty-five years of reflection, do historians believe there was a 'New Deal order'? If there was, and it ended, what replaced it? How have understandings of the postwar period changed to accommodate a fuller sense of what the New Deal accomplished and what its limits were? Each essay is compelling and the various questions they address are deeply important." * Kimberly Phillips-Fein, author of Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics *"A timely book that will appeal to anyone interested in American politics from the New Deal to the present. Every chapter, without exception, is excellent." * Daniel Geary, author of Beyond Civil Rights: The Moynihan Report and Its Legacy *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Zachary Callen and Philip Rocco have assembled an impressive collection of articles that represent the important insights into the Trump presidency that APD scholars can provide. The topics and approaches of the contributors to this volume are diverse, but the book's chapters collectively shed fresh light on four classic themes in the APD literature: presidential leadership, the administrative state, policy feedback effects, and the politics of race. Many of the authors draw on seminal works in APD, but they employ these works to show how the Trump presidency complicates or challenges what we thought we knew . . . [F]or anyone interested in placing the Trump presidency in a larger historical context American Political Development and the Trump Presidency is recommended reading." * Congress & The Presidency *"An original and insightful collection, American Political Development and the Trump Presidency develops a deeper understanding of Trump, his campaign, and his governing, and makes the case for American political development as the best approach through which to analyze these unusual times." * Julie Novkov, University at Albany-SUNY *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Early Imperial Republic offers thought-provoking interpretations and insights on the issue of empire, a topic currently commanding great interest among U.S. historians. A timely volume that will attract a substantial readership." * Nancy Shoemaker, University of Connecticut *"The Early Imperial Republic is a timely and compelling interrogation of the formative phase of U.S. empire, its continuities from the British empire, and its dynamics of enactment, resistance, and dissent." * Konstantin Dierks, Indiana University *

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Book SynopsisWhen Ecuador's cut-flower industry took off in the mid-1980s, it rode a wave of international credit peddling and currency speculation that would lead countries of the Global South into successive debt crises and northern financial firms to fortune and dominion. By the start of the twenty-first century, as the Ecuadorian economy collapsed and its ties with international finance became strained, flower exporters rebuilt their businesses around the profitability of their indigenous labor force, drawing local communities deeply into new plantation systems taking over the highlands. In A Feast of Flowers, Christopher Krupa goes inside Ecuador's booming cut-flower industry to chronicle the ways its capitalist pioneers built a booming export industry around a racial ideology, turning indigenous people's purported differences into resources for industrial expansion. At the core of this racial system is a belief, central to postcolonial science and politics in Ecuador, in capitalism's uniqueTrade Review"This brilliant, powerful study is a pioneering ethnography of capitalist production and its long history of degrading lives through racializing structures of inequity. Krupa’s genius is to focus on the chain of intertwining relations, spanning continents and industries, organizational forms and systemic structures, politics and world views that are involved in the production of delicacies prized in North America and made through the labor of Ecuadorian peasants. Because of his innovative work, we come to understand the weight and trajectory of these transformations making Indigenous, subsistence farmers into ‘modern’ workers for a burgeoning, North American flower industry. Krupa’s insights, compelling prose, personal commentaries—and wit—make us take account of our roles in these histories and realize how we are also accomplices in producing chains of inequity. After reading this book, we will never look at roses the same way." * Irene Silverblatt, Duke University *

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Book SynopsisEarly twentieth-century writers, journalists, and activists scrutinized both Puerto Rico's and the US's institutionalized racism and colonialism in an attempt to spur reform, leaving an archive of oft-overlooked political writings. Carlos Alamo-Pastrana uses racial imbrication as a framework for reading this archive of little-known writings.Trade ReviewProvides a significant contribution to the growing scholarship of diasporic studies and multiracial coalitions. Anybody interested in the overlapping histories of antiracist and anticolonial movements should read this book."" - American Historical Review

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Book SynopsisReaching across disciplines and national boundaries, this volume examines cultural heritage work within the context of both democratic institutions and democratic practices, including participatory, deliberative, and direct democratic practices. Case studies highlight how democratic politics and cultural heritage impact and depend upon one another.

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Book SynopsisIn this first full biography of former United States attorney general Janet Reno (1938-2016), Judith Hicks Stiehm describes the independent and unconventional life of a woman who grew up in a rural South Florida homestead and rose to occupy one of the top positions in the United States government.Trade ReviewThe warm biography of a consequential attorney general—atrailblazer whose singular experiences helped her to navigate some of thecountry's thorniest legal challenges."—Foreword Reviews

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Book SynopsisThis paperback edition of M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America adds major new material about Ross Perot's role, the 1991-1992 Senate investigation, and illegal operations authorized by Ronald Reagan.Trade Review"A major critical study on one of the central public myths of our time. It uncovers the political sources and historical development of a national cult of grievance, whose persistence distorts our understanding of the Vietnam War and our responses to current issues in foreign affairs.... An important contribution." -- Richard Slotkin, Olin Professor of English and American Studies, Wesleyan University"Mr. Franklin's meticulously researched book... casts strong light on the Indochina war's ghostly and ghastly afterlife." -- Todd Gitlin * The New York Times Book Review *"Finally, someone has put the Vietnam legacy of alleged MIA survival in its wider political and cultural setting.... A powerful confirmation of the cruelly irresponsible forces that are at work in our country at the highest levels of government.... A gripping account of subversion from above, a book that should be read by all Americans." -- Richard Falk, Milbank Professor of International Law"An important and compelling book.... Franklin raises and answers all of the hardest questions about an enduring piece of political mythology." * The Philadelphia Inquirer *"Franklin's startling and meticulously researched account of the inner history of the POW/MIA issue transforms our understanding of how the Vietnam War ended and how it continues. Every historian of the period... will need to read and contemplate its conclusions." -- Marilyn B. YoungTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface to the Expanded and Updated Edition Preface Prisoners of Myth A National Religion? But Are There Live POWs? Prisoners of the War The Matrix of the POW/MIA Issue The "Go Public" Campaign Enter VIVA and the Bracelets Four More Years of War for the POW/MIAs Peace for the POWs Counting on Discrepancies The POWs in War and Peace The Missing of Peace War Remains VIVA and the National League of Families Continue the War The Pentagon's New Math The Case of the Disappearing POWs The Multiplication of the POWs What Did Happen to the Missing Men? Cambodia Laos Vietnam: Or What the Garwood Case Really Shows "Live Sightings" Why? Reparations and POWs Mythmaking in America Crucifixion and Resurrection Hollywood Heroes I: Bo Gritz and Ronald Reagan Hollywood Heroes II: Gene Hackman and Chuck Norris Hollywood Heroes III: Rambo The Plots Thicken Still Missing Recovery A Story of the Missing and the Missing Story "The Last Chapter"? "POW/MIA" Appendix A: From the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Viet-Nam, Signed in Paris, January 27, 1973 Appendix B: The Secret Nixon Letter Glossary Notes Index

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Book SynopsisSandino's Daughters, Margaret Randall's conversations with Nicaraguan women in their struggle against the dictator Somoza in 1979, brought the lives of a group of extraordinary female revolutionaries to the American and world public. The book remains a landmark. Now, a decade later, Randall returns to interview many of the same women and others.Trade ReviewA book of extraordinary impact. Illustrated with striking portrait photos, it is the product of interviews with scores of women who fought and won in the Sandinista Liberation Front. . . . The women speak for themselves. And they speak with compelling power. . . . Every story in this book is different, every woman memorable. . . . [This] is a book to remind us all of what the best in us can be. * Calgary Herald *Table of ContentsOne: From AMPRONAC 1 Two: The Commanders 40 Three: Amada Pineda 80 Four: Daisy Zamora 94 Five: Nora Astorga 116 Six: The Women in Olive Green 129 Seven: Sister Martha Women of Hope 150 Eight: Gladys Baez 163 Nine: Mothers and Daughters 184 Ten: Profound Changes 204

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Book SynopsisThe United States and Western Europe are experiencing a new and important cultural and political development. In this book, Jeffrey Kaplan and Leonard Weinberg argue that there now exists a set of conditions common to the United States and Western Europe that draws right wing radicals on both sides of the Atlantic closer together.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Part One. The Forest Chapter 1. Overview ​Chapter 2. The Euro-American Radical Right: A Brief History ​Chapter 3. The Politics of Right-Wing Extremism ​Chapter 4. The Ties that Band: The Euro-American Radical Right's "Special Relationship" Part Two. The Trees ​Chapter 5. The Postwar Years Through the 1970s: An Internal History ​Chapter 6. The Transatlantic Race Movement Today: At the Vanguard ​Chapter 7. The Communal Dream ​Chapter 8. Tommy Ryden: A National Socialist Life Conclusion. Fade to Black: Final Observations Notes Index

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Book Synopsis Organized around three central themes-family, youth, and community; democratization, citizenship, and political participation; and immigration and transnationalism-this book argues that, at the local level, religion helps people, especially women and youths, solidify their identities and confront the challenges of the modern world. Trade Review"The book stands out for the sharpness and freshness of the presentation on transnational groups. Valuable."Table of Contents"The only way I can walk" / Anna Peterson Religion and family / Rosa Castro Aguilar Popular religion and the (Re)construction of community in Yungay / Philip Williams Believers and neighbors / Hortensia Munoz Faith and citizenship . Rosa Castro Aguilar Rebuilding community in the wake of war / Ileana Gomez Rethinking transnationalism / Larissa Ruiz Baia Youth gangs and religion among salvadorans in Washington and El Salvador Ileana Gomez and Manual Vasquez "Upwards, never down" / Anna Peterson and Manuel Vasquez The global and the local / Anna Peterson, Manuel Vasquez, and Philip Williams

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Book SynopsisIsraeli Palestinians make up about 20 percent of Israeli citizens and, for the most part, live separate lives from their Jewish neighbors—lives fraught with political, social, and economic divisions. Attempts to initiate interactions between Palestinians and Jews outside official frameworks have often dissolved under political and economic pressures.One lasting effort began when the School for Peace was established in 1976 in Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam, a joint model village set up in 1972 by a group of Jewish and Palestinian Israelis. Since its inception, the School for Peace has conducted hundreds of encounter activities to help create a more authentic and egalitarian dialogue between the Palestinian minority and Jewish majority.This volume is the product of the insight and experiences of both Arabs and Jews at the School for Peace over the last two decades. Essays address topics such as strategies for working with young people, development of effecTrade ReviewThis book contains very important insights into Israeli Arab attitudes towards citizenship in Israel. . . . The two groups need to negotiate a new social and political contract and this book offers critical guidance in this urgent process. -- Joseph V. Montville * director, Preventive Diplomacy Program, Center for Strategic and International S *This volume provides a significant contribution to the field of peace studies and conflict resolution. It captures the unique work of Neve Shalom/Wahat al Salam on identity dialogue and power relations. . . . highly recommended reading. -- Mohammed Abu-Nimer * author of Nonviolence and Peace Building in Islam: Theory and Practice *This book contains very important insights into Israeli Arab attitudes towards citizenship in Israel. . . . The two groups need to negotiate a new social and political contract and this book offers critical guidance in this urgent process. -- Joseph V. Montville * director, Preventive Diplomacy Program, Center for Strategic and International S *This volume provides a significant contribution to the field of peace studies and conflict resolution. It captures the unique work of Neve Shalom/Wahat al Salam on identity dialogue and power relations. . . . highly recommended reading. -- Mohammed Abu-Nimer * author of Nonviolence and Peace Building in Islam: Theory and Practice *Table of ContentsIntergroup conflict and its reduction: a social-psychological perspective / Arie Nadler Jewish-Palestinian relations in Israel: the planned encounter as a microcosm / Ramzi Suleiman Awareness, identity, and reality: the school for peace approach / Rabah Halabi and Nava Sonnenschein Liberate the oppressed and their oppressors: encounters between university students / Raba Halabi, Nava Sonnenschein, and Ariellla Friedman Reconstructing identity through the encounter with the other: the facilitators' training course / Rabah Halabi The courage to face a complex reality: encounters for youth / Michal Zak, Rqabah Halabi, and Wafa'a Zriek-Srour Language as a bridge and an obstacle / Rabah Halabi and Michal Zak Cofacilitation: a symmetrical dialogue in an asymmetrical reality / Michal Zak and Rabah Halabi "Home group": the uninational framework / Nava Sonnenschein and Ahmad Hijazi Identity processes in intergroup encounters / Gabriel Horenczyk Epilogue: Toward a humane and equal relationship / Rabah Halabi

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Book SynopsisEnvironmental issues have become increasingly prominent in local struggles, national debates, and international policies. This volume provides a toolkit of vital concepts and a set of research models and analytic frameworks for researchers at all levels.Trade ReviewPolitical ecology is a strong and growing interdisciplinary field of inquiry, and this book makes a welcome and unique contribution. Susan Paulson and Lisa Gezon have put together an engaging and well-written collection that is full of fresh ideas and applications related to current theoretical debate, concepts and methods. -- Marianne Schmick * Director, Tropical Conservation and Development Program, University of Florida *Political ecology is a strong and growing interdisciplinary field of inquiry, and this book makes a welcome and unique contribution. Susan Paulson and Lisa Gezon have put together an engaging and well-written collection that is full of fresh ideas and applications related to current theoretical debate, concepts and methods. -- Marianne Schmick * Director, Tropical Conservation and Development Program, University of Florida *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Place, Power, Difference: Multiscale Research at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century by Liza L. Gezon and Susan Paulson 2. Politics, Ecologies, Genealogies by Susan Paulson, Lisa L. Gezon, and Michael Watts PART ONE: Policy and Environment 3. The Fight for the West: A Political Ecology of Land-Use Conflicts in Arizona by Mette J. Brogden and James B. Greenberg 4. Whose Water? Political Ecology of Water Reform in Zimbabwe by Anne Ferguson and Bill Derman 5. The New Calculus of Bedouin Pastoralism in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by Andrew Gardner 6. Land Tenure and Biodiversity: An Exploration in the Political Ecology of Murang'a District, Kenya by A. Fiona D. Mackenzie 7. The Political Ecology of Consumption: Beyond Greed and Guilt by Josiah McC. Heyman PART TWO: Social Hierarchies in Local-Global Relationships 8. Finding the Global in the Local: Environmental Struggles in Northern Madagascar by Lisa L. Gezon 9. Symbolic Action and Soil Fertility: Political Ecology and the Transformation of Space and Place in Tonga by Charles J. Stevens 10. Gendered Practices and Landscapes in the Andes: The Shape of Asymmetrical Exchanges by Susan Paulson 11. Undermining Modernity: Protecting Landscapes and Meanings among the Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia by Alf Hornborg PART THREE: Forest Visions 12. Shade: Throwing Light on Politics and Ecology in Contemporary Pakistan by Michael R. Dove 13. A Global Political Ecology of Bioprospecting by Hanne Svarstad 14. The Emergence of Collective Ethnic Identities and Alternative Political Ecologies in the Colombian Pacific Rainforest by Arturo Escobar and Susan Paulson Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis translation introduces English-language audiences to Kourouma's irreverent view of the machinations of the African dictators who played the West against the East during the 30 years of the cold war.

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Book SynopsisVolume 12 of the Secretary of State Series covers June to October 1806, during which Madison waited in vain for his diplomatic initiatives with Great Britain, Spain, and France to yield results, and received mounting evidence of Aaron Burr's suspicious activities in the West.

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Book SynopsisIn the controversial legacy of the Nixon presidency, the administration's effort to curb and control the spread of the world's weapons of mass destruction is often overlooked. Patrick Garrity and Erin Mahan explore and assess Nixon's record, addressing not only nuclear but also biological and chemical weapons.Trade ReviewEminently readable and surprisingly fast-paced. One of the best case studies I have read on the significance of bureaucratic politics for international negotiation. " - Thomas A. Schwartz, Vanderbilt University, author of Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography

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Book SynopsisIn the early 1990s, Albania, arguably Europe's most closed and repressive state, began a startling transition out of forty years of self-imposed Communist isolation. Albanians who were not allowed to practice religion, travel abroad, wear jeans, or read decadent Western literature began to devour the outside world. They opened cafés, companies, and newspapers. Previously banned rock music blared in the streets. Modern Albania offers a vivid history of the Albanian Communist regime's fall and the trials and tribulations that led the country to become the state it is today. The book provides an in-depth look at the Communists' last Politburo meetings and the first student revolts, the fall of the Stalinist regime, the outflows of refugees, the crash of the massive pyramid-loan schemes, the war in neighboring Kosovo, and Albania's relationship with the United States. Fred Abrahams weaves together personal experience from more than twenty years of work in Albania, interviews with key AlbTrade Review"The book really shines when Abrahams presents the results of his scrupulous search for the few, brave souls who dared to raise protests against the communist regime." * Transitions Online *"[Abrahams] account is useful for a number of reasons. For example, it clearly encourages questions about external involvement, especially the Wests decision 1) to tolerate corruption, authoritarian policies and monopolization of power for the sake of regional short-term stability, and 2) to get rid of regimes once they stop serving their own interests." * Slavonic and East European Review *"[A]ssiduously researched, compulsively readable . . . Abrahams speaks the language, has read the documents, witnessed many of the key episodes for himself, and interviewed almost every player of significance. Albania is a country filled with wily, resourceful, worldly, funny, and fatalistic people, and with their many contributions Abrahamss narrative is as darkly farcical as it is tragic." -- Andrew Gumbel * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Abrahams has been afforded the opportunity to 'peer behind the curtain of a society that is for many outsiders opaque'. Yet it is his character portraits, which are reminiscent of both Ryszard Kapuscinski and John le Carre, which bring this richly woven work of narrative non-fiction to life." -- Will Nicoll * The Spectator *"In this intimate portrait of the country, he explains how the old regime--the last of the Eastern European communist regimes to fall--slowly crumbled and a democratic party, largely student-based, formed, faltered, and gave way to a transfigured communist party." -- Robert Legvold,Foreign Affairs"The canon on modern Albanian political history in English is small but Fred Abraham's book is now a large contribution to it. Excellent and above all readable; anyone interested in contemporary Albanian and Balkan history should be grateful that he has committed his deep knowledge about the country, and above all its travails in the 1990s, to paper." -- Tim Judah,author of Kosovo: War and RevengeTable of ContentsContents Part I. Out of the Dark: The Leader's Demise, 1985-1990 1. Hoxha's Heart 15 2. Fences Fall 28 3. The System Shakes 41 Part II. Blinded by Light: The Democratic Movement, 1990-1992 4. Student City 51 5. A Democratic Party 65 6. Vote for the Future 84 Part III. Red to Blue: Democratic Party Rules, 1992-1996 7. Rebuild the State 113 8. One-Party Town 127 9. The Fall 145 Part IV. Blinded by Gold: Crash of the Pyramids, 1997 10. Profiteers' Pact 169 11. Revolt 180 12. A Horrible End 204 Part V. Return to Red: Ex-Communists Rule, 1998 13. Democracy 2.0 225 14. Illegal but Necessary 232 15. A Shot, a Coup 236 Part VI. Red and Black: The Kosovo War, 1998-1999 16. Argument of Force 247 17. A Formula 256 18. To War 266 Part VII. Black and Blue: Battered Politics of Transition, 2000-2014 19. Busts in Our Heads 275 20. The Doctor Is Back 281 21. Pendulum Swing 292 Epilogue 297

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Book SynopsisWhether securitized neoliberalism effectively spells the end of political liberalism as we know it today.Trade ReviewThe contributors to this volume disassemble some familiar contemporary binaries to reveal the contradictions and surprising continuities that comprise them. The result is a powerful and convincing collection that integrates diverse phenomena(in)security, neoliberalism, citizenship, law, violencethat too often are understood in isolation. Historical, ethnographic, and comparative, the collection will appeal to scholars and students in a variety of disciplines, and is sure to become a standard reference in critical studies of security. -- Daniel M. Goldstein,author of Outlawed: Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian CityThis book explains many mysterious things: like the strange, increasingly violent permutations of the state as it responds to mafias, ethnicity, and & NGOs; and the puzzling emptying out and uncanny revivification of law, freedom, democracy, and identity. Basically, what is really going on in the world today. It is sobering, spirited, and necessary, connecting places and ideas well need to think with and beyond to get out of here alive. -- Diane M. Nelson,author of Reckoning: The Ends of War in GuatemalaCumulative decades of research come together in Rhetorics of Insecurity to provide readers with a wide-ranging collection of ethnographies, historical analyses, political theories, and discursive critiques. As many scholars who study neoliberalism will attest, there is an academic tendency to homogenize its effects, and the breadth of this text is one of its key strengths. The authors all provide compelling and unique perspectives, and each essay is well-written. * International Journal of Communications *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments ixIntroduction. States of (In)security: Coming to Terms with an Erratic Terrain 1Zeynep Gambetti and Marcial Godoy-Anativia1 Free in the Forest: Popular Neoliberalism and the Aftermath of War in the US Pacific Northwest 20Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing2 Autochthony, Citizenship, and (In)security: New Turns in the Politics of Belonging in Africa and Elsewhere 40Peter Geschiere3 Congolite: Elections and the Politics of Autochthony in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 69Stephen Jackson4 Securing "Security" amid Neoliberal Restructuring:Civil Society and Volunteerism in Post-1990 Turkey 93Yasemin Ipek Can5 "I'm No Terrorist, I'm a Kurd": Societal Violence, the State, and the Neoliberal Order 125Zeynep Gambetti6 Public-Private Partnerships in the Industry of Insecurity 153Nandini SundarNYUP Gambetti Godoy-Anativia Final.indd 7 6/12/13 10:39 AMviii Contents7 Does Globalization Breed Ethnic Violence? 175Georgi M. Derluguian8 Guarded (In)visibility: Violencias and the Labors of Paralegality in the Era of Collapse 196Rossana Reguillo Cruz9 The Securitarian Society of the Spectacle 213Nicholas De GenovaContributors 243Index 247

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Book SynopsisIn the United States, there exists increasing uneasiness about the predominance of self-interest in both public and private life, growing fear about the fragmentation and privatization of American society. This title examines what is meant by virtue, analyzing various historical and analytical meanings of virtue, and notions of liberal virtue.

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Book SynopsisIn the United States, there exists increasing uneasiness about the predominance of self-interest in both public and private life, growing fear about the fragmentation and privatization of American society. This title examines what is meant by virtue, analyzing various historical and analytical meanings of virtue, and notions of liberal virtue.

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Book SynopsisDiscusses the nature and significance of Hitchens's contribution to the world of ideas and public debateTrade ReviewThe 52 essays, articles, and exchanges are among the best in post-9/11 literature, and shimmer with pugilistic intelligence and wit. * Capitol File Magazine *Most of Hitchenss reasons for keeping the hawkish faith can be found in this collection. * New York Review of Books *The controversial pundit dishes out and takes punishment in this anthology of rancorous essays by him and the leftist comrades he abandoned to embrace the invasion of Iraq. . . .There's red meat aplenty for pro- and anti-Hitchens readers. * Publishers Weekly *Cottee and Cushman have produced not only a priceless collection of Christopher Hitchenss key writings over the past few years; they have also documented wonderfully the most essential characteristics of the post-9/11 Anglo-American left. Christopher Hitchens and His Critics is must reading for anybody interested in the big topics befalling our lives. -- Andrei S. Markovits,University of MichiganHitchenss style is so dazzling it is easy to forget that it is rooted in a solid belief in secularism, feminism, and reason. These are the core principles of the Left and we have no choice but to defend them. As they are assaulted by psychopathic Islamists abroad and betrayed by empty headed phonies at home, it is good to know that Hitchens is on our side. -- Nick Cohen,columnist * The Observer *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Terror, Iraq, and the Left Part I: Hitchens on TerrorPart II: Hitchens on IraqPart III: Hitchens on the LeftPart IV: Critical Responses and Exchanges Afterword Christopher Hitchens About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisA wickedly funny history of America in its most memorable imagesTrade Review"The true stars of this book are the cartoons themselves. During a period when an entire government seems drawn by a sartirist, its instructive to look back at a history of politics reduced to two dimensions." * Village Voice *"[A] handsome and bracingly irreverent history of the form." * http://www.nysun.com/article/63426>New York Sun *"Not just a story of cartoons but a history of America through cartoons. A great gift book." * Brian Lehrer Live *"Dewey makes a strong case that the political cartoons has played a uniquely formative role in American history." * Cartoon News *"An afternoon with The Art of Ill Will is time well spent, especially when followed by Funny Times, the cartoon monthly, and The Colbert Report." * New York Times Book Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Presidents 2. Wars and Foreign Relations 3. Ethnic, Racial, and Religious Issues 4. Local and Domestic Politics5. Business and Labor Notes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisExamines the reintegration of former child soldiers in Sierra Leone. Based on 18 months of participant-observer ethnographic fieldwork and ten years of follow-up research, this book argues that there is a fundamental disconnect between the Western idea of the child soldier and the individual lived experiences of the child soldiers of Sierra Leone.Trade Review"Essential reading for everyone who cares about the reintegration of young people who have associated with armed forces or groups. With the eye of a skilled anthropologist, Susan Shepler illuminates the enormity of the gap between Western understandings of childhood, recruitment, and reintegration and the lived experiences, beliefs, and values of young people as they navigate the complexities of post-conflict Sierra Leone." -- Mike Wessells,Columbia University"Drawing on detailed ethnographic research, this compelling account of the complex forces shaping young peoples reintegration following the war in Sierra Leone is an essential read for anyone interested in the social impacts of globalization, the changing nature of childhood or the challenges of intervening in societies after conflict." -- Jo Boyden,University of Oxford"The book is a wonderful, practical, policy oriented introduction to just how problematic it is to make childhood a universal, even during war and aftermath." * Journal for Peace and Justice Studies *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables List of Acronyms Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Youth in Sierra Leone 2. Child Protection Deployed 3. Learning "Child Soldier" across Contexts 4. Informal Reintegrators, Communities, and NGOs 5. Distinctions in the Population of "Child Soldiers": RUF and CDF, Boys and Girls Conclusion Notes ReferencesIndex About the Author

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Book SynopsisTurns to the past to trace the cultural history of computers. The author charts the struggles to define the meanings of these machines over more than a century, from the failure of Charles Babbage's difference engine in the 19th century to struggles over file swapping, open source software, and the future of online journalism.Trade ReviewElectric Dreams is at once a synthetic history of the personal computer, a history of representations of the computer, and a treatise on how to think about computing as a cultural phenomenon. Friedmans original analyses and clear style make the book a pleasure to read. -- Jonathan Sterne,author of The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound ReproductionThis engaging but ultimately unsatisfying book examines the utopian sphere — a public forum in which alternative futures can be imagined and debated - that arose in response to computing innovations, ranging from Charles Babbages Difference Engine to web logs -- Kenneth Lipartito,Florida International University[T]he general reader will thank Mr. Friedman. * Studies in American Culture *Electric Dreams is a very solid cultural studies offering, smoothly written and largely steering clear of heavy-duty theory, making it an almost ideal candidate for undergraduate courses and as an introduction for newcomers to the field. * Science Fiction Reader *This book is for anyone who owns or uses a computer. . . . Computers permeate our culture, but we have little idea of where they came from and why we use them the way we do. Electric Dreams offers a mirror to our own hopes, desires, and fears, and empowers us as a community to use technology for our own benefit. * M/C Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Dialectic of Technological Determinism Part I Mainframe Culture1 Charles Babbage and the Politics of Computer Memory 2 Ideologies of Information Processing: From Analog to Digital3 Filming the "Electronic Brain" Part II The Personal Computer4 The Many Creators of the Personal Computer 5 Apple's 1984 6 The Rise of the Simulation Game Part III The Interpersonal Computer7 Imagining Cyberspace 8 Dot-com Politics 9 Beyond Napster 10 Linux and Utopia Conclusion: Cybertopia Today Notes BibliographyIndex About the Author

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Book SynopsisSince the 1989, fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, Romania, arguably the most regimented of states in the Soviet bloc, has struggled with the transition from totalitarian state to democratic nation. This title provides an overview of Romania's political and social history, focusing on both its national identity as well as legacy of Soviet rule.Trade Review"Gallagher thinks in neat, clear categories and writes with a style to match." * Foreign Affairs *"Modern Romania makes a significant contribution to the political history of Romania and Central Europe, as well as to the literature on the dynamics of political and social change in the region. The book has special merit in identifying a number of factors that threaten the stability of democracy in Romania—the most insidious of these being the endemic corruption which affects all aspects of society. Gallagher sounds a timely warning note about Romanias future." -- Dennis Deletant,author of Ceausescu and the Securitate"[T]his volume serves as an excellent introduction...For those familiar with the country, Gallagher offers much food for thought, and although some may not agree with the tenor of his conclusions, there can be no doubt that he has pointed to some of the important issues that Romania must grapple with as it enters this new phase of European Union membership." * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements BiographiesAcronyms Maps Introduction Chapters CONTENTS 1. Democracy constrained by Backwardness, 1866-1945 2. Return to Underdevelopment: the Imposition and Consequences of Communist Rule, 1945-1989 3. Comrades Discard the Ideology but Conserve 4. Romania Adrift, 1992-1996 5. 'In Office but not in Power': Constantinescu's Honeymoon, 1996-1998 6. A Broken-backed Coalition 7. Staggering to the Finishing Line 8. Taking Things to Extremes: the 2000 Elections and their Outcome 9. A Messiah for Romania? Corneliu Vadim Tudor and the Greater Romania Party 10. Looters of the State by Appointment of Brussels: Return of the Social Democrats, 2001-2003 Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Deconstruction is not like foreign imports now 'made in America' but claims a more original relation to American literary and critical thought. These essays, which include a fascinating deconstructive analysis of a recent Supreme Court decision on hate speech, are engaging and provocative dispatches from practitioners of this controversial movement, and take up crucial issues in architecture, law, feminism, philosophy and literature." -- Geoffrey Hartman,English and Comparative Literature, Yale University"Written by some of the most accomplished critical theorists in the world, including Derrida himself, Deconstruction is/in America is more of a celebration than a defense. Excellently edited, {Niko, I think this is a dangling participle - KS} one reads of new horizons and of fresh dislocations. The resilience and pointedness of the contributions set the tone for the volume as a whole." -- Henry Sussman,author of Afterimages of Modernity"It has become common to speak of deconstruction as having been simply displaced by political concerns. The essays in this volume seek to bring out what was—dare I say?—always already political in deconstruction, while at the same time suggesting that politics is, or could be, deconstructive. Deconstruction Is/In America offers a provocative vision of a different politics." -- Steven Rendall,Editor, Comparative Literature

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Book SynopsisDiscusses the state of the field of Political Science. This book talks about the usefulness of rational choice theory; the ethical limits of pluralism; the use (and misuse) of empirical research; the divorce between political theory and empirical science; and the connection between political science scholarship and political struggles.Trade ReviewDevotees of the perestroika movement will find many of the chapters reinforce their views of the field. . . . Recommended. * Choice *A bold call to rethink political science. The authors imagine a discipline that challenges power, challenges society, and challenges the ways we think. Making Political Science Matter is a wise, erudite, broad-ranging, sometimes witty gauntlet tossed before contemporary scholarship. It is more than a book, it is a movement. -- James A. Morone,author of Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American HistoryA significant and thoughtful discussion of key issues in the philosophy of social science, one designed to encourage a richer variety of methodological work in political science. -- Kristen Renwick Monroe,editor of Perestroika! The Raucous Rebellion in Political ScienceThis edited collection offers and up-to-date and very readable discussion of knowledge, research, and method in the political sciences and social studies more generally, suitable for academics and doctoral students alike. -- Thomas Ahrens,University of WarwickThis well-written and accessible collection will be an invaluable resource for students and academics in social sciences in general. * Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography *Articulates and debates the idea that academic work should be primarily concerned with addressing the largest and most immediate challenges faced by societies. * Urban Studies *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Reframing the Debate Brian Caterino and Sanford F. SchramPart I: The Flyvbjerg Debate1. Return to Politics: Perestroika, Phronesis, and Post-Paradigmatic Political ScienceSanford F. Schram2. The Perestroikan Challenge to Social Science David D. Laitin3. A Perestroikan Straw Man Answers Back: David Laitin and Phronetic Political ScienceBent Flyvbjerg4. A Statistician Strikes Out: In Defense of Genuine Methodological DiversityPatrick Thaddeus Jackson5. Re?ections on Doing Phronetic Social Science: A Case StudyCorey S. Shdaimah and Roland W. StahlPart II: Phronesis Reconsidered6. Social Science in Society Theodore Schatzki7. Power and Interpretation Brian Caterino8. Contesting the Terrain: Flyvbjerg on Facts, Value, Knowledge, and PowerMary Hawkesworth9. The Bounds of Rationality Stewart Clegg10. Making Intuition Matter Leslie Paul ThielePart III: Making Political Science Matter11. Conundrums in the Practice of Pluralism Peregrine Schwartz-Shea12. Unearthing the Roots of Hard Science: A Program for Graduate StudentsGreg J. Kasza13. Political Science and Political Theory: The Heart of the MatterDavid Kettler14. Finding New Mainstreams: Perestroika, Phronesis, and Political Science in the United StatesTimothy W. LukeReferences About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisChronicles the American Christian relationship with Israel, tracing first mainline Protestant and then evangelical support for ZionismTrade Review"Just as liberal and conservative Protestants embraced Israel at different points in the twentieth-century, so, too, will readers embrace this book for its well-written and captivating account of American Protestant support for Israel." * American Jewish History *"A pioneering history" * American Historical Review *"TheFervent Embrace is the product of remarkable research and shows a commendable mastery and balance. A welcome contribution." -- Stephen Spector,Stony Brook University""Deeply researched, insightful, and sharply focused, The Fervent Embrace appears at a time when foreign/international relations history is waking up to the crucial importance of religion in shaping policy. Carenens cutting-edge, discerning analysis will prove valuable to scholars and students of foreign relations history, domestic politics, and religious studies." -- Frank Castigliola,University of Connecticut"Highly recommended [for] all academic levels/libraries." * CHOICE *"The Fervent Embrace takes a broad approach that sweeps up not simply evangelicals but also, most intriguingly, the mainline church...The Fervent Embrace is to be commended as thorough and evenhanded." * Christianity Today *"Carenen tells this complex story of shifting Protestant allegiances evenhandedly and, more often than not, with clarity [...] she is especially thorough in her survey of mainline Protestants." * Christian Century *"Carenen's book is particularly welcome as a call for seeing more complexity in the history of American Protestants' views of Zionism." * H-Net Reviews *"This will be the definitive account." * Politics and Religion *"Stellar...With clarity of purpose and a keen eye for colorful detail and big picture significance, Carenen manages to offer historians a deeply textured and compelling assessment of this vital yet understudies dimension of religion and politics in the twentieth-century United States." * Journal of American History *"Carenen tells a compelling and well-documented story. She has done a service to those who study American attitudes toward Israel and Christian-Jewish relations with this complex narrative." * The American Jewish Archives Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction List of Abbreviations 1 American Protestants and Jewish Persecution, 1933-1937 2 American Protestants Respond to Zionism and the Jewish Genocide in Europe, 1938-1948 Case Study 1. The Myth of Christian Intervention, Christian Guilt, and the Martin Niemoller Controversy 3 The Challenges of Statehood, 1948-1953 4 Political and Theological Dissent, 1953-1967 Case Study 2. "Of course, down in Virginia, you do have to worry about Southern Baptists": Samuel Newman, American Protestants, and Post-World War II Jewish-Christian Dialogue 5 The Tide Turns, 1967-1973 Case Study 3. The Individual and the U.S.-Israeli Alliance: Ursula Niebuhr, the Jerusalem Committee, and Christians Concerned for Israel viii | Contents 6 A New U.S.-Israeli Alliance, 1973-1979 7 The Political and Religious Landscape Shifts, 1980-2008 Notes Selected Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisA fascinating insiders look at the motivations, costs and consequences of deliberately violating the law as a strategy of social changeTrade ReviewThis book gives an account of people who 'deliberately and publicly violate the law as expressions of protest against perceived racial, economic, or social injustice' (p. viii). The accounts are generated primarily through interviews with 21 activists who have transgressed the law. They are used to illuminate both the personal and social consequences of dissent and provide a particular insight into the workings of the United States police and justice systems. -- Bruce Curtis * Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology *Crimes of Dissent will immediately engage students and activists alike. Using clear and concise first-person narratives, the book explains why and how people engage in civil disobedience and the ways that law enforcement responds. The reader stands to learn important concepts and ideas regarding political dissent, its long history, and the theory behind it. -- Luis A. Fernandez,author of Policing Dissent: Social Control and the Anti-Globalization MovementCivil disobedience is the voice of our consciences, the courage which mocks our fear of authority, the point where right defies rules. This book wisely and elegantly charts the methods and philosophy of dissent, it is a must read and a good read for anyone concerned with the injustices of our times. -- Jock Young,author of The Vertigo of Late ModernityThis book is a timely reminder of the long history of the criminalization of dissent and civil disobedience that from time to time gets buried under the mass of numbers and figures so loved by many criminologists. Here we get the real story of dissent as narrated by dissenters themselves and the effects of the criminalization process on the everyday lives of both their families and themselves. -- Mike Presdee,author of Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crimeis a highly engaging examination of contemporary forms and meanings of political activism in the United States. Written from the perspective of the scholar activist, the book is one part promotion of law violating forms of political action - & crimes of dissent - and one part handbook on civil disobedience. * Socialist Studies: the Journal of the Society for Socialist Studies *As a window into the contemporary American subculture of dissent, Crimes of Dissent is a fascinating read. The current American microcosm of dissentwhich is at turns strange and familiar, idealistic and pragmatic, ludicrous and lucidis revealed in full glory. * Law and Politics Book Review *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1 Crime and Dissent 2 Society and Its Discontents 3 Dissent as "Pure" Crime 4 Policing Dissent 5 Working the System 6 The Impact of Dissent Appendix: Activist Profiles Notes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisA fascinating insider's look at the motivations, costs and consequences of deliberately violating the law as a strategy of social changeTrade ReviewThis book gives an account of people who 'deliberately and publicly violate the law as expressions of protest against perceived racial, economic, or social injustice' (p. viii). The accounts are generated primarily through interviews with 21 activists who have transgressed the law. They are used to illuminate both the personal and social consequences of dissent and provide a particular insight into the workings of the United States police and justice systems. -- Bruce Curtis * Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology *Crimes of Dissent will immediately engage students and activists alike. Using clear and concise first-person narratives, the book explains why and how people engage in civil disobedience and the ways that law enforcement responds. The reader stands to learn important concepts and ideas regarding political dissent, its long history, and the theory behind it. -- Luis A. Fernandez,author of Policing Dissent: Social Control and the Anti-Globalization MovementCivil disobedience is the voice of our consciences, the courage which mocks our fear of authority, the point where right defies rules. This book wisely and elegantly charts the methods and philosophy of dissent, it is a must read and a good read for anyone concerned with the injustices of our times. -- Jock Young,author of The Vertigo of Late ModernityThis book is a timely reminder of the long history of the criminalization of dissent and civil disobedience that from time to time gets buried under the mass of numbers and figures so loved by many criminologists. Here we get the real story of dissent as narrated by dissenters themselves and the effects of the criminalization process on the everyday lives of both their families and themselves. -- Mike Presdee,author of Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crimeis a highly engaging examination of contemporary forms and meanings of political activism in the United States. Written from the perspective of the scholar activist, the book is one part promotion of law violating forms of political action - & crimes of dissent - and one part handbook on civil disobedience. * Socialist Studies: the Journal of the Society for Socialist Studies *As a window into the contemporary American subculture of dissent, Crimes of Dissent is a fascinating read. The current American microcosm of dissentwhich is at turns strange and familiar, idealistic and pragmatic, ludicrous and lucidis revealed in full glory. * Law and Politics Book Review *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1 Crime and Dissent 2 Society and Its Discontents 3 Dissent as "Pure" Crime 4 Policing Dissent 5 Working the System 6 The Impact of Dissent Appendix: Activist Profiles Notes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisFor every survivor of a crime, there is a criminal who forces his way into the victim's thoughts long after the act has been committed. This is the story of Pec, Kosovo's most destroyed city and the site of the earliest and worst atrocities of the war, through the lives of two men-one Serb and one Kosovar.Trade ReviewA heart-rending tale of the execution of innocents, told with eloquence and compassion by a brilliant and courageous young journalist. What is astonishing about this story of death in Pec is that it actually took place in the last year of the twentieth century and in supposedly civilized Europe. Through the life of Isa the butcher, Matt McAllester graphically depicts the precariousness of life in Kosovo under Slobodan Milosevic, and the compromises and indignities imposed upon anyone who through the accident of birth had an Albanian ethnic identity. What makes this a path-breaking account is the author's drive to find the sadistic killers who shot children in cold blood, and his insistence that they explain their crime. The story is unforgettable. -- Roy Gutman,Pulitzer Prize winner and author of A Witness to Genocide, Newsweek diplomatic correspondentBeyond the Mountains of the Damned is about how war destroys society at its most basic level. I read this and understood what happened to ordinary people caught up in extraordinary circumstances during those dark and desperate days in Kosovo. It is a book I will not forget. -- Janine di Giovanni,special correspondent, Vanity Fair and the Times of LondonMatthew McAllester's Beyond the Mountains of the Damned tells the searing and disturbing story of the war in Kosovo. He explains clearly, as few have, what happened and why, and why it matters. His powerful narrative takes us down roads, past checkpoints, and into battle zones, and it plunges us into strange, sad, scarred places where no other reporter has gone. The book has a drive and a momentum that keep you reading even when the sheer horror and stupidity of events is painful. A human as well as a historic tale, told with an eye and an ear for the personal, the individual, the intimate. -- Amy Wilentz,author of Martyrs Crossing and The Rainy Season: Haiti since DuvalierTo write this book, Matt McAllester walked through mountains covered with snow and hatred with rifle shots aimed at him from above. He wrote it with extraordinary talent that is equal to his bravery. -- Jimmy BreslinTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1. One Town, Two Lives 2. The Ghosts of Kula Pass 3. Staying Behind 4. The Serbian Canterbury 5. The Friendly Lion and the KLA 6. In the Trunk of a Gray BMW 7. Coffee with Zejnepe 8. Burning 9. Agreements 10. The Illyrian Wolves 11. A Silent Town 12. The Killing 13. A White Plastic Bag in the Long Grass 14. New Roofs,New Cof?ns 15. The Butcher's Business Bibliography About the Author

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewNolla makes a strong presentation in gathering scholarly surveys of Alexis de Tocqueville's theories. Students of democratic theory will find it provoking. * Bookwatch *

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Book SynopsisRepresents a major achievement in the fields of education and immigration studies.Trade Review"This tightly focused volume, based on a highly innovative comparison of the United States and Europe, provides an indispensable guide to understanding the problems of and prospects for the children of immigrants in different educational contexts. Full of valuable and stimulating insights, this is an important contribution to the comparative analysis of immigration." -- Nancy Foner,author of In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration"Virtually all developed nations have become countries of immigration, and schools have become the crucible for assimilation in each society. The remarkable collection of studies assembled by Richard Alba and Jennifer Holdaway reveal how the children of immigrants are faring in schools of the United States, France, the Netherlands, Britain, Sweden, and Spain. Their comparative lens reveals the barriers to successful incorporation shared in all settingssegregation, tracking, unequal school funding, concentrated disadvantage and advantaged parents reacting to preserve the status quo. But the institutional variety they uncover also reveals many promising pathways forward. The book is of value not only to scholars of immigration, but to anyone concerned with educating the disadvantaged." -- Douglas Massey,author of Brokered Boundaries: Creating Immigrant Identity in Anti-Immigrant Times"[T]his exciting new volume presents compelling new ideas for researchers of immigrant youth to consider in developing measures of inequality, strategies for responding to inequality, and testing strategies for their effectiveness. Its lessons, and those of future research it will seed, can be implemented by considering the use of research in policy and practice. The book puts forth an exciting charge" * Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies *Table of ContentsPreface Richard Alba, Jennifer Holdaway, and Josh DeWind1 The Integration Imperative: Introduction Richard Alba and Jennifer Holdaway2 Educating the Children of Immigrants in Old and New Amsterdam Maurice Crul, Jennifer Holdaway, Helga A.G. de Valk, Norma Fuentes, and Mayida Zaal3 Different Systems, Similar Results: Youth of Immigrant Origin at School in California and Catalonia Margaret Gibson, Silvia Carrasco, Jordi Pamies, Maribel Ponferrada, and Anne Rios-Rojas4 Second-Generation Attainment and Inequality: Primary and Secondary Effects on Educational Outcomes in Britain and the United States Mary C. Waters, Anthony Heath, Van C. Tran, and Vikki Boliver5 How Similar Educational Inequalities Are Constructed in Two Different Systems, France and the United States: Why They Lead to Disparate Labor-Market Outcomes Richard Alba, Roxane Silberman, Dalia Abdelhady, Yael Brinbaum, and Amy Lutzvi 6 Promising Practices: Preparing Children of Immigrants in New York and Sweden Carola Suarez-Orozco, Margary Martin, Mikael Alexandersson, L. Janelle Dance, and Johannes Lunneblad7 The Children of Immigrants at School: Conclusions and Recommendations Richard Alba and Jennifer Holdaway Bibliography Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTakes a critical look at notions of human security and violence through a feminist lens.Trade Review"This book is a powerful argument that the field of security can and should be gendered, using a strikingly wide range of illuminating examples. It successfully challenges both security to address gender and feminist analysis to address security" -- Sylvia Walby,author of New Agendas for Women"None of the essays inGender, Violence & Human Securityare weak. Overall, this is a well-balanced volume, with three opening theoretical chapters, four case studies, four chapters on policy considerations, and a conclusion." * Feminist Collections *Table of ContentsList of AcronymsPart One 1. Toward a Gender Perspective on Human SecurityAili Mari Tripp 2. What Does Postconflict Security Mean for Women?Fionnuala Ni Aolain 3. Gendering Insecurities, Informalization, and "War Economies"V. Spike PetersonPart Two 4. Securitizing Sex, Bodies, and Borders: The Resonance of Human Security Frames in Thailand's "War against Human Trafficking"Edith Kinney 5. Work and Love in the Gendered U.S. Insecurity State Lisa D. Brush 6. A Struggle for Rites: Masculinity, Violence, and Livelihoods in Karamoja, UgandaElizabeth Stites 7. From German Bus Stop to Academy Award NominationKatherine Pratt EwingPart Three 8. Feminist Collaboration with the State in Response to Sexual ViolenceKristin Bumiller 9. The Vulnerable Protecting the VulnerableLaura J. Heideman 10. Violence against Women, Human Security, and Human Rights of Women and GirlsRuth Rubio-Marin and Dorothy Estrada-Tanck 11. Integrating Gender into Human SecurityNarda Henriquez and Christina Ewig Part Four: Conclusion 12. The Discursive Politics of Gendering Human SecurityMyra Marx FerreeAbout the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisRepresents a major achievement in the fields of education and immigration studies.Trade ReviewThis tightly focused volume, based on a highly innovative comparison of the United States and Europe, provides an indispensable guide to understanding the problems of and prospects for the children of immigrants in different educational contexts. Full of valuable and stimulating insights, this is an important contribution to the comparative analysis of immigration. -- Nancy Foner,author of In a New Land: A Comparative View of ImmigrationVirtually all developed nations have become countries of immigration, and schools have become the crucible for assimilation in each society. The remarkable collection of studies assembled by Richard Alba and Jennifer Holdaway reveal how the children of immigrants are faring in schools of the United States, France, the Netherlands, Britain, Sweden, and Spain. Their comparative lens reveals the barriers to successful incorporation shared in all settingssegregation, tracking, unequal school funding, concentrated disadvantage and advantaged parents reacting to preserve the status quo. But the institutional variety they uncover also reveals many promising pathways forward. The book is of value not only to scholars of immigration, but to anyone concerned with educating the disadvantaged. -- Douglas Massey,author of Brokered Boundaries: Creating Immigrant Identity in Anti-Immigrant Times[T]his exciting new volume presents compelling new ideas for researchers of immigrant youth to consider in developing measures of inequality, strategies for responding to inequality, and testing strategies for their effectiveness. Its lessons, and those of future research it will seed, can be implemented by considering the use of research in policy and practice. The book puts forth an exciting charge * Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies *Table of ContentsPreface Richard Alba, Jennifer Holdaway, and Josh DeWind1 The Integration Imperative: Introduction Richard Alba and Jennifer Holdaway2 Educating the Children of Immigrants in Old and New Amsterdam Maurice Crul, Jennifer Holdaway, Helga A.G. de Valk, Norma Fuentes, and Mayida Zaal3 Different Systems, Similar Results: Youth of Immigrant Origin at School in California and Catalonia Margaret Gibson, Silvia Carrasco, Jordi Pamies, Maribel Ponferrada, and Anne Rios-Rojas4 Second-Generation Attainment and Inequality: Primary and Secondary Effects on Educational Outcomes in Britain and the United States Mary C. Waters, Anthony Heath, Van C. Tran, and Vikki Boliver5 How Similar Educational Inequalities Are Constructed in Two Different Systems, France and the United States: Why They Lead to Disparate Labor-Market Outcomes Richard Alba, Roxane Silberman, Dalia Abdelhady, Yael Brinbaum, and Amy Lutzvi 6 Promising Practices: Preparing Children of Immigrants in New York and Sweden Carola Suarez-Orozco, Margary Martin, Mikael Alexandersson, L. Janelle Dance, and Johannes Lunneblad7 The Children of Immigrants at School: Conclusions and Recommendations Richard Alba and Jennifer Holdaway Bibliography Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisUsing evidence from the scientific survey addressed exclusively to Latino/Hispanic respondents, this book explores political diversity within the Latino community, considering how intra-community differences influence political behavior and policy preferences.Trade ReviewIt is a collection of cutting edge research, and a must-read for students and researchers alike. * American Politics *A must-read for scholars interested in understanding the political behavior of this growing and important sector of the U.S. polity, this volume situates the study of Latino politics within its historical context and provides readers with a wealth of tools for designing studies focused on this population. -- Lisa García Bedolla,author of Latino PoliticsThis collection of essays is as timely as it is important. With Latinos on the cusp of greatly enhanced power, this book illustrates the many nuances to Latino politics in contemporary America. -- Gary M. Segura,co-author of Latino Lives in AmericaThis outstanding collection of research articles by some of the brightest minds in political science should be read by everyone interested in the politics of race and ethnicity in the United States and especially by those who want to know considerably more about Latinos, the most fascinating and complicated identity group in America today. The range of topics covered in the book is very impressive as well. -- Valerie Martinez-Ebers,editor of American Political Science Review and author of Latinos in the New MillenniuThis volume brings together a number of excellent articles on central questions in Latino politics written by an impressive and accomplished group of scholars. The sections and various chapters therein engage and inform several themes that, while clearly important, have generally been under-studied and/or under-appreciated. As such, the volume nicely contributes to and substantially advances the (growing) body of Latino politics research. -- Rodney Hero,President Elect, American Political Science Association and author of Black-Latino RelationsTable of ContentsList of Tables List of Figures List of Chapter Appendices Foreword: Latino People, Politics, Communities, and KnowledgeAcknowledgments Introduction 1 The Latino Voice in Political Analysis, 1970 - 2014 2 Identity Revisited 3 Latino Immigrant Transnational Ties 4 Multiple Paths to CynicismPart III: Acculturation, Differentiation, and Political Community 5 'Quien Apoya Que? The Influence of Acculturation and Political Knowledge on Latino Policy Attitudes 6 The Boundaries of Americanness 7 Black and Latino Coalition Formation in New England 8 Racial Identities and Latino Public Opinion 9 A "Southern Exception" in Black-Latino Attitudes? Perceptions of Competition with African Americans and Other Latinos 10 Latino Politics and Power in the Twenty-First CenturyAppendix A: Latino National Survey QuestionnaireAppendix B: Latino National Survey Questionnaire About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisLooks at news not as a type of media but instead as a commodity bought and sold on the market, comparing unique measures of news content to survey data from a wide variety of sources.Trade Review"The People's News is required reading for anyone concerned about news media's role in American society. Although it is convenient to see the media's shortcoming through the lenses of corporate profits or political ideology, the systematic analyses and rich examples in this book make a provocative case that the audiences are themselves more to blame. Anyone interested in explaining the quality of news content will have to confront this argument head on." -- Scott McClurg,Professor of Political Science, Southern Illinois University"Supported by sophisticated empirical analyses, detailed examples, compelling logic, and clear prose, The Peoples News makes a convincing case that the U.S. news media provides the public with what it wants rather than what it needs. And, unfortunately, what we want may be hazardous to our (civic) health." -- Michael Delli Carpini,Dean, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania"We not have the tools at our disposal to uncover these systematic but gradual effects both from and on media. Uscinski does so here in a largely precise and perceptive way, makingThe Peoples Newsan important work for media effects scholars." * Political Science Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: Whose News? 2. Informational Demands for News: Agenda Setting and Audience Influence 3. Demands for Gratification: Competing in the National News Economy 4. Perpetual Feedback: Monitoring the New Media Environment 5. Where Can We Go? Consuming Responsibly Notes References Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisUsing evidence from the largest-ever scientific survey addressed exclusively to Latino/Hispanic respondents, this book explores political diversity within the Latino community, considering how intra-community differences influence political behavior and policy preferences.Trade ReviewIt is a collection of cutting edge research, and a must-read for students and researchers alike. * American Politics *A must-read for scholars interested in understanding the political behavior of this growing and important sector of the U.S. polity, this volume situates the study of Latino politics within its historical context and provides readers with a wealth of tools for designing studies focused on this population. -- Lisa García Bedolla,author of Latino PoliticsThis collection of essays is as timely as it is important. With Latinos on the cusp of greatly enhanced power, this book illustrates the many nuances to Latino politics in contemporary America. -- Gary M. Segura,co-author of Latino Lives in AmericaThis outstanding collection of research articles by some of the brightest minds in political science should be read by everyone interested in the politics of race and ethnicity in the United States and especially by those who want to know considerably more about Latinos, the most fascinating and complicated identity group in America today. The range of topics covered in the book is very impressive as well. -- Valerie Martinez-Ebers,editor of American Political Science Review and author of Latinos in the New MillenniuThis volume brings together a number of excellent articles on central questions in Latino politics written by an impressive and accomplished group of scholars. The sections and various chapters therein engage and inform several themes that, while clearly important, have generally been under-studied and/or under-appreciated. As such, the volume nicely contributes to and substantially advances the (growing) body of Latino politics research. -- Rodney Hero,President Elect, American Political Science Association and author of Black-Latino RelationsTable of ContentsList of Tables List of Figures List of Chapter Appendices Foreword: Latino People, Politics, Communities, and KnowledgeAcknowledgments Introduction 1 The Latino Voice in Political Analysis, 1970 - 2014 2 Identity Revisited 3 Latino Immigrant Transnational Ties 4 Multiple Paths to CynicismPart III: Acculturation, Differentiation, and Political Community 5 'Quien Apoya Que? The Influence of Acculturation and Political Knowledge on Latino Policy Attitudes 6 The Boundaries of Americanness 7 Black and Latino Coalition Formation in New England 8 Racial Identities and Latino Public Opinion 9 A "Southern Exception" in Black-Latino Attitudes? Perceptions of Competition with African Americans and Other Latinos 10 Latino Politics and Power in the Twenty-First CenturyAppendix A: Latino National Survey QuestionnaireAppendix B: Latino National Survey Questionnaire About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisExamines the reintegration of former child soldiers in Sierra Leone. Based on 18 months of participant-observer ethnographic fieldwork and ten years of follow-up research, this book argues that there is a fundamental disconnect between the Western idea of the child soldier and the individual lived experiences of the child soldiers of Sierra Leone.Trade Review"Essential reading for everyone who cares about the reintegration of young people who have associated with armed forces or groups. With the eye of a skilled anthropologist, Susan Shepler illuminates the enormity of the gap between Western understandings of childhood, recruitment, and reintegration and the lived experiences, beliefs, and values of young people as they navigate the complexities of post-conflict Sierra Leone." -- Mike Wessells,Columbia University"Drawing on detailed ethnographic research, this compelling account of the complex forces shaping young peoples reintegration following the war in Sierra Leone is an essential read for anyone interested in the social impacts of globalization, the changing nature of childhood or the challenges of intervening in societies after conflict." -- Jo Boyden,University of Oxford"The book is a wonderful, practical, policy oriented introduction to just how problematic it is to make childhood a universal, even during war and aftermath." * Journal for Peace and Justice Studies *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables List of Acronyms Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Youth in Sierra Leone 2. Child Protection Deployed 3. Learning "Child Soldier" across Contexts 4. Informal Reintegrators, Communities, and NGOs 5. Distinctions in the Population of "Child Soldiers": RUF and CDF, Boys and Girls Conclusion Notes ReferencesIndex About the Author

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Book SynopsisContributes to central debates in the field of women's studies and related cross-disciplinary scholarship on feminist theory and gender from a global perspectiveTrade Review"With a clear introduction that offers each chapters argument, this text is simultaneously challenging and approachable. It is accessible for specific purposes, as each essay can stand alone. The arguments are clearly and systematically laid out in this thoroughly research and articulate text." * Journal of American Culture *"Leela Fernandes focuses a sharp analytic lens on the representational practices, cross-border politics, and symbolic constructions of transnationalism within U.S. feminism. Her call for accountability and interrogation of feminist knowledge production is one that should be heard by all those interested in challenging inequalities and resisting disciplining tendencies within transnational feminist praxis." -- Nancy Naples,author of Grassroots Warriors: Activist Mothering, Community Work, and the War on Poverty"Unveiling the reproduction of the national in the transnational and the disciplining of interdisciplinarity, Fernandes deftly illustrates the minefields that women's and gender studies, postcolonial, and other interdisciplinary scholars traverse as they seek to produce transformative knowledge. Transnational Feminism in the United States is essential reading, ushering us into a more ethical practice of feminism and politics." -- Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd,author of Gender, Race, and Nationalism in Contemporary Black Politics"Will help [readers] realize how transnational feminism has been influenced by the dominant language of human rights . . . [and]sharpens a critical sensibility on how to study women's issues globally." * Hypatia *"Through this collection's five loosely connected essays...full of provocative arguments, Fernandes offers a cautionary analysis of the trajectory of 'transnational feminism' in women's studies in the U.S. academy." * WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly *Table of Contents1. Introduction2. U.S. State Practices and the Rhetoric of Human Rights3. Transnational Economies of Representation and the Labor of the Traveling Subaltern4. Regimes of Visibility and Transnational Feminist Knowledge 5. Institutional Practice and the Field of Women's Studies 6. Race, Transnational Feminism, and Paradigms of Difference 7. Afterword: The Moment of Transnational Feminism in the United States

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This remarkable volume challenges political leaders to identify, analyze, and thereby begin to manage the transformations of a new era." -- Bill Bradley,United States Senator from New Jersey

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Book SynopsisArgues for the need to make care, not economics, the central concern of democratic political lifeTrade ReviewIn this wonderful book from one of todays leading feminist political theorists, Joan Tronto argues that democracy is in a time of crisisand she is right. Identifying the & passes that some of us get for sharing responsibility for care, particularly men and the wealthy, she calls for a & democratic care revolution. Though keenly aware of the personal and private character of many care activities, Tronto makes a compelling case for care as a public good and for rethinking the way in which caring responsibilities are carried out in order to achieve the freedom, equality, and justice that are necessary not only to better care, but to better democracy. Her notion of & caring with as a fundamental democratic ideal brings a much-needed corrective to the literature on care that enables us to think more concretely about how society needs to be restructured to meet the care needs of all citizens. The argument is thoughtful, careful, meticulous, and indeed, riveting. -- Nancy J. Hirschmann,author of Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political TheoryIs democracy just a matter of voter turnout? No, Tronto argues in this important paradigm-shifting bookit also connects us to one another through a responsibility to care. The neo-liberal call to an & ownership society erodes that responsibility by giving out & passes. With the & bootstrap pass one can say, & its enough to care for me and mine. With the & charity pass one can say & well help only the few we chose.Read this book and open your eyes. -- Arlie Hochschild,author of The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market TimesTable of ContentsC o n t e n t s Preface ixAcknowledgments xviiIntroduction: When Care Is No Longer "at Home" 1Part I : Envi s ioning a Caring D emocracy1 Redefining Democracy as Settling Disputesabout Care Responsibilities 172 Why Personal Responsibility Isn't Enough for Democracy 46Part I I : How We Care Now3 Tough Guys Don't Care ... Do They?Gender, Freedom, and Care 674 Vicious Circles of Privatized Caring:Care, Equality, and Democracy 955 Can Markets Be Caring? Markets, Care, and Justice 114Part I I I : Imagining D emocratic Caring Practice sand Caring D emocraci e s6 Democratic Caring 1397 Caring Democracy 169 Notes 183Bibliography 191Index 215About the Author 22

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Book SynopsisExplain the rise, decline, or stagnant levels of women's political participation, considering how representation is contagious across political institutionsTrade ReviewFrank Thames and Margaret Williams concept of contagion and their careful analysis of how womens participation and gains in one institution affect their opportunities in other areas of government pushes the scholarship on women and politics forward.They draw on a broad array of empirical evidence including both large n statistical analysis and case studies drawn from around the world to support their argument. By advancing our understanding of how inter-institutional relationships affect opportunities for womens political participation, this book makes important contributions to the women and gender studies literature. Clearly written, the book is accessible to a wide audience. -- Melinda Adams,Associate Professor of Political Science, James Madison UniversityThis is a very accessible book that provides rigorous qualitative and quantitative research methods and a theory that can be tested in other areas such as business. Highly recommended for scholars of gender and political representation and a valuable text for women's studies, research methods, and political science students. Summing Up: Highly recommended. -- I. Coronado * Choice *Using the novel idea of contagion, this pathbreaking book is indispensable for those of us who struggle to account for the variations in womens representation in diverse political institutions, regions and across time. Its a must for women and politics courses. -- Marianne Githens,Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Goucher CollegeTable of Contents1 Women's Political Participation and the Influence of Contagion2 Understanding Women's Legislative Representation3 Women and the Executive4 Gender and Cross-National Courts5 Contagion and the Adoption of Voluntary Party Quotas6 Contagion and the Adoption of National Quotas7 Conclusion: Why Contagion Matters

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Book SynopsisWomen's participation in parliaments, high courts, and executiveoffices worldwide has reached record high numbers, but thisglobal increase in women's representation masks significant variationamong different democratic political systems. For example, inDecember of 2009, Rwanda's legislature contained 56% women,while the U.S. Congress contained only about 17% and the JapaneseDiet had only 11%. Since 2000, only twenty-seven womenhave achieved executive office worldwide. Contagious Representationis a comprehensive look at women's participation in all aspectsof public life in the main democratic political institutionsthe executive,the judiciary, the legislature, and within political parties. Moving beyond studies of single countries and institutions, ContagiousRepresentation presents original data from 159 democraticcountries spanning 50 years, providing a comprehensive understandingof women in democracies worldwide. The first volume tooffer an analysis on all avenues for women's particiTrade ReviewFrank Thames and Margaret Williams concept of contagion and their careful analysis of how womens participation and gains in one institution affect their opportunities in other areas of government pushes the scholarship on women and politics forward.They draw on a broad array of empirical evidence including both large n statistical analysis and case studies drawn from around the world to support their argument. By advancing our understanding of how inter-institutional relationships affect opportunities for womens political participation, this book makes important contributions to the women and gender studies literature. Clearly written, the book is accessible to a wide audience. -- Melinda Adams,Associate Professor of Political Science, James Madison UniversityThis is a very accessible book that provides rigorous qualitative and quantitative research methods and a theory that can be tested in other areas such as business. Highly recommended for scholars of gender and political representation and a valuable text for women's studies, research methods, and political science students. Summing Up: Highly recommended. -- I. Coronado * Choice *Using the novel idea of contagion, this pathbreaking book is indispensable for those of us who struggle to account for the variations in womens representation in diverse political institutions, regions and across time. Its a must for women and politics courses. -- Marianne Githens,Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Goucher CollegeTable of Contents1 Women's Political Participation and the Influence of Contagion2 Understanding Women's Legislative Representation3 Women and the Executive4 Gender and Cross-National Courts5 Contagion and the Adoption of Voluntary Party Quotas6 Contagion and the Adoption of National Quotas7 Conclusion: Why Contagion Matters

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Book SynopsisIndia and Ireland provide two provocative case studies that illuminate the complex interaction between gender and nationTrade ReviewMuscular Nationalism is so gritty and smart. Sikata Banerjee reveals how in both Ireland and India a nationalized masculinism has relied on controlling ideas and practices of femininity. This is feminist analysis at its sharpest. -- Cynthia Enloe,author of Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq WarTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Politicized Femininity and Muscular Nationalism 1 Under the British Gaze: The Weak Bengali and the Simianized Celt 2 "Muscular Gael" and "Warrior Monk": Muscular Nationalism in Colonial India and Ireland 3 Irish and Indian Women in Muscular Nationalism (1914-1932) 4 Politicized Femininity and Muscular Nationalism in the Postcolonial Context: Naxal and Armagh Women 5 Who Is a Proper Woman in the Nation? Femininity in the Roop Kanwar Immolation and the 2004 Irish Citizenship Referendum Conclusion: Women and Muscular Nationalism: Some Final Thoughts Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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