Political Science
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The Archaeology of French and Indian War Frontier Forts"The best compilation of work about the French and Indian War to date."--James Parker, coauthor of Archaeology at Fort Mims "Provides images of life on the expanding American frontier of the mid-eighteenth century. A unique and significant discussion of the French and Indian War."--Clarence...
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Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND KIRKUS REVIEWS From the acclaimed author of Citizens of London comes the definitive account of the debate over American intervention in World...
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Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide TerrorismIncludes a new Afterword Finalist for the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award One of the world's foremost authorities on the subject of suicide terrorism, the esteemed political scientist Robert Pape has created the first comprehensive database of every suicide terrorist attack...
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Democracy and Truth: A Short History"Fake news," wild conspiracy theories, misleading claims, doctored photos, lies peddled as facts, facts dismissed as lies--citizens of democracies increasingly inhabit a public sphere teeming with competing claims and counterclaims, with no institution or person possessing the authority to settle basic disputes in a...
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Fragile Families: Foster Care, Immigration, and CitizenshipIn the past decade, debates over immigrant rights and family rights, and accompanying concerns over birthright citizenship, have taken center stage in popular media and mainstream political debates. These debates, however, frequently overlook the role of the public child welfare system in the United...
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What Is Populism?Donald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, Marine Le Pen, Hugo Chávez--populists are on the rise across the globe. But what exactly is populism? Should everyone who criticizes Wall Street or Washington be called a populist? What precisely is the difference between right-wing and left-wing populism? Does...
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City: Rediscovering the CenterCity Rediscovering the Center William H. Whyte. Foreword by Paco Underhill "Informal, spontaneous interactions give the modern city its vitality, so Whyte's enemies are urban planners who evince disregard and even contempt for street life. Part meditation, part design manual, this marvelously observant tour...
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Everyday Politics: Reconnecting Citizens and Public LifeIncreasingly a spectator sport, electoral politics have become bitterly polarized by professional consultants and lobbyists and have been boiled down to the distributive mantra of who gets what. In Everyday Politics, Harry Boyte transcends partisan politics to offer an alternative. He demonstrates how community-rooted...
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Guatemalan Military Project: A Violence Called DemocracyWinner of the 1999 PIOOM Human Rights Award ""The Guatemalan Military Project is a remarkable achievement. As any journalist or diplomat who has spent time in Guatemala will attest, no group is more difficult to penetrate than the Guatemalan armedAuthor: Jennifer SchirmerPublisher: University of...
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The Middle Works of John Dewey, Volume 14, 1899 - 1924: Human Nature and Conduct, 1922 Volume 14Volume 14 of The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, series provides an authoritative edition of Dewey's Human Nature and Conduct. A Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions textual edition.Human Nature and Conduct evolved from the West Memorial Foundation lectures at Stanford University....
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There's Always Work at the Post Office: African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice, and EqualityThis book brings to life the important but neglected story of African American postal workers and the critical role they played in the U.S. labor and black freedom movements. Historian Philip Rubio, a former postal worker, integrates civil rights, labor, and left movement histories...
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Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850Daniel Vickers examines the shifting labor strategies used by colonists as New England evolved from a string of frontier settlements to a mature society on the brink of industrialization. Lacking a means to purchase slaves or hire help, seventeenth-century settlers adapted the labor systems...
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Human Rights: Fact or Fancy?In his provocative and highly readable study, Human Rights: Fact or Fancy?, Henry B. Veatch finds the basis for human rights in natural law. He builds his argument step by step, carefully laying the foundation for his central assertion that our basic rights are...
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Infinite Hope: The Story of One Man's Wrongful Conviction, Solitary Confinement, and Survival O N Death RowWritten by a wrongfully convicted man who spent 16 years in solitary confinement and 12 years on death row--a powerful memoir about fighting for, and winning, exoneration In the summer of 1992, a grandmother, a teenage girl, and four children under the age of...
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Reservation Politics: Historical Trauma, Economic Development, and Intratribal ConflictFor American Indians, tribal politics are paramount. They determine the standards for tribal enrollment, guide negotiations with outside governments, and help set collective economic and cultural goals. But how, asks Raymond I. Orr, has history shaped the American Indian political experience? By exploring how...
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The Senate Syndrome: The Evolution of Procedural Warfare in the Modern U.S. Senatevolume 12With its rock-bottom approval ratings, acrimonious partisan battles, and apparent inability to do its legislative business, the U.S. Senate might easily be deemed unworthy of attention, if not downright irrelevant. This book tells us that would be a mistake. Because the Senate has become...
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One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian ImpasseA visionary* approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict--one state for two peoples--that is more urgent than ever It is by now a commonplace that the only way to end the Israeli-Palestinian violence is to divide the territory in two. All efforts at resolving the conflict...
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A Brief History of Bali: Piracy, Slavery, Opium and Guns: The Story of an Island ParadiseThis book tells the story of Bali--the "paradise island of the Pacific"--its rulers and its people, and their encounters with the Western world. Bali is a perennially popular tourist destination. It is also home to a fascinating people with a long and dramatic history...
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The Colonial Origins of Ethnic Violence in IndiaThe neighboring north Indian districts of Jaipur and Ajmer are identical in language, geography, and religious and caste demography. But when the famous Babri Mosque in Ayodhya was destroyed in 1992, Jaipur burned while Ajmer remained peaceful; when the state clashed over low-caste affirmative...
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Modern Forests: Statemaking and Environmental Change in Colonial Eastern IndiaModern Forests is an environmental, institutional, and cultural history of forestry in colonial eastern India. By carefully examining the influence of regional political formations and biogeographic processes on land and forest management, this book offers an analysis of the interrelated social and biophysical factors...
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