Political Science
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How the Color Line Bends: The Geography of White Prejudice in Modern AmericaIn 2019, a group of Louisianans voted to create a new city in part of the Baton Rouge area. The effort drew attention not only because the decision would create a disproportionately White and wealthy city, but also because it would leave the area's...
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Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations: New HistoriesIdeology drives American foreign policy in ways seen and unseen. Racialized notions of subjecthood and civilization underlay the political revolution of eighteenth-century white colonizers; neoconservatism, neoliberalism, and unilateralism propelled the post-Cold War United States to unleash catastrophe in the Middle East. Ideologies order and...
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Essentials of Victimology: Crime Victims, Theories, Controversies, and Victims' RightsEssentials of Victimology is an engaging new textbook for anyone seeking to gain a fundamental understanding of the field. Renowned author Jan Yager provides an awareness of the evolution of the discipline of victimology, as well as an understanding of the early and current...
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The War on the Uyghurs: China's Internal Campaign Against a Muslim MinorityHow China is using the US-led war on terror to erase the cultural identity of its Muslim minority in the Xinjiang region Within weeks of the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, the Chinese government warned that it faced a serious terrorist...
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The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan: A Chronicle ForetoldThe occupation of Afghanistan is over, and a balance sheet can be drawn. These essays on war and peace in the region reveal Tariq Ali at his sharpest and most prescient.Rarely has there been such an enthusiastic display of international unity as that which...
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Time for Everything: My Curious LifeIn his previous book, Claremont Boy (Bauhan Publishing 2014), Joe Steinfield shared stories about a variety of subjects--family members and other people in his life, his love of sports, travel, and the arts, and his Claremont years. Part I of Time for Everything picks...
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Humanities Perspectives in Peace Education: Re-Engaging the Heart of Peace StudiesIn Humanities Perspectives in Peace Education: Re-Engaging the Heart of Peace Studies, scholar-teachers across a variety of humanities fields explore the content, methods, and pedagogies that are unique to their respective disciplines in contributing to the study of peace and justice. In recent decades,...
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Designing Creative Communities: Your Town Is Your Canvas. Learn How To Make Your MarkWe all want to be a part of a thriving community. But few of us know how to meaningfully contribute to the places where we live, work, learn and play. Whether you dream of launching a community innovation center, want to enhance your town...
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The Concrete Plateau: Urban Tibetans and the Chinese Civilizing MachineIn The Concrete Plateau, Andrew Grant examines the ways that urbanization has extended into the Tibetan Plateau. Many people still think of Tibetans as not being urban, or that if they do live in cities, this means that they have lost something. Much of...
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The United States and International Law: Paradoxes of Support Across Contemporary IssuesThe United States spearheaded the creation of many international organizations and treaties after World War II and maintains a strong record of compliance across several issue areas, yet it also refuses to ratify major international conventions like the UN Convention on the Law of...
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The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy RightsA definitive history of ideas about land redistribution, allied political movements, and their varied consequences around the world "An epic work of breathtaking scope and moral power, The Long Land War offers the definitive account of the rise and fall of land rights around...
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The Body FamilyThe Body Family is a song of memory and revelation; it is the sublime unearthing of what has been hidden by silence and erasure. This lyrical and imagistic poetry collection tells the story of a family's journey to flee the murderous reign of Uganda's...
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The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History of Debt, Misery, and the Drift to the RightThe Sinking Middle Class challenges the "save the middle class" rhetoric that dominates our political imagination. The slogan misleads us regarding class, nation, and race. Talk of middle class salvation reinforces myths holding that the US is a providentially middle class nation. Implicitly white,...
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White But Not Quite: Central Europe's Illiberal RevoltSince the 'migration crisis' of 2016, long-simmering tensions between the Western members of the European Union and its 'new' Eastern members - Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary - have proven to be fertile ground for rebellion against liberal values and policies. In...
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Shaw, Ledroit Park and Bloomingdale in Washington, DC: An Oral HistoryLet residents tell you what it's been like to live in D.C.'s most gentrified neighborhood. When Gretchen Wharton came to Shaw in 1946, the houses were full of families that looked like hers: lower-income, African American, two parents with kids. The sidewalks were full...
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Politics at a Distance from the State: Radical and African PerspectivesFor decades, most anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements identified radical change with capturing state power. The collapse of statist projects from the 1970s fostered both neo-liberalism and a global crisis of left and working-class politics. But it also opened space for rediscovering democratic, society-centered and...
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Never Together: The Economic History of a Segregated AmericaIn November 2020, The New York Times asked fifteen of its columnists to 'explain what the past four years have cost America.' Not one of the columnists focused on President Trump's racism. This book seeks to redress this imbalance and bring Black Americans' role...
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Chaos Under Heaven: America, China, and the Battle for the Twenty-First CenturyThe explosive, behind-the-scenes story of Donald Trump's high-stakes confrontation with Beijing, from an award-winning Washington Post columnist and peerless observer of the U.S.-China relationshipNow with a new afterword featuring an interview with former President Trump There was no calm before the storm. Donald Trump's...
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Crimes and Cover-Ups in American Politics: 1776-1963What they didn't teach you in school about Benjamin Franklin, The Freeemasons, John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, the Spanish American War, Prohibition, and more. In this updated paperback edition, there is a new chapter about the history of un-Americanism, as well as a new preface...
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We're Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our DemocracyOne of Essence's Best Books of the YearNAACP Image Awards Winner for Outstanding Literary WorkWith a foreword by Speaker Nancy Pelosi"There was no greater friend to the poor, to the lost, to the left out, and to the left behind. If you want to...
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