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Women and Power in Africa: Aspiring, Campaigning, and Governing...
Women and Power in Africa: Aspiring, Campaigning, and Governing examines women’s experiences in African politics as aspirants to public office, as candidates in election campaigns, and as elected representatives.
Over the past forty years, highly skilled workers have been...
Over the past forty years, highly skilled workers have been devoting more time and energy to their jobs than ever before. They are also leaving churches, synagogues, and temples in droves–but they have not abandoned religion.
Goodwin demonstrates that Native activism for self-determination...
Goodwin demonstrates that Native activism for self-determination was never snuffed out by the swing of the federal government’s pendulum away from tribal governance and toward termination.
But it also lays bare the tortured relationships between...
But it also lays bare the tortured relationships between intellectual breakthroughs, political realities, and human foibles. Our pandemic year has shown us, with its debates over lockdowns, masks, and vaccines, how easy it is to get everything wrong.
Schrad argues that temperance wasn’t “American...
Schrad argues that temperance wasn’t “American exceptionalism” at all, but rather one of the most broad-based and successful transnational social movements of the modern era.
They show how the law facilitates the use of lethal violence...
They show how the law facilitates the use of lethal violence against vulnerable people while portraying it as humane, but they also reveal how people can and do use their own vulnerability to resist violence and denounce forms of dehumanization.
One Up offers a pioneering empirical analysis of innovation and...
One Up offers a pioneering empirical analysis of innovation and strategy in the video game industry to explain how it has evolved from a fringe activity to become a mainstream form of entertainment.
The book explores specific biblical questions, such as how God...
The book explores specific biblical questions, such as how God communicates his anger in the Old Testament and whether anger at one’s enemies in the imprecatory psalms is praiseworthy.
Is patriarchy an illness of democratic societies or a structural...
Is patriarchy an illness of democratic societies or a structural problem?
Music has often been the canary in the coal mine for major...
Music has often been the canary in the coal mine for major technological and societal shifts, and if there’s one thing Page learned from the digital revolution, it’s that businesses must be ready to pivot.
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, modern states...
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, modern states began to provide many of the public services we now take for granted. Inward Conquest presents the first comprehensive analysis of the political origins of modern public services during this period.
The central issue in dispute is what mission the post-pandemic...
The central issue in dispute is what mission the post-pandemic state should pursue: whether it should protect native workers from immigration and the rich against redistributive demands, as proposed by the right’s authoritarian protectionism; or reassert social security and popular sovereignty against the rapacity of financial and tech elites, as advocated by the left’s social protectivism.
Talk of genocide, then, can function ideologically to detract...
Talk of genocide, then, can function ideologically to detract from systematic violence against civilians perpetrated by governments of all types.
The process was neither linear nor mono-causal, but it affected...
The process was neither linear nor mono-causal, but it affected society as a whole, encompassing features like the lack of demarcation between the military and civil spheres of the population, the significance attributed to weapons beyond their military function and the wide recognition of martial values.
The advent of new digital currencies has challenged our notions...
The advent of new digital currencies has challenged our notions about money, its function and purpose and our faith in the financial and banking structures that underpin its legitimacy.
Focusing primarily on domestic policy, these essays explain why...
Focusing primarily on domestic policy, these essays explain why Obama’s widely anticipated moment of change did not fully materialise. The Obama presidency navigated partisan and institutional obstacles, but quickly lost its 2008 momentum.
An edited anthology describing Latino and Latina American...
An edited anthology describing Latino and Latina American participation in sports in the United States, with an emphasis on Texas and the American Southwest
Dubbed the Lexington Six, the group’s resistance attracted...
Dubbed the Lexington Six, the group’s resistance attracted national attention, inspiring a nationwide movement in other minority communities. Like the iconic Stonewall demonstrations, this gripping story of spirited defiance has special resonance in today’s America.
The scientific knowledge derived from discarding and exploiting...
The scientific knowledge derived from discarding and exploiting human life is now the basis of our ability to protect humanity from epidemics.