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Anglo-European Science and the Rhetoric of Empire presents the recorded facts of alleged medical use of opium in colonial India and British examination and the ultimate acceptance of this practice. Placing the opium controversy in its broad context, the book sheds light on British diplomatic methods for prolonging colonial rule.

Civil conflict remains one of the most significant threats to peace and security in the contemporary era. In Constructing Peace, Lisa MacLeod offers the first ever application of Finnemore and Sikkink's model of norm construction to the study of peace building and conflict resolution by comparing operations in El Salvador and Cambodia.

This work serves as a preparation for scholars of feminist theory seeking alternative pathways of thought that encourage fundamental thinking on the subject of freedom. It concludes with an examination of the different attempts at undertaking an ontological questioning of sexual difference.

thirtysomething examines one of television's most emotionally and culturally resonant programs and its treatment of subjects such as the role of women, the nature of masculinity, and the problem of maintaining one's integrity in a business built on amorality.

An analysis of the complex constitutional devices required to accommodate ethnic differences in multi-ethnic Nigeria. Through an examination of philosophical arguments and empirical studies, it reveals how constitutional structures that express cultural plurality must be carefully constructed.

This book is the first systematic effort to examine the history of the body in modern Germany. By looking into medical dietetics, walking, dancing, gymnastics, cholera, and class rooms it reconstructs the ways the middle-class body became a source of political and social autonomy and a medium of social interaction.

Cops, Soldiers, and Diplomats is an exceptionally clear exposition of bureaucratic behavior amongst various agencies as each responded to the challenges of the War on Drugs. Payan exposes the bureaucratic imperatives of the numerous agencies waging the drug war, uncovering some of the fundamental structural reasons why this war could not succeed within the United States.

Environmental Dilemmas focuses on the ethical problems and dilemmas that emerge in place-based professional practices-architecture, landscape architecture, planning, engineering, and construction management. Mugerauer and Manzo connect decision-making to major ethical theories, principles, and rules, and professional codes of ethics.

This text surveys the anthropological foundations to the disciplines of economics and moral theology. The book presents an overview of the German, French, and Polish branches of personalist thought and surveys models of human nature that have been espoused by various schools of free-market thought.

The Problem of Natural Law examines the understanding of conscience offered by Thomas Aquinas, who provided the classic statement of natural law. The book suggests that natural law theory could be improved by bracketing Thomistic conscience and then shows how a natural law position thus revised would be able to answer the most important critics of natural law in contemporary times.

Remnants of Empire in Algeria and Vietnam proposes a new approach to Francophone Studies through an examination of four specific Algerian and Vietnamese novels written in French by women. The connections between their works and shared colonial history lead us to a deeper understanding of postcolonial literature.

This book explores how a clear-eyed set of policies can govern a country's wellbeing from an economic standpoint and the vision it takes to propel a country to new heights. The author considers not just development, but how development was undone by policies and actions that were not governed by a consistent long-range vision.

Balance is unique in that it approaches Black males from a well-rooted personality perspective within context, sans deficit, and utilizes discourse analysis in attempts at advancing identity theory.

Ranging from prophecy in sixteenth-century England to the self-managed projects of critical literacy and social change, this work assesses the historical heritage, present conditions, and future possibilities of remade media landscape for democratic communications.

Relates the democratic potential of the electronic technologies to the idea of direct-participatory democracy. Clarifying the original meaning of the idea of democracy, this book develops a different theory of democracy, Direct-Deliberative e-Democracy.

Proposes that by paying attention to what's been learned about human behavior, we can develop a political agenda that is in the human interest. This work explores the theoretical foundation of a humanistic sociology.

Analyzes warlords, including their organizational structure and the context in which they operate, exploring the effectiveness of various short and long-term strategies to deal with warlords. This work focuses on the extremely frail political/security environment that allows warlords to rise up, seize power, and profit in the midst of chaos.

Presenting an examination of the history, theories, and practices in the teaching of English, this work offers insight and practical solutions to the crisis in English education and the conflict among critical theories, classroom practice, epistemics, the pressure to vocationalize the curriculum, and the corporatization of institutes of learning.

During the 1990s, many members of the House of Representatives could be characterized as citizen legislators - they either voluntarily limited their term in office or they had no prior political experience. Representing America compares the representational styles of these legislators with the professional legislators, who make a career out of being a legislator, elected at the time.

One of the country's foremost Tocqueville scholars, Roger Boesche has gathered together his writings on Tocqueville from the last quarter century. These essays focus on various specific aspects of Tocqueville's political thought.

Argues that there is vitality in the English Catholic novel. This book analyses the fiction of four contemporary Catholic novelists Alice Thomas Ellis, David Lodge, Sara Maitland, and Piers Paul Read. It situates their work both within the tradition of the Catholic novel as it developed in France and England.

An exploration of contemporary novels written by female Spanish writers,Becoming and Consumption is structured around feminist philosophy and identity politics. It provides insight into the diverse yet lively subcultures created due to the characters' desires to consume and associate the self with others that share the same commonality.

Using ethnographic interviews, an affiliation scale, and observational data from two "soup kitchens" of homeless men, Road Dogs and Loners investigates the various family types that homeless road dogs and loners rely on for support.

The Defense of Insanity, The World Over is the tenth in a series of books that examines and compares social issues or social problems from an explicitly comparative perspective. This volume examines and compares the criteria and procedures surrounding the defense of insanity across twenty-two countries.

Images, Issues, and Attacks explores important differences between incumbents and challengers in the uses of televised advertising in modern presidential elections.

Breadfruit or Chestnut? examines gender construction comparatively across the fiction of contemporary writers of Guadeloupe and Martinique. In particular, it explores the construction of gender identity by six authors-three male and three female-who have never been brought together in a study of this issue.