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America and the Limits of the Politics of Selfishness examines Congress, the Presidency, the public, and public policy, demonstrating the important impact of the public's selfishness, morality, compassion, and religious beliefs on the American political system.

Demonstrates how Lutherans maintained a hostility toward communism, the Soviet Union, and the People's Republic of China, while debating the threat of Communist infiltrations into the United States and the Vietnam War, all in the context of their denominations, periodicals, and congregations.

Franco Ferrarotti's essays are of special interest to social scientists working in social theory and cultural sociology. His insights are far-reaching and applicable to those studying the areas of religion, immigration, violence, and social movements.

This seminal work is the first comprehensive analysis of the media landscape in the Mediterranean island of Malta. It examines the media owned by political parties, trade unions, and the church and how they successfully compete for audiences with the public and private sectors.

Strange Places: The Political Potentials and Perils of Everyday Spaces explores the ways in which places can support good politics in a global era. Using concrete examples and cases, this interdisciplinary work is accessible to a broad scholarly audience.

Considers explicitly named women's pages in US newspapers to understand how the newspaper industry has constructed women readers. This book also investigates the creation and collapse of these pages before considering contemporary case studies to articulate why newspapers during the 1990s recreated sex-specific pages.

An ethno-historic account of Jewish community life in Croatia, this book traces the community's turbulent history from its inception in the late 18th century to the shifting political climate of the 1990s following the disintegration of Yugoslavia. Croatia's separation from Yugoslavia is explored by examining the lives of the members of Jews.

By focusing on the countries of Australia, China, Malaysia, and India, this book provides a comparative study arguing that government policies designed to favor one ethnic group over another can influence individuals among the disfavored group to change their identities and recast themselves as members of the favored group.

The reforms of the Soviet and Chinese communist regimes were unparalleled - both in the radical, precedent-setting reforms attempted by the two countries and in the outcomes of these attempts. This book explores this phenomenon. It goes beyond simply discussing the differing initial conditions, the sequencing of reform, and cultural differences.

Author Peter W. Van Arsdale presents first-hand fieldwork conducted over a 30-year span in six refugee homelands ranging from Sudan to Bosnia. This expert research bridges the emergent refugee and human rights regimes, while addressing theories of obligation, justice, and structural violence.

Mission to Algiers relates how U.S. policy grappled with an Islamist insurgency and promoted change and stability in a key Arab country. It describes the course of events, the challenges inherent in operating a U.S. mission at a time of crisis in a Muslim country, and lessons learned.

Examines Anglo-American diplomatic relations in the first half of the 1950s through the use of case studies. This work contends that proof of the importance of the British Empire as a global power can be seen in the influence that London had over aspects of American foreign policy and the limits of Washington's ability to shape British policy.

Focusing on the writings and activism of W E B DuBois, Frantz Fanon, and Amilcar Cabral, this book explores the three theorists' articulation of the relationship between acculturation and mass popular leadership among colonized elites in the African diaspora.

This book offers a critique of power feminism using the critical theories of Theodor Adorno and Jacques Derrida. It counters a triumphalist reading of female empowerment using the negative, parergonal philosophies of these two authors and advocates listening to the sufferer rather than celebrating the triumphalism of the reigning neoliberal order.

Diachronic Dialogues considers central aspects of Homer's poetry, such as truth, knowledge, gender, virtue and the heroic code, authorship, memory and song, diction and formula. This book makes the case for performative, rather than essential values in the Illiad and the Odyssey.

Applies a philosophical model of political culture as ideology, religion, and myth, to a re-consideration of America's liberal consensus to explain cultural diversity in America. This work depicts a political culture that is more complex and more cohesive. It is intended for scholars and students of American politics and history.

Addresses the development since the 1950s of a type of Francophone African novel created by first-generation black African authors living in France. This work draws parallels with other literatures, and examines how these authors, are parting from mainstream African literature by exploring more personal avenues.

The Meaning of Liberalism in Brazil explores the consequences of globalization in emerging-market economies using Brazil as a case study. This insightful book elaborates a new interpretation of Brazilian society by showing the relationship between political thought and economics, as well as how the two disciplines can interact, working together to shape a nation.

In improving women's political representation, the author investigates the timing and nature of politicians' decisions. She uses the case of the French Socialist Party to show that ideational and electoral factors have the biggest influence on party officials' decisions to adopt, increase, and implement gender-based quotas.

Helen Macfarlane, revolutionary social critic, feminist and Hegelian philosopher wis the first English translator of Karl Marx and Fredrich Engel's theCommunist Manifesto (her original translation is included in this edition). Marx publicly admired her as a rare and original thinker and journalist.

In the first philosophical book on forgiveness from an explicitly feminist point of view, Kathryn Norlock discusses the critical importance of attending to gender when analyzing and recommending forgiveness in practice. Norlock revises the definition and nature of forgiveness and forgivers, showing that forgiveness is multidimensional and can be shown in many different ways.

James Ellroy's prose, in many ways as complex as any in the Western literary canon, strung together sensational stories of crime and catastrophe. The significance of his writing to Western culture has yet to be fully explored. Author Peter Wolfe offers us the first book-length study of Ellroy in English.

In Agriculture in Transition: Land Policies and Evolving Farm Structures in Post Soviet Countries authors Zvi Lerman, Csaba Csaki, and Gershon Feder study the land policies and farming structures of these newly emerging nations as components of institutional change in the rural sector - change from a centralized rural economy to a market-oriented economy.

This study explores the ways Philadelphians used the Revolution and its powerful language of liberty and equality to impose meaning on their lives, as an expanding market irreversibly changed social and economic relationships in their city, and eventually the rest of the country.