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This study examines British policy in the Balkans after World War I. The author argues that Britain took the lead in inflicting territorial losses on Bulgaria and was the main factor in shaping the Treaty of Neuilly in 1919.

This book examines the intersections of religion and race in the context of the Christian Right's responses to the presidency of Barack Obama. Perry argues that the context of the war on terror allowed long-standing arguments on the Christian Right to morph into conspiracy theories and adversarial claims directed at President Obama.

This book examines what it was like to be a Soviet citizen by examining first-person accounts of the Cold War generation of Soviet scientists-one of the most prominent and educated groups in the late Soviet Union.

This study examines the development and implications of the wide continuous hot strip mill, a technological innovation that transformed the steel industry starting in the 1920s. It changed the profitability of companies, the number and skills of their employees, and the nature, scale, and location of their operations.

This study examines how slaves in antebellum Virginia, through physical confrontations with whites, fought to reassert some measure of control over their day-today lives. The author analyzes how while this violence came at a high cost, it also ensured the preservation of their humanity and set limits on their enslavement.

Michael G. Carew argues that more recently available Soviet-era archival materials and analysis of other research provide a more historically accurate appreciation of American foreign and defense policy formulation.

This book presents an ethnographic portrait of transnational Japanese-Brazilian labor migrants and their families as they navigate life between Japan and Brazil. The author pays particular attention to gender, generation, and class, and to structures besides work such as family, education, and religion.

This study provides a critical examination of biopolitics and the process of the subjectification of Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, and Estonia. The authors analyze multiple overlapping regimes of belonging, performativity, and debordering.

Agency and Imagination in the Films of David Lynch: Philosophical Perspectives offers a sustained philosophical interpretation of the filmmaker's work in light of classic and contemporary discussions of human agency and the complex relations between our capacity to act and our ability to imagine.

This study examines the impact of the British press on the development of the July Crisis of 1914. The author analyzes how British newspapers encouraged German hopes for British neutrality and affected the indecisive nature of Sir Edward Grey's foreign policy in 1914.

Narrative Medicine in Hospice Care argues that the models of selfhood and care found in the work of Paul Ricoeur can serve as a framework for clinicians, caregivers, and end-of-life patients regardless of the patients' verbal and cognitive capabilities.

While commonsense attitudes towards the United States Supreme Court have been focused on what decisions they are likely to make, this book focuses on the impacts of other politicized elements of the Court, such as the nomination process, docket selection, and judicial retirements.

This book explores the breast-is-best discursive formation of hegemonic motherhood that limits possibilities and polices parents. Scholars of feminism, motherhood, gender, and discursive and/or narrative methodologies will find this book useful in exploring the complex systems that control the meanings of motherhood, family, and society.

This book examines the rise of social media, the increase of public employees being fired for inappropriate behavior on social media, and subsequent litigation being adjudicated through the federal and state court systems.

This volume presents ground breaking research from the innovative, narrative-based scholarship from Canada's highly respected Arthur V. Mauro Institute for Peace and Justice. Applicable to scholars across the world, the studies elevate and explore diverse conflict experiences ...

This book examines espionage and intelligence gathering in ancient Greece. The author focuses on proxenoi-honorary ambassadors in Greek city-states-and argues that they also ran intelligence networks and would sometimes work directly against their home polis.

Historical Continuity in the Emergence of Modern Hebrew argues that due to unconventional linguistic processes in the early years of revernacularization, apparent resemblance to classical Hebrew does not necessarily reflect continuity, and apparent dissimilarity does not necessarily reflect change.

In studying Plato's Crito with a primary concern for Plato's friend Crito, this book reveals the rarity of the philosopher, the tension between the citizen's natural understanding of justice and the city's necessary understanding of justice, and how one might attempt to ease this tension.

Age of Anxiety: Meaning, Identity, and Politics in 21st Century Film and Literature applies historical and contemporary political and rhetorical theory to current popular culture to discuss the problem of the displaced autonomous self and the quest for a meaningful life.

This book explores the iconic existence of second chances in everyday life. Newman argues that while second chances are culturally ubiquitous, they are complicated by assessments of deservedness, ultimately pitting optimistic notions of redemption against entrenched beliefs about the intransigence of human nature.

Public policies are not all regulated the same and they do not receive the same amount of attention from Congress. This book examines what happens at the federal level when a public policy area is defined by complexity and contention.

This study uses the Nuwaubian movement to examine Pan-Africanism and black nationalism in the post-civil rights era. The author places the movement within the context of the history, culture, and tradition of the African diaspora and argues that the movement represents contemporary efforts of African descendants to resist oppression.

This book discusses the need for individual and organizational journalism training on coping with trauma exposure and providing support after being exposed to trauma, specifically as it pertains to the aftermath of witnessing and covering executions.

This book explores the role of literary fantasy in contemporary women's diasporic narratives to unsettle hegemonic notions of home and to construct their identity. Fantasy in their works plays a subversive function of bringing the unseen culture and unheard voices of the marginalized people.

Exploring a variety of female superhero narratives, including Wonder Woman comics and television shows like The Secrets of Isis, The Bionic Woman, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, this book argues that twentieth-century superheroine stories historically depicted education as the path to female liberation and empowerment.

This book is for early childhood educators committed to learning about gender [in]justice as a foundation for creating gender affirming environments for everyone including transgender and gender expansive children. The authors engage in contemporary thinking about gender acknowledging its complexity, intersectionality and diversity.

Competing Stories: Modernist Authors, Newspapers, and the Movies examines the relationship between modernist authors, newspapers, and movies, and explores the disconnect between the positive benefits and potential authors found in media and the negative portrayals of those same media in these authors' fiction.

Using concrete examples from his many years of teaching, Robert Kaddouch argues the teaching of creation is not only about helping students become more innovative; it's also about enabling them to "conduct" - to communicate, in a musical language, the ideas to which they are particularly attached.

This book examines how and why women use blogs to create successful digital brands based on food preparation, purchase, and consumption. Alane Presswood clarifies the relationships between individual brands, reader communities, and sociocultural trends via an exploration of the strategies employed to create affective relationships on social media.

This book explores how the realities of three young black women who have experienced eating disorders since childhood were transformed, discussing the larger implications of disordered eating in underrepresented populations. More broadly, this book discusses the need for culturally sensitive prevention, intervention, and care in mental health.