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Analyses transnational corporations, groups who resist them, and the primary context within which the relationship between transnational corporations and their opponents unfold: the state. Argues that globalization is a contested terrain in which the power of transnational corporations is affected by mounting opposition and internal contradictions.

Presents evidence that under certain widespread structural conditions, democratic accountability falls prey to the same N-person prisoner's dilemma that plagues any other decentralized attempt to procure collective goods. Examines four prominent democracies: postwar and contemporary Brazil and pre-Chavez and contemporary Venezuela.

Examines the life of 18th century German immigrant and businessman Caspar Wistar. Reevaluates the modern understanding of the entrepreneurial ideal and the immigrant experience in the colonial era.

Presents a detailed history of the G. C. Murphy Company, headquartered in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. Examines the larger context of the origins and evolution of five-and-ten-cent stores.

The role of elites vis-a-vis the mass public in the construction and successful functioning of democracy has been a subject of central interest to political theorists. This book explores this theme in Thucydides' famous history of the Peloponnesian War as a way of rendering our thoughts about this relationship in our own modern democracy.

Tells the story of an English professor who, having seen the University of New Mexico sink academically in the period of a major basketball scandal, was galvanized into action when Rutgers joined the Big East. This book also tells the story of the Rutgers students and alumni who set out against all odds to resist the decline of their university.

Takes a look at the role of the Supreme Court in our modern constitutional system. This book argues instead that the Supreme Court's power has grown mainly because of certain constitutional decisions during the New Deal era that initially seemed to portend a lessening of the Court's power.

A collection of essays which analyze and evaluate both the theoretical and historical contexts of the agrifood system and the ways in which trends of individual action and collective activity have led to an "accumulation of resistance" that greatly affects the mainstream market of food production.

Shows that the body of Augustine's work has much to offer as feminists explore, challenge, and reframe his thinking while forging different paradigms for construing gender, power, and notions of divinity.

We all live our daily lives surrounded by products of technology that make what we do simpler, faster, and efficient. These products disburden us of unwanted tasks that consumed much time and effort in earlier eras, many of them also leave us more disengaged from our natural and even human surroundings.

Few pieces of legislation have caused as much public controversy as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. This book analyzes the passage of this law, compares it to other federal education policies, and shows that No Child Left Behind is an indicator of how and why conservative and liberal ideologies are gradually transforming.

The overthrow of Viceroy Joaquin de la Pezuela on 29 January 1821 has not received much attention from historians. This study of the episode reveals it to be a pivotal event in the commercial conflict between liberal free-traders and protectionists that retarded the establishment of a stable national state in post-independence Peru.

Studies the rural labor processes and their national and international effects. This book examines the socioeconomic effects of the H-2 program on both the areas where the laborers work and the areas they are from, and, taking a uniquely humanitarian stance, considers the effects of the program on the laborers themselves.

Explores the relationship of collecting and the German literary imagination since the invention of the public museum. This study shows that in addition to redefining categories of art, history, and identity in modernity, the museum transforms the relationship between material objects and imaginative narratives.

Applies the author's argument to elucidating the reasons why Russians have responded favorably to what Westerners see as moves in an antidemocratic direction by Vladimir Putin's government.

Considers one of the most important figures of the modern canon of political philosophy, John Locke. This volume opens with three of the early "classic" feminist essays on Locke and follows them with reflective essays by their original authors that engage Locke with issues of globalization and international justice.

Forestry education in Pennsylvania has a long, proud tradition, having begun earlier than in most other states. This work reviews progress in the School's academic programs and facilities and examines the accomplishments of some of our more interesting and prominent graduates and faculty.

Judicial reform became an important part of the agenda for development in Latin America early in the 1980s. This book aims to turn the spotlight on the problems in the movement toward judicial reform in Latin America and to suggest ways to keep the movement on track toward achieving its multiple, though often conflicting, goals.

"Frauenlob" was the stage name of Heinrich von Meissen, a medieval German poet-minstrel. This title introduces the poet to English-speaking readers with a fresh poetic translation of his masterpiece, the "Marienleich" - a virtuosic poem of more than 500 lines in praise of the Virgin Mary. It is accompanied by a CD recording of the "Marienleich".

Many of the most famous figures of Western philosophy have held views about women that are disparaging or worse. Is philosophy so completely infected by androcentricity? This book analyses such accusations to determine what validity they have and whether they justify seeing philosophy as either pervasively or nonpervasively androcentric.

Introduces the women miners at a large underground coal mine in southern West Virginia, where women entered the workforce in the late 1970s after mining jobs began opening up for women throughout the Appalachian coalfields. This work explores such topics as social relations among men and women, professional advancement, and union participation.

"Journal of Policy History" has emerged as a major venue for scholarship on American policy history in the period after 1900. This work contains six essays intended for college undergraduates and historians unfamiliar with the period.

The story of deer management in Pennsylvania is as complex as it is controversial. This book examines the controversy and the effect that herd management has had on the citizens of Pennsylvania: farmers managing deer invasions and property rights, hunters dealing with changing herd densities and increasingly complex restrictions, and others.

Against the historical background of race relations in Brazil and the US, this book includes a review of earlier challenges to their respective racial orders. It also focuses on analyzing the racial project on which each country has embarked, with attention to all the political possibilities and dangers they involve.

Presents two parallel memoirs - of John Frederick Whitehead and Johann Carl Buttner - to illustrate the condition of German redemptioners as well as their religious, familial, and literary contexts during a crucial period of migration in Europe and America. This work provides helpful introductions to the works as well as notes to guide the reader.

Presents two parallel memoirs - of John Frederick Whitehead and Johann Carl Buttner - to illustrate the condition of German redemptioners as well as their religious, familial, and literary contexts during a crucial period of migration in Europe and America. This work provides helpful introductions to the works as well as notes to guide the reader.

Addresses several questions, ranging from dilemmas in feminist aesthetic theory to the politics of suffering and democratic theory. This volume introduces feminists to Adorno's work and Adorno scholars to modes of feminist critique. It is useful for senior undergraduate and graduate courses in contemporary political, social, and cultural theory.