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Adventures in Chaos

Douglas Macdonald

Hardcover

Affirmative Discrimination

Nathan Glazer

Paperback

After the Cold War

Robert Keohane

Joseph S. Nye

Stanley Hoffmann

Bringing together the work of seasoned experts and younger scholars, this volume offers a wide-ranging analysis of the effects of historical patterns--whether interrupted or intact--on post-Cold War politics. Equally grounded in theory and extensive empirical research, this timely volume offers a remarkably lucid description and interpretation of our changing world order. In both its approach and its conclusions, it will serve as a model for the study and conduct of international relations in a new era.

Hardcover 1993 / Paperback

Against the State

David E. Apter

Nagayo Sawa

Reconstructing the dramatic struggle surrounding the building of the New Tokyo (Narita) International Airport near Sanrizuka, this scrutiny of modern protest politics dispels the myth of corporate Japan's unassailable success. In a broad adaptation of their findings, Apter and Sawa show that the problems of the Narita situation are also endemic to other industrialized countries. Their discussion of violent protest in advanced societies explores how it evolves, who is caught up in it, and the ways that governments respond.

Hardcover 1984 / Paperback 1986

Agrarian Radicalism in China, 1968-1981

David Zweig

David Zweig argues that because advocates of agrarian radicalism formed a minority group within China's central leadership, they acted in opposition to the dominant moderate forces and resorted to alternative strategies to mobilize support for their unofficial policies. Zweig examines the local realities of the radicals' program by describing the results of specific policies; he discriminates among the responses of officials at different bureaucratic levels, peasants of varying income levels and family structures, and villages with specific geographic and socioeconomic characteristics. He draws on his own field research in Chinese villages and interviews with Chinese college students and their friends who had lived in the countryside and emigrès in Hong Kong who had lived and worked in rural China.

Hardcover 1989

Ai Ssu-chi's Contribution to the Development of Chinese Marxism

Joshua A. Fogel

Paperback 1987

Al Qaeda in Its Own Words

Edited by Gilles Kepel

Edited by Jean-Pierre Milelli

Translated by Pascale Ghazaleh

Introduction and notes by Thomas Hegghammer

Introduction and notes by Stephane Lacroix

Introduction and notes by Jean-Pierre Milelli

Introduction and notes by Omar Saghi

To reveal Al Qaeda’s inner workings, Gilles Kepel and his collaborators, all scholars of Arabic and Islam, have collected and brilliantly annotated key texts of the major figures from whom the movement has drawn its beliefs and direction. The resulting volume offers an unprecedented glimpse into the assumptions of the salafist jihadists who have reshaped political life at the beginning of the third millennium.

Hardcover 2008

Aleppo

The Eighth Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design

Edited by Joan Busquets

In Aleppo: Rehabilitation of the Old City, Busquets describes the value of successful urban rehabilitation in this historic setting. The Syrian city of Aleppo won the prestigious Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design for its urban renewal efforts and Busquets offers an innovative take on how these rehabilitation projects are accomplished effectively.

Paperback 2006

Alternative America

John Thomas

Hardcover

America Unequal

Sheldon H. Danziger

Peter Gottschalk

There is nothing about a market economy, Danziger and Gottschalk argue, that ensures that a rising standard of living will reduce inequality. They challenge the view, emphasized in the Republicans' "Contract with America," that restraining government social spending and cutting welfare should be our top domestic priorities. Instead, they propose a set of policies that would reduce poverty by supplementing the earnings of low-wage workers and increasing the employment prospects of the jobless.

Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1997

America's China Trade in Historical Perspective

Ernest R. May, Editor

John King Fairbank, Editor

This volume explores commercial relations between the United States and China from the eighteenth century until 1949, fleshing out with facts the romantic and shadowy image of "the China trade." These nine chapters by specialists in the field have developed from papers they presented at a conference supported by the national Committee on American-East Asian Relations.

Hardcover 1986

America's Geisha Ally

Naoko Shibusawa

During World War II, Japan was vilified by America as our hated enemy. As the Cold War heated up, however, the U.S. government decided to make Japan its bulwark against communism in Asia. In this revelatory work, Naoko Shibusawa charts the remarkable reversal from hated enemy to valuable ally that occurred in the two decades after the war.

Hardcover 2006

America's Struggle against Poverty in the Twentieth Century

James T. Patterson

This new edition of Patterson's widely used book carries the story of battles over poverty and social welfare through what the author calls the "amazing 1990s," those years of extraordinary performance of the economy. He explores a range of issues arising from the economic phenomenon--increasing inequality and demands for use of an improved poverty definition.

Paperback 2000

American Citizenship

Judith N. Shklar

In this illuminating look at what constitutes American citizenship, Judith Shklar identifies the right to vote and the right to work as the defining social rights and primary sources of public respect. She demonstrates that in recent years, although all profess their devotion to the work ethic, earning remains unavailable to many who feel and are consequently treated as less than full citizens.

Hardcover 1991 / Paperback 1998

American Communism in Crisis, 1943-1957

Joseph R. Starobin

In 1943 the American Communist Party was a large, politically influential, broadly based movement. In 1957 it was a small, weak, and isolated political sect. The Party's decline in the intervening Cold War years is the subject of this book--an analysis of a major radical movement that touched millions of Americans and pervaded many aspects of American life.

Hardcover 1972

The American Ethos

Herbert McClosky

John Zaller

Hardcover 1985 / Paperback

American National Election Studies Data Sourcebook, 1952-1986

Warren E. Miller

Santa A. Traugott

Spiral 1989

The American Party Battle: Election Campaign Pamphlets, 1828-1876, Volume 1, 1828-1854

Edited and with an introduction by Joel H. Silbey

The nineteenth century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance of those battles in a representative sampling of party pamphlets. The nature of political controversy, as well as the substance of politics, is embedded in these party documents which both united and divided Americans. Unlike today's party platforms, these pamphlets explicated real issues and gave insight into the society at large.

Paperback 1999 / Hardcover 1999

The American Party Battle: Election Campaign Pamphlets, 1828-1876, Volume 2, 1854-1876

Joel H. Silbey, Editor

The nineteenth century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance of those battles in a representative sampling of party pamphlets. The pamphlets demonstrate how, for this fifty-year period, political parties were surrogates for American demands and values.

Paperback 1999 / Hardcover 1999

The American Political Economy

Douglas A. Hibbs

Here is the most comprehensive and authoritative work to date on relationships between the economy and politics in the years from Eisenhower through Reagan. Extending and deepening his earlier work, which had major impact in both political science and economics, Hibbs traces the patterns in and sources of postwar growth, unemployment, and inflation. He identifies which groups "win" and "lose" from inflations and recessions. He also shows how voters' perceptions and reactions to economic events affect the electoral fortunes of political parties and presidents.

Hardcover 1987 / Paperback 1989

American Politics

Samuel P. Huntington

Huntington examines the persistent, radical gap between the promise of American ideals and the performance of American politics. He shows how Americans, throughout their history as a nation, have been united by the democratic creed of liberty, equality, and hostility to authority. At the same time he reveals how, inevitably, these ideals have been perennially frustrated through the institutions and hierarchies required to carry on the essential functions of governing a democratic society.

Hardcover 1981 / Paperback

American Social Attitudes Data Sourcebook, 1947-1978

Philip E. Converse

Jean D. Dotson

Wendy J. Hoag

William H. McGee, III

Spiral 1980

Americans All

Diana Selig

From the 1920s—a decade marked by racism and nativism—through World War II, hundreds of thousands of Americans took part in a vibrant campaign to overcome racial, ethnic, and religious prejudices. Progressive activists encouraged pluralism in homes, schools, and churches across the country.Selig tells the neglected story of the cultural gifts movement, which flourished between the world wars.

Hardcover 2008

America’s Unwritten Constitution

Don K. Price

Paperback

An Introduction to Sung Poetry

Kojiro Yoshikawa

Despite the marked influence of Chinese poetry on that of the West in modem times, this book is the first full-length critical study of any major period of Chinese poetry to appear in a Western language. The period here dealt with is neither ancient China nor the medieval T'ang dynasty, from which the most numerous and most familiar previous translations have been drawn, but the era of the Sung dynasty (960-1279), of which the culture and thought were much more complex and "modern."

Hardcover 1967

An Introduction to Sustainable Development

Peter Rogers

Kazi F. Jalal

John A. Boyd

An Introduction to Sustainable Development presents the concept and practice of sustainable development as a process that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. This textbook examines the environmental, economic, and social dimensions of sustainable development by focusing on changing patterns of consumption, production, and distribution of resources.

Paperback 2006

The Anatomy of Antiliberalism

Stephen Holmes

How has liberalism, the grand democratic ideal, come to be a dirty word? This book shows us what antiliberalism means in the modern world--where it comes from, whom it serves, and why it speaks with such a forceful, if ever changing, voice.

Hardcover 1993 / Paperback

Another Liberalism

Nancy L. Rosenblum

Hardcover 1987

Apostles and Agitators

Richard Drake

One of the most controversial questions in Italy today concerns the origins of the political terror that ravaged the country from 1969 to 1984, when the Red Brigades, a Marxist revolutionary organization, intimidated, maimed, and murdered on a wide scale. In this timely study of the ways in which an ideology of terror becomes rooted in society, Richard Drake explains the historical character of the revolutionary tradition to which so many ordinary Italians professed allegiance, examining its origins and internal tensions, the men who shaped it, and its impact and legacy in Italy.

Hardcover 2003

Architecture and Politics in Germany, 1918-1945

Barbara Miller Lane

In a close analysis of intellectual, political, social, and economic developments, Lane shows that Nazi views on architecture were generated by a complex of historical factors. Far from being cohesive, Nazi cultural policy was largely the product of the conflicting ideas about art held by the Nazi leaders and their efforts to advance these ideas during internal power struggles.

Paperback

Armed Servants

Peter D. Feaver

How do civilians control the military? In the wake of September 11, the renewed presence of national security in everyday life has made this question all the more pressing. In this book, Feaver proposes an ambitious new theory that treats civil-military relations as a principal-agent relationship, with the civilian executive monitoring the actions of military agents, the "armed servants" of the nation-state.

Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005

Asian Power and Politics

Lucian W. Pye

Mary W. Pye, With

Pye reconceptualizes Asian political development as a product of cultural attitudes about power and authority. He contrasts the great traditions of Confucian East Asia with the Southeast Asian cultures and the South Asian traditions of Hinduism and Islam, and explores the national differences within these larger civilizations. This book revitalizes Asian political studies on a plane that comprehends the large differences between Asia and the West and at the same time is sensitive to the subtle variations among the many Asian cultures.

Hardcover 1985 / Paperback

The Association

Eugene Charlton Black

Hardcover

At Women's Expense

Cynthia Daniels

No longer concerned with conception or motherhood, the new politics of fetal rights focuses on fertility and pregnancy itself, on a woman's relationship with the fetus. How exactly, Cynthia Daniels asks, does this affect a woman's rights?

Paperback 1996 / Hardcover

The Atlantic City Gamble

George Sternlieb

James W. Hughes

Paperback

The Awakening of the Soviet Union

Geoffrey Hosking

One of the world's preeminent scholars of Russian History, Geoffrey Hosking illuminates the social, cultural, and historical developments that created the need--and openness--for the political and economic changes that occurred in the late 1980's.

Paperback 1991

Bending Science

Thomas O. McGarity

Wendy E. Wagner

McGarity and Wagner reveal the range of sophisticated legal and financial tactics political and corporate advocates use to discredit or suppress research on potential human health hazards.Bending Science exposes an astonishing pattern of corruption and makes a compelling case for reforms to safeguard both the integrity of science and the public health.

Hardcover 2008

Between a Swamp and a Hard Place

David C. Cole

Richard Huntington

In a remote area of Sudan, the Abyei project embodied the idealistic hopes for development aid of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The Harvard Institute for International Development was invited to assist the leaders of the Ngok Dinka people in developing their homeland. David Cole and Richard Huntington analyze the project's successes and failures as the region slipped toward civil disorder and inter-ethnic violence, and document the continued relevance of the development principles which shaped this effort.

Paperback 1997 / Hardcover 1997

Beyond Terror and Martyrdom

Gilles Kepel

Hardcover 2008

Bifurcated Politics

Byron E. Shafer

Even today, when it is often viewed as an institution in decline, the national party convention retains a certain raw, emotional, populist fascination. Bifurcated Politics is a portrait of the postwar convention as a changing institution--a changing institution that still confirms the single most important decision in American politics.

Hardcover 1988

Big Business and the State

Raymond Vernon, Editor

Hardcover 1974

Big Enough to Be Inconsistent

George M. Fredrickson

This book focuses on the most controversial aspect of Lincoln’s thought and politics—his attitudes and actions regarding slavery and race. Drawing attention to the limitations of Lincoln’s judgment and policies without denying his magnitude, the book provides the most comprehensive and even-handed account available of Lincoln’s contradictory treatment of black Americans in matters of slavery in the South and basic civil rights in the North.

Hardcover 2008

Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism, 1921-1965

Donald W. Klein

Anne B. Clark

The Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism, first published in 1970, provides biographies of 433 influential figures of the Chinese Communist Party in the years from 1921 to 1965. Each biography contains all information then available on the person's family, education, socio-economic status, early revolutionary activity, and career after the Communists came to power in 1949, as well as the dates and purposes of all foreign trips, information about important writings, and involvement in all kinds of Party activities.

Hardcover 1971

Black Is a Country

Nikhil Pal Singh

Despite black gains in modern America, the end of racism is not yet in sight. Singh asks what happened to the worldly and radical visions of equality that animated black intellectual activists from W. E. B. Du Bois in the 1930s to Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1960s. In so doing, he constructs an alternative history of civil rights in the twentieth century, a long civil rights era, in which radical hopes and global dreams are recognized as central to the history of black struggle.

Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2005

Blood of Brothers

With New Afterword

Stephen Kinzer

Foreword by Merilee S. Grindle

Widely considered the best-connected journalist in Central America, Kinzer personally met and interviewed people at every level of the Somoza, Sandinistas and contra hierarchies, as well as dissidents, heads of state, and countless ordinary citizens. Blood of Brothers is Kinzer's dramatic story of the centuries-old power struggle that burst into the headlines in 1979 with the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship, as well as a vibrant portrait of the Nicaraguan people.

Paperback 2007

Bolor Erike

Bolor Erike Rasipungsuy

Hardcover 1959

Borodin

Dan Jacobs

Hardcover 1981

The Boston Rehabilitation Program

Langley C. Keyes, Jr

Hardcover 1968

Breaking the Vicious Circle

Stephen Breyer

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer explores three generic difficulties that plague efforts to reduce health risks and sets out a proposal for a new administrative entity to develop a coherent regulatory system adaptable for use in different risk-related programs--a mission-oriented, independent agency commanding significant prestige and authority.

Paperback / Hardcover

The Broken Wave

Roy Hofheinz, Jr

The reasons for the great debacle of the 1920s are set out in this book for the first time in all their complexity. As important as this history is, Hofheinz declares, the lessons Mao learned from his defeats are of even greater significance. The author demonstrates how Mao used ruralism, militarization, worship of numbers and not territory, and a fierce autonomy from other political groups to gain his ends.

Hardcover 1977

Bureaucratic Democracy

Douglas Yates

Douglas Yates places the often competing aims of efficiency and democracy in historical perspective and then presents a unique and systematic theory of the politics of bureaucracy, which he illustrates with examples from recent history and from empirical research. He argues that the United States operates under a system of "bureaucratic democracy," in which governmental decisions increasingly are made in bureaucratic settings, out of the public eye.

Hardcover 1982 / Paperback

Bureaucrats and Politicians in Western Democracies

Joel Aberbach

Robert Putnam

Bert Rockman

Hardcover 1981 / Paperback

The Business of Lobbying in China

Scott Kennedy

Based on over 300 in-depth interviews with company executives, business association representatives, and government officials, this study identifies a wide range of national economic policies influenced by lobbying, including taxes, technical standards, and intellectual property rights. These findings have significant implications for how we think about Chinese politics and economics, as well as government-business relations in general.

Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2008

But Is It True?

Aaron Wildavsky

We've eaten PCBs with our fish, drunk arsenic with our water, and breathed asbestos in our schools. Someone sounded the alarm, someone else said we were safe, and both had science on their side. Amid this chaos of questions and conflicting information, Aaron Wildavsky arrives with just what the beleaguered citizen needs: a clear, fair, and factual look at how the rival claims of environmentalists and industrialists work, what they mean, and where to start sorting them out.

Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1997

Campaign ’72

Ernest R. May, Editor

Janet Fraser, Editor

In January 1973, for the first time in American history, principal participants in a major election met to discuss the science and the art of campaign strategy: the planning, calculation, contrivance, miscalculation, and mischance that determine what the electorate sees. The transcript of the conference--oral history at its best--has been carefully edited and makes absorbing reading. Included are brief sketches of the participants, a chronology of major events of the campaign, tables of campaign statistics, and a full index.

Hardcover 1973 / Paperback

Canarsie

Jonathan Rieder

What accounts for the precarious state of liberalism in recent decades? Jonathan Rieder explores this question in his powerful study of the Jews and Italians of Canarsie, a middle-income community in New York that was once the scene of a wild insurgency against racial busing. This study of the discontent of average patriotic Americans provides great insight into the recent transformation of American politics

Hardcover 1985 / Paperback

Capitalism as Religion? A Study of Paul Tillich's Interpretation of Modernity

Francis Ching-Wah Yip

The relationship between religion and modern culture remains a controversial issue within Christian theology. This book focuses on Paul Tillich's interpretation of modern culture and the influence of capitalism. Using the concept of "cultural modernity," Francis Ching-Wah Yip reconstructs Tillich's interpretation of modernity and shows that Tillich's notion of theonomy served to underscore the problems of modernity and to develop a response.

Paperback

The Case against Perfection

Michael J. Sandel

Genetic breakthroughs present us with a promise but also with a predicament: is it wrong to re-engineer our nature? Sandel explores this and other moral quandaries surrounding the quest to perfect ourselves and our children. He concludes that the pursuit of perfection is flawed for reasons that go beyond safety and fairness. The drive to enhance human nature through genetic technologies is objectionable because it represents a bid for mastery that fails to appreciate human achievements.

Hardcover 2007

Catholics and American Politics

Mary T. Hanna

In this portrait of American Catholicism, Mary Hanna intensely analyzes the political influence of this enormously complex organization. She focuses on the role of the Church in providing the means for an ethnic group to challenge and contribute to the values of the larger society.

Hardcover 1979

The Causes of War, Revised and Enlarged Edition

Michael Howard

Paperback

Changing Meanings of Citizenship in Modern China

Merle Goldman, Editor

Elizabeth J. Perry, Editor

This collection of essays addresses the meaning and practice of political citizenship in China over the past century, raising the question of whether reform initiatives in citizenship imply movement toward increased democratization. Valuable for its century-long perspective and for placing the historical patterns of Chinese citizenship within the context of European and American experiences, Changing Meanings of Citizenship in Modern China investigates a critical issue for contemporary Chinese society.

Paperback 2002 / Hardcover 2002

The Charismatic Bond

Douglas Madsen

Peter Snow

Here is a book that takes up where Max Weber left off in his study of charisma and extends the theory with insights from other disciplines and new empirical data. Madsen and Snow demonstrate that magnetic personalities must have willing followers, finding support for their argument in the rise of Juan Perón and the Peronistas in Argentina.

Hardcover 1991 / Paperback 1996

Chernyshevskii

William F. Woehrlin

N. G. Chernyshevskii (1828-1889), a pivotal figure in the protest movement that developed in Russia after the Crimean War, was esteemed by both Marx and Lenin. This first thorough treatment of Chernyshevskii in English constitutes both a biography and a presentation of his views on philosophy, aesthetics and literary criticism, economics and social relations, politics and revolution.

Hardcover 1971

China

John King Fairbank

Fairbank has been a leading witness before Congressional groups such as Senator Fulbright's Committee on Foreign Relations, where his testimony received worldwide attention. This volume presents the major themes of his testimony more fully by bringing together essays first published in various national journals, mainly in 1966.

Hardcover 1967

China Diplomacy, 1914-1918

Madeleine Chi

Paperback 1970

China and Charles Darwin

James Reeve Pusey

This study evaluates Darwin's theory of evolution as a stimulus to Chinese political changes and philosophic challenge to traditional Chinese beliefs. Pusey bases his analysis on a survey of journals issued from 1896 to 1910 and, after a break for revolutionary action, from 1915 to 1926, with emphasis on the era between the Sino-Japanese War and the Republician Revolution.

Hardcover 1983

China and Great Britain

Britten Dean

Paperback 1974

China in Transformation

Wei-ming Tu, Editor

What will China look like in the twenty-first century? Powerful forces are at work and its seeming stability has been largely lost after Tiananmen Square. Changing political, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural conditions are transforming China and its neighbors with a majority Chinese population. The authors in this book, taking full advantage of the new freedom of inquiry, shed light on the Chinese experience, elaborating not only on the vast changes sweeping all sectors of Chinese society, but also on the tradition that has persisted. The authors confine themselves to enduring questions about today's Sinic societies so that educated readers and scholars of modern China will better understand the more populous half of the world.

Paperback

China's Foreign Trade Statistics, 1864-1949

Liang-lin Hsiao

Hardcover 1974

China's Intellectuals and the State

Merle Goldman, Editor

Timothy Cheek, Editor

Carol Lee Hamrin, Editor

Hardcover 1987

China's Response to the West

Ssu-yu Têng

John King Fairbank

Paperback

China's Silk Trade

Lillian M. Li

Hardcover 1981

China's Trapped Transition

Minxin Pei

In a book sure to provoke debate, Minxin Pei examines the sustainability of the Chinese Communist Party's reform strategy--pursuing pro-market economic policies under one-party rule. Combining powerful insights with empirical research, China's Trapped Transition offers a provocative assessment of China's future as a great power.

Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008

China’s Intellectuals

Merle Goldman

Suppression and thaw have marked the course of communism in China. Merle Goldman traces that shifting pattern over the last decades of Mao's regime, linking it to the unique role of the intellectual in government Her engrossing account of the relations between the intellectuals and the governing elites provides a map of understanding to some recent events in the turbulent history of the People's Republic.

Hardcover 1981 / Paperback

China’s Local Councils in the Age of Constitutional Reform, 1898-1911

Roger Thompson

Hardcover

China’s New Order

Hui Wang

Edited and translated by Theodore Huters

Translated by Rebecca E. Karl

Wang Hui is unique in China's intellectual world for his ability to synthesize an insider's knowledge of economics, politics, civilization, and Western critical theory. A participant in the Tiananmen Square movement, he is also the editor of the most important intellectual journal in contemporary China. He argues that the features of contemporary China are elements of the new global order as a whole in which considerations of economic growth and development have trumped every other concern, particularly those of democracy and social justice.

Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2006

Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao

Benjamin I. Schwartz

Paperback

Chinese Communist Studies of Modern Chinese History

Albert Feuerwerker

S. Cheng

Hardcover 1961

Chinese Elites and Political Change

R. Keith Schoppa

Schoppa divides the counties of Zhejiang Province into four zones according to level of political and economic development and scrupulously analyzes the complex processes of remolding society at the local and provincial levels. By delving beneath the heroic figures and large movements of Chinese political life in this century, he reveals the common factors that make China a part of the worldwide story of reconstruction, reform, and developmental change.

Hardcover 1982

Christianity and American Democracy

Hugh Heclo

Mary Jo Bane

Michael Kazin

Alan Wolfe

Christianity, not religion in general, has been important for American democracy. With this bold thesis, Heclo offers a panoramic view of how Christianity and democracy have shaped each other over the years, and how their relationship is changing in the present day. Responding to his challenging argument, Mary Jo Bane, Michael Kazin, and Alan Wolfe criticize, qualify, and amend it. The result is a lively debate about a momentous tension in American public life.

Hardcover 2007

Chutes and Ladders

Katherine S. Newman

Now that the welfare system has been largely dismantled, the fate of America's poor depends on what happens to them in the low-wage labor market. In this timely volume, Katherine S. Newman explores whether the poorest families benefited from the tight labor markets and good economy in the late 1990s. More than a story of the shifting fortunes of the labor market, Chutes and Ladders asks probing questions about the motivations of low-wage workers, the dreams they have, and their understanding of the rules of the game.

Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008

Citizens and Citoyens

Mark Hulliung

Hulliung argues that the standard American account of a continuous Jacobin republican tradition--"illiberal to the core"--is fatally misleading. In reality it was the nineteenth-century French liberals who undermined the cause of liberalism, and it was French republicans who eventually saved liberal ideals.

Hardcover 2002

City Economics

Brendan O'Flaherty

This introductory but innovative textbook on the economics of cities is aimed at students of urban and regional policy as well as of undergraduate economics. It deals with standard topics, including automobiles, mass transit, pollution, housing, and education but it also discusses non-standard topics such as segregation, water supply, sewers, garbage, fire prevention, housing codes, homelessness, crime, illicit drugs, and economic development.

Hardcover 2005

City Politics

Edward C. Banfield

Hardcover

The Clash Within

Martha C. Nussbaum

While America is focused on religious militancy and terrorism in the Middle East, democracy has been under siege from religious extremism in another critical part of the world. As Nussbaum reveals in this penetrating look at India today, the forces of the Hindu right pose a disturbing threat to its democratic traditions and secular state. Nussbaum's long-standing professional relationship with India makes her an excellent guide to its recent history.

Hardcover 2007 / Paperback 2008

The Classroom and the Chancellery

Allen Sinel

The efforts of Dmitry Tolstoi's ministry resulted in comprehensive reforms that shaped the Russian school system until early in the twentieth century. Beginning with the historical, political, biographical, and administrative contexts for Tolstoi's reforms, Sinel then provides a detailed examination of Tolstoi's transformation of Russian education at all levels, particularly the secondary level, which was the cornerstone of his program.

Hardcover 1973

Coffee and Power

Jeffery M. Paige

In the revolutionary decade between 1979 and 1992, it would have been difficult to find three political systems as different as deathsquad-dominated El Salvador, peaceful social-democratic Costa Rica, and revolutionary Sandinista Nicaragua. Yet when the fighting ended, all three had found a common destination in democracy and free markets. In a landmark book that fuses political economy and cultural analysis, Jeffery Paige shows that both the divergent political histories and their convergent outcome were shaped by a single commodity: coffee. His analysis challenges current theories of dictatorship and democracy, and shows that revolution in Central America is deeply rooted in the histories of the coffee elites.

Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1998

The Cold War and the Color Line

Thomas Borstelmann

The Cold War and the Color Line is the first comprehensive examination of how the Cold War intersected with the final destruction of global white supremacy. Thomas Borstelmann pays close attention to the two Souths--Southern Africa and the American South--as the primary sites of white authority's last stand. He reveals America's efforts to contain the racial polarization that threatened to unravel the anticommunist western alliance. In so doing, he recasts the history of American race relations in its true international context, one that is meaningful and relevant for our own era of globalization.

Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2003

Cold War at 30,000 Feet

Jeffrey A. Engel

In a gripping story of international power and deception, Engel reveals the "special relationship" between the United States and Great Britain. As allies, they fought Communism; as rivals, they clashed over which would lead the Cold War fight. In the quest for sovereignty and hegemony, Engel shows that one important key was airpower, which created jobs, forged ties with the developing world, and ensured military superiority, ultimately affecting forever the global balance of power.

Hardcover 2007

Colonial Justice in Western Massachusetts, 1639-1702

Joseph H. Smith, Editor

Hardcover 1961

Command in War

Martin Van Creveld

Many books have been written about strategy, tactics, and great commanders. This is the first book to deal exclusively with the nature of command itself, and to trace its development over two thousand years from ancient Greece to Vietnam. It treats historically the whole variety of problems involved in commanding armies, including staff organization and administration, communications methods and technologies, weaponry, and logistics. And it analyzes the relationship between these problems and military strategy.

Paperback 1987

Commissars, Commanders, and Civilian Authority

Timothy J. Colton

For six decade the Soviet system has been immune to military rebellion and takeover, which often characterizes modernizing countries. How can we explain the stability of Soviet military politics, asks Timothy Colton in his compelling interpretation of civil-military relations in the Soviet Union.

Hardcover 1979

The Commonwealth in the World, 3rd ed

J. D. B. Miller

Hardcover 1965

Communism and the Dilemmas of National Liberation

James E. Mace

Hardcover 1983

Communist China 1955-1959

Robert R. Bowie

John King Fairbank

Paperback

Competition Policy for Small Market Economies

Michal S. Gal

Michal Gal's thorough analysis shows the effects of market size on competition policy, ranging from rules of thumb to more general policy prescriptions, such as goals and remedial tools. Competition policy in small economies is becoming increasingly important, since the number of small jurisdictions adopting such policy is rapidly growing. Gal's focus extends beyond domestic competition policy to the evaluation of the current trend toward the worldwide harmonization of policies.

Hardcover 2003

Comrades!

Robert Service

Comrades! moves from Marx and Lenin to Mao and Castro and beyond to trace communism from its beginnings to the present day, offering vivid portraits of its protagonists and decisive events. Service looks not only at the high politics of communist regimes but also at the social conditions that led millions to support communism in so many countries, reaching the uncomfortable conclusion that although communism in its original form is now dying or dead, the poverty and injustice that enabled its rise are still alive.

Hardcover 2007

Conflict of Interest in American Public Life

Andrew Stark

Ranging over a wide array of cases, Andrew Stark draws on legal, moral, and political thought--as well as the rhetoric of officeholders and the commentary of journalists--to analyze several decades of debate over conflict of interest in American public life. He offers new ways of interpreting the controversies about conflict of interest, explains their prominence in American political combat, and suggests how we might make them less venomous and intractable.

Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2003

The Confucian Transformation of Korea

Martina Deuchler

This important new study explores the impact of Neo-Confucianism on Korean society and politics between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Hardcover / Paperback

Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency

Samuel P. Hays

Paperback

The Conservative Ascendancy

Donald T. Critchlow

In this provocative history of the Right in modern America, Critchlow finds a deep dilemma inherent in how conservative Republicans expressed their anti-statist ideology in an age of mass democracy and Cold War hostilities. As the Right moved forward with its political program, partisanship intensified and ideological division widened--both between the parties and across the electorate. This intensified partisanship reflects the vibrancy of a mature democracy, Critchlow argues, and a new level of political engagement despite its disquieting effect on American political debate.

Hardcover 2007

Constituencies and Leaders in Congress

John Jackson

This study may be the most sophisticated statistical study of legislative voting now in print. The author asks why legislators, especially U.S. senators, vote as they do. Are they influenced by their constituencies, party, committee leaders, the President? By taking a relatively short time span, the years 1961 to 1963, the author is able to give us answers far beyond any we have had before, and some rather surprising ones at that.

Hardcover 1974

The Constitution's Text in Foreign Affairs

Michael D. Ramsey

This book describes the constitutional law of foreign affairs derived from the historical understanding of the Constitution's text. Examining recurring foreign affairs controversies such as the power to enter armed conflict and the power to make and break treaties, and showing how the words, structure, and context of the Constitution can resolve pivotal court cases and modern disputes, the author provides a counterpoint to more conventional discussions that tend to downplay the guiding ability of the Constitution.

Hardcover 2007

Constitutional Construction

Keith E. Whittington

This book argues that the American Constitution has a dual nature. The first aspect, on which legal scholars have focused, is the degree to which the Constitution acts as a binding set of rules that can be neutrally interpreted and externally enforced by the courts against government actors. This is the process of constitutional interpretation. But according to Keith Whittington, the Constitution also permeates politics itself, to guide and constrain political actors in the very process of making public policy.

Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2001

Constructing the Monolith

Marc J. Selverstone

Hardcover 2009

Contemporary Democracies

G. Bingham Powell

Why do some democracies succeed while others fail? In seeking an answer to this classic problem, G. Bingham Powell, Jr. examines the record of voter participation, government stability, and violence in 29 democracies during the 1960s and 1970s. The core of the book and its most distinguishing feature is the treatment of the role of political parties in mobilizing citizens and containing violence.

Hardcover 1982 / Paperback

The Contentious French

Charles Tilly

Hardcover 1986 / Paperback

The Contested Country

Aleksa Djilas

Published amid the unraveling of the second Yugoslavia, The Contested Country lays bare the roots of the idea of Yugoslav unity--its conflict with the Croatian and Serbian national ideologies and its peculiar alliance with liberal and progressive, especially Communist, ideologies.

Hardcover 1991 / Paperback 1996

Contested Lands

Sumantra Bose

The search for durable peace in lands torn by ethno-national conflict is among the most urgent issues shaping our global future. Looking at the recent and current peace processes in Israel-Palestine, Kashmir, Bosnia, Cyprus, and Sri Lanka Bose addresses the question of how peace can be made, and kept, between warring groups with seemingly incompatible claims.

Hardcover 2007

Controlling the State

Scott Gordon

This book examines the development of the theory and practice of constitutionalism, defined as a political system in which the coercive power of the state is controlled through a pluralistic distribution of political power. Scott Gordon explores the main venues of constitutional practice in ancient Athens, Republican Rome, Renaissance Venice, the Dutch Republic, seventeenth-century England, and eighteenth-century America--and describes how constitutionalism has developed since then into the modern concept of constitutional democracy.

Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2002

Controlling the Sword

Bruce Russett

Hardcover

The Corporate State and the Broker State

Robert F. Burk

The du Ponts, one of the most powerful families in American industry, actively fought the policies that gave government more and more power over the economy. By focusing on one family's contribution to the economic and political debate between the world wars, Burk casts light on the changing fortunes of business and government in twentieth-century America.

Hardcover 1990

Corruption by Design

Melanie Manion

This book contrasts experiences of mainland China and Hong Kong to explore the pressing question of how governments can transform a culture of widespread corruption to one of clean government. Manion examines Hong Kong as the best example of the possibility of reform. Within a few years it achieved a spectacularly successful conversion to clean government. Mainland China illustrates the difficulty of reform. Despite more than two decades of anticorruption reform, corruption in China continues to spread essentially unabated.

Hardcover 2004

Coup d'État

Edward N. Luttwak

Hardcover 1979 / Paperback

Creating Public Value

Mark H. Moore

Mark Moore presents his summation of fifteen years of research, observation, and teaching about what public-sector executives should do to improve the performance of public enterprises. This book explicates some of the richest of several hundred cases used at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and illuminates their broader lessons for government managers.

Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1997

Creating a National Home

Patrick J. Kelly

Looking to the federal government for shelter and medical assistance, disabled Civil War veterans found help at the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Drawing on political, cultural, welfare, and gender studies, Patrick Kelly illustrates that the creation of the National Home at once defined an entitled group and prepared the way for the later expansion of both the welfare and the warfare states.

Hardcover 1997

Cuba

Jorge Dominguez

Paperback 1978

Dangerous Offenders

Mark H. Moore

Susan Estrich

Daniel McGillis

William Spelman

The authors of this major book in criminal jurisprudence develop a framework for evaluating policies that focus on dangerous offenders. They first examine the general issues that arise as society considers the benefits and risks of concentrating on a particular category of criminals. They then outline how that approach might work at each stage of the criminal justice system--sentencing, pretrial detention, prosecution, and investigation.

Hardcover 1985

Daniel DeLeon

L. Glen Seretan

Hardcover 1979

De Gaulle's Foreign Policy, 1944-1946

A. W. DePorte

This is the first detailed, scholarly study of French foreign policy during the relatively brief period at the end of World War II when General de Gaulle was President of the provisional French government. During this period de Gaulle suffered many setbacks, but it is noteworthy that his basic objective the acceptance of France's right to participate in the great decisions of peace and war--which he himself did not achieve, was attained by his successors.

Hardcover 1968

Deciding to Decide

H.W. Perry

Hardcover 1992 / Paperback

The Declaration of Independence

David Armitage

In a stunningly original look at the American Declaration of Independence, David Armitage reveals the document in a new light: through the eyes of the rest of the world. Armitage uses over one hundred declarations of independence written since 1776 to show the role that the U.S. Declaration has played in creating a world of states out of a world of empires.

Hardcover 2007 / Paperback 2008

The Demands of Liberty

Pierre Rosanvallon

Translated by Arthur Goldhammer

Rosanvallon offers a radical new interpretation of the development of democracy in France and the relationship between the government and its citizens. Arguing that the French have cherished and demonized Jacobinism at the same time--their hearts following Robespierre, but their heads turning toward Benjamin Constant--The Demands of Liberty traces the long history of resistance to Jacobinism, including the creation of associations and unions and the implementation of elements of decentralization.

Hardcover 2007

Democracies in Development

Edited by Mark Payne

Edited by Daniel Zovatto

Edited by Mercedes Mateo Diaz

The advance of democracy in Latin America over the past quarter century has helped ensure respect for fundamental political freedoms, civil liberties, and human rights. Democracies in Development highlights how an effective democracy is also essential for sustainable economic and social development. The book analyzes the effects of institutions on democratic systems, identifies regional trends in political reform, and gauges the value and types of reform that may hold promise for strengthening democracy in the future.

Paperback 2007

Democracy Is in the Streets

James Miller

On June 12, 1962, sixty young activists drafted a manifesto for their generation--The Port Huron Statement--that ignited a decade of dissent. Democracy Is in the Streets is the definitive history of the people and ideas that shaped the New Left in America during the turbulent 1960s. From the ideal of "participatory democracy" to the reality of community organizing, from the most publicized radical leaders to less well known theorists and activists, James Miller brings to life the hopes and struggles, the triumphs and tragedies, of the students and organizers who took the political vision of The Port Huron Statement to heart--and to the streets.

Paperback 1994

Democracy and Disagreement

Amy Gutmann

Dennis Thompson

Gutmann and Thompson show how a deliberative democracy can address some of our most difficult controversies--from abortion and affirmative action to health care and welfare--and can allow diverse groups to reason together.

Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998

Democracy and Poetry

Robert Penn Warren

Hardcover 1975 / Paperback

Democracy's Discontent

Michael J. Sandel

In a searching account of current controversies over morality in politics, Michael Sandel discovers that we suffer from an impoverished vision of citizenship and community. Democracy's Discontent provides a new interpretation of the American political and constitutional tradition that offers hope of rejuvenating our civic life.

Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998

Democratic Accountability

Leif Lewin

Political leaders often claim they have no control over negative outcomes, citing that history rushes onward oblivious of human will. Lewin examines this reasoning and finds it unconvincing. In a staunch defense of the possibility for meaningful and profound democratic decision making, Lewin finds that, not only do political leaders exert enough control to be assigned responsibility, but also that the meaning of a functioning democracy requires the people to hold their leaders accountable.

Hardcover 2007

The Democratic Movement in Italy, 1830-1876

Clara M. Lovett

Hardcover 1982

The Dependency Movement

Robert Packenham

In the first comprehensive scholarly treatment of dependency theory, Robert Packenham describes its origins, substantive claims, and methods. He analyzes the movement comparatively and sociologically as a significant episode in inter-American and North-South cultural relations.

Hardcover 1992 / Paperback 1998

Development As a Human Right

A Nobel Book

Edited by Bård A. Andreassen

Edited by Stephen P. Marks

Foreword by Louise Arbour

Drawing on the papers presented at the Nobel Symposium on The Right to Development and Human Rights in Development, this book contains chapters on the conceptual underpinnings of development as a human right, the national dimensions of this right, and the role of international institutions. The contributors explore the meaning and practical implications of human rights-based approaches to economic development and ask what this relationship may add to our understanding and thinking about human and global development.

Paperback 2007

The Dewey Experiment in China

Barry Keenan

Hardcover 1977

Diaspora Philanthropy and Equitable Development in China and India

Edited by Peter F. Geithner

Edited by Lincoln C. Chen

Edited by Paula D. Johnson

In an era of accelerated globalization, the relationship between diaspora philanthropy and the economic and social development of many countries is increasingly relevant. This volume aims to advance understanding of diaspora philanthropy in the Chinese American and Indian American communities, especially the implications for development of the world's two most populous countries.

Paperback 2005

Diasporas and Development

Edited by Barbara J. Merz

Edited by Lincoln C. Chen

Edited by Peter F. Geithner

Just as trade, finance, information, and technologies are moving rapidly across borders, so too are labor markets and transnational migrant communities, with migrants sending large quantities of money and knowledge back to their native countries as philanthropy, remittances, and commercial investments. Merz examines the positive--and sometimes negative--impacts of this transactional engagement in studies of Africa, Asia, Central America, and the Caribbean.

Paperback 2007

Dictatorship and Demand

Mark Landsman

An investigation into the politics of consumerism in East Germany during the years between the Berlin Blockade of 1948-49 and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, Dictatorship and Demand shows how the issue of consumption constituted a crucial battleground in the larger Cold War struggle.

Hardcover 2005

The Dimensions of Liberty

Oscar Handlin

Mary Flug Handlin

Hardcover 1961

Disarmament and Peace in British Politics, 1914-1919

Gerda Richards Crosby

Since the beginning of modern warfare, one of the favorite crusades of the international peacemakers has been toward disarmament. Crosby investigates the British origin of the disarmament idea--from World War I through the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.

Hardcover 1957

Disciplining the State

Patricia M. Thornton

Scholars of European history assert that war makes states, just as states make war. This study finds that in China, the challenges of governing produced a trajectory of state-building in which the processes of moral and social control were at least as central to state-making as the exercise of coercive power. Thornton maps these complex processes during three critical reform periods, and offers a historical reading of state-making as a contest between central and local regimes.

Hardcover 2007

The Discovery of Global Warming

Spencer R. Weart

In 2001 a panel representing virtually all the world's governments and climate scientists announced that they had reached a consensus: the world was warming at a rate without precedent during at least the last ten millennia, and that warming was caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases from human activity. The story of how scientists reached their conclusion--by way of unexpected twists and turns and in the face of formidable intellectual, financial, and political obstacles--is told for the first time in The Discovery of Global Warming.

Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2004

The Disorder of Political Inquiry

Keith Topper

Engaging the work of thinkers such as Richard Rorty, Charles Taylor, Pierre Bourdieu, Roy Bhaskar, and Hannah Arendt, as well as recent literature in political science and the history and philosophy of science, Topper proposes a pluralist, normative, and broadly pragmatist conception of political inquiry, one that is analytically rigorous yet alive to the notorious vagaries, idiosyncrasies, and messy uncertainties of political life.

Hardcover 2005

The Dissent of the Governed

Stephen L. Carter

Between loyalty and disobedience; between recognition of the law's authority and realization that the law is not always right: in America, this conflict is historic, with results as glorious as the mass protests of the civil rights movement and as inglorious as the armed violence of the militia movement. In an impassioned defense of dissent, Stephen Carter argues for the dialogue that negotiates this conflict and keeps democracy alive. His book portrays an America dying from a refusal to engage in such a dialogue, a polity where, indeed, everybody speaks, but nobody listens.

Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 1999

Dissenter in Zion

Arthur A. Goren

For nearly half a century, until his death in October 1948, Judah Magnes occupied a singular place in Jewish public life. Dissenter in Zion draws upon a rich corpus of private letters, personal journals, and diaries to offer a moving account of an eloquent and sensitive person grappling with the great questions of the day and of an activist striving to translate private moral feelings into public deeds through politics and diplomacy.

Hardcover 1982

Divided Korea

Joungwon Alexander Kim

Hardcover 1975

Divided Memory

Jeffrey Herf

A significant new look at the legacy of the Nazi regime, this book exposes the workings of past beliefs and political interests on how--and how differently--the two Germanys have recalled the crimes of Nazism, from the anti-Nazi emigration of the 1930s through the establishment of a day of remembrance for the victims of National Socialism in 1996.

Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999

Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers?

Zygmunt Bauman

Bauman urges us to think in new ways about a newly flexible, newly challenging modern world. In an era of routine travel, where most people circulate widely, the inherited beliefs that aid our thinking about the world have become an obstacle. He challenges members of the “knowledge class” to overcome their estrangement from the rest of society.

Hardcover 2008

Dominance by Design

Michael Adas

Long before the United States became a major force in global affairs, Americans believed in their superiority over others because of their inventiveness, productivity, and economic and social well-being. U.S. expansionists assumed a mandate to "civilize" non-Western peoples by demanding submission to American technological prowess and design. Michael Adas brilliantly pursues the history of this mission through America's foreign relations over nearly four centuries from North America to the Philippines, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf.

Hardcover 2006

Dubious Conceptions

Kristin Luker

This powerful book takes us behind the stereotypes, the inflamed rhetoric, and the flip media sound bites to show us the complex reality and troubling truths of teenage mothers in America today.

Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1997

The Dynamics of China's Foreign Relations

Jerome Alan Cohen

Paperback 1970

The Dynamics of Soviet Politics

Paul Cocks, Editor

Robert V. Daniels, Editor

Nancy Whittier Heer, Editor

The Dynamics of Soviet Politics is the result of reflective and thorough research into the centers of a system whose inner debates are not open to public discussion and review, a system which tolerates no public opposition parties, no prying congressional committees, and no investigative journalists to ferret out secrets.

Hardcover 1976

Early Chinese Revolutionaries

Mary Backus Rankin

Paperback

Early Ming Government

Edward L. Farmer

Hardcover 1976

The Economic Development of Manchuria in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Kungtu C. Sun

Paperback 1960

Economic Sentiments

Emma Rothschild

In a brilliant recreation of the epoch between the 1770s and the 1820s, Emma Rothschild reinterprets the ideas of the great revolutionary political economists to show us the true landscape of economic and political thought in their day, with important consequences for our own.

Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2002

The Economic and Social Modernization of the Republic of Korea

Edward S. Mason

Hardcover 1981

Egypt in Search of Political Community

Nadav Safran

Hardcover 1961

Elites and the Idea of Equality

Sidney Verba

Steven Kelman

Gary Orren

Ichiro Miyake

Joji Watanuki

Ikuo Kabashima

G. Donald Ferree

Hardcover 1987 / Paperback 1990

The Emperor's Four Treasures

R. Kent Guy

The compilation of the Complete Library of the Four Treasuries (Ssu-k'u ch'üan-shu) was one of the most ambitious intellectual projects of the Ch'ing dynasty. Initiated by imperial command in 1772, the project sought to evaluate, edit, and reproduce the finest Chinese writings in the four traditional categories: Confucian classics, histories, philosophy, and belles lettres. Guy's study gives a balanced account of the project and its significance.

Hardcover 1987

Empire

Michael Hardt

Antonio Negri

Imperialism as we knew it may be no more, but Empire is alive and well. It is, as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri demonstrate in this bold work, the new political order of globalization. Their book shows how this emerging Empire is fundamentally different from the imperialism of European dominance and capitalist expansion in previous eras. Rather, today's Empire draws on elements of U.S. constitutionalism, with its tradition of hybrid identities and expanding frontiers. More than analysis, Empire is also an unabashedly utopian work of political philosophy.

Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2001

The End of Ideology

Daniel Bell

The End of Ideology has been a landmark in American social thought, regarded as a classic since its first publication in 1962. Daniel Bell postulated that the older humanistic ideologies derived from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were exhausted, and that new parochial ideologies would arise.

Paperback 2000

The End of Southern Exceptionalism

Byron E. Shafer

Richard Johnston

Until now, the critical shift in Southern political allegiance from Democratic to Republican has been explained, by scholars and journalists, as a white backlash to the civil rights revolution. In this myth-shattering book, Byron Shafer and Richard Johnston refute that view, one stretching all the way back to V. O. Key in his classic book Southern Politics. The true story is instead one of dramatic class reversal, beginning in the 1950s and pulling everything else in its wake.

Hardcover 2006

Equalities

Douglas Rae

Hardcover 1981 / Paperback

Equality in America

Sidney Verba

Gary Orren

A model of meticulous and incisive scholarship, Equality in America dissects American attitudes toward equality by placing those beliefs in historical context and demonstrating a relationship between political and economic equality. The book is based on a study of leaders from all significant sectors of American society, including top business and labor leaders, those highest in the media and in political parties, and leaders from the feminist and civil rights movements.

Hardcover 1985 / Paperback

The Essential Lippmann

Edited by Clinton Rossiter

Edited by James Lare

Paperback

Ethnic Dilemmas, 1964-1982

Nathan Glazer

Paperback

Eve and the New Jerusalem

Barbara Taylor

Paperback

The Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan

Andrew Gordon

Hardcover 1985 / Paperback 1988

Executive Privilege

Raoul Berger

Hardcover

Exemptions and Fair Use in Copyright

Leon E. Seltzer

After decades of professional dissatisfaction and legislative debate, the Congress in 1976 passed a new copyright act to replace the Copyright Act of 1909. In this book, the author focuses upon the meaning of the "exclusive rights" Constitutional language where writers are concerned, and from his analysis, shows how, when copies of an author's work are made under either the fair-use doctrine or a special exemption for library reproduction of copyrighted works, the 1976 Act has failed to solve old problems and has introduced troublesome new ones.

Hardcover 1978

Exeter, 1540-1640

Wallace T. MacCaffrey

During this period, Exeter was characterized by its self-sufficiency and by an oligarchical control over every aspect of its civic life. MacCaffrey describes a semi-autonomous world in itself, in which a small interlocked group of merchant families, related by marriage, kept tight control over the economy, politics, religion, education and social activities.

Hardcover 1973

The Extraterritorial System in China

John Carter Vincent

Paperback 1970

Failing to Win

Dominic D. P. Johnson

Dominic Tierney

How do people decide which country came out ahead in a war or a crisis? In Failing to Win, Dominic Johnson and Dominic Tierney dissect the psychological factors that predispose leaders, media, and the public to perceive outcomes as victories or defeats--often creating wide gaps between perceptions and reality.

Hardcover 2006

The Failure of Political Islam

Olivier Roy

Carol Volk, Translator

Olivier Roy demonstrates that the Islamic Fundamentalism of today is still the Third Worldism of the 1960s: populist politics and mixed economies of laissez-faire for the rich and subsidies for the poor. In Roy's striking formulation, those marching today beneath Islam's green banners are the same as the "reds" of yesterday, with similarly dim prospects of success. Richly informed, powerfully argued, and clearly written, this is a book that no one trying to understand Islam can afford to overlook.

Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998

Fanon's Dialectic of Experience

Ato Sekyi-Otu

A Caribbean psychiatrist trained in France after World War II and an eloquent observer of the effects of French colonialism on its subjects, Frantz Fanon was a controversial figure. By recognizing the centrality of experience to Fanon's work, Sekyi-Otu enables readers to comprehend this much misunderstood figure within the tradition of political philosophy.

Paperback 1997 / Hardcover 1997

Feminism Unmodified

Catharine A. MacKinnon

Hardcover 1987 / Paperback

The Fifth Branch

Sheila Jasanoff

How can decisionmakers charged with protecting the environment and the public's health and safety steer clear of false and misleading scientific research? Is it possible to give scientists a stronger voice in regulatory processes without yielding too much control over policy, and how can this be harmonized with democratic values? These are just some of the many controversial and timely questions that Sheila Jasanoff asks in this study of the way science advisers shape federal policy.

Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1998

Fighting Poverty

Sheldon H. Danziger, Editor

Daniel Weinberg, Editor

Decades after President Johnson initiated the War on Poverty, it is time for an unbiased assessment of its effects. In this book a distinguished group of economists, sociologists, political scientists, and social policy analysts provide that assessment. As a guide to the economics and politics of antipoverty programs, this volume is peerless. It is certain to become an important reference for students and scholars in the field, for policy analysts and policymakers, and for program administrators.

Hardcover 1986 / Paperback

The First Socialist Society

Geoffrey Hosking

Paperback

Flag Wars and Stone Saints

Nancy M. Wingfield

In a new perspective on the formation of national identity in Central Europe, Wingfield analyzes what many historians have treated separately--the construction of the Czech and German nations--as a larger single phenomenon. Numerous illustrations show how people absorbed, on many levels, visual clues that shaped how they identified themselves and their groups.

Hardcover 2007

Foch versus Clemenceau

Jere Clemens King

When, at the end of the First World War, Marshal Ferdinand Foch, soldier and popular hero, assumed the role of self-appointed peacemaker, he proved himself a source of embarrassment and irritation. Foch versus Clemenceau gives a vivid account of the diplomatic maneuvers among France, its allies, and Germany during the period of the Conference.

Hardcover 1960

Foreign Attachments

Tony Smith

Who speaks for America in world affairs? In exploring this question, Smith ranges over the history of ethnic group involvement in foreign affairs; he notes the openness of our political system to interest groups; and he investigates the relationship between multiculturalism and U.S. foreign policy.

Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2005

Foreign Intelligence

Barry M. Katz

Much has been written about the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)--the forerunner of the CIA--and the exploits of its agents during World War II. Foreign Intelligence is the first comprehensive history of this extraordinary behind-the-scenes group. Authoritative, probing, and wholly original, Foreign Intelligence not only sheds new light on this overlooked aspect of the U.S. intelligence record, it also offers a startling perspective on the history of intellectual thought in the twentieth century.

Hardcover 1989

The Foreign Policy of Saudi Arabia

Jacob Goldberg

Goldberg's Saudi perspective, unlike the British perspective of earlier studies, focuses on the marked changes in the years from 1902 to the disappearance of the Ottomans in 1918. By focusing on the roots of Saudi foreign policy, he highlights the distinctive characteristics that make Saudi Arabia inherently different from other Middle Eastern states.

Hardcover 1986

The Formation of the Soviet Union

Richard Pipes

Here is the history of the disintegration of the Russian Empire, and the emergence, on its ruins, of a multinational Communist state. In this revealing account, Richard Pipes tells how the Communists exploited the new nationalism of the peoples of the Ukraine, Belorussia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Volga-Ural area--first to seize power and then to expand into the borderlands.

Paperback 1997

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Foreign Affairs

Edgar B. Nixon, Editor

Hardcover 1969

Free Riding

Richard Tuck

A proposition of contemporary economics and political science is that it would be an exercise of reason, not a failure of it, not to contribute to a collective project if the contribution is negligible, but to benefit from it nonetheless.Tuck makes careful distinctions between the prisoner’s dilemma problem, threshold phenomena such as voting, and free riding. He analyzes the notion of negligibility, and shows some of the logical difficulties in the idea—and how the ancient paradox of the sorites illustrates the difficulties.

Hardcover 2008

Freedom Is Not Enough

Nancy MacLean

In this bold and groundbreaking work, Nancy MacLean shows how African-American and later Mexican-American civil rights activists and feminists concluded that freedom alone would not suffice: access to jobs at all levels is a requisite of full citizenship. Tracing the struggle to open the American workplace to all, MacLean chronicles the cultural and political advances that have irrevocably changed our nation over the past fifty years.

Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008

Freedom on Fire

John Shattuck

As the chief human rights official of the Clinton Administration, John Shattuck faced far-flung challenges. This is the story of what was learned as he and other human rights hawks worked to change the Clinton Administration's human rights policy from disengagement to saving lives and bringing war criminals to justice. Shattuck criticizes the Bush Administration's approach, which he says undermines human rights at home and around the world and argues that human rights wars are breeding grounds for terrorism.

Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005

Freedom's Law

Ronald Dworkin

Ronald Dworkin argues that Americans have been systematically misled about what their Constitution is and how judges interpret it. In spirited and illuminating discussions of both recent constitutional cases and general constitutional principles, Ronald Dworkin argues that a distinctly American version of government based on the moral reading of the Constitution is in fact the best account of what democracy really is.

Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1997

The French Apanages and the Capetian Monarchy, 1224-1328

Charles T. Wood

An analytical study of the French apanages from their creation to the end of the Capetian period, this pioneering book offers an explanation of why the French kings began the practice of granting fiefs to their younger sons, and why they introduced the curious inheritance restrictions which limited succession in an apanage to direct heirs of the original holder. A clear understanding of the relationship of the apanages to the monarchy, Wood maintains, is a large step toward an understanding of how the monarchy gained control of France and, ultimately, made a nation out of her fragmented provinces.

Hardcover 1966

The French Institutionalists

Albert Broderick

In tracing the evolution of the institutional conception of positive law, this volume makes an important contribution to the study of positive law. It also provides the first extensive translation of important writings on the theory of the institution, which has had continuing influence in France but has been known only by repute in English-speaking countries.

Hardcover 1970

French Policy in Japan during the Closing Years of the Tokugawa Regime

Meron Medzini

Hardcover 1971

French Revolutionary Legislation on Illegitimacy, 1789-1804

Crane Brinton

Hardcover 1936

The Friends of Liberty

Albert Goodwin

Hardcover 1979

From Allies to Enemies

Simei Qing

In a stunningly original work about the impact of cultural perceptions in international relations, Simei Qing,/author> offers a new perspective on relations between the United States and China after World War II. Based on American, Russian, and newly declassified Chinese sources, this book reveals rarely examined assumptions that were entrenched in mainstream policy debates on both sides, and sheds light on the origins and development of U.S.-China confrontations.

Hardcover 2007

From Comrade to Citizen

Merle Goldman

A leading scholar of China's modern political development examines the changing relationship between the Chinese people and the state. Correcting the conventional view of China as having instituted extraordinary economic changes but having experienced few political reforms in the post-Mao period, Merle Goldman details efforts by individuals and groups to assert their political rights.

Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2007

From Protest to Politics

Katherine Tate

Paperback 1998 / Hardcover

From Reform to Revolution

Minxin Pei

The demise of communism in the former Soviet Union and the massive political and economic changes in China are the stunning transformations of our century. Two central questions are emerging: Why did different communist systems experience different patterns of transition? Why did partial reforms in the Soviet Union and China turn into revolutions?

Paperback 1998 / Hardcover 1998

From the Other Shore

Andre Liebich

This book is an inquiry into the possibilities of politics in exile. Russian Mensheviks, driven out of Soviet Russia and their party stripped of legal existence, functioned abroad in the West for an entire generation. For several years they also continued to operate underground in Soviet Russia. Bereft of the usual advantages of political actors, the Mensheviks succeeded in impressing their views upon social democratic parties and Western thinking about the Soviet Union.

Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999

From the Puritans to the Projects

Lawrence J. Vale

From the almshouses of seventeenth-century Puritans to the massive housing projects of the mid-twentieth century, the struggle over housing assistance in the United States has exposed a deep-seated ambivalence about the place of the urban poor. Lawrence J. Vale's groundbreaking book is both a comprehensive institutional history of public housing in Boston and a broader examination of the nature and extent of public obligation to house socially and economically marginal Americans during the past 350 years.

Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2007

Fruits of Propaganda in the Tyler Administration

Frederick Merk

Hardcover 1971

A Future for Socialism

John E. Roemer

Paperback / Hardcover

Georg Lukács and His Generation, 1900-1918

Mary Gluck

Here is Lukács among his friends, lovers, and peers in those important years before 1918, when he converted to Communism and Marxism at the age of thirty-nine. Lukács emerges in this generational portrait not only as dramatic and psychologically complex but also as a representative figure whose inner dilemmas were echoed in the lives of many other radical intellectuals who came of age during the fin de siêcle period.

Hardcover 1985 / Paperback 1991

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