Between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, Americans underwent a dramatic transformation in selfconception: having formerly lived as individuals...
Most histories of nineteenthcentury Afghanistan argue that the country remained immune to the colonialism emanating from British India because, militarily, Afghan defenders were successful in...
Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and indepth life history interviews, this illuminating book provides an intimate portrait of contemporary Chinese Christianity in the context of...
Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and indepth life history interviews, this illuminating book provides an intimate portrait of contemporary Chinese Christianity in the context of...
The conventional understanding of Japanese wartime ideology has for years been summed up by just a few words: antimodern, spiritualist, and irrational. Yet such a...
The conventional understanding of Japanese wartime ideology has for years been summed up by just a few words: antimodern, spiritualist, and irrational. Yet such a...
This book illuminates the central role played by international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) in the emergence and development of a comprehensive world polity. The contributors argue...
Boycotts are so commonplace these days that one hardly notices them, and yet they have a fascinating history, one closely connected to the growth of...
Consuming Citizenship investigates how Korean American and Chinese American children of entrepreneurial immigrants demonstrate their social citizenship as Americans through conspicuous consumption.The American immigrant entrepreneur...
Contagion was a persistent theme in discussions about urban and industrial social problems in nineteenthcentury France. From the cholera epidemic of 1832 to the Public...
This text presents the most important and influential social psychological theories and research programs in contemporary sociology. Original chapters by the scholars who initiated and...
Product Description Despite extensive theoretical debates over the utility of 'political opportunities' as an explanation for the rise and success of social movements, there have...
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In this collection of short meditations on various topics, Hans Blumenberg eschews academic ponderousness and writes in a genre evocative of Montaigne's Essais, Walter Benjamin's...
Cause Lawyers and Social Movements seeks to reorient scholarship on cause lawyers, inviting scholars to think about cause lawyering from the perspective of those political...
Cause Lawyers and Social Movements seeks to reorient scholarship on cause lawyers, inviting scholars to think about cause lawyering from the perspective of those political...
This volume presents the story of Hernando Corts's conquest of Mexico, as recounted by a contemporary Spanish historian and edited by Mexico's premier Nahua historian.Francisco...
This book offers new topics and new perspectives on the economic history of Argentina before the 1930 Depression. It focuses on the evolution of early...