Political Control & Freedoms

The subject of rights occupies a central place in liberal political thought. This tradition posits that rights are entitlements of individuals by v...

Popular liberal writing on race has relied on appeals to the value of "diversity" and the fading memory of the Civil Rights movement to counter the...

The story of the remarkable life of Civil Rights leader Bob Moses From his role as one of the architects of the civil rights movement to his work w...

According to the World Health Organization, one-third of the global population lacks access to essential medicines. Should pharmaceutical companies...

Jan Gross describes the terrors of the Soviet occupation of the lands that made up eastern Poland between the two world wars: the Western Ukraine a...

Beginning in the 1880s, the economic realities and class dynamics of popular northern resort towns unsettled prevailing assumptions about political...

With a lively and engaging style, Myths for the Masses provides a critical, interdisciplinary, and historically informed statement about communicat...

Publicity pervades our political and public culture, but little has been written that critically examines the basis of the modern Canadian “publici...

Victimology is a relatively new and emerging interdisciplinary area that crosses the fields of criminology, law, sociology, and justice. Written by...

Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum interrogates the polyvalent role that American exceptionalism continues to play after 9/11. Whereas American exc...

Victimology is a relatively new and emerging interdisciplinary area that crosses the fields of criminology, law, sociology, and justice. Written by...

This new and final edition is a follow-up to the author’s first book, Anticipating Surprise (University Press of America, 2002) and the Handbook of...

In 1973, the year the women's movement won an important symbolic victory with Roe v. Wade, reports surfaced that twelve-year-old Minnie Lee Relf an...

From natural disaster areas to conflict zones, humanitarian workers today find themselves operating in diverse and difficult environments. While hu...

During the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, insurgencies erupted in imperial states and colonies around t...

Beginning in the 1880s, the economic realities and class dynamics of popular northern resort towns unsettled prevailing assumptions about political...

Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum interrogates the polyvalent role that American exceptionalism continues to play after 9/11. Whereas American exc...

Are human rights universal or the product of specific cultures? Is democracy a necessary condition for the achievement of human rights in practice?...

A sweeping chronicle of women's battles for reproductive freedom A sweeping chronicle of women's battles for reproductive freedom throughout Americ...

Recent writing on the nature of freedom has served to underline a crucial gap in the academic experience. First--and most obviously--the concept of...

Colombia is home to the longest-running guerilla war in this hemisphere, a war that has evolved into a multisided conflict. Over forty years ago gu...