132 products in Social Sciences

One of two book projects to come out of the Hispanic Churches in America Public Life project (HCAPL), this project seeks to examine the impact of religion on political and civic engagement

Winch has written the first full-length biography of James Forten, a hero of African American history and one of the most remarkable men in 19th-century America. Born into a free black family

Essentialism is the idea that certain categories, such as "dog," "man," or "intelligence," have an underlying reality or true nature that gives objects their identity. Where does this idea come from? In

Presented in two volumes are the works of Elizabethan writer and patron Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, who is credited with having introduced continental literary genres, and expanded opportunities for women

This text reasseses the disparaged, but prolific, "middlebrow" feminine fiction from the 1920s to the 1950s. During her rehabilitation of the genre, the author argues that such authors helped to create, consolidate,

A scholarly study of state formation and the exercise of state power in Scotland. It sets the Scottish state in a British and European context, revealing that Scotland - like larger and

Political Tactics, composed for the Estates General in the months just prior to the outbreak of the French Revolution, is one of Jeremy Bentham's most original works. It contains the earliest and

How did people view mental health problems in the 18th century, and what do the attitudes of ordinary people to those afflicted tell about the society's values? This is a study of

Founder of the illustrated press in France, Charles Philipon led an unprecedentedly coherent and vitriolic campaign of disrespect against King Louis-Philippe. This study explores the structure of the illustrated press in the

The eleventh volume of Bentham's correspondence contains nearly three hundred letters, and covers the period from January 1822 to June 1824.

An examination of the progress of Bentham's Panopticon penitentiary scheme; his relations with Etienne Dumont and James Mill and his correspondence with the legal and political reformers of the day.

This is a collection of Bentham's essays, dating mainly from late 1822 and early 1823, concerning his attempts to draw up legislation for one Islamic state, and offer advice to another in

This volume of essays by a distinguished international group of scholars looks both at core areas of John Locke's philosophy and political theory and at areas not usually discussed--the links between his

Thirty specialists from different chemical industries, chemical warfare laboratories, and the Geneva negotiating forum, here confer on the problems associated with a comprehensive chemical warfare disarmament treaty.

This volume collects recent research by some of the world's leading figures in the fast-growing area of immigration studies. Relating the study of immigration to other, wider processes of social change, the

With contributions by 42 of the best political scientists wolrdwide, A New Handbook of Political Science analyzes the progress made in political science over the past twenty years in the context of

A critique of Michael Sandel's "Democracy's Discontent". Sandel's liberal and feminist critics square off with his communitarian and civic republican sympathizers in a lively and wide-ranging discussion spanning constitutional law, culture, and

The book offers a detailed critical analysis of the ideal of 'community' in politics. The book traces elements of the idea of community in a number of social and philosophical contests over