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Postmodern Presidency Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 312
ISBN: 9780822957423
Pub Date: 28 Sep 2000
Description:
Choice Outstanding Academic Book. As America’s first truly postmodern president, Bill Clinton experienced both great highs and stunning lows in office that will shape the future course of American politics. Clinton will forever be remembered as the first elected president to be impeached, but will his tarnished legacy have lasting effects on America’s political system?
Ghosts across Kentucky Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9780813190075
Pub Date: 24 Aug 2000
Illustrations: photos
Description:
"Lynwood Montell has collected ghost tales all over the state of Kentucky, from coal mining settlements to river landings, from highways to battlefields. He presents these suspense-filled stories just as he first heard or read them: as bona fide personal experiences or as events witnessed by family members or friends. There are over 250 stories in Ghosts across Kentucky that are set in specific places and times.
To Vote or Not to Vote Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9780822957348
Pub Date: 03 Aug 2000
Description:
What makes people decide to vote? In addressing this simple question, Andr\u00e9 Blais examines the factors that increase or decrease turnout at the aggregate, cross-national level and considers what affects people\u2019s decision to vote or to abstain. In doing so, Blais assesses the merits and limitations of the rational choice model in explaining voter behavior.
Sisters in Pain Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9780813121512
Pub Date: 20 Jul 2000
Illustrations: illus
Description:
In 1995, Kentucky governor Brereton Jones granted parole to ten women who had been convicted of killing, conspiring to kill, or assaulting the men who had abused them for years. The media began referring to them as the "Sisters in Pain," a name they embraced. These are their stories.
Appeasement in International Politics Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9780813121604
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2000
Description:
Since the 1930s, appeasement has been labeled as a futile and possibly dangerous policy. In this landmark study, Stephen Rock seeks to restore appeasement to its proper place as a legitimate--and potentially successful--diplomatic strategy. Appeasement was discredited by Neville Chamberlain's disastrous attempt to satisfy Adolf Hitler's territorial ambitions and avoid war in 1938.
Posing a Threat Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 217
ISBN: 9780819564016
Pub Date: 28 Apr 2000
Illustrations: 37 illus. 2 figs.
Description:
New definitions of American femininity were formed in the pivotal 1920s, an era that vastly expanded the "market" for sexually explicit displays by women. Angela J. Latham shows how quarrels over and censorship of women's performance -- particularly in the arenas of fashion and theater -- uniquely reveal the cultural idiosyncracies of the period and provide valuable clues to the developing iconicity of the female body in its more recent historical phases.
Friendly Liquidation of the Past, The Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 360
ISBN: 9780822957294
Pub Date: 09 Mar 2000
Description:
Constitutional reform has been one of the most significant aspects of democratization in late twentieth century Latin America. In The Friendly Liquidation of the Past—one of the first texts to examine this issue comprehensively —Van Cott focuses on the efforts of Bolivia and Colombia to incorporate ethnic rights into their fragile democracies. In the1990s, political leaders and social movements in Bolivia and Colombia expressed dissatisfaction with the quality of democracy--its exclusionary nature, the distance and illegitimacy of the state, and the empty promise of citizenship.
Democratic Brazil Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 360
ISBN: 9780822957140
Pub Date: 02 Mar 2000
Description:
After 21 years of military rule, Brazil returned to democracy in 1985. Over the past decade and a half, Brazilians in the Nova Rep\u00fablica (New Republic) have struggled with a range of diverse challenges that have tested the durability and quality of the young democracy. How well have they succeeded?
Acting on the Past Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 253
ISBN: 9780819563958
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2000
Illustrations: 17 illus. 5 figs. 2 musical examples.
Description:
Performance studies have been increasingly influential on recent developments in musicology, theater, art, and dance history, as these fields shift from primarily text-based disciplines to consider performativity, subjective experience, and particularized practice. At the same time, the editors argue, investigations into the pre- and early-modern periods have been rare in performance studies. Acting on the Past assembles some of the foremost scholars to theorize particular historical performances -- in dance, opera, theater, and music.
The University of Louisville Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9780813121420
Pub Date: 22 Dec 1999
Illustrations: photos
Description:
Dwayne Cox and William Morison trace the twists and turns of the University of Louisville's two hundred year journey from provincial academy to national powerhouse.From the 1798 charter that established Jefferson Seminary to the 1998 opening of Papa John Stadium, Cox and Morison reveal the unique and fascinating history of the university's evolution. They discuss the early failures to establish a liberal arts college; tell the extraordinary story of the Louisville Municipal College, U of L's separate division for African Americans during the era of segregation; detail the political wrangling and budgetary struggles of the university's move from quasi-private to state-supported institution; and confront head-on the question of the university's founding date.
Envisioning Africa Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780813191980
Pub Date: 04 Nov 1999
Illustrations: photos
Description:
For one hundred years, Heart of Darkness has been among the most widely read and taught novels in the English language. Hailed as an incisive indictment of European imperialism in Africa upon its publication in 1899, more recently it has been repeatedly denounced as racist and imperialist. Peter Firchow counters these claims, and his carefully argued response allows the charges of Conrad's alleged bias to be evaluated as objectively as possible.
Traditional and Modern Natural Resource Management in Latin America Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 344
ISBN: 9780822957034
Pub Date: 28 Oct 1999
Description:
This book identifies a major problem facing developing nations and the countries and sources that fund them: the lack of attention and/or effective strategies available to prevent farmers in underdeveloped and poorly endowed regions from sinking still deeper into poverty while avoiding further degradation of marginal environments. The contributors propose an alliance of scientific knowledge with native skill as the best way to proceed, arguing that folk systems can often provide effective management solutions that are not only locally effective, but which may have the potential for spatial diffusion. While this has been said before, the volume makes one of the best articulated statements of how to implement such an approach.
So Dreadfull a Judgment Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 501
ISBN: 9780819560582
Pub Date: 15 Oct 1999
Illustrations: 7 facs. 3 figs. Map.
Description:
For the newly established New England colonies, the war with the Indians of 1675-77 was a catastrophe that pushed the settlements perilously close to worldly ruin. Moreover, it seemed to call into question the religious mission and spiritual status of a group that considered itself a Chosen People, carrying out a divinely inspired "errand into the wilderness." Seven texts reprinted here reveal efforts of Puritan writers to make sense of King Philip's War.
Just Talk Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780813121130
Pub Date: 20 May 1999
Description:
While countless memoirs have been written about depression and therapy, no one has examined how the "talking cure" of psychotherapy is presented in novels and other works of literature. Beginning with an overview of the principles of psychotherapy and its growing use as a treatment for mental and emotional disorders, Lilian Furst addresses the patient's view of the value of talk.Patients' portrayals of psychotherapy in literary works range from serious to satirical and from comic to ironic, with some descriptions verging on the grotesque.
Inventing Maternity Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9780813120782
Pub Date: 07 Jan 1999
Description:
Not until the eighteenth century was the image of the tender, full-time mother invented. This image retains its power today. Inventing Maternity demonstrates that, despite its association with an increasingly standardized set of values, motherhood remained contested terrain.
Amalgamations Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 138
ISBN: 9789189116078
Pub Date: 01 Jan 1999
Description:
Seven essays on the amalgamation of technology and culture. The amalgamations of technology and culture; technology and everyday life; hidden stories of hearing aids; modern genetics and the alien inside; biotechnology and the reinterpretation of nature.