Networks of Power reconstructs the course of political history in the poorly documented Naco Valley from the fourteenth through early sixteenth centuries. Describing the material and behavioral patterns pertaining to the Late Postclassic period using components of three settleme…
"Who thought of Europe as a community before its economic integration in 1957? Dina Gusejnova illustrates how a supranational European mentality was forged from depleted imperial identities. In the revolutions of 1917 to 1920, the power of the Hohenzollern, Habsburg and Romanoff…
The author analyzes the cultural wars in the United States through a series of case studies: Black talk radio, the Smithsonian, Elvis fans, homeless men and TV sport. He argues that the consensus model of American society has outlived its usefulness for everyone except those in …
"Behind China's growing economic and political power is a vast underworld of marginalized social groups. In this powerful and timely book, Wanning Sun focuses on the country's hundreds of millions of rural migrant workers, who embody China's most intractable problems of inequali…
"As things stand, a commitment to weak democracy and strong constitutionalism ensures that a range of elite groups, actors, and institutions--political, economic, intellectual, and legal--hold considerable sway over constitutional matters, leaving less room for the participation…
"As things stand, a commitment to weak democracy and strong constitutionalism ensures that a range of elite groups, actors, and institutions--political, economic, intellectual, and legal--hold considerable sway over constitutional matters, leaving less room for the participation…
"DuBois, Fanon, Cabral is an examination of the overlap of culture, class, and political leadership in the Africana liberation struggle. Focusing on the writings and activism of W. E. B. DuBois, Frantz Fanon, and Amilcar Cabral, this book explores the three theorists' articulati…
