Call it the year of dreaming dangerously: 2011 caught the world off guard with a series of shattering events. While protesters in New York, Cairo, London, and Athens took to the streets in pursuit of emancipation, obscure destructive fantasies inspired the world's racist populis…
"After World War II, a secular, progressive consensus defined the international order. That changed in 1979, when a series of counterrevolutions swept the globe, blazing a path for a new era. China launched reforms that would make it the economic powerhouse it is today. Pope Joh…
In this follow-up to Thomas Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century', he challenges us to revolutionize how we think about ideology and history, exposing the ideas that have sustained inequality since premodern times and outlining a fairer economic system
Examines Cuban cultural production during the Special Period of the 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet Bloc. This book addresses the cultural forms; and the associated ethics and practices of labor, leisure, and bureaucratic organization that arose in the transformation…
The author of this study looks at the language of judges in the courtroom to show that, while judges see themselves as impartial agents of the constitutional right to due process, there is actually much diversity in the way that judges interact with defendants due to their inter…
by Berger, J. M., (Berger, John M.)
fromThe MIT Press essential knowledge series
