This research draws on a testimonies project conducted on a July 2019 delegation to Nicaragua led by the Friends of the ATC solidarity network with the Asociación de Trabajadores Del Campo. This thesis explores the geopolitical interests of the United States in Nicaragua and the…
The works that this thesis analyzes are William Grimes’s Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave (originally published in 1825 and revised in 1855), Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), and Charles Chesnutt’s two novels, The House Behind the Cedars (1…
This book presents a novel and innovative approach to the study of social evolution using case studies from the Old and the New World, from prehistory to the present. This approach is based on examining social evolution through the evolution of social institutions. Evolution is …
This dissertation looks at the association between mass migration and changes to social life. Firstly, using a constructed data set of historical mass migrations, the dissertation compares the frequency of transformative changes in political institutions in periods following dec…
The Redeemed Christian Church of God, North America (RCCGNA), which began operation in the US in 1992, was not just another Pentecostal church creating a branch in the United States; it marked the beginnings of a concerted effort aimed at creating a cultural enclave where many N…
This study explores the determinants of entrepreneurial activity across nations. Taking a macro perspective that focuses on the big picture, national culture and social institutions are hypothesized to interact in interesting ways to set the stage for the creation of a new ventu…
This dissertation studies economic growth, directly and indirectly, from three different perspectives: labor markets, financial markets, and social institutions. The issues addressed are the effect on labor markets of implementing an unemployment insurance system when eligibilit…
The past half-century has seen enormous changes in the demographic makeup of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). In the 1950s, LAC had a small population of about 160 million people, less than today's population of Brazil. Two-thirds of Latin Americans lived in rural areas. F…
Emphasizing the importance of culture and the arts in society, this reprint of a 1960s classic the author's last book of social criticism includes a new introduction that situates the late Paul Goodman in his era and traces the development of his characteristic insights. The pro…
Emphasizing the importance of culture and the arts in society, this reprint of a 1960s classic?the author's last book of social criticism?includes a new introduction that situates the late Paul Goodman in his era and traces the development of his characteristic insights. The pro…
"Variations of themes of Politics, a work in constructive social theory."
