In Unions, Race, and Popular Democracy, Kim Scipes dives deep into the historical intricacies of labor organizing, focusing on the struggles against white supremacy and racism in the workplace, union, and respective communities in and around Chicago including Northwest Indiana. Comparing unions in the steel and meatpacking industries during the ......
In the third edition of his classic work, revised extensively and updated to include recent developments on the international scene, Jack Donnelly explains and defends a richly interdisciplinary account of human rights as universal rights. He shows that any conception of human rights-and the idea of human rights itself-is historically specific and ......
Why America Will Remain the World's Sole Superpower
The United States has been the world's dominant power for more than a century. Now many analysts believe that other countries are rising and the United States is in decline. Is the unipolar moment over? Is America finished as a superpower? In this book, Michael Beckley argues that the United States has unique advantages over other nations that, ......
Music Drama, the Bible, and the Critique of German Jewish Identity
Unsettling Difference challenges the major-minor pattern that has framed discussions of German Jewish difference, focusing on instances that fall outside traditional understandings of minority culture. Exploring expressions of Jewish identity and difference in biblical-themed musical dramas and their literary sources, Adi Nester argues that the ......
Music Drama, the Bible, and the Critique of German Jewish Identity
Unsettling Difference challenges the major-minor pattern that has framed discussions of German Jewish difference, focusing on instances that fall outside traditional understandings of minority culture. Exploring expressions of Jewish identity and difference in biblical-themed musical dramas and their literary sources, Adi Nester argues that the ......
Unsilencing provides the first comprehensive study of Bulgaria's forced-labor camps, a network of repression that operated throughout the communist era from 1945 to 1989. Lilia Topouzova uncovers the hidden histories of these camps, often referred to as Bulgaria's "Little Siberia," where thousands were interned without trial, subjected to inhumane ......
Planning, Insecurity, and the Remaking of Downtown Bogota
Urbanism as Warfare explores connections between regimes of (in)security and projects of urban modernity, bureaucratic control, and propertied citizenship in downtown Bogota. Federico Perez Fernandez reveals how militarism, class warfare, and violence have infused urban visions and struggles in Colombia's capital. Repertoires of insecurity become ......
Planning, Insecurity, and the Remaking of Downtown Bogota
Urbanism as Warfare explores connections between regimes of (in)security and projects of urban modernity, bureaucratic control, and propertied citizenship in downtown Bogota. Federico Perez Fernandez reveals how militarism, class warfare, and violence have infused urban visions and struggles in Colombia's capital. Repertoires of insecurity become ......
Veiled Threats challenges the idea that women in violent terrorist groups lack agency. Too often, these women are assumed to be controlled by men: their fathers, their husbands, or some other male relative. Mia Bloom contests this narrow understanding. Although extremist groups often control different aspects of women's lives, including their ......
