Woman both real and metaphorical is at the center of the project to reform politics which for Rousseau means all human relations Nicole Fermon asserts in this finely wrought study of how Jean-Jacques Rousseau places the family women and love within his political p... Lees meer.

Marketed as more affordable and safer than film cameras the Kinora system launched in 1903 was one of the first amateur filmmaking devices and represents one of the earliest attempts to create a domestic market for moving images. In The Enchanting Kinora Elizabeth E... Lees meer.

He s definitely undomesticated.. . Julie Jones is proud of her dog training institute but her latest client is jeopardizing its stellar rating. He growls. He snaps. He refuses to follow the simplest command without balking. But his dog is an absolute sweetie. All P... Lees meer.

In Domesticating Organ Transplant Megan Crowley-Matoka examines the iconic power of kidney transplantation in Mexico where the procedure is inexorably linked to the imaginings of individual and national identity national pride and the role of women in creating the Me... Lees meer.

Most of the Muslim societies of the world have entered a demographic transition from high to low fertility and this process is accompanied by an increase in youth vis-a-vis other age groups. Political scientists and historians have debated whether such a youth bulge... Lees meer.

The consumption of alcohol was one of the most divisive issues confronting America in the 19th and early-20th centuries. This is a study of the history of alcohol in America between 1870 and 1940. It argues that the debates surrounding prohibition also marked a divide a... Lees meer.

Why has the work of writers in eighteenth-century Latin America been forgotten. During the eighteenth century enlightened thinkers in Spanish territories in the Americas engaged in lively exchanges with their counterparts in Europe and Anglo-America about a wide rang... Lees meer.

In 1881 Thomas and Elizabeth Tannatt said a final good-bye to Massachusetts and the eastern seaboard and set out in search not of land but of opportunities for social and political advancement. Facing severe limitations to their goals in the depressed and disheveled po... Lees meer.

In this carefully crafted work Jeffrey Young illuminates southern slaveholders strange and tragic path toward a defiantly sectional mentality. Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence and integrating political religious economic and literary sources he chronicles... Lees meer.

Most of the Muslim societies of the world have entered a demographic transition from high to low fertility and this process is accompanied by an increase in youth vis-a-vis other age groups. Political scientists and historians have debated whether such a youth bulge... Lees meer.

This book develops a philosophical conception of human rights that responds satisfactorily to the challenges raised by cultural and political critics of human rights who contend that the contemporary human rights movement is promoting an imperialist ideology and that... Lees meer.

The public debate over civilian use of drones is intensifying. Variously called unmanned aircraft systems unmanned aerial vehicles remotely piloted aircraft or simply drones they are available for purchase by anyone for a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. T... Lees meer.

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Presents an analysis of the cultic practices that defined and shaped the way Buddhists in Silla Korea understood their religion from the sixth to tenth centuries. This work demonstrates how the eminent monks royalty and hereditary aristocrats of Silla were the primary... Lees meer.

This text assesses the impact of socialist collectivization on Bulgaria s rural economy over the past 50 years through a case study of one village. Since 1989 Bulgarian villagers have struggled to defend their earlier gains against both proto-capitalists and rehabilita... Lees meer.