The spanish gypsy

the history of a european obsession

Spanish Gypsy-the words themselves conjure up the sound of castanets, heels tapping the floor, plaintive yet passionate singing and the unforgettable sight of a seductive figure, back arched, skirts swirling, dancing with fierce grace. This stereotype has been all but synonymous with Spain since the ...

Human rights under African constitutions

realizing the promise for ourselves

Some of the most massive and persistent violations of human rights occur in African nations. In Human Rights Under African Constitutions: Realizing the Promise for Ourselves, scholars from a wide range of fields present a sober, systematic assessment of the prospects for legal protection of ...

Benefits for the workplace of the future

The man who made Wall Street

Anthony J. Drexel and the rise of modern finance

He tamed the market's bulls and bears. "He was the best friend I have ever had in every way."—J. P. Morgan It was the height of the Gilded Age and J. Pierpont Morgan controlled the fate of railroads, corporations, and governments. The wealthy ...

Archaeological history of Japan, 30.000 B.C. to A.D. 700

A notion widely shared among the Japanese is that a unique culture has existed uninterrupted on the archipelago since the first human settlements more than 30,000 years ago. The idea of a continuous shared Japanese culture, often described as "Japanese-ness," is epitomized by material ...

Shifting states in global markets

subnational industrial policy in contemporary Brazil and Spain

Shifting States in Global Markets contributes to the debates over the political economy of globalization by focusing attention on the increasingly important role of subnational governments in implementing economic policies. Challenging the view that the effects of decentralization are positive or negative uniformly and can ...

Human rights

a political and cultural critique.

In 1948 the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and with it a profusion of norms, processes, and institutions to define, promote, and protect human rights. Today virtually every cause seeks to cloak itself in the righteous language of rights. But even ...

Models of capitalism

lessons from Latin America

Models of Capitalism examines why some societies with market economies perform much better than others in combining growth and equity, and what the less successful countries can learn from the more successful ones. The contributors look at different models of capitalism in Latin America, Northeast ...

Money and Politics

That large financial contributions distort American politics and American democracy is an idea that stands as a truism in political debate. It has fired reform movements; it has inspired round after round of efforts to limit who can give to candidates and parties, how much ...

Paris in the age of absolutism

an essay

By the eighteenth century Paris was one of the great wonders of Europe, renowned for its magniÞcent royal monuments and as a center for science, literature, and the arts. More so than any other European city, Paris reßected the spirit of an age--an age that ...

The new world power

American foreign policy, 1898-1917

From the era of the Spanish American war onward, the United States found itself increasingly involved in the affairs of countries beyond North America. The New World Power offers an interpretive framework for understanding U.S. foreign policy during the first two decades of America ...

The world of Philip and Alexander

a symposium on Greek life and times

The magnetism of the man known as Alexander the Great, along with that of his father, Philip of Macedon, is almost tangible, felt by people in all times since that brilliant young conqueror moved through the world more than two thousand years ago. Scholars whose ...