Failure of empire

valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century A.D.

"Failure of Empire" is the first comprehensive biography of the Roman emperor Valens and his troubled reign (A.D. 364-78). Valens will always be remembered for his spectacular defeat and death at the hands of the Goths in the Battle of Adrianople. This singular misfortune ...

The origins of indigenism

Human Rights and the politics of identity

'International indigenism' may sound like a contradiction in terms, but it is indeed a global phenomenon and a growing form of activism. In his fluent and accessible narrative, Ronald Niezen examines the ways the relatively recent emergence of an internationally recognized identity - 'indigenous peoples' - intersects ...

Pathologies of power

health, Human Rights, and the new war on the poor

History derailed

central and eastern Europe in the nineteenth century

Christian figural reading and the fashioning of identity

Radio goes to war

the cultural politics of propaganda during World War II

Crusading peace

Christendom, the muslim world and western political order

The spanish redemption

heritage, power and loss on New Mexico´s upper Rio Grande

Empire and revolution

the Americans in Mexico since the Civil War

The first americans

the pleistocene colonization of the new world

Lawyers, Lawsuits, and Legal Rights

The Battle over Litigation in American Society.

Narrowing the Nation's Power

The Supreme Court Sides with the States.

Globalization and Human Rights

Contents: I. CITIZENSHIP 1. Who Has a Right to Rights? Citizenship's Exclusions in an Age of Migration 2. Tourism, Sex Work, and Women's Rights in the Dominican Republic II. COMMODIFICATION 3. Interpreting the Interaction of Global Markets and Human Rights 4. Economic Globalization ...

Making sweatshops

the globalization of the U.S. apparel industry

Descripción: A comprehensive historical analysis of the globalization of the US apparel industry, this book focuses on the re-emergence of sweatshops in the United States and the growth of new ones abroad. Ellen Israel Rosen, who has spent more than a decade investigating the problems ...

Robert Smithson

The collected writings

Since the 1979 publication of The Writings of Robert Smithson, Robert Smithson's significance as a spokesman for a generation of artists has been widely acknowledged and the importance of his thinking to contemporary artists and art critics continues to grow. In addition to a ...

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An Introductory Guide..

The world in depression

1929-1939

"The World in Depression is the best book on the subject, and the subject, in turn, is the economically decisive decade of the century so far."--John Kenneth Galbraith