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Stranger in a Strange State
(May 2019)
The Politics of Carpetbagging from Robert Kennedy to Scott Brown
Christopher J. Galdieri - Author
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The Army You Have
(April 2019)
How Junior Officers Built Up, and Tore Down, the Weinberger Doctrine
Adam Joyce - Author
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Analyzes how soldiers at the middle level of the Army, and the networks they forge, can transform the way America wages war.
In 1984, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger proclaimed a new American way of war, one that would guide security policy for more than a generation. If elected officials send the nation’s men and women into combat, he announced, they must adhere to strict criteria: the strategy must be clear, the pub...(Read More) |
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Organizing for Transgender Rights
(March 2019)
Collective Action, Group Development, and the Rise of a New Social Movement
Anthony J. Nownes - Author
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Illuminates transgender activists’ successful strategies to organize for social and political change in the US.
In recent years, gender-variant people—including those we now call transgender people—have won public policy victories that had previously seemed unwinnable: the American Psychiatric Association replaced the term “gender identity disorder” with “gender dysphoria” in the Diag...(Read More) |
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The US Supreme Court and the Centralization of Federal Authority
(December 2018)
Michael A. Dichio - Author
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Traces the US Supreme Court’s effect on federal government growth from the founding era forward.
This book explores the US Supreme Court’s impact on the constitutional development of the federal government from the founding era forward. The author’s research is based on an original database of several hundred landmark decisions compiled from constitutional law casebooks and treatises published between 182...(Read More) |
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Dimensions of Blackness
(November 2018)
Racial Identity and Political Beliefs
Jas M. Sullivan - Author
Jonathan Winburn - Author
William E. Cross Jr. - Author
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A multidimensional perspective captures the complexities of African American racial identity.
While the dynamics of racial oppression limit the range of attitudes blacks may construct and hold, their basic humanity introduces additional attitudinal variance that is nearly boundless. Rather than claim it is possible to conceptualize and measure every iteration of blackness, modern social theorists such as Robert Sellers an...(Read More) |
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The Future of (Post)Socialism
(November 2018)
Eastern European Perspectives
John Frederick Bailyn - Editor
Dijana Jelaca - Editor
Danijela Lugaric - Editor
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Explores the current and future trajectories of the paradigm of postsocialism.
If socialism did not end as abruptly as is sometimes perceived, what remnants of it linger today and will continue to linger? Moreover, if postsocialism is an umbrella term for the uncertain times of various transitions that followed in socialism’s wake, how might the “post” be rendered complicated by the notion that the unfinished b...(Read More) |
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Get Things Moving!
(October 2018)
FDR, Wayne Coy, and the Office for Emergency Management, 1941-1943
Mordecai Lee - Author
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Recounts the forgotten but important work of Wayne Coy, the Office for Emergency Management’s Liaison Officer, during the early years of World War II.
Shortly after Hitler’s armies invaded Western Europe in May of 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt activated a new agency within the Executive Office of the President called the Office for Emergency Management (OEM). The OEM went on to house many prewar and wartime agen...(Read More) |
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Black Women in Politics
(September 2018)
Demanding Citizenship, Challenging Power, and Seeking Justice
Julia S. Jordan-Zachery - Editor
Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd - Editor
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Examines how Diasporic Black women engage in politics.
This book explores how Diasporic Black women engage in politics, highlighting three dimensions—citizenship, power, and justice—that are foundational to intersectionality theory and politics as developed by Black women and other women of color. By extending beyond particular time periods, locations, and singular definitions of politics, Black Women in Politics...(Read More) |
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Congress and Diaspora Politics
(September 2018)
The Influence of Ethnic and Foreign Lobbying
James A. Thurber - Editor
Colton C. Campbell - Editor
David A. Dulio - Editor
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Studies the impact of lobbying efforts by domestic ethnic groups and foreign governments on US policymaking.
Congress and Diaspora Politics examines the impact of lobbying efforts by domestic ethnic groups and foreign governments on US policymaking. Over time, the number and variety of ethnic groups have grown, and foreign governments have increasingly turned to professional lobbyists rather than relying on their diplomatic co...(Read More) |
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