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he BRC Journal of Advances in Education publishes research in education by scholarly and practicing academics, faculty practitioners, and staff practitioners in the area of library science.

The BRC Academy Journal of Education publishes excellent research in business by scholarly academics and qualified faculty practitioners. Works considered for publication must demonstrate full documentation according to research objectives including literature review, statement of problem, hypotheses or research questions, data collection, methodology, and presentation of results. Works accepted for publication must pass a rigorous peer review process overseen by the BRC Editorial Board comprised of leading scholars from AACSB-accredited business schools. BRC journals allow for submission from any qualified professor without any requirement for payment, subsidy, conference participation, or membership fee.

The BRC Journal of Advances in Business publishes research in business by scholarly and practicing academics and faculty practitioners.

This volume constitutes papers presented at the 12th Annual Business Research Consortium Conference held at the Conference & Event Center, Niagara Falls, New York in April 2017.

With this first English-language anthology of contemporary Taiwanese women writers in decades, readers are finally provided with a window to the widest possible range of voices, styles, and textures of contemporary Taiwanese women writers.

This book interrogates moments in the long history of East Asian writing at which turning points in the lives of texts become perceptible and assesses the transforming effect of stories, customs, and "outside" ideas on Chinese civilization over a nearly 2000-year period.

This catalogue provides a listing of publications and reviews in the Cambria Australian Literature Series under general editor, Dr. Susan Lever. The Cambria Australian Literature Series publishes critical studies of writing by Australians, with a focus on contemporary Australian fiction. In the past fifty years, the publication of Australian literary fiction has grown immensely with many significant writers emerging to claim attention. The series addresses the need for critical support for this writing in order to explain its complexities and context to a wide readership. While most of the books in the series concentrate on the career of a single writer, others give more attention to significant engagements between literature and Australian culture. Each book seeks to find an appropriate, original and lively approach to the writing in question and places it not only within the context of Australian culture but also in international literary contexts. See www.cambriapress.com for more information.

Cambria Press catalog featuring new and noteworthy publications in Asian studies. Includes books in the Cambria Sinophone World Series (www.cambriapress.com/sinophone-series) headed by Dr. Victor H. Mair (University of Pennsylvania), the Cambria Contemporary Global Performing Arts Series (www.cambriapress.com/performing-arts-series) headed by Dr. John Clum (Duke University), and the Cambria Rapid Communications in Conflict and Security (RCCS) Series headed by Dr. Geoffrey R.H. Burn (www.cambriapress.com/rccs-series).

The identification and characterization of Spain s enemies is a complex endeavor, not only because there have been many over the centuries but also because this set of enemies implies a set of protagonists, empires, wars, territories, incursions, and frameworks to organize them all into historical narratives. This book demonstrates the evolution of Spain s conceptualisation of its enemies, from biblical and Roman times to the early modern period, and it also illustrates how this transformative discourse became exercised upon Spain by its own enemies in Europe. Each chapter contributes to the study of multiplicity as both a problem to be studied as well as a scholarly methodology that anticipates the structure of the problem. Conceived as a tightly knit series of case studies that sustain and strengthen these two particular arguments in a relatively chronological fashion, each chapter contributes to the study of multiplicity as both a problem to be studied as well as a scholarly methodology that anticipates the structure of the problem. This interrogation of the integrity of primary sources, the effects of mass-production and the distribution of information, as well as the legacy that remains as a consequence of editorial intervention, reveals the almost universal establishment of a non-Spanish version of the Spanish conquest. That is, in the balance of multiple historical narratives about the conquest that possess lexical and structural nuances, two principal discursive strategies emerge. This book is divided into three thematic sections, the first of which establishes the medieval roots for representing Spain s early modern enemies. The two chapters that compose this section respectively explore the naming and visualization of an enemy that was almost entirely Muslim. The second section contains two chapters that explore the textual and visual references to Islam in the Americas during the conquest and early in the period of colonization. The last section contrasts the quality of information conveyed by archival and mass-produced texts. The first of two chapters notes that Muslims indeed did come to the Spanish Americas in the early modern period. The archival research prepared for this chapter contrasts with the mass-produced images and texts in the last chapter, and it is argued that different qualities of information are communicated by mass-produced, and therefore shaped, discourse, rather than by uncirculated, unarticulated texts. That is, out of the archives, a different picture of Islam in the Americas emerges. The final chapter examines how Spanish-authored chronicles became transformed through translation, and with the attachment of new illustrations, into propagandistic tools designed to undermine Spanish conquest and claims on land. Transforming the Enemy in Spanish Culture identifies and illustrates the discourse imposed upon Spain s enemies, and demonstrates how other Europeans used that same discourse to de-Occidentalize, disparage and criticize Spanish activities in the early modern period. Each chapter explores the implications of textual and visual multiplicity while questioning the impact multiplicity has had on the conceptualization of the conquest in more modern times. Scholars of history and literature will appreciate different aspects of this book s arguments. The former will encounter in-depth and copious archival sources about the conquest and its related themes, whereas the latter will enjoy the text-image and literary analysis of those aforementioned sources.

The BRC Academy Journal of Education publishes excellent research in business by scholarly academics and qualified faculty practitioners. Works accepted for publication must pass a rigorous double-blind peer review process overseen by the BRC Editorial Board.

The BRC Academy Journal of Business publishes excellent research in business by scholarly academics and qualified faculty practitioners. Works accepted for publication must pass a rigorous double-blind peer review process overseen by the BRC Editorial Board.

The Story of the Stone, also known as Dream of the Red Chamber, is unquestionably the most beloved and most celebrated work of prose fiction in Chinese literary history. For two and half centuries, the novel has inspired a ceaseless flow of critical interpretation ranging from the allegorical, autobiographical, and bibliographical to the poststructural, forming a particular field of study called hongxue ( red studies). Building on the novel s rich content and this vast scholarship, and using Julia Kristeva s terms on intertextuality, especially her notions that every human being is nothing more than an intersection of preexistent discourses created by human language and text, and that reality can only be seized as a reconstructed fiction that exists through its relation to previous fiction, this book presents a new understanding of the novel. Eroticism and Other Literary Conventions in Chinese Literature examines how The Story of the Stone dramatizes human experiences by responding to previous literature, particularly those openly denounced by the novel s internal narrator, the mythic stone. While there has been much discussion about human lives and emotions presented in The Story of the Stone, the mainstream humanist scholarship often reads the text as a reflection of historical figures (e.g., the author of The Story of the Stone) or constructed (but real ) persons. This book, however, argues that while the novel is centrally concerned with defining ren (human), it is equally involved in investigating wen (literature). Thus, the core tenet of The Stone lies in the intricate symbiosis between ren and wen, which gives rise to wenren (literati) and renwen (humanities), and even more to the wen that produces wenti (genre), wenhua (culture), and wenming (civilization) an evolution that had concerned the Chinese literati for centuries but was fictionalized for the first time in The Story of the Stone. How does The Story of the Stone utilize language and text to make meanings of the human lives it creates? How does The Story of the Stone exist through its relation to previous fiction? To answer these questions, this book argues that the mythic stone s harsh critiques of historical romance (yeshi), erotic fiction (fengyue bimo), and scholar-and-beauty fiction (caizi jiaren) cannot be taken at face value. Instead, they signify The Stone s anxiety of influence and allude to the nature of intertextuality. In this light, this book argues that the novel s construction of lust shows its indebtedness to erotic literature; its making of romance is created through the use of drama as reading and as performance; in the protagonist s confrontation with and final submission to social expectations, the novel wrestles with the portrayal of young literati in the scholar-and-beauty convention; and finally, following a genealogy of objects featured in literature to animate human lives, the mythic stone is created to question the convention of storytelling, not only in pre-existing fiction but also in the novel s many previous lives in manuscript versions and printed editions. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in The Story of the Stone, and for readers interested in novel, fiction, drama, and other literary genres and subgenres in Chinese literature.

Zhang Yimou is one of the most famous filmmakers of China, as well as one of the most controversial. Long the object of intense discussion and critique in China, Zhang s approach can express a highly stylized and crafted aesthetics, a documentary, daily-life feel, or a historically rich sense of tragedy and sometimes comedy. The director of some twenty feature films, Zhang also is known for other projects, including work as a cinematographer and actor, and directing the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. As a prominent member of the pioneering Fifth Generation of film directors that began working after the Maoist period, Zhang s unique aesthetics garnered global attention. Several of Zhang Yimou s films have won domestic and international awards. Red Sorghum (1987) won the Golden Bear Award, Qiuju Goes to Court (1992) and Not One Less (1999) won the Golden Lion, To Live (1994) won the Grand Prix du Jury, and The Road Home (1999) won the Jury Grand Prix. To Live was banned in China, and Zhang as well as lead actress Gong Li was prevented from making films for two years. The debate that has centered on Zhang s films began right after Red Sorghum came out, and has continued to the present day. Critics branded his work as a self-Orientalizing fantasy that used the trope of a beautiful, vulnerable woman to suggest an inferior position for Chinese culture vis-a-vis the film s Western viewers. In some films notably Red Sorghum and Hero (2002), critics found an endorsement of authoritarian politics. These post-colonial and feminist critiques were countered by those who argued that the films broke through socialist isolation, for the first time finding for Chinese film a global audience. Others argued that the films were more subtle than critics recognized: embedded within them were complex inquiries into power, display, and authority. Despite his stature among Chinese film directors, Zhang Yimou has not yet been the subject of a book-length treatment in English. Film professors who teach his films only have access to a relatively small corpus of articles and book chapters published over some twenty-five years. This book is the first attempt to remedy that situation by laying out not simply a biographical or empirical study, but a polemical argument that counters some of the critical trends in the interpretation of Zhang s films. Taking advantage of the great interest in Zhang s work in China and the long-running debate, Zhang Yimou: Globalization and the Subject of Culture uses a wide variety of sources, mainly in Chinese and English, to construct an alternative approach to understanding the films. The study zeroes in on nine feature films and the 2008 Beijing Olympics ceremonies, developing an analysis that both recognizes the formal aesthetic features of the films, while also contextualizing them within the culture debates of contemporary China. Theoretical approaches to the study of film and culture in the West also figure prominently. While finding common themes and structures that bring together several of Zhang s films, the study does not propose a unifying theory of Zhang s work as much as it uncovers connections between the films, showing a sharp, analytical approach at work. In this first critical study of films by Zhang Yimou in English, Wendy Larson plumbs the larger field of debate to suggest thought-provoking ways of thinking about the films and their relationship to Chinese culture. Arguing that the films do not appease Westerners but rather incorporate within themselves an understanding of how culture is changing under globalization, the book interprets the films emphasis on performance under coercion, the duplicity of display, and action under constraint. It investigates themes of gazing and being gazed upon, and behavior under duress, connecting these notions with implications on power, sovereignty, justice, and Chinese modernity. Larson argues that the films do not uncritically promote nationalism as some argue, but rather that they probe the possibilities for and limitations of culture in a globally-situated China. A substantial bibliography that provides references for the overall discussion is included. Zhang Yimou: Globalization and the Subject of Culture is an important book for film scholars and for scholars of Chinese culture and history.

The BRC Academy Journal of Business publishes excellent research in business by scholarly academics and qualified faculty practitioners. Works accepted for publication must pass a rigorous peer review process overseen by the BRC Editorial Board comprised of leading scholars from AACSB-accredited business schools.

What do the early days of the Trump presidency tell us about the president's style? Foregrounding this study with a background of how the president's unorthodox style led him to win the election, renowned political scientist and presidentials studies scholar Michael A. Genovese looks at the transition period and the usual 100-day standard on which presidents are judged. Genovese presents five tests to see how things have measured up, from Trump's campaign management to putting together Team Trump to the vision presented in his inaugural address and the first hundred days of the Trump presidency. In addition to looking at President Trump's leadership style and comparing it with previous presidents, the book examines the campaign promises made and whether they have been or will be fulfilled and why. Not only encapsulating this critical period, this book also looks down the road to see what potential opportunities and challenges President Trump will face and how he might address these. Written in a highly accessible manner, How Trump Governs will be a valuable read for both scholars and general readers.

In recent years, Japanese manga, anime, music, cinema, television dramas, and computer games have gained many international fans. Recognizing the global appeal of Japanese popular culture, since the early 2000s the Japanese government has promoted popular culture exports and developed a national branding strategy using the slogan Cool Japan. In 2004, the large numbers of Japanese people who visited South Korea after watching the Korean television drama Winter Sonata caught the Japanese government s attention. In 2005, the government recognized in official documents for the first time that Japanese popular culture had another potential: to increase international visitor numbers to Japan and energize the domestic tourism industry. The term used in Japan to describe this form of tourism induced by popular culture is kontentsu tsurizumu, contents tourism. Contents tourism is defined as travel behavior motivated fully or partially by narratives, characters, locations, and other creative elements of popular culture forms, including film, television dramas, manga, anime, novels, and computer games. This book presents a comprehensive theoretical and historical overview of the phenomenon of contents tourism in Japan. Government, mass media, and scholarly interest in contents tourism is relatively new, and in its modern guise contents tourism behavior is closely associated with digital technology, the Internet, and social media. However, travel inspired by contents actually has a long history going back centuries. This book traces the development of contents tourism from its roots in religious pilgrimage and the earliest forms of poetry-inspired travel through to the most recent developments in anime location hunting and augmented reality gaming. In English-language scholarship, study of pop culture tourism has often focused on particular works or media formats. These approaches remain valid in many cases, but the theories and methods of film-induced tourism or literature tourism were never easily adapted into the Japanese setting. The rich history of derivative works, parodies, and multiuse of the same contents in a media mix enriched by the highly popular formats of anime and manga led Japanese scholars to seek a different approach to analyzing the links between popular culture and tourism. Scholars and those working in creative industries settled on the concept of contents, and focused on asking how and why particular creative elements resonated with fans and how fans interests in a narrative world whether fantasy, fictional, or even largely non-fictional could inspire travel to actual places, which came to be referred to as sacred sites by fans. In the twenty-first century, with culture industries worldwide now distributing and marketing their creative contents via multiple media platforms, the concept of contents and its links to tourism are of ever-increasing relevance to countries other than Japan. This book presents a vast range of works, artists and contents that have generated sacred sites across the length and breadth of Japan. Some sets of contents trigger tourism over only a short time period, while others have been inducing tourism for decades or even centuries. The comprehensive mapping of the phenomenon, both temporally and spatially, allows all past and present examples of contents tourism to be seen within a clear context. Furthermore, the book presents a detailed theoretical framework of how relationships are formed between and among the three main players of contents tourism: fans, contents businesses and local authorities. By doing so, it illuminates why some forms of contents tourism are simply localized flashes in the pan, while others go on to become embedded within the travel culture of the nation. Contents Tourism in Japan is a groundbreaking book in an important and rapidly emerging area of scholarly, media, political and business interest. It will be of interest primarily to scholars and practitioners with a specialization in tourism and media, but also to those studying contemporary popular culture in Japan and East Asia.

In 1981 an American historian of China, Professor Charlotte Furth, travelled to Beijing to teach young Chinese scholars about America. Professor Furth's year-long adventures, captured in this lively memoir, tell of classroom encounters, bureaucratic entanglements, expat frustrations, unlikely friendships, and misunderstandings both comic and grave. Her sponsor, the Fulbright program of academic exchange, had just revived after thirty years of the Cold War, and carried with it American hopes for a new era of cooperation between China and the United States. Her students were shaped by the Communist revolution, schooled in its political disciplines, and torn between thirst to experience the outside world at last and anxiety about what lay ahead in a post-Mao future. Based on Professor Furth's detailed notes and letters home at the time, this book evokes the unique atmosphere of expectation and frustration that characterized the first years of normalization. Furth belongs to a generation of American China experts who hoped for alternatives to the reductive cold war policies that made communism not only an enemy abroad but a weapon against social democracy at home. She encountered young Chinese intellectuals who also wanted to imagine a more just society at home without abandoning their primary loyalties to culture and nation. Their search for common ground can help us understand the impact of the Mao era on society and the path Chinese elites have followed since the 1980s. It also can tell us about ourselves as Americans forced to defend our own society against friendly yet penetrating scrutiny. This book is a valuable account for specialists on Sino-American relations and on the formative years of the generation of Chinese who lead the People's Republic of China today. It is also a fascinating read for anyone who wants to explore the pleasures and perils of Chinese and American struggles to understand one another.

This study examines the diversity of narrative strategies utilized by these authors to design their "written life," not only with respect to the future (that is, to history), but rather in terms of their own present, deliberately inserting themselves into their societies.

At the turn of the eighteenth century, Spain witnessed the rise of a liberal side that directly confronted the government during the First Carlist War (1833 1839), considered by many as the first civil war. After this conflict, many liberals felt the need to continue challenging the status quo, and to that end, they explored new concepts that originated beyond the borders of the Iberian nation. In many ways, they found their answer in the philosophical movement known as Krausism. Founded in Germany by Karl Christian Krause, introduced in Spain by Ruperto Navarro Zamorano in 1841, and expanded by Juli n Sanz del R o when he published Ideal de la Humanidad para toda la vida (1871), Krausism led to several important changes, including in politics. In fact, Krausism was considered to be driving force behind the Revolution of 1868, which brought the First Republic (1873 1874). However, Krausism also had great impact in other important fields, such as education and the arts. At a time when Spain s literacy rate bordered ninety percent, the need for a major overhaul in their education was a rare topic of agreement for liberals and conservatives. One of the most important educational centers that propelled those much-needed changes was the Instituci n Libre de Ense anza (ILE), a school founded under the influence of Krausism. This center paved the way for the foundation of future institutions, such as La Junta de Amplicaci n de Estudiantes. Continuing with ILE s ideology, this council launched various important schools, among them were La Residencia de Estudiantes and La Residencia de Se oritas. These two schools provided the ideal place for the development of the Spanish avant-garde. Equally important, Krausism brought to Spain the topic of aesthetics, which was introduced as a school subject by Sanz del Rio, and further explained by the founder of ILE, Francisco Giner de los R os, when he translated the works of Krause on the topic. These various introductions allowed men and women to explore new concepts in arts and display their talents. With the ever changing definition of Modernism, many Spanish critics continue to treat Spanish Modernismo as a different entity compared with the European version. This traditional approach in Modern Peninsular Literature and Cultural Studies has allowed for a generational division of literary and artistic production in Spain. These generations, encompassing over fifty years, follow a set of rigid outlines that have isolated specific writers according to their birth year, a historical event, and certain selected themes. This mindset enabled that method to set the standard in many studies and surveys, where the avant-garde otherwise known as vanguardismo has been considered part of the so-called Silver Age. However, recent investigations encourage a departure from this approach because it has not allowed new inquiries regarding the role of movements, places, and people during those years. This book responds to this call and offers an innovative approach to looking at various developments that occurred in Spain. By historicizing the emergence and impact of Krausism on the Spanish culture, this study answers questions such as: What made Spain the perfect place for the avant-garde? And, what events paved the way for the development of these movements? This is the first study that directly links Krausism to the Spanish avant-garde. To this end, the book is presented in chronological order in efforts to highlight how Krausism evolved and affected the culture of Spain. Those changes occurred in the fields of education, politics, philosophy, literature, and arts, to name a few. The effects in these fields allowed for artists and writers to challenge the tradition, embrace new ideas, and experiment with aesthetics, which all led to the Spanish avant-garde. Furthermore, this book will spark a debate in the wider audience and serve as a springboard, as well as a guide to new ways to analyze important cultural periods in Spain. To continue with the traditional approach would mean continuing to neglect the influence of ideologies, the importance of key playmakers, and the acceptance of obsolete paradigms as a norm. Krausism and the Spanish Avant-Garde is an important book for researchers, teachers, and students, both at the undergraduate and graduate level, in the fields of cultural studies, Spanish avant-garde, philosophy, and education.

Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer (1931-2015) is one of Sweden's most important writers and one of the most influential figures in contemporary world literature. In this first book-length study of Tomas Tranströmer's work, in English, Lim Lee Ching takes on the massive task of scrutinizing all of Tranströmer's poems.

This interdisciplinary and comparative study examines the Nigerian political system as a template for a historical and contemporary global comparative review and understanding of democracy-bureaucracy relations.

This volume assembles the research of distinguished scholars from various fields and regions, and looks at how Buddhism passed from India to Central Asia and China and Korea, and from China and Korea to Japan. But crossing is not merely geographical, hence cultural and doctrinal transformations and adaptations are also examined closely.

Cambria Press titles in political science and international studies. Features books in the Politics, Institutions, and Public Policy in America (PIPPA) series headed by Dr. Scott Frisch and Dr. Sean Kelly, as well as books in the Rapid Communications in Conflict and Security (RCCS) series headed by Dr. Geoffrey R. H. Burn.

This volume constitutes papers presented at the 2016 Business Research Consortium held at the Conference & Event Center, Niagara Falls, New York in April 2016.

This unprecedented volume presents important cultural works from the borders, margins, buffer zones, transitional areas, and frontiers from within and around the mega-states of China and India, subsumed within the larger geo-political constructs of East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia.

This book explores how and why perceptions of the British monarchy in visual culture changed during a period of growing social mobility and political modernity. In contrast to some recent scholarship, it works upon the central premise that cultural patronage by Hanoverians played a role in the production of their social identity. It systematically addresses the monarchy's active role in the patronage of British artists, sculptors, and architects which demonstrated their refined tastes and, additionally, their "Britishness". In a parallel case study, the author illustrates how courtly patronage in continental Germany (inspired by models from France or England) became an indicator of elite social status and cosmopolitan sophistication. The book further expands the insights reached in recent studies of Hanoverian patronage by amassing a wide variety of visual evidence including engraved portrait heads, miniatures, ephemeral art forms, and painting in conventional genres. Formulaic state portraiture and the efforts made by British and European-trained portraitists to vary conventions of depiction are discussed in the context of royal commissions and spaces of display. The book delineates, chapter by chapter, specific patrons (George II, Caroline of Ansbach, Frederick Prince of Wales, Anne, Princess Royal and Frederick and Mary of Hesse Cassel) and examines the cultural life of their courts (St James's, Leicester House and Schloss Wilhelmstahl). Based on original evidence from archives in Britain and Germany, this study presents new research on the early eighteenth-century Royal family and offers a close study of the little-explored question of the early Georgian monarchy's connection to protestant dynastic houses in continental Europe. The book immerses the reader in richly detailed descriptions of courtly space, country houses belonging to courtiers and elite supporters of the Hanoverian succession, and the perceptions of both by contemporary eighteenth-century observers. It also includes many rare color images.

Taking into account the threats and opportunities the United States faces, this book identifies strategies and policies for the US that are central to the maintaining of peace and security. This is an essential book for all interested in foreign and national security policy. See http: //www.cambriapress.com/books/9781604979305.cfm for more detail

Alejandro Tapia y Rivera (1826-1882) was a Puerto Rican poet, dramaturg, essayist and writer. Tapia is considered to be the father of Puerto Rican literature and as the person who has contributed the most to the cultural advancement of Puerto Rico's literature. In addition to his writing, he was also a abolitionist and a women's rights advocate. One of his most important works was his play, La Cuarterona, the tragic love story of Carlos, a young Cuban who falls in love with Julia, a childhood friend, but racial, class, and status divisions keep them apart, since he is from a white land-owning family and she is the daughter of a slave. This first translation with a critical introduction and an exhaustive bibliography on Tapia, is a useful contribution to the study of drama, African slavery and its abolition, Hispanic literature and culture, Puerto Rican studies, women's studies, colonial and post-colonial studies, human rights, and the history of the Atlantic World.

"The best books on politics offer us fresh insight into the way things are, and powerful arguments about how things ought to be. Jerome Foss's superb book accomplishes both of these ends, rescuing John Rawls's work from the dusty corners of overly abstract theorizing by emphasizing Rawls's dedication to a very practical reinvention of the American political experiment. This approach has the virtue not only of according with Rawls's mature interpretation of his work, but also of setting up a lively contrast between the constitutional republicanism of the framers and Rawls's constitutional democracy. This book is a trustworthy guide to the American constitutional tradition as well as Rawls's innovative alternative, offering a respectful treatment of the latter while providing an engaging and persuasive defense of the former." -Micah J. Watson, William Spoelhof Teacher-Scholar Chair in Political Science, Calvin College "Foss's careful study of the transformative intention of Rawls's political theory brings extraordinary insights to our academic debates, and to the real causes of our polarized, dysfunctional politics. The analysis of Rawls's pragmatism reveals its breathtaking goal to elevate progressive-liberal judges as epitomes of public reason, seeking to construct a rationalist, egalitarian-minded democracy to replace the framers' complex republicanism. Rawls has partially succeeded; we increasingly are ruled by living judicialism rather than the rule of law, under novel power wielded by federal courts, law professors, and lawyers. Foss gives Rawls a fair hearing, but insists we confront the arbitrary and utopian bases of this radical project, and the costs of elevating equality and constructed theory at the expense of liberty, self-government, and natural rights. Those who care about the fate of constitutional self-government, and whether utopian theories produce sustainable polities or political-social disorder, must confront this book." -Paul Carrese, Professor of Political Science, U.S. Air Force Academy