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Examines legal and political discourses on torture in India and the United States

Throughout history the British Atlantic has often been depicted as a series of well-ordered colonial ports that functioned as nodes of Atlantic shipping. The author examines the networks that connected British settlers in New York and the Caribbean and Dutch traders in the Netherlands and in the Dutch colonies in North America and the Caribbean.

The Internet has been integral to the globalization of a range of goods and production, from intellectual property and scientific research to political discourse and cultural symbols. This book looks at issues that lie at the intersection of globalization, law, and technology, and examines the wider contextual question of Internet regulation.

An exploration of American religious responses to the Cold and Vietnam Wars

Analyses the work of recent American church coalitions that support and campaign for low wage workers.

An in-depth exploration of welfare fraud in America, focusing on both victims of complex public policy and those who manipulate the system

Since Prohibition, the Mafia has captivated the media and, indeed, the American imagination. From Al Capone to John Gotti, organized crime bosses have achieved notoriety as anti- heroes in popular culture. This title presents an overview of the forces and events that led in the 1980s to the organized crime control initiatives in American history.

Postmodernity marks a time of creative conflict when the voices of the other, previously rendered silent by the majority, are prominently heard. What effect has postmodernism had on Judaism? The neat narratives and metanarratives of the Jewish past are being questioned and deconstructed, allowing for different versions of Jewish history to emerge. For example, a postmodern exploration of the place of women in Talmudic culture can upset portraits of women as powerless and rabbis as closed off to female experience thereby helping to secure a place for women today. Similarly, an analysis of Zionism using concepts drawn from postmodern thinkers problematizes such basic Zionists concepts as nation, exile, and normalization, and raises significant questions concerning the relationship of Israel and the diaspora. The twelve contributors, including Daniel Boyarin, Elliot R. Wolfson, and Laurence J. Silberstein, shed new light on the central texts and issues of Judaism through their postmodern interpretations. They offer up provocative perspectives on Bible and Midrash; Talmud and Halakhah; Kabbalah; Zionism; the Holocaust; feminism; literature; pedagogy; and liturgy.

Presents leading statements of rights-based liberalism and of the communitarian, or civic republican alternatives to that position

Documents cases of Pentecostal/charismatic-like spiritual events and encounters from all periods of Church history

Explores the role of African Americans in the Pentecostal Church from 1906-2006

An analysis of intercultural couples in the US

A collection of short stories depicting and analyzing key issues in America's "New Gilded Age"

A collection of short stories depicting and analyzing key issues in America's "New Gilded Age"

Explores the role of African Americans in the Pentecostal Church from 1906-2006

Investigates the effects of victim-offender dialogue programs that allow victims of violent crime to meet their incarcerated attackers.

In the late nineteenth century, American teachers descended on the Philippines. This book argues that the ideological work of colonial dominance figured into the emerging field of American literature, and that the consolidation of a canon of American literature was intertwined with the administrative and intellectual tasks of colonial management.

Compellingly documents the wide spectrum of this oppositional culture and examines the many cultural and artistic forms it took, from newspapers to literature and poetry to theater and visual art.

A sociological exploration of factors contributing to student drink culture in the US

An exploration of feminist legal history in America, covering two centuries of American history

An investigation of Latin American culture in the US in a cross section of three generations of Latin American immigrants

Analyzes the controversial legal intervention of controlling corporate bodies through outside agencies rather than pressing legal charges

An exploration of feminist legal history in America, covering two centuries of American history

Built on bracing original research that spans gay men's intimacies and parenting in this country to plural and non-marital forms of family in South Africa and China, this book decouples the taken for granted relationships between love, marriage, and parenthood.

An exploration of the suburban gay community in America

A former gang member and juvenile delinquent, Rios managed to escape the bleak outcome of many of his friends and earned a PhD at Berkeley and returned to his hometown to study how inner city young Latino and African American boys develop their sense of self in the midst of crime and intense policing.

Encompassing architecture, forms of worship, rabbinic life, fundraising, creative liturgies, and feminism, this is the go-to history for understanding the synagogue's significance in American Jewish life.

Focuses on women's Islamic activism in Egypt to challenge binary representations of religious versus secular subjectivities

Focusing on the political and social dimensions of the crisis, contributors examine changes in relationships between the world's richer and poorer countries, efforts to strengthen global institutions, and difficulties facing states trying to create stability for their citizens.

With the specter of prosecution after his term is over and the possibility of disbarment in Arkansas hanging over President Clinton, the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal and the events that have followed it show no sign of abating. The question has become what to do, and how to think, about those eight months.