Society and Social Sciences

A panoramic study of our Urban Planet that takes readers on a six-continent, six-millennia tour of the world''s cities.

Chronicles the critical role the sciences have played in American foreign relations since World War II.

Using extensive research, this book argues that successful African leaders consolidate their rule by developing strategic rural coalitions.

This book is about microfinance in rural China and how the villagers cultivated their social relationships by moving money.

How a distinctive approach to social policy led democracy to flourish in the Federal Republic of Germany despite its past.

The first holistic study of Roman literature and literary culture under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96–138).

Mining new sources, Klein tells the dramatic story of Italy''s Jews, from emancipation to Fascism, the Holocaust, and postwar myth-making.

Develops a new account of historical injustice and redress, demonstrating why a consideration of history is crucial for gender equality.

Explores how classical ideals of generosity influenced the writing and practice of gift giving in medieval Europe.

The first book to give an integrated theoretical framework for understanding the complexities of health and illness in close relationships.

Focuses on enslaved families and their social networks in the city of Puebla de los Ángeles in seventeenth-century colonial Mexico.

A major illustrated collection offering a fresh interdisciplinary reading of Chinese women''s periodicals and history in the long twentieth century.

This book shows how love between men has a rich history in English literature, and explores why these same-sex friendships are memorable.

A wide-ranging analysis of grass-roots activism, migration, legal, political and religious changes as basis for social transformation.

Research volume on urban energy transition that will have wide interdisciplinary appeal to researchers in energy, urban and environmental studies.

Offers evidence that opportunity structures created by state weakness can allow NGOs to exert unparalleled influence over local human rights law and practice.

Laura Montanaro asks what entitles self-appointed representatives, such as non-governmental organizations and celebrity activists, to speak and act for others.

The experiences of men who fought at sea reveal the relationship between discipline, leadership, and the strength of the fleet.

This book explores how and why reading was taught in the eighteenth century, exploring different teaching methods in social and economic context.

Explains what makes people love and appreciate their bodies, and offers advice on how we can all do the same.

This volume looks at the effects of interaction and the nature of identity construction in a frontier or contact zone through the analysis of material culture, especially in mortuary settings.

Women and Microfinance in the Global South is a grounded exploration of the intersections of neoliberal ideology and feminism.

Explains why successful international peacebuilding depends on the unorthodox actions of country-based staff, whose deviations from approved procedures make global governance organizations accountable to local realities.

A unique account of everyday life under the Third Reich and one man''s opposition to the Nazi regime.

This multidisciplinary book examines the potential of economic and social rights to contest adverse impacts of neoliberalism on human wellbeing.

This book challenges our assumptions about morality by explaining how industrialized philanthropy and universalized goodness came to dominate Chinese religious engagement.

Captures significant transformations in the theory and practice of economic and social rights in constitutional and human rights law.

Analyzes the role of self-determination and territorial integrity in some of the most difficult decolonization cases.

Heather Tilley examines the huge shifts that took place in the experience and conceptualisation of blindness during the nineteenth century.

Identifies and explains the constitutional problems triggered by the government''s speech, and proposes a new framework for thinking about them.

This lively and erudite cultural history examines how Scottish identity was experienced and represented in novel ways.

Identifies how and why ''dialogue'' can describe and evaluate institutional interactions over constitutional questions concerning democracy and rights.

Considers the ICTY to demonstrate illiberal practices of international criminal tribunals, and proposes a return to process to protect the rule of law.

This book compares secularity in societies not shaped by Western Christianity, particularly in Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa.

Contests over Berlin''s streets in the interwar period reveal the fragility of consumer capitalism, urban order, and liberal democracy.

An engaging, innovative history of Brazil''s black and indigenous people that redefines our understanding of slavery, citizenship, and national identity.

How do immigration and refugee laws work ''in action'' in Russia?

Sen argues that the decline of caste-based politics in twentieth-century Bengal was as much the result of coercion as consent.

This book presents a searching critique of excessive reliance on courts as ''democracy-builders'' in states emerging from authoritarian rule.

Looks at the situation of Kurds in Turkey through the lens of multiculturalism, giving us a fresh and new comparative perspective.

Unearths the forgotten history of a catastrophic flood, examining its profound impact upon the environment and society of modern China.

Examines Israel and its policing of minorities through the perceptions and experiences of four distinct minority groups.

Establishing the inseparability of grammar and gesture, this book explains what determines when, how, and why we gesture.

Examines the influence of Islam, as a religion, a practice, and a tradition, on Egypt''s visual and literary modernity.

Argues that face-to-face interaction undercuts the security dilemma at the interpersonal level by providing a mechanism for understanding intentions.

Examines the creation of ''sporting plantations'' in the South Carolina lowcountry during the first four decades of the twentieth century.

The first in-depth study to integrate the study of legal language with analysis of multimodal communication.

A history of how scientific ideas have transformed international politics since 1550.

Reconsiders Secretary of Defense Robert S.

Engages with the life and work of Larry Alexander to explore puzzles and paradoxes in legal and moral theory.