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Consuming Landscapes illustrates how the meaning of infrastructures changed as a result of use and consumption. Such changes indicate a deep ambivalence toward the automobile and roads, prompting the question: can cars and roads bring us closer to nature while deeply altering it at the same time?
From 1900 to 1960, the introduction and development of four so-called urbanizing technologies, the telephone, automobile, radio, and electric light and power transformed the rural United States. But did these new technologies revolutionize rural life in the ways modernizers predicted? And how exactly, and with what levels of resistance and ......
From 1900 to 1960, the introduction and development of four so-called urbanizing technologies, the telephone, automobile, radio, and electric light and power transformed the rural United States. But did these new technologies revolutionize rural life in the ways modernizers predicted? And how exactly, and with what levels of resistance and ......
The Origins and Practice of Early Federal Prosecutors
The evolution of the federal prosecutor's role from a pragmatic necessity to a significant political figure. In the United States, federal prosecutors enjoy a degree of power unmatched elsewhere in the world. They are free to investigate and prosecute-or decline to prosecute-criminal cases without significant oversight. And yet, no statute ......
Winner 2007 Best of the Social Sciences, Association of American Publishers' Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division.Winner American Association of Publishers' Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award in Government and Politics.Constitutional democracy is a political hybrid, the product of an uneasy union between, on the one hand, the ......
Women and Rights Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America
While the United States was founded on abstract principles of certain "unalienable rights," its legal traditions are based in British common law, a fact long decried by progressive reformers. Common law, the complaint goes, ignores abstract rights principles in favor of tradition, effectively denying equality to large segments of the ......
How should we count the population of the United States? What would happen if we replaced the electoral college with a direct popular vote? What are the consequences of allowing unlimited partisan gerrymandering of congressional districts? Can six-person juries yield verdicts consistent with the needs of justice? Is it racist to stop and frisk ......
Starting from the premise that the system of independent, sovereign, territorial states, which was the subject of political science and international relations studies in the twentieth century, has entered a transition toward something new, noted political scientist Leslie F. Goldstein examines the development of the European Union by blending ......
Historians who viewed imperial Rome in terms of a conflict between pagans and Christians have often regarded the emperor Constantine's conversion as the triumph of Christianity over paganism. But in Constantine and the Bishops, historian H. A. Drake offers a fresh and more nuanced understanding of Constantine's rule and, especially, of his ......
