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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 ......
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 ......
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 ......
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 ......
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?
The Politics of Disease Outbreaks in Southeast Asia
The fields of global health and international relations are increasingly concerned with the responsibilities of nations to respond to disease outbreaks in a way that safeguards their neighbors as well as the broader international community. In Containing Contagion, Sara E. Davies focuses on one of the world's most ......
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism is the definitive resource for students and scholars of literary theory and philosophical reflection on literature and culture. This mini-guide consists of entries from the Guide and newly commissioned articles that focus on contemporary topics and figures. Contemporary Literary and ......
Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: The Johns Hopkins Guide is a clear, accessible, and detailed overview of the most important thinkers and topics in the field. Written by specialists from across disciplines, its entries cover contemporary theory from Adorno to iek, providing an informative and reliable introduction to a vast, ......
