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This unique anthropological account chronicles the uncommon experience of a woman serving as a local political leader during the turbulent period of Ethiopia's transition from kingdom to empire to socialist state. A dynamic, opinionated, and charismatic woman, Chimate Chumbalo successfully navigated male-dominated factional politics, experimenting ......
From The Birth of Tragedy on, Nietzsche worked to comprehend the nature of the individual. Richard White shows how Nietzsche was inspired and guided by the question of personal ''sovereignty'' and how through his writings he sought to provoke the very sovereignty he described. White argues that Nietzsche is a philosopher our contemporary age must ......
The Great Migration--the exodus of more than six million blacks from their southern homes hoping for better lives in the North--is a defining event of post-emancipation African-American life and a central feature of twentieth-century black literature. Lawrence Rodgers explores the historical and literary significance of this event and in the ......
Marli Weiner challenges much of the received wisdom on the domestic realm of the nineteenth-century southern plantation - a world in which white mistresses and female slaves labored together to provide food, clothing, and medicines to the larger plantation community. Although divided by race, black and white women were joined by common female ......
The legal community traditionally has drawn unsystematically and at will on the findings of social science, sometimes with unfortunate results. The authors of this study explore this issue by focusing on the way the United States Supreme Court uses social science data in reaching its decisions. Concentrating on decisions involving abortion, sex ......
Published to a flurry of praise--and consternation--from Lincoln scholars, Burlingame's book takes a hard and unsentimental look at, among other things, Abraham Lincoln's excruciating yet fruitful midlife crisis, his marriage to a dishonest woman who often embarrassed and sometimes physically abused him, his estrangement from his father, his ......
At a time when technology can sustain marginal life, it is ever more important to understand what constitutes a person. What are the medical, ethical, moral, mental, legal, and philosophical criteria that determine protectable human life?Following immediately on the publication of his highly praised book Choosing Who's to Live, James Walters ......
''What will make this volume's reputation as an important book is the author's use of economic evidence and methodology to produce important insights into behavior and attitudes.'' -- James C. Riley, author of International Government Finance and the Amsterdam Capital Market, 1740-1815 Using the Amsterdam Municipal Orphanage as a window through ......
This pioneer work in a complex, interdisciplinary, and still-developing field explores the prospects for a more comprehensive approach to evaluating environmental programs. Experts in the fields of biology, chemistry, ecology, economics, management, planning, sociology, political science, and public administration provide coherent, integrated ......
