Books in the Politics, History, and Culture series

This analysis of the failure of efforts to achieve liberal reform in Egypt following its independence from Great Britain in 1922 has implications for modern-day nation-building efforts in the Mideast.

An assessment of Americans efforts to provide the elite of Puerto Rico and the Philippines an education in self-government in the early years of U.S. colonial rule.

The difficulties college-educated black women face when trying to date, marry, and have children

A historical and philosophical argument that the classification of humans into racial categories or binaries of self-other is a product of modernity.

Provides an analysis of organizing across racial lines by two labor movements in the US South during the 1880s and the 1890s.

Ruling Oneself Out develops a sociological theory to account for collective abdications of power such as those of the German Reichstag in 1933 and the French parliament in 1940.

Writing letters to powerful people to win their favour and garner rewards such as political office, tax relief, and recommendations was an institution in Renaissance Florence. This title presents the study of political and social patronage in 15th-century Florence.

Beginning in 1835, British colonizers sought to promote modern, western knowledge in India, primarily through schools. Delving into a large archive of popular writings, and drawing on history, political science, and philosophy, the author considers western education in India from various perspectives.

Explores how nationalists are turned into nationals, the colonial state into a sovereign nation-state, and subjects into citizens. The author considers several ways that identification with the nation-state was produced and consolidated during the 1950s and 1960s.

A postcolonial feminist study of the formation of contemporary political subjectivities in South Korea, framed by the rise and decline in 20th century militarization

A case study of economic development in Cairo that sheds light on issues of agency and empowerment in the age of neoliberal globalization

An exploration of how US' efforts to sacralize and repatriate the remains of some 2,000 soldiers killed in action in the Vietnam War might indicate some lingering corporeal and ontological uncertainties in the post-Vietnam era.

Collection of new essays on the past, present, and future of positivism in the various social sciences

Explores the 19th-century assumption that the advancement of a society could be measured by its treatment of women. This book shows how race was an additional - and more concealed - factor embedded in the history, politics, and culture of both German feminism and German colonialism from the late 19th century to the Third Reich.

Explores the multiple meanings of the November 2004 murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh and the different reactions it elicited: among the Amsterdam-based artistic and intellectual subculture, the wider Dutch public, the local and international Muslim communities, the radical Islamic movement, and the broader international community.

Offers an analysis of the crimes, prosecution, and incarceration of black women in Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. This book reconstructs black women's crimes and their representations in popular press accounts and within the discourses of urban and penal reform.

Demonstrates the central role of ordinary people - rather than state or market elites - in creating institutions for determining status in China. This book explores the emerging hierarchy, which is based on the concept of suzhi, or quality.

A look at how the Chinese Exclusion Act and later legislation affected Chinese American communities, who created fictitious "paper families" to subvert immigration policies.

Illuminates the construction of national memory from a comparative, cross-case perspective. This book emphasizes that memory itself has a history: not only do particular meanings change, but the very faculty of memory - its place in social relations and the forms it takes-varies over time.

Argues that the multicultural legacy of colonialism perpetuates unequal systems of power, not by demanding that colonized subjects identify with their colonizers but by demanding that they identify with an impossible standard of authentic traditional culture.

Images of ruins may represent the raw realities created by bombs, natural disasters, or factory closings, but the way we see and understand ruins is not raw or unmediated. This book traces discourses about and representations of ruins from a contextualized perspective.

Images of ruins may represent the raw realities created by bombs, natural disasters, or factory closings, but the way we see and understand ruins is not raw or unmediated. Rather, looking at ruins, writing about them, and representing them, are acts framed by a long tradition. This collection traces discourses about and representations of ruins.

An ethnographic analysis of the ways that, during the 1990s, Turkish citizens began to express nostalgia for the secularist and nationalist foundations of the Turkish Republic.

Immigration and globalization have significantly altered Europe's cultural and ethnic landscape, foregrounding questions of national belonging. This book provides an ethnographic analysis of how patterns of national identity are constructed and transformed across generations.

A sociology collection reviewing the state-of-historical-study in a wide range of areas while showcasing the use of poststructuralist approaches to studying family, gender, war, protest & revolution, state-making, social provisions, colonialism, transitio

Disciplining Statistics contrasts the different ways that statistical knowledge was developed and used in England and France during the nineteenth century.

Theoretically sophisticated ethnographies of different aspects of various governments, showing the importance of such work to anthropology and to the study of states in general.

Focusing on Malian veterans of twentieth-century French wars, argues that France's and Africa's shared military history continues to animate their political relationship, especially regarding debates about African immigration to France

An analysis of how Uzbekistans cultural and political elites engaged in a program of nation-building through culture, particularly by staging spectacular mass events, after the fall of the Soviet Union.

A study of memory regimes in popular and official Chilean thought.