Books in the Politics History & Social Chan series

Exploring the limits of and contradictions of transitional justice

Political violence does not end with the last death. This title develops a critical justification for why transitional justice works and outlines a concept that emphasizes the importance of shared notions of moral respect and tolerance among adversaries in transitional societies.

Analyzing the effects of corporate-driven industrial processes on the practices, and the practitioners, of French gastronomy

The travails in the changing world of women as athletes and sports fans

A comparative historical study of the rise of teacher power and the state in France and the United States

Discusses how missionaries and evangelical politics influenced American government policy in the Middle East

The rise of the public sphere, as chronicled by social movements spanning the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries

Exploring the limits of and contradictions of transitional justice

Argues that the disciplinary divisions of academia have trapped us in a paradigm that assumes knowledge is a certainty and that it can help us explain the social world. This work offers a fresh conception of the social sciences, one whose methodology allows for uncertainties.

Essays on the contradictory resurgence of religion and liberalism in the twenty-first century by one of the most important voices in the study of the sociology of religion

Writing over three decades and featuring many essays that have not been in wide circulation, the author draws from political science, cultural anthropology, sociology, and history to provide a configurative analysis of and long-term approach to the cultural diversity in Africa, Europe, and the United States.

Argues that the expansion of the Florentine economic market in the fifteenth century helped to undo the development of markets of other economies - especially the rural economy of Tuscany. This title shows how sectoral relations are crucial to transitions to capitalism and how capitalist development can also contract markets.

Presents the cultural, social, and political history of Russia, during fifteen crucial years. This book traces this history from perestroika to the rise of Vladimir Putin, and argues that the pressures put on the soviet system by Gorbachev's reforms gave birth to movements for democratic reform. It also examines the DemRossiia movement.

Focuses on whether the present-day United States government should apologize for past wrongs done in its name.

Depicts the shocking apathy and antipathy of the international community toward the homeless. This book examines the impact of refugee movements on Great Power diplomacy and considers the evolution of agencies designed to assist refugees, noting outstanding successes and failures.

Explains the shortcomings of modern aid in a novel fashion, he also proposes how aid could be done differently.

Presents an argument against 'forgive and forget'.

Examines the way the Holocaust has been remembered in Germany, Israel, and the US. This title shows how singular event has been detached from its precise context and instead used as a way of focusing abstract questions of good and evil, and how this use has given the Holocaust a resonance across the global stage.