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Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-67) was a key leader of American science in the nineteenth century. This biography explains and explores Bache's efforts to build and shape public institutions as aids to his goal of creating a national foundation for a shared culture.

American studies has changed drastically over the years, as a new wave of scholars - armed with groundbreaking ideas and more extensive methods of research - flocked to the relatively young field. This title resists the traditional academic split between scholarship and classroom practice.

Uses a close study of the district of Ituri in the Congo, a major battlefield and a laboratory for international intervention, to explore the micropolitics of warfare and statebuilding. This title shows the effect that humanitarian interventions have on state-society relations.

Offers an overview of corporate social responsibility (CSR). This title considers the origins of CSR during the 1970s, highlighting various approaches and explaining its early shortcomings. It then turns to the United Nations Global Compact and the Global Reporting Initiative to investigate why, since the mid-1990s, CSR has been on the rise.

In years many Russian-speaking Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union have settled in Germany and Israel. This title conducts an interdisciplinary investigation into the ways in which such immigrants manage their multiple, overlapping identities - as Jews, Russians, and citizens of their newly adopted nations.

Wars, revolutions, and financial disasters do not have to happen. There are ways to transform governmental policies so as to avoid such catastrophes. This book brings management theory to government, suggesting a series of methods and instruments for successful governance.

Since the mid-1980s, Fritz W Scharpf has been investigating the evolution of the multilevel European polity and its impact on the effectiveness and legitimacy of democratic government in Europe. This title collects Scharpf's nearly two decades of research on government in Europe.

Antiquity, as the term has been understood and used over the centuries by scholars, political and religious figures, and ordinary citizens, is far from a single, monolithic concept. This title offers a comparative assessment of the multiple perceptions of antiquity that have shaped modern European cultures and national identities.

Presents findings on the role of emotions in various facets of society, from the laboratory to the office to the media. This title discusses topics that include: the tensions between feelings and feeling rules, the conscious and unconscious emotions of scientists, emotions and social disorder, and romantic love in US and Israeli codes of conduct.

Comparing various European and American historiographies from the past two hundred years, this book provides insights into the establishment and cultivation of gendered power relations in different societies and outlines the devastating effects that exclusionary practices can have on each national canon.

Deals with the two central components of work in history: archiving and narrating. This title argues that archival resources, despite their air of impartiality, are the product of established interests and subject to various practices of selection, cataloguing, and preservation.

Draws on eight case studies, ranging from the early modern period through the twentieth century, to explore the interconnectedness of exile, nationalism, and cosmopolitanism as concepts, ideals, attitudes, and strategies among diasporic groups.

Why do some groups succeed in violently seizing and holding power while others fail? Arguing that success rests on the ability of these groups to transform the power of violence into legitimate domination, this title explores the techniques and strategies they employ - and the long shadow of violence they must overcome along the way.

Looks at the origin and function of internal ethics committees in German hospitals. Using a mix of archival research, participant observation, and interviews, this book explores the debates that surrounded their formation and the functions they have taken on since their creation.

The course of human lives in Western society is inescapably shaped by political, cultural, and economic factors. This title collects articles that offer a range of theoretical and empirical studies of conceptions of the life course. Drawing on research from North America and Europe, it is suitable for those studying human development.

Presenting an account of the lives of Turkish men and women living in contemporary Germany, this title offers insights into how members of a marginalized immigrant community make room for themselves and reconstruct homes away from home. It places the life experiences of Turkish people into a broader theoretical perspective.

The World's Fairs staged in the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries showcased world cultures in peaceful competition and cooperation. This title shows that at the same time the fairs played an important role in the growth of nationalism and American exceptionalism, subtly recasting world history.

Addresses the complex relationship between memory, culture, and gender - as well as the representation of women in national memory - in several European countries. This volume explores the national allegories of memory in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Presents an international spectrum of female opposition, including contemporary letters, diaries, and published writings, as well as historical fiction of the twentieth century. By juxtaposing analyses of these materials, this book discusses links between literary, historical, and gender scholarship.

Aims to rejuvenate scholarship by developing a comprehensive theory of social movements and political change. Reviewing the literature on the political outcomes of social movements, this book analyzes the examples of the American civil rights movement and anti-nuclear energy efforts in eighteen countries to forge an understanding of their impact.

When democracy was introduced to Nigeria in 1999, one-third of its federal states declared that they would be governed by sharia, or Islamic law. This work argues that such a break with secular constitutional traditions in a multireligious country can have disastrous consequences.

Offers a different perspective on global governance from the vantage point of a global knowledge society. Employing a case study of the global financial system and an analysis of several governance regimes, this work contends that markets, legal systems, and morality must evolve to cope with uncertainty, build capacities, and achieve resilience.

Since the Baltic nations joined the European Union, debates about reorganizing post-Soviet republics have grown increasingly heated. Based on ethnographies and archival work, this work offers insights into shifts in national identity, cultural geography, and symbolic boundaries.

Focusing on Warsaw after 1990, this volume explores the interplay between Warsaw' past urban identities and urban change. This book departs from narratives of postsocialist cities in Eastern Europe by contextualizing Warsaw' transformation in terms of both global change and shifting geographies of centrality and marginality in contemporary Poland.

Provides an introduction to empirical network research. This title offers students and practitioners new to social research understandable learning goals, examples, and exercises.

During the first half of the twentieth century military victory parades in New York became an iconic part of the American cultural memory - ticker tape and soldiers returning to their sweethearts symbolized the joy of a nation at peace. This book focuses on organizers, spectators, and soldiers.

To solve real-world issues, the model of transdisciplinary research, which uses approaches from both the hard and social sciences, has come to the forefront. This book allows researchers to look at a problem from many angles, with the goal of making both societal and scientific advances.

Over the years, a consensus has grown among European policy specialists that kinship should play a larger role in the welfare state. This title examines the fundamental questions about such kinship ties and seeks to understand how and why family members help each other and in what circumstances they might withhold their aid.