Product List
GET /services/catalog/products?format=api&page=76465
{ "links": { "first": "https://redshelf.com/services/catalog/products?format=api&page=1", "last": "https://redshelf.com/services/catalog/products?format=api&page=78428", "next": "https://redshelf.com/services/catalog/products?format=api&page=76466", "prev": "https://redshelf.com/services/catalog/products?format=api&page=76464" }, "data": [ { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000178161", "attributes": { "name": "The Insistence of the Indian", "subtitle": "Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Culture", "description": "Americans' first attempts to forge a national identity coincided with the apparent need to define--and limit--the status and rights of Native Americans. During these early decades of the nineteenth century, the image of the \"Indian\" circulated throughout popular culture--in the novels of James Fenimore Cooper, plays about Pocahontas, Indian captivity narratives, Black Hawk's autobiography, and visitors' guides to the national capitol. In exploring such sources as well as the political and legal rhetoric of the time, Susan Scheckel argues that the \"Indian question\" was intertwined with the ways in which Americans viewed their nation's past and envisioned its destiny. She shows how the Indians provided a crucial site of reflection upon national identity. And yet the Indians, by being denied the natural rights upon which the constitutional principles of the United States rested, also challenged American convictions of moral ascendancy and national legitimacy.Scheckel investigates, for example, the Supreme Court's decision on Indian land rights and James Fenimore Cooper's popular frontier romance The Pioneers: both attempted to legitimate American claims to land once owned by Indians and to assuage guilt associated with the violence of conquest by incorporating the Indians in a version of the American political \"family.\" Alternatively, the widely performed Pocahontas plays dealt with the necessity of excluding Indians politically, but also portrayed these original inhabitants as embodying the potential of the continent itself. Such examples illustrate a gap between principles and practice. It is from this gap, according to the author, that the nation emerged, not as a coherent idea or a realist narrative, but as an ongoing performance that continues to play out, without resolution, fundamental ambivalences of American national identity.", "author": "Susan Scheckel", "slug": "the-insistence-of-the-indian-178161-9781400822584-susan-scheckel", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9781400822584.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "178161", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/178161/the-insistence-of-the-indian-178161-9781400822584-susan-scheckel", "bisac_codes": [ "SOC021000", "all" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780691059648", "ISBN10": "1400822580", "EISBN13": "9781400822584", "EISBN10": "1400822580" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023606256" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000178159", "attributes": { "name": "Mappings", "subtitle": "Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter", "description": "In this powerful work, Susan Friedman moves feminist theory out of paralyzing debates about us and them, white and other, first and third world, and victimizers and victims. Throughout, Friedman adapts current cultural theory from global and transnational studies, anthropology, and geography to challenge modes of thought that exaggerate the boundaries of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, and national origin. The author promotes a transnational and heterogeneous feminism, which, she maintains, can replace the proliferation of feminisms based on difference. She argues for a feminist geopolitical literacy that goes beyond fundamentalist identity politics and absolutist poststructuralist theory, and she continually focuses the reader's attention on those locations where differences are negotiated and transformed. Pervading the book is a concern with narrative: the way stories and cultural narratives serve as a primary mode of thinking about the politically explosive question of identity. Drawing freely on modernist novels, contemporary film, popular fiction, poetry, and mass media, the work features narratives of such writers and filmmakers as Gish Jen, Julie Dash, June Jordon, James Joyce, Gloria Anzald%a, Neil Jordon, Virginia Woolf, Mira Nair, Zora Neale Hurston, E. M. Forster, and Irena Klepfisz. Defending the pioneering role of academic feminists in the knowledge revolution, this work draws on a wide variety of twentieth-century cultural expressions to address theoretical issues in postmodern feminism.", "author": "Susan Stanford Friedman", "slug": "mappings-178159-9781400822577-susan-stanford-friedman", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9781400822577.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "178159", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/178159/mappings-178159-9781400822577-susan-stanford-friedman", "bisac_codes": [ "LIT004290", "all" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780691058047", "ISBN10": "1400822572", "EISBN13": "9781400822577", "EISBN10": "1400822572" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023606255" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000178156", "attributes": { "name": "Remaking Women", "subtitle": "Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East", "description": "<p>Contrary to popular perceptions, newly veiled women across the Middle East are just as much products and symbols of modernity as the upper- and middle-class women who courageously took off the veil almost a century ago. To make this point, these essays focus on the \"woman question\" in the Middle East (most particularly in Egypt and Iran), especially at the turn of the century, when gender became a highly charged nationalist issue tied up in complex ways with the West. The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary burst of energy and richness in Middle East women's studies, and the contributors to this volume exemplify the vitality of this new thinking. They take up issues of concern to historians and social thinkers working on the postcolonial world. The essays challenge the assumptions of other major works on women and feminism in the Middle East by questioning, among other things, the familiar dichotomy in which women's domesticity is associated with tradition and modernity with their entry into the public sphere. Indeed, Remaking Women is a radical challenge to any easy equation of modernity with progress, emancipation, and the empowerment of women.<br><br><br> The contributors are Lila Abu-Lughod, Marilyn Booth, Deniz Kandiyoti, Khaled Fahmy, Mervat Hatem, Afsaneh Najmabadi, Omnia Shakry, and Zohreh T. Sullivan.The book is introduced by the editor with a piece called \"Feminist Longings and Postcolonial Conditions,\" which masterfully interfaces the critical studies of feminism and modernism with scholarship on South Asia and the Middle East.</p>", "author": "Lila Abu-Lughod", "slug": "remaking-women-178156-9781400831203", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9781400831203.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "178156", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/178156/remaking-women-178156-9781400831203", "bisac_codes": [ "SOC028000", "JBSF1" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780691057910", "EISBN13": "9781400831203", "EISBN10": "1400831202" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010030540676" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000178155", "attributes": { "name": "In Search of the True West", "subtitle": "Culture, Economics, and Problems of Russian Development", "description": "<p>This ground-breaking work documents Russian efforts to appropriate Western solutions to the problem of economic backwardness since the time of Catherine the Great. Entangled then as now with issues of cultural borrowing, educated Russians searched for Western nations, ideas, and social groups that embodied universal economic truths applicable to their own country. Esther Kingston-Mann describes Russian Westernization--which emphasized German as well as Anglo-U.S. economics--while she raises important questions about core values of Western culture and how cultural values and priorities are determined.<br><br><br> This is the first historical account of the significant role played by Russian social scientists in nineteenth-century Western economic and social thought. In an era of rapid Western colonial expansion, the Russian quest for the \"right\" Western economic model became more urgent: Was Russia condemned to the fate of India if it did not become an England? In the 1900s, Russian liberal economists emphasized cultural difference and historical context, while Marxists and prerevolutionary government reformers declared that inexorable economic laws doomed peasants and their \"medieval\" communities. On the eve of 1917, both the tsarist regime and its leading critics agreed that Russia must choose between Western-style progress or \"feudal\" stagnation. And when peasants and communes survived until Stalin's time, he mercilessly destroyed them in the name of progress. Today Russia's painful modernizing traditions shape the policies of contemporary reformers, who seem as certain as their predecessors that economic progress requires wholesale obliteration of the past.</p>", "author": "Esther Kingston-Mann", "slug": "in-search-of-the-true-west-178155-9781400822560-esther-kingston-mann", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9781400822560.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "178155", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/178155/in-search-of-the-true-west-178155-9781400822560-esther-kingston-mann", "bisac_codes": [ "HIS032000", "NHQ" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780691004334", "EISBN13": "9781400822560", "EISBN10": "1400822564" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010030542828" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000178154", "attributes": { "name": "At the Heart of Freedom", "subtitle": "Feminism, Sex, and Equality", "description": "How can women create a meaningful and joyous life for themselves? Is it enough to be equal with men? In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Drucilla Cornell argues that women should transcend the quest for equality and focus on what she shows is a far more radical project: achieving freedom. Cornell takes us on a highly original exploration of what it would mean for women politically, legally, and culturally, if we took this ideal of freedom seriously--if, in her words, we recognized that \"hearts starve as well as bodies.\" She takes forceful and sometimes surprising stands on such subjects as abortion, prostitution, pornography, same-sex marriage, international human rights, and the rights and obligations of fathers. She also engages with what it means to be free on a theoretical level, drawing on the ideas of such thinkers as Kant, Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, Hegel, and Lacan. Cornell begins by discussing what she believes lies at the heart of freedom: the ability for all individuals to pursue happiness in their own way, especially in matters of love and sex. This is only possible, she argues, if we protect the \"imaginary domain\"--a psychic and moral space in which individuals can explore their own sources of happiness. She writes that equality with men does not offer such protection, in part because men themselves are not fully free. Instead, women must focus on ensuring that individuals face minimal interference from the state and from oppressive cultural norms. They must also respect some controversial individual choices. Cornell argues in favor of permitting same-sex couples to marry and adopt children, for example. She presses for access to abortion and for universal day care. She also justifies lifestyles that have not always been supported by other feminists, ranging from staying at home as a primary caregiver to engaging in prostitution. She argues that men should have similar freedoms--thus returning feminism to its promise that freedom for women would mean freedom for all. Challenging, passionate, and powerfully argued, Cornell's book will have a major impact on the course of feminist thought.", "author": "Drucilla Cornell", "slug": "at-the-heart-of-freedom-178154-9781400822553-drucilla-cornell", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9781400822553.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "178154", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/178154/at-the-heart-of-freedom-178154-9781400822553-drucilla-cornell", "bisac_codes": [ "SOC028000", "mbs" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780691028965", "ISBN10": "1400822556", "EISBN13": "9781400822553", "EISBN10": "1400822556" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023606254" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000178151", "attributes": { "name": "Fantasies of Salvation", "subtitle": "Democracy, Nationalism, and Myth in Post-Communist Europe", "description": "Eastern Europe has become an ideological battleground since the collapse of the Soviet Union, with liberals and authoritarians struggling to seize the ground lost by Marxism. In Fantasies of Salvation, Vladimir Tismaneanu traces the intellectual history of this struggle and warns that authoritarian nationalists pose a serious threat to democratic forces. A leading observer of the often baffling world of post-Communist Europe, Tismaneanu shows that extreme nationalistic and authoritarian thought has been influential in Eastern Europe for much of this century, while liberalism has only shallow historical roots. Despite democratic successes in places such as the Czech Republic and Poland, he argues, it would be a mistake for the West to assume that liberalism will always triumph. He backs this argument by showing how nationalist intellectuals have encouraged ethnic hatred in such countries as Russia, Romania, and the former Yugoslavia by reviving patriotic myths of heroes, scapegoats, and historical injustices. And he shows how enthusiastically these myths have been welcomed by people desperate for some form of \"salvation\" from political and economic uncertainty. On a theoretical level, Tismaneanu challenges the common ideas that the ideological struggle is between \"right\" and \"left\" or between \"nationalists\" and \"internationalists.\" In a careful analysis of the conflict's ideological roots, he argues that it is more useful and historically accurate to view the struggle as between those who embrace the individualist traditions of the Enlightenment and those who reject them. Tismaneanu himself has been active in the intellectual battles he describes, particularly in his native Romania, and makes insightful use of interviews with key members of the dissident movements of the 1970s and 1980s. He offers original observations of countries from the Baltic to the Black Sea and expresses his ideas in a vivid and forceful style. Fantasies of Salvation is an indispensable book for both academic and nonacademic readers who wish to understand the forces shaping one of the world's most important and unpredictable regions.", "author": "Vladimir Tismaneanu", "slug": "fantasies-of-salvation-178151-9781400822508-vladimir-tismaneanu", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9781400822508.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "178151", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/178151/fantasies-of-salvation-178151-9781400822508-vladimir-tismaneanu", "bisac_codes": [ "HIS010010", "HIS037070" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780691144382", "ISBN10": "1400822505", "EISBN13": "9781400822508", "EISBN10": "1400822505" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023606253" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000178150", "attributes": { "name": "From Wealth to Power", "subtitle": "The Unusual Origins of America's World Role", "description": "<p>What turns rich nations into great powers? How do wealthy countries begin extending their influence abroad? These questions are vital to understanding one of the most important sources of instability in international politics: the emergence of a new power. In From Wealth to Power, Fareed Zakaria seeks to answer these questions by examining the most puzzling case of a rising power in modern history--that of the United States.<br><br><br> If rich nations routinely become great powers, Zakaria asks, then how do we explain the strange inactivity of the United States in the late nineteenth century? By 1885, the U.S. was the richest country in the world. And yet, by all military, political, and diplomatic measures, it was a minor power. To explain this discrepancy, Zakaria considers a wide variety of cases between 1865 and 1908 when the U.S. considered expanding its influence in such diverse places as Canada, the Dominican Republic, and Iceland. Consistent with the realist theory of international relations, he argues that the President and his administration tried to increase the country's political influence abroad when they saw an increase in the nation's relative economic power. But they frequently had to curtail their plans for expansion, he shows, because they lacked a strong central government that could harness that economic power for the purposes of foreign policy. America was an unusual power--a strong nation with a weak state. It was not until late in the century, when power shifted from states to the federal government and from the legislative to the executive branch, that leaders in Washington could mobilize the nation's resources for international influence.<br><br><br> Zakaria's exploration of this tension between national power and state structure will change how we view the emergence of new powers and deepen our understanding of America's exceptional history.</p>", "author": "Fareed Zakaria", "slug": "from-wealth-to-power-178150-9781400829187-fareed-zakaria", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9781400829187.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "178150", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/178150/from-wealth-to-power-178150-9781400829187-fareed-zakaria", "bisac_codes": [ "HIS036040", "NHK" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780691044965", "EISBN13": "9781400829187", "EISBN10": "1400829186" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010030539414" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000178148", "attributes": { "name": "Basic Interests", "subtitle": "The Importance of Groups in Politics and in Political Science", "description": "A generation ago, scholars saw interest groups as the single most important element in the American political system. Today, political scientists are more likely to see groups as a marginal influence compared to institutions such as Congress, the presidency, and the judiciary. Frank Baumgartner and Beth Leech show that scholars have veered from one extreme to another not because of changes in the political system, but because of changes in political science. They review hundreds of books and articles about interest groups from the 1940s to today; examine the methodological and conceptual problems that have beset the field; and suggest research strategies to return interest-group studies to a position of greater relevance. The authors begin by explaining how the group approach to politics became dominant forty years ago in reaction to the constitutional-legal approach that preceded it. They show how it fell into decline in the 1970s as scholars ignored the impact of groups on government to focus on more quantifiable but narrower subjects, such as collective-action dilemmas and the dynamics of recruitment. As a result, despite intense research activity, we still know very little about how groups influence day-to-day governing. Baumgartner and Leech argue that scholars need to develop a more coherent set of research questions, focus on large-scale studies, and pay more attention to the context of group behavior. Their book will give new impetus and direction to a field that has been in the academic wilderness too long.", "author": "Frank R. Baumgartner, Beth L. Leech", "slug": "basic-interests-178148-9781400822485-frank-r-baumgartner-beth-l-leech", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9781400822485.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "178148", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/178148/basic-interests-178148-9781400822485-frank-r-baumgartner-beth-l-leech", "bisac_codes": [ "POL011000", "JPSN1" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780691059150", "ISBN10": "1400822483", "EISBN13": "9781400822485", "EISBN10": "1400822483" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023606251" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000178146", "attributes": { "name": "The Science of Sacrifice", "subtitle": "American Literature and Modern Social Theory", "description": "From ritual killings to subtle acts of self-denial, the practice and rhetoric of sacrifice has a special centrality in modern American literature. In a compelling interdisciplinary investigation, Susan Mizruchi portrays an episode in American cultural history when the literary movement of realism and the fledgling field of sociology both converged in the belief that sacrifice is basic to sociality. This is a book about the fascination that sacrifice held for writers--principally Herman Melville, Henry James, and W.E.B. Du Bois--and also for those who articulated the main tenets of modern social theory, an inquiry that eventually spans historical events such as public lynchings and the political scapegoating of immigrants a century ago. The execution in Billy Budd Sailor, the death of Du Bois's first-born son in The Souls of Black Folk, Henry James's preoccupation with renunciation and scapegoating, and the self-denying working classes of Norris and Stein all illustrate repeated stagings of sacrificial rituals from a Biblical past. For Mizruchi, the peculiar persistence of this aesthetic construct becomes a guide to a rich theological and social-scientific tradition distinctive to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and including such influential works as Smith's Lectures on the Religion of the Semites, Frazer's Golden Bough, and Ross's Sin and Society. The major features of sacrifice--its original association with spiritual doubt, its function as a form of spiritual economics that sustained divisions between the fortunate and the bereft, and its role in fixing boundaries between aliens and kin--held strong symbolic value for writers struggling to reconcile faith with rationalism, and communal coherence with capitalist expansion. Mizruchi eloquently demonstrates how the conceptual power of sacrifice made it a key mediator of cultural change, from the decline of sympathy and the significance of \"race\" in an emerging multicultural society to the revival of maternal self-sacrifice.", "author": "Susan L. Mizruchi", "slug": "the-science-of-sacrifice-178146-9781400822478-susan-l-mizruchi", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9781400822478.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "178146", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/178146/the-science-of-sacrifice-178146-9781400822478-susan-l-mizruchi", "bisac_codes": [ "LIT004020", "all" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780691015064", "ISBN10": "1400822475", "EISBN13": "9781400822478", "EISBN10": "1400822475" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023606250" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000178144", "attributes": { "name": "Taking It Like a Man", "subtitle": "White Masculinity, Masochism, and Contemporary American Culture", "description": "From the Beat poets' incarnation of the \"white Negro\" through Iron John and the Men's Movement to the paranoid masculinity of Timothy McVeigh, white men in this country have increasingly imagined themselves as victims. In Taking It Like a Man, David Savran explores the social and sexual tensions that have helped to produce this phenomenon. Beginning with the 1940s, when many white, middle-class men moved into a rule-bound, corporate culture, Savran sifts through literary, cinematic, and journalistic examples that construct the white man as victimized, feminized, internally divided, and self-destructive. Savran considers how this widely perceived loss of male power has played itself out on both psychoanalytical and political levels as he draws upon various concepts of masochism--the most counterintuitive of the so-called perversions and the one most insistently associated with femininity.Savran begins with the writings and self-mythologization of Beat writers William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac. Although their independent, law-defying lifestyles seemed distinctively and ruggedly masculine, their literary art and personal relations with other men in fact allowed them to take up social and psychic positions associated with women and racial minorities. Arguing that this dissident masculinity has become increasingly central to U.S. culture, Savran analyzes the success of Sam Shepard as both writer and star, as well as the emergence of a new kind of action hero in movies like Rambo and Twister. He contends that with the limited success of the civil rights and women's movements, white masculinity has been reconfigured to reflect the fantasy that the white male has become the victim of the scant progress made by African Americans and women.Taking It Like a Man provocatively applies psychoanalysis to history. The willingness to inflict pain upon the self, for example, serves as a measure of men's attempts to take control of their situations and their ambiguous relationship to women. Discussing S/M and sexual liberation in their historical contexts enables Savran to consider not only the psychological function of masochism but also the broader issues of political and social power as experienced by both men and women.", "author": "David Savran", "slug": "taking-it-like-a-man-178144-9781400822461-david-savran", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9781400822461.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "178144", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/178144/taking-it-like-a-man-178144-9781400822461-david-savran", "bisac_codes": [ "SOC012000", "all" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780691058764", "ISBN10": "1400822467", "EISBN13": "9781400822461", "EISBN10": "1400822467" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023606249" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000178142", "attributes": { "name": "The Brothers of Romulus", "subtitle": "Fraternal \"Pietas\" in Roman Law, Literature, and Society", "description": "Stories about brothers were central to Romans' public and poetic myth making, to their experience of family life, and to their ideas about intimacy among men. Through the analysis of literary and legal representations of brothers, Cynthia Bannon attempts to re-create the context and contradictions that shaped Roman ideas about brothers. She draws together expressions of brotherly love and rivalry around an idealized notion of fraternity: fraternal pietas--the traditional Roman virtue that combined affection and duty in kinship. Romans believed that the relationship between brothers was especially close since their natural kinship made them nearly alter egos. Because of this special status, the fraternal relationship became a model for Romans of relationships between friends, lovers, and soldiers.The fraternal relationship first took shape at home, where inheritance laws and practices fostered cooperation among brothers in managing family property and caring for relatives. Appeals to fraternal pietas in political rhetoric drew a large audience in the forum, because brothers' devotion symbolized the mos maiorum, the traditional morality that grounded Roman politics and celebrated brothers fighting together on the battlefield. Fraternal pietas and fratricide became powerful metaphors for Romans as they grappled with the experience of recurrent civil war in the late Republic and with the changes brought by empire. Mythological figures like Romulus and Remus epitomized the fraternal symbolism that pervaded Roman society and culture. In The Brothers of Romulus, Bannon combines literary criticism with historical legal analysis for a better understanding of Roman conceptions of brotherhood.", "author": "Cynthia J. Bannon", "slug": "the-brothers-of-romulus-178142-9781400822454-cynthia-j-bannon", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9781400822454.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "178142", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/178142/the-brothers-of-romulus-178142-9781400822454-cynthia-j-bannon", "bisac_codes": [ "HIS002020", "cla" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780691015712", "ISBN10": "1400822459", "EISBN13": "9781400822454", "EISBN10": "1400822459" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023606248" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000178140", "attributes": { "name": "The Bounds of Agency", "subtitle": "An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics", "description": "The subject of personal identity is one of the most central and most contested and exciting in philosophy. Ever since Locke, psychological and bodily criteria have vied with one another in conflicting accounts of personal identity. Carol Rovane argues that, as things stand, the debate is unresolvable since both sides hold coherent positions that our common sense will embrace. Our very common sense, she maintains, is conflicted; so any resolution to the debate is bound to be revisionary. She boldly offers such a revisionary theory of personal identity by first inquiring into the nature of persons.Rovane begins with a premise about the distinctive ethical nature of persons to which all substantive ethical doctrines, ranging from Kantian to egoist, can subscribe. From this starting point, she derives two startling metaphysical possibilities: there could be group persons composed of many human beings and multiple persons within a single human being. Her conclusion supports Locke's distinction between persons and human beings, but on altogether new grounds. These grounds lie in her radically normative analysis of the condition of personal identity, as the condition in which a certain normative commitment arises, namely, the commitment to achieve overall rational unity within a rational point of view. It is by virtue of this normative commitment that individual agents can engage one another specifically as persons, and possess the distinctive ethical status of persons.", "author": "Carol Rovane", "slug": "the-bounds-of-agency-178140-9781400822423-carol-rovane", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9781400822423.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "178140", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/178140/the-bounds-of-agency-178140-9781400822423-carol-rovane", "bisac_codes": [ "PHI005000", "phi" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780691017167", "ISBN10": "1400822424", "EISBN13": "9781400822423", "EISBN10": "1400822424" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023606247" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000178138", "attributes": { "name": "The Hidden Welfare State: Tax Expenditures and Social Policy in the United States", "subtitle": "Tax Expenditures and Social Policy in the United States", "description": "Despite costing hundreds of billions of dollars and subsidizing everything from homeownership and child care to health insurance, tax expenditures (commonly known as tax loopholes) have received little attention from those who study American government. This oversight has contributed to an incomplete and misleading portrait of U.S. social policy. Here Christopher Howard analyzes the \"hidden\" welfare state created by such programs as tax deductions for home mortgage interest and employer-provided retirement pensions, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Targeted Jobs Tax Credit. Basing his work on the histories of these four tax expenditures, Howard highlights the distinctive characteristics of all such policies. Tax expenditures are created more routinely and quietly than traditional social programs, for instance, and over time generate unusual coalitions of support. They expand and contract without deliberate changes to individual programs. Howard helps the reader to appreciate the historic links between the hidden welfare state and U.S. tax policy, which accentuate the importance of Congress and political parties. He also focuses on the reasons why individuals, businesses, and public officials support tax expenditures. The Hidden Welfare State will appeal to anyone interested in the origins, development, and structure of the American welfare state. Students of public finance will gain new insights into the politics of taxation. And as policymakers increasingly promote tax expenditures to address social problems, the book offers some sobering lessons about how such programs work.", "author": "Christopher Howard", "slug": "the-hidden-welfare-state-tax-expenditures-and-social-policy-in-the-united-states-178138-9781400822416-christopher-howard", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9781400822416.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "178138", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/178138/the-hidden-welfare-state-tax-expenditures-and-social-policy-in-the-united-states-178138-9781400822416-christopher-howard", "bisac_codes": [ "POL016000", "JPVK" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780691005294", "ISBN10": "1400822416", "EISBN13": "9781400822416", "EISBN10": "1400822416" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023606246" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000178137", "attributes": { "name": "System Effects", "subtitle": "Complexity in Political and Social Life", "description": "Based on more than three decades of observation, Robert Jervis concludes in this provocative book that the very foundations of many social science theories--especially those in political science--are faulty. Taking insights from complexity theory as his point of departure, the author observes that we live in a world where things are interconnected, where unintended consequences of our actions are unavoidable and unpredictable, and where the total effect of behavior is not equal to the sum of individual actions. Jervis draws on a wide range of human endeavors to illustrate the nature of these system effects. He shows how increasing airport security might actually cost lives, not save them, and how removing dead trees (ostensibly to give living trees more room) may damage the health of an entire forest. Similarly, he highlights the interconnectedness of the political world as he describes how the Cold War played out and as he narrates the series of events--with their unintended consequences--that escalated into World War I. The ramifications of developing a rigorous understanding of politics are immense, as Jervis demonstrates in his critique of current systemic theories of international politics--especially the influential work done by Kenneth Waltz. Jervis goes on to examine various types of negative and positive feedback, bargaining in different types of relationships, and the polarizing effects of alignments to begin building a foundation for a more realistic, more nuanced, theory of international politics. System Effects concludes by examining what it means to act in a system. It shows how political actors might modify their behavior in anticipation of system effects, and it explores how systemic theories of political behavior might account for the role of anticipation and strategy in political action. This work introduces powerful new concepts that will reward not only international relations theorists, but also all social scientists with interests in comparative politics and political theory.", "author": "Robert Jervis", "slug": "system-effects-178137-9781400822409-robert-jervis", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9781400822409.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "178137", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/178137/system-effects-178137-9781400822409-robert-jervis", "bisac_codes": [ "POL010000", "soc" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780691005300", "ISBN10": "1400822408", "EISBN13": "9781400822409", "EISBN10": "1400822408" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023606245" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000178134", "attributes": { "name": "The Founding Myths of Israel", "subtitle": "Nationalism, Socialism, and the Making of the Jewish State", "description": "<p>The well-known historian and political scientist Zeev Sternhell here advances a radically new interpretation of the founding of modern Israel. The founders claimed that they intended to create both a landed state for the Jewish people and a socialist society. However, according to Sternhell, socialism served the leaders of the influential labor movement more as a rhetorical resource for the legitimation of the national project of establishing a Jewish state than as a blueprint for a just society. In this thought-provoking book, Sternhell demonstrates how socialist principles were consistently subverted in practice by the nationalist goals to which socialist Zionism was committed.<br><br><br> Sternhell explains how the avowedly socialist leaders of the dominant labor party, Mapai, especially David Ben Gurion and Berl Katznelson, never really believed in the prospects of realizing the \"dream\" of a new society, even though many of their working-class supporters were self-identified socialists. The founders of the state understood, from the very beginning, that not only socialism but also other universalistic ideologies like liberalism, were incompatible with cultural, historical, and territorial nationalism. Because nationalism took precedence over universal values, argues Sternhell, Israel has not evolved a constitution or a Bill of Rights, has not moved to separate state and religion, has failed to develop a liberal concept of citizenship, and, until the Oslo accords of 1993, did not recognize the rights of the Palestinians to independence.<br><br><br> This is a controversial and timely book, which not only provides useful historical background to Israel's ongoing struggle to mobilize its citizenry to support a shared vision of nationhood, but also raises a question of general significance: is a national movement whose aim is a political and cultural revolution capable of coexisting with the universal values of secularism, individualism, and social justice? This bold critical reevaluation will unsettle long-standing myths as it contributes to a fresh new historiography of Zionism and Israel. At the same time, while it examines the past, The Founding Myths of Israel reflects profoundly on the future of the Jewish State.</p>", "author": "Zeev Sternhell, David Maisel", "slug": "the-founding-myths-of-israel-178134-9781400822362-zeev-sternhell", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9781400822362.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "178134", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/178134/the-founding-myths-of-israel-178134-9781400822362-zeev-sternhell", "bisac_codes": [ "HIS019000", "NHG" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780691009674", "EISBN13": "9781400822362", "EISBN10": "140082236X" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010030543801" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000178132", "attributes": { "name": "Disarming Strangers", "subtitle": "Nuclear Diplomacy with North Korea", "description": "<p>In June 1994 the United States went to the brink of war with North Korea. With economic sanctions impending, President Bill Clinton approved the dispatch of substantial reinforcements to Korea, and plans were prepared for attacking the North's nuclear weapons complex. The turning point came in an extraordinary private diplomatic initiative by former President Jimmy Carter and others to reverse the dangerous American course and open the way to a diplomatic settlement of the nuclear crisis.<br><br><br> Few Americans know the full details behind this story or perhaps realize the devastating impact it could have had on the nation's post-Cold War foreign policy. In this lively and authoritative book, Leon Sigal offers an inside look at how the Korean nuclear crisis originated, escalated, and was ultimately defused. He begins by exploring a web of intelligence failures by the United States and intransigence within South Korea and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Sigal pays particular attention to an American mindset that prefers coercion to cooperation in dealing with aggressive nations. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with policymakers from the countries involved, he discloses the details of the buildup to confrontation, American refusal to engage in diplomatic give-and-take, the Carter mission, and the diplomatic deal of October 1994.<br><br><br> In the post-Cold War era, the United States is less willing and able than before to expend unlimited resources abroad; as a result it will need to act less unilaterally and more in concert with other nations. What will become of an American foreign policy that prefers coercion when conciliation is more likely to serve its national interests? Using the events that nearly led the United States into a second Korean War, Sigal explores the need for policy change when it comes to addressing the challenge of nuclear proliferation and avoiding conflict with nations like Russia, Iran, and Iraq. What the Cuban missile crisis was to fifty years of superpower conflict, the North Korean nuclear crisis is to the coming era.</p>", "author": "Leon V. Sigal", "slug": "disarming-strangers-178132-9781400822355-leon-v-sigal", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9781400822355.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "178132", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/178132/disarming-strangers-178132-9781400822355-leon-v-sigal", "bisac_codes": [ "POL011000", "JPS" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780691010069", "EISBN13": "9781400822355", "EISBN10": "1400822351" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010030536584" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000178130", "attributes": { "name": "Settling Accounts: Violence, Justice, and Accountability in Postsocialist Europe", "subtitle": "Violence, Justice, and Accountability in Postsocialist Europe", "description": "As new states in the former East bloc begin to reckon with their criminal pasts in the years following a revolutionary change of regimes, a basic pattern emerges: In those states where some form of retributive justice has been publicly enacted, there has generally been much less of a recourse to collective retributive violence. In Settling Accounts, John Borneman explores the attempts by these aspiring democratic states to invoke the principles of the \"rule of law\" as a means of achieving retributive justice, that is, convicting wrongdoers and restoring dignity to victims of moral injuries. Democratic regimes, Borneman maintains, require a strict form of accountability that holds leaders responsible for acts of criminality. This accountability is embodied in the principles of the rule of law, and retribution is at the moral center of these principles. Drawing from his ethnographic work in the former East Germany and with select comparisons to other East-Central European states, Borneman critically examines the construction of categories of criminality. He argues against the claims that economic growth, liberal democracy, or acts of reconciliation are adequate means to legitimate the transformed East bloc states. The cycles of violence in states lacking a system of retributive justice help to support this claim. Invocation of the principles of the rule of law must be seen as a chance for a more democratic, more accountable, and less violent world.", "author": "John Borneman", "slug": "settling-accounts-violence-justice-and-accountability-in-postsocialist-europe-178130-9781400822348-john-borneman", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9781400822348.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "178130", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/178130/settling-accounts-violence-justice-and-accountability-in-postsocialist-europe-178130-9781400822348-john-borneman", "bisac_codes": [ "SOC002000", "anth" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780691016818", "ISBN10": "1400822343", "EISBN13": "9781400822348", "EISBN10": "1400822343" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023606244" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000178128", "attributes": { "name": "Corrupting Youth", "subtitle": "Political Education, Democratic Culture, and Political Theory", "description": "In Corrupting Youth, Peter Euben explores the affinities between Socratic philosophy and Athenian democratic culture as a way to think about issues of politics and education, both ancient and modern. The book moves skillfully between antiquity and the present, from ancient to contemporary political theory, and from Athenian to American democracy. It draws together important recent work by political theorists with the views of classical scholars in ways that shine new light on significant theoretical debates such as those over discourse ethics, rational choice, and political realism, and on political issues such as school vouchers and education reform. Euben not only argues for the generative capacity of classical texts and Athenian political thought, he demonstrates it by thinking with them to provide a framework for reflecting more deeply about socially divisive issues such as the war over the canon and the \"politicization\" of the university. Drawing on Aristophanes' Clouds, Sophocles' Antigone and Oedipus Tyrannos, and Plato's Apology of Socrates, Gorgias, and Protagoras, Euben develops a view of democratic political education. Arguing that Athenian democratic practices constituted a tradition of accountability and self-critique that Socrates expanded into a way of doing philosophy, Euben suggests a necessary reciprocity between political philosophy and radical democracy. By asking whether we can or should take \"Socrates\" out of the academy and put him back in front of a wider audience, Euben argues for anchoring contemporary higher education in appreciative yet skeptical encounter with the dramatic figure in Plato's dialogues.", "author": "J. Peter Euben", "slug": "corrupting-youth-178128-9781400822331-j-peter-euben", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9781400822331.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "178128", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/178128/corrupting-youth-178128-9781400822331-j-peter-euben", "bisac_codes": [ "PHI019000", "cla" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780691048284", "ISBN10": "1400822335", "EISBN13": "9781400822331", "EISBN10": "1400822335" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023606243" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000178126", "attributes": { "name": "Philosophy in a Feminist Voice", "subtitle": "Critiques and Reconstructions", "description": "In this book, Janet Kourany offers an antidote to the pervasive and pernicious strains in Western philosophy that discount women. Most areas of Western philosophy tend not only to ignore women, but also to perpetuate long-standing antifeminine biases of the society as a whole. It does not have to be this way. Rather than be part of the problem, philosophy can be a powerful force for much needed social change. In this collection of essays by some of the most noted feminist philosophers, Kourany showcases ideas on the newest work of Western philosophy that is benefiting women as well as men. Included here are articles by Eileen O'Neill, Louise Antony, Virginia Held, Susan Okin, Carolyn Korsmeyer, Nancy Frankenberry, Lorraine Code, Janet Kourany, Andrea Nye, and Susan Bordo, all of whom show further directions in which philosophy ought to proceed. This book demonstrates that feminist philosophy is not a separate area of philosophy that can safely be ignored by philosophers not \"in\" it. Rather, it relates to at least most of the major areas of philosophy, and its gains will stand to benefit all philosophers, no matter what their field.", "author": "Janet A. Kourany", "slug": "philosophy-in-a-feminist-voice-178126-9781400822324", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9781400822324.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "178126", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/178126/philosophy-in-a-feminist-voice-178126-9781400822324", "bisac_codes": [ "PHI005000", "phi" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780691019369", "ISBN10": "1400822327", "EISBN13": "9781400822324", "EISBN10": "1400822327" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023606242" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000178124", "attributes": { "name": "Bodies of Law", "subtitle": "", "description": "The most basic assertions about our bodies--that they are ours and distinguish us from each other, that they are private and have boundaries, races, and genders--are all political theories, constructed in legal texts for political purposes. So argues Alan Hyde in this first account of the body in legal thought. Hyde demonstrates that none of the constructions of the body in legal texts are universal truths that rest solely on body experience. Drawing on an array of fascinating case material, he shows that legal texts can construct all kinds of bodies, including those that are not owned at all, that are just like other bodies, that are public, open, and accessible to others. Further, the language, images, and metaphors of the body in legal texts can often convince us of positions to which we would not assent as a matter of political theory. Through analysis of legal texts, Hyde shows, for example, how law's words construct the vagina as the most searchable body part; the penis as entirely under mental control; the bone marrow that need not be shared with a half-sibling who will die without it; and urine that must be surrendered for drug testing in rituals of national purification. This book will interest anyone concerned with cultural studies, gender studies, ethnic studies, and political theory, or anyone who has heard the phrase \"body constructed in discourse\" and wants to see, step by step, exactly how this is done.", "author": "Alan Hyde", "slug": "bodies-of-law-178124-9781400822317-alan-hyde", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9781400822317.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "178124", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/178124/bodies-of-law-178124-9781400822317-alan-hyde", "bisac_codes": [ "LAW052000", "LAB" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780691012285", "ISBN10": "1400822319", "EISBN13": "9781400822317", "EISBN10": "1400822319" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023606241" } } } } ], "meta": { "pagination": { "page": 76465, "pages": 78428, "count": 1568541 } } }
Response Info
Default: None