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How Many Is Too Many? The Progressive Argument for Reducing Immigration into the United States

Cafaro Philip

ISBN: HB: 9780226190655, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 21 line drawings, 7 tables

From the stony streets of Boston to the rail lines of California, from General Relativity to Google, one of the surest truths of our history is the fact that America has been built by immigrants. The phrase itself has become a steadfast campaign line...

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Political Science

Sing the Rage Listening to Anger after Mass Violence

Chakravarti Sonali

ISBN: HB: 9780226119984, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What is the relationship between anger and justice, especially when so much of our moral education has taught us to value the impartial spectator, the cold distance of reason? In "Sing the Rage", Sonali Chakravarti wrestles with this question through...

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Philosophy

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Secular Powers Humility in Modern Political Thought

Cooper Julie E.

ISBN: HB: 9780226081298, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Secularism is usually thought to contain the project of self-deification, in which humans attack God's authority in order to take his place, freed from all constraints. Julie E. Cooper overturns this conception through an incisive analysis of the ear...

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Political Science

Constitution in Congress: Democrats and Whigs, 1829-1861

Currie David P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226116310, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
344 pp., 23.6x17 cm

The Constitution in Congress series has been called nothing less than a biography of the US Constitution for its in-depth examination of the role that the legislative and executive branches have played in the development of constitutional interpretat...

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Political Science

Women Studies

End of Equality

Campbell Beatrix

ISBN: PB: 9780857421135, Seagull Books, December 2013
96 pp., 25x15 cm

Among liberal thinkers, there is an optimistic belief that men and women are on a cultural journey toward equality – in the workplace, on the street, and in the home. But observation and evidence both tell us that in many ways this progress has stopp...

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Political Science

Forged in Crisis India and the United States since 1947

Chaudhuri Rudra

ISBN: HB: 9781849043045, Hurst Publishers, December 2013
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Rudra Chaudhuri's book examines a series of crises that led to far-reaching changes in India's approach to the United States, defining the contours of what is arguably the imperative relationship between America and the global...

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Political Science

Legions of Peace UN Peacekeepers from the Global South

Cunliffe Philip

ISBN: HB: 9781849042901, Hurst Publishers, December 2013
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The huge number of security forces stationed around the world as United Nations peacekeepers is second only to the global military deployments of the USA. But most UN peacekeepers come from the emerging powers and developing st...

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Political Science

White-Collar Government The Hidden Role of Class in Economic Policy Making

Carnes Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9780226087146, ISBN: HB: 9780226087009, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 61 line drawings, 8 tables

Eight of the last twelve presidents were millionaires when they took office. Millionaires have a majority on the Supreme Court, and they also make up majorities in Congress, where a background in business or law is the norm and the average member has...

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Law

Political Science

Cloaking of Power Montesquieu, Blackstone, and the Rise of Judicial Activism

Carrese Paul O.

ISBN: PB: 9780226100609, ISBN: HB: 9780226094823, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
349 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

How did the US judiciary become so powerful – powerful enough that state and federal judges once vied to decide a presidential election? What does this prominence mean for the law, constitutionalism, and liberal democracy? In "The Cloaking of Power",...

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Political Science

From Perestroika to Rainbow Revolutions Reform and Revolution after Socialism

Cheterian Vicken

ISBN: HB: 9781849041447, Hurst Publishers, February 2013
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Twenty-five years after Gorbachev came to power and two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the questions that lay behind the reform efforts at the start of Perestroika are still relevant: how to modernise the econo...

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