This Week's New Books: The Queen's Hand, Forging Rights in a New Democracy, Driving Detroit

The Queen's Hand: Power and Authority in the Reign of Berenguela of Castile Janna Bianchini 352 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4433-5 | $69.95 | £45.50 A volume in the Middle Ages Series Janna Bianchini captures the extraordinary royal career of Berenguela of Castile: queen-consort in León, heir to the throne of Castile, mother of the conqueror Fernando III, and powerful sovereign in her own right. The Queen's Hand reevaluates the role of royal women in western Iberian monarchy. Read more . . .

Forging Rights in a New Democracy: Ukrainian Students Between Freedom and Justice Anna Fournier 232 pages | 6 x 9 | 9 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4426-7 | $59.95 | £39.00 A volume in the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights series Based on extensive fieldwork in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, Forging Rights in a New Democracy explores high school-aged students' understanding of rights and justice, and how they interpret and appropriate discourses of citizenship and civic values in the school setting as well as on the streets in the context of peaceful mass protests. Read more . . .

Driving Detroit: The Quest for Respect in the Motor City George Galster 328 pages | 6 x 9 | 26 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4429-8 | $45.00 | £29.50 A volume in the Metropolitan Portraits series Driving Detroit paints a portrait of metropolitan Detroit through an imaginative application of social science, song lyrics, poems, and oral history to explain why the city has fallen from industrial powerhouse into urban dysfunction. Read more . . .

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