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Gender Stereotyping: Transnational Legal Perspectives--Now Available

Gender Stereotyping: Transnational Legal Perspectives
Rebecca J. Cook and Simone Cusack
288 pages | 6 x 9 | none
Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4214-0 | $49.95 | £32.50
A volume in the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights series

Drawing on domestic and international law, as well as on judgments given by courts and human rights treaty bodies, Gender Stereotyping offers perspectives on how wrongful gender stereotypes can be effectively eliminated through the transnational legal process in order to ensure women's equality and exercise of their human rights.

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Visions of Progress--Now in Paperback

Visions of Progress: The Left-Liberal Tradition in America
Doug Rossinow
336 pages | 6 x 9
Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4049-8 | $39.95 | £26.00
Paper 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2095-7 | $24.95 | £16.50
A volume in the Politics and Culture in Modern America series

Rossinow revisits the period between the 1880s and the 1940s, when reformers and radicals worked together along a middle path between the revolutionary left and establishment liberalism. He takes the story up to the present, showing how the progressive connection was lost and explaining the consequences that followed.

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The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa--Now in Paperback

The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa
René Lemarchand
344 pages | 6 x 9 | 10 illus.
Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4120-4 | $59.95 | £39.00
Paper 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2090-2 | $27.50 | £18.00
A volume in the National and Ethnic Conflict in the 21st Century series

This collection of essays explores the contemporary crises in Rwanda, Burundi, and the Congo-Kinshasa, offering important new insights into the cycle of genocidal violence, ethnic strife, and civil war that has made the Great Lakes region of Central Africa the most violent on the continent.

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The Age of Apology--Now In Paperback

The Age of Apology: Facing Up to the Past
Edited by Mark Gibney, Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Jean-Marc Coicaud, and Niklaus Steiner
344 pages | 6 x 9
Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4033-7 | $59.95 | £39.00
Paper 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2087-2 | $26.50 | £17.50
A volume in the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights series

In The Age of Apology twenty-two law, politics, and human rights scholars explore the legal, political, social, historical, moral, religious, and anthropological aspects of Western apologies.

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Traitors--Now Available

Traitors: Suspicion, Intimacy, and the Ethics of State-Building
Edited by Sharika Thiranagama and Tobias Kelly
280 pages | 6 x 9 | 8 illus.
Cloth Nov 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4213-3 | $45.00 | £29.50

This volume examines political, ethnic, and personal trust and betrayals in modern times from Mozambique to the Taiwan Straits, from the former Eastern Bloc to the West Bank, revealing that treachery is a constant and essential part of the processes through which social and political order is reproduced.

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The Devil in the Holy Water--Now Available

The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon
Robert Darnton
552 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 47 illus.
Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4183-9 | $34.95 | £23.00
A volume in the Material Texts series
Not for sale in the British Commonwealth, except Canada, or in Europe

Robert Darnton explores the scandalous literature of libel and the colorful lives of libelers in eighteenth-century France. By doing so he shows how an ideological current eroded authority under the Old Regime and became absorbed in a new, more radical, political culture under Robespierre.

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Economic Rights in Canada and the United States--Now Available

Economic Rights in Canada and the United States
Edited by Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann and Claude E. Welch, Jr.
288 pages | 6 x 9
Cloth 2006 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3925-6 | $47.50 | £31.00
Paper Nov 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2093-3 | $24.95 | £16.50
A volume in the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights series

This volume explains how economic rights are realized—or violated—in Canada and the United States. Contributors analyze the philosophy, law, and politics of these rights and discuss specific issues such as poverty, health care, and the rights of people with disabilities.

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Bringing Human Rights Home (Abridged)--Now Available

Bringing Human Rights Home: A History of Human Rights in the United States
Edited by Cynthia Soohoo, Catherine Albisa, and Martha F. Davis
Abridged Edition
408 pages | 6 x 9
Paper  2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2079-7 | $34.95 | £23.00
A volume in the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights series

Throughout its history, America's policies have alternatively embraced human rights, regarded them with ambivalence, or rejected them out of hand. The essays in this volume put these shifting political winds into a larger historical perspective, from the country's very beginnings to the present day.

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Ethnographies of Neoliberalism--Now Available

Ethnographies of Neoliberalism
Edited by Carol J. Greenhouse
376 pages | 6 x 9
Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4192-1 | $55.00 | £36.00

What happens when citizens are refashioned as consumers? Drawing on diverse disciplines and ethnographies from five continents, this collection considers neoliberal reform from the standpoint of people's self-understandings as social and political actors.

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A Just Withdrawal: Walzer and Mills on Getting Out of Iraq in The New Republic

Michael Walzer and Nicolaus Mills co-wrote a piece for today's issue of Tne New Republic entitled A Just Withdrawal. In it, they share their guidelines for an ethical withdrawal from an occupied land.

". . . as President Obama continues the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq, he should do more than pay attention to conditions on the ground. He should also keep in mind how badly withdrawals from occupied countries have gone in the past, and take to heart the historical lessons these failed withdrawals teach. Though many experts have attempted military, strategic, and political analyses of how and when the United States should withdraw, there has been little attention paid to moral considerations in answering that question."

You can read what Walzer and Mills have to say on the question at  www.tnr.com and in their new book, Getting Out: Historical Perspectives on Leaving Iraq.