International Social Science Review articles from September 22 2001

International Social Science Review archives from September 22 2001

A model of decisionmaking in capital juries.
September 22, 2001... Capital punishment has gained increasing attention in recent years with several highly publicized executions, the role of death penalty attitudes in national elections, and the use of DNA technology in capital cases. Gallup Polls indicate that...

Beyond collective amnesia: a Korean War retrospective (1).
September 22, 2001... For nearly three decades after the end of the Korean War, American veterans of the conflict--along with increasing numbers of historians and other scholars--bemoaned the fact that Korea had become a "forgotten war." In fact, in the United...

Western negative perceptions of Russia: "the cold war mentality" over five hundred years.
September 22, 2001... In a recent CNN interview, former National Security Advisor and professor of American Foreign Policy at Johns Hopkins University's School for Advanced International Studies, Zbigniew Brzezinski, compared the Russian military's indiscriminate...

Contraband, runaways, freemen: new definitions of reconstruction created by the civil war.
September 22, 2001... Introduction There exists in the history of the Civil War, a gap in the story of African American participation in the struggle. Much discussed is the Underground Railroad, the use of black troops in both armies, John Brown's Raid, and the...

Reading, writing and rebellion: levels of formal education in the confederate army.
September 22, 2001... Introduction The Confederate Soldier and the South he defended have been the subject of research and the object of adoration or hatred since Fort Sumter. The opinions about him, his time and his place have reflected one bias or another...

Barbara W. Tuchman. Practicing History.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... New York: Ballantine Books, 2000 edition. 306 pages. Paperback, $12.95. What a delight to have been asked to review Practicing History. In the 1970s and 1980s I discovered Ms. Tuchman in her books A Distant Mirror, The Proud Tower, and The...

John Mark Dempsey, Ed. The Jack Ruby Trial Revisited: The Diary of Jury Foreman Max Causey.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 2000. 202 pages, No price. The 1964 Jack Ruby trial was called "the trial of the century" at the time, but was among several other "trials of the century" including the Scopes monkey trial,...

Michael Braswell, John Fuller, and Bo Lozoff. Corrections, Peacemaking and Restorative Justice: Transforming Individuals and Institutions.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Cincinnati, OH: Anderson Publishing Co., 2001. 164 pages. Paperback, $27.95. Michael Braswell, John Fuller, and Bo Lozoff's Corrections, Peacemaking and Restorative Justice: Transforming Individuals and Institutions is a well-written book...

Robert J. Meadows. Understanding Violence and Victimization.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1998. 220 pages, ISBN 0-13-452129-3. Robert J. Meadows' Understanding Violence and Victimization discusses the theories and different types of violence and offenders. The text proposes sensible and reliable...

Rita J. Simon and Howard Altstein. Adoption Across Borders: Serving the Children in Transracial and Intercountry Adoptions.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Lanhan, MD: Rowan and Littlefield, 2000. Paperback, $18.95; hardcover, $59.00. "Adoption is a legal process in which a child's legal rights and duties toward his natural parents, and vice versa, are terminated and similar rights and duties...

Nicholas Brown and Imre Szema, Eds. Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Culture.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Maryland: Rowan and Littlefield, 2000. xii + 253 pages. One of the most exciting aspects of intellectual history is the transmission of ideas from one country to another. Whether it is a case of Nietzsche obsessively re-reading Emerson, of...

Walter M. Brasch. Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus, and the Cornfield Journalist.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2000. 400 pages. $35.00. As one reviewer has stated: "Walter Brasch's energetic and engaging biography reconstructs the active professional life and rich sociological and historical legacy of Joel...

Robert L. Lineberry, Benigno Aguirre, and Edward Murguia, Eds. Hispanics in America at 2000.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Special issue of Social Science Quarterly 81 (March 2000). Hispanics in America at 2000 is the third in a series of special issues on Hispanics published by the Social Science Quarterly since 1973. Like its predecessors, the 2000 edition is...

Melanie McCoy and JoAnn DiGeorgio-Lutz, Eds. The Woman-Centered University: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1999. 168 pages, price unknown. This small volume is a collection of essays on women in the university: a summary of progress made, goals for the future and some ideas for accomplishing them. The...

William J. Vanden Heuvel, Ed. The Future of Freedom in Russia.(symposium sponsored by the Templeton Foundation)(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Philadelphia and London: Templeton Foundation Press, 2000. The Templeton Foundation is nothing, if not ambitious. Its goal is to promote ethics and values in society and its interests do not stop at the water's edge. In February 1999 it...