International Social Science Review articles from September 2003

International Social Science Review archives from September 2003

"The Jordan is a hard road to travel": Hoosier responses to fugitive slave cases, 1850-1860.
September 22, 2003... On September 18, 1850, President Millard Fillmore signed what one historian labeled "the most hateful statute since the Alien and Sedition Acts," the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. (1) Part of the Compromise of 1850, this law placed federal...

The Danish party system and the rise of the right in the 2001 parliamentary election.
September 22, 2003... Introduction The 2001 elections represent a watershed in Danish electoral politics. (1) In every national election from 1924 through 1998, the Social Democrats emerged as the strongest party in terms of both popular support and...

Introducing e-government in Bangladesh: problems and prospects.
September 22, 2003... Introduction Use of Information & Communication Technology (ICT) in government activities has become a common phenomenon in recent years. In the late 1990s, ICT introduced a unique concept--electronic government (e-government)--in the...

John von Neumann's contribution to economic science.
September 22, 2003... Introduction Often described as a genius, John von Neumann made significant contributions in a wide range of fields. His work in mathematical physics won him praise as the primary intellectual influence responsible for the emergence of...

Abbott, Mary. Family Affairs: a History of the Family in 20th Century England.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... London: Routledge, 2002. 195 pp. Hardcover, $75.00; Softcover, $23.95. Those who take great pleasure in reading newspapers will enjoy every minute of Family Affairs. It's rather like reading seventy years of society pages all in one...

Brams, Steven J. Negotiation Games: Applying Game Theory to Bargaining and Arbitration.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... New York: Routledge, 2003. xxvi + 297 pp. Hardcover, $120.00. Paperback, $33.95 In this revised edition of his 1990 book, New York University Professor of Politics Steven Brams applies game theory concepts to a plethora of situations....

Crockett, David A. The Opposition Presidency: Leadership & the Constraints of History.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... College Station, TX: Texas A & M Press, 2002. 286 pp. Cloth, $39.95. Crockett's central question "concerns the nature of presidential leadership..." (p. 7). His search for answers takes him into the divided nature of the American...

Feldman, Glenn, ed. Reading Southern History: Essays on Interpreters and Interpretations.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2001. 376 pp. Paper, $24.95. In the 1960s, undergraduates at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill knew him as "Silent Sam." Sam was the statue of a Confederate infantryman erected on...

Fone, Byrne. Homophobia: a History.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... New York: Picador USA, A Metropolitan Book, Henry Holt and Company, 2000. 421 pp. Cloth, $32.50; Paper, $17.00. Byrne Fone has written a tour de force, documenting the consistent, unrelenting animus of Western culture toward gay and lesbian...

Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah. A Moral Reckoning: the Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. 362 pp. Cloth, $25.00. It is over forty years since Rolf Hochuth's The Deputy premiered in Berlin on February 20, 1963, setting off shock waves in the press, in the pulpit, and in the groves of academe. As a...

Goodman, Dena, ed. Marie Antoinette: Writings on the Body of a Queen.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... New York and London: Routledge, 2003. 320 pp. Paper, $23.95. In her general introduction, the editor assures the reader that this is no narrative biography of the queen. Instead, it is an examination of the ways in which Marie Antoinette...

Kasser, Tim. The High Price of Materialism.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002. 149 pp. Cloth, $24.95. Chase after money and security And your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval And you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. ...

Lambek, Michael, ed. A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2002. 620 pages. Paper, $39.95. This is another anthology in Blackwell's series on social and cultural anthropology, a reader that ambitiously attempts to represent the full breadth, depth, and complexity...

Law, John, and Annemarie Mol, eds. Complexities: Social Studies of Knowledge Practices.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. 304 pp. Cloth, $69.95; Paper, $21.95. Complexities offers a series of essays from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds that identify different ways of viewing the world. The editors focus on...

Mills, Margaret A., Peter J. Claus, and Sarah Diamond, eds. South Asian Folklore: an Encyclopedia.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... New York: Routledge, 2003. 651 pp. + index. Cloth, $175.00. This volume achieves a rare trifecta: its governing ethos is superb; its component articles are as accessible as they are competent; and, its unique organization functions smoothly...

Pearson, James L. Shamanism and the Ancient Mind: a Cognitive Approach to Archaeology.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira, 2002. x + 195 pp. Cloth, $69.00; paper, $24.95. Shamanism and the Ancient Mind is an interesting synthetic overview of cognitive archaeology, targeted to a broad audience. Pearson is a believer in scientific...

Procida, Richard, and Rita J. Simon. Global Perspectives on Social Issues: Pornography.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003. 136+x pp. Cloth, $60. Procida and Simon survey the status of laws, regulations, enforcement, and judicial decisions around the world pertaining to pornography. In so doing, the authors reveal the...

Susser, Ida, ed. The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2002. 431 pp. Paperback, $27.95. The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory represents selections from the work of Manual Castells, who, according to a cover statement, is "... the most influential...