International Social Science Review articles from September 2005

International Social Science Review archives from September 2005

"A superior colored man ... and a Scotch woman": interracial marriages in New York City, 1850-1870.
September 22, 2005... When interviewed by a pension official in 1893, Ellen Davis stated that she was fifty-nine years old, employed as a washerwoman, and that she was born in Scotland. The widow spoke affectionately of her husband John Davis, a veteran of Company G...

Thinking the world: a comment on philosophy of history and globalization studies.
September 22, 2005... It may be that the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel initiated the practice of philosophy of history between 1822 and 1831 when, in his lectures collected under the title The Philosophy of History (1837), he wrote that...

Purchasing the Canadian teenage identity: ICTs, American media, and brand-name consumption.(information and communication technologies )
September 22, 2005... Introduction In 1973, anthropologist Clifford Geertz stated: We live... in an 'information gap.' Between what our body tells us and what we have to know in order to function, there is a vacuum we must fill ourselves, and...

The Perry Centennial Celebration: a case study in U.S.-Japanese cultural diplomacy.
September 22, 2005... Introduction In studying U.S.-Japanese relations during the 1950s, historians and specialists in international relations have focused on political affairs, military strategies, and global politics in East Asia. (1) During this period,...

Policy point-counterpoint: is Westphalia history?
September 22, 2005... Does a discussion of the Treaty of Westphalia, promulgated in 1648, rightfully fall under the parvenu of a social science journal? The question arises because of the rather uneasy relationship between historians and social scientists. If one...

Point: the Westphalia legacy and the modern nation-state.
September 22, 2005... Ending the Thirty Years' War in 1648, the Peace of Westphalia is often viewed as the progenitor of modern nation-state sovereignty. The war completed the decline of the Habsburg Empire which had already lost power in Western Europe following...

Counterpoint: the Westphalia overstatement.
September 22, 2005... Westphalia is no more. This is not the result of any one particular cause, but an acknowledgement that the conceptualization of 'the Westphalian state system' is a pedagogical oversimplification that is based on flawed assumptions. By referring...

Bergeron, Kenneth D. Tritium on Ice: The Dangerous New Alliance of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Bergeron, Kenneth D. Tritium on Ice: The Dangerous New Alliance of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004. 244 pp. Paper, $15.95. A thought-provoking and well-written account, Tritium on Ice provides a concise...

Duara, Prasenjit, ed. Decolonization: Perspectives from Now and Then.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Duara, Prasenjit, ed. Decolonization: Perspectives from Now and Then. London: Routledge, 2004. 272 pp. Paper, $31.95. This book discusses the social phenomenon of decolonization from two very different perspectives: from the point of view...

Ellina, Chrystalla A. Promoting Women's Rights: The Politics of Gender in the European Union.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Ellina, Chrystalla A. Promoting Women's Rights: The Politics of Gender in the European Union. New York: Routledge, 2003. 174 pp. Cloth, $69.95. Presented initially as a dissertation, Promoting Women "s Rights: The Politics of Gender in the...

Evans, Richard J. The Coming of the Third Reich.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Evans, Richard J. The Coming of the Third Reich. New York: Penguin Press, 2004. xxxiv + 622 pp. Cloth, 34.95. At first glance it would seem difficult to fathom the rise of Nazism in a country that was long the source of formidable...

Feldman, Glenn. The Disfranchisement Myth: Poor Whites and Suffrage Restriction in Alabama.(The Disfranchisement Myth: Poor Whites and Suffrage Restriction in Alabama)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Feldman, Glenn. The Disfranchisement Myth: Poor Whites and Suffrage Restriction in Alabama. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2004. xiv + 311 pp. Cloth, $39.95. This book relates the history of the efforts of a coalition of white...

Friedman, Cary A. Spiritual Survival for Law Enforcement.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Friedman, Cary A. Spiritual Survival for Law Enforcement. Linden, N J: Compass Books, 2005. 91 pp. Paper, $19.95. Rabbi Cary A. Friedman presents a simple case for why law-enforcement officers need to cultivate and strengthen their...

Kahn, Alfred E. Lessons from Deregulation: Telecommunications and Airlines after the Crunch.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Kahn, Alfred E. Lessons from Deregulation: Telecommunications and Airlines after the Crunch. Washington, D.C.: AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, 2004. 88 pp. Paper, $16.95. Since the late 1970s, the United States has been...

Kaplowitz, Craig A. LULAC: Mexican Americans and National Policy.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Kaplowitz, Craig A. LULAC: Mexican Americans and National Policy. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. x + 254 pp. Cloth, $35.00. After the United States annexed a third of Mexico's territory following the Mexican War...

Lerner, Richard M. Liberty: Thriving and Civic Engagement Among America's Youth.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Lerner, Richard M. Liberty: Thriving and Civic Engagement Among America's Youth. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2004. xxi + 203 pp. Paper, $34.95. Richard Lerner, a noted psychologist of human development, has written a provocative...

Martinez-Fernandez, Luis, D.H. Figueredo, Louis A. Parez, Jr., and Luis Gonzalez, eds. Encyclopedia of Cuba: People, History, Culture.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Martinez-Fernandez, Luis, D.H. Figueredo, Louis A. Parez, Jr., and Luis Gonzalez, eds. Encyclopedia of Cuba: People, History, Culture. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003. xxix + 688 pp. Cloth, $174.95. This is a well-organized and...

Oldridge, Darren. Strange Histories: The Trial of the Pig, the Walking Dead, and Other Matters of Fact from the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Oldridge, Darren. Strange Histories: The Trial of the Pig, the Walking Dead, and Other Matters of Fact from the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds. London: Routledge, 2005. 216 pp. Cloth, $33.95. Darren Oldridge's new book, Strange Histories,...

Rudanko, Juhani. The Forging of Freedom of Speech.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Rudanko, Juhani. The Forging of Freedom of Speech. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2003. 148 pp. Paper, $27.00. According to Juhani Rudanko, this book "explores important aspects of a formative stage in the historical process that...

Sagas, Ernesto, and Sintia E. Molina, eds. Dominican Migration: Transnational Perspectives.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Sagas, Ernesto, and Sintia E. Molina, eds. Dominican Migration: Transnational Perspectives. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2004. 284 pages. Cloth, $59.95. The de facto rule of General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo y Molina from...

Schneider, Michael. The Distribution of Wealth.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Schneider, Michael. The Distribution of Wealth. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2004. xiii + 148 pp. Cloth, $85.00. The Distribution of Wealth is a valuable addition to the paucity of studies addressing inequality in the...

Shipler, David. The Working Poor: Invisible in America.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Shipler, David. The Working Poor: Invisible in America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. iv + 300 pp. Cloth, $25.00. David Shipler's The Working Poor is a journalistic account of those struggling to survive in the United States in the wake...

Till, Geoffrey. Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-First Century.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Till, Geoffrey. Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-First Century. London: Frank Cass, 2004. xvi + 430 pp. Cloth, $125.00; paper, $36.95. The sea matters. Because the sea matters, navies matter. One purpose of Geoffrey Till's book is to...