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Examines multilateral interventions in civil conflicts and the evolution of the role of such interventions in world politics. It focuses primarily on the Cold War and post-Cold War eras and the diffe …

For over a century, the sweatshop has evoked outrage and moral repugnance. Once cast as a type of dangerous and immoral garment factory brought to American shores by European immigrants, today the sw …

First published in 1998. This is Volume XI of the twenty-one in the Race, Class and Social Structure series, which looks at the theory of the ”marginal man”, the situation and using a ”marginalise …

‘…provides good coverage of the empirical literature.’ — Journal of Communication ‘…well written and presents a wide diversity of approaches to pornography.’ — CHOICE …

This book presents a set of conversations with five former Governors of Reserve Bank of India (from 1992 onwards) on the topic of financial inclusion. Two key aspects are introduced in the conversati …

Based on a study of 12, 000 elementary school children in eight large and medium-sized American cities, this book presents the first large-scale study of political attitude formation in children. The …

Judges in most societies often resort to resolving disputes by means of applying a criterion of reasonableness. In The Demise of the”Reasonable Man” Michael Saltman explores the ways in which reaso …

Ethnic organized crime is a phenomenon that has been largely ignored by social scientists and historians, and dismissed as a subject not to be taken too seriously by those researching the mobility pa …

William Graham Sumner is remembered primarily as an opponent of government intervention in social and economic issues. Focusing on Folkways (1906), this book examines Sumner”s fundamental work as a …

Les B. Whitbeck and Dan R. Hoyt begin their report on street children in the Midwest with the statement, ‘If you live in or have visited even a medium-sized city recently, you have seen runaway and h …