Political Science

Citizen of Africa: Conversations with Morgan Tsvangirai

Author: 

Chan, Stephen

Credentials: 

Ph.D., LL.D., Dean of Law and Social Sciences, School of Oriental and African Studies (London)

The leader of Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change as been demonized by President Robert Mugabe and his regime as a neo-colonial stooge and traitor. Mr. Tvangirai has been imprisoned by British; white Rhodesian and Zimbabwean authorities in the course of a career marked by non violent protest leadership and de facto recognition as the one person who can save his country from complete collapse and chaotic self destruction.

Market: 
AFRICAN STUDIES, Zimbabwe, Central Africa, International Relations, African Politics, 20th C, Mass Movements
Release Date: 
07/2006
ISBN: 
Cloth: 1-933146-22-2
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

The African State and Asymmetrical Globalization: The Question of Unite or Perish

Author: 

Bongyu, Moye Godwin

Credentials: 

Ph.D University of Yaounde (Political Science), Ph.D Public Policy Analysis, Jackson State University

Dr.Bongyu’s research work on African States and the African union is well known. In this monograph he discusses the Balkanization of Africa in the colonial and immediate post colonial period with an emphasis on the weak, fragile and marginalized condition of even the strongest of Sub-Saharan African states. He also describes the rise of African aid funding and the fall of most economic indicators and the atrophy of key societal elements such as farming and traditional village life.

Market: 
African Studies, Development Issues- Africa, African politics and policy, Regional organizations—Africa, UN studies
Release Date: 
02/2009
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-933146-68-3 / 1933146-68-0
Price: 
$59.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
164
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

English Catholic Converts and the Oxford Movement in mid-19th Century Britain

Author: 

Adams, Pauline

Credentials: 

Historian, former Vice-Principal, Somerville College, Oxford, author of Somerville for Women: An Oxford College 1979-1995(O.U.P.,1996)

Foreword by Kenneth Parker, Ph.D,Professor of Historical Theology, St.Louis University

Market: 
English Catholicism, Social and religious life in mid Victorian England, Cultural Studies, Roman Catholicism, Theology and politics in the United Kingdom 1840-1880,Historical Theology,Anglican History,19th c.
Release Date: 
04/2010
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-933146-84-3 /1933146-84-2
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
204
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Creating Political Equality: American Elections as a Public Good

Author: 

Mandle, Jay R.

Credentials: 

W. Bradford Wiley Professor of Economics, Colgate University. Author of DEMOCRACY, AMERICA and the AGE OF GLOBALIZATION(Cambridge University Press, 2008), GLOBALIZATION and the POOR(Cambridge University Press, 2003)

This study uniquely and systematically makes the argument that the electoral process in America should be considered as a public good. This argument is placed in the context of an examination of campaign funding and historical attempts at reform. It furthermore is more analytic than anything in the field in tracing the connections between our system of private funding of electoral campaigns and specific difficulties that the country has encountered with regard to the environment, health care, and the financial crisis.

Market: 
American Elections/Voting, Economics of Political Campaigns, Funding of American Elections, Economics of Political Reform, National Electoral Reform, Popular Movements, Social Change in America
Release Date: 
6/2010
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-933146-90-4/ 1933146-90-7
Price: 
$69.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
204
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

The Committee of Vigilance: The Law and Order Committee of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and Its War Against the Left, 1916 - 1919

Author: 

Levi, Steven C.

Credentials: 

Independent Scholar/Author specializing in California and Alaskan History; Boom and Bust in the Alaska Goldfields, Greenwood, 2007

In THE COMMITTEE OF VIGILANCE Steven Levi discusses and analyzes the rise and fall of the last of the old western vigilance committees---and the rise of the first modern American committee devoted to ferreting out “Un- American activities”among the laboring poor,union leaders, progressive politicians and social activists. The Preparedness Day bombing of 1916 was the catalyst(along with the Los Angeles Times bombing several years earlier) for full scale civic strife and class violence in San Francisco.

Market: 
Labor History,U.S.,California History,20th c, San Francisco,World War 1,the Progressive Movement, American Anarchism,American Penal/Corrections history, Origins of Terrorism, Socialism,20th c.
Release Date: 
12/2009
ISBN: 
Paper: 978-1-933146799/ 1933146-79-6
Price: 
$49.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Orientalism in Sinology

Author: 

Chan, Adrian

Credentials: 

Ph.D, A.N.U.; Senior Professor, Political Science, University of New South Wales; Visiting Fellow D/History, Research School of Asia and Political Studies at the Australian National University. Author of Chinese Communism (Continuum ,2003)

Foreword by Professor Wang Gungwu,former Vice Chancellor, University of Hong Kong and currently Director of the East asian Institute, University of Singapore

Market: 
Chinese Studies, Intellectual History, Sinology, Chinese Religions, Modern Chinese History and Politics
Release Date: 
02/2009
ISBN: 
Cloth: EAN 978-1-933146-61-4 / 193314661-3
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
166
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Voting in American Elections: The Shaping of the American Political Universe since 1788

Author: 

Burnham, Walter Dean with Thomas Ferguson and Louis Ferleger

Credentials: 

Ph.D Burnham is the Dean of American historians working in the field of elections and is the author of many books; Thomas Ferguson is Professor of History, UMass, Boston and Louis Ferleger is Professor of History at Boston University

Walter Dean Burnham is widely regarded as the greatest living student of American voting behavior. He pioneered the collection and publication of historical American election statistics and his many essays and books on them are read around the world. His compilation of voting statistics for the famous 1975 Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970 was a landmark in the field.

Market: 
American elections, Politics, American History 1788 +, Voting Rights and Franchises, Constitutional History, Presidential History, American States and their voting practices and procedures, REFERENCE
Release Date: 
10/2009
ISBN: 
PAPERBACK 978-1-93314669-0/ 1933146-69-9
Price: 
$44.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
464
Illustrations: 
Yes - Statistical and informational armature: tables and graphs
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Living Anarchy: Theory and Practice in Anarchist Movements

Author: 

Shantz, Jeff

Credentials: 

Ph.D York University (Ontario)Sociology; Kwantlen University College

Anarchism stands as one of the the most vital social movements of the twentieth century. Yet the lack, and growing, contemporary movement remain obscured. Lost in recent accounts are the creative and constructive practices undertaken daily by anarchist organizers seeking a world free from violence, oppression and exploitation.

Market: 
Politics, Sociology/Social Movements, Social Analysis, Social Relations, Political Economy, Community Organization
Release Date: 
06/2009
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-933146-53-9 /193314653-2
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
230
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

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