Oxford University Press

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How can the seeds of accountability ever grow in authoritarian environments? This book explores the how civil society "e;thickens"e; by comparing two decades of rural citizens' struggles to hold the Mexican state accountable, exploring both change and continuity before, during and after national electoral turning points....

In the unstable economy of the nineteenth-century, few Americans could feel        secure. Paper money made values less tangible, while a series of financial manias,        panics, and depressions clouded everyday life with uncertainty and risk. In this        groundbreaking study, Andrew Lawson traces the origins of American realism to a...

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Original essays by leading philosophers of science explore the question of whether metaphysics can and should be naturalized--conducted as part of natural science. They engage with a range of approaches and disciplines to argue that if metaphysics is to be capable of identifying objective truths, it must be continuous with and inspired by science....

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