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Law and Practices of AccountabilityEuropean agencies have been created at a rapid pace in recent years in a multitude of diverse fields from pharmaceuticals to financial supervision. This book examines how the accountability system of these agencies operates formally and in practice, studying the legal provisions in place and their de facto...

Mob Violence against Mexicans in the United States, 1848-1928Forgotten Dead uncovers a neglected chapter in the story of American racial violence, the first comprehensive study of lynching of hundreds of persons of Mexican origin or descent....

Loyalists and the Literature of Politics in British AmericaWriting the Rebellion presents a cultural history of loyalist writing in early America, dissolving the old legend that loyalists were more British than American, and patriots the embodiment of a new sensibility....

In The Christian Century and the Rise of the Protestant Mainline, Elesha J. Coffman argues that liberal Protestants used cultural capital and persuasive rhetoric to make a strong case for their own status as shepherds of the American soul, but their influence on American culture was ultimately more a social construct than a demographic reality. The...

A phenomenological critiqueMany declare the debate about abortion to be hopelessly polarised, between conservatives and liberals, between forces religious and secular. In this book Mumford upends this received wisdom and challenges consensus, arguing that many dominant attitudes and argument fail to take into account the particular way human beings...

Transnational Identity in Civil ConflictsTransnational participation in insurgencies, often associated with Islamists, has been prevalent in wars throughout history. Foreign Fighters is the comprehensive study of foreign fighters examines patterns of recruitment using original data sets and detailed diverse case studies, and how recruiters use...