Contesting Values and Economics in American Politics
Gwendoline M. Alphonso
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512829655
Pub Date: January 2026
Format: Paperback
256 Pages
Polarized Families, Polarized Parties demonstrates that differing regional ideals of family have shaped party policy and ideological positions throughout the twentieth century.
Property damage constitutes a commonplace feature of global political protest. How then to evaluate it? Rejecting the tendency to conflate it with political violence, William E. Scheuerman grapples with the question of when, if ever, politically motivated property harms are justifiable, drawing on a wide range of timely real-world examples.
Seeking Allah’s Hierarchy probes the existence of hierarchical practices prevalent among Muslims, focusing on Muslim barbers and their work relations in Kerala on the southwest coast of India. It complicates the question of “caste” by showcasing the specificity of hierarchical practices among Muslims, despite the egalitarianism of their religion.
The Social Philosophers argues that Western social philosophy emerged during the disintegration of the ancient Greek and Roman communities. Robert Nisbet contends that Western ideas of moral authority, freedom, consensus, and personality take on their distinctive character as aspects of humankind’s search for community.
How Research Organizations Became Party Allies and Political Advocates
Zachary Albert
Price: $74.95
ISBN: 9781512828016
Pub Date: August 2025
Format: Hardcover
360 Pages
Zachary Albert explores how elected officials, think tanks, and interest groups form partisan policy networks to forward their agendas. He argues that policy research is not objective and is heavily influenced by partisan and ideological incentives, impacting policy outcomes and undermining democratic representation.
Wildcat of the Streets reveals how the “community policing” approach of Mayor Coleman Young (1974–1993) transformed Detroit into a crucial site of experimentation in policing while continuing to subject many Black Detroiters, especially young people, to police brutality and repression.
How African Liberation Mobilized New Left Internationalism
R. Joseph Parrott
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512827675
Pub Date: July 2025
Format: Hardcover
392 Pages
Dream the Size of Freedom explores how anti-colonial movements in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau reshaped US activist engagement with the Global South from the 1960s through the 1970s and how these grassroots movements helped define a New Left Internationalism that injected Global South priorities into US political debates.
Chicago, Ethiopianism, and the Black Apocalyptic Imagination
Kai Parker
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512827521
Pub Date: May 2025
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
City of Black Souls uncovers the history of how, from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Black Protestants in Chicago created a transnational religious movement, known as Ethiopianism, that connected the Black struggle for freedom in the United States to the global Black fight against Western imperialism.
Modern Dharma explores family transformations among the Nepali city of Bhaktapur’s emerging middle class. Personal narratives of conflict and adjustment in domestic spaces and among kin shed new light on changing social roles and relationships, which are negotiated in the pursuit of “well-being” in a context of accelerated socioeconomic change.
