The personal and legal struggle of eight enslaved people for freedom in New York in the period just before the Civil War.

This book addresses contemporary surveillance practices and examines technical communicators' roles in carrying them out.

The first comprehensive study of village government formation and dissolution in New York State.

Analyzes the nature, processes, and political consequences of the asymmetrical relationships between China and its six small neighbors in Asia.

Detailed assessment of the People's Republic of China as an alternative mode of political system and as a distinctive model of socioeconomic development.

Explores the importance of political judgment in the work of Bernard Stiegler, and argues his approach to judgment marks an important break with continental political thought.

Traces the influence of the stock market on Americans' beliefs about politics.

Endorses the pursuit of paradigm shifts in our understandings of faith, truth, and nature to remedy the "underside" of modernity and thus to inaugurate a post-modern (but not anti-modern) and post-secular (but not anti-secular) view of the world.

Explores the effects of the cyber revolution for security in the Americas.

Investigates, by way of Derrida's engagements with Kant, how the foundations of modern constitutionalism can be differently conceived to address some of the challenges of the twenty-first century.

Offers a renovated form of Confucian liberalism that forges a reconciliation between the two extremes of anti-Confucian liberalism and anti-liberal Confucianism.

Five innovative essays demonstrating how Aristotle's biology is an integral part of Aristotle's understanding of the universe.

Explores the political and theoretical significance of the use of salvaging discarded materials by social movements during their protest activities.

Examines how the new wave of Generation Y public service employees are affecting the dynamics of continuity and change in public management ethics.

Essays providing a multi-disciplinary look at Derrick Bell's thesis of racial realism.

First history of New York's women legislators within the larger story of New York State politics.

Argues that Giambattista Vico's early modern account of Roman mythology was a sophisticated attempt to present an epistemological and political critique of the aristocratic way of conceiving the world.

A critical interrogation of elements of Hobbes's political and natural philosophy and its capacity to enrich our understanding of the nature of democratic life.

Argues that Plato thinks that ordinary people grapple with the Forms and can make epistemological progress, even if they never achieve knowledge.

Meditation on the character of the Eleatic Stranger in Plato's late dialogues, arguing that the prominent place afforded to this foreigner—the other—represents an important philosophical and political legacy regarding the way thought, and life in the community, is understood.

A searing, personal look at conditions on Texas's Death Row—told in the words of the prisoners themselves.

Argues that Progressive Era reforms had the counterintuitive effect of weakening political parties and their role in representative government.

Explores the slow but inevitable implosion of our civilization by considering the correlation between capital, work, and ideology.

Relates Chinese Realism to contemporary political and ethical challenges, such as in international relations and the morality of the public sector.

Chronicles the efforts of the first Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court to establish a federal court system during the country's uncertain early years.