Traces the rhetoric of reform across American history, examining such pivotal periods as the American Revolution, slavery, McCarthyism, and today's gay liberation movement. This book argues that the rhetoric of reform in America represents the continuation of a tradition separate from the commonly accepted principles of the Greeks.
Marriage Guides and Sex Manuals from the Late Victorians to Dr. Ruth
In this study of sex and marriage manuals, M.E. Melody and Linda M. Peterson reveal that permissiveness, Prohibition, and persuasion and enforcement; from sermons and hellfire to mutilation and electroshock; have informed popular sex education over the past hundred and twenty years.
These essays investigate why and how the spectre of sexual relations across racial boundaries has so threatened North Americans of all colours and classes. Traversing centuries of American history, the contributors cover a range of regions, races, ethnicities and sexual orientations.
Since pre-colonial days, America has been both torn apart and united by love, sex, and marriage across racial boundaries. This title provides a historical foundation for contemporary discussions of sex across racial lines, which, despite the numbers of interracial marriages and multiracial children, remains a controversial issue.
The author of this work presents an integrated theory of double-jeopardy law, a theory anchored in historical, doctrinal and philosophical method which functions to keep prosecutors and judges from imposing more than one criminal judgment for the same offence.
Aimed at students and non-specialists, this overview of the major sociological developments from Marx to the present introduces key thinkers in the field: not only canonical figures such as Marx, Weber and Durkheim, but also feminist, post-structuralist and post-colonialist thinkers.
Papke (law and liberal arts, Indiana U.) traces the lineage of legal heretics from 19th-century activists up to more recent radicals and to the contemporary rejection of legal authority by various militia and anti-abortion movements. He illuminates a tradition of American legal heresy, linked by a
Political Ideologies from the American Revolution to Postmodern Times
Assesses the major ideologies of modern times, including liberalism, socialism, and conservatism, and traces their relationships with one another, with the ambiguous ideology of nationalism, and to the emergence of modern societies, democratic politics, and Enlightenment ideas. Overviews key themes
At a time when social movements led by religious leaders, from Louis Farrakhan to Pat Buchanan, are playing a central role in American politics, the author connects this radical tradition with its prophetic roots.
