Product Description: This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com)...read more

Product Description: Ralph Miliband was a leading contributor to the development of Marxist political theory in the late twentieth century. His writings remain highly influential in contemporary work on the state and related areas of political theory and political sociology...read more

Product Description: This study is the first effort to document the extent of NAFTA's impact on higher education. Through case studies, the authors analyze higher education policy in Canada, Mexico, and the USA using a common theoretical framework that identifies economic globalization, international trade liberalization, and post-industrialization as common structural factors exerting a significant influence on higher education in the three countries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A collected volume on the political perspectives of Portuguese-Americans in Massachusetts that examines attitudes to such key issues as education and foreign language instruction, the economy and access to jobs and mobility, and a range of other social issues such as immigration policy, abortion, and school prayer...read more

Examines four key dimensions of globalism including its role in the war on terrorism, its impact on domestic U.S. policy, its influence on the shaping of national security, and its own future, in a collection of essays by top international commentators. Original.

Product Description: Charles A. Beard (1874-1948) was one of America's most influential historians and political scientists. He played a major role in founding the disciplines of history and political science, helped shape the teaching of social studies in the nation's public schools, and was one the nation's most popular public intellectuals...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Critical Theories of the State is a clear and accessible survey of radical perspectives on the modern state.  By focusing on Marxist theory and its variations, particularly as applied to advanced industrial societies and contemporary welfare states, Clyde W...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Critical Theories of the State is a clear and accessible survey of radical perspectives on the modern state.  By focusing on Marxist theory and its variations, particularly as applied to advanced industrial societies and contemporary welfare states, Clyde W...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The modern university has been viewed by scholars as an oasis of academic autonomy that stands above or outside society and its political conflicts. Clyde Barrow challenges that vision with his conclusion that corporations and government have been the dominant social forces shaping the goals and structure of the American university...read more