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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Oracular Tourism -- 2. Ground-Truthing at Walden Pond -- 3. Linnaeus's Credibilizing Transit -- 4. Ford's Potemkin Villages -- 5. Trapdoor to the Transcendent -- 6. The Whole Truth and Nothing But -- 7. Obama's Three Birthplaces -- 8. Ultra Clean Lab -- Coda -- Notes

"L'hospitalité est une pratique en apparence simple et universellement partagée. Il serait donc tentant d'en fournir une définition générique: l'hospitalité est l'institution qui règle l'interaction entre un accueillant (chez lui) et un accueilli (nouveau venu), consistant en un processus de familiarisation réciproque (faire connaissance, entretenir une relation, etc.). Elle a comme fonctions la dispensation de bienfaits, l'amorçage de la socialité l'identification de l'étranger, ou l'intégration temporaire de l'invité. L'hospitalité ne saurait néanmoins être réduite à une vertu privée. Elle est au contraire une pratique politique: elle institue des règles, des frontières, et des dispositifs d'intégration ou d'exclusion. Cet ouvrage expose les différentes formes qu'elle a pu revêtir, des sociétés traditionnelles à nos jours en explicitant les relations de pouvoir qui se jouent dans le langage vertueux de l'hospitalité. Une telle généalogie permet de retrouver les moments et les lieux clés qui ont façonné ce concept en le transformant, le déplaçant et le recomposant selon sa fonction politique. Cet ouvrage, tout en répondant à une actualité brûlante et souvent tragique ouvre à une réflexion distanciée mais active afin de démocratiser les frontières."--Page 4 of cover

Bringing Down the Educational Wall studies the causes of educational expansion in a global sample of developing and developed countries from 1960 to 2005. The book explores how the interaction between the economic context of nations (economic development and inequality) and political factors (the type of political regime and the ideology of dictatorships) influences countries' educational outcomes. The book's main contributions are the exploration of ideological differences between autocratic regimes and the tracing of changes in different parts of the income distribution, which accounts for education expanding to broad sectors of the population. Bringing Down the Educational Wall introduces a new database on the ideology of dictatorships and uses quantitative methods and case analyses to test its theoretical arguments. This work will help students in comparative politics and political economy courses to develop their understanding of redistributive policies and the effects of political factors on the expansion of education.

Movements like the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and the Tea Party embody some of our deepest intuitions about popular politics and 'the power of the people'. They also expose tensions and shortcomings in our understanding of these ideals. We typically see 'the people' as having a special, sovereign power. Despite the centrality of this idea in our thinking, we have little understanding of why it has such importance. Imagined Sovereignties probes the considerable force that 'the people' exercises on our thought and practice. Like the imagined communities described by Benedict Anderson, popular politics is formed around shared, imaginary constructs rooted in our collective imagination. This book investigates these 'imagined sovereignties' in a genealogy traversing the French Enlightenment, the Haitian Revolution, and nineteenth-century Haitian constitutionalism. It problematizes taken-for-granted ideas about popular politics and provokes new ways of imagining the power of the people.

Cover -- Title -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Contents -- 1 The Idea of the City of Refuge -- 2 The Sacred Squareness of Cities -- 3 The Protestant Tempering of Utopia -- 4 Christianopolis -- 5 The Lord's Grove -- 6 Harmony -- 7 Economy -- 8 Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Illustration Credits -- Acknowledgments.