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Great expectations: the imaginative literature of the Confederate States of America -- A history of the future: Southern literary nationalism before the Confederacy -- A new experiment in the art of book-making: engendering the Confederate national novel -- Southern amaranths: popularity, occasion, and media in a Confederate poetics of place -- The music of Mars: Confederate song, North and South -- In dreamland: the Confederate memoir at home and abroad

Introduction -- Memory : landscapes of the past in Guillermo del Toro's Spanish films -- Forgetting : the landscapes of Gonzalo Torrente Ballester -- Landscape and identities in the Basque country -- Crime scene : landscape and the law of the land -- Crime, scene, investigation : women, detection and the city -- Coasting : tourism and landscape -- Immigration : north (of) Africa -- Conclusion.

Chapter 5 -- Cold War Television: Olga Korbut and the Munich Olympics of 1972Part II -- Constructing Identities: Representations of the "Self"; Chapter 6 -- Catholic Piety in the Early Cold War Years, or How the Virgin Mary Protected the West from Communism; Chapter 7 -- The Road to Socialism Paved with Good Intentions: Automobile Culture in the Soviet Union, Romania, and the GDR During Détente; Chapter 8 -- Advertising, Emotions, and "Hidden Persuaders": The Making of Cold-War Consumer Culture in Britain from the 1940s to the 1960s

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. The Game; Chapter 2. Charlotte's Web; Chapter 3. Broken Families; Chapter 4. Cutting the Head off the Snake; Chapter 5. The Prosecutor's Darling; Conclusion: Fruit of the Poison Tree; Notes; Bibliography; Index. - In 2003, an FBI-led task force known as Operation Fly Trap attempted to dismantle a significant drug network in two Bloods-controlled, African American neighborhoods in Los Angeles. The operation would soon be considered an enormous success, noted for the precision with which the task force targeted and removed gang members otherwise entrenched in larger communities. In Operation Fly Trap, Susan A. Phillips questions both the success of this operation and the methods used to conduct it. Based on in-depth ethnographic research with Fly Trap participants, Phillips's work brings to

Worlds of Dissent analyzes the myths of Central European resistance popularized by Western journalists and historians, and replaces them with a picture of the struggle against state repression as the dissidents themselves understood, debated, and lived it. In the late 1970s, when Czech intellectuals, writers, and artists drafted Charter 77 and called on their government to respect human rights, they hesitated to name themselves "dissidents." Their personal and political experiences--diverse, uncertain, nameless--have been obscured by victory narratives that portray them as larger-than-life heroes who defeated Communism in Czechoslovakia. Jonathan Bolton draws on diaries, letters, personal essays, and other first-person texts to analyze Czech dissent less as a political philosophy than as an everyday experience. Bolton considers not only Václav Havel but also a range of men and women writers who have received less attention in the West--including Ludvík Vaculík, whose 1980 diary The Czech Dream Book is a compelling portrait of dissident life. Bolton recovers the stories that dissidents told about themselves, and brings their dilemmas and decisions to life for contemporary readers. Dissidents often debated, and even doubted, their own influence as they confronted incommensurable choices and the messiness of real life. Portraying dissent as a human, imperfect phenomenon, Bolton frees the dissidents from the suffocating confines of moral absolutes. Worlds of Dissent offers a rare opportunity to understand the texture of dissent in a closed society.

Pt. I. Civil Society Organizations and their Pathways to Transnationality -- Introduction -- Multiple pathways to transnationality -- Pt. II The Politicization of Trade -- The contentious nature of trade debates -- New regionalism in the Americas -- Pt. III The Dynamics of Networks -- Trade protest networks -- The origins and dynamics of trade challengers' networks -- Pt. IV. Organizational Pathways to Transnationality -- The creation and demise of transnational coalitions -- Diffusion and differentiation of national coalitions -- Pt. V. The Search for Ideational Pathways -- Alternatives for the Americas -- Transnational collective action in dynamic political contexts -- Conclusions : agency, networks, and collective action

"This book explores the situation of rural women and the various measures that have been taken to support them. Based on case studies from Ghana, this book looks at two critical tools - Adult Education and Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for enhancement of rural women. It is anticipated that if the full potential of Adult Education is harnessed and the ICTs as an educational media is fully utilized, rural women will not continue to be educationally and digitally divided from their urban counterparts."--Jacket

Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE (Naomi Zack) -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION (SanSan Kwan and Kenneth Speirs) -- I. Issues and Trends -- 1. AMERICAN MIXED RACE: The United States 2000 Census and Related Issues (Naomi Zack) -- 2. MISCEG-NARRATIONS (Raquel Scherr Salgado) -- II. Multiracial Subjects -- 3. A PASSIONATE OCCUPANT OF THE TRANSNATIONAL TRANSIT LOUNGE (Adrian Carton) -- 4. MISCEGENATION AND ME (Richard Guzman) -- 5. "WHAT IS SHE ANYWAY?": Rearranging Bodily Mythologies (Orathai Northern) -- 6. RESEMBLANCE (Alice White) -- 7. "BROWN LIKE ME": Explorations of a Shifting Self (Stefanie Dunning) -- 8. TOWARD A MULTIETHNIC CARTOGRAPHY: Multiethnic Identity, Monoracial Cultural Logic, and Popular Culture (Evelyn Alsultany) -- 9. KEEPING UP APPEARANCES: Ethnic Alien-Nation in Female Solo Performance (Cathy Irwin and Sean Metzger) -- 10. AGAINST ERASURE: The Multiracial Voice in Cherríe Moraga's Loving in the War Years (Carole DeSouza) -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS.

Darnell M. Hunt goes beyond the obvious explanations of celebrity, scandal and voyeurism to ask why America was so obsessed with the O. J. case, why so many people were interested in particular outcomes, and to examine the implications for race relations in the United States as the new century dawns

This book is a collection of notable papers from the first six volumes of the journal ""Comparative Sociology,"" Its content represents leading-edge and contemporarily astute analyses in the burgeoning science of comparative sociology, especially relevant to a globalizing world in transition. Given that not everyone is acquainted with comparative sociology, this book offers an opportunity to enlighten readers unfamiliar with the discipline about the importance of comparative sociology to the new world order. Taken together, the articles illuminate various aspects of comparative sociology-theor