It was both fun and stimulating in this regard to work with John Rice, James Hawdon, James Tucker, Beth Schwieger, Tracy Fessenden, Karen Marsh, Jim Nolan, and Leslie Gunning. Several colleagues read all of the manuscript in various ...
Christensen, Bryce J. Utopia Against the Family: Problems and Politics of the American Family. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1990. Christensen, Thomas. Useful Adversaries: Grand Strategy, Domestic Mobilization, and Sino-American ...
... William 17, 52 William, Sir 197 Williams, Lynne 66 Williams, Shirley 66, 192 Wilshire, David 104–5 Wilson, Harold 26 Wilson, Tony 43 Wilson/Callaghan government 5, 6 Winter of Discontent (1978-9) 143–4 Wintour, Patrick 147, 150, ...
With approximately 640 entries plus more than 120 primary documents supporting both sides of key issues, this is a unique and defining work, indispensable to informed discussions of the most timely and critical issues facing America today.
Shor interprets school politics after 1969 as an attempt to use the curriculum to intervene in global crises. In his analysis of official efforts to adjust curricula to conform to...
Presents a collection of essays offering different views on the so-called "culture wars" in the United States, discussing such topics as the impact of the culture wars on politics and the connection between the culture wars and economics.
While America Aged: How Pension Debts Ruined General Motors, Stopped the NYC Subways, Bankrupted San Diego, and Loom as the Next Financial Crisis. New York: Penguin, 2008. Stein, Jason, and Patrick Marley. More Than They Bargained For: ...
It more than summed up the culture war of the first two phases . The total agenda of 1983 put the ... This suggested that the NCEE was getting its message across , that educational mediocrity was disarming and depleting the nation .
Examines the ideological conflicts and controversies that divide the country and demonstrates how different sides have endeavored to gain control over such areas of conflict as the family, education, law,...
A history and analysis of political culture over the last 25 years, "Culture Wars" charts the battle between young politicians in London town halls and their elders in central government....
The contributors to this volume reject the premise that ethnographer and informant occupy different and incommensurable “cultural worlds.” Instead they investigate the relationship between culture, context, and anthropologists’ models ...
This book breaks with the conventional approach by setting developments in specific states within an all-European and comparative context, offering a fresh and revealing perspective on one of modernity's formative conflicts.
"In this collection of articles 'scholars, political activists, and religious leaders focus on social issues of diversity, including abortion, homosexuality, welfare reform, and school prayer, as well as bilingual education...
The book makes the claim that many laws based on religious beliefs, specifically theology promoted in the Middle Ages, are misattributed as long-standing social values and that changing the theology itself threatens the religious ...
The book makes the claim that many laws based on religious beliefs, specifically theology promoted in the Middle Ages, are misattributed as long-standing social values and that changing the theology itself threatens the religious ...