**A history of police unions that reveals how American law enforcement built a political movement that made cops untouchable.“A tour de force ... Read it now.” —Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Abolition Geography**In America today, police enjoy unmatched power. On the streets, officers employ violence at their own discretion. Behind closed doors, they are even more powerful. In city halls, police strong-arm local leaders and nullify attempts at public oversight. And...

From the Cold War through today, the U.S. has quietly assisted dozens of regimes around the world in suppressing civil unrest and securing the conditions for the smooth operation of capitalism. Casting a new light on American empire, Badges Without Borders shows, for the first time, that the very same people charged with global counterinsurgency also militarized American policing at home.In this groundbreaking exposé, Stuart Schrader shows how the United States projected i...

Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the American welfare state and critical ethnographies of international development regimes, these essays confront how poverty is constituted as a problem. In the process, the book analyzes bureaucracies of poverty, poor people’s movements, and global networks of poverty expertise, as well as m...

This anthology, designed for use in undergraduate courses in environmental ethics, includes new and classic readings by leading writers in the field, full-length case studies, and many short discussion cases. Introductions and discussion questions are provided for all the essays, with each chapter introduced by a summary of the issues and appropriate philosophic, historical and scientific background. Exploring ethical theory, environmental ethics, science and the environmental movement, Ea...

Injury recidivism is a continuing health problem in the modern clinical setting and has been part of medical literature for some time. However, it has been largely absent from forensic and bioarchaeological scholarship, despite the fact that practitioners work closely with skeletal remains and, in many cases, skeletal trauma. The contributors to this edited collection seek to close this gap by exploring the role that injury recidivism and accumulative trauma plays in bioarchaeological and ...

Was für ein Drama gesalbten Königtums! Für uns heute nicht mehr vorstellbar, entziehen sich zwei absolute Herrscherinnen der Extraklasse allem zeitgenössischen Urteil durch den schlichten Hinweis auf ihre göttliche Sonderstellung und Unantastbarkeit. Den französischen Thron verliert Maria Stuart schon nach einem Jahr durch den Tod ihres Gatten. 6 Jahre später muss sie dank einer unsinnigen Leidenschaft auf ihren schottischen Thron zugunsten ihres Sohnes verzichten. Sie muss aus ihrer Heima...