Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1998 for his contributions in welfare economics. Although his primary academic appointments have been mostly in economics, Sen is also an important and influential social theorist and philosopher. His work on social choice theory is seminal, and his writings on poverty, famine, and development, as well his contributions to moral and political philosophy, are important and influential. Sen s views about the nature and primacy of liberty also make him a major contemporary liberal thinker. This volume of essays on aspects of Sen s...
Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1998 for his contributions in welfare economics. Although his primary academic appoin...
The work of E.L. Doctorow is most often seen as a political and cultural critique of eras of American history, like the settlement of the West, the Gilded Age, the Depression, or the beginnings of the Cold War. In his fiction critics have found searching and subversive questions concerning received national values. At the same time, they have seen him as a literary experimentor, comparing his with the work of such modernist writers as Faulkner and Hemingway.
Models of Misrepresentation, an original and comprehensive reading of Doctorow's work, considers both these views under...
The work of E.L. Doctorow is most often seen as a political and cultural critique of eras of American history, like the settlement of the West, the...
In The Big Muddy, the first long-term environmental history of the Mississippi, Christopher Morris offers a brilliant tour across five centuries as he illuminates the interaction between people and the landscape, from early hunter-gatherer bands to present-day industrial and post-industrial society. Morris shows that when Hernando de Soto arrived at the lower Mississippi Valley, he found an incredibly vast wetland, forty thousand square miles of some of the richest, wettest land in North America, deposited there by the big muddy river that ran through it. But since then much has...
In The Big Muddy, the first long-term environmental history of the Mississippi, Christopher Morris offers a brilliant tour across five centur...
With the recent election of the nation's first African American president--an individual of blended Kenyan and American heritage who spent his formative years in Hawaii and Indonesia--the topic of transnational identity is reaching the forefront of the national consciousness in an unprecedented way. As our society becomes increasingly diverse and intermingled, it is increasingly imperative to understand how race and heritage impact our perceptions of and interactions with each other. "Assumed Identities "constitutes an important step in this direction.However, "identity is a slippery...
With the recent election of the nation's first African American president--an individual of blended Kenyan and American heritage who spent his formati...
