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- Strategic choices: Australia, China and the US in Asia
- The Dynamics of Top-Down Organizational Change: Donald Rumsfeld's Campaign to Transform the US Defense Department
- Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865
- Political fortunes: On finance and its regulation
- Rebalancing the Global Economy: A primer for policymaking
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Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865
20 July 2010
by Mark Geiger
This highly original work published by Yale University Press explores a previously unknown financial conspiracy at the start of the American Civil War. The book explains the reasons for the puzzling intensity of Missouri’s guerrilla conflict, and for the state’s anomalous experience in Reconstruction. In the broader history of the war, the book reveals for the first time the nature of military mobilization in the antebellum United States. More information
Rebalancing the Global Economy: A primer for policymaking
28 June 2010
This e-book released by the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) right before the Toronto G-20 summit features a piece about China-US imbalances and Europe's fiscal crisis by US Studies Centre chief executive Professor Geoffrey Garrett. In it (chapter 22), Professor Garrett says that as the global crisis subsides, focus is shifting to the global imbalances. He argues that China-US economic imbalances, and the challenge of managing them down politically as well as economically, are likely to become even more critical. Read chapter
Liberation and Redemption in 1970s Rock Music
24 June 2010
Sheehan has contributed the chapter "Liberation and Redemption in 1970s Rock Music" to the book The Shock of the Global The 1970s in Perspective written by Niall Ferguson, Charles S. Maier, Erez Manela and Daniel J. Sargent and published by Harvard University Press. Read Chapter
Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of Midcentury Design
11 March 2010
by Associate Professor Greg Castillo
An illustrated history of the persuasive impact of model homes, appliances, and furniture in cold war propaganda. Read More
American Foreign Policy Traditions
1 January 2010
Edited by Associate Professor Brendon O'Connor
A four-volume series highlighting the variety within US foreign policy history. As editor, Dr O’Connor has drawn on the best existing scholarship on America’s foreign policy to examine both the development of the so called American tradition and the emergence of what Dr O’Connor calls the anti‐American tradition. Read More
Whom Can We Trust? How Groups, Networks, and Institutions Make Trust Possible
1 November 2009
Edited by Karen S. Cook, Professor Margaret Levi and Russell Hardin
Conventional wisdom holds that trust is essential for cooperation between individuals and institutions—such as community organizations, banks, and local governments. Not necessarily so, according to editors Karen Cook, Margaret Levi, and Russell Hardin. Cooperation thrives under a variety of circum-stances. Whom Can We Trust? examines the conditions that promote or constrain trust and advances our understanding of how cooperation really works. Read More
VIDEOS & INTERVIEWS
The first black president may be the exception that proves the rule of a racially divided United States, says Professor Kevin Gaines.
Dr Mark Geiger discusses the previously unknown financial conspiracy which funded guerrillas during the Civil War.
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