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The book explains why Indonesia's presidential system turned from an extraordinarily unstable polity one into one of the world's most solid. It did so, the book argues, because constitutional changes incentivized the creation of coalitional presidentialism arrangements that bind a wide variety of political forces to the status quo"--

Ethnopolitical Entrepreneurs presents the story of the Armenians of Glendale, California. Coming from Argentina, Armenia, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Russia, Syria, and many other countries, this group is internally fragmented and often has limited experience with the American political system. Nonetheless, Glendale's Armenians have rapidly mobilized and remade an American suburban space in their own likeness. In telling their story, Daniel...

Using hybrid digital (distant) and analogue (close) reading methodologies, this book shows how Charles Dickens developed a distinctive idiomatic style, deeply rooted in bodily expression, which eventually emerged as a fundamental dimension to the way the "Inimitable" imagined his most mature and fictional worlds"--

A study of the stalled/non-existent process of legally reckoning with the 1965 state-sponsored genocide in Indonesia"--

The Counterhuman Imaginary proposes that alongside the historical, social, and institutional structures of human reality that seem to be the sole subject of the literary text, an other-than-human world is everywhere in evidence. Laura Brown finds that within eighteenth-century British literature, the human cultural imaginary can be seen, equally, as a counterhuman imaginary-an alternative realm whose scope and terms exceed human understanding ...

The essays in Islamic Ecumene address the ways in which Muslims from Morocco to Indonesia and from sub-Saharan Africa to the steppes of Uzbekistan are members of a broad cultural unit. Although the Muslim inhabitants of these lands speak dozens of languages, represent numerous ethnic groups, and practice diverse forms of Islam, they are united by shared practices and worldviews shaped by religious identity. To highlight these commonalities, th...

This book examines the ways plays and poetry by Shakespeare, Spenser, and Marlowe address anxieties about witchcraft, illusion, and theatricality in light of legal and theological approaches to witchcraft trials in the early modern period, and it explores what factors determined whether demonologists imagined trial as theater through analyses of manuals and pamphlets about the prosecution of witches"--

This book explores how, when, and why states nationalize their natural resources. Focusing on Indonesia, Eve Warburton shows that the Indonesian government took an increasingly nationalist approach to foreign ownership in its resource sectors, particularly after the global commodity boom of the twenty-first century"--

An annotated checklist with information on the birds of the state. More than 500 species accounts describe the birds' habitats, locations found, and data on the seasons of occurrence. A list of observers of cited discoveries of rarities is provided along with a history of ornithology in Rhode Island and a list of published literature"--

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Tells the story of a radical educational experiment. Built on a decade of research and the creation of several eco-schools, this book offers readers theoretical understandings and practical curricular and pedagogical implications and a map for those curious about shifting educational practices by aligning with the natural world to support mutual flourishing for all"--

This book offers a novel sociological theory of corruption and uses it as a framework to make sense of rich ethnographic data, which includes more than one hundred in-depth interviews collected in Hungary over ten years of fieldwork."--

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