...This chapter considers the construction of mixed-race identities in Australia and New Zealand. The two countries were built around a model of the nation-state as it emerged in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This model implies close links between ethno-racial and political...

... from countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America to Europe and North America—questions of identity, belonging, race, ethnicity, and culture are on the agenda. It is impossible for transnationally adopted persons and their parents to avoid confronting them and the contradictions to which they often...

... Raynolds Laura Contract farming Fair trade movement Globalization Fair trade social premiums fair trade certification cut flower industry flower growers Europe certifying organizations TransFair USA VeriFlora United States On chilly winter days, many American supermarkets welcome...

...This chapter examines the impact of the financial crisis of 1929 on the Joint Distribution Committee's (JDC) relationship with the two Societies for the Protection of the Health of the Jewish People based in eastern Europe, OZE and TOZ, and on European Jews in general. More specifically...

... to find the personal opportunity, economic freedom, and civic equality denied them in Europe. The second, smaller group fled to America because they had participated in the 1848 revolutions or were opposed to the restoration of the conservative regimes. The chapter then considers Jewish abolitionists' use...

... in diffusing these policies, and what are the findings in extant empirical analyses of this diffusion in Western Europe and first-wave postcommunist EU applicant-states? Third, if the geographic scope is extended to include not just first-wave postcommunist EU applicant-states but all of postcommunist Europe...

...This chapter argues that Russia can and should fit into a wider Europe, and that this will be good for both the Russians themselves and for other Europeans. In doing so the chapter examines what went wrong in the relations between Russia and the West over the first two decades after the end...

...This chapter examines the lives of Jewish women in Central Europe during the first decades of the 20th century. In the transition from traditional Jewish society to modernity, Orthodox observances were gradually abandoned, Reform Judaism evolved, and some conversions to Christianity occurred...

... groups are greeted differently in Canada, Western Europe, and the United States. Mexico International migrant religion Unauthorized immigrants Central Americans International migrants Christians European Union Muslims North Africans Buddhists Hindus Jews Religiously unaffiliated Catholics...

... Act of 1905 Immigration Act of 1903 Zionism anti Catholicism Jewish Irish History Ethnicity Urban Politics Culture Immigrants Europe The histories of the Irish and the Jews converged in the United States. Their American histories entwined with each other, taking their shape from...

...This chapter examines the influence of American constitutionalism in Europe during the era of the American and French revolutions and the European revolutions of 1848. It suggests that the influence of American constitutionalism during this period did not have as much effect as before. It considers...

...This chapter focuses on the fifth “echo” of American constitutionalism: 1919–1945, which spans the periods of both World War I and World War II. After World War I, democracy spread across Europe. Monarchies were transformed into republics, and hopes ran high for peace in the coming new world order...

...This chapter considers the limited set of US foreign policy initiatives in Turkey's northern and southern neighborhoods since the early 1990s. It begins by tracing US foreign policies in the Middle East and in Eastern Europe, outlining the implications these have had for the evolution of Turkish...

...This chapter examines the historiography of sexualities, a field which emerged alongside of and intersected with the new scholarship on women and gender. It considers sexual crises in Europe during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when scandals over homosexuality and white slavery...

...This chapter explores the theory of secularization as an account of religion's place in Western Europe and the United States. It first considers what social scientists mean when they use the term “religion” in the first place before discussing why much of Europe has turned out differently from...

...This chapter focuses on how the six modern Jewish global migrations influenced Jewish cuisines in Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. It explains the effect of political modernization on Jewish religious life and surveys how this affected the creation of religious denominations...

... constitutional complaint Verfassungsbeschw by defendants municipal court Amtsgericht in Germany narratology adversarial systems factual truth wrongful conviction Inquisitorial Blueprint Europe Germany Civil law tradition Inertia Truth Interpretation Law as science Constitution The German criminal...

...The resistances to SOGI rights operate in international venues, spaces where new norms and legal decisions targeting SOGI rights are developed and circulated. We analyze the United Nations, the Council of Europe, and the European Union. We also include epistemic venues, in the form of international...

... and following the Great Recession of 2008–9. This approach allows for a comparison of the role of the state in the United States and Europe and considers the intersection of the media, state actors, and economic analysts in post-liberal state governance. This multi-institutional approach enhances our...

...This introductory chapter briefly looks at the political and cultural meanings—primarily in the United States but also in Europe and elsewhere—that helped make the Internet a technology able to revise economic, political, and religious life, and also make it a place where life itself happened...