New books

Neoliberalism, Accountability, and Reform Failures in Emerging Markets:Eastern Europe, Russia, Argentina, and Chile in Comparative Perspective

Luigi Manzetti

One of the main concerns of this book is to discuss the relationship between major financial crises in the 1990s and the lack of political accountability by office holders in Eastern Europe, Russia, Argentina,and Chile.

Published by Penn State University Press, 2009.

The US Economy Today

Edward Ashbee

The US Economy today provides an invaluable introduction to American economic history since 1929. In addition, the volume considers core contemporary economic policy debates and draws conclusions about the strengths and weaknesses of the US economic “model”. It looks at the causes and consequences of inequality, the extent of economic mobility, and the impact of globalisation and foreign trade.

Published by Manchester University Press, 2010.

USA - Historie og Identitet

Niels Bjerre-Poulsen

Second edition of Niels Bjerre-Poulsen's book about US history and identity has been published by Systime. The book is in Danish.

Read more here

Utopías y Globalización

Ed. Helen Balslev Clausen, Jan Gustafsson and Mario Alberto Velásquez Garcia. Published by El Colegio de Sonora, Mexico, 2009. Read more here. The book is in Spanish.

Obama's America

Carl Pedersen

The year 2008 will be remembered as the moment when the US elected its first African American president. This revealing book seeks to place the extraordinary rise of Barack Obama within the larger context of a possible historic political realignment in the US and of limits to US power in the world.

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2009.

Revisitar la Etnicidad: Miradas cruzadas en torno a la diversidad

Daniel Gutiérrez Martinez and Helene Balslev Clausen (coords.) Published by El Colegio, 2008.

Bodies and Voices: The force-field of representation and discourse in colonial and post-colonial studies

A wide ranging collection of essays centered on readings of the body in contemporary literary and socio-anthropological discourse, from slavery and rape to female genital mutilation, from clothing, ocular pornography, voice, deformation and transmutation to the imprisoned, dismembered, remembered, abducted or ghostly body, in Africa, Australasia and the Pacific, Canada, the Caribbean, Great Britain and Eire. Editors: Merete Falck Borch, Eva Rask Knudsen, Martin Leer and Bruce Clunies Ross. Rodopi 2008.

Det Andet USA: Fornyelse og frihed i fremtidens Amerika

Carl Pedersen, Adjunct Professor at the Center for the Study of the Americas, has written a book about the shift in the balance of power in the US. The book is in Danish and is published by Lindhart & Ringhof, 2008.

The Bush Administration, Sex and the Moral Agenda

The book by Edward Ashbee is a study of the ways in which the Bush White House has approached the cultural issues that often appear to have defined the US political process in recent years. It looks at abortion policy, the “wars” around gay rights and same-sex marriage, the spread of “abstinence-only” sex education programmes, the campaign to promote “healthy marriage”, as well as efforts to rein in obscenity and indecency. Its coverage includes the political battles around “partial birth abortion” the efforts to pass the Marriage Protection Amendment, and the controversies surrounding Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction”. Published by Manchester University Press in 2007.

Read more about the book at Manchester University Press.

The Politics, Economics, and Culture of Mexican-U.S. Migration: Both Sides of the Border

Edward Ashbee, Helene Balslev Clausen and Carl Pedersen, all from The Center for the Study of the Americas, are editors of The Politics, Economics, and Culture of Mexican-U.S. Migration: Both Sides of the Border. The book is published by Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2007.

US Elections and Voting Behaviour

US Elections and Voting Behaviour is written by Edward Ashbee, associate professor at the Center for the Study of the Americas, and published by Philip Allan Updates in 2007, as part of the series Advanced Topic Master.

America in the Course of Human Events

Edward Ashbee has contributed a chapter, 'The Bush Administration, the Republicans and Sewual Politics', to the new book, America in the Course of Human Events, edited by Josef Jarab, Marcel Arbeit, and Jenel Virden and published by Vrije Universiteit Press. Read more about .

Den forkerte krig, USA og den nye verdensorden

Carl Pedersen, Adjunct Professor at the Center for the Study of the Americas, has written a book about the USA and the war in Iraq. The book is in Danish and is published by Aschehoug. Read about: (in Danish).

Bushs Amerika

Niels Bjerre-Poulsen is one of the authors of this book about President George W. Bush and his impact on the US. The other authors are: Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard, Jørgen Dragsdahl og David Gress. The book is in Danish and has been published by the People's Press and Nyhedsmagasinet Ræson. Read more here and here (in Danish).

Coming to a Theater Near You

Niels Bjerre-Poulsen has contributed an article to the new Danish anthology about American film; the book is edited by Helle Porsdam and published by the University of Southern Denmark. .

The 2004 US presidential election

Eddie Ashbee's appraisal of George W. Bush's re-election victory has been published in The Political Quarterly. Read the article here.

Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures

George J. Sanchez has edited a special issue of American Quarterly with Raúl Homero Villa. It is published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Read here.

Right Face, Organizing the American Conservative Movement 1945-65

Niels Bjerre-Poulsen's book is now available as e-book from the Museum Tusculanum Press. Read more.

Conciliation - Compulsion - Conversion. British Attitudes towards Indigenous Peoples 1763-1814.

Merete Borch's book - a study of British attitudes towards indigenous peoples in the former colonies of settlement in the British empire - has been published by Rodopi Press. Read about the book here and a review here.

US Politics Today (2nd edition)

Manchester University Press has published the second edition of Eward Ashbee's book. Read the Manchester Press catalogue: here.