“…Two decades after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, a canon of American literature about the war has begun to emerge. …”

“…Draws on political theory and on two case studies--the encounter between Anglo-American settlers and Native American tribes, and the search for Jewish sovereignty in Palestine--to probe the allure of the idea of sovereign freedom and its self-defeating logic. …”

“…The questions every American wants answered.Since September 11, 2001, Americans have wondered how the tragic events of that day could have occurred. …”

“…Kanter tells the story of neighbourhood change and rebirth in Chicago's Mexican American communities. She unveils a vibrant history of Mexican American and Mexican immigrant relations as remembered by laity and clergy, schoolchildren and their female religious teachers, parish athletes and coaches, European American neighbours, and from the immigrant women who organized as guadalupanas and their husbands who took part in the Holy Name Society. …”

“…The interdisciplinary aspect is guaranteed by contributors coming both from philosophy departments and from a number disciplines outside of philosophy such as sociology, psychology, and archeology; and they come from all around the world – from North America, from Western and Eastern Europe, from Latin America, and from several different countries in Asia. …”

“…Through an expansive range of essays that look at Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific, this volume brings often-neglected regions into conversation"--…”

“…Kennedy as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, as special assistant to the Secretary General of the Organization of American States and as president of the University of Puerto Rico…”

“…Aquí están los ecos de esas mujeres imaginadas en María de Jorge Isaac, en Cecilia de Cirilo Villaverde o en Amalia de José Marmol, en cuyos cuerpo se pergeñaban proyectos biopolíticos y programas civilizatorios. …”

“…In the early part of the twentieth century, Methodists were seen by many Americans as the most powerful Christian group in the country. …”

“…He reminds readers that American political life begins with the revolutionary willingness to sacrifice and that both sacrifice and law continue to ground the American political imagination. …”