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This book provides the first comprehensive account of social welfare developments in the People's Republic of China, from the 'iron rice bowl' social security s

This insightful analysis of British imperialism in the south Pacific explores the impulses behind British calls for the protection and "improvement" of islander

Nineteenth-century middle-class Protestant women were fervent in their efforts to "do good." Rhetoric--especially in the antebellum years--proclaimed that virtu

We can go home again, and not just to the hearthbut to the art of love and the art of civilized living. . . Imagine a time when common courtesy was a standard f

In Civic Gifts, Elisabeth S. Clemens takes a singular approach to probing the puzzle that is the United States. How, she asks, did a powerful state develop with