Michigan State U. Press

Maltese in Michigan.

Lubig (education, Northern Michigan U.) offers a history of the Maltese people in Michigan. He briefly describes the islands of Malta and their geography and history, then details early American colonies of the Maltese. He discusses immigration to Detroit prior to and after World War II, religious affiliation with Roman Catholicism, the struggle to become American yet maintain a Maltese identity, business success, and food. Recipes are included. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Spirits of the Cold War; contesting worldviews in the classical age of American security strategy.

O'Gorman (communication, U. of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign) combines the ideas of rhetorical studies with the tools of philosophy, intellectual history, and sociology to match major strategic ideas of the early Cold War period — containment, massive retaliation, liberation, and deterrence — with the different worldviews inherent in these strategies: stoicism, evangelicalism, adventurism, and romanticism. The author argues that these worldviews, when seen as embedded in discrete rhetorical traditions, help explain the logical and ethical coherence of the respective security strategies. The strategy/worldview pairs also give insight on the distinct ways that public actors have historically addressed the nation during and after the Cold War. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Women & law; innovative approaches to teaching, research and analysis.

Introduced in 1991, the University of Zimbabwe's program in teaching and researching women's law, run in conjunction with the Institute for Women's Law at the U. of Oslo, Norway, has developed into a master's program that is run over three semesters. This volume draws on the experiences and accumulated knowledge from the program in order to describe strategies, methods, and approaches to developing women's law in Africa. The intent is to share comparative knowledge with academics and students involved in similar programs around the word and to provide gender researchers and gender training practitioners with key insights into women, gender, and the law. Distributed in the US by Michigan State U. Press. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)