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The 2025 BAAS Postgraduate Symposium is taking place on November 26th as a hybrid event at Teesside University. You can register for the event on EventBrite. If you are a BAAS member, you can get a discount on your fee by visiting the member area and using the discount code. The programme is now available for download.
"Written in uncommonly clear and direct prose, this book addresses a central issue in public administration—whether fundamental change is possible in complicated bureaucratic and political settings—and convincingly shows when and why it was or was not achieved at NYC's Human Resources Administration" -Lawrence M. Mead III, author of Government Matters Examines efforts across six decades to respond to poverty, joblessness, and homelessness through the establishment and periodic restructuring of the city's Human Resources Administration and related social welfare agencies.
“Anne Garland Mahler’s incisive analysis brings to life a history of revolutionary internationalism with profound lessons for today.” - Michael Hardt, author of The Subversive Seventies Anne Garland Mahler traces the impact of the Anti-Imperialist League of the Americas (LADLA, Liga Antimperialista de las AmÉricas) on racial justice and anti-extractive struggles from the early twentieth century to the present.
“Jess Libow delivers a much-needed analysis of the impact of physical education on women reformers and their interventions in debates about citizenship. A well-written text that I see becoming an important reference for scholars of nineteenth-century American history and culture, women’s history, and history of medicine.”—Sara Crosby, The Ohio State University The history of women writing about health.
"Building codes are not a given but socially constructed, revealing much about the society that creates and implements them. By articulating the relations between low-quality forests, low-quality lumber, low-quality housing, and low-quality urbanism, Jeana Ripple helps explicate how Type V construction sanctions and structures inequity in American urbanism." - Kiel Moe, architect and author of Unless: The Unless: The Seagram Building Construction Ecology How building codes shaped material, social, and environmental landscapes in American cities.
“The case studies in The Peace Script are nuanced and insightful and the freshness of the subject and perspective taken produces a genuine contribution, which speaks to a current interest in matters of race, ethnicity, and gender.”- Robert Ivie, coauthor of Hunt the Devil: A Demonology of US War Culture Manthey’s analysis of protest rhetoric—ranging from speeches to newsletters to documentaries—illustrates how the study of grassroots activism is key to understanding how U.S. warfare is tied to debates about culture and national identity.
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