2014 Volume 6 Issue 4

Slavery
2014, Vol. 6 No. 04
Infanticide as Slave Resistance: Evidence from Barbados, Jamaica, and Saint-Domingue
By Anon S. Anon
Colonial-era fictional and non-fictional descriptions of slave motherhood offer conflicting accounts of the attitudes of slave mothers toward their children. While abolitionists tended to portray slave mothers as wholly selfless, doting, and maternal... Read Article »
Slavery Resistance Infanticide Slave Trade Caribbean Slavery Atlantic Slave Trade
Feminist Literature
2014, Vol. 6 No. 04
Visibility for Women in the Works of George Eliot and Virginia Woolf
By Emily Caliendo
When examining the works of both George Eliot and Virginia Woolf, many critics are quick to assess the credibility and quality of characters based on how they react to the external experiences they are faced with in their imaginary worlds. However... Read Article »
Virginia Woolf George Eliot Literary Criticism English Literature Feminism Feminist Literature
Russian Civil War
2014, Vol. 6 No. 04
The International Military Police and the Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War
By Christopher T. McMaster
In 1914 Russia was a powerful empire. It constituted a fundamental part of the European balance of power. However, years of bloody and costly war changed the nation by bringing to boil all the inequities and discontent built up under the Tsarist... Read Article »
American History Russian Civil War Allied Intervention International Military Police Vladivostok Russia Bolshevik Revolution
Food Production
2014, Vol. 6 No. 04
The Consequences of Food Waste
By Kyra K. Payne
The copious amounts of forgotten and disregarded food that are tossed mindlessly into our landfills are a global travesty of massive proportions. Americans alone waste enough food in a day to transform the Rose Bowl, a football stadium capable of... Read Article »
Food Production Food Waste Climate Change Energy Farmers Industrial Agriculture Food Supply
American History
2014, Vol. 6 No. 04
Woodrow Wilson and the American Expeditionary Force to Siberia, 1918-1920
By Christopher T. McMaster
On August 15, 1918, American doughboys landed in Siberia to begin one of the more contentious episodes in U.S.-Soviet relations. The over seven thousand troops of the American Expeditionary Force were to remain for more than eighteen months, playing... Read Article »
American History Russian Civil War Allied Intervention Woodrow Wilson Siberia Bolshevik Revolution
Ethnic Diversity
2014, Vol. 6 No. 04
Ethnic Diversity and Social Capital at the Community Level: Effects and Implications for Policymakers
By Vilius Semenas
Research on the impact of ethnic diversity on ‘social capital’ is relatively new in the field of political science (Stolle et al., 2008: 57). Reinvigorating a prominent and interesting debate among scholars, Robert Putnam awakened the... Read Article »
Social Capital Ethnic Diversity Segregation Community Politics Trust Altruism Putnam
Renaissance Literature
2014, Vol. 6 No. 04
Exploring Virgilian Structures in Book III of Spenser's Faerie Queene
By Vanessa M. Braganza
Contrary to the scintillating promise of its title, Spenser’s Faerie Queene is a far cry from the insubstantial delights of light fantasy fiction. A narrative poem in six books, this hefty labyrinthine work chronicles the quests of the patron... Read Article »
Renaissance Literature Edmund Spenser Faerie Queene Virgil Aeneid Epic Poem
Foreign Policy
2014, Vol. 6 No. 04
Talking to 'Terrorists': Facilitating Dialogue with the Afghan Taliban
By T M
After 35 years of war in Afghanistan[1], the year 2014 brings two milestones capable of major impact on the future – for better or worse. Firstly, the presidential elections that took place in early April, so far reported to be relatively... Read Article »
Afghanistan Taliban Terrorism Foreign Policy Conflict Negotiation International Relations Germany
Gothic Literature
2014, Vol. 6 No. 04
Jane Eyre as a Female Gothic Novel
By Aparna Srivastava
Charlotte Brontë invests gothic elements in Jane Eyre with a symbolic meaning to create a new, ‘female’ language. It is through this female Gothic language that Brontë creates a heroine whose autobiographical mode of writing... Read Article »
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte Feminism Female Gothic Gothic Literature
Civil Rights
2014, Vol. 6 No. 04
The "Roving Ambassador:" Bayard Rustin's Quaker Cosmopolitanism and the Civil Rights Movement
By Sebastian C. Galbo
Just eight months after Gandhi's assassination, Rustin arrived in India to give a series of lectures to pacifist organizations. Between 1947 and 1952, Rustin made several important trips to Africa and India where he met and exchanged ideas with... Read Article »
Civil Rights Bayard Rustin American History Quakers Pacifism Cosmopolitanism
European Union
2014, Vol. 6 No. 04
The Sovereignty of the European Court of Justice and the EU's Supranational Legal System
By Hakan Kolcak
The European legal system has been considered as either an intergovernmental legal system or a supranational one. The intergovernmental order, on the one hand, emphasises that the European Court of Justice should consider the preferences of member... Read Article »
European Union European Court Of Justice European Politics Legal Systems Sovereignty
Civil Rights
2014, Vol. 6 No. 04
Title IX and the Gender Binary: Trajectories of Equality
By Jennifer J. Luther
Prior to 1970, women were severely underrepresented in high school and college math, science, and business courses, and were almost invisible in high school technical courses.[1] Even professional schools barred access to women for all programs... Read Article »
Title IX Sports Law Gender Issues Equality Discrimination Sports Civil Rights

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