Winner of the PEN / Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography and the Southern Historical Association Sydnor Award Three sisters from the South wrestle with orthodoxies of race, sexuality, and privilege.
Written accessibly with a wealth of contemporary case studies, this book explores the theory of populism. It provides a critical and timely update to the literature on populism by exploring how populists responded to the Covid-19 pandemic and assesses the resiliency of liberal democracy in the wake of unprecedented challenges.
Most of the Muslim societies of the world have entered a demographic transition from high to low fertility, and this process is accompanied by an increase in youth vis-a-vis other age groups. Political scientists and historians have debated whether such a "youth bulge" increases the potential for conflict...