Maureen Kawaoka's Books

Our taste for blood sport stops short at the bruising clash of football players or the gloved blows of boxers, and the suicide of a politician is no more than a personal tragedy. What, then, are we to make of the ancient Romans, for whom the meaning of sport and politics often depended on death? In this provocative, thoughtful book, Paul Plass shows how the deadly violence of arena sport and political suicide served a social purpose in ancient Rome. His work offers a reminder of the complex uses to which institutionalized violence can be put. Violence, Plass observes, is a universal part of human life, and so must be integrated into social order. Grounding his study in evidence from Roman history and drawing on ideas from contemporary sociology and anthropology, he first discusses gladiatorial combat in ancient Rome. Massive bloodshed in the arena, Plass argues, embodied the element of danger for a society frequently engaged in war, with outsiders--whether slaves, criminals, or prisoners of war--sacrificed for a sense of public security

Also included is a thought-provoking section on the dominant connection between higher education and the economy that evaluates how well the test of service to the labor market has been met and counters the charge that our educational system is to blame for the nation's decline in economic productivity and lack of international competitiveness.

Volume two of Clark Kerr's memoirs of his presidency of the University of California. This volume covers the tumultuous 1960s and the Free Speech Movement on campus.

Book's by Maureen Kawaoka

Higher Education Cannot Escape History

Higher Education Cannot Escape History

Troubled Times for American Higher Education

Troubled Times for American Higher Education

Higher Education Cannot Escape History

Higher Education Cannot Escape History

The Gold and the Blue, Volume Two

The Gold and the Blue, Volume Two

Troubled Times for American Higher Education

Troubled Times for American Higher Education

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