Michael A Petersen

Researching Japanese War Crimes Records: Introductory Essays

This work makes it possible for the public to access a wide variety of documents related to Japanese war crimes committed in Asia and the Pacific. Noteworthy is the fact that the previously declassified documents corroborate much that is already known about Japan’s wartime record. Furthermore, the m...

Paradoxes of Liberal Democracy: Islam, Western Europe, and the Danish Cartoon Crisis

In 2005, twelve cartoons mocking the prophet Mohammed appeared in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, igniting a political firestorm over demands by some Muslims that the claims of their religious faith take precedence over freedom of expression. Given the explosive reaction from Middle Easter...

Missiles for the Fatherland: Peenemünde, National Socialism, and the V-2 Missile (Cambridge Centennial of Flight)

Missiles for the Fatherland tells the story of the scientists and engineers who built the V-2 missile in Hitler's Germany. This is the first scholarly history of the culture and society that underpinned missile development at Germany's secret missile base at Peenemünde. Using mainly primary source d...

Human Morality and Sociality: Evolutionary and Comparative Perspectives

This stimulating and thought-provoking reader brings together articles that explore all aspects of human morality and sociality from an evolutionary and cognitive perspective. Throughout, six leading figures ask, what are the particular behaviors, social and moral practices and underlying psychologi...

Development of Perception: Psychobiological Perspectives