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Princeton University Press Brazilian Authoritarianism
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Princeton University Press New Lefts
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""[A] compelling new book. . . . Renaud’s unique framework provides an extended chronology and account of the transnational dialectic between different leftwing groups that will be especially elucidating for readers in the United States."---Justin H. Vassallo, Boston Review "Terence Renaud’s erudite book New Lefts: The Making of a Radical Tradition deserves recommendation both as an intervention in contemporary political discourses and as a foundational historical study of neoleftism in the twentieth century."---Emily Steinhauer, EuropeNow
£71.40
Princeton University Press New Lefts
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""[A] compelling new book. . . . Renaud’s unique framework provides an extended chronology and account of the transnational dialectic between different leftwing groups that will be especially elucidating for readers in the United States."---Justin H. Vassallo, Boston Review "Terence Renaud’s erudite book New Lefts: The Making of a Radical Tradition deserves recommendation both as an intervention in contemporary political discourses and as a foundational historical study of neoleftism in the twentieth century."---Emily Steinhauer, EuropeNow
£25.20
Pluto Press Spectres of Fascism Historical Theoretical and
Book SynopsisHistorians and theorists debate the return of fascism, focusing on case studies from around the world.Trade Review'Spectres of Fascism illuminates the terrifying resurgence of right-wing populist politics around the world, examining a variety of case studies from different critical theoretical perspectives. Essential reading for anyone interested in the uncanny return of fascistic tendencies within contemporary capitalist democracies' -- John Abromeit, author of 'Max Horkheimer and the Foundations of the Frankfurt School''Like a specter, fascism is protean in form yet more than a return of the past. Spanning from history to critical theory, from aesthetics to politics, and approaching fascism on a global scale, this book argues for a mindful commitment to the struggles of the present' -- Enzo Traverso, author of 'The New Faces of Fascism: Populism and the Far Right''This timely book provides profound insights into the rise of fascism that is currently taking hold, once again, in our world. Anyone seeking a deeper understanding of fascist populist rhetoric will find in this intelligent work a satisfying richness of thought that gives us hope in these times of darkness' -- David Morgan, Psychoanalyst'Drawing on a variety of disciplines and theoretical foundations, this volume offers a profound and multifaceted account of political formations marked by perplexing and paradoxical sets of motives, commitments and aims' -- Ato Sekyi-Otu, author of author of 'Left Universalism, Africacentric Essays'Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements 1. Introduction - Samir Gandesha PART I - HISTORY 2. The “Hope of the Hopeless”: Contemporary Lessons from Marxist Struggles Against Hitler and Mussolini - Ingo Schmidt 3. The Future of Futurism: From the Avant-Garde to the Neo-Avant-Garde, or, How to Imagine Communism by Other Means - Jaleh Mansoor 4. The Aesthetics of Totalitarian Salvation - Alec Balasescu 5. Are the Alt-Right and French New Right Kindred Movements? - Tamir Bar-On PART II - THEORY 6. The Post-Democratic Horizon: Friend and Enemy in the Age of New Authoritarianism - Am Johal 7. Which Came First, Fascism or Misogyny? Reading Klaus Theweleit’s Male Fantasies - Laura U. Marks 8. “A Composite of King Kong and a Suburban Barber”: Adorno’s “Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda” - Samir Gandesha 9. So, You Want a Master? Psychoanalytic Considerations on the Intellectual’s Responsibility in Light of Traumatic Repetition - Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez 10. Micro-Fascism in the Age of Trump - Gary Genosko PART III - THE CONTEMPORARY HORIZON 11. Fascist Neoliberalism and Preventive Counter-Revolution: The Second Round of the Latin American Laboratory - Vladimir Safatle 12. Decolonizing the “Contemporary Left”?: An Indigenous Reflection on Justice in the New World Order - Patricia M. Barkaskas 13. The Outsider as Insider: Steve Bannon, Fourth Turnings, and the Neofascist Threat - Joan Braune 14. Populism, Fascism, Neoliberalism: Theorizing Contemporary India - Ajay Gudavarthy and Vijay Gudavarthy 15. Art Contra Politics: Liberal Spectacle, Fascist Resurgence - Johan F. Hartle Notes on Contributors Index
£72.25
Pluto Press Spectres of Fascism
Book SynopsisHistorians and theorists debate the return of fascism, focusing on case studies from around the world.Trade Review'Spectres of Fascism illuminates the terrifying resurgence of right-wing populist politics around the world, examining a variety of case studies from different critical theoretical perspectives. Essential reading for anyone interested in the uncanny return of fascistic tendencies within contemporary capitalist democracies' -- John Abromeit, author of 'Max Horkheimer and the Foundations of the Frankfurt School''Like a specter, fascism is protean in form yet more than a return of the past. Spanning from history to critical theory, from aesthetics to politics, and approaching fascism on a global scale, this book argues for a mindful commitment to the struggles of the present' -- Enzo Traverso, author of 'The New Faces of Fascism: Populism and the Far Right''This timely book provides profound insights into the rise of fascism that is currently taking hold, once again, in our world. Anyone seeking a deeper understanding of fascist populist rhetoric will find in this intelligent work a satisfying richness of thought that gives us hope in these times of darkness' -- David Morgan, Psychoanalyst'Drawing on a variety of disciplines and theoretical foundations, this volume offers a profound and multifaceted account of political formations marked by perplexing and paradoxical sets of motives, commitments and aims' -- Ato Sekyi-Otu, author of author of 'Left Universalism, Africacentric Essays'Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements 1. Introduction - Samir Gandesha PART I - HISTORY 2. The “Hope of the Hopeless”: Contemporary Lessons from Marxist Struggles Against Hitler and Mussolini - Ingo Schmidt 3. The Future of Futurism: From the Avant-Garde to the Neo-Avant-Garde, or, How to Imagine Communism by Other Means - Jaleh Mansoor 4. The Aesthetics of Totalitarian Salvation - Alec Balasescu 5. Are the Alt-Right and French New Right Kindred Movements? - Tamir Bar-On PART II - THEORY 6. The Post-Democratic Horizon: Friend and Enemy in the Age of New Authoritarianism - Am Johal 7. Which Came First, Fascism or Misogyny? Reading Klaus Theweleit’s Male Fantasies - Laura U. Marks 8. “A Composite of King Kong and a Suburban Barber”: Adorno’s “Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda” - Samir Gandesha 9. So, You Want a Master? Psychoanalytic Considerations on the Intellectual’s Responsibility in Light of Traumatic Repetition - Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez 10. Micro-Fascism in the Age of Trump - Gary Genosko PART III - THE CONTEMPORARY HORIZON 11. Fascist Neoliberalism and Preventive Counter-Revolution: The Second Round of the Latin American Laboratory - Vladimir Safatle 12. Decolonizing the “Contemporary Left”?: An Indigenous Reflection on Justice in the New World Order - Patricia M. Barkaskas 13. The Outsider as Insider: Steve Bannon, Fourth Turnings, and the Neofascist Threat - Joan Braune 14. Populism, Fascism, Neoliberalism: Theorizing Contemporary India - Ajay Gudavarthy and Vijay Gudavarthy 15. Art Contra Politics: Liberal Spectacle, Fascist Resurgence - Johan F. Hartle Notes on Contributors Index
£25.19
Cornell University Press Black Vienna
Book SynopsisJanek Wasserman traces intellectual, social, and political developments in the Austrian First Republic while highlighting intellectuals' participation in the growing worldwide conflict between socialism, conservatism, and fascism.Trade ReviewJanek Wasserman introduces us to Black Vienna, a parallel city where disappointed monarchists, frustrated Catholic radicals, and racist German nationalists worked in consort to destroy the First Republic.... Wasserman challenges the conventionalLager model of interwar Austrian politics in which there were three distinct camps: Social Democrats, Christian radicals and German nationalists. Instead he finds a 'two-part division of interwar Austrian life' in which the lines between Catholic conservatives and German nationalists were blurred. He is not the first to propose this revision... but Wasserman adds rich detail on how the camps' personalities, publications and organizations converged. -- Maureen Healy * Austrian Studies Newsmagazine *The book has been extremely well researched and for those with an interest in the detailed background to Austria's political history between the wars, it provides a complex and thorough exposé of the radical right in Vienna between the wars, this being interwoven with an account of the left-wing intellectuals who were less active in promoting the ideals of Social Democracy. -- John Warren * Austrian Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Reconsidering "Red Vienna"1. The Emergence of Black Vienna2. The Austro-Marxist Struggle for "Intellectual Workers"3. The Spannkreis and the Battle for Hegemony in Central Europe4. The Verein Ernst Mach and the Politicization of Viennese Progressive Thought5. Österreichische Aktion and the New Conservatism6. The Rise and Fall of Politically Engaged Scholarship in Red Vienna, 1927–19347. The Triumph of Radical Conservatism in the Austrofascist State, 1933–1938ConclusionBibliography Index
£38.70
Cornell University Press Dictators at War and Peace
Book SynopsisWhy do some autocratic leaders pursue aggressive or expansionist foreign policies, while others are much more cautious in their use of military force? The first book to focus systematically on the foreign policy of different types of authoritarian regimes, Dictators at War and Peace breaks new ground in our understanding of the international behavior of dictators. Jessica L. P. Weeks explains why certain kinds of regimes are less likely to resort to war than others, why some are more likely to win the wars they start, and why some authoritarian leaders face domestic punishment for foreign policy failures whereas others can weather all but the most serious military defeat. Using novel cross-national data, Weeks looks at various nondemocratic regimes, including those of Saddam Hussein and Joseph Stalin; the Argentine junta at the time of the Falklands War, the military government in Japan before and during World War II, and the North Vietnamese communist regime. She findTrade ReviewDictators is an excellent book that constitutes a significant leap forward in the study of authoritarian regimes and international security. Importantly, the book reveals that not all dictators are alike.... The book deserves to be read broadly in the academy and among policymakers. Its relevance for U.S. foreign policy is clear as the United States wrangles with several different types of authoritarian governments in China, Russia, Iran, Syria, North Korea, and elsewhere. -- Alexander B. Downes * Political Science Quarterly *Dictators at War and Peace by Jessica L. P. Weeks is one of the most significant contributions to this literature. Weeks argues that not all authoritarian regimes are created equal, and this difference affects their likelihood of initiating and winning military conflicts.... Weeks's typology and analysis have laid the foundation for understanding the diversity of authoritarian international politics, and Dictators at War and Peace will undoubtedly become the standard for such analysis. -- Michael McKoy * H-Diplo *[Weeks] makes readers insightfully aware of the key differences among 'dictatorships' that may account for alternative foreign policies. With a good review of extant literature and innovative data-based and case studies on regime types and conflict behavior, she examines theories that distinguish between authoritarian leaders who nevertheless answer to significant elite constituencies and those who behave like unrestrained 'bosses' or 'strongmen'.... This study, and its main findings... are a significant contribution to the scientific study of war and peace. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Authoritarian Regimes and the Domestic Politics of War and Peace Audiences, Preferences, and Decisions about War Hypotheses, Implications, and Cases2. Initiating International Conflict Measuring Authoritarian Regime Type Modeling the Initiation of International Conflict Results3. Winners, Losers, and Survival Selecting Wars War Outcomes in the Past Century Outcomes of Militarized Interstate Disputes, 1946–2000 The Consequences of Defeat4. Personalist Dictators: Shooting from the Hip Saddam Hussein and the 1990 Invasion of Kuwait Josef Stalin: A Powerful but Loose Cannon5. Juntas: Using the Only Language They Understand Argentina and the Falklands/Malvinas War Japan's Road to World War II6. Machines: Looking Before They Leap The North Vietnamese Wars against the US, South Vietnam, and Cambodia The Soviet Union in the Post-Stalin EraConclusion: Dictatorship, War, and PeaceAppendix Notes Works Cited Index
£81.00
Cornell University Press The Fascist Effect
Book SynopsisReto Hofmann uncovers the ideological links between the fascist governments and cultures of Japan and Italy, shedding light on the formation of fascism's global...Trade ReviewHofmann has produced a readable and exceptionally sensible volume on the global production of fascist ideology, which will be of tremendous value for scholars who teach comparative history... Hofmann’s book opens the door to a debate truly worth having in Japanese history circles. * Journal of Japanese Studies *This book is an important addition to the growing body of literature that examines fascism in a transnational context. The author provides an insightful and highly original exploration of the dialogue between Italian Fascism and Japanese political and sociocultural debates of the period. Throughout the work, Reco Hofmann does especially well in highlighting the ambiguities and contradictions in the debate over fascism's applicability to Japan, in particular the tensions between its nationalist and internationalist impulses. * The Historian *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Mediator of Fascism: Shimoi Harukichi, 1915–19282. The Mussolini Boom, 1928–19313. The Clash of Fascisms, 1931–19374. Imperial Convergence: The Italo- Ethiopian War and Japa nese World- Order Thinking, 1935–19365. Fascism in World History, 1937–1943Epilogue: Fascism after the New World Order, 1943–1952Notes Bibliography Index
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Cornell University Press Heideggers Roots
Book SynopsisDespite a flood of recent works on Martin Heidegger and Nazism, there has been no sustained investigation of the shared themes that were the common ground between Heidegger''s thought and that of the ideologists of National Socialism. In this lucid and fair-minded book, Charles Bambach reads Heidegger''s writings from 1933 to 1945 in historical context. Bambach shows that Heidegger was engaged in a conversation with the National Socialists and others on the German right about the authentic mission of the German Volk, and that this theme was central to all of his thought.Bambach depicts the development within Heidegger''s work of a philosophy marked by a belief in rootedness in the homeland, the ground of ancestral kinship, and a notion of a privileged, originary connection to the ancient Greeks. Bambach makes clear that Heidegger''s philosophical account of the history of the West is structured by a grand metaphysical vision of German destiny as something rooted in the soil. All of Trade ReviewBambach's account is a highly detailed and contextualized examination of the various links between the Nazi party and Heidegger. As a result, it places Heidegger's thought within a historical and sociopolitical perspective that will be essential to Heidegger scholars and those who see his work as relevant to contemporary hermeneutics. -- Scott Greer, University of Prince Edward Island * Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences *
£27.54
Cornell University Press Berezin M Making the Fascist Self
Book SynopsisIn her examination of the culture of Italian fascism, Mabel Berezin focuses on how Mussolini''s regime consciously constructed a nonliberal public sphere to support its political aims. Fascism stresses form over content, she believes, and the regime tried to build its political support through the careful construction and manipulation of public spectacles or rituals such as parades, commemoration ceremonies, and holiday festivities. The fascists believed they could rely on the motivating power of spectacle, and experiential symbols.In contrast with the liberal democratic notion of separable public and private selves, Italian fascism attempted to merge the public and private selves in political spectacles, creating communities of feeling in public piazzas. Such communities were only temporary, Berezin explains, and fascist identity was only formed to the extent that it could be articulated in a language of pre-existing cultural identities. In the Italian case, those identitiesTrade ReviewAn excellent interdisciplinary work. Progressing from a commemorative period that made the 1922 March on Rome the centerpiece of rituals to a mobilization phase after 1934, which emphasized athletic and military bodies, Berezin delineates the phases in which rituals of the piazza passed from emphasizing the myth of national revolution to that creating the myths of the new Roman empire.... Berezin's work is a splendid addition to literature on fascist politicization of culture and civic life. * Choice *This excellent book explores how politics, culture, and identity intersected in interwar Italy so as to make the 'fascist project': a creation of the self and of new identities as citizens of fascist Italy.... This is a rich and rewarding book; the writing is engaging and the theory challenging. It is an important contribution to our understanding of fascism and of the making of modern identities. * Virginia Quarterly *Instantly accessible.... An admirable monograph based on a wide range of readings intelligently deployed. Historians will appreciate the factual content and will find the sociological insights stimulating. * American Historical Review *
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Northwestern University Press The Dictator Novel
Book SynopsisPositions novels about dictators as a vital genre in the literatures of the Global South. Primarily identified with Latin America, the dictator novel also has under acknowledged importance in the postcolonial literatures of francophone and anglophone Africa. This book is the first extensive comparative analysis of these traditions.
£84.15
University of Pennsylvania Press From Dictatorship to Democracy
Book SynopsisIraqi UN Ambassador and former opposition leader Hamid al-Bayati provides first-hand information on the meetings and discussions that led the United States and United Kingdom to move from inaction to the invasion and occupation of Iraq.Trade Review"Al-Bayati (Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations) is a true insider who was heavily involved in negotiations with the US-led coalition government after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Al-Bayati's intellectual prowess, deeply rooted love for the Iraqi people, and practical political experiences make him uniquely qualified to write this narrative of events leading to the regime's fall. . . . Al-Bayati exhaustively reports minutes of meetings and intense negotiations involving actors whose behind-the-scenes decisions determined the outcomes most observers take for granted. . . . This book is invaluable to understanding Iraqi politics. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *
£49.30
University of Pennsylvania Press Military Cultures in Peace and Stability Operati
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] well-written and engaging book...The text is highly readable and very interesting. The breadth of material collated, the effort to attain rigor, and the depth of analysis make this book a very important contribution to the field. This is a timely piece of work, as others are waking to the need to explain why and how national security forces operate differently in peace, stability, and conflict situations in an era of the 'protection of civilians' and a return to robust peacekeeping." * H-Diplo *"Military Cultures in Peace and Stability Operations provides the most in-depth research ever conducted on peacekeeping forces and a pioneering analysis of how military culture dynamically influences military behavior and effectiveness. Anyone interested in the connection between military sociology and security studies should read this book." * Yagil Levy, The Open University of Israel *"Blending sociological analysis, ethnographic data, and an original methodology, Chiara Ruffa produces a persuasive argument about the impact of domestic factors on military culture and how these factors in turn shape the space in which the military operates in peacekeeping missions." * Christopher Dandeker, King's College London *"Arguing that national military cultures influence the ways in which military units in peace operations behave, Chiara Ruffa has developed an original set of theoretical concepts that illuminate the question of peace operations effectiveness. Military Cultures in Peace and Stability Operations is a landmark book." * Roy Licklider, Rutgers University-New Brunswick *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Force Employment, Unit Peace Operation Effectiveness, and Military Cultures Chapter 2. French and Italian Military Cultures Chapter 3. French and Italian Units in Lebanon Chapter 4. French and Italian Units in Afghanistan Conclusion Appendix Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£49.30
New York University Press Black Sun Aryan Cults Esoteric Nazism and the
Book SynopsisOffers a unique perspective on far right neo-Nazism viewing it as a new form of Western religious heresyTrade Review"Excellent book provides a lucid and often chilling guide." * Journal of European Studies *"Presents a troubling picture of the mindset of the modern Far Right." * Library Journal *"[An] important work." * Philadelphia Inquirer *"Anyone who remembers the devastation wrought by Nazi fanaticism can only be astonished and dismayed by this book. Who could have foreseen that half a century after the defeat of the Third Reich the Jews would once again be perceived as a demonic power intent on destroying the & Aryan race, or that Hitler would be imagined as a divine being who is about to return to earth to complete the Holocaust? For the matter, who could have foreseen that the preposterous & pagan cult developed by Heinrich Himmler would ever be revived? Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke shows not only that these things have indeed happened but how and why they have happened. He also suggests what dangers they may portend. Black Sun is both an enthralling and a deeply disturbing work. It deserves the most serious attention and a wide readership." -- Norman Cohn,author of The Pursuit of the Millennium and Warrant for Genocide"Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke has done pioneering work in the field of the occult roots of Nazism. In the present volume he performs the same invaluable service with regard to the ideological fantasies of post war neofascism." -- Walter Laqueur
£70.30
MD - Duke University Press Japans Holy War
Book SynopsisA work of history documenting the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century transformation of State Shinto into a radical ideology that ultimately drove Japan into a holy war against Western civilization.Trade Review“The study may help illuminate some otherwise indecipherable currents of thinking that exist in Japan even today.” - Andrew J. Nathan, Foreign Affairs“Japan’s Holy War makes an important contribution to an understanding of Shinto ideology. Skya overturns the view that the ideology underwent no significant changes, challenging assumptions about the primacy of the ideas of Hotsumi and presenting pioneering analyses of the works of Uesugi and Kakehi. Skya has been thorough in his research of these theorists.” - Janice Matsumura, Canadian Journal of History“Walter Skya deserves praise for writing what is perhaps the only extensivestudy in English in decades that focuses on right-wing Shinto nationalism until 1945. . . . [T]his book is an important contribution to ongoing discussions on the significance of Shinto in modern Japan’s political arena.” - Fabio Rambelli, Journal of the American Academy of Religion“The careful reader will come away with a very detailed overview of prewar Japanese fascism. The book is very detailed, very well written, and carefully researched. Japan’s Holy War is a classic work that should be on the reading list of any scholar of Japanese history who wishes to gain some deeper insights into the direction of Japanese politics from the late 1920s through World War II. A Japanese translation of this book should be made as soon as possible. Skyra is to be commended for this major academic achievement.” - Daniel A. Métraux, Virginia Review of Asian Studies“Japan’s Holy War is an absolutely outstanding and necessary work, a major contribution to international scholarly debate. Walter A. Skya gives the most convincing account to date of Shintō’s ideological implications. His book will become the standard work on the intellectual and ideological history of modern Shintō.”—Klaus Antoni, University of Tübingen“Walter A. Skya has something new and important to say about Japanese nationalism, and he says it through compelling, thorough research and documentation. Over and against the excessively abstract analyses that see Japanese nationalism as a monolithic, ahistorical force, he reveals how it changed as it responded to contingent events. Such an exciting, theoretically informed, comparative study of Japanese nationalism is long overdue.”—Kevin M. Doak, author of A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan: Placing the People“Japan’s Holy War is an important work. Walter A. Skya shows clearly that religious ideologies play various roles in public life; State Shintō transformed from an ideology deeply supportive of entrenched authority to one profoundly and violently opposed to it.”—Mark Juergensmeyer, author of Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence“Japan’s Holy War makes an important contribution to an understanding of Shinto ideology. Skya overturns the view that the ideology underwent no significant changes, challenging assumptions about the primacy of the ideas of Hotsumi and presenting pioneering analyses of the works of Uesugi and Kakehi. Skya has been thorough in his research of these theorists.” -- Janice Matsumura * Canadian Journal of History *“The careful reader will come away with a very detailed overview of prewar Japanese fascism. The book is very detailed, very well written, and carefully researched. Japan’s Holy War is a classic work that should be on the reading list of any scholar of Japanese history who wishes to gain some deeper insights into the direction of Japanese politics from the late 1920s through World War II. A Japanese translation of this book should be made as soon as possible. Skyra is to be commended for this major academic achievement.” -- Daniel A. Métraux * Virginia Review of Asian Studies *“The study may help illuminate some otherwise indecipherable currents of thinking that exist in Japan even today.” -- Andrew J. Nathan * Foreign Affairs *“Walter Skya deserves praise for writing what is perhaps the only extensive study in English in decades that focuses on right-wing Shinto nationalism until 1945. . . . [T]his book is an important contribution to ongoing discussions on the significance of Shinto in modern Japan’s political arena.” -- Fabio Rambelli * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 I. Emperor Ideology and the Debate over State and Sovereignty in the Late Meiji Period 1. From Constitutional Monarchy to Absolutist Theory 33 2. Hozumi Yatsuka: The Religious Volkisch Family-State 53 3. Minobe Tatsukichi: The Secularization of Politics 82 4. Kita Ikki: A Social-Democratic Critique of Absolute Monarchy 112 II. Emperor Ideology and the Debate over State and Sovereignty in the Taisho Period 5. The Rise of Mass Nationalism 131 6. Uesugi Shinkichi: The Emperor and the Masses 153 7. Kakehi Katsuhiko: The Japanese Emperor State at the Center of the Shinto Cosmology 185 III. Radical Shinto Ultranationalism and Its Triumph in the Early Showa Period 8. Terrorism in the Land of the Gods 229 9. Orthodoxation of a Holy War 262 Conclusion 297 Notes 329 Select Bibliography 363 Index 379
£22.79
MD - Duke University Press Japans Holy War
Book SynopsisA work of history documenting the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century transformation of State Shinto into a radical ideology that ultimately drove Japan into a holy war against Western civilization.Trade Review“The study may help illuminate some otherwise indecipherable currents of thinking that exist in Japan even today.” - Andrew J. Nathan, Foreign Affairs“Japan’s Holy War makes an important contribution to an understanding of Shinto ideology. Skya overturns the view that the ideology underwent no significant changes, challenging assumptions about the primacy of the ideas of Hotsumi and presenting pioneering analyses of the works of Uesugi and Kakehi. Skya has been thorough in his research of these theorists.” - Janice Matsumura, Canadian Journal of History“Walter Skya deserves praise for writing what is perhaps the only extensivestudy in English in decades that focuses on right-wing Shinto nationalism until 1945. . . . [T]his book is an important contribution to ongoing discussions on the significance of Shinto in modern Japan’s political arena.” - Fabio Rambelli, Journal of the American Academy of Religion“The careful reader will come away with a very detailed overview of prewar Japanese fascism. The book is very detailed, very well written, and carefully researched. Japan’s Holy War is a classic work that should be on the reading list of any scholar of Japanese history who wishes to gain some deeper insights into the direction of Japanese politics from the late 1920s through World War II. A Japanese translation of this book should be made as soon as possible. Skyra is to be commended for this major academic achievement.” - Daniel A. Métraux, Virginia Review of Asian Studies“Japan’s Holy War is an absolutely outstanding and necessary work, a major contribution to international scholarly debate. Walter A. Skya gives the most convincing account to date of Shintō’s ideological implications. His book will become the standard work on the intellectual and ideological history of modern Shintō.”—Klaus Antoni, University of Tübingen“Walter A. Skya has something new and important to say about Japanese nationalism, and he says it through compelling, thorough research and documentation. Over and against the excessively abstract analyses that see Japanese nationalism as a monolithic, ahistorical force, he reveals how it changed as it responded to contingent events. Such an exciting, theoretically informed, comparative study of Japanese nationalism is long overdue.”—Kevin M. Doak, author of A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan: Placing the People“Japan’s Holy War is an important work. Walter A. Skya shows clearly that religious ideologies play various roles in public life; State Shintō transformed from an ideology deeply supportive of entrenched authority to one profoundly and violently opposed to it.”—Mark Juergensmeyer, author of Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence“Japan’s Holy War makes an important contribution to an understanding of Shinto ideology. Skya overturns the view that the ideology underwent no significant changes, challenging assumptions about the primacy of the ideas of Hotsumi and presenting pioneering analyses of the works of Uesugi and Kakehi. Skya has been thorough in his research of these theorists.” -- Janice Matsumura * Canadian Journal of History *“The careful reader will come away with a very detailed overview of prewar Japanese fascism. The book is very detailed, very well written, and carefully researched. Japan’s Holy War is a classic work that should be on the reading list of any scholar of Japanese history who wishes to gain some deeper insights into the direction of Japanese politics from the late 1920s through World War II. A Japanese translation of this book should be made as soon as possible. Skyra is to be commended for this major academic achievement.” -- Daniel A. Métraux * Virginia Review of Asian Studies *“The study may help illuminate some otherwise indecipherable currents of thinking that exist in Japan even today.” -- Andrew J. Nathan * Foreign Affairs *“Walter Skya deserves praise for writing what is perhaps the only extensive study in English in decades that focuses on right-wing Shinto nationalism until 1945. . . . [T]his book is an important contribution to ongoing discussions on the significance of Shinto in modern Japan’s political arena.” -- Fabio Rambelli * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 I. Emperor Ideology and the Debate over State and Sovereignty in the Late Meiji Period 1. From Constitutional Monarchy to Absolutist Theory 33 2. Hozumi Yatsuka: The Religious Volkisch Family-State 53 3. Minobe Tatsukichi: The Secularization of Politics 82 4. Kita Ikki: A Social-Democratic Critique of Absolute Monarchy 112 II. Emperor Ideology and the Debate over State and Sovereignty in the Taisho Period 5. The Rise of Mass Nationalism 131 6. Uesugi Shinkichi: The Emperor and the Masses 153 7. Kakehi Katsuhiko: The Japanese Emperor State at the Center of the Shinto Cosmology 185 III. Radical Shinto Ultranationalism and Its Triumph in the Early Showa Period 8. Terrorism in the Land of the Gods 229 9. Orthodoxation of a Holy War 262 Conclusion 297 Notes 329 Select Bibliography 363 Index 379
£23.99
Duke University Press Revolutionary Nativism
Book SynopsisMaggie Clinton traces the history and cultural politics of the fascist organizations operating under the umbrella of the Chinese Nationalist Party (GMD) in the 1920s and 1930s, showing how the GMD's rightward shift was based on a nativist discourse that emphasized Confucianism's compatibility with industrial modernism.Trade Review"Historian Clinton offers an insightful analysis of what she sees as China’s fascist movement after the ascendance of Chiang Kai-shek in the political arena. Highly recommended." -- P. F. Shan * Choice *“A thought-provoking study that raises new questions.” -- Anna Belogurova * Pacific Affairs *"Maggie Clinton has opened up an important new strand in our understanding of the political and intellectual history of 20th-century China. Revolutionary Nativism is a powerful book that will shape debates for years to come." -- Rana Mitter * The China Quarterly *"Fascinating and intriguing. . . . Revolutionary Nativism is an important contribution not only for taking fascism in East Asia seriously, but also for making us rethink the role of state led modernity via moralization of the everyday." -- Marc Andre Matten * International Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Hiding in Plain Sight: Fascist Factions during the Nanjing Decade 23 2. Spirit is Eternal: Cultural Revolution from the Right 64 3. Spiritual Offenses: The Nativist Prose of Counterinsurgency 98 4. Fixing the Everyday: The New Life Movement and Taylorized Modernity 128 5. Literature and Arts for the Nation 161 Conclusion 191 List of Characters for Selected Romanized Terms 201 Notes 205 Bibliography 239 Index 255
£72.25
Duke University Press Revolutionary Nativism
Book SynopsisMaggie Clinton traces the history and cultural politics of the fascist organizations operating under the umbrella of the Chinese Nationalist Party (GMD) in the 1920s and 1930s, showing how the GMD's rightward shift was based on a nativist discourse that emphasized Confucianism's compatibility with industrial modernism.Trade Review"Historian Clinton offers an insightful analysis of what she sees as China’s fascist movement after the ascendance of Chiang Kai-shek in the political arena. Highly recommended." -- P. F. Shan * Choice *“A thought-provoking study that raises new questions.” -- Anna Belogurova * Pacific Affairs *"Maggie Clinton has opened up an important new strand in our understanding of the political and intellectual history of 20th-century China. Revolutionary Nativism is a powerful book that will shape debates for years to come." -- Rana Mitter * The China Quarterly *"Fascinating and intriguing. . . . Revolutionary Nativism is an important contribution not only for taking fascism in East Asia seriously, but also for making us rethink the role of state led modernity via moralization of the everyday." -- Marc Andre Matten * International Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Hiding in Plain Sight: Fascist Factions during the Nanjing Decade 23 2. Spirit is Eternal: Cultural Revolution from the Right 64 3. Spiritual Offenses: The Nativist Prose of Counterinsurgency 98 4. Fixing the Everyday: The New Life Movement and Taylorized Modernity 128 5. Literature and Arts for the Nation 161 Conclusion 191 List of Characters for Selected Romanized Terms 201 Notes 205 Bibliography 239 Index 255
£19.79
University of Pittsburgh Press Secret Dialogues ChurchState Relations Torture and Social Justice in Authoritarian Brazil Pitt Latin American Series
Book SynopsisKenneth Serbin uncovers the existence of secret talks between generals and Roman Catholic bishops at the height of Brazil's military dictatorship. It illuminates the complicity of the Catholic Church in the military's subversive PR campaigns, abductions, and torturings.Trade Review“ ... crticially important work of scholarship ... carefully and painstakingly researched and written ... Serbin writes with grace...lucid and jargon free.”--Luso-Brazilian Review
£46.10
University of Pittsburgh Press Democracy Assistance from the Third Wave
Book SynopsisThe role of Western NGOs in the transition of postcommunist nations to democracy has been well documented. In this study, Paulina Pospieszna follows a different trajectory, examining the role of a former aid recipient (Poland), newly democratic itself, and its efforts to aid democratic transitions in the neighboring states of Belarus and Ukraine.
£46.10
Fordham University Press Whose Middle Ages
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction David Perry | 1 Part I – Stories The Invisible Peasantry Sandy Bardsley | 14 The Hidden Narratives of Medieval Art Katherine Anne Wilson | 23 Modern Intolerance and the Medieval Crusades Nicholas L. Paul | 34 Blood Libel, a Lie and Its Legacies Magda Teter | 44 Who’s Afraid of Shari‘a Law? Fred M. Donner | 58 How Do We Find Out About Immigrants in Later Medieval England? W. Mark Ormrod | 69 The Middle Ages in the Harlem Renaissance Cord J. Whitaker | 80 Part II – Origins Three Ways of Misreading Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an Ryan Szpiech | 94 The Nazi Middle Ages William J. Diebold | 104 What Would Benedict Do? Lauren Mancia | 116 No, People in the Middle East Haven’t Been Fighting Since the Beginning of Time Stephennie Mulder | 127 Ivory and the Ties That Bind Sarah M. Guérin | 140 Blackness, Whiteness, and the Idea of Race in Medieval European Art Pamela A. Patton | 154 England Between Empire and Nation in “The Battle of Brunanburh” Elizabeth M. Tyler | 166 Whose Spain Is It, Anyway? David A. Wacks | 181 Part III – #Hashtags Modern Knights, Medieval Snails, and Naughty Nuns Marian Bleeke | 196 Charting Sexuality and Stopping Sin Andrew Reeves | 208 “Celtic” Crosses and the Myth of Whiteness Maggie M. Williams | 220 Whitewashing the “Real” Middle Ages in Popular Media Helen Young | 233 Real Men of the Viking Age Will Cerbone | 243 #DeusVult Adam M. Bishop | 256 Own Your Heresy J. Patrick Hornbeck II | 265 Afterword: Medievalists and the Education of Desire Geraldine Heng | 275 Appendixes Appendix I: Possibilities for Teaching—by Genre | 293 Appendix II: Possibilities for Teaching—by Course Theme | 296 List of Contributors | 301
£16.14
Fordham University Press Whose Middle Ages Teachable Moments for an
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction David Perry | 1 Part I – Stories The Invisible Peasantry Sandy Bardsley | 14 The Hidden Narratives of Medieval Art Katherine Anne Wilson | 23 Modern Intolerance and the Medieval Crusades Nicholas L. Paul | 34 Blood Libel, a Lie and Its Legacies Magda Teter | 44 Who’s Afraid of Shari‘a Law? Fred M. Donner | 58 How Do We Find Out About Immigrants in Later Medieval England? W. Mark Ormrod | 69 The Middle Ages in the Harlem Renaissance Cord J. Whitaker | 80 Part II – Origins Three Ways of Misreading Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an Ryan Szpiech | 94 The Nazi Middle Ages William J. Diebold | 104 What Would Benedict Do? Lauren Mancia | 116 No, People in the Middle East Haven’t Been Fighting Since the Beginning of Time Stephennie Mulder | 127 Ivory and the Ties That Bind Sarah M. Guérin | 140 Blackness, Whiteness, and the Idea of Race in Medieval European Art Pamela A. Patton | 154 England Between Empire and Nation in “The Battle of Brunanburh” Elizabeth M. Tyler | 166 Whose Spain Is It, Anyway? David A. Wacks | 181 Part III – #Hashtags Modern Knights, Medieval Snails, and Naughty Nuns Marian Bleeke | 196 Charting Sexuality and Stopping Sin Andrew Reeves | 208 “Celtic” Crosses and the Myth of Whiteness Maggie M. Williams | 220 Whitewashing the “Real” Middle Ages in Popular Media Helen Young | 233 Real Men of the Viking Age Will Cerbone | 243 #DeusVult Adam M. Bishop | 256 Own Your Heresy J. Patrick Hornbeck II | 265 Afterword: Medievalists and the Education of Desire Geraldine Heng | 275 Appendixes Appendix I: Possibilities for Teaching—by Genre | 293 Appendix II: Possibilities for Teaching—by Course Theme | 296 List of Contributors | 301
£57.60
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Dictatorship in South America
Book SynopsisDictatorship in South America explores the experiences of Brazil, Argentina, and Chile with brutal military dictatorships in the Cold War period. Based on the strong and recent currents of historiography emerging from these countries, it offers a compelling narrative that brings popular perspectives to bear on national histories.Trade Review"In this thoughtful, well-organized, and readable textbook, [the author] illuminates this period of South American history by comparing three of the most flagrant cases of military rule: Brazil (1964-1988), Chile (1973-1990), and Argentina (1976-1983). ...Dávila seeks to capture the urgency of this extraordinary period for contemporary readers and to help them to understand that if 'the stakes were enormous, so were the costs.' Since the book forms a part of Wiley-Blackwell's Viewpoints/Puntos de Vista series, which seeks to introduce students to a significant theme or topic in Latin American history, the author has designed the narrative in ways to enlighten and engage an undergraduate audience. An extremely helpful and thorough bibliography enhances the value of the text as a reference source not just for undergraduates but for scholars at all levels. In short, at a time when many professors are abandoning textbooks to rely on scattered internet materials, those who deal with twentieth century Latin America will find that this one compact volume will bring to the fore enough challenging questions and useful information to engage their students throughout a semester." - The Latin Americanist“This concise history of Brazil, Argentina, and Chile from the mid-20th century until its end is excellent... Invaluable for undergraduate collections. Summing up: Essential. All levels/libraries.” (Choice, 1 October 2013)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations viii Series Editor’s Preface xi Preface and Acknowledgements xiii Introduction 1 1 Dependency, Development, and Liberation: Latin America in the Cold War 9 2 Brazil: What Road to Development? 20 3 Argentina: Between Peronism and Military Rule 55 4 Chile: From Pluralistic Socialism to Authoritarian Free Market 82 5 Argentina: The Terrorist State 112 6 Brazil: The Long Road Back 137 7 Chile: A “Protected Democracy”? 156 Conclusion 179 Sources 185 Index 201
£18.95
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Contracultura Alternative Arts and Social Transformation in Authoritarian Brazil
£25.60
University of Texas Press Poverty and ProblemSolving under Military Rule
Book SynopsisMany countries in Latin America have experienced both rapid urbanization and military involvement in politics. Yet few studies examine how military regimes react to the political pressures that wide-spread urban poverty creates or how the poor operate under authoritative rule. Henry Dietz investigates Lima's poor during the revolution of General Juan Velasco (19681975). His study examines both the structural conditions promoting poverty and the individual consequences of being poor. The poor join together in several ways to resolve politicized communal needs; Dietz's data indicate that the local neighborhood plays a crucial role in determining modes of involvement. Considerable attention is given to government attempts to encourage and control political activities by the poor. Dietz analyzes the failure of SINAMOS, the regime's mobilization agency, and in so doing raises general questions about corporatist solutions to social problems. The wide range of original survey, informant,Table of Contents Acknowledgments Part I: Urbanization, Participation, and Poverty 1. Participation and Authoritarian Rule: The Urban Poor and the Military in Peru 2. The Velasco Administration 3. Urbanization, the Urban Poor, and Poor Neighborhoods 4. Six Low-Income Neighborhoods Part II: The Urban Poor and Their Spokesmen 5. Poverty, the Pobladores, and Their Neighborhoods 6. Modes of Participation and the Community Activist: An Empirical Analysis Part III: The Urban Poor and the Revolutionary Government 7. National-Level Political Demand-Making 8. SINAMOS, the Pobladores, and Corporatist Participation Conclusion Appendices Notes Bibliography Index
£21.59
University of Texas Press The Bathification of Iraq
Book SynopsisSaddam Hussein ruled Iraq as a dictator for nearly a quarter century before the fall of his regime in 2003. Using the Ba’th party as his organ of meta-control, he built a broad base of support throughout Iraqi state and society. Why did millions participate in his government, parrot his propaganda, and otherwise support his regime when doing so often required betraying their families, communities, and beliefs? Why did the “Husseini Ba’thist” system prove so durable through uprisings, two wars, and United Nations sanctions?Drawing from a wealth of documents discovered at the Ba’th party’s central headquarters in Baghdad following the US-led invasion in 2003, The Ba’thification of Iraq analyzes how Hussein and the party inculcated loyalty in the population. Through a grand strategy of “Ba’thification,” Faust argues that Hussein mixed classic totalitarian means with distinctly Iraqi methods to transform state, soTrade Review"[Faust] create[s] a detailed world out of seemingly banal documents that, when put together and analyzed properly, reconstruct the Baathist system and mentality. As such, his is a magisterial study of Planet Baath: critical, sensitive, and sensible. By combining archival material with a deep awareness of Iraqi history, Faust succeeds in creating a complete and convincing whole." * The Middle East Quarterly *Table of Contents List of Abbreviations Chronology Preface Acknowledgments Part I. Introduction Chapter One. The Inculcation of Loyalty Chapter Two. The Origins of Husseini Baʿthist Totalitarianism Part II. Ideology Chapter Three. Husseini Baʿthism Chapter Four. Culturalization Part III. Organization Chapter Five. The Leader and the Party Chapter Six. The Party State Chapter Seven. The Baʿthification of Society Part IV. Terror and Enticement Chapter Eight. Terror Chapter Nine. Enticement Conclusion. A Total Strategy Postscript. The Legacy of Baʿthification Appendix 1. A Work Plan for Coordination between the Party and Mass Organizations in the Field of the Baʿthification of Society Appendix 2. Special Regulations for How to Deal with the Relatives of Criminals Convicted for Political Crimes Notes Glossary of Arabic Terms Bibliography Index
£22.79
University of Toronto Press Spanish Fascist Writing
Book SynopsisSpanish Fascist Writing presents the first collection of Spanish fascist texts in English translation and offers an intellectual and political history of fascist writing in Spain, a history that resituates the country within the larger unfolding of right-wing extremism worldwide from the early twentieth century to the present. The manifestos, newspaper articles, essays, letters, and pieces of prose fiction gathered in this volume demonstrate why the Spanish case proves essential to a comprehensive understanding of fascism in general. These Spanish fascist texts also highlight the need for comparative analysis in order to better grasp the transnational character of fascism, fascism’s profound roots in colonialism, fascism’s multiple temporalities, and the rise in recent years of right-wing extremism throughout the world. In short, Spanish Fascist Writing takes Spain from the margins to the forefront of fascist studies. Trade Review"Spanish Fascist Writing is a timely collection of texts, including manifestos, speeches, and letters, arranged to introduce readers to a wide spectrum of themes. Together these texts enrich our understanding of right-wing extremism in Spain and worldwide in the past and present. The collection also adds to our interpretation of the historical genealogies of European fascism. Justin Crumbaugh and Nil Santiáñez, as editors of the anthology, provide a useful history of Spanish fascism, a bibliographic essay, and notes, all of which add to the book’s value as a teaching resource. As translators, with María Soledad Barbón, they are aware of the rhetoric of this particular manifestation of fascism and thus are careful to convey the nuances and stylistic idiosyncrasies of every text." -- MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature CommitteeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Translators’ Note General Introduction Justin Crumbaugh and Nil Santiáñez Spanish Fascist Writing: A Brief History A Bibliographic Essay This Anthology Section One: Manifestos and Political Programs On Italy’s Essence: A Letter to a Comrade from the Young Spain Ernesto Giménez Caballero Our Political Manifesto La Conquista del Estado Our Slogans – Armed Mobilization La Conquista del Estado Castile’s Mission Onésimo Redondo Castile, Save Spain! Onésimo Redondo The Future of Our People: National Syndicalism José María de Areilza Founding Speech of Falange Española José Antonio Primo de Rivera Initial Points Falange Española The Programmatic Points of Falange Española de las JONS Falange Española de las JONS Unity of Destiny Anonymous The Social Revolution of National Syndicalism José Luis de Arrese On Spanish Catholicity Eugenio Montes Joint Manifesto of Spain on the Move La España en Marcha Section Two: Nation and Empire Genius of Spain Ernesto Giménez Caballero In Defense of Hispanidad Ramiro de Maeztu The Spanish Empire Antonio Tovar Trajectory and Future Prospects of Our Territorial Expansion José María Cordero Torres A National Objective Manuel Fraga Iribarne Section Three: The New Man and the New Woman The Individual Is Dead Ramiro Ledesma Ramos Habit and Style Anonymous Guidelines Anonymous Femininity and the Falange José Antonio Primo de Rivera Eugenio, or, The Proclamation of Spring Rafael García Serrano The Faith and Conduct of Women Pilar Primo de Rivera Women and the Education of Children Mercedes Sanz Bachiller Blue Shirt: A Portrait of a Falangist Felipe Ximénez de Sandoval Mission and Organization of the S.F. (Sección Femenina) Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las JONS Section Four: Violence and War The African Campaign: A Welcome to the Soldiers of Garellano Rafael Sánchez Mazas The Legionary Creed José Millán-Astray Moroccan Notes of a Soldier Ernesto Giménez Caballero Behind the Caesar’s Eagle Luys Santa Marina Young Spaniards! A Call to Arms! Ramiro Ledesma Ramos The Monopoly of Violence Onésimo Redondo Justification of Violence Onésimo Redondo Violence and Justice José Antonio Primo de Rivera The Conquest of the State Anonymous Russia Notebooks Dionisio Ridruejo Section Five: Culture, Aesthetics, and Poetics Art and State Ernesto Giménez Caballero Beautiful Architecture of the Ruins Agustín de Foxá Texts on a Politics of Art Rafael Sánchez Mazas General Proposal for City Planning in Madrid Pedro Bidagor Inauguration of the Valley of the Fallen Francisco Franco Index
£52.70
University of Toronto Press Spanish Fascist Writing
Book SynopsisSpanish Fascist Writing presents the first collection of Spanish fascist texts in English translation and offers an intellectual and political history of fascist writing in Spain, a history that resituates the country within the larger unfolding of right-wing extremism worldwide from the early twentieth century to the present. The manifestos, newspaper articles, essays, letters, and pieces of prose fiction gathered in this volume demonstrate why the Spanish case proves essential to a comprehensive understanding of fascism in general. These Spanish fascist texts also highlight the need for comparative analysis in order to better grasp the transnational character of fascism, fascism’s profound roots in colonialism, fascism’s multiple temporalities, and the rise in recent years of right-wing extremism throughout the world. In short, Spanish Fascist Writing takes Spain from the margins to the forefront of fascist studies. Trade Review"Spanish Fascist Writing is a timely collection of texts, including manifestos, speeches, and letters, arranged to introduce readers to a wide spectrum of themes. Together these texts enrich our understanding of right-wing extremism in Spain and worldwide in the past and present. The collection also adds to our interpretation of the historical genealogies of European fascism. Justin Crumbaugh and Nil Santiáñez, as editors of the anthology, provide a useful history of Spanish fascism, a bibliographic essay, and notes, all of which add to the book’s value as a teaching resource. As translators, with María Soledad Barbón, they are aware of the rhetoric of this particular manifestation of fascism and thus are careful to convey the nuances and stylistic idiosyncrasies of every text." -- MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature CommitteeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Translators’ Note General Introduction Justin Crumbaugh and Nil Santiáñez Spanish Fascist Writing: A Brief History A Bibliographic Essay This Anthology Section One: Manifestos and Political Programs On Italy’s Essence: A Letter to a Comrade from the Young Spain Ernesto Giménez Caballero Our Political Manifesto La Conquista del Estado Our Slogans – Armed Mobilization La Conquista del Estado Castile’s Mission Onésimo Redondo Castile, Save Spain! Onésimo Redondo The Future of Our People: National Syndicalism José María de Areilza Founding Speech of Falange Española José Antonio Primo de Rivera Initial Points Falange Española The Programmatic Points of Falange Española de las JONS Falange Española de las JONS Unity of Destiny Anonymous The Social Revolution of National Syndicalism José Luis de Arrese On Spanish Catholicity Eugenio Montes Joint Manifesto of Spain on the Move La España en Marcha Section Two: Nation and Empire Genius of Spain Ernesto Giménez Caballero In Defense of Hispanidad Ramiro de Maeztu The Spanish Empire Antonio Tovar Trajectory and Future Prospects of Our Territorial Expansion José María Cordero Torres A National Objective Manuel Fraga Iribarne Section Three: The New Man and the New Woman The Individual Is Dead Ramiro Ledesma Ramos Habit and Style Anonymous Guidelines Anonymous Femininity and the Falange José Antonio Primo de Rivera Eugenio, or, The Proclamation of Spring Rafael García Serrano The Faith and Conduct of Women Pilar Primo de Rivera Women and the Education of Children Mercedes Sanz Bachiller Blue Shirt: A Portrait of a Falangist Felipe Ximénez de Sandoval Mission and Organization of the S.F. (Sección Femenina) Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las JONS Section Four: Violence and War The African Campaign: A Welcome to the Soldiers of Garellano Rafael Sánchez Mazas The Legionary Creed José Millán-Astray Moroccan Notes of a Soldier Ernesto Giménez Caballero Behind the Caesar’s Eagle Luys Santa Marina Young Spaniards! A Call to Arms! Ramiro Ledesma Ramos The Monopoly of Violence Onésimo Redondo Justification of Violence Onésimo Redondo Violence and Justice José Antonio Primo de Rivera The Conquest of the State Anonymous Russia Notebooks Dionisio Ridruejo Section Five: Culture, Aesthetics, and Poetics Art and State Ernesto Giménez Caballero Beautiful Architecture of the Ruins Agustín de Foxá Texts on a Politics of Art Rafael Sánchez Mazas General Proposal for City Planning in Madrid Pedro Bidagor Inauguration of the Valley of the Fallen Francisco Franco Index
£26.99
University of Nebraska Press The Pitcher and the Dictator
Book SynopsisThe incredible untold story of legendary pitcher Satchel Paige, who played high-stakes baseball for Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo.Trade Review“While baseball is at the heart of the book, The Pitcher and the Dictator—the pitcher being the legendary Satchel Paige—the story is about much more, including gunboat diplomacy, the blood-drenched history of the Dominican Republic and, not least, the prevalence of racism and repression in mid-twentieth century America.”—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times“This short, action-packed narrative illuminates one of those footnotes that dot the history of the game but are seldom explored in depth. Here the footnote explodes with unexpected vitality.”—Paul Dickson, Wall Street Journal"This is a baseball book but it is so much more. It deals with history, politics, and power. . . . I encourage baseball fans and history aficionados to get this book for a good read."—Tom Knuppel, KNUP Sports"Smith offers a breezy account of an unusual episode in baseball history that was just one of many colorful moments in Paige’s lengthy career."—Missouri Historical Review"The Pitcher and the Dictator is an entertaining read, and Smith goes to great pains to describe the mood, the weather, the fans' enthusiasm and the sinister specter of Trujillo looking over the all-stars' shoulders. The detail is exquisite."—Bob D'Angelo, Sports Bookie blog"If a reader wishes to learn more about this season in the Dominican Republic for three of the greatest stars of the Negro Leagues as well as the first Cuban player inducted into the American Baseball Hall of Fame, this is a good book to start that journey."—Guy Who Reviews Sports Books“I was nineteen years old when I played with Satchel Paige in 1968. He knew my name but called me Daffy—and I was happy to let him. By then Satchel had lived one of the most extraordinary lives of our times, and Ace Smith captures his spirit with his compelling true story of the one adventure that could have ended it all, a deal to pitch in the Dominican Republic, under military watch, when losing was not an option. The Pitcher and the Dictator paints a rich portrait of one of the greatest barnstorming baseball teams.”—Dusty Baker, legendary Major League Baseball player and manager“The Pitcher and the Dictator is a gripping account of Satchel Paige’s travels to an island run by a dictator—during which he faces the harsh obstacles of racism, power, and politics in the 1930s.”—Lance Williams, award-winning journalist and coauthor of Game of ShadowsTable of ContentsPreface: Recovery of a Lost History 1. Trujillo City 2. Time to Get a Job 3. Show Me the Money 4. Chapita 5. The Americans 6. A Long, Lanky Black Boy by the Name of Satchell 7. Trujillo Es El Jefe 8. Opening Day Away 9. Royal Prerogative 10. Total Catastrophe 11. The Stars Arrive 12. Después de la Victoria 13. Nuevos Rumbos 14. Black Babe Ruth 15. Fiesta de la Chapita 16. The Maestro’s Coda 17. The Heartbreaking End of Josh Gibson 18. The Fall of Trujillo 19. The Persevering Paige 20. “El Gamo” 21. Y Otras Epilogue: Tenth Inning Appendix: Notes on Paige’s Magical Pitching Notes Bibliography Index
£19.94
University of Nebraska Press The Pitcher and the Dictator
Book SynopsisThe incredible untold story of legendary pitcher Satchel Paige, who played high-stakes baseball for Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo. Trade Review“While baseball is at the heart of the book, The Pitcher and the Dictator—the pitcher being the legendary Satchel Paige—the story is about much more, including gunboat diplomacy, the blood-drenched history of the Dominican Republic and, not least, the prevalence of racism and repression in mid-twentieth century America.”—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times“This short, action-packed narrative illuminates one of those footnotes that dot the history of the game but are seldom explored in depth. Here the footnote explodes with unexpected vitality.”—Paul Dickson, Wall Street Journal"This is a baseball book but it is so much more. It deals with history, politics, and power. . . . I encourage baseball fans and history aficionados to get this book for a good read."—Tom Knuppel, KNUP Sports"Smith offers a breezy account of an unusual episode in baseball history that was just one of many colorful moments in Paige’s lengthy career."—Missouri Historical Review"The Pitcher and the Dictator is an entertaining read, and Smith goes to great pains to describe the mood, the weather, the fans' enthusiasm and the sinister specter of Trujillo looking over the all-stars' shoulders. The detail is exquisite."—Bob D'Angelo, Sports Bookie blog"If a reader wishes to learn more about this season in the Dominican Republic for three of the greatest stars of the Negro Leagues as well as the first Cuban player inducted into the American Baseball Hall of Fame, this is a good book to start that journey."—Guy Who Reviews Sports Books“I was nineteen years old when I played with Satchel Paige in 1968. He knew my name but called me Daffy—and I was happy to let him. By then Satchel had lived one of the most extraordinary lives of our times, and Ace Smith captures his spirit with his compelling true story of the one adventure that could have ended it all, a deal to pitch in the Dominican Republic, under military watch, when losing was not an option. The Pitcher and the Dictator paints a rich portrait of one of the greatest barnstorming baseball teams.”—Dusty Baker, legendary Major League Baseball player and manager“The Pitcher and the Dictator is a gripping account of Satchel Paige’s travels to an island run by a dictator—during which he faces the harsh obstacles of racism, power, and politics in the 1930s.”—Lance Williams, award-winning journalist and coauthor of Game of ShadowsTable of ContentsPreface: Recovery of a Lost History 1. Trujillo City 2. Time to Get a Job 3. Show Me the Money 4. Chapita 5. The Americans 6. A Long, Lanky Black Boy by the Name of Satchell 7. Trujillo Es El Jefe 8. Opening Day Away 9. Royal Prerogative 10. Total Catastrophe 11. The Stars Arrive 12. Después de la Victoria 13. Nuevos Rumbos 14. Black Babe Ruth 15. Fiesta de la Chapita 16. The Maestro’s Coda 17. The Heartbreaking End of Josh Gibson 18. The Fall of Trujillo 19. The Persevering Paige 20. “El Gamo” 21. Y Otras Epilogue: Tenth Inning Appendix: Notes on Paige’s Magical Pitching Notes Bibliography Index
£15.19
Cornell University Press Imagining a Greater Germany
Book SynopsisIn Imagining a Greater Germany, Erin R. Hochman offers a fresh approach to the questions of state- and nation-building in interwar Central Europe. Ever since Hitler annexed his native Austria to Germany in 1938, the term Anschluss has been linked to Nazi expansionism. The legacy of Nazism has cast a long shadow not only over the idea of the union of German-speaking lands but also over German nationalism in general. Due to the horrors unleashed by the Third Reich, German nationalism has seemed virulently exclusionary, and Anschluss inherently antidemocratic.However, as Hochman makes clear, nationalism and the desire to redraw Germany's boundaries were not solely the prerogatives of the political right. Focusing on the supporters of the embattled Weimar and First Austrian Republics, she argues that support for an Anschluss and belief in the großdeutsch idea (the historical notion that Germany should include Austria) were central to republicans' persistent attemptsTrade ReviewErin Hochman's deeply researched and trenchantly argued book revises our understanding of interwar German nationalism, providing a compelling reinterpretation of the histories of the Weimar Republic and the Austrian First Republic. * Austrian Environmental History *
£42.30
Cornell University Press Black Vienna
Book SynopsisJanek Wasserman traces intellectual, social, and political developments in the Austrian First Republic while highlighting intellectuals' participation in the growing worldwide conflict between socialism, conservatism, and fascism.Trade ReviewJanek Wasserman introduces us to Black Vienna, a parallel city where disappointed monarchists, frustrated Catholic radicals, and racist German nationalists worked in consort to destroy the First Republic.... Wasserman challenges the conventionalLager model of interwar Austrian politics in which there were three distinct camps: Social Democrats, Christian radicals and German nationalists. Instead he finds a 'two-part division of interwar Austrian life' in which the lines between Catholic conservatives and German nationalists were blurred. He is not the first to propose this revision... but Wasserman adds rich detail on how the camps' personalities, publications and organizations converged. -- Maureen Healy * Austrian Studies Newsmagazine *The book has been extremely well researched and for those with an interest in the detailed background to Austria's political history between the wars, it provides a complex and thorough exposé of the radical right in Vienna between the wars, this being interwoven with an account of the left-wing intellectuals who were less active in promoting the ideals of Social Democracy. -- John Warren * Austrian Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Reconsidering "Red Vienna"1. The Emergence of Black Vienna2. The Austro-Marxist Struggle for "Intellectual Workers"3. The Spannkreis and the Battle for Hegemony in Central Europe4. The Verein Ernst Mach and the Politicization of Viennese Progressive Thought5. Österreichische Aktion and the New Conservatism6. The Rise and Fall of Politically Engaged Scholarship in Red Vienna, 1927–19347. The Triumph of Radical Conservatism in the Austrofascist State, 1933–1938ConclusionBibliography Index
£17.99
Cornell University Press Is Russia Fascist
Book SynopsisIs Russia Fascist? argues that the charge of "fascism" has become a strategic narrative of the current world order. Through a detailed examination of the Russian domestic scene and the Kremlin's foreign policy rationales, it disentangles the foundation for, meaning, and validity of accusations of fascism in and around Russia.Trade ReviewIs Russia Fascist? is a work that offers a worthy contribution to the ongoing conversation and debate about how to define contemporary Russia and project where it is heading. Regardless of what a reader might think about "illiberalism" as an answer, Laruelle offers many good analytical insights. Her command of the facts of recent Russian political history is solid and is to be taken seriously. * H-Net *If you want to know what's been happening in the Russian far right, this is undoubtedly the book for you. Is Russia Fascist? provides excellent insights into the ideological state of play in modern Russia. It also does a thorough job of demolishing the accusations that Russia is a totalitarian state. -- Paul Robinson, Ottowa University * Irrussianality *In this book Marlene Laruelle not only seeks to answer the question "Is Russia fascist?" but to provide a comprehensive analytical framework for how to study the concept of fascism in the first place. In doing so, she engages with scholarship in multiple fields across the social sciences and in public discourse, which makes this book of interest not only to political scientists but to Russia watchers more generally. * The Russian Review *Is Russia Fascist? provides a clear, balanced assessment of contemporary Russian politics, serving not only as a sensible dissection of the status of fascism in Russia, but also as a guide to that country's problematic political structures. * Modern Language Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Russia and the Symbolic Landscape of Fascism 1. Russia's "Fascism" or "Illiberalism"? 2. The Soviet Legacy in Thinking about Fascism 3. Antifascism as the Renewed Social Consensus under Putin 4. International Memory Wars: Equating the Soviet Union with Nazism 5. The Putin Regime's Ideological Plurality 6. Russia's Fascist Thinkers and Doers 7. Russia's Honeymoon with the European Far Right 8. Why the Russian Regime Is Not Fascist Conclusion: Russia's Memory and the Future of Europe
£32.30
University of Minnesota Press Aspirational Fascism: The Struggle for
Book SynopsisComing to terms with a new period of uncertainty when it is still replete with possibilities This quick and engaging study clearly lays out the United States’ current democratic crisis. Examining the early stages of the Nazi movement in Germany, William E. Connolly detects synergies with Donald Trump’s rhetorical style. Tapping into a sense of contemporary fragility, Aspirational Fascism pays particular attention to how conflicts between neoliberalism and the pluralizing left have placed the white working class in a bind. Ultimately, Connolly believes a multifaceted democracy constitutes the best antidote to aspirational fascism and rethinks what a politics of the left might look like today. Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.
£9.00
Fordham University Press Against Redemption: Democracy, Memory, and
Book SynopsisWINNER, HELEN AND HOWARD R. MARRARO PRIZE IN ITALIAN HISTORY Discloses the richness of ideas and sheds light on the controversy that characterized the transition from fascism to democracy, examining authors, works and memories that were subsequently silenced by Cold War politics. How a shared memory of Fascism and its cultural heritage took shape is still today the most disputed question of modern Italy, crossing the boundaries between academic and public discourse. Against Redemption concentrates on the historical period in which disagreement was at its highest: the transition between the downfall of Mussolini in July 1943 and the victory of the Christian Democrats over the Left in the 1948 general elections. By dispelling the silence around the range of opinion in the years before the ideological struggle fossilized into Cold War oppositions, this book points to early postwar literary practices as the main vehicle for intellectual dissent, shedding new light on the role of cultural policies in institutionalizing collective memory. During Italy’s transition to democracy, competing narratives over the recent traumatic past emerged and crystallized, depicting the country’s break with Mussolini’s regime as a political and personal redemption from its politics of exclusion and unrestrained use of violence. Conversely, outstanding authors such as Elsa Morante, Carlo Levi, Alberto Moravia, and Curzio Malaparte, in close dialogue with remarkable but now-neglected figures, stressed the cultural continuity between the new democracy and Fascism, igniting heated debates from opposite political standpoints. Their works addressed questions such as the working through of national defeat, Italian responsibility in World War II, and the Holocaust, revealing how the social, racial, and gender biases that characterized Fascism survived after its demise and haunted the newborn democracy.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Ruins and Debris of a Contested History | 1 1. After Italian Totalitarianism | 27 2. The Language of Responsibility | 65 3. Ghosts from a Recent Past | 96 4. Carlo Levi on the Religion of the State | 140 5. Curzio Malaparte, a Tragic Modernity | 172 Conclusion: Tearing Down the Monuments | 199 Acknowledgments | 205 Notes | 209 Bibliography | 265 Index | 295
£95.20
Fordham University Press Against Redemption: Democracy, Memory, and
Book SynopsisWINNER, HELEN AND HOWARD R. MARRARO PRIZE IN ITALIAN HISTORY Discloses the richness of ideas and sheds light on the controversy that characterized the transition from fascism to democracy, examining authors, works and memories that were subsequently silenced by Cold War politics. How a shared memory of Fascism and its cultural heritage took shape is still today the most disputed question of modern Italy, crossing the boundaries between academic and public discourse. Against Redemption concentrates on the historical period in which disagreement was at its highest: the transition between the downfall of Mussolini in July 1943 and the victory of the Christian Democrats over the Left in the 1948 general elections. By dispelling the silence around the range of opinion in the years before the ideological struggle fossilized into Cold War oppositions, this book points to early postwar literary practices as the main vehicle for intellectual dissent, shedding new light on the role of cultural policies in institutionalizing collective memory. During Italy’s transition to democracy, competing narratives over the recent traumatic past emerged and crystallized, depicting the country’s break with Mussolini’s regime as a political and personal redemption from its politics of exclusion and unrestrained use of violence. Conversely, outstanding authors such as Elsa Morante, Carlo Levi, Alberto Moravia, and Curzio Malaparte, in close dialogue with remarkable but now-neglected figures, stressed the cultural continuity between the new democracy and Fascism, igniting heated debates from opposite political standpoints. Their works addressed questions such as the working through of national defeat, Italian responsibility in World War II, and the Holocaust, revealing how the social, racial, and gender biases that characterized Fascism survived after its demise and haunted the newborn democracy.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Ruins and Debris of a Contested History | 1 1. After Italian Totalitarianism | 27 2. The Language of Responsibility | 65 3. Ghosts from a Recent Past | 96 4. Carlo Levi on the Religion of the State | 140 5. Curzio Malaparte, a Tragic Modernity | 172 Conclusion: Tearing Down the Monuments | 199 Acknowledgments | 205 Notes | 209 Bibliography | 265 Index | 295
£26.99
Fordham University Press We Charge Genocide
Book SynopsisA revealing exploration of domestic fascism in the United States from the 1930s to the January 6th insurrection in Washington, D.C.In 1951, the Civil Rights Congress presented to the United Nations We Charge Genocide, a more than two-hundred-page petition that held the United States accountable for genocide against African Americans. This landmark text represented the dawn of Black Lives Matter and is as relevant today as it was then, as evidenced by the rise of white supremacist groups across the nation and the January 6th Capitol riot which disclosed the specter of a fascist revival in the US Tracing this specter to its roots, We Charge Genocide! provides an original interpretation of American fascism as a permanent and longstanding current in US politics dating to the origins of US settler-colonialism.Picking up where Angela Davis's 1971 essay, Political Prisoners, Prisons, and Black Liberation, left off, We Charge Genocide! reveals how the
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Utopia of Terror: Life and Death in Wartime
Book SynopsisOffers a complex consideration of the relationship of mass terror and utopianism under the fascist government of wartime Croatia. The essays in The Utopia of Terror provide new perspectives on the relationship between the politics of construction and destruction in the wartime Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945) ruled by the fascist Ustasha movement. Bringing together established historians of the Ustasha regime and an emerging generation of younger historians, The Utopia of Terror explores various aspects of everyday life and death in the Ustasha state that untilnow have received peripheral attention from historians. The contributors argue for a more complex consideration of the relationship of mass terror and utopianism in which the two are seen as part of the same process rather than asdiscrete phenomena. They aim to bring new perspectives, generate original thinking, and provide enhanced understanding of both the Ustasha regime's attempts to remake Croatian society and its campaign to destroy unwanted populations. Rory Yeomans is a fellow in history at the Wiener Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Vienna, Austria. A fellowship from the Cantemir Institute at the University of Oxford in 2013 supported the research for and the writing and editing of this book.Trade Review[A] valuable collection for outlining varied approaches to understanding the development and mixed effects of terror in Ustasha Croatia, providing many insights into the complexities of Ustasha terror. * CHOICE *[T]he book should provoke considerable thought about new directions for research on Croatian fascism and the different aspects of the Ustasha regime. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *This interesting edited collection will hopefully stimulate further research on non-elite histories of the Independent State of Croatia. * CANADIAN SLAVONIC PAPERS *A welcome and invaluable addition to the historiography of The Independent State of Croatia.The diversity of the essays is laudable and enormous..Without a doubt, The Utopia of Terror will be a standard work in the field for many years. * EUROPEAN HISTORY QUARTERLY *Table of ContentsAbbreviations Introduction: Utopia, Terror, and Everyday Experience in the Ustasha State - Rory Yeomans Anti-Semitism and Economic Regeneration: The Ustasha Regime and the Nationalization of Jewish Property and Business in Sarajevo - Dallas Michelbacher Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: Everyday Life in Karlovac under Ustasha Rule - Filip Erdeljac The Engine Room of a New Ustasha Consciousness: Cinema, Terror, and Ideological Refashioning - Rory Yeomans Honor, Shame, and Warrior Values: The Anthropology of Ustasha Violence - Radu Harald Dinu Apostles, Saints' Days, and Mass Mobilization: The Sacralization of Politics in the Ustasha State - Stipe Kljaic Between the Racial State and the Christian Rampart: Ustasha Ideology, Catholic Values, and National Purification - Irina Ognyanova Envisioning the "Other" East: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Muslims, and Modernization in the Ustasha State - Nada Kisic-Kolanovic "To Be Eternally Young Means to Be an Ustasha": Youth Organizations as Incubators of a New Youth and New Future - Goran Miljan Forging Brotherhood and Unity: War Propaganda and Transitional Justice in Yugoslavia, 1941-48 - Tomislav Dulic Recontextualizing the Facist Precedent: The Ustasha Movement and the Transnational Dynamics of Interwar Facism - Aristotle Kallis Epilogue: Ordinary People between the National Community and Everyday Terror - Rory Yeomans Appendix: The Origins and Ideology of the Ustasha Movement List of Contributors Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Witnessing Romania's Century of Turmoil: Memoirs
Book SynopsisCombining the intimacy of memoir and the precision of history, the story of psychologist Nicolae Margineanu's imprisonment and survival conveys in striking detail the corrosive impact of Communist rule in Romania. Nicolae Margineanu's journey started in 1905 in the village of Obreja in Transylvania and ended in 1980 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He began his life under Austro-Hungarian rule, was witness to the 1918 Union, lived under three kings(Ferdinand, Carol II, and Mihai), and survived all of Romania's dictatorships, from absolute monarchy to the Legionnaires' rebellion, the Antonescian dictatorship, and finally the years under Communist rule. Margineanu studied psychology at the University of Cluj and attended postgraduate courses in Leipzig, Berlin, Hamburg, Paris, and London. He was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship that enabled him to do research for two years in the United States, at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, the University of Chicago, and Duke. He returned to Romania and became chair of the psychology department at the University of Cluj. In 1948, Margineanu was arrested on a charge of "high treason," based on his alleged membership in a resistance movement against Communist rule. He was sentenced to twenty-five years' imprisonment, of which he served sixteen, passing through the jails at Malmaison, Jilava, Pitesti,Aiud, and Gherla. This book, his autobiography, is a shocking testimony to the fate of the intellectual elite of Romania during the Communist dictatorship. It is a unique and invaluable addition to the literature in English on the experience of political prisoners, not only in Communist Romania but in authoritarian states in general. Nicolae Margineanu (1905-1980) was a Romanian psychologist and writer who was a political prisoner during theperiod of Communist rule. Dennis Deletant is the Visiting Ratiu Professor of Romanian Studies at Georgetown University. Calin Cotoiu is a translator based in Bucharest, Romania.Trade ReviewA book which will be of use to people interested in Romanian political, social and academic history, excellently translated. * EUROPEAN HISTORY QUARTERLY *Offer[s] fascinating insights into Romanian politics and society, especially in the interwar and post-war period...Margineanu's memoirs allow for a better understanding of the concepts 'political prison' and 'political prisoner' in communist Romania. * HISTORY *Margineanu's book is an astonishing tour de force. . . . [W]hat informs the book is the opposition between hate and ill will on the one side and the basic humanity and compassion on the other. . . . I recommend it highly. * ROMANIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA JOURNAL *Table of ContentsForeword by Dennis Deletant Preface The Beginning of the Road In Blaj In Orastie Student in Cluj The University of Leipzig Hamburg University The University of Berlin My Postdoctoral Exam Scientific Researcher for the Rockefeller Foundation Harvard University Yale University The University of Chicago Columbia University The University of Chicago Once More America's Scientific, Cultural, and Sociopolitical Landscape At the Universities of London and Paris At the Department and Institute of Psychology in Cluj Democracy and Dictatorship The Repercussions of the International Political Crisis The Attack against Rector Goanga The Vienna Award The Legionnaire Insanity Marshal Antonescu's Government Under Stalinist Occupation The Romanian-American Association The United States Lectures Dr. Petru Groza My Dismissal from the University The Ordeal Malmaison At the Interior Ministry The Trial The Calvary In Aiud Penitentiary Back to the Interior Ministry In Jilava Aiud Again Jilava Once More The Pitesti Penitentiary In the Penitentiaries at Dej and Gherla Appendix: Nicolae M?rgineanu, Curriculum Vitae Index
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St Augustine's Press Paths to Salvation – The National Socialist
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Grey House Publishing Inc Great Lives from History: Autocrats & Dictators
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Online Political Hate Speech in Europe: The Rise
Book SynopsisThis timely book addresses the increasingly widespread issue of online political hatred in Europe. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it examines both the contributions of new technologies, in particular social networks, to the rise of this phenomenon, and the legal and political contexts in which it is taking place. Through an analysis of online hate speech and its impacts, Giovanni Ziccardi characterizes contemporary political hatred in Europe, highlighting its victims, communication strategies, and the creation of a cross-national network of extremists enabled by technology. He compares legal and political responses to the problem at both national and EU levels, as well as the approach taken by the US, in order to examine the effectiveness of current measures. Finally, he evaluates possible remedies for the situation, including both legal and technological solutions, and outlines the potential for a unified European framework to counter the spread of hatred online. Online Political Hate Speech in Europe will be an essential read for scholars and students in law and politics looking for an in-depth analysis of this issue. It will also be useful for politicians, policy makers, and practitioners seeking to understand the mechanisms underlying the circulation of political hatred. Trade Review'With this book, Giovanni Ziccardi confirms his leading position in the field of law and technology. Only a few scholars can claim, at the same time, his legal and technological understanding of the challenges related to online political hate speech. A must-read: it will finally make clear why the European constitutional scenario needs specific legal responses, in order to avoid, or at least mitigate, the risk of the rise of new extremisms on the Internet.' --Oreste Pollicino, Bocconi University, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: the rise of political hate speech online PART I Political hate speech in Europe 1. The nature, and a first definition, of political hate speech 2. Political hate speech between Europe and USA 3. Hate speech: the role and responsibilities of political leaders according to the Council of Europe PART II Political hate speech online 4. Political hate speech and the new framework of digital networks 5. The typical contents of political hate speech online 6. An overview of European online political hate 7. Politics online and the use of hate speech 8. The instant communication of political hate speech 9. Political hate speech and the use of big data 10. The distortion of the democratic balance 11. Contrasting political hate speech online Conclusions: the future of political hate speech online Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Authoritarian Constitutionalism: Comparative
Book SynopsisThe contributions to this book analyse and submit to critique authoritarian constitutionalism as an important phenomenon in its own right, not merely as a deviant of liberal constitutionalism. Accordingly, the fourteen studies cover a variety of authoritarian regimes from Hungary to Apartheid South Africa, from China to Venezuela; from Syria to Argentina, and discuss the renaissance of authoritarian agendas and movements, such as populism, Trumpism, nationalism and xenophobia. From different theoretical perspectives the authors elucidate how authoritarian power is constituted, exercised and transferred in the different configurations of popular participation, economic imperatives, and imaginary community. Authoritarian Constitutionalism is of great interest to teachers, scholars and students of comparative constitutional law, comparative politics, and legal and political theory.Contributors include: H. Alviar García, D. Davis, M.W. Dowdle, O. El Manfalouty, G. Frankenberg, R. Gargarella, J. González Jácome, D. Kennedy, E. Mérieau, S. Newton, N. Spaulding, N. Sultany, M. Wilkinson, H. YamamotoTrade Review'The terms ''authoritarian constitutionalism'' may appear contradictory; but as this rich and far-reaching collection of essays demonstrates it is a widespread phenomenon which must be taken seriously at a time when democracy is under threat worldwide. This superb collection serves variously as an introduction to the topic, a penetrating theoretical and jurisprudential analysis, a new lens from which to view important debates about issues such as nationhood and inequality, and a global examination of the varying forms of authoritarian constitutionalism. It also sheds uncomfortable light on what we take to be exemplary, liberal and democratic constitutionalism. The result is the elaboration of an illuminating framework with which to study global and comparative constitutionalism.' --Tony Anghie, National University of Singapore and University of Utah, US'What if the liberal belief in a Constitution as safeguard and backbone of a democratic, inclusive and egalitarian society turned out to be wrong? The contributors to this extremely well-curated volume provide challenging evidence of the myriad ways in which constitutional texts and practices can and in fact do facilitate, endorse and empower authoritarianism. Calling for a critical reevaluation of liberal constitutionalism, this analysis - from Colombia to the US, Hungary to South Africa, Egypt to Singapore and Japan - is more than just an annotation at the margins of a self-involved, European script of ''global constitutionalism''. It emphasizes the need and value of connecting comparative constitutionalist local ethnographies in ''the North'', ''the South'', the ''West'' and ''the East'' with a thorough analysis of transnational regulatory dynamics.' --Peer Zumbansen, King's College London, UK and Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Preface Günter Frankenberg, Norman Spaulding, Helena Alviar García 1. Authoritarian Constitutionalism – Coming to terms with modernity’s nightmares Günter Frankenberg 2. Neoliberalism as a form of Authoritarian Constitutionalism Helena Alviar García 3. Authoritarian Constitutionalism: The South African Experience Dennis M. Davis 4. Infrastructural Power and its Possibilities for the Constitutional Evolution of Authoritarian Political Systems: Lessons from China Michael W. Dowdle 5. Authoritarian Constitutionalism in the Islamic World-Theoretical Considerations and Comparative Observations on Syria and Turkey Omar El Manfalouty 6. Authoritarian Constitutionalism in Latin America: From Past to Present Roberto Gargarella 7. Authoritarianism and the Narrative Power of Constitutionalism in Venezuela Jorge González-Jácome 8. Authoritarian Constitutionalism in Liberal Democracies Duncan Kennedy 9. French Authoritarian Constitutionalism and its Legacy Eugénie Mérieau 10. Plus ça change …the riddle of all Central Asian constitutions Scott Newton 11. Constitution of False Prophecies: The Illiberal Transformation of Hungary Maximilian Pichl 12. States of Authoritarianism in Liberal Democratic Regimes Norman W. Spaulding 13. Arab Constitutionalism and the Formalism of Authoritarian Constitutionalism Nimer Sultany 14. Authoritarian Liberalism as Authoritarian Constitutionalism Michael A. Wilkinson 15. An Authoritization of Japanese Constitutionalism? Hajime Yamamoto Index
£125.00
Liverpool University Press Franco's Soldiers: Recruitment and Combat in the
Book SynopsisThe coup d'etat of July 1936 split Spain in two, shaping a chessboard of terror, misery and death that would put an end to the Republic and give sustenance to dictatorship. In the rebel territory, Franco's soldiers were often not convinced followers, but mere pawns forced to fight for the future of a Spain in which the only element of cohesion would be fear. The experience of the Spanish Civil War is defined by how the dictator placed citizens before a terrible dilemma: become executioners or die. This experience was not confined to Spain alone. A transnational analysis, hitherto never undertaken, puts the Spanish war experience in the context of the political and military dramas of the first half of the 20th century. Issues of recruitment, terror, and propaganda dominate analysis. But deeper social and indeed psychological issues are equally important in understanding how dictatorship can shape society for the worse, and indeed come to be regarded by the majority as the norm. Special attention is paid to military ethos at all levels of the armed forces. Francos Soldiers, originally published to acclaim in Spain, provides a unique literary platform that better allows the Spanish Civil War experience to be understood in a wide historical context, thus furthering and encouraging international debate. Published in collaboration with the Department of International History, London School of Economics.Trade ReviewFrancisco Leira makes a major contribution by showing more than the two or even three Spains that earlier analysts have scrutinized. -- Bulletin ASPHS, Michael Seidman, University of North CarolinaAn excellent and enlightening book. -- Babelia, El Pais, Antonio Elorza
£110.00
Liverpool University Press Franco's Soldiers: Recruitment and Combat in the
Book SynopsisThe coup d'etat of July 1936 split Spain in two, shaping a chessboard of terror, misery and death that would put an end to the Republic and give sustenance to dictatorship. In the rebel territory, Franco's soldiers were often not convinced followers, but mere pawns forced to fight for the future of a Spain in which the only element of cohesion would be fear. The experience of the Spanish Civil War is defined by how the dictator placed citizens before a terrible dilemma: become executioners or die. This experience was not confined to Spain alone. A transnational analysis, hitherto never undertaken, puts the Spanish war experience in the context of the political and military dramas of the first half of the 20th century. Issues of recruitment, terror, and propaganda dominate analysis. But deeper social and indeed psychological issues are equally important in understanding how dictatorship can shape society for the worse, and indeed come to be regarded by the majority as the norm. Special attention is paid to military ethos at all levels of the armed forces. Francos Soldiers, originally published to acclaim in Spain, provides a unique literary platform that better allows the Spanish Civil War experience to be understood in a wide historical context, thus furthering and encouraging international debate. Published in collaboration with the Department of International History, London School of Economics.Trade ReviewFrancisco Leira makes a major contribution by showing more than the two or even three Spains that earlier analysts have scrutinized. -- Bulletin ASPHS, Michael Seidman, University of North CarolinaAn excellent and enlightening book. -- Babelia, El Pais, Antonio Elorza
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Liverpool University Press Lawfare — Judicial Warfare in Spain: The Strategy
Book SynopsisFor centuries, the Spanish state has proved to be an expert system for repressing political dissent and any threat that could jeopardize the maintenance of the status quo. It has done so using all the institutions and all the areas of power that were necessary, for the end has always justified the means. Carles Mundo, Catalan Minister of Justice, 2016-2017. There is no book in Spain that talks about lawfare. Nor is there a book that deals with the system of judicial repression of political dissidence deployed by the Franco regime. Nor is there a book that denounces the judicial system inherited from the dictatorial regime and that was later embodied in the 1978 Constitution. Lawfare (the combination of law and warfare) thus fills a void to the extent that it penetrates the authoritarian judicial system and highlights the democratic deficits of the Spanish judiciary. The politicization of justice began with the appointment, as president of the Constitutional Court, of a prominent member of the Peoples Party (Partido Popular PP) in 2013. Thereon started a process of judicialization of politics via reform of the Organic Law of the Court Constitutional. The referendums of November 9, 2014 and October 1, 2017 entailed the criminalization of the Catalan independence movement and a drastic reduction in fundamental rights linked to the exercise of political choice. This was confirmed by the judgment handed down by the Supreme Court in 2019, culminating in a lawfare strategy that has led to the criminal conviction of two presidents of the Generalitat Artur Mas and Joaquim Torra and the exile of a third president, Carles Puigdemont. Lawfare is the first book to link in a broad way the thinking of German jurists of the Nazi period to the training of judges in Spain both up to and during the Franco regime, and beyond. Published in collaboration with the Department of International History, London School of Economics
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Edward Elgar Publishing Research Handbook on Authoritarianism
Book SynopsisThis Research Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the latest knowledge on authoritarian regimes. Combining quantitative research and in-depth case studies, it not only provides novel insight into past and current dictatorships, but also forecasts potential new developments in authoritarian politics.
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Terror, Force and States: The Path from Modernity
Book SynopsisTerror, Force and States offers a new theoretical explanation of the nature and causes of terror states. The theory is developed through a critical examination of the works of Bauman, Weber, Arendt, Friedrich and Brzezinski, as well as through detailed case studies of terror regimes including Nazi Germany, Stalin's Russia and Pol Pot's Cambodia.The view of force as a form of power is rejected by Rosemary O'Kane who carefully distinguishes between repressive and terror governments and, crucially, between totalitarian dictatorships and totalitarian regimes. The lessons drawn suggest that the Holocaust and modern genocide are not intrinsically related to modernity. Terror regimes, she argues, operate not through the state but from behind a state facade within a secret society. Economic crisis is given prominence in their explanation with the decisive explanatory factor argued to be the move from plans to substantive irrationality. Indeed it is the economic rationality of modern society, most particularly in respect of labour markets, which acts as the barrier to terror's rule.All those with an interest in politics, sociology, history and Holocaust and genocide studies will welcome this important book which generates a new theory of terror states.Trade Review'There is no doubt that O'Kane's analysis is a valuable and interesting one.' -- Simon Tromey, Intelligence and National SecurityTable of ContentsContents: Part I: The Theories Part II: The Classic Cases 1. Russia Under Stalin 2. Germany Under Hitler Part III: Generalization and the Case of Cambodia Bibliography Index
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