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Transcript Verlag Post–Digital Cultures of the Far Right – Online
Book SynopsisHow have digital tools and networks transformed the far right's strategies and transnational prospects? This volume presents a unique critical survey of the online and offline tactics, symbols and platforms that are strategically remixed by contemporary far-right groups in Europe and the US. It features thirteen accessible essays by an international range of expert scholars, policy advisors and activists who offer informed answers to a number of urgent practical and theoretical questions: How and why has the internet emboldened extreme nationalisms? What counter-cultural approaches should civil societies develop in response?Trade Review"This global perspective is important in view of the cross-border networking of actors only consistently and brings with it a multitude of new insights." Tobias Fernholz, Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, 32/3 (2019), translated from German
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon The New Authoritarianism – Vol. 1: A Risk
Book SynopsisThis volume considers from a risk perspective the current phenomenon of the new Alt-Right authoritarianism and whether it represents real democracy or an unacceptable hegemony potentially resulting in elected dictatorships and abuses as well as dysfunctional government. Contributing authors represent an eclectic range of disciplines, including cognitive, organizational and political psychology, sociology, history, political science, international relations, linguistics and discourse analysis, and risk analysis. The Alt-Right threats and risk exposures, whether to democracy, human rights, law and order, social welfare, racial harmony, the economy, national security, the environment, and international relations, are identified and analyzed across a number of selected countries, including the US, UK, Austria, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, and Russia. Potential strategies to limit the Alt-Right threat are proposed.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon PC on Earth – The Beginnings of the Totalitarian
Book SynopsisWhat is political correctness? What is conformism? And could one say that pre-emptive obedience is a part of the increasingly prevalent climate of political correctness encountered today? The authors of "PC on Earth" take issue with a fashionable phenomenon emerging from North American campuses that is beginning to take hold in Europe, too: the dangerous consequences of identity politics and pre-emptive obedience, which they define as an essential element of political correctness. This book is a collection of satire, philosophical analysis, travel reports, political analysis, and personal experiences. The authors, all Europeans, present diverse views on a controversial topic. This collection offers readers independent and free-thinking opinions they will get nowhere else.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon The New Authoritarianism – Vol 3: A Risk Analysis
Book SynopsisThis volume continues the series that scrutinizes, from a risk perspective, the current phenomenon of authoritarianism, as displayed by the new radical right (also known as alternative right), and whether it represents real democracy or an unacceptable hegemony potentially resulting in elected dictatorships and abuses as well as dysfunctional government and harm to many parties. The book identifies and analyzes risk issues arising from the radical-right phenomenon in many forms, including the personal safety and security of individual citizens, ethno-religious minorities, and other minorities and vulnerable groups, as well as threats to organizations, public order and national security, to democratic governance, and to international security. As chapters reveal, the cross-flow of ideological, organizational, and dark money support emanating primarily from US corporate foundations, lubricates the fusion of corporate and radical-right interests nationally, transnationally, and globally. This volume gathers contributions from eight leading academic authors and provides a detailed examination of the fusion of mutual interests between, on the one hand, powerful corporate leaders, executives, and wealthy oligarchs and, on the other, radical-right political leaders, parties and intermediary organizations promoting radical-right causes. The two worlds feed off, enable, and strengthen each other. Of particular relevance to the third decade of the 21st century is an examination of the corporate/radical-right stance on the COVID-19 pandemic and the phenomenon of wild allegations and grand conspiracy theories disseminated by the radical-right against their enemies.Trade ReviewA brilliant new volume on the sources, ideas, ideologies, networks, and activities of the Alt, Far, and Extreme Right in world and domestic politics. The book goes beyond the academic study of the Radical Right and corporate power to examine the risk to democracy that such forces pose. It is required reading if we are to understand the forces shaping domestic and world politics today. -- Professor Inderjeet Parmar, Professor of International Politics, City (University of London)"Very well put together, if rather depressing. What a sorry catalogue of loathsome characters this volume reveals. One can only hope that there are some more good people out there than this collection of sociopaths." Gavin Jones, social and political commentator, columnist, and author of A Mental State"An exciting and remarkable read. This book makes an excellent and objective historical journey across the first two decades of this century. Two decades filled with propaganda and hate dissemination, mainly fuelled by the global reach of the internet and social media." The book charts "the rise of the 'Mega Powerful Corporations' and how their collective influence over holding personal data, and providing a platform for extremist terrorists and other criminals to promote their beliefs and activities, ultimately facilitates the dissemination of false facts and fake news." The chapters on negative and positive leadership are "incredibly eye-opening." Socrates Coudounaris, Executive Director of Risk (EMEA), Reinsurance Group of America"Very informative in terms of the authoritarianism aspects and radical-right details. The volume offers a diverse reading and learning in the breadth of the radical-right ideology, whilst proposing strategies and solutions for the challenges ahead. It promotes a response that emphasizes the development of democratic values, scientifically informed education and principles, promotion of social responsibility, and balanced positive leadership. An important and provoking piece of work." Dr Nathan Brooks, Senior Lecturer & Consultant Forensic Psychologist, Central Queensland University, Australia"The arguments felt very persuasive and well-articulated, namely that authoritarianism in radical-right politics and in corporations are the same phenomenon and work together for shared interests." Dr Nicolas Bichay, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Michigan State UniversityTable of ContentsForeword; Introduction: Corporate Authoritarianism, the Radical Right, and Risk; Part 1: The Authoritarian Nature of the Corporate/ Radical-Right Axis; Part 2: Perspectives on the Corporate/Radical-Right Axis; Part 3: Conclusion; About the Editor and Authors; Index.
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Penguin Putnam Inc Mr. President
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Oxford University Press Inc The Making of the Populist Movement
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Oxford University Press Inc A Wolf in the City
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Oxford University Press A Revolution in Favor of Government
Book SynopsisIn this trenchant new interpretation of America''s origins, Max Edling shows that the Federalists were primarily concerned with building a government that could act vigorously in defense of American interests. The Constitution transferred the powers of war-making and resource-extraction from the states to the national government, thereby creating a nation-state invested with all the important powers of Europe''s eighteenth-century ''fiscal-military states.''A strong centralized government such as this, however, challenged the American people''s deeply ingrained distrust of unduly concentrated authority. To secure the Constitution''s adoption in the face of this inherent suspicion, the Federalists had to balance the formation of a powerful national government with the strong current of anti-statism in the American political tradition. They did so, Edling argues, by designing a government that would be powerful in times of crisis, but which would make only limited demands on the citizenrTrade ReviewA book of undoubted power and value * The Journal of American History *At the very least, Max M. Edling has written the most important book on the adoption of the United States Constitution to appear since Forrest McDonald refuted Charles Beard in We the People: The Economic Origins of the Constitution (1958). * Journal of the Early American Republic *Edling's book is a powerfully argued revisionist interpretation of the origins of the Constitution. More than anything else, it helps us better understand the constitutional sources of the gigantic fiscal-military state that the United States has become. * Gordon S. Wood, Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History, Brown University *Not only a pleasure to read but extremely informative and persuasively argued. I will never think about the U.S. Constitution in the old way again. * Daniel Walker Howe, author of What Hath God Wrought *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: BEYOND MADISONIAN FEDERALISM; PART ONE: INTERPRETING THE DEBATE OVER RATIFICATION; PART TWO: MILITARY POWERS; PART THREE: FISCAL POWERS; CONCLUSION: THE CONSTITUTION, THE FEDERALISTS, AND THE AMERICAN STATE
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Spain Transformed The Late Franco Dictatorship 195975
Book SynopsisSpain Transformed addresses the sweeping social and cultural changes that characterized the late Franco regime. This wide-ranging collection reassesses the dictatorship's latter years by drawing on a wealth of new material and ideas, using an interdisciplinary approach.Trade Review'An impressive volume on late Francoist Spain Spain Transformed is a significant contribution to the debate on the nature of the Franco regime.' Julius Ruiz - English Historical Review 'A valuable contribution to the literature, this admirable collection is an eloquent indication of the Franco regime's continuing capacity to fascinate.' Paul Kennedy, Bulletin of Spanish Studies 'Townson has edited an impressive volume on late Francoist Spain Spain Transformed is a significant contribution to the debate on the nature of the Franco regime' - Julius Ruiz, University of Edinburgh, UK 'An excellent study of the late Franco regime, perhaps the period of greatest change in the history of Spain. It represents the best analysis of the transitions that made possible the Transition' - Michael Seidman, University of North Carolina, USATable of ContentsIntroduction; N.Townson The Golden Age of Spanish Capitalism: Economic Growth without Political Freedom; P.Martín .Aceña & E.Martínez Ruiz Tourism and Political Change in Franco's Spain; S.D.Pack The Change in Mentalities during the late Franco Regime; W.L.Bernecker How different was Spain? The late Franco Regime in International Context; T.Buchanan Order, Progress, and Syndicalism? How the late Francoist Authorities saw Socio-economic Change; A.Cazorla Sánchez New Political Mentalities in the tardofranquismo ; C.Palomares Associations and the Social Origins of the Transition during the Late Franco Regime; P.Radcliff Cultural Diversity and the Development of a Pre-Democratic Civil Society in Spain; E.Chuliá The Spanish Church: Change and Continuity; W.J. Callahan The Origins of Democratic Support in post-Franco Spain: Learning to be a Democrat under Authoritarian Rule?; M.Torcal The United States and Spain: From Franco to Juan Carlos; C.Powell The Franco Dictatorship: A Bifurcated Regime?; E.Malefakis
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Penguin Young Readers Live Not by Lies
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Hopkins Fulfillment Service The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe Italy Spain and Romania 18701945
Book SynopsisScholars and students interested in debates about the rise of fascism and authoritarianism, democratization, civil society, and comparative and historical methods will find his arguments compelling and his conclusions challenging.Trade ReviewRecommended. Choice 2011 Riley's account of the civic foundations of fascism succeeds not only in throwing new light on old questions, but also in redefining the theoretical parameters for understanding fascism. It will change the way we think about fascism in the future. -- Max Whyte American Journal of Sociology 2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations1. Civil Society and Fascism in Interwar Europe2. Party Fascism: Italy, 1870–19383. Traditionalist Fascism: Spain, 1876–19454. Statist Fascism: Romania, 1881–19405. Considering Alternatives6. Rethinking Civil Society and FascismNotesBibliographyIndex
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The A. K. Chesterton Trust Creed of a Fascist Revolutionary Why I Left Mosley 1 The AK Chesterton Trust Reprint Series
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Reconquista Press Fascisme et Monarchie
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LEGARE STREET PR The Gospel of Superman
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LEGARE STREET PR The Gospel of Superman
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Legare Street Press Democracy and the Will to Power
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Legare Street Press Ellen Keys Tredje Rike
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Secret Armies
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Creative Media Partners, LLC The Pedigree of Fascism
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Andrew Vaganov Publishing Putins blutiges Vermächtnis
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Lulu Press Exit Hate
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Bloomsbury Academic NeoNazi Postmodern
Book SynopsisFrom the violent skinhead protests of the early 1990s to the National Socialist Underground murder spree of the 2000s and the KSK (Kommando Spezialkräfte) scandal of 2020, this book traces Germany''s long struggle to suppress a resurgent and ever more terroristic far-right scene.Esther Elizabeth Adaire analyses the electoral success of the AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) party in 2017, the growing presence of PEGIDA on German streets, and the anti-COVID lockdown protests led by conspiracy theorist groups such as Querdenken which have taken aback liberal onlookers for whom Germany''s robust culture of Holocaust consciousness is supposed to provide a panacea against neo-Nazism. Adaire examines how, since unification, the intellectual Neue Rechte has increasingly destabilized the foundations of historical memory and lesson-learning in Germany, often doing so in the pages of mainstream conservative publications.Neo-Nazi Postmodern convincingly contends that far-right intellectuals ? joined by notable left-wing apostates who brought with them an anti-establishment critique borrowed from the language of postmodernism ? have since the early 1990s excused and justified an increasingly violent far-right youth scene, even becoming leaders of this scene themselves. The book therefore traces the development of today''s German far-right throughout several stages, notable scandals, and the ongoing destabilization of memory and truth from unification onwards, showing how previously disparate groups such as neo-Nazis, Neue Rechte intellectuals, and political fringe parties merged over time. This far-right scene, Adaire adeptly demonstrates, has come to embody what the historian Walter Laqueur once dubbed ''Postmodern Terrorism'': a mixture of cell-based terror structures, reliance on Internet technologies for organizational purposes, and the sowing of epistemic chaos via informational warfare.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Life in Stalins Soviet Union
Book SynopsisKees Boterbloem is Professor of History at the University of South Florida, USA. He is the author of nine books on Russian, Soviet and World History, including A History of Russia and Its Empire (2nd edition, 2018), The Life and Times of Andrei Zhdanov, 1896-1948 (2004) and Life and Death under Stalin (1999). He was, from 2008 to 2018, editor of the journal The Historian.Trade ReviewLife in Stalin’s Soviet Union is a welcome addition to the volumes currently available for teaching the history of Stalinism. While earlier collections tend to focus on the 1930s, many of the chapters in this work chart the full period of Stalinist rule, from the late 1920s to 1953. * Canadian Slavonic Papers *A popular interpretation of the Soviet Union in the West, particularly from the 1950s to the 1960s, emphasized the totalitarian nature of a communist regime that strictly controlled the daily lives of its citizens. Written for a general readership, Life in Stalin’s Soviet Union, edited by Kees Boterbloem, successfully challenges such a historiographical approach by highlighting the many strategies Soviet citizens used to circumvent, even defy, such a regimented and brutal government and, by the same token, recover some of their freedom. * Histoire sociale/Social History *Kees Boterbloem brings together a formidable cast of first-rate scholars for this study of daily life in Stalinist Russia. The result is an extremely impressive book that offers cutting-edge research with a remarkably wide scope. Its focus lies at the intersection of everyday life and the horrors of Stalinism, to which Soviet citizens were subjected for decades. This remarkable book helps us to see what it was to live in Stalinist Russia; I can think of no other text that does this as effectively. * Erik van Ree, Assistant Professor of Eastern European Studies, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands *With contributions from some of the most original and insightful historians of the Soviet Union, this volume demonstrates how the cataclysmic changes unleashed by Stalin impacted the daily lives of ordinary Soviet citizens. It is a story of brutal transformations and heroic resilience. * Jeffrey Veidlinger, Professor of History and Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, USA. *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction, Kees Boterbloem (University of South Florida, USA) 1. The End of the Russian Peasants under Stalin, Kees Boterbloem (University of South Florida, USA) 2. Food Consumption, Diet and Famines, Elena Osokina (University of South Carolina, USA) 3. The Cities: Urbanization and Modern Life, Heather Dehaan (Binghamton University, USA) 4. On the Margins: Social Dislocation and Criminality in the Soviet Union from the 1930s to the 1950s, David Shearer (University of Delaware, USA) 5. The Gulag under Stalin, Golfo Alexopoulos (University of South Florida, USA) 6. Private Ivan’s Life and Fate: Daily Life in Stalin’s Red Army during the "Great Patriotic War", Kenneth Slepyan (Transylvania University, USA) 7. The History of Disability during Stalinism, Frances Bernstein (Drew University, USA) 8. Gender and Sexuality, Amy Randall (Santa Clara University, USA) 9. The Educational Experience in Stalin’s Russia, 1931-1945, Larry E. Holmes (University of South Alabama, USA) 10. A Year of Celebrations in the Life of a Soviet Student, Karen Petrone (University of Kentucky, USA) 11. Soviet People’s Informal Interactions with Officials of the Stalin-Era Party-State, James Heinzen (Rowan University, USA) 12. The Religious Front: Militant Atheists and Militant Believers, Gregory Freeze (Brandeis University, USA) Index
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Rowman & Littlefield Tyranny from Plato to Trump
Book SynopsisPower grabs, partisan stand-offs, propaganda, and riots make for tantalizing fiction, but what do we do when that drama becomes a reality all around us? For a country founded as an escape from British tyranny, the United States seems to have devolved into a land where tyrants rise to power, sycophants blindly follow, and the entire nation suffers.As ancient Greek philosophers warned us, chaotic tragedy unfolds in the absence of reason, and the only cure is a return to wisdom and virtue. America's founding fathers knew this lesson all too well and dreamed of an enlightened citizenry guided by better-than-ideological dictators. Using contemporary events to illuminate universal human weaknesses, Andrew Fiala charts the perennial history of tyrannical takeovers and the masses who support them and ultimately suffer under their rule. Ultimately, Fiala also points to a solution. Knowing the cyclical nature of tyranny, we can build safeguards against our worst inclinations and keep alive the freedoms our founding fathers envisioned for this nation.
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Library of America Hannah Arendt The Origins of Totalitarianism Expanded Edition LOA 389
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www.bnpublishing.com Anatomy of the State
Book SynopsisMurray Rothbard was known as the state''s greatest living enemy, and this book is his most powerful statement on the topic. He explains what a state is and what it is not. He shows how it is an institution that violates all that we hold as honest and moral, and how it operates under a false cover. He shows how the state wrecks freedom, destroys civilization, and threatens all lives and property and social well being, all under the veneer of "good intentions."
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Experiment The Shortest History of Germany: From Roman
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WWW.Snowballpublishing.com The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing
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Vettaz Edition Limited La doctrine du Fascisme
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Bloomsbury Academic Strategies of Survival
Book SynopsisWeiqi Zhang is associate professor at Suffolk University, Boston. Jun Taek Kwon is associate professor at Utica University, New York.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Random Dictatorships
Book SynopsisAlexander Libman is professor of Russian and East European politics at the Freie Universität Berlin. Prior to that, he worked as professor of social sciences and East European studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. His research interests focus on comparative authoritarian development in the post-Soviet Eurasia. His work appeared, among others, in the American Political Science Review, World Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies and Perspectives on Politics.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Eurasian Authoritarianism
Book SynopsisKuanysh Sazan is a scholar of international studies and finance, specializing in authoritarian political systems. He holds a doctor of international studies from Johns Hopkins SAIS (2023) and a PhD in finance from Kazakhstan. With over 20 years of experience in international finance, research, and government, he has held senior positions in Kazakhstan's financial sector and worked with the IMF and Société Générale.
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Atria/One Signal Publishers Erasing History
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Fpd Books The Doctrine of Fascism
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Fpd Books The Doctrine of Fascism
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The Halfway Post Satire In The Biden Years
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Aid and Authoritarianism in Africa: Development without Democracy
Book SynopsisIn 2013 almost half of Africa's top aid recipients were ruled by authoritarian regimes. While the West may claim to promote democracy and human rights, in practice major bilateral and international donors, such as USAID, DFID, the World Bank and the European Commission, have seen their aid policies become ever more entangled with the survival of their authoritarian protégés. Local citizens thus find themselves at the receiving end of a compromise between aid agencies and government elites, in which development policies are shaped in the interests of maintaining the status quo. Aid and Authoritarianism in Africa sheds light on the political intricacies and moral dilemmas raised by the relationship between foreign aid and autocratic rule in Africa. Through contributions by leading experts exploring the revival of authoritarian development politics in Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Cameroon, Mozambique and Angola, the book exposes shifting donor interests and rhetoric as well as the impact of foreign aid on military assistance, rural development, electoral processes and domestic politics. In the process, it raises an urgent and too often neglected question: to what extent are foreign aid programmes actually perpetuating authoritarian rule?Trade ReviewProvides welcome relief from an academic literature which often treats official development assistance (ODA) in apolitical terms. * Africa at LSE *The collection is helpful in drawing attention to some general truths concerning the aid relationship; truths that bear restating for each new generation of scholars, policymakers and practitioners. * African Affairs *Anyone interested in foreign aid, African politics, authoritarian regimes, or the international dimension of democratization will find it well worth reading. * African Studies Review *A well-organized, fascinating collection. * Foreign Affairs *[A] timely collection of essays. * Medicine, Conflict and Survival *A valuable addition to the literature on political evolution in Africa and the relationship to aid and donor-based development. * The Conversation *A wake-up call to the international democratic community. Its rich, reflexive case studies analyze the broken promises of Western donors who have been supporting authoritarian governments in the name of peace and security. At a time when distrusting democracy has become fashionable again, this book cogently warns against the pitfalls of placing faith in dictatorship. * Andreas Schedler, author of The Politics of Uncertainty *An excellent contribution that will be of great use to students and researchers interested in democracy and foreign aid in sub-Saharan Africa ... will undoubtedly become a standard book for courses on development assistance and on African politics. * Devon Curtis, University of Cambridge *Easily one of the most important books on development published in recent years. It offers a brilliant and informed corrective to the near absence of any research on the important link between Western aid and authoritarianism. This is a must-read for all those concerned with where the globe's bankrupt political elites are taking us. * Mark Duffield, University of Bristol (Emeritus) *This incisive collection sounds a timely warning: if Western aid donors sacrifice democracy and human rights in the quest for economic growth and national security, they become complicit in keeping African autocrats in power. * Michael Bratton, Michigan State University *A thought-provoking collection on an important phenomenon of African and global politics. Its essays elegantly reveal the intersections between ideologies of progress, power politics, technocracy, and sovereignty. * Peter Uvin, Claremont McKenna College *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Aid and Authoritarianism in Sub-Saharan Africa after 1990 - Tobias Hagmann and Filip Reyntjens 1. Discourses of Democracy, Practices of Autocracy: Shifting Meanings of Democracy in the Aid-Authoritarianism Nexus - Rita Abrahamsen 2. Aid to Rwanda: Unstoppable Rock, Immovable Post - Zoë Marriage 3. Authoritarianism and the Securitization of Development in Uganda - David M. Anderson and Jonathan Fisher 4. Ethiopia and International Aid: Development Between High Modernism and Exceptional Measures - Emanuele Fantini and Luca Puddu 5. Donors and the Making of 'Credible' Elections in Cameroon - Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle 6. Foreign Aid and Political Settlements: Contrasting the Mozambican and Angolan Cases - Helena Pérez Niño and Philippe Le Billon Conclusion: Democracy Fatigue and the Ghost of Modernization Theory - Nicolas van de Walle
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Benediction Classics The Non-Fiction of George Orwell: Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier, Homage to Catalonia
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Sanctuary Press Ltd Essays on Fascism
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Scrawny Goat Books Hitler's Second Book: German Foreign Policy
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Scrawny Goat Books Hitler's Second Book: German Foreign Policy
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Counter-Currents Publishing The Lightning and the Sun
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Sunny Lou Publishing Italian Nationalism
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Antelope Hill Publishing Die Fahne Hoch: Three Biographies of Horst Wessel
Book SynopsisHorst Ludwig Georg Erich Wessel, born in Bielefeld in 1907, was the most celebrated martyr of the National Socialist movement. As a Sturmführer in the brown-shirted Sturmabteilung (SA), Horst Wessel led his men in Berlin, where the Communist paramilitary Red Front Fighters'' League did their best to disrupt the activities of the new German Nationalists. In response to his capable leadership, which threatened the Communist stranglehold on much of the city, the Red Front put out a hit on the young SA-Man. His resulting death at the hands of a cowardly Communist assassin-a pimp and petty criminal named Albrecht Höhler-became a rallying cry for his comrades all across Germany (Höhler would later be executed by the SA following the seizure of power in 1933).The namesake of this book-Die Fahne Hoch, or Raise the Flag-is a song written by Horst Wessel as a fighting song for the SA. After his martyrdom, it was adopted as the official anthem of the NSDAP and later as the national anthem of the Third Reich itself, as the Horst-Wessel-Lied. The three biographies in this collection are not so much dry factual recitations as they are passionate eulogies for a young man who laid down his life for his country, driven by idealism and a fanatical love for his people. Horst Wessel''s stature as an icon of the Third Reich achieved such heights that the legend of his life and death crosses into the territory of founding Mythology for National Socialist Germany.Horst Wessel served as an example to the youth of a defeated and desperate nation, a shining illustration of the value of courage and devotion, and proof that noble deeds often far outlive one''s own life and even the original circumstances in which they were made. Antelope Hill is proud to bring these short biographies together in one collection, Die Fahne Hoch, newly translated for the English reader.Contains:1) Horst Wessel: Life and Death by Erwin Reitmann2) SA Sturmfuhrer Horst Wessel: A Portrait of a Life of Sacrifice by Fritz Daum3) Horst Wessel: Through Strom and Struggle to Immortality by Max Kullak
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Antelope Hill Publishing José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Anthology of Speeches and Quotes
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Antelope Hill Publishing The Rise of the NSDAP
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Antelope Hill Publishing Voce del Popolo: Mussolini as Revealed in His Political Speeches
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