General and world history Books
University of Nevada Press Saving Grand Canyon: Dams, Deals, and a Noble
Book SynopsisGrand Canyon has been saved from dams three times in the last century. Unthinkable as it may seem today, many people promoted damming the Colorado River in the canyon during the early twentieth century as the most feasible solution to the water and power needs of the Pacific Southwest. These efforts reached their climax during the 1960s when the federal government tried to build two massive hydroelectric dams in Grand Canyon. Although not located within the Grand Canyon National Park or Monument, they would have flooded lengthy unprotected reaches of the canyon and along thirteen miles of the park boundary.Saving Grand Canyon tells the remarkable true story of the attempts to build dams in one of America's most spectacular natural wonders. Based on twenty-five years of research, this fascinating ride through history chronicles a century of Colorado River water development demonstrates how the National Environmental Policy Act came out of these controversies, and debunks the myth that the Sierra Club saved Grand Canyon. It also shows how the Sierra Club parlayed public perception as the canyon's savior into the leadership of the modern environmental movement after the National Environmental Policy Act became law.The tale of the Sierra Club stopping the dams has become so entrenched—and so embellished—that many historians, popular writers, and filmmakers have ignored the documented historical record. This epic story puts the events from 1963-68 into the broader the context of Colorado River water development and debunks 50 years of Colorado River water development and Grand Canyon history.Trade ReviewThis book is a very important corrective to the literature on the history of the Grand Canyon and for twentieth-century U.S. environmental history that for so long now has not told the complete story (and truth) on exactly how dams were kept out of the greater Grand Canyon area. Along the way, he [Pearson] tells a compelling story on so many levels of this controversy." - Sterling Evans, Louise Welsh Chair in Southern Plains and Borderlands History at the University of Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma"A fresh, bold new case for who should get the credit for preserving the Grand Canyon." - Bob Wyss, Professor of Journalism, University of ConnecticutTable of Contents Preface: Centennial Reflections Introduction Chapter 1: "Something to be Skinned" Chapter 2: New Lines in the Sand Chapter 3: Dinosaurs and Rainbows Chapter 4: A Time for Water Statesmanship Chapter 5: A "Fjord-like Setting" Chapter 6: "A Little Closer to God" Chapter 7: "Permanent Massive Things" Chapter 8: Be Careful What You Wish For . . . Chapter 9: Alternative Realities Selected Bibliography Acknowledgments About the Author
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The University Press of Kentucky Troublesome Rising
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BenBella Books After You Vote: A Woman's Guide to Making an
Book SynopsisNAUTILUS BOOK AWARD SILVER MEDALIST — SOCIAL CHANGE & SOCIAL JUSTICEWhen the election is over, the work is just beginning. The future of America depends on what you do after you vote. Today, women in the United States are more educated and politically ambitious than ever before. However, the record numbers of women running for office, casting votes, and marching for change haven't translated into full and equal political participation. Despite significant progress, women are less likely than men to engage in a range of important political activities—from speaking up on the issues they care about to holding their representatives accountable. Equal parts information and inspiration, After You Vote is both a primer and call-to-action for women of all ages who want to exercise their voices and engage more fully in civic life. It's the ultimate guide to political engagement, filled with practical (and proven) tactics to help women make their voices heard and have an influence on the issues they care about most. This book will help you: • Brush up on civics—federal, state, and local • Prioritize your issues • Use the most effective advocacy tactics • Stick with it for the long haul (politics is a marathon, not a sprint!) The question isn't if you can create change on behalf of the issues you care about. You can. The question is: What's at stake if you don't?Trade Review"After You Vote is an invaluable resource for women ready to create change. This smart, accessible guide arms you with the knowledge you need to make our political systems work for you—and the tools you need to fight for the causes you care about. Keep this book close as you take on the world!" —Emily Koh, director of strategic initiatives, TIME'S UP "After You Vote is a tremendous, well-timed, and highly accessible resource with proven and practical tools for women who are looking to use their minutes wisely to make the greatest impact, and it couldn't have come at a more critical time: women's political participation is more important now than ever." —Erin Loos Cutraro, CEO and founder, She Should Run "Courtney Emerson's new book, After You Vote, is a critical call to action empowering all women with the skills and resources to make an impact. Now, more than ever, we need women harnessing their full collective power to build a more inclusive and diverse political landscape." —Kathy Hochul, 77th Lt. Governor of New York and former Member of Congress "I know so many women who want to be more politically active but who hesitate, feeling lost or disillusioned with the current state of things. But, as After You Vote makes clear, the reality is that it's never been more important to get involved and fight for the causes you support. Let this brilliant book help you get started!" —Giovanna Gray Lockhart, founder, NYWCTable of ContentsContents Introduction: We All Have IssuesPart I: Let’s Get Civic-alChapter 1: Gender Gaps in American PoliticsChapter 2: Federal GovernmentChapter 3: State GovernmentChapter 4: Local GovernmentPart I WorkbookPart II: Tools for InfluenceChapter 5: Your Issues, Your VoiceChapter 6: Voting Chapter 7: Lobbying and AdvocacyChapter 8: Campaigning Chapter 9: Sustainable EngagementPart II Workbook Part III: Strengthening Our DemocracyChapter 10: Campaign Financing Chapter 11: Representative RepresentationChapter 12: Voter Access and ParticipationPart III WorkbookConclusion: A Call to Action Resources for ImpactEndnotesAcknowledgementsAbout the AuthorIndex
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Charco Press A Musical Offering
Book SynopsisA lyrical celebration of storytelling, of childhood, and of the transformative power of music.Tracing a circular course that echoes Bach’s Goldberg Variations , Luis Sagasti’s second book to appear in English takes the guise of a musical scheherazade, recounting story after story, vibrating to celestial harmonies. From the music born of the sun to the music sent into space on the Voyager mission, from Rothko to rock music, from the composers of the concentration camps to a weeping room for Argentinian conscripts in the Falklands, A Musical Offering traverses the shifting sands of fiction and history.Trade ReviewSociety of Authors Valle-Inclán Prize (Winner)Republic of Consciousness Prize (Shortlist)"Fluidity, charm, emotion and disarming brushes of grace." —The Wall Street Journal"A bewitching suite of stories about music, heard and unheard." —The Arts Desk"A beautiful, fragmentary rendition which never strikes a false note." —Irish Times"A Musical Offering is less an attempt to write about music than to actually write music - using words as a new kind of notation."" —Will Ashon , author of CHAMBER MUSIC and STRANGE LABYRINTH"The literary equivalent of a symphony." —Books and Bao"Sagasti handles his elements masterfully, subtly and dexterously weaves new threads into his tapestry." —BookBlast"A work of immense complexity, great balance and extraordinary beauty." —The Monthly Booking"Sagasti manages to create a world rich in illuminations and philosophical reflections." —Morning Star"Sagasti’s careful contrapuntal construction weaves together an eclectic range of vignettes which transcend their parts, leaving an indelible emotional impact that defies rationalisation." —Gutter Magazine"I have gained knowledge I didn’t know I needed." —Joyzine"A veritable fugue of insights and literary forms, subtlety and humour." —Asymptote**********Praise for Luis SagastiSociety of Authors TA First Translation Prize (Shortlist)"A subtle marvel...a nimble writer who merits wider readership in English." —Kirkus"A genre-defying collection of associative musings on art, music, philosophy, and literature." —Publishers Weekly"Innovative, playful, and beautifully executed."" —Carlos Fonseca , author of COLONEL LAGRIMAS"Simply genius."" —Enrique Vila-Matas , author of DUBLINESQUE"A work of wonderful analogies and disparate historical footnotes." —Morning Star"Like Borges before him, Sagasti has produced a rare thing: a work of fiction as learned as it is fun." —Gary M. Perry, Foyles Charing Cross"Sagasti produces here a magnificent constellation of stories, and in doing so pays tribute to art." —Fnac"One hundred pages of pure intelligence, to be enjoyed listening to Sun Ra." —L’Arbre Vengeur**********
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG An Armenian Mediterranean: Words and Worlds in Motion
Book SynopsisThis book rethinks the Armenian people as significant actors in the context of Mediterranean and global history. Spanning a millennium of cross-cultural interaction and exchange across the Mediterranean world, essays move between connected histories, frontier studies, comparative literature, and discussions of trauma, memory, diaspora, and visual culture. Contributors dismantle narrow, national ways of understanding Armenian literature; propose new frameworks for mapping the post-Ottoman Mediterranean world; and navigate the challenges of writing national history in a globalized age. A century after the Armenian genocide, this book reimagines the borders of the “Armenian,” pointing to a fresh vision for the field of Armenian studies that is omnivorously comparative, deeply interconnected, and rich with possibility.Table of Contents1. Introduction: A Moveable Armenia.- I. Rethinking Boundaries.- 2. The Age of the Gharīb: Strangers in the Medieval Mediterranean.- 3. Past the Mediterranean and Iran: A Comparative Study of Armenia as an Islamic Frontier, 1st/7th–5th/11th Centuries.- 4. A Fish out of Water? Medieval Armenia(ns) and the Mediterranean.- II. Connecting Histories.- 5. From "Autonomous" to "Interactive" Histories: World History's Challenge to Armenian Studies.- 6. Mapping Jerusalem: Re-Reading the City in the Context of the Medieval Mediterranean.- III. Breaking National and Imperial Paradigms.- 7. Between Anatolia and the Balkans: Tracing Armenians in the Post-Ottoman Order.- 8. Armeno-Turkish Writing and the Question of Hybridity.- 9. Wandering Minstrels, Moving Novels: The Case of Khach'atur Abovyan's Wounds of Armenia.- IV. Texturizing Diaspora.- 10. Weaving Images: Textile, Displacement, and Reframing the Borders of Visual Culture.- 11. Diasporic Flânerie: From Armenian Ruinenlust to Armenia's Walkscapes.- 12. Spaces of Difference, Spaces of Belonging: Negotiating Armenianness in Lebanon and France.- V. Placing Statehood.- 13. Contemporary Armenian Drama and World Literature.- 14. How to Write the History of the Third Republic (or How Not to Write It).- VI. Epilogue.- 15. The Mediterranean is Armenian.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Terrorism and Transatlantic Relations: Threats
Book SynopsisThis book explores the development of transatlantic policy on international terrorism and assesses the situation today. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to terrorism and transatlantic relations, bringing together experts from contemporary history, political science, military strategy, psychology, law and security. Looking back to the roots of modern terrorism, from the late 70s to 9/11 and beyond, the volume evaluates how attitudes and approaches have changed over this period. It analyses potential solutions for finding a shared philosophy to counter the threat of transnational terrorism in the US and Europe, against a rapidly changing political landscape. Chapters cover a range of topics, including the psychology of terrorism, online propaganda, domestic terrorism, terrorism and finance and cyber security.Table of Contents1. The Transatlantic Alliance and Terrorism: Aligning Responses and Cooperation to Threats and Challenges- Bruce Hoffman 2. The Dynamics of Entangled Political Violence: From the Greensboro Massacre (1979) to the War on Terror (2001)- Martin A. Miller 3. The Rise of the Right: Terrorism in the U.S. and Europe- Tobias Hof 4. The Recalibration of Force in International Counterterrorism, 2010-2020- Warren Chin 5. Counterterrorism in Europe: Discord and Disorder- Peter O’Brien 6. Difficult or Impossible? U.S.-China Cooperation, Counterterrorism, and Peaceful Co-existence from 9/11 to the Biden Administration- Klaus Larres7. It’s Getting Harder to Do: Countering Terrorist Use of the Internet- Don Gonzales 8. Terrorist Exploitation Points in the International Financial System: Major Vulnerabilities in the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Framework. Avenues for Transatlantic Cooperation- Ross S. Delston9. Transatlantic “Torture Taxis” and the Problem of Legal Accountability: The Case of North Carolina- Christina Cowger and Deborah M. Weissman 10. Concluding Remarks- Tobias Hof and Klaus Larres
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Scribal Practice and the Global Cultures of
Book Synopsis“This is a tour de force of sophisticated global erudition.” —Filippo de Vivo, University of Oxford, UK“In its wide global range and rich variety of studies, this expertly edited volume provides an unprecedented view into the scribal practices of diverse cultural traditions in the early modern period.” —Johanna Drucker, University of California, Los Angeles, USA“This volume finally gives the colophon the place it deserves. We see scribes and printers at work in Thailand, the Deccan, Delhi, Damascus, Antwerp, and Timbuktu.” —Konrad Hirschler, University of Hamburg, Germany“In this cross-disciplinary endeavor, ten authors tell lively and exciting stories of historical scribal practices.” —Verena Klemm, University of Leipzig, Germany This book is the first to chart the global diversity of colophons between 1400 and 1800. The volume presents a new approach to scribal cultures that expands traditional definitions. Moving from the paradigm of codicological information towards a thorough interpretation of the wider social worlds of colophons in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America, this volume uncovers the fascinating cultural history of early modern scribes. Chapters examine how those engaging in the composition and distribution of colophons shaped scribal identities, group cultures and bookish communities in a world in which manuscripts mattered. Authors build on approaches from anthropology, cultural studies, codicology, history, and philology to offer a new conceptual framework that studies colophons as scribal practices embedded in their changing social and cultural worlds. As a new contribution to the history of the book, this volume’s global approach pushes the boundaries of what constitutes a colophon.Trade Review“This volume is a welcome addition for the growing community of scholars interested in textual materialities and comparative book history. … this review shall point out some critical perspectives from which readers can engage with this innovative and thought-provoking collection.” (Hwisang Cho, Journal of Early Modern History, Vol. 27 (4), 2023)“Scribal practice is a welcome reminder that every part of a written text is potentially significant, and that even little-known texts can open unexpected windows on the past and present.” (Deborah Rudolph, EAPS, East Asian Publishing and Society, Vol. 13, 2023)Table of Contents1. Information, Interpretation, Interaction: Global Cultures of Colophons, c. 1400–1800- Christopher D. Bahl and Stefan Hanß2. A Prosopography in Circulation: Advertising Scribal Travails in Arabic Manuscripts across Early Modern South Asia- Christopher D. Bahl 3. Lines of Loyalties and Early Modern Cultural Diversity: Colophons as Sites of Encounters- Stefan Hanß4. How to Publish a Book in the Fifteenth-Century Middle East: The Case of Ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn’s “Abundant Refutation”- Laurenz Kern 5. Signatures of Authority: Colophons in Seventeenth-Century Melkite Circles in Aleppo- Feras Krimsti 6. The Making of a Local Historian in Timbuktu: The Signed Marginalia Attributed to Maḥmūd Ka‘ti in the Fondo Kati Collection- Susana Molins Lliteras 7. From Scribal Marks to Calligraphic Signatures? Print, Scribe and Script in Early Modern European Writing Manuals- Hannah Murphy 8. Poetry of the Scribes: Versified Colophons and Scribal Identity in Siamese Manuscript Culture- Peera Panarut 9. Muslim Scribal Culture in India around 1800: Toward a Disentangling of the Mughal Library and the Delhi Collection- Nur Sobers-Khan 10. In Absence of a Colophon: Alternative Signing Practices in Arabic Autograph Manuscripts- Torsten Wollina 11. Remembering the Living and the Dead in Fifteenth-Century Armenian Colophons: The Case of Bodleian MS Marsh 438 (I-III)- David Zakarian
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG A Transnational History of the Modern Caribbean:
Book SynopsisThis book examines Caribbean people resisting racial, political, and social oppression from the eve of the 1790s Haitian Revolution to the twenty-first century. Migrating rebels, shipments of newspapers, rumors, and acts of resistance themselves inspired people throughout the Caribbean who launched their own acts of defiance, illustrating the transnational nature of Caribbean resistance. Some people fought to be left alone, ungovernable, and masterless. Other people fought to free their ethnicity or race, their class, or their nation. Men and women employed a range of tactics from violent armed uprisings to fleeing repression and starting their own communities. Through song, language, religion and festivals, they maintained cultures and identities against oppressive norms that devalued or sought to destroy those cultures and identities. People declared strikes and riots against economic oppression. Women and mothers mobilized for their and their children’s freedoms. Across the Caribbean, people confronted oppression and in so doing illustrated their humanity and agency.Table of Contents1 A Popular History of Resistance across Borders. Thinking About “Resistance”. If It’s Not Rebellion, Is it Just Another Form of Accommodation?. Culture and Resistance. Transnational Resistance and Alternative Geographies. Women and Resistance. Some Cautionary Asides About Hero Worship and Resistance. The Chapters Ahead. Works Cited and Further References. 2 Dèyè mòn gen mòn: The Haitian Revolution Throughout the Caribbean. Indigenous and Slave Resistance before the Haitian Revolution. On the Eve of the Haitian Revolution. The Revolt of the Enslaved. Threats from Napoleon and Citizen Toussaint. Resisting Toussaint’s State. The French Invasion and the Declaration of Independence. The New Country of Ayiti. The Transnational Impact of the Haitian Revolution. Inspiring Revolts around the Caribbean. Haiti and Caribbean Political Radicalism. Revolutionary Privateering. Conclusion. Works Cited and Further References. 3 Liberating Ourselves: Slave Resistance and Emancipation. Motherhood and Resistance. Transnational Religion and Resistance. Caribbean Resistance and Its Transnational Impact on the United States. Transnationalism, Resistance, and Abolition in the French West Indies. Resistance in the Spanish Caribbean, 1790s–1840s. Rebellious Market Women of the Caribbean. Conclusion. Works Cited and Further References. 4 Liberating Ourselves: Freedom Fighting after Slavery. Haiti and Resistance during the Boyer Years. Resisting British Apprenticeship. Resisting Spanish Apprenticeship. Free Worker Revolts, Protests, and Strikes. Resisting Indentured Servitude. Intra-Class Resistance: Workers Fighting Workers. Morant Bay, Jamaica, 1865. Cultural Resistance. Conclusion. Works Cited and Further References. 5 Anti-Colonial Awakenings: The Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Panama, 1820s–Early 1900s. Early Anti-Spanish Efforts in the Caribbean: El Águila Negra and Filibusters. The 1860s War for Restoration in the Dominican Republic. Transnational Anti-Colonialism: The Antilles for Antilleans. Cuba’s Ten Years War, 1868–1878. The Little War in Cuba, 1879–1880. The Cuban War for Independence, 1895–1898. Banditry, Baseball, and Resistance. Transnational Support for Independence. The Spanish-American War and Its Aftermath. Panamanian Independence. Conclusion. Works Cited and Further References. 6 Working-Class Resistance and Anti-Imperialism, 1900–World War II. Transnational Anarchism Confronts US Expansion. Resisting US Imperialism in Haiti, 1915–1934. Resisting US Imperialism in the Dominican Republic, 1916–1924. Caribbean Anti-Imperialist Leagues in the 1920s and 1930s. Transnational Radical Support for Sandino’s Anti-Imperialism. Transnational Resistance in Imperial Black Contact Zones: Central America and Cuba. Transnational Resistance in Imperial Black Contact Zones: The Great War and at Home. Organized Labor and Resistance to British Rule. Trinidad 1937. Jamaica 1938. Conclusion. Works Cited and Further References. 7 Fighting Tyranny, Colonialism, and Imperialism at Mid-Century. Resisting Dictators: Machado in Cuba. Resisting Dictators: Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. The Caribbean Legion Wages Transnational War Against Dictators. Puerto Rican Nationalists and Anti-Colonial Resistance, 1930s–1950s. Anti-Americanism at Mid-Century. Anti-Colonialism and Decolonization in the British West Indies. Fighting a Different Form of Colonialism in the French West Indies. Resistance in the Dutch West Indies. Conclusion. Works Cited and Further References. 8 A Caribbean “Black Lives Matter”: Black Consciousness and Black Power, Early 1900s–1970s. Afro-Cuban Politics and the Partido Independiente de Color in the Early 1900s. The UNIA and Transnational Black Consciousness, 1910s–1920s. Black Consciousness Meets Marxism, 1920s–1930s. The African Blood Brotherhood, 1919–1922. Black Consciousness and Cultural Resistance, 1920s–1950s. The Cultural Politics of Noirisme in Haiti: The Rise and Rule of Papa Doc. Rastafari and Black Consciousness in Jamaica, 1930s–1970s. Rasta and the Cultural Politics of Reggae Music in the 1970s. Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, and Walter Rodney: Intellectual Roots of Black Power. Black Power across the Caribbean. Black Power and the 1970 Trinidad Revolution. Conclusion. Works Cited and Further References. 9 Hasta la Victoria Siempre: The Cuban Revolution Throughout the Caribbean, 1950s–1980s. Urban and Rural Resistance Against the Batista Dictatorship. Building the New Socialist Cuba. Resisting the Revolution: Counterrevolutionary Violence. Resisting Revolutionary Policies: The Politics of Childhood in the Early 1960s. The Revolution Didn’t Go Far Enough: Being Too Radical for the Revolution. Against the Revolution, Nothing: Cuban Cinema and Revolutionary Politics. Spreading Revolution. The Grenadian Revolution, 1979–1983. The Sandinista Revolution, 1979–1990. Conclusion. Works Cited and Further References. 10 Masses vs. Massa: The Ongoing Antiauthoritarian Struggle. Fall of the Duvaliers and Transition to People’s Rule in Haiti, 1980s–1990s. Puerto Rican Nationalists, 1970s–2000s. The Maroon War in Suriname, 1986–1992. Abu Bakr and Trinidad’s Muslim Revolt, 1990. Colombian Revolutionaries, 1960s–2010s. Transnational Chavismo and the Multipolar Axis Against Washington. Dissent during Cuba’s “Special Period,” 1990s–2010s. The 2009 Labor Uprisings in the French West Indies. Resistance to Political and Natural Disasters in Haiti and Puerto Rico. Indigenous Peoples’ Resistance. Resisting Sexual Violence. LGBTQ Resistance to Homophobia and Injustice. Reparations. Works Cited and Further References. Index.
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Springer International Publishing AG Rethinking Revolutions from 1905 to 1934:
Book Synopsis This edited collection offers a timely and original perspective on the many upheavals and revolutions that broke out across the world during the earlytwentieth century. With previous research tending to confine revolutions within national borders, this book sets out to place them within a broader global sphere of thought and action. The authors explore the time phase between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Asturian Revolution of 1934, including cases from South Africa, Australia, China, the Middle East and Latin America. Providing insights from leading scholars in the field, this collection highlights the interconnectedness and transnationalism of upheavals and revolutions, offering a new approach which integrates political, social and cultural history.Chapter 8 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via Link.springer.com Table of Contents1. Introduction: Three Decades of Global Revolution at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century; Stefan Berger and Klaus Weinhauer.- Part I. Revolutions around the World.- 2. Leading the Workers, Leading the Peasants: The Russian Revolution, 1897-1921; Geoffrey Swain.- 3. Imagining, Scripting and Enacting Revolution in Early Twentieth-Century China: The Xinhai Revolution of 1911; Laura De Giorgi.- 4. Frontiers of Revolution and Empire in the Middle East; Alp Yenen.- 5. Land and Freedom: Anarchists and Indians in the Crossfire of Colonial Expansion and Social Revolution in Latin America, 1848-1917; Olaf Kaltmeier and Léon Enrique Ávila Romero.- Part II. Revolutions, Revolutionaries and Counter Mobilisation in Europe.- 6. Global versus National Revolutionaries: Italian Trajectories from the ‘Great Migration’ to the ‘Fascist Revolution'; Marica Tolomelli.- 7. The German Revolution of 1918-1920; Stefan Berger and Klaus Weinhauer.- 8. The First Revolution of the Twentieth Century: Fears of Socialism and Anti-labour Mobilisation in Europe after the Russian Revolution of 1905; Romain Bonnet, Amerigo Caruso and Alessandro Saluppo.- 9. For People’s Power: Revolutions in Finland, 1899-1932; Pertti Haapala.- 10. The Last Echo of 1917: The Asturian October between Revolution and Antifascism; Matthew Kerry.- Part III. Revolutionaries between Repression and Reform.- 11. Vanguard to Laggard in a Revolutionary Age: Australian Labour, Democracy, Revolution and Reform; Liam Byrne and Sean Scalmer.- 12. The United States in an Era of Global Revolution; Shelton Stromquist.- 13. South African Revolutionaries: 1915-1922; Tom Lodge.
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De Gruyter Deutschlands Krise Und Konjunktur 1924 1934:
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De Gruyter Plans for European Union in Great Britain and in
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsFrontmatter -- Foreword -- Summary of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Full Table of Contents : List of Documents -- General Introduction -- Part One: British Plans for European Union 1939-45 -- Introduction -- I. Federal Union 1939-41 -- II. Other Contributions 1939-41 -- III. Discussion of European Integration in Britain 1942-45 -- Part Two: Plans of Exiled Groups and Individuals 1940-45 -- I. Plans by Exiles from France -- II. Plans by Exiles from East European Countries -- III. Plans by Exiles from Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark -- 1. Views of Belgian Exiles on the Postwar Order in Europe -- 2. Ideas of Netherlands Exiles on the Postwar International Order -- 3. Views of Danish Exiles on the Future of Europe -- IV. Plans by Exiles from the Axis Countries -- 1. Ideas of Italian Exiles on the Postwar Order in Europe -- 2. Ideas of German Exiles on the Postwar Order in Europe -- 3. Views of Austrian Exiles on the Future of Europe -- Part Three: Plans of Transnational Groups -- I. Views of Socialist and Trade Union Associations on the Postwar Order in Europe -- II. Views of Churches and Other Christian Groups on the Postwar International Order -- III. Views of East European Transnational Groups on the Postwar Order in Europe -- IV. Plans of Other Transnational Groups for European Union -- Note on Contributors -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- Backmatter
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De Gruyter The Struggle for European Union by Political
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsFrontmatter -- Summary of Contents -- Preface -- Full Table of Contents : List of Documents -- General Introduction -- I. French Political Parties and Pressure Groups in the Discussion on European Union -- II. Italian Political Parties and Pressure Groups in the Discussion on European Union -- III. Belgian Political Parties and Pressure Groups in the Discussion on European Union -- IV. Netherlands Political Parties and Pressure Groups in the Discussion on European Union -- V. The Discussion on European Union in the German Occupation Zones -- VI. The Discussion on European Union in Denmark -- VII. Great Britain: Political Parties and Pressure Groups in the Discussion on European Union -- VIII. The Beginning of the Discussion on European Union in Ireland -- IX. The Beginning of the Discussion on European Union in Greece -- Note on Contributers -- Name Index -- Subject Index
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Walter de Gruyter Alldeutscher Extremismus in der Weimarer Republik
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De Gruyter Victims, Perpetrators, and the Role of Law in
Book SynopsisThe relationship between politics and law in the early People’sRepublic of China was highly contentious. Periods of intentionallyexcessive campaign justice intersected with attempts to carve outprofessional standards of adjudication and to offer retroactive justicefor those deemed to have been unjustly persecuted. How were victims andperpetrators defined and dealt with during different stages of theMaoist era and beyond? How was law practiced, understood, and contestedin local contexts? This volume adopts a case study approach to shedlight on these complex questions. By way of a close reading of originalcase files from the grassroots level, the contributors detailprocedures and question long-held assumptions, not least about theCultural Revolution as a period of “lawlessness.”Table of Contents Introduction (Daniel Leese, Puck Engman) Beyond "Destruction" and "Lawlessness": The Legal System during the Cultural Revolution (Xu Lizhi) The Intelligence Sleeper Who Never Was: Han Fuying and Case 5004 (Michael Schoenhals) Vetting the People’s Servant: On the Principles of Revolutionary Integrity (Puck Engman) A Policeman, His Gun, and an Alleged Rape: Competing Appeals for Justice in Tianjin, 1966–1979 (Jeremy Brown) A Different Category of Life: The Counterrevolutionary Case of a Rural Schoolteacher (Wang Haiguang) From Denial to Apology: Narrative Strategies of a "Perpetrator" after the Cultural Revolution (Zhang Man) The Floating Fate of a Rebel Leader in Guangxi, 1966-1984 (Song Guoqing)
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Walter de Gruyter Die Geschichte Der Shoah Im Virtuellen Raum: Eine
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De Gruyter Sino-British Negotiations and the Search for a
Book SynopsisThe book is a systematic study of the China-Britain relationship during the 1942–1949 period with a particular focus on the two countries’ discussions over both the 1943 Sino-British treaty and the discarded Sino-British commercial treaty, the future of Hong Kong, and the political status of Tibet. These were dominated by two underlying themes: the elimination of the British imperialist position in China and the establishment of an equal and reciprocal bilateral relationship. The negotiations started promisingly in 1942–1943, but, by 1949, had failed to reach a satisfactory settlement. Behind the failure lay a complex set of domestic considerations and external factors, including the powerful infl uence of the United States. Even after seven decades, the failure still has a contemporary impact. Recent Sino-British disputes over the Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement and incessant Indo-Chinese confl icts and skirmishes over their unsettled borders all attest to the enduring legacy of the years 1942–1949 as setting the scene for subsequent Sino-British and Sino-Indian relations. From this perspective, the history has never left us.
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Springer International Publishing AG The OECD and the International Political Economy Since 1948
Book SynopsisThis book explores the history of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and its place within capitalist development. Since 1948, the OECD and its forerunner, the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC) worked on almost every subject of interest to national governments ranging from economic growth to education (PISA rankings), statistics, to the environment. With varying success the OEEC/OECD thus played a key role as a warden of the West and of capitalist development. However, it has remained one of the least understood international organizations. Bringing together a number of case studies by scholars from around the world, this first source-based volume on the history of the OEEC/OECD in global governance offers not only a new understanding of the Organization’s key areas of activities, but also its multiple relations to member states, other international organizations, and private networks. The volume thus critically re-examines postwar international history, most importantly decolonization and the Cold War, through the prism of one international organization in its various contexts.Trade Review“This ground-breaking collection is part of a larger research project now based at the University of Zurich … . Although there is quite a substantial literature on the OECD, its rich archival resources are largely unstudied, and it is still relatively neglected among international organizations concerned with the global political economy. This volume continues the considerable task of remedying the first of these issues, and makes a strong contribution to the second across a wide range of issues.” (whatsworthreading.weebly.com, April, 2018)Table of ContentsIntroduction: Writing histories of the OECD; Matthieu Leimgruber & Matthias Schmelzer.- From the Marshall Plan to global governance: Historical transformations of the OEEC/OECD, 1948 to present; Matthias Schmelzer & Matthieu Leimgruber.- A short guide to historical archives, online resources, and research materials on the OEEC/OECD.- Part I: Being part of the West.- Western European vs. all-European cooperation? The OEEC, the European Recovery Program, and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), 1947-1952; Daniel Stinsky.- A socialist developing country in a Western capitalist club. Yugoslavia and the OEEC/OECD, 1955-1980; Andrej Markovic & Ivan Obadic.- Shall we or shall we not? The Japanese, Australian and New Zealand decisions to apply for membership of the OECD, 1960-1973; Peter Carroll.- The construction of a Western voice: OECD and the first UNCTAD of 1964; Patricia Hongler.- Part II: Managing the economy.- From post-war reconstruction to multi-level neo-corporatism. The OEEC/OECD and steel during the Cold War; Wolfram Kaiser.- A crisis manager for the international monetary and financial system? The rise and fall of the OECD Working Party 3, 1961-1980; Kazuhiko Yago.- Peer pressure in Paris: Country reviews at the OECD in the 1960s and 1970s; William Gray.- ‘Positive adjustments’: the emergence of supply-side economics in the OECD and G7, 1970-1984; Samuel Beroud.- Part III: Coping with socio-ecological challenges.- The narrowing-down of the OEEC/OECD migration functions, 1947-1986; Emmanuel Comte & Simone Paoli.- Engineering the Free World. The emergence of the OECD as an actor in education policy, 1957-1972; Regula Bürgi.- Negotiating environment: The making of the OECD Environment Committee and the Polluter Pays Principle, 1968-1972; Iris Borowy.- Gendering development: the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee, 1981-2000; Rianne Mahon.
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Springer International Publishing AG The Politics of Commercial Treaties in the Eighteenth Century: Balance of Power, Balance of Trade
Book SynopsisThis book is the first study that analyses bilateral commercial treaties as instruments of peace and trade comparatively and over time. The work focuses on commercial treaties as an index of the challenges of eighteenth-century European politics, shaping a new understanding of these challenges and of how they were confronted at the time in theory and diplomatic practice. From the middle of the seventeenth century to the time of the Napoleonic wars bilateral commercial treaties were concluded not only at the end of large-scale wars accompanying peace settlements, but also independently with the aim to prevent or contain war through controlling the balance of trade between states. Commercial treaties were also understood by major political writers across Europe as practical manifestations of the wider intellectual problem of devising a system of interstate trade in which the principles of reciprocity and equality were combined to produce sustainable peaceful economic development. Trade Review“The volume at hand should be celebrated for highlighting their importance for early modern history in general and for political economy more specifically. … this excellent edited volume offers a welcome reminder not only of the high stakes of our current predicaments but also of how long they have been so and why peaceful international order remains so elusive in a world where wealth and power are positional goods.” (Sophus A. Reinert, Journal of Modern History, Issue 9, 2019)Table of Contents1. Trade and Treaties: Balancing the Interstate system; Antonella Alimento & Koen Stapelbroek.- 2. Égalité, réciprocité, souveraineté. The role of commercial treaties in Colbert’s economic policy; Moritz Isenmann.- 3. The Anglo-Portuguese Methuen Treaty of 1703: Opportunities and Constraints of Economic Development; José Luís Cardoso.- 4. The Anglo-French Treaty of Utrecht Revisited: The Politics of Alliance and Rivalry; Doohwan Ahn.- 5. The Anglo-Spanish Asiento treaty in the early eighteenth century; Maria Virginia León & Niccolò Guasti.- 6. Negotiating the balance of power: Russian-Spanish commercial relations in the early eighteenth century; Olga Volosyuk.- 7. Reinventing the Dutch Republic: Franco-Dutch commercial treaties from Ryswick to Vienna; Koen Stapelbroek,- 8. The conditions of trade in wartime: treaties of commerce and maritime law in the eighteenth century; Eric Schnakenbourg.- 9. From privilege to equality: commercial treaties and the French solutions for international competition (1705-1790); Antonella Alimento,- 10 Securing Asian Trade: Treaty Negotiations between the French and English East India Companies, 1753–1755; John Shovlin.- 11. The Rise of a Trading Nation. Prussia and the ‘Convention préliminaire de commerce’ with France (1753); Marco Cavarzere.- 12. War, Neutrality and Commercial Treaties: The Savoyard State 1660-1789; Christopher Storrs.- 13. Negotiating a trade treaty in the imperial context: The Habsburg Monarchy in the eighteenth century; Christine Lebeau.- 14. French Representations of the 1786 Franco-British Commercial Treaty; Pascal Dupuy.- 15 Haiti’s Commercial Treaties: Between Abolition and the Persistence of the Old Regime; Paul Cheney.- 16. What trade for a republican people? French Revolutionary debates about commercial treaties (1792-1799); Marc Belissa.
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Springer International Publishing AG The NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society, 1969–1975: Transatlantic Relations, the Cold War and the Environment
Book SynopsisThis book is the first comprehensive study of the setting up and early development of the NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society (CCMS), or the alliance’s environmental programme. This expansion of allied cooperation is an interesting indicator of transatlantic relations during an era of transition and under the impact of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger’s diplomacy. The book discusses intra-NATO politics, the projects of the early years and the participation in CCMS projects of non-NATO countries – an unusual feature in the activity of a military alliance. Environmental cooperation in NATO was part of the changes which scientific cooperation was effecting in the international system during the entry into the post-industrial era. The making of the CCMS is the story of a crisis of adjustment to the new era, of hiccups in transatlantic relationships, but ultimately also a story of transatlantic unity. The book will be of much interest to students of NATO, the Cold War, international and environmental history, history of science and international relations.Trade Review“The NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society sheds new light on the anxieties facing the Western allies. … This overview of the CCMS’s early studies offers a reminder that NATO’s operations have long been far more complex and diverse than the phrase ‘political and military alliance’ suggests.” (Susan Colbourn, H-Net Reviews, h-net.org, April 16, 2019)Table of Contents1 Introduction.- 2 The Making of the CCMS, 1969.- 3 The CCMS in NATO Politics: from Doubt to Acceptance, 1970-75.- 4 Dress Rehearsal: the CCMS and Narcotics, 1970-72.- 5 CCMS: the Projects, 1970-75.- 6 The British Deviation, 1969-72.- 7 Beyond NATO: the CCMS and International Politics.- 8 Conclusions.
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