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Guernica Editions,Canada Believe America: How I tried to end mass
Book SynopsisSamson Johnson has spent a life in politics. A self professed politics 'bicycle seat' finds himself run down and out of faith around 2014. Despite having worked many positions in numerous campaigns, for a litany of different causes all over the political spectrum, he is jaded, pained and full of doubt. In an effort to bring himself down from the non-stop, jet set campaigning lifestyle,Samson takes a quiet data entry job for a think tank in Washington DC, in an effort to reclaim stability in his life. Within weeks however, Samson's attempt at finding serenity is shattered with reports of another mass shooting. Samson finds himself possessed to address gun violence and begins a one man campaign to end it forever.From Militia men in Oklahoma, to a Pride Center in Vermont, from shareholders in California, to reservation workers in South Dakota – Samson Johnson's 'Believe America' movement traverses all over America to reach its people. Yet as the movement builds in popularity so does Samson's reflection on his policy. Across his journey, he is given the creeping realization that his policy may be woefully misguided and in fact, stand to do more harm than good.
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Monash University Publishing A Long March
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Ukraine′s Maidan, Russia′s War – A Chronicle and
Book SynopsisIn early 2014, sparked by an assault by their government on peaceful students, Ukrainians rose up against a deeply corrupt, Moscow-backed regime. Initially demonstrating under the banner of EU integration, the Maidan protesters proclaimed their right to a dignified existence; they learned to organize, to act collectively, to become a civil society. Most prominently, they established a new Ukrainian identity: territorial, inclusive, and present-focused with powerful mobilizing symbols. Driven by an urban bourgeoisie that rejected the hierarchies of industrial society in favor of a post-modern heterarchy, a previously passive post-Soviet country experienced a profound social revolution that generated new senses: Dignity and fairness became rallying cries for millions. Europe as the symbolic target of political aspiration gradually faded, but the impact (including on Europe) of Ukraines revolution remained. When Russia invaded -- illegally annexing Crimea and then feeding continuous military conflict in the Donbas -- Ukrainians responded with a massive volunteer effort and touching patriotism. In the process, they transformed their country, the region, and indeed the world. This book provides a chronicle of Ukraines Maidan and Russias ongoing war, and puts forth an analysis of the Revolution of Dignity from the perspective of a participant observer.
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ibidem Journal of Soviet and PostSoviet Politics and Society
Book SynopsisThis special issue explores the Kremlin-driven politics of war memories as they unfold in the northernmost parts of Norway and European Russia, two regions that share not only a border but also a long history of interaction.
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Edition Taube Mistakes Were Made
Book SynopsisA collection of deconstructed speeches from Trump to Merkel, Agata Madejska's Mistakes Were Made reimages the poetic pathos that has come to structure the radicalisation of mainstream political thought.
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Westland Publications Limited The New Bjp: The Remaking of the World's Largest
Book SynopsisThe BJP's consistent electoral success since 2014 reflects growth beyond its Hindu base. Nalin Mehta explores factors like development schemes, RSS mobilization, and Modi's leadership in reshaping Indian politics through social engineering, moving beyond traditional Hindutva narratives.
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Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press The Gulf Crisis: The View from Qatar
Book SynopsisThe blockade of Qatar, which was launched in June 2017, has not only had important long-term implications for life in Qatar, it has also cast a giant shadow over future relations between Gulf neighbours and has impacted on dynamics across the wider international community. In this volume, fifteen Doha-based scholars and experts offer insider accounts of the ways the blockade has influenced Qatars economy, politics, and society; how it has impacted on regional and international diplomatic, security, and strategic relations; and how it has been covered in traditional and social media outlets. These reader-friendly contributions are complemented by a series of photographs that provide an illuminating visual record of events. The result is an unmatched chronicle of the dynamics of the blockade in its first year that will appeal to experts and general readers alike.
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Academic Studies Press The History of the Republic of Turkey: Grandeur
Book SynopsisA comprehensive, readable history of the Republic of Turkey that gives equal weight to all periods in the first century of the Republic of Turkey.The republican order of Turkey seems not to have changed much since its foundation in 1923, but there were dramatic transformations: From Atatürk’s modernization dictatorship in the 1920s and 1930s, over the massive migration into the cities and the military coups in the second half of the twentieth century, up to Recep Tayyip Erdoğans electoral autocracy since the 2010s. This book makes us understand Turkey’s historical trajectory in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the fate of its various communities and ethnic groups—in particular Alevis and Kurds—and argues that a particular trait of Turkish political culture is its constant fluctuation between confidence and contention, grandeur and grievance.Trade Review“Maurus Reinkowski’s The History of Turkey: Grandeur and Grievance offers a critical retelling of Turkey’s triumphs and tragedies, providing an empathic exploration of the country’s past over a century. This expertly crafted work illuminates the country’s moments of grandeur and delves into its deep-seated grievances. Through an engagement with state-of-the-art research, Reinkowski’s keen eye for detail allows him to paint a vivid picture of Turkey’s complex history, surpassing standard textbooks. In a time of political crisis, Reinkowski’s engaging yet sober book offers a much-needed update to the perhaps overly optimistic scholarship of the last two decades. Impeccably researched and eloquently written, The History of Turkey: Grandeur and Grievance is an indispensable resource for scholars, students, and anyone seeking a critical understanding of Turkey’s past, present, and future.” — Alp Yenen, Assistant Professor of Modern Turkish History and Culture, Leiden University“In his thought-provoking introductory chapter, Maurus Reinkowski aptly observes that Turkey is a country that evokes anything but indifference. This rings acutely true in 2023, as Turkey not only faces presidential elections but also gears up to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the founding of the Turkish Republic. The History of Turkey provides an invaluable companion to unlock the historical context of these events. Covering a period from 1912 to the present, the book offers a nuanced, meticulously researched and vividly narrated historical overview. It serves as a comprehensive and widely accessible guide to Turkish history and historiography that also features insightful discussions of Turkey’s most recent decades. By skillfully embedding key developments within their broader historical and cultural contexts, the rich narrative invites readers to explore the complexity and diversity of Turkish history and allows them to recognize enduring legacies and reverberations of the processes depicted in the book.”— Barbara Henning, professor at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Ottoman and Turkish History“This work is the culmination of some forty years of diligent language practice, intensive research, meticulous observation, and genuine engagement with the societies of Turkey. The result is a profound piece of scholarship with pages full of intellectually sophisticated analyses and magisterial detail that provide a new interpretation of the land, state, and people. Well-grounded in a wide range of old and new scholarship, it is a highly accessible account of Turkey from both a comparative and global perspective. This book will eloquently but at the same time disturbingly and constantly remind readers how firmly the genesis of state ideology is built on the foundations of the late Ottoman and early Republican period. It is essential reading for introductory and advanced courses on Turkey and the Middle East, and for those who look for a concise, yet authoritative account of the region in order to understand the state, politics, and society in depth. There is no equivalent study of this quality for Turkey; Reinkowski deserves considerable praise for a work that should receive much attention.”— Metin Atmaca, Professor of Ottoman and Middle East History, Social Sciences University of Ankara"This work of Maurus Reinkowski is an indispensable tool for those aiming to have a profound knowledge on present-day Turkish politics, or to understand this complex society. Having been trained in late Ottoman history and Middle East politics, Reinkowski is a keen observer of political and social developments in contemporary Turkey, also known officially as Türkiye. This study is chronologically organized, beginning with the historical roots of modern Turkey, followed by the Kemalist Republic (1923-1950), the period of 1950-1980, and recent Turkish history. What makes this book so appealing is its concentration on contemporary Turkish developments following the military coup of 1980. It discusses structural conditions leading to a crucial break from Kemalism, commenced with the so-called ‘Turkish-Islamic Synthesis’ ideology of the 1980s, continued by the economic liberalism of Turgut Özal, finally leading to the AKP-era presidential system accompanied by populism and authoritarianism. Reinkowski handles numerous topics, which still bear the quality of actuality, in a precise, informative and balanced manner."— Selçuk Akşin Somel, Sabancı University, Istanbul“This mature work combines affection for the subject with detached insight; serious questioning with a positive approach. Drawing on the current state of research, Reinkowski appreciates Turkey's potential and grievances, but also highlights the dead ends of its ultranationalism. Reading his insightful narrative reveals a central challenge: how to build up trust and democratic confidence in the dynamic, but troubled post-Ottoman country that is Republican Turkey? This work differs from many traditional books on modern Turkey that overemphasize Atatürk, while ignoring the late-Ottoman context and new developments of the twenty-first century.”— Hans-Lukas Kieser, Historian, University of Newcastle, Australia, and University of Zurich, SwitzerlandTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction Farewell to the Ottoman Empire The Kemalist Republic, 1923–1950 Precarious Pluralism, 1950–1980 The Promise of Islamic Conservatism, 1980–2013 The Road to Another Republic, 2013–the Present Update on Turkey in the Years 2021–2023 AcknowledgementsTimelineAbbreviationsIndex
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Oxford University Press Inc Dictating the Agenda
Book SynopsisThis is a story not just of the limits of liberal influence across the world, but of how authoritarian governments came to dictate the global agenda by repurposing the very actors, tools, and norms that once afforded US-backed liberalism such global prominence. Following the end of the Cold War, the world experienced a remarkable wave of democratization. Over the next two decades, numerous authoritarian regimes transitioned to democracies, and it seemed that authoritarianism as a political model was fading. But as recent events have shown, things have clearly changed. In Dictating the Agenda, authors Alexander Cooley and Alexander Dukalskis reveal how today''s authoritarian states are actively countering liberal ideas and advocacy surrounding human rights and democracy across various global governance domains. The transformed global context has unlocked for authoritarian states the possibility to contend with Western liberal soft power in new, traditionally non-political ways, including by plugging or even reversing the very channels of influence that originally spread liberalism. Cooley and Dukalskis ultimately advance a theory of authoritarian snapback, the process in which non-democratic states limit the transnational resonance of liberal ideas at home and advance anti-liberal norms and ideas into the global public sphere. Drawing from a range of evidence, including field work interviews and comparative case studies that demonstrate the changing nature of consumer boycotts, a database of authoritarian government administrative actions against foreign journalists, a database of global content-sharing agreement involving Chinese and Russian state media, and a database of transnational higher education partnerships involving authoritarian and democratic countries, this book doesn''t just reveal the limits of the liberal influence taken for granted across the world. It offers a novel theory of how authoritarian governments figured out how to exploit and repurpose the same actors, tools, and norms that once exclusively promoted and sustained US-backed liberalism.
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Penguin Putnam Inc Tired of Winning
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Orion Publishing Co The Harold Nicolson Diaries 19071964 19191968
Book SynopsisOne of the great 20th century political diaries''A tremendous read'' SPECTATOR''One stops to marvel at the achievement. Honesty, decency, modesty, magnanimity, are stamped on every page, as evident as the wit'' EVENING STANDARDHarold Nicolson was one of the three great political diarists of the 20th century (along with Chips Channon and Alan Clark). Nicolson was an MP (Conservative, 1935-45, who also flirted with Labour after WWII). He had previously been in the Foreign Office and attended the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, and material from his period is included in this new edition for the first time. Nicolson never achieved high office, but rarely a day went by when he didn''t record what was going on at Westminster. He socialised widely, was married to the poet and author Vita Sackville-West, and together they created the famous garden at Sissinghurst. Both were bi-sexuals and had affairs outside their marriage. This new ediTrade ReviewA tremendous read * SPECTATOR *Beautifully written, witty and wise. His son Nigel has edited them brilliantly -- Noel CowardNicolson's great gift as a diarist is that he does not simply record events: he brings those events and the characters in them brilliantly to life. His diary entries are astonishingly rich min-portraits of people and places, with a telling eye for detail... Brilliant, riveting stuff * TRIBUNE *The book as a historical document has so many merits that it is hard to know where to begin * GUARDIAN *One stops to marvel at the achievement. Honesty, decency, modesty, magnanimity, are stamped on every page, as evident as the wit * EVENING STANDARD *He remains completely unaware that he is tapping out a masterpiece. As lively as Creevey or the de Goncourts * THE TIMES *Not only a brilliant portrait of English society, but a touching self-portrait of a highly intelligent and civilised man driven by conscience and curiosity to enter politics -- Kenneth ClarkBeautifully written, witty and wise. His son Nigel has edited them brilliantly -- Noel CowardHe was clever and highly observant and a little absurd, and right at the centre of things. No two pages pass without something to alight on with pleasure . . . A tremendous read * Spectator *Nicolson's great gift as a diarist is that he does not simply recoprd events: he brings those events and the characters in them brilliantly to life. His diary entries are astonishingly rich min-portraits of people and places, with a telling eye for detail... Brilliant, riveting stuff. * TRIBUNE *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Governance and Domestic Policymaking in Saudi
Book SynopsisMark C. Thompson is Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Socioeconomic Program at King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS) in Saudi Arabia. He was previously Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia. He has published Being Young Male and Saudi (2019) and Saudi Arabia and the Path to Political Change (I.B.Tauris, 2014), and is the co-editor of Policy-Making in the GCC (I.B.Tauris, 2017).Neil Quilliam is Managing Director at Azure Strategy Consulting in the UK and an associate fellow with the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House, London, UK where he headed the programme's Future Dynamics in the Gulf' project. He has served as senior MENA energy adviser at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), senior MENA analyst at Control Risks, London, and senior programme officer at the United Nations University, Jordan.Trade ReviewMark Thompson and Neil Quilliam have put together a masterful volume focused on some of the largest and most relevant issues facing Saudi Arabia today. Ranging from coverage of the Kingdom’s efforts at economic reform to defense capacity, educational reform, and climate change, this timely collection features a number of studies important for students and policymakers alike, as Saudi Arabia emerges under Mohammed bin Salman as a distinct actor on the international and regional scene. * Courtney Freer, London School of Economics, UK *Table of ContentsAbbreviations Contributors Introduction: “Setting the Scene: Domestic Policy Making and Governance in Saudi Arabia”, Dr. Mark C. Thompson & Dr. Neil Quilliam PART 1: MAKING POLICY IN SAUDI ARABIA Chapter 1: “How is evidence used for policymaking in Saudi Arabia? Lessons from Harvard's engagements in human capital development and labour policy”, Dr. Ammar Malik, Director of Evidence for Policy Design Research, Harvard Kennedy School, Boston, USA Chapter 2: “How Can Saudi Arabia Better Coordinate Divergent Economic Reform Agendas?”Faris Al Sulayman & Dr. Makio Yamada, King Faisal Center for Research & Islamic Studies, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Chapter 3: “King-Makers or Knaves? The Role of Consultants in Domestic Policy Making and Governance in Saudi Arabia”, David Jones & Radhika Punshi, Founders, CEO and Managing Director at The Talent Enterprise, Dubai, UAE PART 2: PUTTING POLICIES INTO PRACTICE Chapter 4: “Beyond the Glitter Factor: Building Defense Capacity in Salman’s Saudi Arabia”, Professor David Des Roches, Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University, Washington DC, USA Chapter 5: “Vocational Education and Training in Saudi Arabia: How Decisions about TVET Can Help Align Education Policies with Young People’s Aspirations”, Dr. Hanaa Almoaibed, University College London, UK Chapter 6: “In-depth analysis of obesity causes and proposed innovative solutions”, Dr. Wareed Alenaini, University of Westminster, London, UK PART 3: GOVERNANCE CHALLENGES: MANAGING ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES Chapter 7: “Energy Governance: is the new meeting the old in Saudi Arabia's energy industries?”, Jessica Obeid, Energy Consultant, Academy Associate Chatham House, London, UK Chapter 8: “In Search of Legitimation: Environmental Policy making in Saudi Arabia”, Tobias Zumbrägel, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Chapter 9: “Climate change governance in Saudi Arabia: integrity, politics, challenges and opportunities”, Dr. Aisha Al Sarihi, King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Chapter 10: “Last Man Standing: Global Climate Action and Saudi Reaction”, Dr. Jim Kran, Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy Bibliography Index
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Semiotext (E) Gore Capitalism
Book SynopsisAn analysis of contemporary violence as the new commodity of today''s hyper-consumerist stage of capitalism.“Death has become the most profitable business in existence.”—from Gore CapitalismWritten by the Tijuana activist intellectual Sayak Valencia, Gore Capitalism is a crucial essay that posits a decolonial, feminist philosophical approach to the outbreak of violence in Mexico and, more broadly, across the global regions of the Third World. Valencia argues that violence itself has become a product within hyper-consumerist neoliberal capitalism, and that tortured and mutilated bodies have become commodities to be traded and utilized for profit in an age of impunity and governmental austerity.In a lucid and transgressive voice, Valencia unravels the workings of the politics of death in the context of contemporary networks of hyper-consumption, the ups and downs of capital markets, drug trafficking, narcopower, and the impunity of the neoliberal state. She looks at the global rise of authoritarian governments, the erosion of civil society, the increasing violence against women, the deterioration of human rights, and the transformation of certain cities and regions into depopulated, ghostly settings for war. She offers a trenchant critique of masculinity and gender constructions in Mexico, linking their misogynist force to the booming trade in violence.This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to analyze the new landscapes of war. It provides novel categories that allow us to deconstruct what is happening, while proposing vital epistemological tools developed in the convulsive Third World border space of Tijuana.
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Seven Stories Press,U.S. America Latina
Book SynopsisIn a letter to his mother in 1954, a young Ernesto Guevara wrote, ''The Americas will be the theater of my adventures in a way that is much more significant than I would have believed.'' In The Awakening of Latin America we have the story of those adventures, charting Che''s evolution from an impressionable young medical student to the ''heroic guerrilla,'' assassinated in cold blood in Bolivia. Spanning seventeen years, this anthology draws on from his family''s personal archives and offers the best of Che''s writing: examples of his journalism, essays, speeches, letters, and even poems. As Che documents his early travels through Latin America, his involvement in the Guatemalan and Cuban revolutions, and his rise to international prominence under Fidel Castro, we see how his fervent commitment to social justice shaped and was shaped by the continent he called home.
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Columbia University Press Inside Terrorism
Book SynopsisBruce Hoffman's Inside Terrorism has remained the seminal work for understanding the evolution of terrorism and the terrorist mind-set. In this revised third edition, Hoffman analyzes the latest developments, offering insight into new adversaries, motivations, strategies, and tactics. He focuses on the rise of ISIS and the resilience of al-Qaeda.Trade ReviewA vitally important book. Bruce Hoffman has for decades been one of the world's greatest scholars of terrorism, and this new edition of his classic study is impressively wide-ranging and authoritative. Covering key issues such as definition, historical evolution, and internationalization, it also addresses thematic subjects such as religious terrorism and suicide attacks. The book serves as a valuable corrective to the amnesia of so much recent work on terrorism, and it will offer readers powerful insights for many years. -- Richard English, author of Does Terrorism Work?: A HistoryTable of ContentsPreface to the Third Edition1. Defining Terrorism2. The End of Empire and the Origins of Contemporary Terrorism3. The Internationalization of Terrorism4. Religion and Terrorism5. Suicide Terrorism 6. The Old Media, Terrorism, and Public Opinion 7. The New Media, Terrorism, and the Shaping of Global Opinion 8. The Modern Terrorist Mind- Set: Tactics, Targets, Tradecraft, and Technologies Illustrations9. Terrorism Today and Tomorrow I: Force Multipliers10. Terrorism Today and Tomorrow II: New and Continuing ChallengesNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Asias Aging Security
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Columbia University Press Rhetorical Powers How Rising States Shape International Order
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Columbia University Press Attention and Alienation The International
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Columbia University Press Illusions of Control
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Columbia University Press Colored Insane
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Columbia University Press Betrayal of the Homeland Disloyal Subjects in Wartime Syria
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Columbia University Press Reform as Process
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Columbia University Press Earthborn Democracy A Political Theory of
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Columbia University Press Oil Leaders
Book SynopsisOil Leaders offers an unprecedented glimpse into the strategic thinking of top figures in the energy world from the 1980s through the recent past. Ibrahim AlMuhannaa close adviser to four different Saudi oil ministers over that span of timeexamines the role of individual and collective decision making in shaping market movements.
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Columbia University Press Staging Sovereignty
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Columbia University Press A Victims Shoe a Broken Watch and Marbles
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Columbia University Press Inside SalafiJihadist Governance The Strategies
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Columbia University Press I Hear Freedom The Great Migration Free Jazz and Black Power
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Columbia University Press The Politics of Names Attitudes Identity and the Naming of Children in American History
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Columbia University Press Kenneth Waltz
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University of Illinois Press On the Waves of Empire
Book SynopsisIn the aftermath of the Spanish-American War, the United States’ acquisition of an overseas empire compelled the nation to reconsider the boundary between domestic and foreign--and between nation and empire. William D. Riddell looks at the experiences of merchant sailors and labor organizations to illuminate how domestic class conflict influenced America’s emerging imperial system. Maritime workers crossed ever-shifting boundaries that forced them to reckon with the collision of different labor systems and markets. Formed into labor organizations like the Sailor’s Union of the Pacific and the International Seaman’s Union of America, they contested the U.S.’s relationship to its empire while capitalists in the shipping industry sought to impose their own ideas. Sophisticated and innovative, On the Waves of Empire reveals how maritime labor and shipping capital stitched together, tore apart, and re-stitched the seams of empire. Trade Review“Riddell shows US sailors struggling for their own emancipation. Especially after 1898, he shows them also as fashioning themselves as white agents of empire. The potential for drama and tragedy is great, and fully realized, in this riveting book.”--David Roediger, author of The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History of Debt, Misery, and the Drift to the RightTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Seams of Empire A Leak in the Ship of State”: Maritime Labor Reform and U.S. Imperial Expansion, 1872-1900 Does Exclusion Follow the Flag? Imperial Labor Mobilization, Domestic Organized Labor, and the Emergence of a U.S. Metropole, 1902-1908 Riding the Waves of Empire: Craft Unionism, the La Follette Seamen’s Act of 1915, and the Economic Dimensions of U.S. Imperial Power, 1908 -1915 Agents of Empire: Merchant Sailors, the Great War, and the New American Merchant Marine, 1898-1919 They Always Choose Exclusion: Internal Dissent, Postwar U.S. Maritime Policy, and the Fall of the Sailors Unions, 1915-1924 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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WW Norton & Co From Voting to Violence
Book SynopsisIn his new book, Jack Snyder focuses his clear logic on a pressing issue of our times: nationalism.
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WW Norton & Co Methods of Discovery
Book SynopsisMethods of Discovery is organized around strategies for deepening arguments in order to find the best ways to study social phenomena.
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University of California Press The Weimar Republic Sourcebook Paper
Book SynopsisA comprehensive documentation of Weimar culture, history and politics. It explores Germany's relationship to democracy, ideologies of 'reactionary modernism', the rise of the 'New Woman', Bauhaus architecture, the tradition of cabaret and urban entertainment, and the situation of Jews, intellectuals and workers during the emergence of fascism.Trade Review"A mosaic panorama. . . . Interweaving classic texts with a wealth of excavated matter, [the editors] have done a great service to anyone interested in what modernism was and, through reinterpretation, may yet become." * San Francisco Chronicle *"The Weimar Republic Sourcebook will almost certainly transform the way the intellectual legacy of the Weimar Republic is thought about and taught in the English-speaking world." * Modernism/modernity *"Unquestionably, The Weimar Republic Sourcebook is a wonderful resource. . . . Courses on German culture could easily be built around the book's chapters. In addition, it should be on the reading list of all prospective anthologists." * H-German *"This is an essential book for anyone teaching a course on the Weimar Republic, and advanced students should be advised to purchase it." * German History *Table of ContentsPreface A NEW DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS 1. The Legacy of the War I. Ernst Simmel, War Neuroses and "Psychic Trauma" (1918) 2. The Treaty of Versailles: The Reparations Clauses (1919) 3· Count Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau, Speech of the German Delegation, Versailles (1919) 4· Ernst Troeltsch, The Dogma of Guilt (1919) 5· Paul von Hindenburg, The Stab in the Back (1919) 6. Social Democratic Party (SPD), Appeal for a General Strike (1920) 7· Willi Wolfradt, The Stab-in-the-Back Legend? (1922) 8. Ernst Junger, Fire (1922) 9· Kurt Tucholsky, The Spirit of 1914 (1924) 10. Carl Zuckmayer, Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (1929) II. Ernst von Salomon, The Outlawed (1929) 12. Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, Why War? (1933) 2. Revolution and the Birth of the Republic 13. Spartacus Manifesto (1918) 14. Heinrich Mann, The Meaning and Idea of the Revolution (1918) 15. Rosa Luxemburg, Founding Manifesto of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) (1918) 16. The Constitution of the German Republic (1919) 17. Count Harry Kessler, On Ebert and the Revolution (1919) 18. Wilhelm Hausenstein, Remembering Eisner (1919-1920) 19. Theodor Heuss, Democracy and Parliamentarism: Their History, Their Enemies, and Their Future (1928) 20. Bernhard Prince von Bulow, Revolution in Berlin (1931) 3. Economic Upheaval: Rationalization, Inflation, and Depression 21. Das Tagebuch, Editorial on the Occupation of the Ruhr (1923) 22. Friedrich Kroner, Overwrought Nerves (1923) 23. The Dawes Committee Report (1924) 24. Ernst Neckarsulmer, Hugo Stinnes (1925) 25. Rudolf Hilferding, The Organized Economy (1927) 26. Erich Schairer, Alfred Hugenberg (1929) 27. B. Traven, Bank Failures (1929) 28. Erwin Kupzyk, Postwar Concentration in the German Iron Industry (1930) 29. Hans Ostwald, A Moral History of the Inflation (1931) 30. Rolf Wagenfiihr, The Inflation Boom (1932) 31. Franz von Papen, Speech to the Lausanne Conference (1932) 32. Heinrich Hauser, The Unemployed (1933) 4. Coming to Terms with Democracy 33· Friedrich Meinecke, The Old and the New Germany (1918) 34· Ernst Troeltsch, The German Democracy (1918) 35· Max Weber, Politics as a Vocation (1918) 36. Kurt Tucholsky, We Nay-Sayers (1919) 37· Emil Julius Gumbel, Four Years of Political Murder (1922) 38. German Center Party Program (I 922) 39· Thomas Mann, The German Republic (1922) 40. Das Tagebuch, Editorial on the Anniversary of the Death of Walther Rathenau (1923) 41. Carl von Ossietzky, Defending the Republic: The Great Fashion (1924) 42. Social Democratic Party (SPD) Program (1925) 43· German People's Party (DVP) Program (1931) . 44· Kurt Tucholsky, For Carl von Ossietzky (1932) 5. The Rise of Nazism 45· Alfred Rosenberg, The Russian Jewish Revolution (1919) 46. Adolf Bartels, The Struggle of the Age (1920) 47· German Workers' Party (DAP), The Twenty-Five Points (1920) 48. Joseph Goebbels, National Socialism or Bolshevism? (1925) 49· Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (1927) 50. R.W. Darre, Marriage Laws and the Principles of Breeding (1930) 51. Joseph Goebbels, Why Are We Enemies of the Jews? (1930) 52. Adolf Hitler, Address to the Industry Club (1932) 53· German Farmer You Belong to Hitler! Why? (1932) 54· Joseph Goebbels, Fighting League for German Culture (1932) 55· Count Harry Kessler, On the Nietzsche Archive and the German Elections (1932) 6. The Struggle against Fascism 56. Ernst Bloch, Hitler's Force (1924) 57· Thomas Mann, An Appeal to Reason (1930) s8. Walter Benjamin, Theories of German Fascism (1930) 59· Heinrich Mann, The German Decision (1931) 60. Lion Feuchtwanger, How Do We Struggle against a Third Reich? (1931) 61. Communist Party of Germany, Open Letter (1931) 62. Joseph Roth, Cultural Bolshevism (1932) Paul Tillich, Ten Theses (1932) 64. Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin, National Socialism: A Menace (1932) PRESSURE POINTS OF SOCIAL LIFE 7. White-Collar Workers: Mittelstancl or Middle Class? 65. Hans Georg, Our Stand at the Abyss ( 1921) 66. Margot Starke, The Bank Clerk ( 1923) 67. Fritz Schroder, The Labor Market for White-Collar Workers (1924) 68. Wilhelm Kalveram, Rationalization in Business Management (1929) 69. Hilde Walter, The Misery of the "New Mittelstand" (1929) 70. Siegfried Kracauer, Shelter for the Homeless (1930) 71. Theodor Geiger, The Old and New Middle Classes (1932) 8. The Rise of the New Woman 72. Marianne Weber, The Special Cultural Mission of Women (1919) 73· Die Kommunistin, Manifesto for International Women's Day (1921) 74. Manfred Georg, The Right to Abortion (1922) 75· Gabriele Tergit, Paragraph 218: A Modern Gretchen Tragedy (1926) Alfred Polgar, The Defenseless: A Conversation between Men (1928) 77· Max Brod, Women and the New Objectivity ( 1929) 78. Elsa Herrmann, This is the 1\'ew Woman (1929) 79· Textile Workers, My Workday, My Weekend (1930) 80. Hilde Walter, Twilight for Women? (1931) 81. Women's Work and the Economic Crisis (1931) 82. Else Kienle, The Kienle Case (1931) 83. Siegfried Kracauer, Working Women (1932) 84. Alice Ruhle-Gerstel, Back to the Good Old Days? (1933) 9. Forging a Proletarian Culture 85. A. R., On Proletarian Culture (1920) 86. Otto Ruhle, The Psyche of the Proletarian Child (1925) 87. Larissa Reissner, Schiffbek (1925) 88. Willi Munzenberg, Conquer Film! ( 1925) 89. Friedrich Wolf, Art is a Weapon! (1928) 90. Walter Benjamin, Program for a Proletarian Children's Theater (1928) 91. Johannes R. Becher, Our Front (1928) 92. A Survey on Proletarian Writing (1929) 93· Otto Biha, The Proletarian Mass Novel (1930) 94· Hanns Eisler, Progress in the Workers' Music Movement (1931) 95· Georg Lukacs, Willi Bredel's Novels (1931) 96. League of Proletarian-Revolutionary Writers, To All Proletarian-Revolutionary Writers, To All Workers' Correspondents (1931) 97· Giinther D. Dehm, Berlin Workers' District (n. d.) 10. The Jewish Community: Renewal, Redefinition, Resistance 98. Martin Buber, Nationalism (1921) 99· Efraim Frisch, Jewish Sketches (1921-1922) 100. Arnold Zweig, The Countenance of Eastern European Jews (1922) 101. S. Steinberg, What We Strive For (1922) 102. Das Tagebuch, Editorial, The German Spirit (1924) 103. Franz Rosenzweig, The New Thinking (1925) I04. Edgar Marx, Ideological Self-determination of Bar Kochba: The New Year of the Jewish Gymnastics and Sports Association Bar Kochba ( 1927) 105. Joseph Roth, Wandering Jews (1927) 106. Theodor Lessing, Jewish Self-Hatred (1930) 107. Gershom Scholem, On the 1930 Edition of Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption (1931) 108. Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith, Flyer (1932) 109. Carl von Ossietzky, Anti-Semites (1932) INTELLECTUALS AND THE IDEOLOGIES OF THE AGE 11. Redefining the Role of the Intellectuals 110. Gertrud Baumer, The "Intellectuals" (1919) 111. Alfred Dahlin, The Writer and the State (1921) 112. Franz W. Seiwert and Franz Pfemfert, The Function of Intellectuals in Society and Their Task in the Proletarian Revolution (1923) 113. Alfred Weber, The Predicament of Intellectual Workers (1923) 114. Hans Zehrer, The Revolution of the Intelligentsia (1929) 115. Karl Mannheim, Ideology and Utopia (1929) 116. Hannah Arendt, Philosophy and Sociology: On Karl Mannheim's Ideology and Utopia (1930) 117. Ernst von Salomon, We and the Intellectuals (1930) 118. Walter Benjamin, Left-Wing Melancholy (1931) 119· Siegfried Kracauer, On the Writer (1931) 12. Critical Theory and the Search for a New Left 120. Karl Radek, Leo Schlageter: The Wanderer in the Void (1923) 121. Karl Korsch, Marxism and Philosophy (1923) 122. Max Horkheimer, The Impotence of the German Working Class (1927) 123· Max Horkheimer, The State ·of Contemporary Social Philosophy and the Tasks of an Institute for Social Research (1931) 124. Wilhelm Reich, Politicizing the Sexual Problems of Youth (1932) 125. Leo Lowenthal, On the Sociology of Literature (1932) 126. Ernst Thalmann, The SPD and NSDAP are Twins (1932) 127. Social Democratic Party (SPD), The Iron Front for a United Front! (1932) 13. Revolution from the Right 128. Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, The Third Empire (1923) 129. Carl Schmitt, On the Contradiction between Parliamentarism and Democracy (1926) 130. Ernst Niekisch, Where We Stand (1926) 131. Berlin Stahlhelm Manifesto (1927) 132. Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Literature as the Spiritual Space of the Nation (1927) 133· Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political (1927) 134· A molt Bronnen, German Nationalism, German Theater (1931) 135· Hans Freyer, Revolution from the Right (1931) 136. German National People's Party (DNVP) Program (1931) 137· Edgar J. Jung, Germany and the Conservative Revolution (1932) 14. Cultural Pessimism: Diagnoses of Decline 138. Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West (1918) 139· Count Hermann Keyserling, The Culture of Making It Easy for Oneself (1920) 140. Willy Hellpach, The Catholic Cultural Offensive and Political Catholicism (1924-1925) 141. Hermann Hesse, The Longing of Our Time for a Worldview (1926) 142. Martin Heidegger, Being and Time (1927) 143· Ernst Junger, On Danger (1931) 144· Karl Jaspers, The Spiritual Situation of the Age (1931) 145· Ernst Junger, The Worker: Domination and Form (1932) 146. Franz von Papen, German Cultural Policy (1932) 147. Gottfried Benn, After Nihilism (1932) 148. Ludwig Bauer, The Middle Ages, 1932 (1932) 149. Alfred Doblin, May the Individual Not Be Stunted by the Masses (1932) THE CHALLENGE OF MODERNITY 15. Imagining America: Fordism and Technology 150. Rudolf Kayser, Americanism (1925) 151. Stefan Zweig, The Monotonization of the World (1925) 152. Friedrich von Gottl-Ottlilienfeld, Fordism (1926) 153. Friedrich Sieburg, Worshipping Elevators (1926) 154· Siegfried Kracauer, The Mass Ornament (1927) 155· Adolf Halfeld, America and the New Objectivity (1928) 156. Fdix Stossinger, The Anglicization of Germany (1929) 157. Otto Bauer, Rationalization and the Social Order (1931) 16. Berlin and the Countryside 158. Ludwig Finckh, The Spirit of Berlin (1919) 159· Math eo Quinz, The Romanic Cafe (1926) 160. Kurt Tucholsky, Berlin and the Provinces (1928) 161. Franz Hessel, The Suspicious Character (1929) 162. Egan Erwin Kisch, We Go to a Cafe Because ... (1930) 163. Wilhelm Stapel, The Intellectual and His People (1930) 164. Harold Nicolson, The Charm of Berlin (1932) 165. Martin Heidegger, Creative Landscape: Why Do We Stay in the Provinces? (1933) 17. Designing the New World: Modern Architecture and the Bauhaus 166. Bruno Taut, A Program for Architecture (1918) 167. Walter Gropius, Program of the Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar (1919) 168. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architecture and the Will of the Age (1924) 169. Walter Gropius and Paul Schultze-Naumburg, Who is Right? Traditional Architecture or Building in New Forms (1926) 170. Hannes Meyer, The New World (1926) 171. Adolf Behne and Paul Westheim, The Aesthetics of the Flat Roof (1926-1927) 172. Rudolf Arnheim, The Bauhaus in Dessau (1927) 173· Erich Mendelsohn, Why This Architecture? (1928) 174. Marcel Breuer, Metal Furniture and Modern Spatiality (1928) 18. Housing for the Masses 175. Bruno Taut, The Earth is a Good Dwelling (1919) 176. Martin Wagner, Path and Goal (1920) 177. Bruno Taut, The New Dwelling: The Woman as Creator (1924) 178. Grete Lihotzky, Rationalization in the Household (1926-1927) 179· Dr. N., A Contemporary Garden City (1927) 180. Edgar Wedepohl, The Weissenhof Settlement (1927) 181. Marie-Elisabeth Luders, A Construction, Not a Dwelling (1927) 182. The Stuttgart W erkbund Houses (1929) 183. Otto Steinicke, A Visit to a New Apartment (1929) 19. From Dada to the New Obiectivity: Art and Politics 184. November Group Circular (1918) 185. November Group Manifesto (1918) 186. Work Council for Art Manifesto (1919) 187. Wilhelm Hausenstein, Art at this Moment (1919-1920) 188. Raoul Hausmann, The German Philistine Gets Upset (1919) 189. John Heartfield and George Grosz, The Art Scab (1920) 190. Richard H uelsenbeck, Dada Tours (1920) 191. Max Beckmann, Creative Credo (1920) 192. Adolf Behne, On the 1922 Russian Art Exhibition in Berlin (1922) 193· Carl Einstein, Otto Dix (1923) 194· Gustav Hartlaub, Introduction to "New Objectivity": German Painting since Expressionism (1925) 195· Franz Roh, Post-Expressionist Schema (1925) 196. Misch Orend, Magical Realism (1928) 197. Paul Schultze-Naumburg, Art and Race (1928) 198. George Grosz, Among Other Things, a Word for German Tradition (1931) CHANGING CONFIGURATIONS OF CULTURE 20. Literature: High and Low 199· Max Brod, Franz Kafka's Posthumous Writings (1924) 200. Hermann von Wedderkop, Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain (1925) 201. Egon Erwin Kisch, Preface to The Racing Reporter (1925) 202. Walter Benjamin, Filling Station (1928) 203. Alfred Doblin, Ulysses by Joyce (1928) 204. Erich Knauf, Book Clubs (1929) 205. Gina Kaus, The Woman in Modern Literature (1929) 206. Erich Kastner, Prosaic Digression (1929) 207. Kurt Pinthus, Masculine Literature (1929) 208. Heinrich Mann, Detective Novels (1929) 209. Arnold Zweig, Is There a Newspaper Novel? (1929) 210. Gottfried Benn, The New Literary Season (1931) 211. Friedrich Sieburg, Champagne: Notes on the Literature of High Society (1931) 212. Lion Feuchtwanger, The Novel of Today Is International (1932) 213. Gunter Eich, Remarks on Lyric Poetry (1932) 21. Theater, Politics, and the Public Sphere 214. Leopold Jessner, To the Directors of the German Theater (1918) 215. Siegfried Jacobsohn, Theater-and Revolution? (1919) 216. Siegfried Jacobsohn, Wilhelm Tell (1919) 217. Herbert Jhering, The Dramatist Bert Brecht (1922) 218. Hanns Johst, The Drama and the National Idea (1922) 219. Bertolt Brecht, More Good Sports (1926) 220. Leopold Jessner, Bertolt Brecht, and Fritz Kortner, Is the Drama Dying? (1926) 221. Bertolt Brecht, Difficulties of the Epic Theater (1927) 222. Lion Feuchtwanger, Bertolt Brecht Presented to the British (1928) 223. Friedrich Wolf, The Stage and Life (1929) 224. Erwin Piscator, The Documentary Play (1929) 225. Max Reinhardt, On Actors (1930) 226. Das rote Sprachrohr, How Does One Use Agitprop Theater? (1930) 227. Alfred Kemenyi, Measures Taken at the GroBes Schauspielhaus (1931) 22. The Roaring Twenties: Cabaret and Urban Entertainment 228. Alice Gerstel, Jazz Band (1922) 229. Frank Warschauer, Berlin Revues (1924) 230. Maximilian Sladek, Our Show (1924) 231. Ferdinand Hager, The Flight of the "Blue Bird" (1924) 232. Katharina Rathaus, Charleston: Every Age Has the Dance It Deserves (1926) 233. Ivan Goll, The Negroes Are Conquering Europe (1926) 234. Joseph Goebbels, Around the Gedachtniskirche (1928) 235. Erich Kastner, The Cabaret of the Nameless (1929) 236. Curt Moreck, We Will Show You Berlin (1930) 237. Siegfried Kracauer, Girls and Crisis (1931) 238. Friedrich Hollaender, Cabaret (1932) 23. Music for Use: Gebrauchsmusik and Opera 239· Frank Warschauer, Jazz: On Whiteman's Berlin Concerts (1926) 240. Kurt Weill, Zeitoper (1928) 241. H. H. Stuckenschmidt, Short Operas (1928) 242. Kurt Weill, Correspondence about The Threepenny Opera (1929) 243· Paul Hindemith and Walter Gropius, For the Renewal of Opera (1929) 244· Hanns Gutman, Music for Use (1929) 245. Alban Berg, On My Wozzeck (1929) 246. Arnold Schoenberg, My Public (1930) 247. Ernst Krenek, New Humanity and Old Objectivity (1931) 248. Theodor W. Adorno, Mahagonny (1932) 24. New Mass Media: Radio and Gramophone 249. Kurt Weill, Dance Music (1926) 250. H. H. Stuckenschmidt, Mechanical Music (1926) 251. Otto Alfred Palitzsch, Broadcast Literature (1927) 252. Kurt Tucholsky, Radio Censorship (1928) 253. Theodor W. Adorno, The Curves of the Needle (1928) 254· Frank Warschauer, The Future of Opera on the Radio (1929) 255· Arno Schirokauer, Art and Politics in Radio (1929) 256. Arnolt Brannen, Radio Play or Literature? (1929) 257. W. The Writer Speaks and Sings on Gramophone Records (1929) 258. M. M. Gehrke and Rudolf Arnheim, The End of the Private Sphere (1930) 259. Bertolt Brecht, The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication (1932) 25. Cinema from Expressionism to Social Realism 260. Herbert Jhering, An Expressionist Film (1920) 261. Curt Rosenberg, Fridericus Rex (1923) 262. Fritz Lang, The Future of the Feature Film in Germany (1926) 263. Willy Haas, Metropolis (1927) 264. Walter Benjamin, A Discussion of Russian Filmic Art and Collectivist Art in General (1927) 265. Bela Balazs, Writers and Film (1929) 266. Emil Jannings, Romanticizing the Criminal in Film (1929) 267. Siegfried Kracauer, The Blue Angel (1930) 268. Erich Pommer, Writers and the Sound Film (1931) 269. Gabriele Tergit, Fritz Lang's M: Filmed Sadism (1931) 270. Siegfried Kracauer, The Task of the Film Critic (1932) THE TRANSFORMATION OF EVERYDAY LIFE 26. Visual Culture: Illustrated Press and Photography . 271. Edlef Koppen, The Magazine as a Sign of the Times (1925) 272. August Sander, Remarks on My Exhibition at the Cologne Art Union (1927) 273. Kurt Korff, The Illustrated Magazine (1927) 274. Albert Renger-Patzsch, Joy before the Object (1928) 275. Johannes Molzahn, Stop Reading! Look! (1928) 276. Werner Graff, Foreword to Here Comes the New Photographer/ (1929) 277. Willi Warstat, Photography in Advertising (1930) 278. Raoul Hausmann, Photomontage (1931) 279. Alfred Kemenyi, Photomontage as a Weapon in Class Struggle (1932) 27. Visions of Plenty: Mass Consumption, Fashion, and Advertising 280. Boycott of French Fashion Goods (1923) 281. Enough is Enough! Against the Masculinization of Woman (1925) 282. Hanns Kropff, Women as Shoppers (1926) 283. Ernst Lorsy, The Hour of Chewing Gum (1926) 284. Hans Siemsen, The Literature of Nonreaders (1926) 285. Vicki Baum, People of Today (1927) 286. Auto-Magazin, Editorial Statement (1928) 287. Anita, Sex Appeal: A New Catchword for an Old Thing (1928) 288. Wolf Zucker, Art and Advertising (1929) 289. Franz Hessel, On Fashion (1929) 290. Stephanie Kaul, Whose Fault Is the Long Dress? (1931) 291. Liselotte de Booy [Miss Germany 1932], Wasted Evenings (1932) 28. The Cult of the Body: Lebensreform, Sports, and Dance 292. Adolf Koch, The Truth about the Berlin Nudist Groups (1924) 293. Felix Hollaender, Ways to Strength and Beauty (1924) 294. Hans Suren, Man and Sunlight (1925) 295· Artur Michel, Flying Man (1926) 296. Fritz Wildung, Sport is the Will to Culture (1926) 297· Ernst Preiss, Physical Fitness-A National Necessity (1926) 298. Wolfgang Graeser, Body Sense: Gymnastics, Dance, Sport (1927) 299· Mary Wigman, Dance and Gymnastics (1927) 300. Herbert Jhering, Boxing (1927) 301. Marieluise Fleisser, The Athletic Spirit and Contemporary Art: An Essay on the Modern Type (1929) 302. Valeska Gert, Dancing (1931) 303. Carl Diem, The German Academy for Gymnastics (1932) 29. Sexuality: Private Rights versus Social Norms 304. Kurt Hiller, The Law and Sexual Minorities (1921) 305. Guidelines of the German Association for the Protection of Mothers (1922) 306. Hugo Bettauer, The Erotic Revolution (1924) 307. Magnus Hirschfeld, Sexual Catastrophes (1926) 308. Lola Landau, The Companionate Marriage (1929) 309. League for Human Rights, Appeal to All Homosexual Women (1929) 310. Helene Stocker, Marriage as a Psychological Problem (1929) 311. Magnus Hirschfeld, The Development and Scope of Sexology (1929) 3I2. Grete Ujhely, A Call for Sexual Tolerance (1930) 313· Alfred Doblin, Sexuality as Sport (1931) 314. Kurt Tucholsky, Rohm (1932) 315. Walter von Hollander, Birth Control-A Man's Business! (1932) 30. On the Margins of the Law: Vice, Crime, and the Social Order 316. Thomas Wehrling, Berlin Is Becoming a Whore (1920) 317. Carl Ludwig Schleich, Cocaineism (1921) 318. Ernst Engelbrecht and Leo Heller, Night Figures of the City (1926) 319. Ernst Engelbrecht and Leo Heller, Opium Dens (1926) 320. Margot Klages-Stange, Prostitution (1926) 321. E. M. Mungenast, The Murderer and the State (1928) 322. Artur Landsberger, The Berlin Underworld (1929) 323. Franz Alexander and Hugo Staub, The Criminal and His Judges (1929) 324. Willi Proger, Sites of Berlin Prostitution (1930) 325. Georg Fuchs, We Prisoners: Memories of Inmate No. 2911 (1931) 326. Sigmund Freud and Oswald Spengler, Responses to Fuchs, We Prisoners (1931) 327. Siegfried Kracauer, Murder Trials and Society (1931) Biographies Political Chronology Selected Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
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University of California Press Storming the Gates of Paradise Landscapes for
Book SynopsisRebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. This work represents developments in Solnit's thinking and offers you a panoramic world view enriched by her characteristically provocative, inspiring, and hopeful observations.Table of ContentsList of Photographs Introduction: Prisons and Paradises 1. Uneven Terrain: The West The Red Lands The Postmodern Old West, or the Precession of Cowboys and Indians The Struggle of Dawning Intelligence: Creating, Revising, and Recognizing Native American Monuments The Garden of Merging Paths 2. Borders and Crossers A Route in the Shape of a Question Thirty-Nine Steps Across the Border and Back Nonconforming Uses: Teddy Cruz on Both Sides of the Border 3. Trouble Below: Mining, Water, and Nuclear Waste The Price of Gold, the Value of Water Meanwhile Back at the Ranch Poison Pictures 4. Reaching for the Sky Excavating the Sky Drawing the Constellations Hugging the Shadows Justice by Moonlight 5. Landscapes of Resistance and Repression Fragments of the Future: The FTAA in Miami Jailbirds I Have Loves Making It Home: Travels outside the Fear Economy Mirror in the Street Liberation Conspiracies Sontag and Tsunami 6. Gardens and Wildernesses Every Corner Is Alive: Eliot Porter as an Environmentalist and an Artist The Botanical Circus, or Adventures in American Gardening A Murder of Ravens: On Globalized Species 7. Women's Place Tangled Banks and Clear-Cut Examples Seven Stepping Stones down the Primrose Path: A Talk at a Conference on Landscape and Gender Other Daughters, Other American Revolutions 8. Infernal Museums California Comedy, or Surfing with Dante The Wal-Mart Biennale The Silence of the Lambswool Cardigans Locked Horns 9. City at the End of the World The Orbits of Earthly Bodies San Francisco: The Metamorphosis The Heart of the City The Ruins of Memory Gaping Questions Coda: The Pacific Seashell to Ear Acknowledgments Notes Permissions Index
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University of California Press China Coup
Book SynopsisAn expert's take on how a coup in China could launch a transition to democracy. This short book predictscontrary to the prevailing consensusthat China's leader Xi Jinping will very soon be removed from office in a coup d'état mounted by rivals in the top leadership. The leaders of the coup will then end China's one-party dictatorship and launch a transition to democracy and the rule of law. Long-time diplomat and development banker Roger Garside draws on his deep knowledge of Chinese politics and economics first to develop a detailed scenario of how these events may unfold, and thenin the main body of the bookto explain why.Hisgripping, persuasive account of how Chinese leaders plot and plan away from the public eye is unique in published literature. Garside argues that under Xi's overconfident leadership, China is on a collision course with an America that is newly awakened out of complacency. As Xi's rivals look abroad, they are alarmed that he is blind to the reactions that ChinaTrade Review"I just finished reading China Coup and loved it. . . . By posing a provocative ‘what if,’ Mr. Garside expands the terms of our debate on China." * CHINADebate *"A compelling read and a convincing one. At the very least, if Canadians are worried about growing Chinese Communist influence in the free world, they can find in this book a key to unlock a twenty-first-century riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma." * Literary Review of Canada *"I decided to treat China Coup as a kind of Orwellian-but-with-a-happy-ending foray into speculative fiction. I knew I would need to take Garside’s claims with a grain of salt, as he would focus as intently on finding cracks in seemingly smooth facades as CCP propagandists, who create ‘semi-fictional’ texts of their own, strive to present those surfaces as flawless." -- Jeffrey Wasserstrom * Mekong Review *"The credentials of the author are burnished by a lifetime of close scrutiny of the People’s Republic, so in a field of many self-proclaimed experts, but fewer genuine authorities, Garside demands attention." * The Tablet *"Garside has had an illustrious career in the financial sector and as a diplomat, including two stints at the British embassy in Beijing. In China Coup he applies his extensive experience to map out a plausible scenario for Xi’s ouster. . . . Garside’s book serves as a timely reminder that there are deep divisions within the CCP, that many of Xi’s policies are vastly unpopular, and that he has powerful enemies among the party’s top leaders. Most importantly, Garside reminds us that the outcome of the 2022 party congress is not a done deal." * The Strategist *"Thought-provoking but not fanciful." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsPreface 1 · The Coup 1 The Coup 2 · Why a Coup? 2 Totalitarian China: Outwardly Strong, Inwardly Weak 3 The Looming Economic Crisis 4 No Trust, No Truth 5 Who Rules: God or the Party? 6 An Environmental Catastrophe 7 Coronavirus: Cover-up and Costs 8 America and the Fate of Xi 9 The Great Unfinished Business 3 · After the Coup, a Revolution 10 Launching the Revolution Afterword: One Life, Two Questions Acknowledgments Notes Select Bibliography Index
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Harvard University Press Law Is a Moral Practice
Book SynopsisWhat is law, and why does it matter? Scott Hershovitz says that law is a moral practice—a tool for adjusting our moral relations. This claim is simple on its face, but it has stark implications for the rule of law. At once erudite and entertaining, Hershovitz’s argument engages with the most important legal and political controversies of our time.Trade ReviewMasterful. With clarity, humor, and insight, Scott Hershovitz declutters jurisprudence. Condemning the philosophical ‘original sin’ of reducing law to rules and the ‘obsession’ with separating law from morals, he shows that the embattled ideal of the rule of law is itself a part of a shared moral outlook. Law Is a Moral Practice resets a field and pries it open, making it newly accessible to non-specialists and ordinary people. -- Samuel Moyn, Yale Law SchoolScott Hershovitz has written an important defense of the view that law both reflects and informs what we owe each other morally. Eschewing the labels that have long encrusted discourse about law and morality, he offers a welcoming introduction for novices and a sophisticated argument for those already steeped in positivist-antipositivist debates. -- Leslie Kendrick, University of Virginia School of LawA major original contribution to jurisprudence and a delight to read. Scott Hershovitz explains abstruse claims and develops nuanced philosophical arguments in lucid prose that is eminently accessible to non-specialists, yet the discussion remains rigorous at all times. -- Nicos Stavropoulos, University of OxfordSo much philosophical writing bludgeons the reader with arguments, objections, replies, and counter-arguments, ad nauseam. Law Is a Moral Practice takes another approach, persuading the reader with the elegance and power of its philosophical picture. It succeeds masterfully. -- Scott Shapiro, Yale UniversityAn outstanding contribution to its field. Hershovitz’s position is essential, and his argument for it is philosophically deep and often much funnier than it has any right to be. Best of all, he brings out the direct connections between philosophical jurisprudence and legal practice, giving his readers important insights into an essential human activity. -- Christopher Essert, University of Toronto
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Harvard University Press Sovereign Funds
Book SynopsisZongyuan Zoe Liu provides the first in-depth examination of sovereign funds in China. Under President Xi, the state has become an aggressive financier, using sovereign funds at home and abroad to secure allies and influence, boost strategic industries like semiconductors and fintech, and pick winners among domestic businesses and multinationals.Trade Review[Sovereign Funds] takes up a particular aspect of China’s economic statecraft, showing how it employs its financial resources to promote its interests abroad…Give[s] us a much better understanding of what needs to be done to restrain China abroad. -- Edward Chancellor * Wall Street Journal *Revealing…It describes the personalities, facts and figures that undergird the labyrinthine and often secret world of Chinese state money and the strategies that Beijing deploys to secure strategic assets around the world. -- James Kynge * Financial Times *Liu, an expert on international political economy at the Council on Foreign Relations, shows how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses ‘sovereign leverage funds’ to promote fiscal security at home and geopolitical influence abroad. -- Francis P. Sempa * New York Journal of Books *Sovereign Funds raises broader questions about the presence of such funds in the financial system and the role that can be played by state finance in the global marketplace…It offers an insightful look into the permutations of the Chinese state in response to privatisation. -- Seth O'Farrell * fDi Intelligence *A fascinating insight into the evolution of China’s financial policy and its strategic investments using leveraged foreign exchange reserves. -- Diane Coyle * Enlightened Economist *[Liu] shows that Chinese sovereign funds are so different from better-known sovereign wealth funds, such as those of the governments of Abu Dhabi and Norway, that she prefers to call them ‘sovereign leveraged funds’…These various exotic workarounds, which Liu skillfully traces, produce ‘shadow reserves.’ -- Andrew J. Nathan * Foreign Affairs *Follow the money, find the politics…Liu shows how China pioneered a whole new class of sovereign wealth funds. * Times of India *A novel and fascinating history of China’s rich and powerful sovereign wealth funds, which play an outsize role in the country’s strategy for both international development and external influence. -- Kenneth Rogoff, Maurits C. Boas Chair of International Economics at Harvard University and former Chief Economist of the IMFZoe Liu’s pathbreaking book uncovers how and why the Chinese Communist Party employs sovereign leveraged funds to further state interests at home and abroad. This is a must-read for anyone interested in the causes and consequences of China’s rise. -- Thomas J. Christensen, author of The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising PowerSovereign wealth funds were once considered anomalies but are now becoming the trend. China’s sovereign wealth funds have grown rapidly and become increasingly important in the face of deglobalization; their unique model and widespread impact are worth exploring and assessing. Liu’s book is a fascinating account of and reflection on what she calls ‘sovereign leveraged funds.’ Whether you agree with its conclusions or not, you should read it. -- Jin Xu, author of Empire of Silver: A New Monetary History of ChinaSovereign Funds is a revealing account of the origins and evolution of China’s sovereign leveraged funds. This book is a must-read for any serious observer of China’s global economic and financial strategy. -- Edwin M. Truman, Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School, and former Assistant Secretary of the US TreasuryZoe Liu provides deep insight into China's sovereign leveraged funds, fascinating institutions that play a crucial role in the often fraught relationship between state and market, with implications and lessons for many other countries. This is essential reading for those interested in China's development and its economic engagement with the world. -- Martin Chorzempa, author of The Cashless RevolutionLiu provides the definitive account of how wide and how deep China’s sovereign wealth funds have penetrated global capital markets. Her identification of ‘sovereign leveraged funds’ amounts to a major conceptual breakthrough in the study of global financial flows, bringing to light how any state with the political will and financial engineering prowess can launch a fund to further its strategic interests. In a moment of fraught financial tensions between the United States and China, Sovereign Funds will prove an indispensable book for policymakers and academics alike. -- John Yasuda, author of On Feeding the Masses: An Anatomy of Regulatory Failure in China
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Princeton University Press Decolonization
Book Synopsis"First published in German as Dekolonisation by Jan C. Jansen and Jeurgen Osterhammel, A Verlag C.H. Beck oHG, Meunchen 2013"--Title page verso.Trade Review"This clear, concise, and new interpretation will be welcomed by students, scholars, and general readers interested in one of the most defining and consequential developments of the 20th century."--Publishers Weekly "This is a work not only valuable for its discussion of the topic, but for placing it in a context sorely needed in today's hydra-headed discussions of the term and the word from which it is derived... Perhaps this book's greatest virtue is reminding us of what a global phenomenon it was by concentrating on the vast French colonial empire, as well as the Portuguese, German, Japanese and, yes, American realms."--Martin Rubin, Washington TimesTable of ContentsPreface vii 1 Decolonization as Moment and Process 1 2 Nationalism, Late Colonialism, World Wars 35 3 Paths to Sovereignty 71 4 Economy 119 5 World Politics 139 6 Ideas and Programs 156 7 Legacies and Memories 171 Notes 193 Select Readings 225 Index 237
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Princeton University Press To Build a Black Future The Radical Politics of
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