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Bristol University Press Global China
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Bristol University Press The Powerful Norm for Climate Change Action How International Organizations Legitimate Themselves Amid Contestation
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Bristol University Press Exit Threats in Regional International Organizations
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Fordham University Press In Gorgeous Display
Book SynopsisOne of Book Riot's Must-Have New Poetry for Fall 2023 The remarkable debut collection by a young Nigerian queer poet. “here / i am not his image / & i envy it / i shut my eyes against what is left / the crackling softness of life / like communion / desire is a marathon / a baton waiting for your grip / here / i am not running / neither is he / i sit with a man for the first time / & we talk about war . . .” —FROM “BEAUTIFUL BOY WITH GARLANDS AROUND HIS WAIST” In Gorgeous Display, by Nigerian poet Ugochukwu Damian Okpara, is a volume dedicated to the memory of those lost to anti-queer violence in Nigeria and elsewhere. In this first full-length collection of his work, Okpara examines queer male identity, effeminacy, and exile, offering meditations on desire and sanctuary, freedom and estrangement. Forty-three poems pierce familial relationships, safety, fear, and anxiety portrayed through the outward sign of hand tremors, queer lynching, survival, hope, the emptiness of exile, and reclamation of the self. Embracing the ephemeral and spiritual nature of physical beauty, Okpara also reveals the scars of queer displacement, illuminating the ways that leaving home is never quite the utopia one hopes for and how often the ache of abandonment can haunt a life lived in the present.Table of ContentsBeautiful Boy with Garlands around His Waist | 1 What Is Left of Us Is Made Broken and Shy | 2 In Which I Sit with My Father on a Threshold | 3 We Are No Longer at the Threshold | 4 In Which I Sit with My Mother | 6 Portrait of a Boy in Gorgeous Display | 7 We Recognize This Space and All the Promises It Never Held | 8 Nervous Wound | 10 Just in Case I Don’t Come Home Tonight | 11 Logan Theatre | 12 Hand | 13 To the Manual Parts of my Upper Limbs Distal to My Wrists | 14 I Prefer the Safety of These Hands | 15 If I Die, What Would My Family Write as My Biography? | 16 Portrait of a Boy with Hands Helpless | 18 Boy Meets Boy & This Isn’t about Love | 19 What I Know about Beauty | 21 Duplex | 23 Orbit | 24 The Face of Memory Glitters with Hope | 25 Notes on Desire | 26 Host | 28 Diary Entry | 29 Leaving Sad Things Behind | 31 What Escape These Hands Can Tell | 33 That Night | 34 Self-Portrait as White Spaces | 35 In the History of Belonging | 36 All My Friends Are Terrible Photographers | 37 At a Queer Safe Space in Lagos | 38 The Emptiness Born Out of Escape | 39 Biafra War Song | 41 Ars Exsilii | 42 Peace Lilies | 44 At the Airport Terminal | 45 Joy for Yet Another Night | 46 Exile Leaves You at the Foot of Desire | 47 A Ritual about Home We’ve Come to Know | 48 Survival | 49 I Practice to Get Hold of Myself | 51 I Have Been Thinking about Worship | 52 Prodigal Son | 54 A Ruined Candle Wax Still Breathes Itself into Shape | 55 Acknowledgments | 57 About the Author | 58
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Fordham University Press The K-Effect: Romanization, Modernism, and the
Book SynopsisThe K-Effect shows how the roman alphabet has functioned as a standardizing global model for modern print culture. Investigating the history and ongoing effects of romanization, Christopher GoGwilt reads modernism in a global and comparative perspective, through the works of Joseph Conrad and others. The book explores the ambiguous effect of romanized transliteration both in the service of colonization and as an instrument of decolonization. This simultaneously standardizing and destabilizing effect is abbreviated in the way the letter K indexes changing hierarchies in the relation between languages and scripts. The book traces this K-effect through the linguistic work of transliteration and its aesthetic organization in transnational modernism. The book examines a variety of different cases of romanization: the historical shift from Arabic script to romanized print form in writing Malay; the politicization of language and script reforms across Russia and Central Europe; the role of Chinese debates about romanization in shaping global transformations in print media; and the place of romanization between ancient Sanskrit models of language and script and contemporary digital forms of coding. Each case study develops an analysis of Conrad’s fiction read in comparison with such other writers as James Joyce, Lu Xun, Franz Kafka, and Pramoedya Ananta Toer. The first sustained cultural study of romanization, The K-Effect proposes an important new way to assess the multi-lingual and multi-script coordinates of modern print culture.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Conrad’s “timely appearance in English” 1 The K-effect, 6 • Conrad’s “timely appearance in English,” 13 • The K-effect circa 1911, 21 • Overview of the Book, 25 1 The English Case of Romanization: From Conrad’s “blank space” to Joyce’s “iSpace” 31 Defining Romanization: The Oxford English Dictionary and Joseph Conrad, 32 • Conrad’s Accusative Case: Lord Jim and Nostromo, 51 • Joycean “iSpace” and the Conradian “blank space,” 59 2 The Russian Face of Romanization: The K in Conrad and Kafka 72 Language, Script, and Reform in the Russian Empire, 77 • Under Western Eyes, A Personal Record, and “Prince Roman,” 83 • Kafka and Conrad: The Character and Function of K in Central Europe, 102 3 The Chinese Character of Romanization: Conrad and Lu Xun 117 The Chinese Script Revolution and Romanization, 118 • Conrad’s Chinese Characters: Almayer’s Folly to Victory, 127 • Conrad and Lu Xun: The Interface of Chinese and Roman Characters, 144 4 Sanskritization, Romanization, Digitization 157 Sanskritization, 165 • Sanskritization and Romanization in the OED and in Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 174 • Digitization, 179 Acknowledgments 191 Notes 195 Bibliography 217 Index 227
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Broadview Press Ltd The Politics of Direct Democracy: Referendums in
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Broadview Press Ltd Politics in North America: Redefining Continental
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Broadview Press Ltd The Institutions of Liberal Democratic States
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Broadview Press Ltd The European Roots of Canadian Identity
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Queen's University Water as a Social Opportunity
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press Redesigning the World Trade Organization for the Twenty-first Century
Book SynopsisTwo high-level commissionsâthe Sutherland report in 2004, and the Warwick Commission report in 2007âaddressed the future of the World Trade Organization and made proposals for incremental reform. This book goes further; it explains why institutional reform of the WTO is needed at this critical juncture in world history and provides innovative, practical proposals for modernizing the WTO to enable it to respond to the challenges of the twenty-first century. Contributors focus on five critical areas: transparency, decision- and rule-making procedures, internal management structures, participation by non-governmental organizations and civil society, and relationships with regional trade agreements. Co-published with the International Development Research Centre and the Centre for International Governance InnovationTrade Review``This volume addresses the need to reform the WTO as protectionist forces mount after the economic and financial turbulence of the 2000s as as the most recent trade liberalization initiative ... has run aground and individual countries busily cut their own bilateral trade deals. Contributors do an excellent job laying out the key issues. The book begins with the underlying rationale for WTO reform and then discusses in detail the WTO;s decision-making machinery and its internal management; the role of transparency and public participation in its workings; and the threats and opportunities caused by regional trade initiatives, which have now been around long enough to asses their efficacy.... This is an important resource for readers interested in this crticial dimension of the global economy.... Highly recommended.'' -- I. Walter, New York University -- Choice, January 2011, 201012``Rather than simply analyzing the current functioning of the WTO, its problems and challenges, this volume is also a call to action. It lays out proposals that are likely to become a blueprint for reform of the WTO as an institution. Its contents are abundantly worthy of reflection and subsequent action. I recommend it highly to anyone who is concerned about the future of the global economy.'' -- Julio Lacarte Muró, first Chairman of the WTO Appellate Body and Chair of the UruguayRound negotiations -- 200911``I enjoyed reading this important book. It presents a good overview of the critical issues facing the WTO and discusses most of the recently proposed reforms of the organization.'' -- Anna Lanoska -- University of Toronto Quarterly, Volume 81, number 3, Summer 2012, 201212``This book makes a valuable contribution to a critical debate: How can the WTO fulfill its intended role as the leader in trade liberalization? Debra Steger and her colleagues bring an impressive range of knowledge and experience to the topic, examining the issues from every angle.'' -- Craig VanGrasstek, President of Washington Trade Reports -- 200911Table of ContentsTable of Contents for Redesigning the World Trade Organization for the Twenty-first Century , edited by Debra P. Steger Foreword | Julio Lacarte Muró Acknowledgements List of Acronyms Part I: Why Institutional Reform Is Necessary Why Institutional Reform of the WTO Is Necessary | Debra Steger Reinvigorating Debate on WTO Reform: The Contours of a Functional and Normative Approach to Analyzing the WTO System | Carolyn Deere Birkbeck Part II: Decision-Making in the WTO A Two-Tier Approach to WTO Decision-Making | Thomas Cottier WTO Decision-Making: Can We Get a Little Help from the Secretariat and the Critical Mass? | Manfred Elsig Improvements to the WTO Decision-Making Process: Lessons from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank | Alberto Alvarez-Jiménez Part III: Internal Management of the WTO Internal Management of the WTO: Room for Improvement | Debra Steger and Natalia Shpilkovskaya Part IV: Transparency and Domestic Consultation From the Periphery to the Centre? The Evolving WTO Jurisprudence on Transparency and Good Governance | Padideh Alaâi Selective Adaptation of WTO Transparency Norms and Local Practices in China and Japan | Ljiljana Biukoviç Domestic Politics and the Search for a New Social Purpose of Governance for the WTO: A Proposal for a Declaration on Domestic Consultation | Seema Sapra Enhancing Business Participation in Trade Policy-Making: Lessons from China | Heng Wang Part V: Public Participation Options for Public Participation in the WTO: Experience from Regional Trade Agreements | Yves Bonzon Non-Governmental Organizations and the WTO: Limits to Involvement? | Peter van den Bossche Part VI: Regional Trade Agreements and the WTO Accommodating Developing Countries in the WTO: From Mega-Debates to Economic Partnership Agreements | Gerhard Erasmus Saving the WTO from the Risk of Irrelevance: The WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism as a âCommon Goodâ for RTA Disputes | Henry Gao and Chin Leng Lim Regional Trade Agreements and the WTO: The Gyrating Gears of Interdependence | Pablo Heidrich and Diana Tussie Bibliography Contributors Index Contributors Padideh Alaâi is Professor of Law at Washington College of Law, American University in Washington, D.C., where she specializes in areas of international trade law, development, and comparative legal traditions. She teaches World Trade Organization law and writes in the areas of history and free trade, international efforts to combat corruption, and trade and good governance. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1988 and was in private legal practice with the law firms of Jones Day and Reichler, Milton and Medel prior to joining the American University in 1997. From 2003 to 2005, she was the Co-Chair of the International Economic Law Group of the American Society of International Law. Alberto Alvarez-Jiménez is a Colombian lawyer and holds a Doctor of Laws from the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa. He is a former Research Fellow of the EDGE Network and now serves as a consultant and law professor. He has lectured in North America, Latin America, and Europe, and his articles on international trade law and foreign investment law have been published in a number of leading international journals. Ljiljana BiukoviÄ is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia, Canada. She teaches Contracts, European Union Law, External Relations of the European Union, and Global Law. Her current research interests are in the areas of international trade, in particular on the adaptation of international legal norms by national governments and the impact of regionalism on multilateral trade negotiations, as well as the development of European Union law. She is an Associate of the Institute for European Studies at UBC. She recently received the Farris Award to examine the interface between commercial arbitration and the courts in Canada. Yves Bonzon is a doctoral student at the Faculty of Law, University of Lausanne in Switzerland. In 2007â08, he was a Visiting Researcher at the Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., and in 2005â06 a researcher for the NCCR Trade Regulations project based at the World Trade Institute in Bern, Switzerland. He is now completing a doctoral thesis on the regulation of non-state actorsâ participation in WTO decision-making. Thomas Cottier is Managing Director of the World Trade Institute, Professor of European and International Economics Law, and Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Bern, Switzerland. He directs a national research program on trade law and policyâ NCCR-Trade. He was a Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, and currently teaches also at the Europa Institut Saarbrcken, Germany, and at Wuhan University, China. Professor Cottier has had a long-standing involvement in GATT/WTO activities. He served on the Swiss negotiating team of the Uruguay Round from 1986 to 1993, first as chief negotiator on dispute settlement and subsidies for Switzerland, and subsequently as chief negotiator on TRIPs. He has held several positions in the Swiss External Economic Affairs Department and was the Deputy-Director General of the Swiss Intellectual Property Office. He has also served as a panel member in a number of disputes in the WTO. Carolyn Deere Birkbeck is the Director of the Global Trade Governance Project in the Global Economic Governance Programme, University College, Oxford. She is also a Senior Research Associate at Oxford Universityâs Centre for International Studies and a Resident Scholar at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) in Geneva, Switzerland. Manfred Elsig is a Senior Research Fellow at the World Trade Institute in Bern, Switzerland, and a Visiting Lecturer at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. From 1997 to 1999, he worked at the Swiss Federal Office for Foreign Economic Affairs. He later joined the Institute of Political Science of the University of Zurich and received his Ph.D. in 2002. After working as a personal advisor to the Minister of Economy in Zurich, he taught at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2004â05. His research focuses primarily on the international political economy of trade, European Union trade policy, international organizations, and private actors in global politics. Gerhard Erasmus is an Associate with the Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa (TRALAC), in Stellenbosch, South Africa, which he founded in 2002 with the initial financial assistance of the Swiss Government. He is also Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Law, University of Stellenbosch. He has been involved in the drafting of new constitutions in Namibia, Malawi, and South Africa and has worked on regional water law projects in southern Africa. He holds an LL.B from the University of the Free State, South Africa, a Masterâs degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Boston, Massachusetts, and an LL.D from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. He is an Advocate of the Supreme Court of South Africa and serves on the editorial boards of a number of African law journals. Henry Gao is currently on leave from the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong, and is Associate Professor of Law at Singapore Management University. He has published widely on issues relating to China and WTO. He has spoken at conferences around the world and trained hundreds of government officials on WTO issues. A consultant to several national governments and international organizations, including the WTO, the World Bank, and the APEC, he is also a frequent commentator in major international media such as the Wall Street Journal, CNN, and Bloomberg. Pablo Heidrich is Senior Researcher, Trade and Development, with the North-South Institute in Ottawa, Canada. Previously, he worked for the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) and the Latin American Trade Network (LATN) in Argentina, where his research focused on issues of regionalism, energy integration, and infrastructure. He studied political economy and public policy at the University of Southern California, focusing on the links between financial crises and trade policy in the developing world. He holds a Masterâs degree in International Political Economy from the University of Tsukuba in Japan. Julio Lacarte Muró was the first Chairman of the WTO Appellate Body and Chair of the Uruguay Round negotiations on the establishment of the WTO and the dispute settlement understanding. He was Delegate or Head Delegate to numerous international conferences, including the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, International Labour Organisation, UNCTAD, UNESCO, the Organization of American States, Latin American Free Trade Association, the River Plate Basin, Economic Commission of the United Nations for L
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University of Arkansas Press Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President
Book SynopsisKeeping Faith is Jimmy Carter’s account of the satisfaction, frustration, and solitude that attend the man in the Oval Offce. Mr. Carter writes candidly about the crises that confronted him during his tenure as President of the United States and leader of the free world, from 1977 to 1981.“The President who cared” details his anguish over the hostage crisis in Iran, his triumph against all odds at Camp David, his secret communications with China’s Deng Xiaoping, and his dramatic and revealing encounters with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, and other world leaders.Mr. Carter also shares glimpses of his private world - his feelings of being an outsider in Washington, his relationship with Rosalynn, his pain about the attacks on his friends and his brother Billy.Captivatingly written, this rich historical document delineates a morally responsible president who has continued to earn respect and admiration as a world statesman and advocate for the poor and repressed of all nations.Trade ReviewSeldom has a presidential memoir been so self-revealing." —Wall Street Journal"Responsible, truthful, intelligent, earnest, rational, purposeful. Thus the man: thus the book." —The Washington Post"A wonderfully vivid closeup portrait of Leonid Brezhnev. And Mr. Carter’s detailed report on the Camp David Middle East peace summit is absolutely riveting." —The New York Times
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University of Arkansas Press Preface to the Presidency: Selected Speeches of
Book SynopsisBill Clinton has long been touted as a master of public speaking form and political discourse. Taken from his speeches as a twenty-seven-year-old candidate for Congress though his 1992 victory speech, Preface to the Presidency reveals the power and range of his contribution to our nation's political dialogue.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Jeffersonian America
Book SynopsisThis book analyzes Thomas Jefferson's conception of American nationhood in light of the political and social demands facing the post-Revolutionary Republic in its formative years.Trade ReviewJeffersonian America represents political history at its very best. It is no mere catalog of elections and partisan struggles but a history that explains the underlying structure of politics and uses that explanation to illuminate the history of the period." Jan Lewis, Rutgers University at Newark. "In this well crafted and knowledgeable book, Onuf and Sadosky offer us a splendid lens through which to view Jefferson and the early republic. We thereby gain a greater insight into the origins of American political culture." Paul A. Gilje, University of Oklahoma. "Onuf and Sadowski ... examine family structure and the structure of local government, political economy and race, and federalism and diplomacy, providing a deft analysis of Jefferson's conception of nationhood during the country's formative years." Choice "The book's ideological, synthetic and integrative approach emphasizes the themes of contingency and even anxiety in the life of the new nation, which the authors would contend was elided by previous generations of historiographical simplification and overspeculation. Indeed this volume significantly clarifies our understanding of the persistent orientation of the young United States towards the western frontier and the Atlantic world." Johnathan o'Neill, University of LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction. 1. The Republican Revolution. 2. Little Republics. 3. Pursuits of Happiness. 4. Federal Republic and Extended Union. Further Reading. Index.
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Perspectivas urbanas – Temas críticos en
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Territorial Cohesion and the European Model of
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy European Spatial Research and Planning
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Property Rights and Land Policies
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Working Across Boundaries – People, Nature, and
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy China`s Environmental Policy and Urban
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Property Tax in Africa – Status, Challenges, and
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Rethinking the Property Tax–School Funding
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Temple University Press,U.S. Women's Activism in Contemporary Russia
Book SynopsisThrough in-depth interviews with activists, the authors provide a broad and thorough introduction to the emerging women's movement and women's organizations in Russia. The focus is on the development of women's activism in late Soviet and post-Soviet Russia and the challenges for activists in a time of resurgent nationalism and turmoil over democratic reform. Linda Racioppi and Katherine O'Sullivan See present a concise history of women's situation in tsarist Soviet Russia, which shows how their ability to organize was constrained by social strictures and state policies. They also analyze how the state-sponsored Soviet Women's Committee and new groups like the Independent Women's Forum, the Women's League, and the International Institute for Entrepreneurial Development responded to the challenges and opportunities of the transition. The authors examine the dynamics among these groups as well. The personal life histories of the activists reflect the ways women have responded to the changing political, economic, and social landscape in the former Soviet Union.Trade Review"For the student of social movements in general and women's movements in particular, the value of this book is in the diversity of groups and activists studied and the richness of detail. The variety of activists, ideologies, and organizational origins is striking... Racioppi and O'Sullivan See have provided an important introduction to the study of Russian women's activism in the reform and post-communist periods, and anyone hoping to develop a more theoretical account would do well to start with this book." -Mobilization "Linda Racioppi and Katherine O'Sullivan See have given us a model book on contemporary activism... this is an ideal book for students in courses on post-communism or contemporary Russia-or for anyone with an interest in these topics." -Labor HistoryTable of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction 2. Women's Activism in Historical Context Tsarist Autocracy and Constraints on Women's Activism * The Soviet Order * Elvira Novikova 3. Three Women and the Transition Economic and Political Transformations * Women and the Economy * Women and Political Voice * Organizing Women as Politics * Alternative "Emancipations" * Natalia Belokopytova * The State and Ideological Emancipation 4. The Union of Women of Russia and Alevtina Fedulova The Soviet Women's Committee * The Committee and the Transition * Alevtina Fedulova 5. The Zhensovety and Ol'ga Bessolova Zhensovety * Ol'ga Bessolova 6. The Center for Gender Studies, the Independent Women's Forum, and Anastasia Posadskaya * The Center for Gender Studies * Anastasia Posadskaya 7. The Women's League, Gaia, and Elena Ershova The Women's League * Gaia * Elena Ershova 8. Business and Economic Development Organizations The Transition and Economic Organizing * Conversion and Women and Eleanora Ivanova * The Association of Small Towns and Tatiana Tsertsvadze * The International Institute for Entrepreneurial Development and Leah Lerner * Economic Organizations and the Women's Movement 9. Interpreting Russian Women's Activism Activists' Lives in Historical Context * Analyzing the Women's Movement Appendix A Registered Women's Organizations in Russia Appendix B Open Letter to American Women Issued on Behalf of the Congress of Soviet Women, July 1993 Notes Interviews with Portrayed Activists Works Cited Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. The Unwanted: European Refugees From 1St World
Book SynopsisThere have always been homeless people, but only in the twentieth century have refugees become an important part of international politics, seriously affecting relations between states. Since the 1880s, the number of displaced persons has climbed astronomically, with people scattered over vaster distances and for longer periods of time than ever before. Tracing the emergence of this new variety of collective alienation, The Unwanted covers everything from the late nineteenth century to the present, encompassing the Armenian refugees, the Jews, the Spanish Civil War emigres, the Cold War refugees in flight from Soviet states, and much more. Marrus shows not only the astounding dimensions of the subject but also depicts the shocking apathy and antipathy of the international community toward the homeless. He also examines the impact of refugee movements on Great Power diplomacy and considers the evolution of agencies designed to assist refugees, noting outstanding successes and failures. Author note: Michael R. Marrus is Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies and Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of five books, including, most recently, The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial 1945-46: A Documentary History. Aristide R. Zolberg is University-in-Exile Professor at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York City and Director of the International Center for Migration, Ethnicity, and Citizenship. He is the author or editor of many books, including Escape from Violence: Conflict and the Refugee Crisis in the Developing World.Trade Review"Marrus manages to offer an even-handed, superbly documented, and clearly written analysis of each episode [of European refugee flows], while simultaneously unraveling the web of another story: the evolution of international procedures and institutions that would act as occasional buffers, but more frequently as impartial but concerned middlemen, in refugee-generating crises."-Demetrios G. Papademetriou, American Political Science Review "It is usually the most extreme aspect of calamity that attracts our attention... Somehow, human suffering on an aggregate level seems best understood when presented in the category of death. Michael Marrus's impressive study implicitly challenges this wide-ranging epistemology of human misery and destruction by making not the millions of killed but rather an even greater mass of refugees the subject of his meticulous study. The argument is simple, yet convincing. For Marrus, the phenomenon of refugees on a massive scale is inextricably linked to the development of modern politics and society... [W]e should be grateful to Marrus for having provided us with a fine study of a topic that should command the constant attention of all decent human beings in the world."-Andrei S. Markovits, The Journal of Modern History "Heinrich Boll has called this 'the century of prisoners and refugees.' Michael Marrus's carefully crafted book helps to explain why this is so."-Peter I. Rose, The Christian Science Monitor "The most comprehensive description of the European refugee problem...Well written and rich in references."-The American Journal of International LawTable of ContentsList of MapsForeword - Aristide R. ZolbergPreface to the New EditionPrefaceIntroductionPart I: Toward a Mass Movement1. The Nineteenth Century2. The Jewish Exodus from Eastern Europe3. The Balkans and the "Unmixing of Peoples"Part II: Thenansenera4. The Great War and Upheaval in Eastern Europe5. Refugees and the Collapse of the Tsarist EmpireJewish Refugees in Eastern EuropeForcible Repatriation to the Soviet UnionUNRRA6. Refugees on the MoveGermansJews7. The IRO and the "Last Million"Epilogue Contemporary EuropeRefugees and the Origins of the Cold WarShapinga UN Agency: UNHCRCold War RefugeesDiminished Importance of EuropeSettling Old BusinessNew RefugeesNotesIndex
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd German Culture, Politics, and Literature into the
Book SynopsisThe first major study of the contemporary German debate over "normalization" and its impact across the range of cultural, political, economic, intellectual, and historical discourses. This volume features sixteen thought-provoking essays by renowned international experts on German society, culture, and politics that, together, provide a comprehensive study of Germany's postunification process of "normalization." Essays ranging across a variety of disciplines including politics, foreign policy, economics, literature, architecture, and film examine how since 1990 the often contested concept of normalization has become crucial to Germany'sself-understanding. Despite the apparent emergence of a "new" Germany, the essays demonstrate that normalization is still in question, and that perennial concerns -- notably the Nazi past and the legacy of the GDR -- remain central to political and cultural discourses and affect the country's efforts to deal with the new challenges of globalization and the instability and polarization it brings. This is the first major study in English or German of the impact of the normalization debate across the range of cultural, political, economic, intellectual, and historical discourses. Contributors: Stephen Brockmann, Jeremy Leaman, Sebastian Harnisch and Kerry Longhurst, Lothar Probst, Simon Ward, Anna Saunders, Annette Seidel Arpaci, Chris Homewood, Andrew Plowman, Helmut Schmitz, Karoline Von Oppen, William Collins Donahue, Kathrin Schödel, Stuart Taberner, Paul Cooke Stuart Taberner isProfessor of Contemporary German Literature, Culture, and Society and Paul Cooke is Senior Lecturer in German Studies, both at the University of Leeds.Trade ReviewWhether the Berlin Republic has achieved some form of 'normality' comparable to other European nation states or whether Germany's singularity, the 'abnormality' of its Holocaust past will persist ... is the focus of the volume's 15 chapters. ... The breadth of viewpoints can be regarded as a model of successful cultural studies.... A first-rate volume. * GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW *With its cross-disciplinary approach, the book provides a good overview of the discursive shifts that have accompanied German identity debates since the 1990s. * MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW *Students will appreciate the clarity of the writing and the information on quite recent developments in Germany.... * MONATSHEFTE *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Stuart Taberner and Paul Cooke "Normalization": Has Helmut Kohl's Vision Been Realized? - Stephen Brockmann Coping with Disparity: Continuity and Discontinuity in Economic Policy since Unification - Jeremy Leaman Understanding Germany: The Limits of "Normalization" and the Prevalence of Strategic Culture - Sebastian Harnisch Understanding Germany: The Limits of "Normalization" and the Prevalence of Strategic Culture - Kerry Longhurst "Normalization" through Europeanization: The Role of the Holocaust - Lothar Probst "Representing Normality": Architecture in Berlin - Simon Ward "Normalizing" the Past: East German Culture and Ostalgie - Anna Saunders National Memory's Schlüsselkinder: Migration, Pedagogy, and German Remembrance Culture - Annette Seidel Arpaci The Return of "Undead" History: The West German Terrorist as Vampire and the Problem of "Normalizing" the Past in Margarethe von Trotta's Die bleierne Zeit (1981) and Christian Petzold's Die innere Sicherheit (2001) - Chris Homewood "Normalizing" the "Old" Federal Republic? The FRG between 1949 and 1989 in Recent German Fiction - Andrew Plowman Reconciliation between the Generations: The Image of the Ordinary German Soldier in Dieter Wellershoff's Der Ernstfall and Ulla Hahn's Unscharfe Bilder - Helmut Schmitz "(un)sägliche Vergleiche": What Germans Remembered (and Forgot) in Former Yugoslavia in the 1990s - Karoline von Oppen "Normal" as "Apolitical": Uwe Timm's Rot and Thomas Brussig's Leben bis Männer - William Collins Donahue "Narrative Normalization" and Günter Grass's Im Krebsgang - Kathrin Schodel From "Normalization" to Globalization. German Fiction into the New Millennium: Christian Kracht, Ingo Schulze, and Feridun Zaimogølu - Stuart Taberner Abnormal Consensus? The New Internationalism of German Cinema - Paul Cooke Notes on the Contributors Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Writers and Politics in Germany, 1945-2008
Book SynopsisA comprehensive survey of German literary writers' political writing and involvement since 1945. George Orwell said that all writing is political; but the writers of some nations and some periods are more political than others. German writers after 1945 have exemplified such heightened politicization, and this book considerstheir contribution to the democratic development of Germany by looking principally at their directly political, non-fictional writings. It pays particular attention to writers and the student movement of the 1960s and '70s, when some proclaimed the death of literature and called for a turn to direct political action. Yet writers in both parts of Germany gradually came to identify with their respective states, even if the idea of one Germany never entirelydisappeared. The unification of 1989-1990, in which this idea astonishingly became reality, posed a major (and some would say unmet) challenge to writers in both East and West. After looking at this period of intense political activities, the book considers the continuing East/West division and changing attitudes to the Nazi past, asking whether the intellectual climate has swung to the right. It also asks to what extent political involvement has been a generational project for the immediate postwar generation and is less important for younger writers who see the Federal Republic as a "normal" democratic state. Stuart Parkes is Emeritus Professor of German from the University of Sunderland (UK).Trade ReviewAn important resource for undergraduates, postgraduates at the beginning of their research, and established colleagues wishing to refresh their knowledge of the period.. There is a surprising amount of detail in a book of little more than 200 pages, and Parkes is skilled in condensing broad trends and key issues into short, digestible paragraphs with apt and illuminating examples. * MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW *The author's particular achievement lies in the thorough treatment of the increasing cultural and ideological division of FRG and GDR perspectives, developments, and interactions. * MONATSHEFTE *[A] comprehensive and thorough study that provides an excellent overview of the relationship between literature and politics over more than 60 years in post-war Germany. * JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN STUDIES *At the end of the Second World War, Thomas Mann described how many German intellectuals, including him, had tended to look down on politics and retreated from the real world into an abstract realm of inwardness. Stuart Parkes's useful survey of post-war German writers and politics examines how, against the background of the shadow cast by the Nazi past, German writers have since 1945 attempted to overcome this quintessentially German schism between Geist (intellect) and Macht (power). * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *[A] detailed, informative study, which traces writers' involvement with politics [and] probes how intellectuals have shaped public debates. . [A] comprehensive overview of the main literary and political lines. * CHOICE *An amazing accomplishment in a new, standard work on a difficult topic . . . Judicious in its balanced assessments of political positions . . . It is at the same time well written and rich in content. . . Exemplary. * GERMANISTIK *
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University of Tennessee Press Burden Of Confederate Diplomacy
Book Synopsis"Thoroughly researched . . . [Hubbard’s] interpretation is solid, well supported, and touches all of the major aspects of Confederate diplomacy."—American Historical Review"As the first examination of the topic since King Cotton Diplomacy (1931), this work deserves widespread attention. Hubbard offers a convincingly bleak portrayal of the limited skills and myopic vision of Rebel diplomacy at home and abroad."—Virginia Magazine of History and BiographyOf the many factors that contributed to the South’s loss of the Civil War, one of the most decisive was the failure of Southern diplomacy. In this penetrating work, Charles M. Hubbard reassesses the diplomatic efforts made by the Confederacy in its struggle to become an independent nation. Hubbard focuses both on the Confederacy’s attempts to negotiate a peaceful separation from the Union and Southern diplomats’ increasingly desperate pursuit of state recognition from the major European powers. Drawing on a large body of sources, Hubbard offers an important reinterpretation of the problems facing Confederate diplomats. He demonstrates how the strategies and objectives of the South’s diplomatic program—themselves often poorly conceived—were then placed in the hands of inexperienced envoys who were ill-equipped to succeed in their roles as negotiators. The Author: Charles M. Hubbard is associate professor of history at Lincoln Memorial University and executive director of the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Museum in Harrogate, Tennessee.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Only Dissect: Rudolf Klein on Politics and
Book SynopsisThis unique collection of the writings of Rudolf Klein - historian, journalist, political scientist and policy analyst - represents the products of his career as an observer of politics and society over the last four decades.Trade Review"Original voices are rare. Rudolf Klein has been a startling and important explicator of health policy and social services. His is still the most original voice in chronicling and critiquing the politics of the British health service. His forays into other systems, notably the U.S. system, have been equally provocative. Why do we have the systems we have? Why can we not agree on one way of organizing services and stick with it? Read Rudolf Klein and see." – Rosemary StevensTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements.. Part I. Spectator Sports. 1. The Gargoyle Theatre. 2. London Opera. 3. A View from the Terrace. 4. Chelsea Knock Down Ambitious Arsenal. 5. Television. 6. Soccer and Society. 7. Chelsea Cover Up Their Weak Spots. 8. Left, Right & Other Stereotypes. 9. Ministering to Britain. 10. Crumbling the Barricades. 11. Orthodox Unconventionality. 12. Inequality and Politics.. Part II. Government Observed. 13. Shame and Prejudice. 14. The £6,000,000,000 Question. 15. Egoists of the World. 16. Planners Who Leap into the Dark. 17. Callaghan’s Dilemma: to Tax or Not to Tax. 18. New Deal for Incomes. 19. Labour Moves Closer to Tories on Welfare. 20. What is Wrong With Housing. 21. Jay as Wilson’s Secret Weapon. 22. A Man for All Classes. 23. Controlling THEM. 24. You Won’t Read This …. 25. Curbing Whitehall. 26. Saving Labour’s First-born. 27. The Message is McLuhan. 28. The Doers and the Done-to. 29. Masters Into Managers. 30. Participation v. Efficiency. 31. Barbara’s Strike Cure. 32. How to Live with Cannabis. 33. Who Should Run Our Schools?. 34. What is the Difference?. 35. The Wilson Era.. Part III. From Public to Social Policy. 36. The Management of Britain. 37. Growth and Its Enemies. 38. The Stalemate Society. 39. The Politics of Public Expenditure: American Theory and British Practice. 40. Universities in the Market Place. 41. The Welfare State: A Self-Inflicted Crisis?. 42. The Social Policy Man: Priest or Pragmatist?. 43. Edwin Chadwick 1800-90. 44. O’Goffe’s Tale, Or, What Can We Learn From the Success of the Capitalist Welfare States?. Part IV. The Politics of Health Care. 45. N.H.S Reorganisation: the Politics of the Second Best. 46. Ideology, Class and the National Health Service. 47. Models of Man and Models of Policy: Reflections on Exit, Voice, and Loyalty Ten Years Later. 48. Health Care in the Age of Disillusionment. 49. The NHS and the Theatre of Inadequacy. 50. Acceptable Inequalities. 51. From Status to Contract: The Transformation of the British Medical Profession. 52. The State and the Profession: The Politics of the Double Bed. 53. Risks and Benefits of Comparative Studies: Notes from Another Shore. 54. Rationing in Action – Dimensions of Rationing: Who Should Do What?. 55. The Goals of Health Policy: Church or Garage?. 56. Labour’s Health Policy: A Retreat from Ideology.
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Faithlife Corporation Democracy in America
Book SynopsisA New Abridgement of a Classic on the American Experiment.As debates rage over the future of America and the country's relationship to its past, there is no better time to examine the American culture from the perspective of a nineteenth century French thinker and student of democracy. Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, written in French in the early 19th century, is seen as a classic of American political and cultural studies. However, the expansive 2--volume original has never seen an accessible version that remains true to the original text. This new abridgement of Francis Bowen's 1864 translation keeps Tocqueville's thought intact. All chapters have been retained and no sentences have been divided. This volume offers a clear window into American political history and a concise approach to this classic outsider's perspective on the United States. A new introduction by editor John D. Wilsey further interprets and applies Tocqueville's thought for the modern student of American institutions, politics, religion, and society.Trade ReviewTocqueville's Democracy in America is one of the most important books--indeed, perhaps the most important book--for understanding American politics and society. John D. Wilsey's abridgment succeeds in placing an accessible version of this magnum opus in the hands of students and general readers, while his introduction provides a clear guide for understanding the work. By sharing Tocqueville's ideas broadly, Wilsey has contributed to educating the American democracy.--Jonathan Den Hartog, associate professor of history, University of Northwestern--St. Paul, St. Paul, MinnesotaAlexis de Tocqueville is the greatest political theorist of democracy, and Democracy in America is his greatest writing. Editor John Wilsey provides an excellent introduction to Tocqueville's thought and a judicious abridgment of the book that trims it down to half its original size while retaining Tocqueville's most important thoughts on issues such as democracy, liberty, religion, and race. Highly recommended.--Bruce Ashford, provost and professor of theology and culture, Southeastern Baptist Theological SeminaryJohn Wilsey's edition of Democracy in America brings Tocqueville's essential text into the classroom. Focusing on democracy, liberty, and racial prejudice, Wilsey draws attention to the important themes that have made Tocqueville's work required reading as both a historical artifact and a statement of political philosophy. With careful abridgment and an approachable introduction, Wilsey helps faculty and students alike understand the meaning of Democracy in America in its own time and today.--Emily Conroy-Krutz, assistant professor of history, Michigan State UniversityFramed by a thoughtful introduction to Democracy in America's historical context and its core philosophical and social concerns, this volume deftly balances reader accessibility with coverage of essential elements of the original text.--Lloyd Benson, W. K. Mattison Professor of History, Furman UniversityWilsey's marvelous editing of Alexis de Tocqueville's classic Democracy in America is both timely and instructive, given our current political context and racial climate in 21st-century America. Students, professors, and the general reader will benefit from a renewed edition of Tocqueville's prescient 19th-century observations of our still-burgeoning republic as well as from Wilsey's skillful teasing out of Tocqueville's views on race and slavery in a fresh, thoughtful, and insightful introduction. This book will be a benefit to American classrooms and a "must have" for educators' libraries for decades to come.--Otis W. Pickett, assistant professor of history, Mississippi CollegeJohn D. Wilsey has achieved something near impossible--the abridgement of Alexis de Tocqueville's masterpiece Democracy in America while retaining its core contributions to our understanding of Jacksonian America up to the present. In his introduction, Wilsey provides readers an excellent guide for understanding Tocqueville's treatment of equality, democracy, liberty, and especially slavery. This volume is perfect for high school and college students, but any curious reader could pick up a copy to start his or her study of this classic text.--James M. Patterson, assistant professor of politics, Ave Maria UniversityDemocracy in America has always been essential reading for students of American history and of the history of political and social thought. But teachers on the secondary-school and undergraduate levels who might otherwise make generous use of Tocqueville's luminous text have often been daunted by the length and expense entailed in assigning the whole book. For such teachers and their students, this careful abridgment of the Democracy, trimmed to half its original length and framed by the editor's thoughtful introductory essay, will prove to be just what the doctor ordered.--Wilfred M. McClay, G. T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty, and director of the Center for the History of Liberty, University of OklahomaTocqueville's unparalleled analysis of the American experiment--his praise of it, and his prescient warnings about a people detached from virtue and religion--should be required reading for every American citizen. This superb abridgment communicates the power of the original in a way that makes thinking with Tocqueville easier than ever. Recommended!--C. C. Pecknold, associate professor of theology, The Catholic University of AmericaWilsey's volume on Tocqueville's notoriously complex Democracy in America does an excellent job of contextualizing for the modern reader. He reminds readers of the importance of reading Tocqueville in a historically critical manner that takes into account Tocqueville's own views of democracy, as well as the fact that his writings should be properly understood as a "window into Jacksonian America." Wilsey's consideration of Tocqueville's predictions on what slavery and racial inequality might mean for the United States are another important contribution this volume makes to the considerable scholarship on Tocqueville.--Jessica M. Parr, adjunct professor and project coordinator for public history, UNH-Manchester
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Colonial Rule and Crisis in Equatorial Africa:
Book SynopsisA look at the encounter between the French and the peoples of Southern Gabon in terms of their differing conceptions of boundaries. In the second half of the nineteenth century, two very different practices of territoriality confronted each other in Southern Gabon. Clan and lineage relationships were most important in the local practice, while the French practice was informed by a territorial definition of society that had emerged with the rise of the modern nation-state and industrial capitalism. This modern territoriality used an array of bureaucratic instruments -- such as maps andcensuses -- previously unknown in equatorial Africa. Such instruments denied the existence of locally created territories and were fundamental to the exercise of colonial power. Thus modern territoriality imposed categories and institutions foreign to the peoples to whom they were applied. As colonial power became more effective from the 1920s on, those institutions started to be appropriated by Gabonese cultural elites who negotiated their meanings in reference to their own traditions. The result was a strongly ambiguous condition that left its imprint on the new colonial territories and subsequently the postcolonial Gabonese state. Christopher Gray was Assistant Professor of History, Florida International University.Trade ReviewFascinating study. . . suitable for upper division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers, and faculty. * CHOICE *Besides offering a solid overview of the political and cultural history of southern Gabon, an area almost entirely ignored by academic scholars, Gray's study offers rich insights for historians and researchers examining the impact of early colonial rule and the formation of ethnic categories in Africa in the last two centuries. . . . A compelling study. * INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES No. 2-3, 2002 *Gray's book is an important intervention in the growing scholarly literature on colonialism. Its lasting contribution is to invite scholars to think more carefully about space as a key terrain on which the colonial power worked. * JOURNAL OF COLONIALISM AND COLONIAL HISTORY *Table of ContentsDeveloping a Spatial Approach to Historical Change in Equitorial Africa Territoriality in the Functional Regions, Districts, and Villages of Southern Gabon to the 1880s "The Clan Has No Boundary": Cognitive Kinships, Maps, and Territoriality The Instruments of Colonial Territoriality Colonial Territoriality's Ambiguous Territoriality: Roads and Okoume, ca. 1920-1940 The Impositin of an Ambiguous Territoriality: Roads and Okoume, ca. 1920-1940 Death of the Equatorial Tradition? Of Leopard Men, Canton Chiefs, and Women Healers
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Politics of Frenchness in Colonial Algeria,
Book SynopsisAn examination of French citizenship and cultural identity in Algeria during the last quarter-century of colonial rule. In recent years, a multicultural society and changing conceptions of French identity have been the source of considerable debate in scholarship, literature and the media in France. This book examines equally contested definitionsof French identity from the past, but not those forged within the borders of the French 'Hexagon,' as French geographic space is sometimes called. It is the study of French sentiment in colonial Algeria of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, during the last quarter century of colonial rule in North Africa. It seeks to uncover elements of French identity that were generated past the Pyrenees and the Alps, beyond the bordering Atlantic Ocean, English Channel and Mediterranean Sea, outside the physical space so central to "Frenchness." It asks whether far-reaching state institutions could transform indigenous and settler populations in colonial Algeria -- Europeans, Jews and Muslims -- intoFrench men and women. It examines what these individuals wrote of French sentiment in colonial Algeria. Did they articulate alternative definitions of French identity? The colonial "periphery" is clearly quite central to France'sevolving postcolonial sense of self. Colonial Algerian heterogeneity and the country's unique relationship to France make it an especially rich site in which to study French national and cultural identities. French military conquest and the occupation of the North African coast established one of the oldest and largest settler colonies within the French Empire. Unlike other colonies, Algeria lay relatively close to metropolitan France, a daylong journey by ship from Marseilles. No colony other than Algeria was granted French departmental status. No other land administered under the auspices of the French Empire had as numerous a European settler population, many of whom becamenaturalized French citizens. This study suggests that although Algeria had become officially French, "Algerie française", even at the pinnacle of its acceptance, was more diverse and more contested than its title suggests.Trade Review[An] important contibution to the scholarship on the Algerian war. * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW *Organized as six interrelated chapters, Gosnell's book disentangles the harsh reality of trying to make Algeria French from the myth of l'Algerie française as represented through the socializing experiences of a centralized system of education and obligatory military service, among other things. . . Gosnell's book succeeds admirably in elaborating and exposing that colonial legacy from which Algeria continues to suffer today. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, February 2004 *Valuable new study. . . this is an ambitious book that addresses complex questions w ith admirable clarity -- a rare but essential quality in discourse analysis. * JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY *This book provides an essential resource for students of Algerian and French colonial history. At a time when French cultural identity is again at the center of public debate in France, it provides a necessary examination of the ambiguities and contradictions, as well as the idealism and bad faith, that have long lain at the heart of definitions of Frenchness. * JOURNAL OF COLONIALISM AND COLONIAL HISTORY 2006 *Gosnell does a fascinating job of untangling the ethnic threats of Algerian society, revealing that each group and even sub-group of the population maintained its own culture and attitudes toward France. . . . The work is essential for any student of the French-Algerian crisis and a valuable addition to any library of twentieth-century French culture. -- Alice J. Strange * FRENCH REVIEW, 2005 *Table of ContentsL'Algerie francaise: An Imagined Community? Colonial Schools and the Transmission of French Culture The Colonial Press and the Construction of Greater France An Indigenous Perspective on France and Frenchness A Colonial Scale of Frenchness Algerianite: The Emergence of a Colonial Identity
£81.00
Boydell & Brewer Ltd A Political History of the Gambia, 1816-1994
Book SynopsisThe only complete study of modern Gambian politics from the establishment of British rule to the overthrow of the Jawara government. A Political History of the Gambia: 1816-1994 is the first complete account of the political history of the former British West African dependency to be written. It makes use of much hitherto unconsulted or unavailable British and Gambian official and private documentary sources, as well as interviews with many Gambian politicians and former British colonial officials. The first part of the book charts the origins and characteristics of modern politics in colonial Bathurst (Banjul) and its expansion into the Gambian interior (Protectorate) in the two decades after World War II. By independence in 1965, older urban-based parties in the capital had been defeated bya new, rural-based political organisation, the People's Progressive Party (PPP). The second part of the book analyzes the means by which the PPP, under President Sir Dawda Jawara, succeeded in defeating both existing and new rival political parties and an attempted coup in 1981. The book closes with an explanation of the demise of the PPP at the hands of an army coup in 1994. The book not only establishes those distinctive aspects ofGambian political history, but also relates these to the wider regional and African context, during the colonial and independence periods.Trade ReviewA meticulous, richly documented and eloquently written book; a precious gift to a country and its peoples. It fills a most important gap and is sure to make a lasting contribution to Gambian and African studies. A true labor of love. --Abdoulaye Saine, associate professor of political science, Miami University * . *Table of ContentsSocial and Economic Setting Constitutional Change in The Gambia, 1816-1994 Merchants and Recaptives: The Origins of Modern Politics, 1816-86 Patrician Politics in the Era of the Forsters, 1886-1941 The Establishment of Party Politics, 1941-59 The "Green Uprising": The Emergence of the People's Progressive Party, 1959-65 Electoral Politics, 1965-81 Radical and Insurrectionary Political Challenges, 1965-81 Electoral Politics, 1981-94 The Gambia's External Relations, 1965-94 The 1994 Coup and the Jawara Legacy
£38.00
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Building a Peaceful Nation: Julius Nyerere and
Book SynopsisA compelling account of the establishment of Tanzania's stable and ambitious government in the face of external threats and internal turmoil. In the early 1960s, nationalist politicians established in Tanzania a stable government in the face of external threats and internal turmoil. Paul Bjerk's volume chronicles this history and examines the politics and policies of the nation's first president, Julius Nyerere. One of the great leaders of modern Africa, Nyerere unified the diverse people who became citizens of the new nation and negotiated the tumultuous politics of the Cold War. In an era whenmany postcolonial countries succumbed to corrupt dictatorship or civil war, Nyerere sought principled government. Making difficult choices between democratic and autocratic rule, Nyerere creatively managed the destabilizing forces of decolonization. With extensive archival research and interviews with scores of participants in this history, Bjerk reorients our understanding of the formative years of Tanzanian independence. This study provides a new paradigm for understanding the history of the postcolonial nations that became independent in a global postwar order defined by sovereignty. Paul Bjerk is associate professor of history at Texas Tech University.Trade ReviewBjerk's chapters on ujamaa ideology and villagization will be essential reading for historians of Tanzania. . . . Bjerk has clarified the stakes in debate about Nyerere and the ujamaa period. His study will leave historians well poised for the challenge of fully incorporating into their stories critics as well as proponents of ujamaa. * JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY *Bjerk offers detailed insight into the critical first years of Tanganyika as a sovereign nation and the personalities and events that gave rise to the United Republic of Tanzania. . . . a welcome addition to the burgeoning historiography of Nyerere and Tanzania in recent years. * CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES *A fascinating read for anyone interested in understanding either the formation of Tanzania or the man who I would argue is modern Africa's most exceptional, idealistic, intelligent and, as this book shows, at times quite coolly ruthless, leader: Julius Nyerere. -- Jane Plastow * LUCAS BULLETIN *Bjerk's work will provide an invaluable resource for those engaged in the academic study of the immediate post-independence period in both Tanzania (Tanganyika) and Africa more broadly. * TANZANIAN AFFAIRS *This very detailed book importantly links political events in Tanzania with what was happening regionally, continentally, and globally. Bjerk provides insight into one of Africa's most important political figures and the domestic and international political events of the time. Recommended. * CHOICE *At a time when Afro-pessimism is so much in vogue it is good to have a book like this. Here the stress is on the competence of African leadership, on government's creativity in the face of international actors, and on the close link between the people and their leaders. There is much here to celebrate and admire. * INT'L JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES *Table of ContentsIntroduction The Education of Julius Nyerere Contemplating the Postcolony Independence and the Fear of Division The Invention of Ujamaa The Origins of Villagization The 1964 Army Mutiny The National Youth Service A Realist Foreign Policy The Cold War and the Union Treaty Contending with International Intrigue Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Kingdoms and Chiefdoms of Southeastern Africa:
Book SynopsisExamines indigenous oral traditions and histories in order to explain the factors propelling sociopolitical consolidation and the emergence of chiefdoms and kingdoms in nineteenth-century southeastern Africa. This study traces the social and political history of the peoples of early precolonial southeastern Africa, including the regions of modern KwaZulu-Natal, Swaziland, southern Mozambique from Maputo Bay southward, and Lesotho. Theemergence in the early nineteenth century of well-known southern African kingdoms such as the AmaZulu, AmaSwazi, and BaSotho kingdoms was the culmination of centuries of sociopolitical developments, during which political controlwas consolidated in the ruling descent lines of small-scale chiefdoms. Providing the first comprehensive scholarly examination of recorded oral traditions from southeastern Africa, Eldredge's work chronicles the events and life stories propelling this consolidation and the advent of large-scale chiefdoms and kingdoms.. Elizabeth A. Eldredge is an independent scholar and author of The Creation of the Zulu Kingdom, 1815-1828: War, Shaka, and the Consolidation of Power.Trade ReviewElizabeth Eldredge's Kingdoms and Chieftains of Southeastern Africa is a valuable addition to an extensive corpus of writings examining indigenous state formation across the southern Bantu world. * AFRICAN STUDIES QUARTERLY *Table of ContentsPreface History and Oral Traditions in Southeastern Africa Oral Traditions in the Reconstruction of Southern African History Shipwreck Survivor Accounts from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Founding Families and Chiefdoms East of the Drakensberg Maputo Bay Peoples and Chiefdoms before 1740 Maputo Bay, 1740-1820 Eastern Chiefdoms of Southern Africa, 1740-1815 Zulu Conquests and the Consolidation of Power, 1815-21 Military Campaigns, Migrations, and Political Reconfiguration Ancestors, Descent Lines, and Chiefdoms West of the Drakensberg before 1820 The Caledon River Valley and the BaSotho of Moshoeshoe, 1821-33 The Expansion of the European Presence at Maputo Bay, 1821-33 Southern African Kingdoms on the Eve of Colonization Appendix A: AmaSwazi King List Appendix B: Chronology of Conflicts, Migrations, and Political Reconfiguration East of the Drakensberg in the Era of Shaka Appendix C: Interviewees from the James Stuart Collection of Oral Traditions Notes Bibliography Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Nation as Grand Narrative: The Nigerian Press and
Book SynopsisA methodical analysis of relations of domination and subordination through media narratives of nationhood in an African context. Nation as Grand Narrative offers a methodical analysis of how relations of domination and subordination are conveyed through media narratives of nationhood. Using the typical postcolonial state of Nigeria as a template andengaging with disciplines ranging from media studies, political science, and social theory to historical sociology and hermeneutics, Wale Adebanwi examines how the nation as grand narrative provides a critical interpretive lens through which competition among ethnic, ethnoregional, and ethnoreligious groups can be analyzed. Adebanwi illustrates how meaning is connected to power through ideology in the struggles enacted on the pages of the print media overdiverse issues including federalism, democracy and democratization, religion, majority-minority ethnic relations, space and territoriality, self-determination, and threat of secession. Nation as Grand Narrative will triggerfurther critical reflections on the articulation of relations of domination in the context of postcolonial grand narratives. Wale Adebanwi is associate professor of African American and African studies, University of California-Davis, and a visiting professor at the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.Trade ReviewWith its recuperation of the nation as an entity, and its insistence on the reality of identity politics both as a contested terrain and as the most meaningful narrative for Nigerian press history, this book represents a significant landmark in the new African print cultures scholarship. * AFRICA *[A] brilliant combination of the analysis of political history and the mass media in pre- and post-colonial Nigeria. The book will be suitable as resource material for students, scholars and practitioners of political science, history, mass media and discourse analysis. * JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES *This book is an asset to anyone who desires to, as closely as possible, experience major historical events in Nigerian history. [It] is a brilliant piece of evidence that there are non-anthropological methods to unearthing deep understanding of what exists today in Nigeria. As such, the book is recommended reading not just for Nigerians and Africans, but also for the common student of politics. * PUBLIUS: THE JOURNAL OF FEDERALISM *This is a thought-provoking book which takes a novel approach to some of the most fundamental questions facing contemporary Africa. It deserves a wide readership. * AFRICAN JOURNALISM STUDIES *The book represents a major contribution toward understanding the immensely complex role that newspapers have played in the political history of postcolonial Africa; it provides a unique and indispensable reflection on the very specific ways in which postcolonial societies have approached democracy. * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Nation as Grand Narrataive Interpretive Theory, Narrative, and the Politics of Meaning In Search of a Grand Narrative: The Press and the Ethno-Regional Struggle for Political Independence Hegemony and Ethno-Spatial Politics: "Nationalizing" the Capital City in the Late-Colonial Era Paper Soldiers: Narratives of Nationhood and Federalism in Pre-Civil War Nigeria Representing the Nation: Electoral Crisis and the Collapse of the Third Republic The "Fought" Republic: The Press, Ethno-Religious Conflicts, and Democratic Ethos Narratives, Territoriality, and Majority-Minority Ethnic Violence Narratives, Oil, and the Spatial Politics of Marginal Identities Conclusion: Beyond Grand Narratives Notes Bibliography Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Cotton and Race across the Atlantic: Britain,
Book SynopsisThe story of how African farmers, African-American scientists, and British businessmen struggled to turn colonial Africa into a major cotton exporter. During the first two decades of the twentieth century, demand for raw cotton in Europe, Asia, and America outstripped production as African Americans migrated away from Southern cotton fields. Consequently, industrialists in Europe turned to Africa for new sources of cotton. This volume documents the efforts by British financiers and colonial officials, along with some African-American allies, to bring the American model of cotton production to colonial Africa. In a narrative featuring a host of characters -- including British entrepreneurs, African kings, and African-American scientists -- author Jonathan Robins weaves together events in Africa, Britain, and the AmericanSouth. Robins chronicles the origins, failings, and eventual evolution of Britain's colonial cotton project, revealing the global forces and actors that moved and transformed the international cotton industry. JonathanE. Robins is assistant professor of global history at Michigan Technological University.Trade ReviewThis book makes a significant contribution to the global history of cotton and our understandings about the long durée of capitalism. Offering a detailed account, grounded both in well-researched detail and reflective attention to how historical knowledge is produced, Robins has succeeded in producing an important and timely publication. * AFRICA AT LSE *Well-researched and thought provoking book that [.] manages to bring in a great amount of detail to show how cotton's empire worked, or failed to work, in the early decades of the twentieth century. * CONNECTIONS *It is a very well-written and entertaining book, and an important addition to our understanding of early twentieth-century debates over the significance of cotton. * HISTORY *Table of ContentsIntroduction The Cotton Crisis: Lancashire, the American South, and the Turn to "Empire Cotton" "The Black Man's Crop": The British Cotton Growing Association and Africa "The Scientific Redemption of Africa": Coercion and Regulation in Colonial Agriculture "King Cotton's Impoverished Retinue": Making Cotton a "White Man's Crop" in the American South Cotton, Development, and the "Imperial Burden" Notes Bibliography Index
£92.00
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Territories of Conflict: Traversing Colombia
Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary volume investigates the cultural and political landscapes of Colombia through citizenship, displacement, local and global cultures, grass-root movements, political activism, human rights, environmentalism, and media productions. Territories of Conflict offers a comprehensive view of the cultural and political landscapes of Colombia through in-depth analyses of citizenship, displacement, local and global cultures, grassroots movements, political activism, human rights, environmentalism, and media production. The volume investigates conflict as a creative force but one that is not devoid of its destructive meaning for Colombia. It is precisely through conflict that the nation's social and cultural fabric is being mapped out, thus resulting in territories -- understood in both a literal and a metaphorical sense -- that paradoxically coexist in discordance. Contributors to this interdisciplinary volumeinclude historians, sociologists, political scientists, musicologists, and environmentalists, as well as literary, media, and cultural studies specialists from the United States, Colombia, and Europe. CONTRIBUTORS: Maurizio Alì, Ingrid Johanna Bolívar Ramírez, Margarita Cuéllar Barona, Andrea Fanta Castro, Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste, Joaquín Llorca Franco, David Fernando García, Felipe Gómez Gutiérrez, Álvaro Diego Hro-Olaizola, Stacey Hunt, Camilo Alberto Jiménez Alfonso, Gregory J. Lobo, Tatjana Louis, Felipe Martínez-Pinzón, María Ospina, Kate Paarlberg-Kvam, Diana Pardo Pedraza, Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky, Chloe Rutter-Jensen, Claudia Salamanca Sánchez, Sven Schuster, Silvia Serrano, Andrea Fanta Castro is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Florida International University; Alejandro Herrero-OIaizola is the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Spanish & Latin American Studies at the University of Michigan; and Chloe Rutter-Jensen is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.Trade Review[I]ts multi-focal approach and broad array of topics covered make this volume of great interest for a variety of scholars working on Latin-American, film, gender and critical race studies, and an indispensable resource for thoseinterested in Colombian cultural and violence studies. * HISPANÓFILA *Each chapter draws attention to a significant aspect of the Colombian conflict, raising questions and pointing out possible ways of tackling conflict .. this volume offers a multifocal and multilayered approach to account for its complexity. * REVISTA DE ESTUDIOS COLUMBIANOS (trans. from Spanish) *This exceptional compilation of controversial and often ignored topics appears at an opportune moment in Colombian history. It reflects the cartography of the 'territories of the conflict,' which are investigated beyond the official history and in dialogue with the proper analysis of violence, the memory, ethnicity, gender, music, film and the media. Territories of Confiict is undoubtedly the result of a solid and rigorous study that is welcome in the field of cultural studies on conflict and post-conflict in Colombia. * REVISTA CANADIENSE DE ESTUDIOS HISPÁNICOS (transl. from Spanish *) The arrival of Territories of Conflict allows those interested in Colombian cultural and political studies to have a unique and rigorous resource. This monograph well exceeds the expectations of being a unique and indispensable tool for any academic course dealing with contemporary Colombian history. * STUDIES IN LATIN AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE (trans. from Spanish) *The volume's essays cover a wide variety of subjects and multi-disciplinary approaches from US and Colombian authors, thus offering complementary and well-balanced views. In addition, the magnificent editorial work by Fanta Castro, Herrero-Olaizola and Rutter-Jensen makes this volume essential to an understanding of today's Colombia, its challenges and achievements as a nation. It is also worth mentioning the University of Rochester Press's bold initiative to include Latin American studies titles such as this one in their series. * CHASQUI (translated from Spanish) *'Territories of Conflict comes at a very opportune moment given the current juncture of the armed conflict in Colombia. The interplay among the essays creatively problematizes the ways in which cultural production simultaneously denounces and makes use of violence and conflict. This volume puts into dialogue multiple contexts and historical periods, from the long history of conflict and national formation and identity to some of the future challenges to be faced in a potential postconflict period.' - -- Kevin Guerrieri, University of San DiegoTable of ContentsIntroduction: Territories of Conflict through Colombian Cultural Studies Narratives of the Past in History Textbooks The Duty of Memory: La Violencia between Remembrance and Forgetting National Identity in Colombian Comics: Between Violence and New Configurations Victims and Warriors: Representations and Self-Representations of the FARC-EP and Its Leaders Charisma and Nation in the Hegemony of Uribismo in Colombia The Greenhouse Gaze: Climate and Culture in Colombia (1808-1934) The Darién Gap: Political Discourse and Economic Development in Colombia Safeguarding the Witoto: How Indigenous Law May Challengethe Universality of Human Rights The Soundscape and the Reshaping of Territories:Neighborhood Sounds in San Nicolás, Cali The Amputated Body: Ghostly and Literal Presence Colombian Women Activists and the Potential for Peace Beauty Queens and Theme Parks: Coffee Culture inContemporary Colombia Amores Invisibles: The Politics of Gender in theColombian Cultural Industry Unheard Claims, Well-Known Rhythms: The MusicalGuerrilla FARC-EP (1988-2010) The Case of Chocquibtown: Approaches to the Nation inContemporary New Colombian Music Weaving Words and Meanings for the ColombianCountryside: Jorge Velosa's Carranguera Lyrics Natural Plots: The Rural Turn in ContemporaryColombian Cinema Kidnapping and Representation: Images of a Sovereignin the Making Going Down Narco Memory Lane: Pablo Escobar in theVisual Media List of Contributors Index
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University of Chicago Press The Conquistador with His Pants Down
Book SynopsisThe Conquistador with His Pants Down: David Ramsay Steele's Legendary Lost Lectures assembles fourteen of the penetrating, provocative presentations by this controversial libertarian speaker and writer. The targets of Steele's acerbic and witty criticisms include Scott Adams, Mattias Desmet, Sigmund Freud, Sam Harris, Karl Marx, George Orwell, Jordan Peterson, Ayn Rand, and all things conventionally Wokish. Steele's heroes encompass Immanuel Kant, Robert Michels, Ludwig von Mises, Dexter Morgan, Karl Popper, and all who, howsoever confusedly, come down on the side of liberty, truth, and unsocial justice. Why Do We See Lysenko-Type Mass Delusions in Western Democracies? We've learned enough to know that Global Warming Catastrophism and the mass homicide of the Covid vaccines are totalitarian insanities. But can Mattias Desmet's theory fully account for these recurring outbreaks of mass psychosis? Here's Why There Can Never Be a Marxist Revolution There are two irrefutable reasons w
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St Augustine's Press Herman Melville`s Ship of State
Book SynopsisWilliam Morrisey unravels Melville’s “loomings” of the great whale, showing them to be important threads of politics and theories of governance. The Young America of Melville’s day valorized popular sovereignty such that moral law suppressed by the majority rule was bringing America to state of being that could only then be ruled by the mightiest of the mighty––the great Leviathan, who reigns in the boundless chaotic sea separated from “stable land.” The force of the created world and the necessary ordering achieved through conquest are dominating themes of Melville’s great tale, but as Morrisey observes approaching the great whale, ruler of the untamable seas, is for captain (ruler) an opportunity to destroy it. But for the sailor (the ruled) being close to the white whale is a moment for understanding, and in turn of being understood. Yet in what sense is being seen, for human beings of moral bearings, not also an impulse to self-impose? “The modern Ishmael wants to see, not to kill, perhaps to be seen, and surely not to be killed. Americans too need to come to terms with the white whale, if they are to perceive reality as it is without bringing destruction upon themselves.” Is Melville proposing an utterly new philosophy of ruler and ruled, of a proper gauge of the immeasurable chaos that is nature? “Does Melville also intend to be a founder in the ‘New World’?” Morrisey’s study is a compelling look at the early political moments of a new nation, but one that at the time perceived itself as already aging and maturing in the process of political voyage and adventure. Dangers lie ahead, Melville seems to warn, and in his disenchantment of the vigor of the Young America he once endorsed he tells the story of what really happens when democracy is idealized and the surrounding waters of chaos are thereby veiled; and yet also of what happens when one would seek to command the chaos only to transform into the unpredictably destructive prey he pursues, especially under the guise of moral outrage. Melville, like Ishmael, urges a new vision of both God and nature, and challenges the notion of rule in all its expressions. Americans, the people of the New World, are invited to be unafraid, but also careful. In wandering as on the open waters one wonders, beyond civic boundaries and conventions, and in that wonder one may finally come face to face with what is good and grand––but in beholding the great white whale, can one resist the urge to conquest, now that he is likewise by the leviathan beholden? Is the rule of man and the coronation of a specific dialectic of power an untenable victory, given that “‘Nature is nobody’s ally’: it wounds or kills any person or nation that violates it, impartially”? Morrisey writes with lucidity and weaves together elements of history, literature, politics and perhaps his own affinity for Ishmael’s passenger spirit to reveal just how broad and boundless of a narrative Melville’s Moby Dick truly is.
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St Augustine's Press History and Human Responsibility – The Unbearable
Book Synopsis"The present crisis is felt more acutely than previous crisis situations," observes Dutch security expert Marcel van Herpen, largely because human beings are now projecting responsibility into history on all fronts––past and future, in addition to the present. Learning from the past has become an imperative to safeguard the well-being of future generations by never repeating negative experiences, so much so that it demands an explanation of culpability into the past that burdens the present under a weight that does not properly belong to actors who did not commit the deeds of the past and have yet to decide their futures. In a time of crisis we face the accusations of history, however distant, and are subjected to the sound of its echoing ahead of us. But, Van Herpen asks, to what exactly (or to what extent) should we listen as we strive to respond to the challenges of present day? "Is it true that history is a teacher for our lives? And has it ever been? In crisis periods this question becomes more urgent: old certainties disappear and––independently from our wishes––a new, unknown world is emerging, which seems to be at odds with our established ways of thinking and our existing value patterns." Van Herpen scrutinizes modern European history and the post-modern man and offers the reader a compelling account of human freedom in politics, morality, and the ways in which history will or will not ever guide us into the future. He proves himself to be a very capable political scientist and sociologist, but more importantly he has now pronounced himself to be an optimistic (yet sober) observer of both human beings and history, willing to confront the present generation with possible future outcomes of contemporary crises.
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St Augustine's Press Narcissist Nation – Reflections of a Blue–State
Book SynopsisIt’s not easy being Catholic and conservative in secular ‘Blue State’ New York, but that’s what George J. Marlin is, always has been, and always will be. Don’t ask him to change. Besides, like America, it’s the Empire State that needs to change. Generation after generation of elitists have put in place their plans for making the machineries of state work more efficiently and more equitably, and they’ve succeeded in wrecking what was never broken in the first place. And Mr. Marlin has a name for political types who think they know better than the rest of us: narcissists. Narcissists have been fouling up societies since the beginning of time. As Marlin writes:Throughout history, a subset of people have viewed themselves as superior to the rest of the population due to their perceived distinctive qualities: intelli-gence, breeding, class, or wealth. These elites have generally held that because they are exceptional persons they were best suited to conduct the affairs of state. They are wrong. But they have succeeded, and they appear to be ascendant in America today, although the Tea Party may have something to say about that. But consider the following contemporary examples: * The elitist imposition of Obamacare upon an unwilling nation * The lionizing by the Left of eugenicists, such as Margaret Sanger and Ruth Bader Ginsburg * The way “Catholic” politicians such as New York governors George Pataki and David Paterson and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani run roughshod over Church teaching * The way contemporary education – from nursery school through college – infantilizes and fails our kids, preparing them poorly for the rigors of adulthood With an acid pen and a ready wit, George Marlin takes on many of modern America’s most revered intellectuals and shows conclusively that they’re just not as smart as they think they are.
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St Augustine's Press Narcissist Nation – Reflections of a Blue–State
Book SynopsisIt’s not easy being Catholic and conservative in secular ‘Blue State’ New York, but that’s what George J. Marlin is, always has been, and always will be. Don’t ask him to change. Besides, like America, it’s the Empire State that needs to change. Generation after generation of elitists have put in place their plans for making the machineries of state work more efficiently and more equitably, and they’ve succeeded in wrecking what was never broken in the first place. And Mr. Marlin has a name for political types who think they know better than the rest of us: narcissists. Narcissists have been fouling up societies since the beginning of time. As Marlin writes:Throughout history, a subset of people have viewed themselves as superior to the rest of the population due to their perceived distinctive qualities: intelli-gence, breeding, class, or wealth. These elites have generally held that because they are exceptional persons they were best suited to conduct the affairs of state. They are wrong. But they have succeeded, and they appear to be ascendant in America today, although the Tea Party may have something to say about that. But consider the following contemporary examples: * The elitist imposition of Obamacare upon an unwilling nation * The lionizing by the Left of eugenicists, such as Margaret Sanger and Ruth Bader Ginsburg * The way “Catholic” politicians such as New York governors George Pataki and David Paterson and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani run roughshod over Church teaching * The way contemporary education – from nursery school through college – infantilizes and fails our kids, preparing them poorly for the rigors of adulthood With an acid pen and a ready wit, George Marlin takes on many of modern America’s most revered intellectuals and shows conclusively that they’re just not as smart as they think they are.
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St Augustine's Press The Religion of Humanity – The Illusion of Our
Book Synopsis"Is not modern democracy the finally-found form of the religion of Humanity?" (2007)The Religion of Humanity: The Illusion of Our Time is the first anthology in any language of the writings of the contemporary French political philosopher, Pierre Manent, on “the religion of Humanity.” The striking phrase comes from nineteenth-century French thinker, Auguste Comte (1798–1857). Comte coined the phrase and indeed created an atheistic religion of a self-adoring Humanity. In the aftermath of the Cold War, Manent observed victorious democracy interpreting itself in a similar framework. He took it upon himself to track this development, analyze it, and warn his fellow Europeans of its deleterious political, intellectual, moral, and spiritual effects. With conceptual precision and (most often) a sober tone, many contemporary sacred cows were gored. But in addition to cursing the humanitarian darkness, he also lit many candles of judicious political, philosophical, moral, and spiritual analysis. This anthology is thus almost unique in its subject matter, and certainly unique in its treatment of the subject. It is a rarity and gem: a first-rate work of political philosophy.Trade Review“With this book, Pierre Manent’s considerations on the greatness of political and Christian life have been introduced to Americans by an expert arranger and translator of these writings, Paul Seaton, and by Daniel J. Mahoney, author of an introduction that gets readers right on track.” --Will Morrissey"Pierre Manent is one of our time’s most incisive political thinkers, and Paul Seaton has done a great service to all students of democracy by translating and editing The Religion of Humanity: The Illusion of Our Times. In this anthology, Seaton has collected some of Manent’s most important essays, lectures, and interviews on the theme of religion and politics in the contemporary West. Taken together, these writings provide the reader with a broad understanding of both Manent’s hopes and his worries for Western democracies today." –– John Kitch
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St Augustine's Press Shakespeare′s Politic Comedy
Book SynopsisWill Morrisey again considers the political dimensions of literary classics, as previously seen in Melville’s Ship of State (2019). His attention to Shakespeare’s comedies is a reader’s and playgoer’s delight. INTRODUCTORY NOTE: The Politic Character of Shakespeare’s Comedy PART ONE: THREE REGIMES: OLIGARCHY, ARISTOCRACY, MONARCHY Chapter One: Shakespearean Comedy: Two Points on the Compass Chapter Two: Gentlemen and Gentlemanliness Chapter Three: Royal Dreaming PART TWO: THE RULE OF LAW Chapter Four: Comic Errors, Legal Slapstick Chapter Five: What Will You? PART THREE: THE COMEDY OF MORALS Chapter Six: Taming Our Shrewishness Chapter Seven: What Does Shakespeare Mean When He Says, “As You Like It”? PART FOUR: THE COMEDY OF POLITICS Chapter Eight: Is All Well That Ends Well? Chapter Nine: The Geopolitics of Love Chapter Ten: The Wisest Beholder SHAKESPEARE’S POLITIC MERRIMENT
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St Augustine's Press Xenophon`s Socrates
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Temple University Press,U.S. Crossing the Neoliberal Line: Pacific Rim
Book SynopsisAs wealthy immigrants from Hong Kong began to settle in Vancouver, British Columbia, their presence undid a longstanding liberal consensus that defined politics and spatial inequality there. Riding the currents of a neoliberal wave, these immigrants became the center of vigorous public controversies around planning, home building, multiculturalism, and the future of Vancouver. Because of their class status and their financial capacity to remake space in their own ways, they became the key to a reshaping of Vancouver through struggles that are necessarily both global and local in context, involving global-real estate enterprises, the Canadian state, city residents, and others. In her examination of the story of the integration of transnational migrants from Hong Kong, Katharyne Mitchell draws out the myriad ways in which liberalism is profoundly spatial, varying greatly depending on the geographical context. In doing so, Mitchell shows why understanding the historically and geographically contingent nature of liberal thought and practice is crucial, particularly as we strive to understand the ongoing societies' transition to neoliberalism. Author note: Katharyne Mitchell is Professor of Geography and the Simpson Professor of the Public Humanities at the University of Washington.Trade Review"[A] fascinating account .What is particularly interesting about Mitchell's work is her nuanced analysis of the crosscutting of class and 'racial' alliances that emerged.[T]his is an excellent read that historians, sociologists and geographers will find very useful." The Canadian Historical Review "The chapters of the book build skillfully on each other to create a coherently structured and generally well-argued thesis..[Crossing the Neoliberal Line is] outstanding in its attempt to inform, through grounded empirical research, some of the key social and political issues facing Western liberal democracies over the past two decades. It is essential reading for all with a broad interest in contemporary immigration in the West as well as those with a more particular interest in the urban consequences of transnational, transpacific forms of mobility." The Annals of the Association of American Geographers "A notable achievement of Katharyne Mitchell's book is to employ a sophisticated political economy while simultaneously avoiding many of the dangers of abstraction, for her grounded study of immigrant and capital flows between Hong Kong and Vancouver is attentive to the multi-layering of place and to multiple causes...Mitchell provides a compelling story...the empirical account is interwoven with illuminating theoretical materials, placing local events into broader conceptual territory. The interpretation that emerges is bold and frequently insightful...This is an impressive book that invites debate...It will generate stimulating seminar discussion and amply deserves a broad reading." Ethnic and Racial Studies "In this elegantly written study. .Mitchell does a wonderful job of challenging the reader to question what he or she really believes in terms of social liberalism, neoliberalism, multiculturalism, and many of the other 'isms' prevalent in contemporary social science literature. One walks away from this book with a new appreciation for how there are no easy assessments of the costs and benefits of, and implications of globalization for, the urban milieu." Environment and Planning A "analytically rich, empirically detailed and ethnographically grounded - Crossing the Neo-Liberal Line is a major accomplishment: the text is accessible, theoretically sophisticated, well documented, and grounded in an in-depth and complex understanding of social change and urban politics in Vancouver. Katharyne Mitchell is to be commended for writing an insightful book that deserves to be widely read." The Canadian Journal of Sociology Online "Crossing the Neoliberal Line is a beautifully written and analytically rich book. Katharyne Mitchell's innovative spatial ethnography sheds important light on the politics of racial formation, neighborhood transformation, and multiculturalism in Vancouver. She shows how the networks and practices of middle-class and wealthy Chinese transnational migrants to this Pacific Rim metropolis have interrupted and complicated constructions of 'home,' 'citizenship,' and 'cultural difference.' Her book is a pleasure to read and makes an important contribution to urban and transnational studies." --Michael Peter Smith, University of California, Davis, and author of Transnational Urbanism: Locating Globalization "A vivid account of the rise of a Pacific Rim city, Katharyne Mitchell's ethnography of transnational migration and urban change in Vancouver demonstrates how both social liberalism and neoliberalism are constituted in 'actually existing' spaces by real people. Theoretically rigorous and empirically rich, scholars of neoliberalism, globalization, transnationalism, and multiculturalism should all read this fascinating book." --Wendy Larner, Sociology, University of Auckland "In this lucid and compelling 'spatial ethnography,' Katharyne Mitchell wrestles the ideology of neoliberal globalism to earth. In the process, this innovative and theoretically rich book takes the debate on neoliberalism to a new place, exposing the subtle intersections between social liberalism and market fundamentalism in the real, lived spaces of the city." --Jamie Peck, Professor of Geography and Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison "This is a book you will want to read cover to cover--and indeed we did. While we were already familiar with some of the empirical cases from previous articles, it held our attention with its theoretical sophistication and engaging and lucid writing style...Mitchell is an exceptionally gifted scholar who, as this book shows, brings considerable theoretical insights to questions of how space is implicated in contemporary processes of neoliberalization, globalization, and transformations of narratives of nation and citizenship. She shows an excellent understanding of the coimplication of these processes, a deep empirical knowledge of shifts in these processes, and a talent for writing a compelling and engaging narrative that is rare among geographers." Environment and Planning D: Society and SpaceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: Neo/Liberal Disjunctures 2. Vancouver Goes Global 3. The Spatial Logic and Limits of Multiculturalism 4. Disturbing the Liberal Territory of Land Governance 5. Domesticity, Race, and Uncanny Homes 6. Conclusion: The Urban Spatial Politics of Liberal Formations Notes Bibliography Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Troubled Pasts: News and the Collective Memory of
Book SynopsisDescribes the ways that the news media influences the development of our public past and how those publicly available pasts affect our understanding of current eventsTrade Review"Jill Edy provides a fascinating and important contribution to the study of political communication. Using a creative and fruitful research design, she demonstrates the way political actors communicate about the present through the lens of the past." Kathleen Cramer Walsh, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison "In her comprehensive study...Edy advances the study of collective memory in several ways." The International Journal of Communication "An important addition to the literature on how news is framed and how agendas are set...Edy's analysis is thoughtful and her citations are thorough." Choice "Troubled Pasts offers an excellent introduction to the concept of collective memory...Edy examines how journalists craft not only the proverbial 'first draft' of history but how they help shape later drafts. She also offers an interesting discussion and examples of three ways in which journalists contribute to historical understanding--or misunderstanding: commemorations, analogies, and contexts. The way in which she weaves together journalistic and political issues makes the book appropriate for consideration in a wide range of classes, including media history, media criticism, reporting, U.S. history, political science or sociology...It is well researched, cites numerous sources for journalistic content and theoretical context, and includes a clear discussion of methodology." Journalism History "Well researched and thought-provoking...a smart book that is of interest to anybody who understands the development of the social stock of knowledge and collective memory as a powerful social process." H-Net "Edy's short book is extremely well written and her work is well grounded in the literatures of communication and political science. As such, the work is an excellent resource for scholars interested in political communication, framing, media studies, and social history. It makes a significant contribution to our collective understanding of social movements and media coverage of them." Perspectives on Politics "The overall argument of the book is a strong one and even people who have no particular interest in the events of 40 years ago will find Troubled Pasts a good theoretical model and a good guide to how we might best use the literature about reporting, remembering, framing and motivation." "Communications Research Trends"Table of Contents1: Introduction; 2: Real Time News: Covering the Watts Riots and the Chicago Convention; 3: Political Officials and the Public Past; 4: Defusing Controversy and Paving the Way for Collective Memory; 5: Building Collective Memory: Story Integration; 6: Using Collective Memory: The Role of the Past in the Present; 7: Conclusions: The Future of the Past
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Potomac Books Inc The Mythology of American Politics
Book SynopsisIn this provocative set of essays, John Bookman delves beneath the transitory issues of the day to identify and respond to the fundamental, perennial questions of American politics. The questions concern the myths that shape the thinking of so many Americans about politics.
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