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University Press of Kansas Bill Clinton New Gilded Age President
Book SynopsisOffers an indepth perspective on the 42nd president of the United States and the transformative era over which he presided. Patrick Maney goes beyond personality and politics to examine the critical issues of the day: economic and fiscal policy, business and financial deregulation, healthcare and welfare reform, and foreign affairs.Trade ReviewAn outstanding study that places a recent White House occupant in illuminating historical context. . . . Anyone seeking to understand the late twentieth-century Clinton presidency can do no better than than consult this fine volume." - Journal of American History"A useful starting point for understanding this protean US politician’s White House years." - Choice"An exceptionally wellwritten and concise biography of Bill Clinton. Maney offers penetrating insights about both the complexity of Clinton’s personality and Washington politics during the socalled ‘New Gilded Age’." - Burton Kaufman, author of The PostPresidency from Washington to Clinton"It’s a tall order to place a recent president in historical perspective, but Patrick Maney succeeds brilliantly in his analysis of Bill Clinton and the ideological, financial, and technological developments that swirled about him and defined his era." - Donald A. Ritchie, author of Electing FDR: The New Deal of Campaign of 1932"This is a truly remarkable book. Patrick Maney gives us a penetrating, comprehensive, and thoroughly balanced account of the Clinton presidency, along with a shrewd, insightful assessment of the character of this fascinating and often infuriating denizen of the White House. This book will stand as the gold standard of works on this man and his era." - John Milton Cooper, Jr., author of Woodrow Wilson: A Biography"Patrick J. Maney’s Bill Clinton is an engagingly written account of a consequential presidency. Maney’s discussion of Clinton’s domestic, economic, and foreign policies is especially illuminating." - Michael Nelson, author of Governing at Home: The White House and Domestic Policymaking
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Pluto Press The Left Behind
Book SynopsisExamines the ways in which the 'Left Behind' have been used to symbolise and foment social divisions in contemporary BritainTrade Review'Engaging […] tackles the stereotyping of so-called 'left behind' communities by journalistic and political opinion-formers, questioning how the most disadvantaged have been framed (or blamed) for delivering Brexit’ -- Dominic Wring, Professor of Political Communication at Loughborough University'A sophisticated interrogation of how the 'left behind' are mythologised, problematised and weaponised by those whose insights rarely stretch beyond regional condescension and recycled tropes. Morrison deftly unpicks the left-behind imaginary and the culture wars, fantasies and resentments it feeds into - and sketches a powerful map for how to generate a more expansive, solidaristic imaginary' -- Dr. Tracey Jensen, Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Lancaster UniversityTable of ContentsList of tables About the author Acknowledgements Introduction: Inventing and appropriating ‘the left behind’ 1. Working class, ‘underclass’ and collapsing-class identity: The roots of the left behind 2. Politics, the press and the construction of the post-Brexit left behind 3. How to solve a problem like the left behind: Condescension or contempt? 4. Fear and loathing on social media: Trolling and championing the left behind 5. Speaking up for the left behind: The voices of disadvantaged Britain Conclusion: Towards a manifesto for ‘unite and rule’ Appendix: Research methodologies References Index
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Pluto Press The Violence of Austerity
Book SynopsisExplores the different facets of how austerity in Britain is a form of institutional violenceTrade Review'An analytical masterpiece, describing what has happened to our communities as a result of austerity' -- John McDonnell MP, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer'A dazzling collection of short essays which detail how state violence is unfolding in Britain on multiple scales and in myriad forms' -- Imogen Tyler, Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University, author of Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain (Zed, 2013)'In this brilliant book, Vickie Cooper and David Whyte bring together the arguments that break down the sick Tory Party political violence against the people of Britain. This book shows that there is only one response to the imposition of austerity as a crude and violent political strategy, and that is to turn our anger back against the Tories' -- Chunky Mark, Artist Taxi Driver'This book leaves the reader in no doubt that government actions have the power to make or break lives and communities' -- Lynsey Hanley, The Guardian, and Author of Estates'A well-written and shocking exposé of the institutional violence of the state' -- Morning Star'Eye opening ... enlightening and an education' -- The Canary'An important book' -- CounterfireTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: The Violence of Austerity - Vickie Cooper and David Whyte Part I: Deadly Welfare 1. Mental Health and Suicide - Mary O’Hara 2. Austerity and Mortality - Danny Dorling 3. Welfare Reforms and the Attack on Disabled People - John Pring 4. The Violence of Workfare - Jon Burnett and David Whyte 5. The Multiple Forms of Violence in the Asylum System - Victoria Canning 6. The Degradation and Humiliation of Young People - Emma Bond and Simon Hallsworth Part II: Poverty Amplification 7. Child Maltreatment and Child Mortality - Joanna Mack 8. Hunger and Food Poverty - Rebecca O’Connell and Laura Hamilton 9. The Deadly Impact of Fuel Poverty - Ruth London 10. The Violence of the Debtfare State - David Ellis 11. Women of Colour’s Anti-Austerity Activism - Akwugo Emejulu and Leah Bassel 12. Dismantling the Irish Peace Process - Daniel Holder Part III: State Regulation 13. Undoing Social Protection - Steve Tombs 14. Health and Safety at the Frontline of Austerity - Hilda Palmer and David Whyte 15. Environmental Degradation - Charlotte Burns and Paul Tobin 16. Fracking and State Violence - Will Jackson, Helen Monk and Joanna Gilmore 17. Domicide, Eviction and Repossession - Kirsteen Paton and Vickie Cooper 18. Austerity’s Impact on Rough Sleeping and Violence - Daniel McCulloch Part IV: State Control 19. Legalising the Violence of Austerity - Robert Knox 20. The Failure to Protect Women in the Criminal Justice System - Maureen Mansfield and Vickie Cooper 21. Austerity, Violence and Prisons - Joe Sim 22. Evicting Manchester’s Street Homeless - Steven Speed 23. Policing Anti-Austerity through the ‘War on Terror’ - Rizwaan Sabir 24. Austerity and the Production of Hate - Jon Burnett Notes on Contributors Index
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McGill-Queen's University Press Change and Continuity
Book SynopsisIn a period characterized by growing social inequality, precarious work, the legacies of settler colonialism, and the emergence of new social movements, Change and Continuity presents innovative interdisciplinary research as a guide to understanding Canada''s political economy and a contribution to progressive social change. Assessing the legacy of the Canadian political economy tradition a broad body of social science research on power, inequality, and change in society the essays in this volume offer insight into contemporary issues and chart new directions for future study. Chapters from both emerging and established scholars expand the boundaries of Canadian political economy research, seeking new understandings of the forces that shape society, the ensuing conflicts and contradictions, and the potential for social justice. Engaging with interconnected topics that include shifts in immigration policy, labour market restructuring, settler colonialism, the experiences of people wit
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Cornell University Press Algeria 18302000
Book SynopsisA particularly vicious and bloody civil war has racked Algeria for a decade. Amnesty International notes that since 1992, in a population of 28 million, 80,000 people have been reported killed, and the actual total is almost certainly higher.Trade ReviewAs one of France's leading historians of Algeria, and more broadly of French decolonization, Stora is well equipped to tell the story of these two terrible conflicts and of the thirty-year period that separates them, when the country was a one-party state struggling to create a post-colonial identity. -- Roger Hardy * International Affairs *
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida The President and American Capitalism since 1945
Book SynopsisTracing the development of the US presidency since Harry S. Truman took office in 1945, this volume describes the many ways the president's actions have affected the development of capitalism in the post-World War II era. Contributors show how the American ""Consumer-in-Chief"" has exerted a decisive hand as well as behind-the-scenes influence on the national economy and everyday American life.
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Fordham University Press Eunice Hunton Carter A Lifelong Fight for Social
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction | 1 1. Heirs to the Struggle | 7 2. Free But Not Equal | 29 3. One Vision in Her Eye, One Cry in Her Soul | 49 4. The Business of Reaching New Heights | 67 5. From Squash Racquet to Racket Squasher | 80 6. “I Must Save My Sister” | 97 7. Getting Lucky: The People v. Charles Luciano | 112 8. “Making History for the Race” | 129 9. “A Prelude to Greater Tasks” | 143 10. The Aftermath | 161 Acknowledgments | 169 Notes | 171 Bibliography | 191 Index | 195 Photographs follow page 86
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East European Monographs Leaders and Laggards Governance Civicness and
Book SynopsisThe collapse of European communist regimes provided social scientists with an opportunity to observe the birth of new political institutions and to examine the effect of political behavior on institutional change. This book explores the extent to which social capital affected the performance of one such institution, the Romanian county council.
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Harvard University Press Landscapes in the Making
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Harvard University Press Black Atlantic Worlds Landscape Histories of the African Diaspora
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WW Norton & Co Bad Mexicans
Book SynopsisLonglisted for the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction “Rebel historian” Kelly Lytle Hernández reframes our understanding of US history in this ground breaking narrative of revolution in the borderlands.Trade Review"There is no Hollywood movie about the magonistas, although reading “Bad Mexicans” is like watching one....Like Flores Magón, Lytle Hernández’s pen is her sword; her writing is a monument to the belief that language can change the world." -- Geraldo Cadava - The New Yorker"An award-winning, internationally acclaimed scholar, Kelly Lytle Hernández delivers historical analysis with clear relevance in today’s sociopolitical climate. A leading voice on issues ranging from immigration to policing to the criminal justice system more broadly, her work is known for empowering a wide range of communities, providing the necessary historical framing to build synergy among some of today’s most daring social movements." -- Heather Anne Thompson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Blood in the Water"Kelly Lytle Hernández is one of the most compelling historians in her field. Synthesizing the complexities of race, gender, and ethnicity into the fabric of living history, her work sheds light on today’s crucial issues and her passion has the capacity to not only inform but to change minds." -- Michael Eric Dyson, New York Times best-selling author of What Truth Sounds Like"Kelly Lytle Hernández writes history and makes history. She is one of the most admired and respected historians of Mexican-American history and the United States. Conveying deep archival research in a compelling, accessible narrative, she breathes life in" -- Vicki Lynn Ruiz, winner of the National Humanities Medal
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WW Norton & Co American Government
Book SynopsisThe gold standard analytical approach, reimagined for today's students
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Johns Hopkins University Press Not All In
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Bristol University Press The Pandemic Within
Book SynopsisThis book offers a blend of moral imagination and social-political analysis to overcome the defects COVID-19 has exposed in our political-economic order. It shows how hegemony and complexity prevent societies from envisioning better practices and institutions and presents feasible solutions.Table of Contents1. Introduction: The pandemic within 2. At home in the world: overcoming the predicament of complexity and hegemony 3. Ensuring a well-functioning public infrastructure 4. Housing is a public good, not a commodity 5. Redefining work and income 6. The return of good government 7. Real corporate responsibility 8. Money as a public good 9. Living in the Anthropocene 10. Towards an ecological society
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New York University Press The Irish Revolution
Book SynopsisHow the Irish Revolution was shaped by international actors and events The Irish War of Independence is often understood as the culmination of centuries of political unrest between Ireland and the English. However, the conflict also has a vitally important yet vastly understudied international dimension. The Irish Revolution: A Global History reassesses the conflict as an inherently transnational event, examining how circumstances and individuals abroad shaped the course Ireland's struggle for independence.Bringing together leading international scholars of modern Ireland, its diaspora, and the British Empire, this volume discusses the Irish revolution in a truly global sense. The text situates the conflict in the wider context of the international flourishing of anti-colonial movements following World War I. Despite the differences between these movements, their proponents communicated extensively with each other, learning from and engaging with other revoTrade ReviewFeaturing impressive new scholarship on the global dimensions of the Irish Revolution, Mannion and McGarry provide much needed coherence to this emergent but still diffuse and underdeveloped aspect of the historiography, resulting in a cutting-edge reader on a critical theme that currently lacks a single dedicated volume. Most impressively, The Irish Revolution features many neglected or virtually unknown international influences and comparative case studies, including Algerian, Egyptian, Korean, Panamanian, and African-American contexts, making it a novel contribution to our understanding of the international dimensions of anti-colonial (and colonial) discourses, networks, and responses to Irish events. -- Gavin Foster, author of The Irish Civil War and Society: Politics, Class and ConflictA truly groundbreaking volume whose international contributions force a great reimagining of the Irish Revolution. A must-read for anyone interested in Irish history. -- Timothy McMahon, Marquette UniversityA brilliant collection of essays, written by some of the leading authorities on the subject. The book takes us from Dublin to Delhi, from Algeria to Australia, and many other places in-between, and greatly enriches our understanding of the global repercussions and entanglements of what happened in Ireland between 1916 and 1922. Essential reading for anyone who is interested in the global interconnectedness of revolutionary struggle during this period. -- Robert Gerwarth, Professor of Modern History at University College Dublin
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New York University Press The Pink Wave
Book SynopsisHow and why the election of Donald Trump inspired more women to enter politicsDonald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election shocked and dismayed many women, and motivated many to run for office at all levels of government. In The Pink Wave, Regina M. Matheson and William W. Parsons explore this inspiring phenomenon and its impact on women's representation. Drawing on national surveys and in-depth interviews of over 900 women, across almost every state, Matheson and Parsons show us why more women decided to run for state legislature during the Trump administration, the obstacles they faced on the campaign trail, and whether they ultimately succeeded or failed in their bid for office. Candidates share valuable lessons they learned from their recent campaign experiences, providing future insight for womenon both sides of the aislewho may be inspired to follow in their footsteps. Matheson and Parsons examine the impact Donald Trump had on women candidateTrade ReviewThe Pink Wave examines the current national political climate, as well as the barriers that have historically discouraged women from seeking office. Matheson and Parsons are thorough in their examination of women's decisions to run and their experiences as candidates....Easy and enjoyable to read. -- Dianne G. Bystrom, co-editor of Women in the American Political System: An Encyclopedia of Women as Voters, Candidates, and Office Holders
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Cornell University Press Exchange Ideologies
Book SynopsisExchange Ideologies documents the social world of Aleppo''s traders before the destruction of the city, exploring changing conceptions of commerce in Syria. Syria''s traders have been seen as embodying a timeless culture of the bazaar, or an ahistorical Islamic culture of trade. Other accounts portray them as venal figures, motivated only by profit, and commerce as a purely instrumental pursuit. Rejecting both approaches, Paul Anderson traces the diverse social structures, and notions of language, through which Aleppo''s merchants understood and construed commerce and the figure of the merchant during a period of economic liberalization in the 2000s. Rather than seeing these social structures and representations as expressions of a timeless bazaar culture, or as shaped only by Islamic tradition, Exchange Ideologies relates them to processes of politically managed economic liberalization and the Syrian regime''s attempts to ensure its own survival in the m
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Cornell University Press Textual Cacophony
Book SynopsisTextual Cacophony explores the behaviors and routines of communication within anonymous internet culture in Japan. Focusing on the video sharing website Niconico, social media aggregation sites, and the notorious 2channel message board, Daniel Johnson uncovers these sites'' complex cultures of writing that obscure meaning through playful and opaque forms of deviant script and overwhelming waves of text. Those practices conflate language with images, meaning with play, and confound individual representation with aggregate forms of social identity. Johnson argues that online media cultures in and around Japan are entwined with a cultural logic and visual syntax of cacophony that expresses ambivalence toward representation, media form, and distinct experiences of time. This aesthetic of cacophony provides an alternative way of expressing social identity and belonging, with an unmarked sense of anonymity providing a counter-form to the dissolving institutions
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Cornell University Press The Promise of Piety
Book SynopsisIn The Promise of Piety, Arsalan Khan examines the zealous commitment to a distinct form of face-to-face preaching (dawat) among Pakistani Tablighis, practitioners of the transnational Islamic piety movement the Tablighi Jamaat. This group says that Muslims have abandoned their religious duties for worldly pursuits, creating a state of moral chaos apparent in the breakdown of relationships in the family, nation, and global Islamic community. Tablighis insist that this dire situation can only be remedied by drawing Muslims back to Islam through dawat, which they regard as the sacred means for spreading Islamic virtue. In a country founded in the name of Muslim identity and where Islam is ubiquitous in public life, the Tablighi claim that Pakistani Muslims have abandoned Islam is particularly striking. The Promise of Piety shows how Tablighis constitute a distinct form of pious relationality in the ritual processes and everyday practices of da
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Cornell University Press Indirect Rule
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Stanford University Press Soundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of
Book SynopsisMusic was one of the first casualties of the Iranian Revolution. It was banned in 1979, but it quickly crept back into Iranian culture and politics. The state made use of music for its propaganda during the Iran–Iraq war. Over time music provided an important political space where artists and audiences could engage in social and political debate. Now, more than thirty-five years on, both the children of the revolution and their music have come of age. Soundtrack of the Revolution offers a striking account of Iranian culture, politics, and social change to provide an alternative history of the Islamic Republic. Drawing on over five years of research in Iran, including during the 2009 protests, Nahid Siamdoust introduces a full cast of characters, from musicians and audience members to state officials, and takes readers into concert halls and underground performances, as well as the state licensing and censorship offices. She closely follows the work of four musicians—a giant of Persian classical music, a government-supported pop star, a rebel rock-and-roller, and an underground rapper—each with markedly different political views and relations with the Iranian government. Taken together, these examinations of musicians and their music shed light on issues at the heart of debates in Iran—about its future and identity, changing notions of religious belief, and the quest for political freedom. Siamdoust shows that even as state authorities resolve, for now, to allow greater freedoms to Iran's majority young population, they retain control and can punish those who stray too far. But music will continue to offer an opening for debate and defiance. As the 2009 Green Uprising and the 1979 Revolution before it have proven, the invocation of a potent melody or musical verse can unite strangers into a powerful public. Trade Review"Nahid Siamdoust's beautiful writing paints a vivid portrait of the struggles over popular music in the Islamic Republic and brings to life some of the most unique and colorful characters in Iranian society today. An instant classic that will launch conversations on Iran and contemporary popular music globally." -- Mark LeVine * author of Heavy Metal Islam *"Nahid Siamdoust's Soundtrack of the Revolution is a groundbreaking study of a potent cultural register in post-revolutionary Iran. For both the casual reader and the aficionado, Siamdoust's pioneering insights are revelatory." -- Hamid Dabashi * author of Iran: A People Interrupted *"Music is the language of liberation. Nahid Siamdoust, who knows all the players and has taken personal risks to tell this story, has written a lovely tribute to the courage and creativity of Iran's musicians. This is a book that, like Iran itself, is filled with hope and sadness—and the universal human desire for freedom." -- Joe Klein * Time Magazine *"Siamdoust manages to capture valuable qualities about the practice of popular music in Iran in depth, while also covering a broad period. This is a premium resource for students and researchers at the intersection of popular music and politics. Overall, it is an eye-opening and enjoyable work." -- Amin Hashemi * Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1The Politics of Music chapter abstractThis chapter provides the historical and political context for an understanding of the issue of music in post-revolutionary Iran. It narrates the process of the Islamization of Iranian politics after the revolution and the problematic of music within Islamic tradition, and posits music as an alternative public sphere. It also provides short overviews of the history of Persian music, music education in Iran, as well as government regulations on music and female musicians, in particular. 2The Nightingale Rebels chapter abstractChapter Two offers insight into the status of music in the immediate years before the revolution and goes on to highlight the trajectory of Iran's preeminent vocalist of Persian classical music, Mohammad Reza Shajarian. It delves into discussions about Persian art music versus popular music, pop music in Shah-era Iran, evolving forms of poetic protest in twentieth-century Iran, and the important role of radio both for Persian classical music as well as for the making of Shajarian. 3The Musical Guide: Mohammad Reza Shajarian chapter abstractThis chapter follows Mohammad Reza Shajarian's trajectory from a "revolutionary" singer and one of the most prominent voices of the Chavosh group—at the onset of the 1979 revolution—to a vocalist whose "popular" politics are increasingly at odds with those of the new state. It provides the necessary background for an understanding of evolutions in state policy and media technology before returning to a closer look at Shajarian's carefully charted repertoire of resistance. As he breaks into open opposition to state policy following the 2009 Green Uprising, he is increasingly portrayed as a lowly entertainer and traitor by hardline state media. 4Revolution and Ruptures chapter abstractChapter Four examines the approach of the new state and its leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to music, and to cultural policymaking more generally. Initially Khomeini had pronounced music forbidden, but what did he mean by "music," and how did "music" come to be permitted eventually? What Islamic traditions have Islamic Republic officials abided by for their understanding of music's permissibility? This chapter also examines the musical fare on state media during the revolution's first decade, and provides an in-depth look at the official structures that regulate music in the Islamic Republic. 5Opening the Floodgates to Pop Music: Alireza Assar chapter abstractThis chapter tells the as yet untold story of the creation of state-approved pop music in Islamic Iran, as shared by the officials and musicians at the center of its making. Pop music, once banned because the new state perceived it as representing the cultural promiscuity of Shah-era Iran, was greenlighted and broadcast from within conservative state media toward the end of the 1990s, following President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani's reconstruction period. This chapter presents the musicians that spearheaded this process. It highlights the work of one of the most popular stars among post-revolutionary Iran's first generation of pop singers, Alireza Assar, and argues that his projection of an alternative religiosity in contradistinction to the state's dogmatic Islam attracted Iran's post-1980–88 war youth. 6The Rebirth of Independent Music chapter abstractChapter Six examines the rebirth of independent music in post-revolutionary Iran, which flourished during the terms of reformist President Mohammad Khatami and his government's more liberal music policy. The chapter narrates the beginnings of rock and fusion music starting in the late 1980s and onward to Iran's "first" semi-public underground rock concert, as well as the importance of the webzine Tehranavenue in bringing to light Iran's active underground music scene. The chapter follows the trajectory of the musician Mohsen Namjoo in delineating these processes. 7Purposefully Fālsh: Mohsen Namjoo chapter abstractThis chapter is a study of the coming of age of the alternative musician Mohsen Namjoo, and his struggles to emerge as a musician under politically repressive circumstances. It narrates his cultivation of a discourse of absurdist nihilism, which finds great resonance with a community of post-ideological cynics, as well as his rhetorical and musical iconoclasm. It traces his arc from a student struggling to make it as a musician in Iran to his emigration and self-stated decision to break his "self-censorship" following the 2009 unrest. 8Going Underground chapter abstractChapter Eight proceeds in the book's chronological treatment of music in post-revolutionary Iran to discuss the changes in cultural policy from the more liberal government of Mohammad Khatami to that of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. This transition coincided with a period of great technological transformation around 2005, when the impact of new media was changing the face of music production, distribution, and consumption in Iran. It then goes on to describe discussions of the category of underground music, how it is defined and categorized internally, and the government's reckoning with this new reality. 9Rap-e Farsi: Hichkas chapter abstractThis chapter delves deeper into the underground music scene by foregrounding one of its best-known performers, Soroush Lashkary, aka Hichkas. It discusses categorizations of Rap-e Farsi and the coming of age of Hichkas, the "Godfather of Rap-e Farsi," from a middle-class kid in Tehran to a household name. The chapter also analyzes the generational differences between Namjoo and Hichkas, and how these differences are reflected in their music. It further explores the music of Hichkas, which draws on an old Iranian honor ethic to find traction with its listeners. 10The Music of Politics chapter abstractChapter Ten narrates developments in music during the 2009 Green Uprising, and draws comparisons to musical trajectories at the time of the 1979 revolution, as discussed in Chapters One and Two. It also discusses the election of President Hassan Rouhani as a continuation of the political sentiments of the Green Movement, and proceeds to narrate more recent musical developments. The chapter then offers some conclusions on the bigger questions in the book about expressions of joy, freedom, and political repression.
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Stanford University Press Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi
Book SynopsisThe production of history is premised on the selective erasure of certain pasts and the artifacts that stand witness to them. From the elision of archival documents to the demolition of sacred and secular spaces, each act of destruction is also an act of state building. Following the 1991 Gulf War, political elites in Saudi Arabia pursued these dual projects of historical commemoration and state formation with greater fervor to enforce their postwar vision for state, nation, and economy. Seeing Islamist movements as the leading threat to state power, they sought to de-center religion from educational, cultural, and spatial policies. With this book, Rosie Bsheer explores the increasing secularization of the postwar Saudi state and how it manifested in assembling a national archive and reordering urban space in Riyadh and Mecca. The elites' project was rife with ironies: in Riyadh, they employed world-renowned experts to fashion an imagined history, while at the same time in Mecca they were overseeing the obliteration of a thousand-year-old topography and its replacement with commercial megaprojects. Archive Wars shows how the Saudi state's response to the challenges of the Gulf War served to historicize a national space, territorialize a national history, and ultimately refract both through new modes of capital accumulation.Trade Review"There are now two distinct eras in the writing of Saudi Arabian history: before Rosie Bsheer's Archive Wars and after." -- Robert Vitalis * University of Pennsylvania, author of Oilcraft *"Archive Wars explores with conceptual brilliance and historical aplomb the various forms of historical erasure central not just to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia but to all modern states. In a finely-grained analysis, Rosie Bsheer rethinks the significance of archives, historicism, capital accumulation, and the remaking of the built environment. A must-read for all historians concerned with the materiality of modern state formation." -- Omnia El Shakry * University of California, Davis, author of The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt *"Archive Wars is an instant classic. With incredible insight, creativity, and courage, Rosie Bsheer peels away the political and institutional barriers that have so long mystified others seeking to understand Saudi Arabia. Bsheer tells us remarkable new things about the exercise and meaning of power in today's Saudi Arabia." -- Toby Jones * Rutgers University, author of Desert Kingdom: How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia *"Rosie Bsheer's Archive Wars is one of those extraordinary projects that explodes fictions of so many kinds about archives and state power. This masterful and meticulous book is testimony to the visceral violences that underwrite legal and archival mandates, the bedrock of the massive inequalities that plague our collective worlds now more than ever. Bsheer offers us a reading of the wars that rage in—and over—modern archives, showing that they are not modern because they are unmarred by the destruction of records, but because they are constituted by ever bolder techniques of erasure." -- Ann Stoler * The New School for Social Research, author of Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times *"Archive Wars is a much-needed and in many ways revelatory addition to our understanding of Saudi history and politics. On a personal level, I found the work to be an absolute delight to read and one that has challenged the way I look at Saudi politics. Despite being a vital country in the Middle East, there are few good texts on the kingdom. Archive Wars will stimulate better and more critical scholarship. It changes the way we think about the relationship between archives, heritage, and political power in the region, and beyond." -- Middle East Monitor"[A] must-read for anybody interested in modern Saudi Arabia. Whether you are looking for insights into the ambitions of kings or into the lives of ordinary people, it is essential to know how historical information is kept and erased. Beyond that, I recommend Bsheer's work to anybody studying the creation of archives and heritage elsewhere in the Middle East and globally." -- Jörg Matthias Determann * Journal of Social History *"By dissecting competing and complicated relationships between and among the Saudi state and elites, Bsheer presents a compelling portrait of the state's forceful consolidation of an acceptable historical narrative, showcasing the Saudi state's attempts to elide any historical documents or physical traces that do not corroborate the sanctioned story of the rise of Al Saud... [T]he book's depictions of urban transformations are essential for understanding the nature of power in Saudi Arabia today." -- Kathryn King * Journal of Arabian Studies *"This book is an intelligent, subtle, and learned treatment of the efforts by the Saudi Arabian monarchy to construct and disseminate a historical narrative that will legitimize its rule. Bsheer precisely and elegantly describes the regime's attempts, across the reigns of several kings, to both collect and suppress documentation about the country's past." -- Lisa Anderson * Foreign Affairs *"We find in Rosie Bsheer's book a skillful combination of topics and a stimulating engagement with the politics of history. Archive Wars deserves close reading, especially as it engages with a notoriously challenging country to frame, thanks to the author's unique access to the kingdom, her use of Saudi academic scholarship, and the books theoretical intervention in the political science of the Middle East and North Africa." -- Idriss Jebari * Canadian Journal of History *"This book substantially reworks existing knowledge of Saudi Arabia—the making of the state, the legitimization of its power, and the centrality of diverse history-making projects in these projects. Drawing on rich ethnographic and archival work, the author convincingly argues that the ruling regime has been engaged in a project of re-writing Saudi history since the 1990s. Central to these history-making projects has been the 'archive wars' and efforts to centralize archival sources, as well as re-making the built environment through urban planning and development.Sophisticated and engaging and politically bold." -- Committee for the Nikki Keddie Book Award * sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association *"Rosie Bsheer'sArchive Warsis a forceful and inspiring reminder of what superb and unflinching scholarship and writing can do. Based on exciting fieldwork,Archive Wars examines the erasing and building of history in Saudi Arabia. It is one of those rare books that focuses our attention – without hesitation – on the broader stakes and processes of modern state formation while detailing the contingencies and tensions of power. It exposes with clarity and precision links between political-economy, state power, and the materiality of documents and the built environment. Attempts to erase and rewrite the past in Saudi Arabia will have to contend with Rosie Bsheer's archive.—Committee for the AGAPS Biennial Book AwardTable of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: The Archive Question chapter abstractIn the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War, ruling elites in Saudi Arabia adopted measures that aimed to reconfigure state power by pacifying wartime popular opposition, reshaping the politics of subject formation, and diversifying the petroleum economy. The ensuing struggle over state form—what I call archive wars—revolved around the production of history, the reordering of space, and the repurposing of valuable real estate. Historicizing these practices helps us rethink the nature of modern archival formation as well as statecraft while calling into question scholarly assumptions about the cohesiveness of authoritarian states, and of states in general. Approaching the domains of history making and urban planning as mutually constitutive, contested, and ongoing material practices of state formation complicates conventional understandings of the nature of state power and its imbrication with archive formation. 1Occluded Pasts chapter abstractThis chapter takes up one strand of sociopolitical and cultural life in late Ottoman Mecca: the school of Indian religious scholar Muhammad Rahmatullah al-Kairanawi and its relation to the emergence of an intellectually engaged Hijazi middle class during the nahda. The chapter then attends to how the Saudi state occluded and repackaged this history since 1932. Beyond the symbolic power it bestowed upon its rulers, Mecca was a space where intellectual debate flourished, honing the minds of thinkers who became central figures in twentieth-century politics and religion. Yet Mecca's past is absent from histories of the Hijaz and of Saudi Arabia and from histories of intellectual thought, cultural production, and political activism in the late Ottoman period. Unearthing these transregional histories is urgent because the Saudi state has been destroying the city's built environment in lockstep with the logic of historical erasure and state formation. 2A State With No Archive chapter abstractIn 1966, at the height of the struggle between reactionary and progressive forces that pitted Al Saud against Gamal Abdel Nasser and progressive forces inside Saudi Arabia, King Faisal passed the country's first archiving law. The aim was to choreograph a sanitized version of history and to reify elites' political, territorial, economic, and cultural claims. This chapter connects the beginning of archival praxis in Cold War Arabia to the necessity of managing elite power rivalries and fending off threats from regional rivals and domestic political movements. These anxieties shaped archival praxis and subsequently institutionalized a culture of secrecy and rivalry across the bureaucracy, with the push and pull of the archival operation mirroring the rivalries endemic to the Saudi state. Tracing the battles to produce an archive from the mid-1960s until the late 1980s shows how Saudi Arabia complicates conventional thinking about archives and about the authoritarian state itself. 3Assembling History chapter abstractIn the 1990s, Saudi Arabia's top rulers sought to shift the grounds for political legitimation, subject formation, and economic diversification to maintain power following the Gulf War. This required the production of primary source materials for a revised, secular official history, the repositories that would house them, and the spaces that would monumentalize such a discourse. The Darah, along with the Ariyyadh Development Authority, assembled the past and its spaces in Riyadh. With the backing of Salman, who was Riyadh's governor at the time, the low-grade archive fever of the 1970s got a second lease on life. Like Faisal before him, Salman faced challenges to centralizing the archive: from members of the ruling family, politicians and bureaucrats, activists and archivists. Institutional acts of history making and placing put into question the coherence of historical narration and memorialization, and expose archival anxieties and rivalries among the architects of state building. 4Heritage as War chapter abstractIn the aftermath of the Gulf War, an army of urban planners, economists, historians, archeologists, and tourism consultants descended upon Riyadh. Under the aegis of the High Commission for the Development of Arriyadh, they brainstormed ideas for the redevelopment of the capital city, with an eye to the economic, political, and social challenges that the country was facing in the late twentieth century. The Arriyadh Development Authority oversaw the production of a regulatory planning document that would transform Riyadh into the administrative, cultural, economic, touristic, and historical center of Saudi Arabia. This chapter examines the production and destruction of historical sites since the 1950s. It shows how the 1990s saw the acceleration of the remaking of historical areas in Riyadh and the creation of a productive heritage industry therein. Memorialization came to constitute a key node in the postwar architectural reformulation of the state. 5Bulldozing the Past chapter abstractSince the early 2000s, the Saudi state summarily dynamited whole mountains around the Grand Mosque, destroying much of Islam's material history and replacing it with commercial megaprojects. The deliberate demolition of historical and religious sites in Mecca starkly contrasts with the preservation of more recent and dilapidated sites associated with Al Saud's heritage in Riyadh. In post–Gulf War Saudi Arabia, Mecca came to serve a different legitimating purpose, one rooted in grandiose infrastructural projects and aesthetics, wherein secular time overwhelmed religious temporality and subjectivity. The regime used Wahhabi iconoclasm and the need to modernize the hajj to justify such destruction. This chapter shows how the city's urban "renewal" was inextricable from archival formation and urban planning in Riyadh. The neoliberal city was at the heart of the twinned postwar process of real estate and heritage development, with Al Saud and the Binladin family reaping billions off its redevelopment. Conclusion: The Violence of History chapter abstractThis chapter centers on how Saudi rulers instrumentalized religion to pacify post–Gulf War popular contestation and shifted the basis of state legitimation to secular historical memorialization, political commemoration, and urban redevelopment. Using these material practices, it shows how statecraft, even in authoritarian regimes, evolves diachronically in response to a multiplicity of challenges, not least of which is popular opposition. The postwar project, however, was transformed at different critical junctures: the terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia in the 2000s, the Arab Uprisings, and the ascension of the postwar project's architect, Salman ibn Abdulaziz, to the throne in 2015. With Salman in power, the archival landscape, both institutional and spatial, has for the most part succumbed to his decades-long national vision. Cultural and urban redevelopment reflects the material culture and built environment of Salman's Saudi Arabia, which enshrined his view of the past, present, and future.
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Stanford University Press The Alternative University: Lessons from
Book SynopsisOver the last few decades, the decline of the public university has dramatically increased under intensified commercialization and privatization, with market-driven restructurings leading to the deterioration of working and learning conditions. A growing reserve army of scholars and students, who enter precarious learning, teaching, and research arrangements, have joined recent waves of public unrest in both developed and developing countries to advocate for reforms to higher education. Yet even the most visible campaigns have rarely put forward any proposals for an alternative institutional organization. Based on extensive fieldwork in Venezuela, The Alternative University outlines the origins and day-to-day functioning of the colossal effort of late President Hugo Chávez's government to create a university that challenged national and global higher education norms. Through participant observation, extensive interviews with policymakers, senior managers, academics, and students, as well as in-depth archival inquiry, Mariya Ivancheva historicizes the Bolivarian University of Venezuela (UBV), the vanguard institution of the higher education reform, and examines the complex and often contradictory and quixotic visions, policies, and practices that turn the alternative university model into a lived reality. This book offers a serious contribution to debates on the future of the university and the role of the state in the era of neoliberal globalization, and outlines lessons for policymakers and educators who aspire to develop higher education alternatives.Trade Review"In a world in dire need of alternatives to a neoliberal model that declared we no longer have any, Mariya Ivancheva reminds us that the semiperiphery has always taught the world-system important lessons. The book is a powerful plea for a radical response to commodified higher education, for treading carefully among the contradictions inherent to revolutionary projects and against presentism."—Manuela Boatcă, Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg"The Alternative University underscores the way that the neoliberalization and marketisation of higher education is a truly global process. This extremely powerful and ethnographically documented account of the inner workings of an alternative university poses some searching questions about university autonomy, the historical role of student movements, and the subsequent role of leaders of those movements in both the academy and politics."—John Gledhill, University of ManchesterTable of Contents1. The Political Life of a Higher Education Policy 2. The Rise and Fall of Academic Autonomy: The University as a Historic Battlefield 3. Evaluation Matters: Teachers' Training at an Alternative University 4. The Children of the Revolution and the Matrisociality of the Benevolent State 5. Generation(s) of Protests at a Revolutionary University Conclusion Epilogue: De(colonial) Silences in the Hierarchy of Global Knowledge Production
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University of Minnesota Press Batman Saves the Congo: How Celebrities Disrupt
Book SynopsisHow celebrity strategic partnerships are disrupting humanitarian space Can a celebrity be a “disrupter,” promoting strategic partnerships to bring new ideas and funding to revitalize the development field—or are celebrities just charismatic ambassadors for big business? Examining the role of the rich and famous in development and humanitarianism, Batman Saves the Congo argues that celebrities do both, and that understanding why and how yields insight into the realities of neoliberal development. In 2010, entertainer Ben Affleck, known for his superhero performance as Batman, launched the Eastern Congo Initiative to bring a new approach to the region’s development. This case study is central to Batman Saves the Congo. Affleck’s organization operates with special access, diversified funding, and significant support of elites within political, philanthropic, development, and humanitarian circuits. This sets it apart from other development organizations. With his convening power, Affleck has built partnerships with those inside and outside development, staking bipartisan political ground that is neither charity nor aid but “good business.” Such visible and recognizable celebrity humanitarians are occupying the public domain yet not engaging meaningfully with any public, argues Batman Saves the Congo. They are an unruly bunch of new players in development who amplify business solutions. As elite political participants, celebrities shape development practices through strategic partnerships that are both an innovative way to raise awareness and funding for neglected causes and a troubling trend of unaccountable elite leadership in North–South relations. Batman Saves the Congo helps illuminate the power of celebritized business solutions and the development contexts they create. Trade Review "This is an exciting, original, and fascinating book. It’s important not just for what it reveals—the Janus-faced, contradiction-laden nature of celebrity development politics—but for how this work was done. Batman Saves the Congo sets the standard for following high-profile development interventions from the privileged boardrooms where they are conceived to the coffee fields they seek to support. It’s a triumph."—Dan Brockington, author of Celebrity Advocacy and International Development "This is a thoughtful and thought-provoking contribution to current debates on celebrity activism in the humanitarian sector. Using Ben Affleck’s intervention in the Congo, the book offers a razor-sharp analysis of the inner workings of celebrity strategic partnerships as a new entrepreneurial model of aid. More than this, it develops an important criticism of humanitarianism and its entanglement with corporate and entertainment logics that, despite good intentions, work to hide colonial legacies behind the glamour of celebrity stardom."—Lilie Chouliaraki, author of The Ironic Spectator: Solidarity in the Age of Post-Humanitarianism "Thoroughly researched and often laugh-out-loud funny, Batman Saves the Congo is a critically important look at a growing and under-examined — and frequently absurd — segment of the aid industry. "—Washington Post "This is a well-written, entertaining study that deserves a wide audience among readers interested in celebrity humanitarianism and the international politics of development in the Democratic Republic of the Congo."—CHOICE "The book Batman Saves the Congo is deeply researched, utilises a brilliant mix of methods of inquiry, and exposes a complex web of actors engaged in development efforts in the Congo."—Journal of Humanitarian Affairs Table of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Batman Saves the Congo1. Celebrity, Disruption and Neoliberal Development2. Narrating the Congo: Dangerous Single Stories and the Organizations that Need Them3. Choosing the Congo: How a Celebrity Builds a Development Organization4. Marketing the Congo: Products that Sell Development5. Saving Congolese Coffee: Celebrities and the Business Model for Development6. Celebrities and the Local Politics of Development: As Seen from Kinshasa7. Conclusions on Celebrity and Development: Disruption, Advocacy and CommodificationEpilogue: COVID-19 and Making ECI Relevant AgainAcknowledgmentsAppendix A. Methodology and Data CollectionAppendix B. Affleck, ECI, and ECI Partner’s Interactions with Congress, 2011–2017Appendix C. K&L Gates Lobbying on Behalf of Eastern Congo InitiativeNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press The Quiet Violence of Empire: How USAID Waged
Book SynopsisHow the U.S. empire-state transformed post-1945 Afghanistan into a key site for reimagining development Established in 1961 by President Kennedy, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is often viewed as an extension of the security state, playing a constant role on the ground in Afghanistan since the early sixties. The Quiet Violence of Empire traces USAID’s long and bloody history of development work in the region, revealing an empirically rich account of the transnational entanglements of imperialism and racial capitalism.Wesley Attewell carefully analyzes three chronological moments of development as counterinsurgency in action: the Helmand Valley Project, the Soviet–Afghan conflict, and the post-9/11 occupation in Afghanistan. These case studies expose how USAID’s very public commitment to bringing seemingly inclusionary forms of self-help, technical assistance, and market development to Afghanistan has been undergirded by longer-standing infrastructures of race war and racial management. Attewell exposes how one of the net effects of USAID’s development mission to Afghanistan has been to constrain the life chances of Afghan beneficiaries while simultaneously diverting development capital back to U.S. contractors, deftly underscoring the notion of development as a form of slow violence.The Quiet Violence of Empire asks the critical question: how might we refuse the ruse of USAID and its endlessly deferred promise of development? Thinking relationally across the fields of human geography, global studies, and critical ethnic studies, it uncovers the explicitly racial underpinnings of international development theory and praxis.Trade Review"This richly detailed and thoughtfully argued book shows the United States's deadly politics of aid and development as the race war that it is. A necessary reading of the twenty-first-century war on Afghanistan."—Laleh Khalili, Queen Mary University of London
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University of Minnesota Press Italian Political Cinema: Figures of the Long ’68
Book SynopsisAn exploration of how film has made legible the Italian long ’68 as a moment of crisis and transitionTraditionally, the definition of political cinema assumes a relationship between cinema and politics. In contrast to this view, author Mauro Resmini sees this relationship as an impasse. To illustrate this theory, Resmini turns to Italian cinema to explore how films have reinvented the link between popular art and radical politics in Italy from 1968 to the early 1980s, a period of intense political and cultural struggles also known as the long ’68.Italian Political Cinema conjures a multifaceted, complex portrayal of Italian society. Centered on emblematic figures in Italian cinema, it maps the currents of antagonism and repression that defined this period in the country’s history. Resmini explores how film imagined the possibilities, obstacles, and pitfalls that characterized the Italian long ’68 as a moment of crisis and transition. From workerism to autonomist Marxism to feminism, this book further expands the debate on political cinema with a critical interpretation of influential texts, some of which are currently only available in Italian.A comprehensive and novel redefinition of political film, Italian Political Cinema introduces its audience to lesser-known directors alongside greats such as Pasolini, Bertolucci, Antonioni, and Bellocchio. Resmini offers access to untranslated work in Italian philosophy, political theory, and film theory, and forcefully advocates for the continued artistic and political relevance of these films in our time.Trade Review "Mauro Resmini’s Italian Political Cinema is a powerful and original reimagining of the question of the political in Italian cinema. Bracingly theorized and enriched by a fine handling of form and historical context, Resmini’s book heralds a new era in Italian film studies while making an important contribution to the theorization of cinema’s political possibilities."—John David Rhodes, author of Spectacle of Property: The House in American Film "By being courageous enough to embrace unresolved tensions, Resmini constructs one of the most exciting explorations of political cinema to date, one sure to have encouraging effects for film analysis, political struggle, and knowledge production at large."—Film Quarterly
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University of Massachusetts Press Science for the People: Documents from America's
Book SynopsisFor the first time, this book compiles original documents from Science for the People, the most important radical science movement in U.S. history. Between 1969 and 1989, Science for the People mobilized American scientists, teachers, and students to practice a socially and economically just science, rather than one that served militarism and corporate profits. Through research, writing, protest, and organizing, members sought to demystify scientific knowledge and embolden ""the people"" to take science and technology into their own hands. The movement's numerous publications were crucial to the formation of science and technology studies, challenging mainstream understandings of science as ""neutral"" and instead showing it as inherently political. Its members, some at prominent universities, became models for politically engaged science and scholarship by using their knowledge to challenge, rather than uphold, the social, political, and economic status quo. Highlighting Science for the People's activism and intellectual interventions in a range of areas - including militarism, race, gender, medicine, agriculture, energy, and global affairs - this volume offers vital contributions to today's debates on science, justice, democracy, sustainability, and political power.
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Canadian Scholars Canadian Communication Policy and Law
Book SynopsisCanadian Communication Policy and Lawprovides a uniquely Canadian focus and perspective on telecommunications policy, broadcasting policy, internet regulation, freedom of expression, censorship, defamation, privacy, government surveillance, intellectual property, and more. Taking a critical stance, Sara Bannerman draws attention to unequal power structures by asking the question, whom does Canadian communication policy and law serve?Key theories for analysis of law and policy issues—such as pluralist, libertarian, critical political economy, Marxist, feminist, queer, critical race, critical disability, postcolonial, and intersectional theories—are discussed in detail in this accessibly written text. From critical and theoretical analysis to legal research and citation skills, Canadian Communication Policy and Law encourages deep analytic engagement. Serving as a valuable resource for students who are undertaking research and writing on legal topics for the first time, this comprehensive text is well suited for undergraduate communication and media studies programs.Features: Includes a practical chapter on how to do legal and policy research and how to cite legal sources Contains in-text pedagogy including suggested readings and a comprehensive glossary.
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James Currey The Sudan Handbook
Book SynopsisA compact and useable introduction to the understanding of contemporary Sudan, and a convenient reference work. The Sudan Handbook, based on the Rift Valley Institute's successful Sudan Field Course, is an authoritative and accessible introduction to Sudan, vividly written and edited by leading Sudanese and international specialists. The handbook offers a concise introduction to all aspects of the country, rooted in a broad historical account of the development of the Sudanese state. It consists of eighteen self-contained, cross-referenced chapters, covering essential topics in the geography, history, sociology, culture and politics of the country, written by outstanding Sudanese scholars and recognized international experts. It includes numerous purpose-drawn maps and diagrams,glossaries of key terms, capsule biographies of key figures, a chronology and a bibliography. John Ryle, Rift Valley Institute and Division of Social Sciences, Bard College, USA; Justin Willis, Department of History, Durham University, UK and former Director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa; Suliman Baldo, International Center for Transitional Justice, New York, International Crisis Group; Jok Madut Jok, Department of History, LoyolaMarymount University, USA. Published in association with the Rift Valley InstituteTrade ReviewDiplomats, aid workers and development workers heading for a tour of duty , in either of the Sudans, or both, should certainly read this collection of well written and informative essays. * LAWFARE *Very useful. [...] As a vehicle to introduce one to all things Sudanese, it succeeds very well and is to be highly recommended. * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *A collection of readable, thought-provoking and intelligent essays that together provide a thorough introduction to Sudan and South Sudan. [...] It will be invaluable to anyone who does not have a deep prior knowledge. * SUDAN STUDIES *This witness to all that was bad in the past [...] and the celebration of all that is good, such as the new nation's vibrant culture and economic prospects, belongs in all African studies libraries. Essential. * CHOICE *CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title * . *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Many Sudans - John Ryle and Justin Willis Land & water - Justin Willis and Omer Egemi and Philip Winter Early states on the Nile - Abdel Rahman Ali Mohammed and Derek Welsby Peoples & cultures of the two Sudans - John Ryle Religious practice & belief - Wendy James The ambitions of the State - Justin Willis From the country to the town - Munzoul A. M. Assal From slaves to oil - Laura James Sudan's fragile state, 1956-1989 - Peter Woodward Islamism & the state - Abdel Salam Sidahmed Traditional authority, local government & justice - and Musa Abdul Jalil Twentieth-century civil wars - Douglas H. Johnson The war in the west - Jerome Tubiana A short history of Sudanese popular music - Ahmad Sikainga Sudan's regional relations - Gérard Prunier The international presence in Sudan - Daniel Large The past & future of peace - Edward Thomas Epilogue: The next Sudan - Jok Madut Jok and John Ryle Appendices: Chronology - Key figures in Sudanese history, culture & politics
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OUP USA Modern Greece
Book SynopsisJust a few years ago, Greece appeared to be a politically secure nation with a healthy economy. Today, Greece can be found at the center of the economic maelstrom in Europe. Beginning in late 2008, the Greek economy entered a nosedive that would transform it into the European country with the most serious and intractable fiscal problems. Both the deficit and the unemployment rate skyrocketed. Quickly thereafter, Greece edged toward a pre-revolutionary condition, as massive anti-austerity protests punctuated by violence and vandalism spread throughout Greek cities. Greece was certainly not the only country hit hard by the recession, but nevertheless the entire world turned its focus toward it for a simple reason: the possibility of a Greek exit from the European Monetary Union, and its potential to unravel the entire Union, with other weaker members heading for the exits as well. The fate of Greece is inextricably tied up with the global politics surrounding austerity as well. Is austerTrade Review"Kalyvas' slim volume puts this story into perspective with remarkable clarity and brevity. If you read one general introduction to Greek politics, this should be it." -- Foreign AffairsTable of ContentsIntroduction ; Chapter One: Modern Greece as a project ; Did Modern Greece spring from Ancient Greece? ; How did the Greek National movement begin? ; What were the social sources of Greek Nationalism? ; Who were the Nationalists? ; How did Greece secede from the Ottoman Empire?Who rebelled? ; How did a Greek state emerge out of the war? ; How did international politics impact on the war? ; What was the European reaction to the Modern Greek project? ; How was the new state built? ; Why was nation-building successful? ; What was the state of the economy in 19th century Greece? ; How did democracy come to Greece? ; How did the new democratic institutions operate? ; How did Greece become a national of small land-holders? ; Chapter Two: State Consolidation and National Expansion ; What was the fate of Trikoupis' modernization project? ; What was the Great Idea? ; Who were the unredeemed Greeks? ; What were the consequences of irredentist foreign policy? ; What was the Macedonian Conflict? ; How did Greece double its territory? ; What was the National Schism? ; What was the Anatolian Disaster? ; What was the impact of the Anatolian Disaster? ; How did the military become politicized? ; How popular was communism in Greece? ; Chapter Three: War, Occupation, and Civil War ; What were the causes of the Greek Civil War? ; How did the occupation morph into civil war? ; What explains the rise of the communists? ; Why did KKE's competitors in the resistance fail? ; What drove collaboration in Greece? ; How was the postwar fate of Greece sealed? ; How did Greece become the frontline of the Cold War? ; Why did the winners win and the losers lose? ; What is the legacy of the Civil War ; Chapter Four: The Greek Miracle and Its Aftermath ; How did Greece take off? ; What Greece a democracy? ; What caused the April 1967 coup? ; Why was the transition to democracy so smooth? ; What was Greek Socialism and what explains its success? ; What was the impact of EU membership? ; Is Greek politics clientelistic? ; Why are Greeks and Turks fighting? ; Chapter Four: The 2010 Crisis ; Was the adoption of the Euro a good idea for Greece? ; How did Greece end up with an explosive debt? ; What has been the effect of the austerity program and the IMF/ECB/EU bailout? ; Conclusion ; What are the broader lessons of the Greek story? ; What does the future hold for Greece?
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Environmental Politics 2E Cases in Environmental Politics
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Taylor & Francis Constitutional and Administrative Law
Book SynopsisTrusted by generations of students, and consistently reliable and up to date, Hilaire Barnettâs Constitutional and Administrative Law continues to provide accessible and comprehensive coverage of the Public Law syllabus. Mapped to the common course outline, the Sixteenth edition equips students with a thorough understanding of the UK constitutionâs past, present and future by analysing and illustrating the political and socio-historical contexts that have shaped the major rules and principles of constitutional and administrative law, as well as ongoing constitutional reform.This edition has been fully updated throughout, including additional questions to aid student understanding of this complex area of the law. The online digital resources have been updated with a new student website including useful weblinks, updates to the law (provided by the author), and brand new student revision quizzes.Ideal for students studying constitutional and administrative law for
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Comparative Government and Politics
Book SynopsisOffering a comprehensive introduction to the comparison of governments and political systems, this new edition helps students to understand not just the institutions and political cultures of their own countries but also those of a wide range of democracies and authoritarian regimes from around the world. This new edition offers:-A revised structure to aid navigation and understanding-New learning features, 'Using Theory' and 'Exploring Problems', designed to help students think comparatively-Empirical global examples, with increased coverage of non-Western scholarship and analyses-Coverage of important contemporary topics including: minorities; LGBTQ+ issues; identity politics; women in politics; political trust; populism; Covid-19. Featuring a wide range of engaging learning features, this book is an essential text for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on Comparative Politics, Comparative Government, Introduction to Politics and Introduction to Political Science.Trade ReviewThis is a truly wonderful introduction to Comparative Politics. Not only does it cover a comprehensive range of complex topics in a very approachable and accessible way but, better still, it is full of examples from all regions of the world. I wish I had had this book when I was an undergraduate student. * Raul Gomez, University of Liverpool, UK *Comprehensive and clearly-written, this text provides a solid grounding in the comparative method complemented by timely real-world examples of the ways in which comparative politics can be applied, thereby helping students to make sense of complex and confusing events in the world today. * Jennifer White, University of Georgia, USA *This new edition to a classic of the discipline provides fresh new context for how the key theories of comparative politics still matter for understanding the world around us. The wealth of evidence included will inspire students to research topics of their own interest and the narrative offers a great one-stop shop for instructors looking to efficiently deliver their course. * William Daniel, University of Nottingham, UK *Table of ContentsPart 1: Principles 1. Government and politics 2. Making comparisons 3. States and nations 4. Political culture 5. Democratic rule 6. Authoritarian rule Part 2: Institutions 7. Constitutions and courts 8. Executives 9. Legislatures 10. Bureaucracies 11. Sub-national government 12. The Media Part 3: Processes 13. Political participation 14. Elections 15. Political parties 16: Interest groups 17: Public policy 18: Political economy
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Oxford University Press Inc The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order
Book SynopsisThe most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism on the left.The epochal shift toward neoliberalism--a web of related policies that, broadly speaking, reduced the footprint of government in society and reassigned economic power to private market forces--that began in the United States and Great Britain in the late 1970s fundamentally changed the world. Today, the word neoliberal is often used to condemn a broad swath of policies, from prizing free market principles over people to advancing privatization programs in developing nations around the world.To be sure, neoliberalism has contributed to a number of alarming trends, not least of which has been a massive growth in income inequality. Yet as the eminent historian Gary Gerstle argues in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, these indictments fail to reckon with the full contours of what neoliberalism was and why its worldview had such persuasive hold on both the right and the left for three decades. As he shows, the neoliberal order that emerged in America in the 1970s fused ideas of deregulation with personal freedoms, open borders with cosmopolitanism, and globalization with the promise of increased prosperity for all. Along with tracing how this worldview emerged in America and grew to dominate the world, Gerstle explores the previously unrecognized extent to which its triumph was facilitated by the collapse of the Soviet Union and its communist allies. He is also the first to chart the story of the neoliberal order''s fall, originating in the failed reconstruction of Iraq and Great Recession of the Bush years and culminating in the rise of Trump and a reinvigorated Bernie Sanders-led American left in the 2010s.An indispensable and sweeping re-interpretation of the last fifty years, this book illuminates how the ideology of neoliberalism became so infused in the daily life of an era, while probing what remains of that ideology and its political programs as America enters an uncertain future.Trade ReviewFascinating and incisive. * Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times *Enlightening . . . Gerstle carefully recreates the new order Reagan wanted . . . [and] emphasizes its market side . . . [A] fine book. * The New York Times Book Review *It's rare that one can use the term instant classic in a book review, but Gary Gerstle's latest economic history, The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, warrants the praise. * Rana Foroohar, Financial Times *Gerstle offers a rich and sophisticated discussion of neoliberalism . . . an important and beautifully written book. * The Washington Post *His American focus might also finally allow British readers to escape their factional trenches and appreciate the shape of neoliberalism. It is a terrific service . . . . a joy to read. * Tom Clark, Prospect *Masterfully blends compelling analysis with a propulsive narrative. * Irish Times *Brilliantly conceived, capaciously argued, and written with great clarity . . . For those interested in a meaningful historical perspective on where we are now, I can think of no better book. * Steven Hahn, The Nation *A cogent, erudite historical analysis. * Kirkus Reviews *[A] splendid and stimulating history of neo-liberalism's rise and possible 'fall.' * Australian Book Review *This book is an interesting account of what is exceptional about "America". * Michael Laver, Society *Essential reading. * Adam Tooze, author of Crashed *One of the smartest, most perceptive books I've read in years. * Christopher Leonard, author of The Lords of Easy Money *Anyone baffled at how the U.S. could possibly have moved over a half-century from embracing a state-centered New Deal to relentlessly unraveling it will be greatly enlightened by Gerstle's beautifully written, engrossing, and powerful telling of the rise of the neoliberal order. And some may take heart from his claim that it too is in free-fall, albeit leaving behind enduring vestiges of free market orthodoxy. I know no better guide to the complex transformations that have shaped our own times. * Lizabeth Cohen, Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Harvard University, and author of Saving America's Cities *Gerstle's important book offers us an illuminating and rich interpretation of the power and popularity of neoliberalism in America. A true history of the movement, situating neoliberalism in relation to classical liberalism, the New Deal and global Communism. Essential reading. * Adam Tooze, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History, Columbia University *Expertly synthesizing a vast body of new scholarship—on international trade, the Cold War, race, polarization, Ralph Nader, the labor movement, and the rise of conservatism—Gary Gerstle delivers the most compendious and commanding history of neoliberal America to date. Along the way he opens new windows on the unexpected collaboration between Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich in deregulating America into the internet future. Gerstle also provides the best account I've read of how neoliberal" came to be the word of choice for an order that promises liberation and delivers subjection, that divides our two parties on some issues but conjoins them on others. * Corey Robin, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center *Among the foremost chroniclers of the American past, Gary Gerstle deploys in this bold book the powerful notion of 'political order' to examine our most recent history—the past forty years when the nation fastened its fortunes to marketization, global economic integration, a harsh penal state and sharpening inequality. By charting the rise and fall of the neoliberal order, this fast-paced account helps us make sense of the arch of American history from Ronald Reagan to Bernie Sanders, from Bill Clinton to Donald Trump. A must read for anyone interested in the world we inhabit today, with all its mortal dangers and yet-to-be fulfilled promises. * Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History, Harvard University *Gary Gerstle offers a brilliant, engaging, and provocative first-draft history of the last half century, a period sorely in need of scrutiny. With characteristic big-think flair, he shows that the neoliberal wisdom of that era—that markets would bring democracy, that the age of big government was over—emerged from specific historical forces and circumstances. He also suggests that many of those ideas can and should now be consigned to the past. * Beverly Gage, Professor of History & American Studies, Yale University *Just beneath the surface of our fractured and polarized polity, Gary Gerstle argues that there has been a Neoliberal Order under which both parties worked in the 1990s and early 2000s. Even as they bitterly disagreed, the nation's political debate moved far away from the class-based pillars of the New Deal. In another of his characteristically eye-opening analyses, Gerstle takes readers through the rise and fall of the political order that has shaped our leaders and electorate—that is, until powerful forces over the past decade, on the right and left, have opened the door to a new era. * Julian Zelizer, author of Abraham Joshua Heschel *Gerstle, a political historian specializing in contemporary history of the U.S., provides a comprehensive political history of the U.S. over the past six decades (Gerstle 2022)...Full of revelations. * Thomas König, Austrian Journal of Political Science *Southern historians might best use it as a provocation for graduate students regarding the role of the South in the rise and decline of neoliberalism. * William D. Goldsmith, Journal of Southern History *Gerstle's book has achieved the rare feat of both critical success and popular acclaim, having been shortlisted for the FT Business Book of the Year Award in 2022. It deserves it. * The OEconomia *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: The New Deal Order, 1930-1980 Chapter 1: Rise Chapter 2: Fall Part II: The Neoliberal Order, 1970-2020 Chapter 3: Beginnings Chapter 4: Ascent Chapter 5: Triumph Chapter 6: Hubris Chapter 7: Coming Apart Chapter 8: The End Notes Index
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WW Norton & Co The Big Short Inside the Doomsday Machine
Book SynopsisThe #1 New York Times bestseller: "It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top of his game. And it's essential reading."—Graydon Carter, Vanity FairTrade Review"No one writes with more narrative panache about money and finance than Mr. Lewis....[he] does a nimble job of using his subjects’ stories to explicate the greed, idiocies and hypocrisies of a system notably lacking in grown-up supervision....Writing in faintly Tom Wolfe-ian prose, Mr. Lewis does a colorful job of introducing the lay reader to the Darwinian world of the bond market." -- Michiko Kakutani - The New York Times"Superb: Michael Lewis doing what he does best, illuminating the idiocy, madness and greed of modern finance. . . . Lewis achieves what I previously imagined impossible: He makes subprime sexy all over again." -- Andrew Leonard - Salon.com"One of the best business books of the past two decades." -- Malcolm Gladwell - New York Times Book Review"I read Lewis for the same reasons I watch Tiger Woods. I’ll never play like that. But it’s good to be reminded every now and again what genius looks like." -- Malcolm Gladwell - New York Times Book Review
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Big Guy
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Stanford University Press Colonizing Kashmir: State-building under Indian
Book SynopsisThe Indian government, touted as the world's largest democracy, often repeats that Jammu and Kashmir—its only Muslim-majority state—is "an integral part of India." The region, which is disputed between India and Pakistan, and is considered the world's most militarized zone, has been occupied by India for over seventy-five years. In this book, Hafsa Kanjwal interrogates how Kashmir was made "integral" to India through a study of the decade long rule (1953-1963) of Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad, the second Prime Minister of the State of Jammu and Kashmir. Drawing upon a wide array of bureaucratic documents, propaganda materials, memoirs, literary sources, and oral interviews in English, Urdu, and Kashmiri, Kanjwal examines the intentions, tensions, and unintended consequences of Bakshi's state-building policies in the context of India's colonial occupation. She reveals how the Kashmir government tailored its policies to integrate Kashmir's Muslims while also showing how these policies were marked by inter-religious tension, corruption, and political repression. Challenging the binaries of colonial and postcolonial, Kanjwal historicizes India's occupation of Kashmir through processes of emotional integration, development, normalization, and empowerment to highlight the new hierarchies of power and domination that emerged in the aftermath of decolonization. In doing so, she urges us to question triumphalist narratives of India's state-formation, as well as the sovereignty claims of the modern nation-state.Trade Review"Colonizing Kashmir offers a brilliant rethinking of how sovereignty and secularism work to obscure the colonizing projects of postcolonial states. For India, Kanjwal argues, the colonial occupation of Kashmir is not an aberration nor a residual of the past, rather pivotal to the formation of the newly independent state. Scholars of religion, settler colonialism, secularism, and anyone interested in the varied and unexpected modalities through which territorial control functions will gain tremendously from the sharp conceptual interventions in this meticulously researched book."—Jasbir K Puar, Rutgers University"Hafsa Kanjwal brilliantly illuminates how India consolidated its occupational control over Kashmir through state-level practices across multiple institutional domains – development, tourism, film production, economic policies, culture, and law. Through archival and interpretative analysis of a rich variety of previously unexamined primary source historical materials, Kanjwal demonstrates how India cemented Kashmir's accession over time and, in effect, domesticated the international dispute. Her fine-grained analysis of processes of integration, normalization, and bureaucratization reveals how state-building operates as a mechanism for building, entrenching, and sustaining an architecture of colonial occupation in a 'space of political liminality' such as Kashmir."—Haley Duschinski, Ohio University"Colonizing Kashmir is essential reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the region. Its diligent analysis and exhaustive documentation deftly incorporates the perspectives of Kashmir's political consciousness and memory. In doing so, the book challenges and disrupts existing historiographical frameworks pertaining to Kashmir and its politics. The work holds considerable resonance with the present and future trajectory of Kashmir."—Haris Zargar, Middle East Eye"Historically invasive, theoretically cutting edge, and written in prose at once mellifluous and purposeful, this book is nothing short of a wonderfully mesmerizing intellectual earthquake in the fields of South Asian history and contemporary politics more broadly."—New Books Network"Colonizing Kashmir enables us to understand the repetitious discourse of development and normalcy through a historicization that allows for understanding the present forms of India's colonization of Kashmir as settler-colonial."—Goldie Osuri, The Contrapuntal"Kashmir's people have had a troubled history since 1947. Kanjwal presents a scholarly, impassioned historical analysis of the Indian-occupied Kashmir Valley during the crucial, decade-long regime of Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad.... Recommended."—M. H. Fisher, CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Genealogies of Colonial Occupation and State-Building: Becoming Khalid-i-Kashmir 2. Narrating Normalization: Media, Propaganda, and Foreign Policy amid Cold War Politics 3. Producing and Promoting Paradise: Tourism, Cinema, and the Desire for Kashmir 4. Developing Dependency: Economic Planning, Financial Integration, and Corruption 5. Shaping Subjectivities: Education, Secularism, and Its Discontents 6. Jashn-e-Kashmir: Patronage and the Institutionalization of Kashmiri Culture 7. The State of Emergency: State Repression, Political Dissent, and the Struggle for Self-Determination Conclusion
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Macmillan Learning American Government Stories of a Nation
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Random House USA Inc New Cold Wars
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Princeton University Press Democracy Erodes from the Top
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St Martin's Press The Hundred Years War on Palestine
Book SynopsisA landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family historyIn 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement. He warned of the perils ahead, ending his note, in the name of God, let Palestine be left alone. Thus Rashid Khalidi, al-Khalidi's great-great-nephew, begins this sweeping history, the first general account of the conflict told from an explicitly Palestinian perspective.Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family membersmayors, judges, scholars, diplomats, and journalistsThe Hundred Years'' War on Palestine upends accepted interpretations of the conflict, which tend, at best, to desc
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Subprime Cities
Book SynopsisSubprime Cities: The Political Economy of Mortgage Markets presents a collection of works from social scientists that offer insights into mortgage markets and the causes, effects, and aftermath of the recent ''subprime'' mortgage crisis. Provides an even-handed and detailed analysis of mortgage markets and the recent housing crisis Features contributions from various social scientists with expertise in critical social theories who have assembled and analyzed detailed empirical information Offers a unique and powerful rebuttal to many of the misleading popular explanations of the crisis and its aftermath Reveals how racial minorities and the neighbourhoods inhabited by them are more likely to be targeted by subprime and predatory lenders Trade Review"Aalbers has edited a commendable volume that makes a strong case for the centrality of urban processes in crisis formation. It has implications for a number of subfields in political science—including urban politics, economic and housing policy processes, race and ethnicity, politics and history, and federalism and intergovernmental relations—and should be read by scholars seeking to pinpoint the urban origins of the global financial crisis, as well as by those with an interest in learning more about the unavoidable and deepening connection between the fate of cities and the fate of nations." (Perspectives on Politics, 1 September 2013) “So its reading will benefit not only economic geographers, but also sociologists, political scientists and, dare we say, economists.” (Political Studies Review, 8 January 2014) "Aalbers has edited a commendable volume that makes a strong case for the centrality of urban processes in crisis formation. It has implications for a number of subfields in political science—including urban politics, economic and housing policy processes, race and ethnicity, politics and history, and federalism and intergovernmental relations—and should be read by scholars seeking to pinpoint the urban origins of the global financial crisis, as well as by those with an interest in learning more about the unavoidable and deepening connection between the fate of cities and the fate of nations."(Perspectives on Politics, September 2013) “The book will be extremely useful for advanced courses in economic geography, housing policy and related topics. It should be widely cited in the ongoing debates over the subprime crisis as well as in discussions of mortgage and housing markets more generally.” (International Journal of Housing Policy, 20 June 2013) “Overall, the book is a must-have for not only those interested in the economics, geography, and politics of the subprime crisis or mortgage markets, but also those more broadly interested in economic geography more broadly, especially as it concerns finance. The book will be extremely useful for advanced courses in economic geography, housing policy, and related topics. It should be widely cited in the ongoing debate over the subprime crisis as well as in discussions of mortgage and housing markets more generally.” (International Journal of Housing Policy, 2012) Table of ContentsList of Figures vii List of Tables viii Notes on Contributors ix Foreword: The Urban Roots of the Financial Crisis xiii David Harvey Series Editors’ Preface xx Acknowledgments xxi Part I Introduction 1 Subprime Cities and the Twin Crises 3 Manuel B. Aalbers Part II The Political Economy of the Mortgage Market 23 1 Creating Liquidity Out of Spatial Fixity: The Secondary Circuit of Capital and the Restructuring of the US Housing Finance System 25 Kevin Fox Gotham 2 Finance and the State in the Housing Bubble 53 Herman Schwartz 3 Expanding the Terrain for Global Capital: When Local Housing Becomes an Electronic Instrument 74 Saskia Sassen 4 Building New Markets: Transferring Securitization, Bond-Rating, and a Crisis from the US to the UK 97 Thomas Wainwright 5 European Mortgage Markets Before and After the Financial Crisis 120 Manuel B. Aalbers 6 The Reinvention of Banking and the Subprime Crisis: On the Origins of Subprime Loans, and How Economists Missed the Crisis 151 Gary A. Dymski Part III Cities, Race, and the Subprime Crisis 185 7 Redlining Revisited: Mortgage Lending Patterns in Sacramento 1930–2004 187 Jesus Hernandez 8 The New Economy and the City: Foreclosures in Essex County New Jersey 219 Kathe Newman 9 Race, Class, and Rent in America’s Subprime Cities 242 Elvin Wyly, Markus Moos, and Daniel J. Hammel Part IV Conclusion 291 10 Subprime Crisis and Urban Problematic 293 Gary A. Dymski Glossary 315 Index 324
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WW Norton & Co Flash Boys A Wall Street Revolt
Book Synopsis#1 New York Times Bestseller — With a new AfterwordTrade Review"Lewis, as always, is exceedingly good at describing the complexities and absurdities of the subculture he portrays here… A deeply entertaining book, and one that illuminates how much our world has changed in less than a decade." -- Hector Tobar - Los Angeles Times"Important to public debate about Wall Street… in exposing what one of his central characters calls the ‘Pandora’s box of ridiculousness’ that financial exchanges have become." -- Philip Delves Broughton - Wall Street Journal"Reads like a thriller . . . Lewis is the kind of writer who creates his own weather system." -- John Lanchester - London Review of Books"Remarkable… Michael Lewis has a spellbinding talent for finding emotional dramas in complex, highly technical subjects." -- Financial Times"Michael Lewis does it again . . . fascinating." -- Steven Pearlstein - Washington Post"A beautiful narrative, so well-written. You’ve got to get this." -- Jon Stewart - The Daily Show"If you read one business book this year, make it Flash Boys." -- David Sirota - Salon"Michael Lewis is a genius, and his book will give high-frequency trading a much-needed turn under the microscope." -- Kevin Roose - New York Magazine"Michael Lewis knows how to tell a story." -- Vanity Fair"A fast-paced tale backed by gutsy reporting." -- Tina Jordan - Entertainment Weekly"Who knew high-frequency trading was such a sexy subject?" -- Bloomberg Business Week"Score one for the humans! Critics of high speed, computer-driven trading have a new champion." -- CNN Money"Flash Boys richly deserves to be the first chapter in a new discussion of market rules and abuses… Lewis raises troubling and necessary questions." -- The American Conservative"Michael Lewis is one of the premier chroniclers of our age." -- Huffington Post"When it comes to narrative skill, a reporter’s curiosity and an uncanny instinct for the pulse of the zeitgeist, Lewis is a triple threat." -- James B. Stewart - New York Times"[Lewis] is a top-flight storyteller." -- Lev Grossman - Time"A tour de force that will grab and hold your attention like the best of thrillers." -- Jon Talton - Seattle Times"Lewis writes about the resilience of underdogs, even in the face of seemingly overwhelming odds. He’s doing essential work, and anything that embarrasses fat cats and encourages reform is a flash in the right direction." -- Julie Hinds - Detroit Free Press"Lewis simply tells the truth." -- Will Deener - Dallas News"Michael Lewis has another hit on his hands." -- Zachary Warmbrodt and Dave Clarke - Politico"[Lewis’s] ability to find compelling characters and tell a great story through their eyes is unparalleled. He can untangle complex subjects like few others. His prose sparkles." -- Joe Nocera - New York Times"As always, Lewis simplifies the complex—and makes it fascinating." -- People"Recommended… Entertaining." -- San Francisco Chronicle"Entirely engaging… Illuminates a part of Wall Street that has generally done business in the shadows." -- New York Review of Books
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Broken Republik
Book Synopsis''A splendid book by authors who long ago detected Germany's fragility and aimed at readers who take no pleasure in the sight of its precipitous decline'' Yanis Varoufakis''The best polemic yet ... the authors prosecute their case with vigour and a terrific eye for detail'' Oliver Moody, The Times Book of the WeekThe compelling story of Germany's decline where it all went wrong and how it could bounce back.For many years, the post-war recovery of Germany was an inspirational story. All of Europe looked on with admiration and envy as the nation rebuilt and set standards for the rest to follow. Companies such as Mercedes-Benz, Siemens and Bayer rose to become global titans, while the country''s political leaders earned respect around the world even their football teams were the best. Such was its success that when the Berlin Wall fell, it appeared to reunify almost seamlessly. Where Germany led, the rest followed. But, even at its zenith, there were signs of trouble, with a worrying lack of national identity at its heart. So, when events started to turn against Germany, the whole edifice began to crumble. As political and business leaders benefited from the status quo, they couldn't see the problems heading their way. Volkswagen's emissions fraud tainted its industrial reputation; abandoning nuclear power left the country at the mercy of Russia for its energy needs; and a growing divide between rich and poor stoked international tensions that opened the door to the rise of the far-right AfD party. Journalists Chris Reiter and Will Wilkes have been reporting for years on the problems the country faces. Germany is not alone in this, but it is singularly ill-equipped to deal with them. Broken Republik is an essential read for anyone who wants to understand Germany''s slide towards the brink.
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Cornerstone On Leadership
Book SynopsisTony Blair's major new book on the art and science of leadership_______________________________'Engaging, insightful, provocative' Observer'A fascinating treatise on leadership . . . I am glad Blair has written it. It will fascinate anyone interested in the art of governing, even in the abstract' Nicola Sturgeon, Guardian'Filled with ideas and insight for every reader' i__________________________________Tony Blair learnt the precepts of governing the hard way: by leading a country for over ten years. In that time he came to understand that there are certain key characteristics of successful government that he wished he had known about when he started.Now he has written the manual on political leadership that he would have wanted when he first took office in 1997, sharing the insights he has gained from his personal experience and from observing other world leaders at first hand, both while he w
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Columbia University Press A New Foreign Policy
Book SynopsisJeffrey D. Sachs presents timely and achievable plans to foster global economic growth and shift from war making to peacemaking. A New Foreign Policy explores both the danger of the “America first” mindset and the concrete steps the United States must take to build a multipolar world that is prosperous, peaceful, fair, and resilient.Trade ReviewForceful and angry, Sachs verges on hyperbole in his indictment of America past and present, but he does highlight the perils of continuing on the same path. * New York Times Book Review *His new book is entitled A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism, and there is much inside to be celebrated. I never thought I would utter the words “I agree with Jeff Sachs,” let alone put them in print, yet here we are. * American Conservative *Highly recommended. * Choice *A challenging departure from the Beltway assumption that America has acted as a force for good in the world. * Financial Times *Sachs provides a broad alternative vision not only to the Trump administration’s foreign policy, but to past U.S. foreign policy more generally. * LSE Review of Books *A worthwhile read, in which Sachs demonstrates expertise on vastly different policy fields and makes a convincing case that abdicating the toxic intersection of militarism and exceptionalism is key to building a brighter future, both in the U.S. and around the world. * Global Policy *Jeffrey Sachs is one of the few prominent American academics who dares to make the bold case that the US has been on the wrong track for decades. Its non-academic style makes this book accessible to any reader who wants to gain a broad understanding of what is driving American grand strategy * International Spectator *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart I: U.S. Exceptionalism in a Changing World 1. From Exceptionalism to Globalism2. Exceptionalism as the Civic Religion3. The Era of Global Convergence4. Eurasia on the Rise, America on the Sidelines5. Russia-U.S. Relations in the Changing World Order Part II: America’s Wars 6. American Imperialism and “Wars of Choice”7. Contradictory Promises and a Century of Conflict in the Middle East8. North Korea and the Doomsday Clock9. Trump's National Security Strategy Part III: U.S. Foreign Economic Statecraft 10. The Economic Balance Sheet on “America First”11. Foreign Policy Populism12. Economic War with China13. Will Trump Hand China the Technological Lead?14. Toward a World Economy of Regions Part IV: Renewing American Diplomacy 15. From Diplomatic Leader to Rogue Nation16. The Ethics and Practicalities of Foreign Aid17. Managing Migration and Immigration18. Achieving Sustainable Development19. A New Foreign Policy for American Security and Well-BeingNotesReferencesIndex
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Just World Books The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in
Book SynopsisA powerful account, by Israeli peace activist Miko Peled, of his transformation from a young man who'd grown up in the heart of Israel's elite and served proudly in its military into a fearless advocate of nonviolent struggle and equal rights for all Palestinians and Israelis. His journey is mirrored in many ways the transformation his father, a much-decorated Israeli general, had undergone three decades earlier. Alice Walker contributed a foreword to the first edition in which she wrote, "There are few books on the Israel/Palestine issue that seem as hopeful to me as this one." In the new Epilogue he takes readers to South Africa, East Asia, several European countries, and the West Bank, Gaza, and Israel itself. Trade Review"A fascinating story that provides much food for thought."--Uri Avnery, Former Member of Knesset and veteran peace activist
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