Political Science - General

The 1980s witnessed the ascendency of Russian women in multiple spheres of artistic creation, including literature, film, and painting. This volume may thus be said to engage not only women's artistic production but, indeed, the best and most colourful of recent Russian culture. Treating...

This work provides an examination of US refugee policy since the 1960s, particularly as it has been applied to Cuba, Haiti and Central America. The authors also address world-wide refugee problems, proposing ideas for the 21st century.Author: Deborah AdelmanISBN-10: 1563240017ISBN-13: 9781563240010Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/1992Pages:...

When the Hapsburg monarchy disintegrated after World War I, Austria was not considered to be a viable entity. In a vacuum of national identity the hapless country drifted toward a larger Germany. After World War II, Austrian elites constructed a new identity based on...

This is a series of lectures that critiques the idealization of the state by British Hegelians like Bosanquet. Since Hegel and his followers are in the crossfire the focus is very much on the relation of the particular to the universal as embodied in...

David Seedhouse highlights the alarming irrelevance of inclusive democracy in the governmental responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, asking why decision-makers so readily ignored centuries of hard-won civil freedoms? Why were we so easily controlled and why were our controllers so willing to do it?...

A Cousin's Conspiracy or A Boy's Struggle for An InheritanceAuthor: Horatio Jr. AlgerISBN-10: 1517338476ISBN-13: 9781517338473Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/14/2015Pages: 166Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.35d

"The History of the Rise - Volume I" from Thomas Clarkson. English abolitionist (1760-1846).Author: The Perfect Library,Thomas ClarksonISBN-10: 1511520507ISBN-13: 9781511520508Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2015Pages: 220Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1908 Edition. An Account Of Maritime Revenue, Contraband Traffic, The Introduction Of Free Trade, And The Abolition Of The Navigation And Corn Laws 1801-1855 V2.Author: Henry Atton,Henry Hurst HollandISBN-10: 1498106218ISBN-13: 9781498106214Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages:...

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1908 Edition. An Account Of Maritime Revenue And Contraband Traffic In England, Scotland, And Ireland, From The Earliest Times To The Year 1800 V1.Author: Henry Atton,Henry Hurst HollandISBN-10: 1498104185ISBN-13: 9781498104180Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 510Format:...

"Libertarianism" is a synopsis of the origins and various ideologies of the Libertarian Party. It is a great read as an introduction to the Libertarian momentum for any curious person seeking their political path.Author: David Roberts,Susan P. CummingsISBN-10: 1494478498ISBN-13: 9781494478490Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage:...

This is a new release of the original 1943 edition.Author: Alan HyndISBN-10: 1494078228ISBN-13: 9781494078225Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 306Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.64d

This is a new release of the original 1938 edition.Author: Andre MikhelsonISBN-10: 1494071304ISBN-13: 9781494071301Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 286Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.60d

On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 earthquake off Japan's northeast coast triggered a tsunami that killed more than 20,000 people, displaced 600,000, and caused billions of dollars in damage as well as a nuclear meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant....

On November 23, 2004, citizens in the impoverished Mexico City neighborhood of Tláhuac attacked three men who were ensconced in an unmarked car outside of the Popol Vuh primary school. Fearful that the strangers were seeking to molest the youngsters, a mob that quickly...

The Arab Revolutions that began in 2011 reignited interest in the question of theory and practice, imbuing it with a burning political urgency. In Revolution and Disenchantment Fadi A. Bardawil redescribes for our present how an earlier generation of revolutionaries, the 1960s Arab New...

This monograph is the third in the series of monographs stemming from the Strategic Studies Institute- U.S. State Department conference on Russia in January 2010. It is devoted to a consideration of Russia's military doctrine. Russia had long before the conference announced the impending...

The past few decades have witnessed the development of an increasingly globalised and multipolar world order, in which the demand for multilateralism becomes ever more pronounced. The BRICS group established in 2009, has evolved into a plurilateral summit institution recognized both by sceptics and...

Politics is hugely complex. Some try to reduce its complexity by examining it through an ideological worldview, a one-size-fits-all prescriptive formula or a quantitative examination of as many 'facts' as possible. Yet politics cannot be adequately handled as if it were made of cells...

As bearers of their own emancipation, the political agency of the subaltern classes is a vexed question, a time-honoured one at that. Why do the subalterns endure injustices without revolting most of the time, but revolt sometimes against some injustices? The euphoria of 'globalisation-from-below',...

Author: Caroline ShafferISBN-10: 1450092497ISBN-13: 9781450092494Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2010Pages: 206Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

Author: Joel Clarke GibbonsISBN-10: 1441501371ISBN-13: 9781441501370Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/20/2009Pages: 216Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d

The Evolution of Brazil Compared with That of Spanish and Anglo-Saxon America is a book written by Manoel De Oliveira Lima in 1914. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of the development of Brazil and compares it to the evolution of Spanish and Anglo-Saxon...

This edited volume features essays derived from presentations delivered at the 15th Biennial Public Address Conference held at Syracuse University in October 2016, as well as additional material. The Conceit of Context explores the often invoked--indeed a central term in the history of rhetorical...

Might it be possible to rearticulate the term digital in digital media, so that it refers at least as much to the deft movements or orientations of hands and fingers (of digits) as it does to the new media technologies themselves? What if digital...

The continuous evolution of internet and related social media technologies and platforms have opened up vast new means for communication, socialization, expression, and collaboration. They also have provided new resources for researchers seeking to explore, observe, and measure human opinions, activities, and interactions. However,...

The purpose of Narrating the New Nation is to engage with South African Indian writings through a critical examination of the oeuvre of key writers within a postcolonial theoretical framework. With the advent of democracy, South Africa has witnessed new writings which either reflected...

Focusing on the power of media theories, the text explains, describes, interprets, and evaluates the Internet in insightful, useful, and thoughtful ways. An overview of the Internet's past and anticipated future is providedAuthor: Steve Jones,James W. Chesebro,David T. McMahanISBN-10: 1433123045ISBN-13: 9781433123047Publisher: Peter Lang Inc.,...

Claude McKay's Liberating Narrative: Russian and Anglophone Caribbean Literary Connections examines McKay's search for an original form of literary expression that started in Jamaica and continued in his subsequent travels abroad. Newly found research pertaining to his presence in several Russian periodicals, magazines, and...

This book provides an insider view of Haida language, history, and culture, and offers a perspective on Haida culture that comes not only from external research but also from intimate knowledge and experiences the author has had as a Haida Nation citizen. The book's...

The book ""Patriotism And Popular Education"" is a discourse written in the form of a letter addressed to the Right Honorable H. A. L. Fisher by Henry Arthur Jones. The discourse discusses the importance of patriotism and popular education in society. Jones argues that...

Provides social work trainees and practitioners with guidance on anti-oppressive and anti-racist practice - a key part of social work in mulit-ethnic and multi-cultural Britain. The book is easy to navigate, with clear chapters on communities with roots in a variety of countries.Author: Siobhan...

The revival of ideology, which began early in the second half of the last century, has led to reconsideration of the following questions: What underlies the pattern of the rise and decline of the ideological mode of thought? What leads young intellectuals to search...

David Cautes wide-ranging study examines how outstanding novelists of the Cold War era conveyed the major issues of contemporary politics and historyAuthor: David CauteISBN-10: 1412811619ISBN-13: 9781412811613Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2009Pages: 412Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.30w x 1.10dReview Citation(s): Choice 12/01/2010

This book fills an important gap in the literature on energy security in the gas sector in the European Union. Whilst the emphasis is often on energy security in the oil sector, the gas sector has grown in importance in recent decades, with increasing...

This book challenges the common perceptions of Australian dependence upon great-power allies in the conduct of its foreign relations through a critical examination of Australia's relations with the People's Republic of China. The author focuses on the economic and political dimensions of the policy-making...

This book examines the underlying factors of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the South Caucasus from 1905 to 1994, and explores the ways in which issues of ethnicity and nationalism contributed to that conflict. The author examines the historiography and politics of the conflict, and...

Filling a significant gap in the literature by offering a theoretical framework by which we can understand the issues of media, religion and politics Luis Mauro Sa Martino asks how can a religious denomination have any sort of influence on people in a secular...

'Threat Talk' exposes how US and Chinese scientists and policy-makers have understood and responded to the problem of internet addiction in their societies. Is the internet good or bad for society? American analysts like Lessig and Zittrain suggest that the internet is inherently liberating...

Operation Just Cause, the United States' incursion into Panama, was the culmination of a gradually escalating confrontation between the United States and the Noriega dominated government of Panama that extended from June, 1987 until early January, 1990. Applying diverse methodological approaches, this volume examines...

Drawing on the empirical case of the Russian-Georgian war of 2008, the book explores the theoretical underpinnings of the idea of 'great power management' first articulated within the English School of International Relations. The contributors to the volume approach this idea from a variety...

The Euro in the 21st Century clarifies the perception of the euro and empirically demonstrates that the euro has become a true common currency and the Eurozone a true optimal currency area, presenting, in turn, a model to imitate. In order to demonstrate this,...

The relationship between civil society and the armed forces is an essential part of any polity, democratic or otherwise, because a military force is after all a universal feature of social systems. Despite significant progress moving towards democracy among some African countries in the...

The past several decades have seen the emergence of a vigorous ongoing debate about the 'politics of recognition'. The initial impetus was provided by the reflections of Charles Taylor and others about the rights to cultural recognition of historically marginalized groups in Western societies....

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

This book focuses on seven of the prominent figures that both in action and in ideology reshaped nationalism, anti-colonialism, imperialism, and the construction of an Afro-Caribbean identity. Through a connective analysis of the activists and intellectuals, Ideology, Politics, and Radicalism of the Afro-Caribbean illustrates...

While Alan Ebenstein's biography of Friedrich Hayek was the first biography of this major twentieth century thinker, the book itself was not - per se - an intellectual biography. Hayek's Journey will be the follow-up volume that will give readers an in-depth look at...

A decade ago, playwright dissident Václav Havel led an almost bloodless revolution against Czechoslovakia's hardline communist regime. In the years that followed, the country split apart into two independent Czech and Slovak states, each taking radically different paths to reform. This book examines the...

Rather than a ranking system based on occupational prestige, this book explains social stratification through political events and decisions. Using analyses of Russia, France, the United States and England, Burrage claims that class stems from the habitual relationship between state and civil society and,...

The question of sectarianism in Scotland belongs within a wider framework than it has hitherto been placed. It offers insights into continuing, indeed pressing, debates about religious identity and civil and political society in the modern world. This book questions the view that religion...