Political Science - General

"Santo Domingo is a volcano that is going to envelop all Latin America in flames." These words, spoken by a professed latin communist at a meeting of the Dominican Republic's Castroite 14th of June Movement, turned world attention to the island known as Hispaniola....

Report by Major Charles Lynch of the medical department detailing Japanese medical procedures used during the war. Covers the organization of the Japanese Army, its medical services, medicine and surgery procedures, hospitals, sanitation, transportation, and medical statistics.Author: War Department General StaffISBN-10: 1288231385ISBN-13: 9781288231386Publisher: BibliogovLanguage:...

The civil rights movement of the United States was a struggle to bring equality under the law to all Americans. To achieve these goals, groups would partake in acts of civil resistance aimed at achieving change by nonviolence. The movement has had a lasting...

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is an office that is part of the Cabinet departments and independent agencies of the United States federal government as well as some state and local governments. Each office includes an Inspector General and employees charged with...

The BiblioGov Project is an effort to expand awareness of the public documents and records of the U.S. Government via print publications. In broadening the public understanding of government and its work, an enlightened democracy can grow and prosper. Ranging from historic Congressional Bills...

The BiblioGov Project is an effort to expand awareness of the public documents and records of the U.S. Government via print publications. In broadening the public understanding of government and its work, an enlightened democracy can grow and prosper. Ranging from historic Congressional Bills...

This title was first published in 1991: This collection focuses on the concepts and measurements of inequality, poverty, the concentration of wealth, and the implications of these issues for social policies. A special feature of this work is the international comparisons of the evidence...

This title was first published in 1978. This book offers examples of the writings of Renato Constantino, one of the Philippines' most prolific essayists. Editor Meszaros summarizes their unifying theme: 'The colonial strangehold on consciousness is the crucial factor through which the whole society...

Strife has raged about Karl Marx for decades, and never had it been so embittered as at the time of this book's first publication, 1936. Marx had impressed his image on the time as not other had done. To some he was - and...

This book contains several constitutional essays, speeches, letters, and judicial opinions. It shows how Holmes's speeches of criticisms that were directed against the Court at the time and how he lived at the center of lashing intellectual storms, presenting responses to these storms.Author: Frederick...

The accelerating technological transformation in learn- ing has necessitated an ability to search and differentiate among the one billion web pages, libraries, databases, books, newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, and opinion columns available onlineAuthor: Roberto BrambillaISBN-10: 1138527084ISBN-13: 9781138527089Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/06/2017Pages: 146Format: HardcoverWeight:...

Five decades ago, award-winning author Herbert Gold traveled to Haiti on a Caribbean version of the Fulbright ScholarshipAuthor: Herbert GoldISBN-10: 1138524670ISBN-13: 9781138524675Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/13/2017Pages: 336Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.36lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

In the past, African American aspirations for political offi ce were assumed to be limited to areas with sizeable black population basesAuthor: Georgia A. PersonsISBN-10: 1138519529ISBN-13: 9781138519527Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/20/2017Pages: 284Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.57lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.69d

Key documents and essential facts, combined with a strong theoretical framework - this new textbook clarifies the Gulf War of 1991, puts it in the context of the changing international order and identifies long-term consequences.Author: Ken MatthewsISBN-10: 1138161551ISBN-13: 9781138161559Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/27/2017Pages: 352Format: HardcoverWeight:...

This title was first published in 1990. The high theme of these writings is that we live in an economy of concentrated economic power. Textbook theory fails to explain this economy; it deals with bygone days. Galbraith's job is to push, drag, cajole and...

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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

The story of a journalist held captive by guerrillas in Cambodia.Author: Richard DudmanISBN-10: 0871402599ISBN-13: 9780871402592Publisher: Liveright Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1972Pages: 196Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 8.24h x 5.30w x 0.87d

In this innovative book, Kyle Sinisi explores a little-known chapter in the history of American politics--the struggle between states and the federal government over the costs of fighting the Civil War. At stake was the disposition of some 8 million. Focusing on Kansas, Kentucky,...

On the night of November 9, 1989, an electrified world watched as the Berlin Wall came down. Communism was dead, the Cold War was over, and freedom was on the rise-or so it seemed. We Were the People tells the story behind this momentous...

Viewing poverty as a condition that is fed and renewed on a daily basis by social and economic structures, this book focuses on the ways in which poor residents can be helped to improve their own situations, their living conditions, and the central city...

This chronologically organized text provides comprehensive historical coverage of Latin America's politics and development from colonial times to the twenty-first century.Author: Ronald M. SchneiderISBN-10: 0813343410ISBN-13: 9780813343419Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/26/2006Pages: 712Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.99lbsSize: 8.94h x 6.14w x 1.72d

From 1891 to 1941, Santiago--Chile's capital and its largest and most important city--experienced rapid urbanization, industrialization, and administrative expansion along with a massive internal migration that had significant social and economic consequences for the city. This book is the first study to focus on...

The diversity of Latin American trade agreements established since the mid-1980s reflects a broadening range of strategic perceptions and orientations. The argument of this volume is that this increasing divergence among the arrangements reflects fundamental and growing differences among their broader strategic perceptions and...

In the 1990s, numerous Latin American nations privatized their public pension systems. These reforms dramatically transformed the way these countries provide retirement income, and they provoked widespread protests from workers and pensioners alike. Retiring the State represents the first book-length study of the origins...

This study of Argentina over the past 25 years confronts two questions: Why has Argentina, one of Latin America's wealthiest and most developed nations, failed so tragically to reconcile economic modernization and liberal democracy? Why have authoritarian regimes failed even more spectacularly than those...

Intended for the general reader with an interest in American history, this book profiles eleven women who made enduring contributions to society: Jane Addams, Fannie Farmer, Lillian Wald, Mary McLeod Bethune, Juliette Low, Margaret Sanger, Carrie Chapman Catt, Margaret Mitchell, Margaret Bourke-White, Rachel Carson...

Innovation in the Public Sector provides alternative frameworks for defining, categorizing, and studying innovation in government and in the nonprofit sector. Through a diverse collection of international case studies, this book broadens the discussion of innovation in public and nonprofit organizations, demonstrating the hurdles...

In these essays, many of the leading proponents of analytical political economy examine major macroeconomic issues through the integration of mathematical analysis and non-neoclassical economic theory. The topics covered include the macroeconomics of the labor market, open economy issues, economic growth, and macroeconomic policy.Author:...

This study of Soviet military strategy is based upon the relationship between the army and politicians as well as Soviet writings on the subject of military strategy.Author: David M. GlantzISBN-10: 0714634352ISBN-13: 9780714634357Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1992Pages: 368Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.48lbsSize: 9.32h x 6.04w x 1.30d

This book is unique in analysing the new Scottish parliament from a systematically comparative perspective. Its basic premise is that since devolution in 1999, Scotland can be considered a Scandinavian-style democracy.Author: David ArterISBN-10: 0714655678ISBN-13: 9780714655673Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2003Pages: 312Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.17lbsSize: 8.58h x 6.10w...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...

Revolutions have often occurred in poor countries. Although triumphant revolutionaries may lack the resources to assume complete responsibility for their country's economy, they do tend to nationalize what Lenin called the "commanding heights"--those enterprises that meet the strategic needs of the polity. How these...

First Published in 2003. This study analyzes contributions made by Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) to the development of Pan-African agency from the 1945 Pan-African Congress in Manchester to the military coup d'etat of Nkrumah's government in February 1966.Author: D. Zizwe PoeISBN-10: 0415946433ISBN-13: 9780415946438Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

This book considers whether the democratic promise of 1989 lost out to a technocratic, judicial control of politics in the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe. It explores the complexities and drawbacks of modern constitutionalism by offering a comprehensive theoretical and comparative-empirical assessment...

The book aims at reframing the discussion on the "public sphere," usually understood as the place where the public opinion is formed, through rational discussion. The aim of this book is to give an account of this rationality, and its serious shortcomings, examining the...

Russian Society and the Orthodox Church examines the Russian Orthodox Church's social and political role and its relationship to civil society in post-Communist Russia. It shows how Orthodox prelates, clergy and laity have shaped Russians' attitudes towards religious and ideological pluralism, which in turn...

This book narrates the political developments in Israel/Palestine since the ascent to power of Yitzhak Rabin in 1992 through to the present. It includes the developments of the peace process and conflict with Hezbollah and Hamas, and how hopes for a settlement have been...

This timely collection addresses the problem of ethnic conflict and its regulation. It begins with a guide to the methods used to eliminate or manage such conflict, and is followed by a global sample of case studies written by leading authorities.Author: John McGarryISBN-10: 0415099315ISBN-13:...

This book is a collection of rock climbing experiences which captures the essence, the challenge, and the spirit of the sport at its best. It describes the historical interplay between events and personalities in Colorado rock climbing, and shows how the concept of the...

This volume purports to explore the legal and political issues triggered by the new wave of secessionism. More specifically, those issues concern the interplay between notions of democracy (and democratic ends and means) and law (and the rule of law and constitutionalism). Against this...

This volume illustrates and exemplifies the variety of ways in which the mass media have been researched over the past fifty or more years. It provides extracts from seminal works and relates them to developments in the field as a whole and to later...

The rise of academic criminal justice programs from their beginnings at the University of California in the 1930s through the split into academic and vocational models during the later decades are described in this work. Academic politics and politicians are emphasized. The academic infighting...

Using illustrations from past and current internal wars, thirteen social scientists here apply their many perspectives--derived from the fields of sociology, political science, and economics--to a variety of aspects of internal wars.Author: Harry Eckstein, UnknownISBN-10: 031322451XISBN-13: 9780313224515Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/03/1980Pages: 352Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.47lbsSize: 9.21h...

Author: Hans Heinrich Gerth, Marilyn BensmanISBN-10: 0313228639ISBN-13: 9780313228636Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/28/1982Pages: 318Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.37lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d

Author: Jack S. Jr. BlockerISBN-10: 0313208891ISBN-13: 9780313208898Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/09/1979Pages: 289Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.10d

The religious and political history of late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century England is typically written in terms of conflict and division. This was the period when party conflict - exacerbated by religious enmities - became a normal part of English life. Rather than denying...

The issue of State Succession continues to be a vital, and complex, focal point for public international lawyers. The formative period of decolonization marked, for many, the time when international law 'came of age', when the promises of the UN Charter would be realized...

Unlike its predecessors, this systematic survey of the law of Athens is based on explicit discussion of how the subject might be studied, incorporating topics like the democratic political system and social structure. The author draws primarily on the surviving law-court speeches of the...

The First World War hardly ended with the formal Armistice in Europe on November 11, 1918, amid the continuing violence of blockades and epidemics, amid numerous forms of reconstruction and revolution. Its legacies, in fact, resonate deeply in our present. Nor is it obvious...