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China's Water Warriors
Citizen Action and Policy Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Today opponents of large-scale dam projects in China, rather than being greeted with indifference or repression, are part of the hydropower policymaking process itself. What accounts for this dramatic change in this critical policy area surrounding China's insatiable quest for energy? In China's Water...
Chinese Economic Statecraft
Commercial Actors, Grand Strategy, and State Control
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
In Chinese Economic Statecraft, William J. Norris introduces an innovative theory that pinpoints how states employ economic tools of national power to pursue their strategic objectives. Norris shows what Chinese economic statecraft is, how it works, and why it is more or less effective. Norris provides...
"We Will Be Satisfied With Nothing Less"
The African American Struggle for Equal Rights in the North during Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Historians have focused almost entirely on the attempt by southern African Americans to attain equal rights during Reconstruction. However, the northern states also witnessed a significant period of struggle during these years. Northern blacks vigorously protested laws establishing inequality in education,...
Freedom Burning
Anti-Slavery and Empire in Victorian Britain
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
After Britain abolished slavery throughout most of its empire in 1834, Victorians adopted a creed of "anti-slavery" as a vital part of their national identity and sense of moral superiority over other civilizations. The British government used diplomacy, pressure, and violence to suppress the slave...
From Dependency to Independence
Economic Revolution in Colonial New England
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
In a sweeping synthesis of a crucial period of American history, From Dependency to Independence starts with the'problem'of New England's economic development. As a struggling outpost of a powerful commercial empire, colonial New England grappled with problems familiar to modern developing societies:...
The Globalizers
The IMF, the World Bank, and Their Borrowers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"The IMF and the World Bank have integrated a large number of countries into the world economy by requiring governments to open up to global trade, investment, and capital. They have not done this out of pure economic zeal. Politics and their own rules and habits explain much of why they have presented...
by Rosella Cappella Zielinski
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Armies fight battles, states fight wars. To focus solely on armies is to neglect the broader story of victory and defeat. Military power stems from an economic base, and without wealth, soldiers cannot be paid, weapons cannot be procured, and food cannot be bought. War finance is among the most consequential...
Public Housing Myths
Perception, Reality, and Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure; so what more needs to be said about seventy-five years of dashed hopes and destructive policies? Over the past decade, however, historians and social scientists have quietly exploded the common wisdom about public housing. Public Housing Myths...
Privatizing Water
Governance Failure and the World's Urban Water Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Water supply privatization was emblematic of the neoliberal turn in development policy in the 1990s. Proponents argued that the private sector could provide better services at lower costs than governments; opponents questioned the risks involved in delegating control over a life-sustaining resource...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Situating the French Revolution in the context of early modern globalization for the first time, this book offers a new approach to understanding its international origins and worldwide effects. A distinguished group of contributors shows that the political culture of the Revolution emerged out of...
Merit
The History of a Founding Ideal from the American Revolution to the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
The idea that citizens' advancement should depend exclusively on merit, on qualities that deserve reward rather than on bloodlines or wire-pulling, was among the Founding ideals of the American republic, Joseph F. Kett argues in this provocative and engaging book. Merit's history, he contends, is...
by Gerald Easter
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
The postcommunist transitions produced two very different types of states. The "contractual" state is associated with the countries of Eastern Europe, which moved toward democratic regimes, consensual relations with society, and clear boundaries between political power and economic wealth. The "predatory"...
America Inc.?
Innovation and Enterprise in the National Security State
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2014
For more than half a century, the United States has led the world in developing major technologies that drive the modern economy and underpin its prosperity. In America, Inc., Linda Weiss attributes the U.S. capacity for transformative innovation to the strength of its national security state, a complex...
Populist Collaborators
The Ilchinhoe and the Japanese Colonization of Korea, 1896–1910
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
An empire invites local collaborators in the making and sustenance of its colonies. Between 1896 and 1910, Japan’s project to colonize Korea was deeply intertwined with the movements of reform-minded Koreans to solve the crisis of the Choson dynasty (1392–1910). Among those reformers, it was the...