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Politics and the History Curriculum
The Struggle over Standards in Texas and the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
The politicians and pastors who revised the Texas social studies standards made worldwide headlines. Politics and the History Curriculum sets the debate over the Texas standards within a broad context of politics, religion, media, and education, providing a clear analysis of these events and recommendations for teachers and policy makers.
Educational Leadership Preparation
Innovation and Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Ed.D. and Graduate Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
This book explores the efficacy of innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to educational leadership preparation implemented at universities across the United States that serve K-12 populations in urban, rural, and suburban contexts.
by T. Woodin, G. McCulloch, S. Cowan
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
The progressive raising of the school-leaving age has had momentous repercussions for our understanding of childhood and youth, for secondary education, and for social and educational inequality. This book assesses secondary education and the raising of the school-leaving age in the UK and places issues and debates in an international context.
Women on the Role of Public Higher Education
Personal Reflections from CUNY’s Graduate Center
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
This edited collection presents a compilation of personal essays on the role of public higher education in the lives of fourteen social scientists who are graduates of the Graduate Center, the doctoral granting institution at the City University of New York, the nation's largest public urban university.
Labor Activists and the New Working Class in China
Strike Leaders’ Struggles
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
This project provides an in-depth study of the role of worker-activist leaders in industrial strikes in China, a country where labor rights face significant challenges from state and industry suppression and by current lack of formal organization.
Higher Education in the American West
Regional History and State Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Higher Education in the American West: Regional History and State Contexts is the first comprehensive regional history of American higher education. It offers new historical research on how societal forces and state actions brought about the region's one thousand two hundred institutions of higher learning in 15 western states.
Positioning Gender and Race in (Post)colonial Plantation Space
Connecting Ireland and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Stoddard uses the Anglophone Caribbean and Ireland to examine the complex inflections of women and race as articulated in-between the colonial discursive and material formations of the eighteenth century and those of the (post)colonial twentieth century, as structured by the defined spaces of the colonizers' estates.
by C. Loader
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Alfred Weber was an important participant in the dialogue over the political and cultural crises of the late Empire and Weimar Republic. This study connects Weber's career to the social, political, intellectual, cultural, and institutional contexts of the period.
After the Berlin Wall
Germany and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Twenty years after its fall, the wall that divided Berlin and Germany presents a conceptual paradox: on one hand, Germans have sought to erase it completely; on the other, it haunts the imagination in complex and often surprising ways
Germany, Poland and Postmemorial Relations
In Search of a Livable Past
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Covering the period following the collapse of communism, the unification of Germany, and Poland's accession to the EU, this collection focuses on the interdependencies of German, Polish, and Jewish collective memories and their dialogic, transnational character, showing the collective nature of postmemory and the pressures that shape it.
by W. Davidshofer
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
This book explores Marxist and Leninist revolutionary theory. Topics include: the philosophical dialectic, historical materialism, the revolutionary movement, and Communist cadre political rule in the socialist state. Emphasis on Lenin's wartime political treatment of imperialism, national self-determination, and socialism in one country.
Rosa Luxemburg
Her Life and Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Collection with new contributions to the debate from New Politics concerning the legacy of Rosa Luxemburg. Publishing Stephen Eric Bronner's essay 'Red Dreams and the New Millennium' along with the numerous responses to the piece, a new introduction, and an interview with Bronner stimulates the discussion around Luxemburg's legacy.
by Uilleam Blacker, Alexander Etkind
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
It is the aim of this volume to investigate how academic practices of Memory Studies are being applied, adapted, and transformed in the countries of East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. It affords a new, startlingly different perspective for scholars of both Eastern European history and Memory Studies.
by G. Nell
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Nikolai Bukharin were the three leaders of the Russian Revolution who shaped the new society most, both through their theories and their political leadership. All three were motivated by the ideal of building a utopian collective. Once in power, they tirelessly tried...