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Guiana and the Shadows of Empire

Colonial and Cultural Negotiations at the Edge of the World

by Joshua R. Hyles
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013

This book is a history of the three Guianas, now known as Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. Though histories of each of the countries exist, this is the first work in a century to consider the three countries as a group, and thus the first to present the history of all three as a comparative and...
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History of the Future

The Shape of the World to Come Is Visible Today

by Max Singer
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011

History of the Future presents a set of ideas about where we are in history. It focuses on the great majority of people in each society, and shows that life in the modern world will be almost completely different from all previous human experience. The present time is best understood as a period of...
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by John James Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015

Global Geopolitical Power and African Political and Economic Institutions: When Elephants Fight describes the emergence and nature of the prevailing African political and economic institutions in two periods. In the first, most countries adopted political and economic institutions that funneled significant...
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by Christopher White
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015

Immigration and Regional Integration in a Globalizing World, Christopher White makes an important contribution to the immigration debate by investigating the relationship between two of the most important forces shaping the current international system—international migration and regional integration....
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by Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Ed Andrew, Ronald Beiner
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017

This volume explores some of the tensions and pressures of citizenship in Western liberal democracies. Citizenship has adopted many guises in the Western context, although historically citizenship is attached only to some variant of democracy. How democracy is configured is thus at the core of citizenship....
Cover of Geography, History, and the American Political Economy
by John Agnew, Emily J. Duda, Keumsoo Hong
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2009

This collection takes on the call issued by reviewers of The American Way for a critical application of Carville Earle's framework to more geographical examples of political and economic shifts in America's past. The essays illustrate changes in U.S. settlement, development, and political structure...
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International Relations Theory

Competing Empirical Paradigms

by Michael Haas
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016

While many texts on international relations deal only with ideologies, this book goes beyond discussion of ideology to provide an understanding of how global economics, politics, and society operate. The book begins with a history of the International Studies Association, which was founded to develop...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012

Despite growing interest in democracy promotion, the nature and extent of external factors’ impact on democratic transitions to date remains understudied. The question of what works under what circumstances is still intensely contested among academics, policy-makers, and practitioners. Liberal Interventionism...
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New Directions for International Relations

Confronting the Method-of-Analysis Problem

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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2005

Why does the academic study of international relations have limited impact on the policy community? When research results are inconsistent, inconclusive, and contradictory, a lack of scholarly consensus discourages policy makers, the business community, and other citizens from trusting findings and...
Cover of The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968
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Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009

On August 20, 1968, tens of thousands of Soviet and East European ground and air forces moved into Czechoslovakia and occupied the country in an attempt to end the 'Prague Spring' reforms and restore an orthodox Communist regime. The leader of the Soviet Communist Party, Leonid Brezhnev, was initially...
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by Monica Osborne
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017

Since the end of World War II we have witnessed countless artistic responses to the Holocaust, yet we remain unable to adequately address the atrocities. While Theodor Adorno later rescinded his comments on the barbaric nature of writing poetry after Auschwitz, The Midrashic Impulse and the Contemporary...
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by Payam Akhavan, Sohrab Behdad, Mehrzad Boroujerdi
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011

In this timely, informative edited volume, major Iranian scholars and civic actors address some of the most pressing questions about Iranian civil society and the process of democratization in Iran. They describe the role of Iranian civil society in the process of transition to democracy in Iran and...
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The American Civil War on Film and TV

Blue and Gray in Black and White and Color

by Biljana Oklopčić, Rosanne Welch, Fran Pheasant-Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017

Whether on the big screen or small, films featuring the American Civil War are among the most classic and controversial in motion picture history. From D. W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation (1915) to Free State of Jones (2016), the war has provided the setting, ideologies, and character archetypes...
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Television, Religion, and Supernatural

Hunting Monsters, Finding Gods

by Joseph M. Valenzano III, Erika Engstrom
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014

This book examines the text of the CW network television series Supernatural, a program based in the horror genre that offers viewers myriad religious-based antagonists, through the portrayals of monsters which its two main characters “hunt” and destroy, as well as storylines based in the Bible....
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