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Unbroken Government
Success and the Illusion of Failure in Policymaking
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Unbroken Government demonstrates how institutional and electoral characteristics present since the writing of the Constitution influence policy development. Utilizing policy areas as diverse as human spaceflight, clean air, homeland security, and foreign policy, this work shows how these patterns manifest themselves in the policymaking process.
by Professor Hugh Gough
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
We now live with the threat and the reality of political terror and terrorists. The French Revolution was the first occasion when a democratic government used terror as a political weapon, executing thousands of people for political crimes. What caused reasonable people to implement such a brutal regime?...
The Right Side of the Sixties
Reexamining Conservatism’s Decade of Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
The 1960s were a transformative era for American politics, but much is still unknown about the growth of conservatism during the period when it was radically reshaped and became the national political force that it is today. In their efforts to chronicle the national politicians and organizations...
The Long, Hot Summer of 1967
Urban Rebellion in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
It seemed at times during the 1960s that America was caught in an unending cycle of violence and disorder. Successive summers from 1964-1968 brought waves of urban unrest, street fighting, looting, and arson to black communities in cities from Florida to Wisconsin, Maryland to California. In some...
Gender and Violence in British India
The Road to Amritsar, 1914-1919
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
In British India, the years during and following World War I saw imperial unity deteriorate into a bitter dispute over "native" effeminacy and India's postwar fitness for self-rule. This study demonstrates that increasingly ferocious dispute culminated in the actual physical violence of the Amritsar Massacre of 1919.
Suriname in the Long Twentieth Century
Domination, Contestation, Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Despite its modest size, the republic of Suriname is today the site of many distinctive processes of globalization. This intersectional study teases out the complex relationships among class, gender, and ethnic identity over the course of Suriname's modern history, from the capital city of Paramaribo to the country's resource-rich rainforest.
Marx at the Movies
Revisiting History, Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Marx and the Moving Image approaches cinema from a Marxist perspective. It argues that the supposed 'end of history', marked by the comprehensive triumph of capitalism and the 'end of cinema', calls for revisiting Marx's writings in order to analyse film theories, histories and practices.
Places
Identity, Image and Reputation
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Place branding is happening. A new field of practice and study is in existence and whatever we choose to call it there can no longer be any doubt that it is with us. This collection of intuitive and well-reserached articles examines how places and regions see themselves, and how they reflect this in their branding.
Intercultural Transfers and the Making of the Modern World, 1800-2000
Sources and Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
For far too long, the history of the modern era has been written as a history of isolated nation states. This book which presents both interpretation and primary source documents challenges a nation-centred account, exploring the interconnected and interrelated nature of societies in the nineteenth...
Collective Action for Social Change
An Introduction to Community Organizing
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Community organizers build solidarity and collective power in fractured communities. They help ordinary people turn their private pain into public action, releasing hidden capacities for leadership and strategy. In Collective Action for Social Change , Aaron Schutz and Marie G. Sandy draw on their...
Magic Realism in Holocaust Literature
Troping the Traumatic Real
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
A major contribution to Holocaust studies, the book examines the capacity of supernatural elements to dramatize the ethical and representational difficulties of Holocaust fiction. Exploring texts by such writers as D.M. Thomas and Markus Zusak it will appeal to scholars and students of Holocaust literature, magic realism, and contemporary fiction.
by Dr Nicholas Seager
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Why have scholars located the emergence of the novel in eighteenth-century England? What historical forces and stylistic developments helped to turn a disreputable type of writing into an eminent literary form?
This Reader's Guide explores the key critical debates and theories about the rising...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
It is during the nineteenth-century, the age of machinery, that we begin to witness a sustained exploration of the literal and discursive entanglements of minds, bodies, machines. This book explores the impact of technology upon conceptions of language, consciousness, human cognition, and the boundaries between materialist and esoteric sciences.
The 'Invisible Hand' and British Fiction, 1818-1860
Adam Smith, Political Economy, and the Genre of Realism
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
The 'invisible hand', Adam Smith's metaphor for the morality of capitalism, is explored in this text as being far more subtle and intricate than is usually understood, with many British realist fiction writers (Austen, Dickens, Gaskell, Eliot) having absorbed his model of ironic causality in complex societies and turned it to their own purposes.