Upa: 654 books
Roots of Revolution
The Press and Social Change in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
Rebels of the South! It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. —Inscription dated April 11, 1919, one day after the assassination of Emiliano Zapata, carved on a post at the Borda Garden in Cuernavaca, seen by Frank Tannenbaum in 1923. Peace by Revolution, An Interpretation of...
The Suicidal State in Somalia
The Rise and Fall of the Siad Barre Regime, 1969–1991
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This book is a critical reposition of the study of military regimes in Africa. Documenting and delving deep into the reign and rule of General Mohamed Siad Barre regime in Somalia from 1969 up to 1991, the book puts emphasis on African agencies—ostensibly shaped by external beneficiaries and patrons—over...
Conflict in the Horn of Africa
The Kenya-Somalia Border Problem 1941–2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Conflict in the Horn of Africa examines how the Kenya-Somalia border problem has deep roots in pre-colonial and colonial times mirroring the phenomenon of shifting territorial and human frontiers and treaties which Britain, France, Italy, and Ethiopia made before and after World Wars I and II. This...
The Quest for Press Freedom
One Hundred Years of History of the Media in Ethiopia
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
The Quest for Press Freedom is a book about press development and freedom in Ethiopia, with a focus on the state media. It examines the building of a modern media institution over the last one hundred years of its existence, and the restrictions against its freedoms. The significance of this work...
De Broglie's Armada
A Plan for the Invasion of England, 1765-1777
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
This study represents the first published translation and analysis of an intriguing scheme of invasion of the British Isles that formed the foundation of all later invasion plans drawn up in the ivory towers of French diplomacy. References to invasion plans—made by Spain in the Spanish Armada (1585-98),...
Nigeria
After the Nightmare
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Nigeria: After the Nightmare is an in-depth look into the Nigerian experience, explaining what went wrong during the country’s thirty years of dictatorship. The book describes Nigeria's problems including oil, corruption, and dictatorship, but also provides a way for Nigeria to recover and become a leading democratic state.
Animal Farm Prophecy Fulfilled in Africa
A Call to a Values and Systems Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Animal Farm Prophecy Fulfilled in Africa: A Call to a Values and Systems Revolution discusses why deep levels of poverty and suffering persist in Africa despite all the successive regime changes over the last half century. It discusses why more people are poorer now than they were in the colonial...
Presidential Lessons in Leadership
What Executives (and Everybody Else) Can Learn from Six Great American Presidents
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Presidential Lessons in Leadership crystallizes the methods of leadership from six of America's greatest presidents during moments of personal challenge and turns them into concrete lessons that business leaders, and anyone interested in becoming a more effective leader, can use each day. The six...
The Illusion of Ignorance
Constructing the American Encounter with Mexico, 1877-1920
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
The Illusion of Ignorance examines the cultural politics of the American encounter with Porfirian Mexico as a precursor and model for the twentieth-century American encounter with the world. Detailed discussions of the logistics of conducting diplomacy, doing business, or traveling abroad in the era...
by John DiJoseph
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Noble Cause Corruption, the Banality of Evil, and the Threat to American Democracy, 1950-2008 is a probe of the mindset of American government officials, from presidents of the United States on down, who decided that necessity required that the American democracy had to be defended by actions and...
One More 'Lost Peace'?
Rethinking the Cold War After Twenty Years
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
Were there any missed chances to build a more peaceful world than the present one after the Cold War? Were there any attempts at working out a more comprehensive and more cooperative way to overcome it? What was precisely at stake during the Cold War? What was really at stake for the 'losers' and...
Race, Women of Color, and the State University System
Critical Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Race, Women of Color, and the State University System focuses on challenges women of color experience or have experienced while teaching or pursuing administrative duties within the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. The book systematically examines how women of color —- administrators,...
Getting Away with Murder
The Twentieth-Century Struggle for Civil Rights in the U.S. Senate
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the US Congress engaged in bitter debates on whether to enact a federal law that would prosecute private citizens who lynched black Americans. In Getting Away with Murder, the fundamental question under scrutiny is whether Southern Democrats’...
Rogue State
The Unconstitutional Process of Establishing West Virginia Statehood
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Rogue State chronicles how West Virginia entered—and remains—in the Union under unconstitutional circumstances. Its severance from Virginia and reincorporation as a new state in 1863 occurred outside the bounds of constitutional legality. The United States government, while pledged to prevent...