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The Human Potential for Peace: An Anthropological Challenge to Assumptions about War and ViolenceIn The Human Potential for Peace: An Anthropological Challenge to Assumptions about War and Violence, renowned anthropologist Douglas P. Fry shows how anthropology--with its expansive time frame and comparative orientation--can provide unique insights into the nature of war and the potential for peace. Challenging...
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Debating the Death Penalty: Should America Have Capital Punishment? the Experts on Both Sides Make Their Best CaseWhen news breaks that a convicted murderer, released from prison, has killed again, or that an innocent person has escaped the death chamber in light of new DNA evidence, arguments about capital punishment inevitably heat up. Few controversies continue to stir as much emotion...
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That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. RooseveltRobert H. Jackson was one of the giants of the Roosevelt era: an Attorney General, a still revered Supreme Court Justice and, not least important, one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's close friends and advisers. His intimate memoir of FDR, written in the early 1950s...
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Born Along the Color Line: The 1933 Amenia Conference and the Rise of a National Civil Rights MovementIn August, 1933, dozens of people gathered amid seven large, canvas tents in a field near Amenia, in upstate New York. Joel Spingarn, president of the board of the NAACP, had called a conference to revitalize the flagging civil rights organization. In Amenia, such...
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The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill ClintonThe American President is an enthralling account of American presidential actions from the assassination of William McKinley in 1901 to Bill Clinton's last night in office in January 2001. William Leuchtenburg, one of the great presidential historians of the century, portrays each of the...
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Unholy War: Terror in the Name of IslamThe September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon left us stunned, angry, and uncomprehending. As it became clear that these horrifying acts had been committed in the name of religion, the media, the government, and ordinary citizens alike sought answers...
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Presidential Campaigns: From George Washington to George W. BushWere presidential campaigns always as bitter as they have been in recent years? Or is the current style of campaigning a new political development? In this revised and updated edition of Presidential Campaigns the answers to these questions are clear: the race for the...
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The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It AloneNot since the Roman Empire has any nation had as much economic, cultural, and military power as the United States does today. Yet, as has become all too evident through the terrorist attacks of September 11th and the impending threat of the acquisition of...
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Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle EastIn Israel and the West it is called the Six Day War. In the Arab world, it is known as the June War, or simply as "the Setback." Never has a conflict so short, unforeseen and largely unwanted by both sides so transformed the...
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A House in Gross Disorder: Sex, Law, and the 2nd Earl of CastlehavenSex, privilege, corruption, and revenge--these are elements that we expect to find splashed across today's tabloid headlines. But 17th century England saw a sex scandal that brought disgrace to the ruling class and ended with the beheading of an earl. In A House in...
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Votes for Women: The Struggle for Suffrage RevisitedIn Votes For Women, Jean H. Baker has assembled an impressive collection of new scholarship on the struggle of American women for the suffrage. Each of the eleven essays illuminates some aspect of the long battle that lasted from the 1850s to the passage...
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A History of the Supreme CourtWhen the first Supreme Court convened in 1790, it was so ill-esteemed that its justices frequently resigned in favor of other pursuits. John Rutledge stepped down as Associate Justice to become a state judge in South Carolina; John Jay resigned as Chief Justice to...
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The Brothel Boy and Other Parables of the LawThe mystery does not always end when the crime has been solved. Indeed, the most insolvable problems of crime and punishment are not so much who committed the crime, but how to see that justice is done. Now, in this illuminating volume, one of...
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The President and the Parties: The Transformation of the American Party System Since the New DealPresenting a new synthesis of twentieth-century American political development, The President and the Parties is the first text to examine closely the association between the chief executive and the two-party system. Placing parties in a broad historical context and shedding light on their connection...
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Liberalism, Fascism, or Social Democracy: Social Classes and the Political Origins of Regimes in Interwar EuropeThis work provides a sweeping historical analysis of the political development of Western Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Arguing that the evolution of most Western European nations into liberal democracies, social democracies, or fascist regimes was attributable to a discrete...
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Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile's Road to SocialismThis analysis of the dramatic seizure of the Yarur cotton mill in Santiago and its repercussions for Allende's revolution is based on extensive, unique interviews with officials (including Allende) and workers as well as on archival research.Author: Peter WinnPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 01/19/1989Pages:...
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Our Common FutureIn 1983, the U.N. General Assembly created the World Commission on Environment and Development, an independent committee of twenty-two members, headed by Gro Harlem Brundtland, the Prime Minister of Norway. Designed to examine global environment and development to the year 2000 and beyond, the...
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Why Read Marx Today?The fall of the Berlin Wall had enormous symbolic resonance, marking the collapse of Marxist politics and economics. Indeed, Marxist regimes have failed miserably, and with them, it seems, all reason to take the writings of Karl Marx seriously. Jonathan Wolff argues that if...
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Ideology: A Very Short IntroductionIdeology is one of the most controversial terms in the political vocabulary, exciting both revulsion and inspiration. This book examines the reasons for those views, and explains why ideologies deserve respect as a major form of political thinking. It investigates the centrality of ideology...
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Architectures of Violence: The Command Structures of Modern Mass Atrocities, from Yugoslavia to SyriaParamilitary or irregular units have been involved in practically every case of identity-based mass violence in the modern world, but detailed analysis of these dynamics is rare. Exploring the case of former Yugoslavia, the genocides in Rwanda and Darfur, and the ongoing violence in...
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