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Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism: Immigration Bureaucrats and Policymaking in Postwar CanadaIn the 1950s and 1960s, immigration bureaucrats in the Department of Citizenship and Immigration played an important yet unacknowledged role in transforming Canada's immigration policy. In response to external economic and political pressures for change, high-level bureaucrats developed new admissions criteria gradually and experimentally...
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Women, Power, and Political Representation: Canadian and Comparative PerspectivesDelving into the pressing topic of gender and politics, this volume provides fresh comparative perspectives on what works to promote women in politics today. Inspiring and informative, Women, Power, and Political Representation offers a comprehensive overview of the role women play in contemporary politics,...
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The Faces of Poverty in North Carolina: Stories from Our Invisible CitizensMore than 1.5 million North Carolinians today live in poverty. More than one in five are children. Behind these sobering statistics are the faces of our fellow citizens. This book tells their stories. Since 2012, Gene R. Nichol has traveled the length of North...
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The Fall of Kentucky's Rock: Western Kentucky Democratic Politics Since the New DealThis in-depth study offers a new examination of a region that is often overlooked in political histories of the Bluegrass State. George G. Humphreys traces the arc of politics and the economy in western Kentucky from avid support of the Democratic Party to its...
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RussiaSince the end of the Cold War, Russia has undergone profound economic and political changes. Initial hopes for a tranquil post-Cold War world, however, look naive in retrospect. Rapid NATO enlargement and European Union expansion, and perhaps NATO's Balkan interventions, now appear to have...
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The Movement for Black Lives: Philosophical PerspectivesThe Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) has gained worldwide visibility as a grassroots social justice movement distinguished by a decentralized, non-hierarchal mode of organization, and in 2020 Black Lives Matter protests across the country shook America's moral conscience to its core. M4BL rose to...
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Can a Liberal Be a Chief? Can a Chief Be a Liberal?: Some Thoughts on an Unfinished Business of ColonialismAn argument against the idea of the indigenous chief as a liberal political figure. Across Africa, it is not unusual for proponents of liberal democracy and modernization to make room for some aspects of indigenous culture, such as the use of a chief as...
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Sons of Liberty: ManifestoTyranny is not approaching, it's already upon us. There are no arguments within these pages; no facts, no evidence, no policy reviews, or economic theories. The time has passed for such efforts. Inside this book, you will find a call to action. Tanner Cook,...
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Insatiable Hunger: Colonial Encounters in ContextAn exploration of the worldviews that underpinned settler colonialism. The sixteenth-century European wars of religion set the stage for mass migration to the New World. Of course, there was nothing new about the New World to Indigenous peoples who had lived there for millennia....
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A Cultural History of Democracy in the Age of EmpireThis volume surveys democracy broadly as a cultural phenomenon operating in different ways across a very wide range of societies in the nineteenth-century world. In the long nineteenth century, democracy evolved from a contested, maligned conception of government with little concrete expression at the...
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A Righteous Smokescreen: Postwar America and the Politics of Cultural GlobalizationAn examination of how the postwar United States twisted its ideal of "the free flow of information" into a one-sided export of values and a tool with global consequences. When the dust settled after World War II, the United States stood as the world's...
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Transforming the War on Drugs: Warriors, Victims and Vulnerable RegionsThe war on drugs has failed, but consensus in the international drug policy debate on the way forward is missing. Amidst this moment of uncertainty, militarized lenses on the global illicit drug problem continue to neglect the complexity of the causes and consequences that...
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The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot (abridged edition)The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot by Russell Kirk is arguably one of the greatest contributions to twentieth-century American Conservatism. Brilliant in every respect, from its conception to its choice of significant figures representing the history of intellectual conservatism, The Conservative Mind launched...
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Embattled Europe: A Progressive AlternativeA bracing corrective to predictions of the European Union's decline, by a leading historian of modern Europe Is the European Union in decline? Recent history, from the debt and migration crises to Brexit, has led many observers to argue that the EU's best days...
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A-Democracy: The West Between Populism and NeoliberalismStarting from today's climate dominated by the different political-media populisms that tread the contemporary political scene, the volume examines the rise and what is believed to be the current fall of the so-called "neo-liberalism". The failure of the multicultural paradigm centered on the Lockean...
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The Marx Reader: Manifesto of the Communist Party; Wage Labour & Capital; and Value, Price & ProfitWhenever a collection of Marx's works is published, a few questions inevitably arise. Is Marx still relevant today? Do we still have something to gain from reading the great man's thoughts about economic structures? To put this question another way - if Marx was...
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PaxPax is a book of peace, a book of love poems to the world. The poems within these pages ask us to wake to our own remarkable lives and our undeniable connections, to look with a steady eye at the demands of love. Whether...
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The Wolf at the Door: The Menace of Economic Insecurity and How to Fight It"Deep, informed, and reeks of common sense."--Norman Ornstein "It is now beyond debate that rising inequality is not only leaving millions of Americans living on a sharp edge but also is threatening our democracy...For activists and scholars alike who are struggling to create a...
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The Big Steal: How an Army of Criminals Rigged the 2020 Election Against President TrumpAmericans have always been able to trust the fairness, security, and legitimacy of our election system. We believed in it so much, in fact, that it's been difficult for many of us to accept that our most basic rights were violated when a well-orchestrated,...
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The Right to Be RuralIn this collection, researchers analyze rural societies, economies, and governance in North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia through the lens of rights and citizenship, across such varied domains as education, employment, and health. The provocative concept of a "right to be rural" illuminates not...
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