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On Universals: Constructing and Deconstructing CommunityMany on the Left have looked upon "universal" as a dirty word, one that signals liberalism's failure to recognize the masculinist and Eurocentric assumptions from which it proceeds. Balibar builds on these critiques, yet works to rescue and reinvent what universal claims can offer...
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Remaking North American Sovereignty: State Transformation in the 1860sNorth America took its political shape in the crisis of the 1860s, marked by Canadian Confederation, the U.S. Civil War, the restoration of the Mexican Republic, and numerous wars and treaty regimes conducted between these states and indigenous peoples. This crisis wove together the...
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Greening the Black Urban Regime: The Culture and Commerce of Sustainability in DetroitAlesia Montgomery's Greening the Black Urban Regime: The Culture and Commerce of Sustainability in Detroit tells the story of the struggle to shape green redevelopment in Detroit. Cultural workers, envisioning a green city crafted by direct democracy, had begun to draw idealistic young newcomers...
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Ten Lessons in Modern Chinese HistoryTen Lessons in Modern Chinese History tells the story of modern China from the Opium Wars in the mid-nineteenth century to the Xi Jinping era. Using extensive primary sources and newly released photographs, this book introduces students and junior researchers to scholarship and debates...
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Responsible Parties: Saving Democracy from ItselfHow popular democracy has paradoxically eroded trust in political systems worldwide, and how to restore confidence in democratic politics Democracies across the world are adopting reforms to bring politics closer to the people. Parties have turned to primaries and local caucuses to select candidates....
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The Wars Inside Chile's Barracks: Remembering Military Service Under Pinochet Volume 1From 1973 to 1990 approximately 370,000 young men in Chile--most of them from impoverished backgrounds--were conscripted to serve as soldiers in Augusto Pinochet's violent regime. Some were brutal enforcers, but many endured physical and psychological abuse, survival and torture training, arbitrary punishments, political persecution,...
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Post Wall, Post Square: How Bush, Gorbachev, Kohl, and Deng Shaped the World After 1989A landmark global history that makes us rethink how the Cold War ended and our present era was born This book offers a bold new interpretation of the revolutions of 1989, showing how a new world order was forged--without major conflict. Based on extensive...
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Wissen, Governance, Recht: Von Der Kognitiven Dimension Des Rechts Zur Rechtlichen Dimension Des WissensAusgangspunkt des Buches ist der Befund, dass moderne Gesellschaften Wissensgesellschaften sind. Fur ihr Funktionieren ist nach allgemeiner Auffassung eine leistungsfahige kognitive Infrastruktur unerlasslich. Bei naherem Hinsehen zeigt sich, dass diese kognitive Infrastruktur von Wissensgesellschaften aus mehreren Elementen besteht, namlich der Erschliessung dezentralisierter Wissensbestande, der...
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Notes from a Derelict CultureThe essays in this book elaborate an overall view of the central predicament confronting the West today: a theologically-inspired terrorist movement, the left-liberal belief-system that dominates the Western sensibility, the plague of political correctness that devitalizes language and obscures truth, and the almost universal...
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The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland2020 Book of the Year - International Labor History AssociationHonorable Mention - Philip Taft Labor History Prize This rich history details the bitter, deep-rooted conflict between industrial behemoth International Harvester and the uniquely radical Farm Equipment Workers union. The Long Deep Grudge makes clear...
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Teaching Liberation: Essays on Social Justice, Animals, Veganism, and EducationAs humankind moves deeper into the Anthropocene, a period marked by climate disruption, species extinction, and profound challenges to human and animal welfare, what and how we teach our children has never been of greater importance. In this passionate, incisive, and diverse collection of...
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Dismantling Democracy: The forty-year attack on government, ....and the long game for the common goodSince the 1970s a constellation of aligned conservative institutions, grassroots issue groups, academics, intellectuals, industry leaders, and politicians has been enormously successful at shifting fundamental attitudes toward government and its basic role in American society. These groups have focused on winning the hearts and...
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The Untold Story of Women of Color in the League of Women VotersOn February 14, 2020, the League of Women Voters of the United States celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding. Although women of color have always made significant contributions to women's suffrage and the women's movements, their contributions, particularly as they relate to the...
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The History of Croatia and SloveniaThe recent histories of Croatia and Slovenia have been relatively stable, as both countries have merged successfully into modern Europe. But how did these countries arrive at such a place? The History of Croatia and Slovenia provides factual overviews of these countries' political systems,...
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Pan-Africanism or Pragmatism. Lessons of the Tanganyika-Zanzibar UnionThe Pan-Africanist debate is back on the historical agenda. The stresses and strains in the union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar since its formation some forty years ago are not showing any sign of abating. Meanwhile, imperialism under new forms and labels continues to bedevil...
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Social Memory, Silenced Voices, and Political Struggle: Remembering the Revolution in ZanzibarThis volume focuses on the cultural memory and mediation of the 1964 Zanzibar revolution, analyzing it's continuing reverberations in everyday life. The revolution constructed new conceptions of community and identity, race and cultural belonging, as well as instituting different ideals of nationhood, citizenship, sovereignty....
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Hard Choices: Challenging the Singapore ConsensusSingapore is changing. The consensus that the PAP government has constructed and maintained over five decades is fraying. The assumptions that underpin Singaporean exceptionalism are no longer accepted as easily and readily as before. Among these are the ideas that the country is uniquely...
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Mau Mau the Revolutionary, Anti-Imperialist Force from Kenya: 1948-1963Very few countries hide or obscure the significance of their most important historical achievements. Kenya has managed to do so without any regrets or even a thought about the implication of such a major oversight in connection with Mau Mau Resistance. The reason for...
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Dedan Kĩmathi Speaks: We will Fight to the Last GunExtensive archives belonging to the Mau Mau were long held by the British and were not made available widely. This book, written by one of the foremost researchers on the Mau Mau, is a result of years of village-level research which also recovered some...
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Kenya's War of Independence: Mau Mau and its Legacy of Resistance to Colonialism and Imperialism, 1948-1990Kenya's War of Independence restores Kenya's stolen history to its rightful place, stripped of colonial interpretations. In this expanded and revised version of his 1986 booklet, Kimaathi, Mau Mau's First Prime Minister of Kenya, Durrani covers Mau Mau's resistance to colonialism and neo-colonialism and...
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