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Toward Nuclear Abolition: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1971-PresentToward Nuclear Abolition presents the inspiring, dramatic story of how citizen activists helped curb the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war.Author: Lawrence S. WittnerPublisher: Stanford University PressPublished: 08/06/2003Pages: 688Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.06lbsSize: 9.12h x 6.00w x 1.47dISBN: 9780804748629About the AuthorLawrence S. Wittner is...
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The Sovereignty RevolutionThe Sovereignty Revolution is the late Senator Alan Cranston's analysis of the problems created by our current conception of sovereignty, with every nation supreme inside its own borders and acknowledging no master outside them. As such, it is the last testament of a senior...
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Willing Obedience: Citizens, Soldiers, and the Progress of Consent in America, 1776-1898This book highlights obedience as an American cultural motif by examining the ways in which citizens understand and dramatize the struggle between autonomy and allegiance. Willing Obedience tells the story of Americans who worked out the simultaneous demands of liberty and obedience in fiction,...
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Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of MemoryMemory of historical trauma has a unique power to generate works of art. This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New York--three late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted major social or political traumas....
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Asian Security Order: Instrumental and Normative FeaturesMore than a decade has passed since the end of the Cold War, but Asia still faces serious security challenges. These include the current security environment in the Korean peninsula, across the Taiwan Strait, and over Kashmir, the danger of nuclear and missile proliferation,...
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Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950The Chinese Civil War was one of the key conflicts of the twentieth century. The Communist victory determined Chinese history for several generations, and defined international relations in East Asia during the Cold War and after. Despite its importance and scope--its battles were the...
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Flawed by Design: The Evolution of the Cia, Jcs, and NscIn this provocative and thoughtful book, Amy Zegart challenges the conventional belief that national security agencies work reasonably well to serve the national interest as they were designed to do. Using a new institutionalist approach, Zegart asks what forces shaped the initial design of...
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Global Transformations: Politics, Economics, and CultureIn this book, the authors set forth a new model of globalization that lays claims to supersede existing models, and then use this model to assess the way the processes of globalization have operated in different historic periods in respect to political organization, military...
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The Sinner and the Amnesiac: The Rabbinic Invention of Elisha Ben Abuya and Eleazar Ben ArachThis is a detailed study of two intriguing figures in early rabbinic literature, shown to be products of the literary creativity of rabbinic storytellers who convey a particular ideology through the image of the rabbinic heroes they portray: Elisha ben Abuya, considered as apostate...
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Black Holes: Boustrophedonic ReadingThis innovative work sets two texts by two different authors on facing pages, designed so that they read in tandem-Miller's text on the right, Asensi's on the left. Miller analyzes the changes in the contemporary research university in the West; Asensi provides the first...
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Zarathustra's Dionysian ModernismIn arguing that Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a philosophical explanation of the possibility of modernism--that is, of the possibility of radical cultural change through the creation of new values--the author shows that literary fiction can do the work of philosophy. Nietzsche takes up...
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Alignment Despite Antagonism: The United States-Korea-Japan Security TriangleJapan and the Republic of Korea (ROK) have been two of the most critical pillars of peace, stability, and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region for the past thirty years. At the same time, their relationship has fluctuated markedly and unpredictably. Despite the existence of...
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Consuming Anxieties: Consumer Protest, Gender & British Slavery, 1713-1833Boycotts are so commonplace these days that one hardly notices them, and yet they have a fascinating history, one closely connected to the growth of the British Empire and the birth of a consumer society. Consuming Anxieties asks why this mode of political protest...
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Informal Politics: Street Vendors and the State in Mexico CityAs economic crises struck the Third World in the 1970s and 1980s, large segments of the population turned to the informal economy to survive. Though this phenomenon has previously been analyzed from a strictly economic point of view, this book looks at street vending...
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Why Vietnam Invaded Cambodia: Political Culture and the Causes of WarOn December 25, 1978, the armed forces of Vietnam launched a full-scale invasion of Cambodia. That event marked a turning point in the first and only extended war fought between two communist regimes. The Vietnamese forced out Pol Pot's Khmers Rouge regime from its...
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Dancing in Chains': Narrative and Memory in Political TheoryPhilosophy is often depicted as generically distinct from literature, myth, and history, as a discipline that eschews narration and relies exclusively on abstract reason. This book takes issue with that assumption, arguing instead that political philosophers have commonly presented their readers with a narrative,...
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World in Fragments: Writings on Politics, Society, Psychoanalysis, and the ImaginationThis collection presents a broad and compelling overview of the most recent work by a world-renowned figure in contemporary thought. Starting from an inquiry that grows out of the specific context of a society that is experiencing uncertainty as to its ways of living...
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Marxism and the Leap to the Kingdom of Freedom: The Rise and Fall of the Communist UtopiaThis book reconstructs Marx and Engels's theory of freedom, highlights its centrality to their vision of the communist society of the future, traces its development in the history of Marxist thought (including Marxism-Leninism), and explains how it was transformed into a legitimation of totalitarian...
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Cultures in Conflict: Encounters Between European and Non-European Cultures, 1492-1800Focusing on the cultural encounters between European explorers and non-European peoples, the author reconstructs the experiences of both sides in case studies that span five continents.Author: Urs BitterliPublisher: Stanford University PressPublished: 06/01/1993Pages: 222Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 9.04h x 6.05w x 0.57dISBN: 9780804721769
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Report from XunwuLong described as lost, this report was the result of Mao Zedong's investigation in 1930 of the people, economy, society, and history of the obscure rural county of Xunwu in South China. An extraordinary document that far exceeds in scope and depth Mao's other...
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