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Aristotle and Xenophon on Democracy and OligarchyThis collection contains: Aristotle's The Constitution of AthensXenophon's The Politeia of the SpartansThe Constitution of the Athenians ascribed to Xenophon the OratorThe Boeotian Constitution from the Oxyrhynchus HistorianIn bringing together, translating, and annotating these constitutional documents from ancient Greece thirty five years ago, J....
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Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social JusticeThe U.S. trade union movement finds itself today on a global battlefield filled with landmines and littered with the bodies of various social movements and struggles. Candid, incisive, and accessible, Solidarity Divided is a critical examination of labor's current crisis and a plan for...
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Radical Ambition: C. Wright Mills, the Left, and American Social ThoughtSociologist, social critic, and political radical C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) was one of the leading public intellectuals in twentieth century America. Offering an important new understanding of Mills and the times in which he lived, Radical Ambition challenges the captivating caricature that has prevailed...
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Guantanamo: A Working-Class History Between Empire and Revolution Volume 25Guantánamo has become a symbol of what has gone wrong in the War on Terror. Yet Guantánamo is more than a U.S. naval base and prison in Cuba, it is a town, and our military occupation there has required more than soldiers and sailors--it...
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Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of HistoryMeticulously researched and tightly argued, Beyond Chutzpah points to a consensus among historians and human rights organizations on the factual record of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Norman G. Finkelstein exposes the corruption of scholarship and the contrivance of controversy shrouding human rights abuses, and interrogates...
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Janitors, Street Vendors, and ActivistsThis highly accessible, engagingly written book exposes the underbelly of California's Silicon Valley, the most successful high-technology region in the world, in a vivid ethnographic study of Mexican immigrants employed in Silicon Valley's low-wage jobs. Christian Zlolniski's on-the-ground investigation demonstrates how global forces have...
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The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974: A Political History Volume 11This study of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) explains in detail how public officials in the executive branch and Congress overcame strong opposition from business and organized labor to pass landmark legislation regulating employer-sponsored retirement and health plans. Before Congress...
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Globalization: Culture and Education in the New MillenniumGlobalization defines our era. While it has created a great deal of debate in economic, policy, and grassroots circles, many aspects of the phenomenon remain virtual terra incognita. Education is at the heart of this continent of the unknown. This pathbreaking book examines how...
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Violence Workers: Police Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazilian AtrocitiesOf the twenty-three Brazilian policemen interviewed in depth for this landmark study, fourteen were direct perpetrators of torture and murder during the three decades that included the 1964-1985 military regime. These "violence workers" and the other group of "atrocity facilitators" who had not, or...
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The Selling of "Free Trade": NAFTA, Washington, and the Subversion of American DemocracyThe Selling of "Free Trade" shows how Washington works to accomplish political or economic goals, even when confronted with widespread popular opposition. John R. MacArthur chronicles the brutal and expensive campaign in 1993 that led to passage of the poorly understood, highly controversial law...
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Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in VietnamIn one of the most detailed and powerfully argued books published on American intervention in Vietnam, Fredrik Logevall examines the last great unanswered question on the war: Could the tragedy have been averted? His answer: a resounding yes. Challenging the prevailing myth that the...
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The Country of Memory: Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam Volume 3The American experience in the Vietnam War has been the subject of a vast body of scholarly work, yet surprisingly little has been written about how the war is remembered by Vietnamese themselves. The Country of Memory fills this gap in the literature by...
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Maneuvers: Intl. Politics of Militarizing Women's LivesManeuvers takes readers on a global tour of the sprawling process called "militarization." With her incisive verve and moxie, eminent feminist Cynthia Enloe shows that the people who become militarized are not just the obvious ones--executives and factory floor workers who make fighter planes,...
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Protectors of Privilege: Red Squads and Police Repression in Urban AmericaThis landmark expos of the dark history of repressive police operations in American cities offers a richly detailed account of police misconduct and violations of protected freedoms over the past century. In an incisive examination of undercover work in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York,...
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The Suitcase: Refugee Voices from Bosnia and CroatiaThe whirlwind of Europe's longest war in half a century has produced this powerful collection of personal narratives--essays, letters, and poems--from refugees fleeing Bosnia and Croatia. Taking us behind the barrage of media coverage, these stories tell of perseverance, brutality, forced departure, exile, and...
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Of Rule and Revenue: Volume 13Margaret Levi's wide-ranging theoretical and historical study demonstrates the importance of political relative to economic factors in accounting for revenue production policies.Author: Margaret LeviPublisher: University of California PressPublished: 08/03/1989Pages: 264Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80dISBN: 9780520067509About the AuthorMargaret Levi is Professor...
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Great Planning DisastersIn this "pathology of planning," Peter Hall briskly recounts the histories of five great planning disasters and two near-disasters and analyzes the decisions of the professional bureaucrats, community activists, and politicians involved in the planning process. He draws on an eclectic body of theory...
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Black Power in South Africa: The Evolution of an Ideology Volume 19"This book, better than any I have seen, provides an understanding of the politics and ideology of orthodox African nationalism, or Black Power, in South Africa since World War II. . . . from the Youth League of the African Student National Congress (ANC)...
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The Politics of Cultural Despair: A Study in the Rise of the Germanic IdeologyThis is a study in the pathology of cultural criticism. By analyzing the thought and influence of three leading critics of modern Germany, this study will demonstrate the dangers and dilemmas of a particular type of cultural despair. Lagarde, Langbehn, and Moeller van den...
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I ObjectAcross millennia, dissent has been an essential ingredient in the development of human civilization, acting as a driving force behind social and political change. In I object, satirist Ian Hislop, along with co-writer Tom Hockenhull, gathers together some 180 objects that people have created,...
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