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Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation Through Popular CultureExamines how popular media and culture provided ordinary Egyptians with a framework to construct and negotiate a modern national identity.Author: Ziad FahmyPublisher: Stanford University PressPublished: 05/31/2011Pages: 264Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70dISBN: 9780804772129Review Citation(s): Reference and Research Bk News 10/01/2011 pg....
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Collective Action and Exchange: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Contemporary Political EconomyIn Collective Action and Exchange: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Contemporary Political Economy, William D. Ferguson presents a comprehensive political economy text aimed at advanced undergraduates in economics and graduate students in the social sciences. The text utilizes collective action as a unifying concept, arguing...
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Allies Yet Rivals: International Politics in 18th Century EuropeAlliances are characterized by an inherent struggle for power between the allies themselves to deal with a common external enemy. Yet diplomatic history clearly shows that, at the best of times, this cooperative dimension is only one of the many aspects in play: alongside...
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Inside Nuclear South AsiaNuclear-armed adversaries India and Pakistan have fought three wars since their creation as sovereign states in 1947. They went to the brink of a fourth in 2001 following an attack on the Indian parliament, which the Indian government blamed on the Pakistan-backed Lashkar-e-Taiba and...
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Envisioning America: New Chinese Americans and the Politics of BelongingEnvisioning America is a groundbreaking and richly detailed study of how naturalized Chinese living in Southern California become highly involved civic and political actors. Like other immigrants to the United States, their individual life stories are of survival, becoming, and belonging. But unlike any...
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Political Conflict and Economic Interdependence Across the Taiwan Strait and BeyondWhy is it that political conflict between countries sometimes undermines commerce between those states, and yet at other times it seems to have little or no effect on cross-border economic flows? The question is an important one, yet, while numerous studies have considered how...
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Gendered Trajectories: Women, Work, and Social Change in Japan and TaiwanGendered Trajectories explores why industrial societies vary in the pace at which they reduce gender inequality and compares changes in women's employment opportunities in Japan and Taiwan over the last half-century. Japan has undergone much less improvement in women's economic status than Taiwan, despite...
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The Permanent Tax Revolt: How the Property Tax Transformed American PoliticsTax cuts are such a pervasive feature of the American political landscape that the political establishment rarely questions them. Since 2001, Congress has abolished the tax on inherited wealth and passed a major income tax cut every year, including two of the three largest...
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Remaking Citizenship: Latina Immigrants and New American PoliticsStanding at the intersection of immigration and welfare reform, immigrant Latin American women are the target of special scrutiny in the United States. Both the state and the media often present them as scheming welfare queens or long-suffering, silent victims of globalization and machismo....
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The Co-Presidency of Bush and CheneyThe Bush administration is out but the American public continues to suffer from its disastrous domestic and foreign policies. In this excellently documented work, presidential scholar Shirley Anne Warshaw offers an in-depth analysis and exploration of the political maneuvering that got us into our...
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Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament MovementConfronting the Bomb tells the dramatic, inspiring story of how citizen activism helped curb the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war. This abbreviated version of Lawrence Wittner's award-winning trilogy, The Struggle Against the Bomb, shows how a worldwide, grassroots campaign--the largest social movement...
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Paradise Plundered: Fiscal Crisis and Governance Failures in San DiegoThe early 21st century has not been kind to California's reputation for good government. But the Golden State's governance flaws reflect worrisome national trends with origins in the 1970s and 1980s. Growing voter distrust with government, a demand for services but not taxes to...
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Identifying Threats and Threatening Identities: The Social Construction of Realism and LiberalismAuthor: David L. RousseauPublisher: Stanford University PressPublished: 08/08/2006Pages: 296Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.57lbsSize: 10.32h x 7.24w x 0.88dISBN: 9780804754156Review Citation(s): Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2006 pg. 198About the AuthorDavid L. Rousseau teaches in the Department of Political Science at SUNY Albany. He is author...
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National Security and Immigration: Policy Development in the United States and Western Europe Since 1945This book describes how the external and internal security interests of the state have shaped the timing and form of immigration and border policies in the United States and Western Europe since 1945.Author: Christopher RudolphPublisher: Stanford University PressPublished: 06/21/2006Pages: 288Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 9.10h...
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Bloody Saturday in the Soviet Union: Novocherkassk, 1962This is the first complete story, long hidden by the Soviet Union, of the attack by government forces on striking workers in 1962, resulting in 21 dead and hundreds of others wounded or imprisoned. Only with the advent of glasnost in the 1980s did...
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Plea Bargaining's Triumph: A History of Plea Bargaining in AmericaThough originally an interloper in a system of justice mediated by courtroom battles, plea bargaining now dominates American criminal justice. This book traces the evolution of plea bargaining from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century to its present pervasive role. Through the first...
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Separation of Powers in PracticeEach branch of American government possesses inherent advantages and disadvantages in structure. In this book, the author relies on a separation-of-powers analysis that emphasizes the advantage of the legislature to draft precise words to fit intended situations, the judiciary's advantage of being able to...
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Balance of Power: Theory and Practice in the 21st CenturySince the 16th century, balance of power politics have profoundly influenced international relations. But in recent years--with the sudden disappearance of the Soviet Union, growing power of the United States, and increasing prominence of international institutions--many scholars have argued that balance of power theory...
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Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, and the Emergence of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1868-1922This book explores the political emergence of the Imperial Japanese Navy between 1868 and 1922. It fundamentally challenges the popular notion that the navy was a 'silent, ' apolitical service. Politics, particularly budgetary politics, became the primary domestic focus--if not the overriding preoccupation--of Japan's...
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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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