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Heart Like a Fakir: General Sir James Abbott and the Fall of the East India CompanyHeart Like a Fakir is a history of the final forty years of British East India Company rule in India as witnessed by General Sir James Abbott (1807-1896), the man for whom the Pakistani town of Abbottabad is named. Based on extensive research into...
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In Search of Monsters to Destroy: The Folly of American Empire and the Paths to Peace"With In Search of Monsters to Destroy, Christopher Coyne offers readers a crisp, concise, and devastating indictment of American imperialism. His provocative proposal for a nonviolent 'polycentric' approach to national security comes as a welcome bonus." --Andrew J. Bacevich, President and Chairman of the...
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All Is Not Lost: 20 Ways to Revolutionize DisasterPublisher: Beacon PressPublished: 09/01/2022Binding Type: MP3 CDWeight: 0.10lbsISBN: 9781666613353
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The Politics of Digital Pharmacology: Exploring the Craft of Collective CarePublisher: Transcript PublishingPublished: 01/31/2023Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9783837662498
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Practical Issues of European Social Security Law: A Dialogue Between Academia and PractitionersPublisher: Ibidem PressPublished: 11/22/2022Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.60w x 0.60dISBN: 9783838217062
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Plutarch's Prism: Classical Reception and Public Humanism in France and England, 1500-1800Throughout the early modern period, political theorists in France and England drew on the works of Plutarch to offer advice to kings and princes. Elizabeth I herself translated Plutarch in her later years, while Jacques Amyot's famous translations of Plutarch's The Parallel Lives led...
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Alternative Approaches to Human Rights: The Disparate Historical Paths of the European, Inter-American and African Regional Human Rights SystemsThis book explores the comparative historical evolution of the European, Inter-American and African regional human rights systems. The book devotes attention to various factors that have shaped the systems: the different circumstances in which they were founded; the influence of major states and inter-state...
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Subcontinental Drift: Domestic Politics and India's Foreign PolicyHow domestic constraints hamper India's foreign policy and its potential as a superpowerOne of the most important developments in today's changing international system is the emergence of India as a rising power. However, Rajesh Basrur finds that India is hobbled by serious domestic constraints....
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The Politics of Place: Montesquieu, Particularism, and the Pursuit of LibertyThis critical reexamination of Montesquieu's political science reveals that place is a primary factor in the development of the best political order. Many Enlightenment thinkers sought to discover the right political order for all times and all places, and scholars often view Montesquieu as...
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Becoming Home: Diaspora and the Anglophone Transnational"Becoming Home: Diaspora and the Anglophone Transnational" is a collection of essays exploring national identity, migration, exile, colonialism, postcolonialism, slavery, race, and gender in the literature of the Anglophone world. The volume focuses on the dispersion or scattering of people in exile, and how...
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Our Constitutional Republic: A Trilogy: Seed of Birth, Destruction and RestorationWhat more can be said about a book than that all Americans should read and think about it? In this time of challenges for America, here is a reasonable, readable, passionate, balanced book telling the tale of our nation's meaning from before its founding...
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Cuba's Digital Revolution: Citizen Innovation and State PolicyA wide-ranging examination of the ways digital technologies are impacting Cuba's Revolutionary project The triumph of the Cuban Revolution gave the Communist Party a monopoly over both politics and the mass media. However, with the subsequent global proliferation of new information and communication technologies,...
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Architecture and Politics in Africa: Making, Living and Imagining Identities Through BuildingsInnovative study of state politics, identity and buildings that sheds new light on the links between the material and the ideational realms of contemporary life in Africa. Buildings shape politics in the ways they define communities, enable economic activity, reflect political ideas, and impact...
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Handbook of Revolutions in the 21st Century: The New Waves of Revolutions, and the Causes and Effects of Disruptive Political ChangeThe 21st century has witnessed a considerable and increasing number of political revolutions around the world. This contradicts the popular belief of many experts in the 1970s that revolutions occurred mainly in monarchies and empires. Instead, the revolutions of this century have several new...
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Borderland: Decolonizing the Words of WarEvery two seconds a person is displaced, caught in one of the more than 40 active conflicts around the world that show no sign of ending. Since 1994, there has been ongoing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has uprooted millions of...
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Contemporary State BuildingAuthor: Gustavo A. Flores-MacíasPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 05/25/2022Pages: 220Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63dISBN: 9781316515129This title is not returnable
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Postcolonial Surveillance: Europe's Border Technologies Between Colony and CrisisPostcolonial Surveillance investigates the long history of the European border regime, focusing on the colonial forerunners of today's border technologies. The book takes a longue durée perspective to uncover how Europe's colonial history continues to shape the high-tech political present and has morphed into...
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HorizonsLiaisons is an international editorial collective that gathers experiences from struggles around the world. For our second book, Horizons, we asked comrades whether it's still possible to envision revolution today, and to what extent classical notions of revolution might need to be rethought. Our...
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Unsheltered Love: Homelessness, Hunger and Hope in a City Under SiegeA story about hope and how every one of us can make a difference.Unsheltered Love is a first-hand reported account of how the pandemic greatly exacerbated an already dire homelessness situation in New York City. In March 2020, the usually crowded streets of Midtown...
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The Regional Impacts on Turkey's Zero Problems with Neighbors Policy towards Iraqi KurdistanThe combination of the war in Syria and the rise of ISIS has increased the role of non-state actors in the Middle East politics. This is of particular concern for Turkey, on account of its long-standing concerns regarding Kurdish nationalism, particularly after the Syrian...
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