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The Open Door Era: United States Foreign Policy in the Twentieth CenturyExamines the Open Door, the most influential U.S. foreign policy of the twentieth century In 1899, U.S. Secretary of State John Hay wrote six world powers calling for an 'Open Door' in China that would guarantee equal trading opportunities, curtail colonial annexation, and prevent...
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Archaeology and State Theory: Subjects and Objects of PowerAfter neo-evolutionism, how does one talk about the pre-modern state? Over the past two decades archaeological research has shifted decisively from check-list identifications of the state as an evolutionary type to studies of how power and authority were constituted in specific polities. Developing Gramsci's...
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States and Markets' States and Markets] should be read by every student of international political economy.' - International Relations Theory. Susan Strange was one of the most influential international relations scholars of the latter half of the twentieth century. She is regarded by many as the...
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How I Became a Socialist"How I Became a Socialist" is a 1903 essay by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (1876 - 1916) was an American journalist, novelist, and social activist. He was amongst the first writers of fiction to receive international acclaim and earn a large fortune...
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Marxism vs. Liberalism - An InterviewIn 1934 H. G. Wells visited the Soviet Union, and on the 23rd of July he interviewed Joseph Stalin. Their conversation, which lasted for almost three hours, was recorded by Constantine Oumansky and is here presented. Before publication, the resulting text was approved by...
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Vexed: Ethics Beyond Political TribesIn Vexed, James Mumford tackles the polarization of civil society across the democratic West, taking a fresh look at the existential questions and hot button issues that are an essential part of the politics of the Left and Right. In examining issues like the...
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Where We Are: The State of Britain NowRoger Scruton looks at where Britain has found itself, and ponders where it should go next. Addressing one of the most politically turbulent periods in modern British history, philosopher Roger Scruton asks how, in these circumstances, we can come to define our identity, and...
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Victims and Survivors of Nazi Human Experiments: Science and Suffering in the HolocaustWhile the coerced human experiments are notorious among all the atrocities under National Socialism, they have been marginalised by mainstream historians. This book seeks to remedy the marginalisation, and to place the experiments in the context of the broad history of National Socialism and...
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Lines of Flight: For Another World of PossibilitiesAs an analyst, philosopher and militant, Félix Guattari anticipated decentralized forms of political activism that have become increasingly evident around the world since the events of Seattle in 1999. Lines of Flight offers an exciting introduction to the sometimes difficult and dense thinking of...
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Safety-I and Safety-II: The Past and Future of Safety ManagementSafety has traditionally been defined as a condition where the number of adverse outcomes was as low as possible (Safety-I). From a Safety-I perspective, the purpose of safety management is to make sure that the number of accidents and incidents is kept as low...
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Patronising Bastards: How the Elites Betrayed BritainFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author of 50 People Who Buggered Up Britain, Quentin Letts, comes his blistering new book on how Britain's out-of-touch, illiberal elite fills its boots. 'HILARIOUS' Daily Mail 'With its vicious takedowns, Quentin Letts' laugh-out-loud Patronising Bastards will have the...
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The Foreign Policy AuctionU.S. foreign policy is being sold; not just altered, shifted, manipulated, or influenced - sold. Every single day the agents of foreign governments work to not only monitor U.S. foreign policy, but to actively change and even create it. They meet with policymakers, donate...
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The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United StatesNearly three thousand people died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In Lower Manhattan, on a field in Pennsylvania, and along the banks of the Potomac, the United States suffered the single largest loss of life from an enemy attack on its...
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Marxism in Plain and Simple English: The Theory of Marxism in a Way Anyone Can UnderstandFew other ideologies have effected the world quite like Marxism. On the surface it is a good idea paved with good intentions--so what happened? How did Marxism turn into Communism? To understand that, you may need a little help. This book offers a look...
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Opening the Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian ExclusionOver the course of less than a century, the U.S. transformed from a nation that excluded Asians from immigration and citizenship to one that receives more immigrants from Asia than from anywhere else in the world. Yet questions of how that dramatic shift took...
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Making Machu Picchu: The Politics of Tourism in Twentieth-Century PeruSpeaking at a 1913 National Geographic Society gala, Hiram Bingham III, the American explorer celebrated for finding the "lost city" of the Andes two years earlier, suggested that Machu Picchu "is an awful name, but it is well worth remembering." Millions of travelers have...
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Racial Taxation: Schools, Segregation, and Taxpayer Citizenship, 1869-1973In the United States, it is quite common to lay claim to the benefits of society by appealing to "taxpayer citizenship--the idea that, as taxpayers, we deserve access to certain social services like a public education. Tracing the genealogy of this concept, Camille Walsh...
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The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980sFor a generation, Alan M. Wald's The New York Intellectuals has stood as the authoritative account of an often misunderstood chapter in the history of a celebrated tradition among literary radicals in the United States. His passionate investigation of over half a century of...
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The Power and Politics of Art in Postrevolutionary MexicoStephanie J. Smith brings Mexican politics and art together, chronicling the turbulent relations between radical artists and the postrevolutionary Mexican state. The revolution opened space for new political ideas, but by the late 1920s many government officials argued that consolidating the nation required coercive...
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The F Street Mess: How Southern Senators Rewrote the Kansas-Nebraska ActPushing back against the idea that the Slave Power conspiracy was merely an ideological construction, Alice Elizabeth Malavasic argues that some southern politicians in the 1850s did indeed hold an inordinate amount of power in the antebellum Congress and used it to foster the...
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