Political Science
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Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919Turning from more traditional modes of historical inquiry, Korea Between Empires explores the formative influence of language and social discourse on conceptions of nationalism, national identity, and the nation-state.Author: Andre SchmidPublisher: Columbia University PressPublished: 07/17/2002Pages: 480Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.30w x 0.97dISBN:...
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Transforming America: Politics and Culture During the Reagan YearsBy the end of the 1980s, the "malaise" that had once pervaded American society was replaced by a renewed sense of confidence and national purpose. However, beneath this veneer of optimism was a nation confronting the effects of massive federal deficits, a reckless foreign...
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Parchment, Printing, and Hypermedia: Communication and World Order TransformationInterweaving media theory and historical analysis, this book explores the effect new digital-telecommunication technologies, which Deibert calls hypermedia, will have on the distribution of political power in the next century. Deibert tracks the transformation of Europe from the medieval to the modern and then...
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Sex Among Allies: Military Prostitution in U.S.-Korea RelationsThis study examines and illuminates how the lives of Korean prostitutes in the 1970s served as the invisible underpinnings to US-Korean military policies at the highest level.Author: Katharine MoonPublisher: Columbia University PressPublished: 09/11/1997Pages: 336Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 8.97h x 5.91w x 0.54dISBN: 9780231106436About the...
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Post-Soviet Russia: A Journey Through the Yeltsin EraRoy Medvedev, one of the world's best-known Russian scholars and a former consultant to both Gorbachev and Yeltsin analyzes the main events that have transpired in the Russian federation since late August 1991. He looks at the plans that were meant to restructure a...
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Strangers to OurselvesKristeva begins with the personal and moves outward by examining world literature and philosophy. She discusses the foreigner in Greek tragedy, in the Bible, and in the literature of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Enlightenment, and the twentieth century.Author: Julia KristevaPublisher: Columbia University PressPublished: 06/10/1991Pages:...
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Marxism: An Historical and Critical StudyMarxism presents an authoritative, analytic survey of the course of Marxism, from its origins in the late eighteenth century through the post-World War II period. A classic of political history, this work is the culminating achievement of one of the leading historians of socialism.Author:...
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Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African OilEach week the oil and gas fields of sub-Saharan Africa produce well over a billion dollars' worth of oil, an amount that far exceeds development aid to the entire African continent. Yet the rising tide of oil money is not promoting stability and development,...
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Why Public Service Matters: Public Managers, Public Policy, and DemocracyWhy Public Service Matters conveys the importance, purpose, and nobility of a career as a civil servant in the United States. It does so, however, with an unflinching eye on the realpolitik that drives public administration in America's "compensatory stateAuthor: R. DurantPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublished:...
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Planning in the UK: An IntroductionThis accessible text introduces the history, theory and key issues of planning. It is designed to give those new to the subject, both planning and non-planning students, a concise overview of the whole field.Author: Clara GreedPublisher: Bloomsbury AcademicPublished: 11/03/2014Pages: 392Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.65lbsSize: 9.60h...
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Sport Politics: An IntroductionThis innovative new text examines sport's relationship with politics and argues that sport has always been political, even as far back as antiquity. However, in the last 30 years there has been an unprecedented politicization of sport through increasing government intervention. Jonathan Grix takes...
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Issues and Actors in the Global Political EconomyA major new text on contemporary global political economy that focuses centrally on key issues and actors. Concise and accessibly written, it provides an ideal introduction to the contemporary dynamics and processes of change in the global political economy.Author: André BroomePublisher: Red Globe PressPublished:...
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The Legitimation of PowerThe new edition of this classic text provides a comprehensive introduction to the concept of legitimacy as applied to political systems. Now addressing the issue of legitimacy beyond the state, the book also includes a new introduction and two major additional chapters which update...
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Save Your City: How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do About It"Save Your City is an inspired and powerful must-read. Our democracy is in peril and this book delivers the right message, by the right person, at the right time." --IRA BASEN, CBC RadioToxic culture is eroding our sense of belonging, community and well-being. Our...
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Why the American Century?Reinterpreting our country's rise to world power, Olivier Zunz shows how American elites appropriated the twentieth century. Policymakers, corporate managers, engineers, scientists, and social scientists promoted a social contract of abundance and a controversial theory of pluralism. Their efforts created a model of middle...
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A Study of WarLouis Leonard Wright's abridgment of this classic work reorganizes some of Wright's material and deletes footnotes and appendixes, but still retains the power and impact of the original. The most comprehensive work ever published in any language on the history, the nature, the causes,...
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The New Welfare Bureaucrats: Entanglements of Race, Class, and Policy ReformAs the recession worsens, more and more Americans must turn to welfare to make ends meet. Once inside the agency, the newly jobless will face a bureaucracy that has undergone massive change since the advent of welfare reform in 1996. A behind-the-scenes look at...
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Forever Open, Clear, and Free: The Struggle for Chicago's LakefrontOf the thirty miles of Lake Michigan shoreline within the city limits of Chicago, twenty-four miles is public park land. The crown jewels of its park system, the lakefront parks bewitch natives and visitors alike with their brisk winds, shady trees, sandy beaches, and...
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Thoughts on MachiavelliLeo Strauss argued that the most visible fact about Machiavelli's doctrine is also the most useful one: Machiavelli seems to be a teacher of wickedness. Strauss sought to incorporate this idea in his interpretation without permitting it to overwhelm or exhaust his exegesis of...
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Political Thought and Political ThinkersEthics described Judith Shklar as a towering presence at Harvard for decades, an influential teacher and mentor to many of the best known political theorists working today in the United States. One of this century's most important liberal scholars, she is remembered for her...
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