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Culture in the Third Reich'It's like being in a dream', commented Joseph Goebbels when he visited Nazi-occupied Paris in the summer of 1940. Dream and reality did indeed intermingle in the culture of the Third Reich, racialist fantasies and spectacular propaganda set-pieces contributing to this atmosphere alongside more...
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The Politics of Humiliation: A Modern HistoryIn a brilliant procession through the last 250 years, Ute Frevert looks at the role that public humiliation has played in modern society, showing how humiliation - and the feeling of shame that it engenders - has been used as a means of coercion...
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A Change Is Gonna Come: How to Have Effective Political Conversations in a Divided AmericaGet your head out of your @*&. Snowflake. Stupid liberal. Ignorant conservative. There is much discussion today about the decline in civility in American politics. Couple this phenomenon with the fracturing and hardening of political attitudes, and one might wonder how deliberative democracy, much...
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How Constitutional Rights MatterDoes constitutionalizing rights improve respect for those rights in practice? Drawing on statistical analyses, survey experiments, and case studies from around the world, this book argues that enforcing constitutional rights is not easy, but that some rights are harder to repress than others. First,...
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In the Name of HistoryIn this book Joan Wallach Scott discusses the role history has played as an arbiter of right and wrong and of those who claim to act in its name--"in the name of history." Scott investigates three different instances in which repudiation of the past...
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Modern Central Asia: A Primary Source ReaderModern Central Asia: A Primary Source Reader is an academic resource that discusses the basic political, social, and economic evolution of Central Asian civilization in its colonial (1731-1991) and post-colonial (1991-present) periods. Among other aspects of Central Asian history, this source reader discusses resistance...
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Bureaucracy, Work and Violence: The Reich Ministry of Labour in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945Work played a central role in Nazi ideology and propaganda, and even today there remain some who still emphasize the supposedly positive aspects of the regime's labor policies, ignoring the horrific and inhumane conditions they produced. This definitive volume provides, for the first time,...
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Martin McGuinness:: The Man I KnewIn Martin McGuinness, The Man I Knew, Jude Collins offers the reader a range of perspectives on a man who helped shape Ireland's recent history. Those who knew Martin McGuinness during his life talk frankly about him, what he did and said, what sort...
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The Great Ron Paul: The Scott Horton Show Interviews 2004-2019In this great collection of interviews, spanning 15 years between 2004 and 2019, libertarian visionary and former congressman Dr. Ron Paul explains the truth about America's disastrous wars, destructive monetary system and continued erosion of liberty in the 21st century, as well as promoting...
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Conspiracy Theories: A PrimerConspiracy theories are a part of the human condition. Everyone believes at least one, but given the number of conspiracy theories, it is more likely that everyone believes a few. Some people have a worldview defined by them. Conspiracy theories are just another reminder...
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The Stormy Present: Conservatism and the Problem of Slavery in Northern Politics, 1846-1865In this engaging and nuanced political history of Northern communities in the Civil War era, Adam I. P. Smith offers a new interpretation of the familiar story of the path to war and ultimate victory. Smith looks beyond the political divisions between abolitionist Republicans...
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Gathering to Save a Nation: Lincoln and the Union's War GovernorsIn this rich study of Union governors and their role in the Civil War, Stephen D. Engle examines how these politicians were pivotal in securing victory. In a time of limited federal authority, governors were an essential part of the machine that maintained the...
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Secrets and Lies in Vietnam: Spies, Intelligence and Covert Operations in the Vietnam WarsThe Vietnam War lasted twenty years, and was the USA's greatest military failure. An attempt to stem the spread of Soviet and Chinese influence, the conflict in practice created a chaotic state torn apart by espionage, terrorism and guerilla warfare. American troops quickly became...
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Routledge Handbook of Public DiplomacyThe second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy, co-edited by two leading scholars in the international relations subfield of public diplomacy, includes 16 more chapters from the first. Ten years later, a new global landscape of public diplomacy has taken shape, with...
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Political Leadership in Africa: Leaders and Development South of the SaharaDo political leaders matter for development in Africa? Political leaders south of the Sahara have taken centre stage since countries in the region gained independence in the 1960s, yet a 'leadership trap' soon emerged with power-holders overstaying in office and chronic instability caused by...
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Street Commerce: Creating Vibrant Urban SidewalksA comprehensive analysis of the issues involved in planning for and facilitating successful street commerce Street commerce has gained prominence in urban areas, where demographic shifts such as increasing numbers of single people and childless empty nesters, along with technological innovations enabling greater flexibility...
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Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy After ReconstructionHow southern members of Congress remade the United States in their own image after the Civil War No question has loomed larger in the American experience than the role of the South. Southern Nation examines how southern members of Congress shaped national public policy...
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Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be HappyHow happiness became mandatory--and why we should reject the demand to "be happy" Happiness today is not just a possibility or an option but a requirement and a duty. To fail to be happy is to fail utterly. Happiness has become a religion--one whose...
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Keys to the City: How Economics, Institutions, Social Interaction, and Politics Shape DevelopmentWhy do some cities grow economically while others decline? Why do some show sustained economic performance while others cycle up and down? In Keys to the City, Michael Storper, one of the world's leading economic geographers, looks at why we should consider economic development...
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Totalitarianism and PhilosophyWhen Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin first came to power in the 1930s, their regimes were considered by many to represent a new and perplexing phenomenon. They were labelled 'totalitarian'. But is 'totalitarianism' genuinely new, or is the word just another name for something old...
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