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On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, GeographyA collection of previously untranslated writings by Henri Lefebvre on rural sociology, situating his research in relation to wider Marxist work On the Rural is the first English collection to translate Lefebvre's crucial but lesser-known writings on rural sociology and political economy, presenting a...
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How Trump and the Christian Right Saved Lgbti Human Rights: A Religious Freedom MysteryDuring the Obama administration, Christian conservatives insisted that securing human rights for LGBTI people abroad diminished human rights protections for people of faith. During the 2016 presidential election, the Christian right backed Donald Trump and demanded an end to sexual orientation and gender identity...
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Suburban Empire: Cold War Militarization in the Us Pacific Volume 64Suburban Empire takes readers to the US missile base at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, at the matrix of postwar US imperial expansion, the Cold War nuclear arms race, and the tide of anti-colonial struggles rippling across the world. Hirshberg shows that the...
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Multilateral Sanctions Revisited: Lessons Learned from Margaret DoxeySanctions are back with a vengeance with new objectives, measures, challenges, and opportunities. Shaping the thinking of generations of scholars, Canadian visionary Margaret Doxey anticipated and analyzed these issues, making now the time to rediscover her seminal lessons and apply them to emerging sanctions...
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Capitalism in the Anthropocene: Ecological Ruin or Ecological RevolutionOver the last 11,700 years, during which human civilization developed, the earth has existed within what geologists refer to as the Holocene Epoch. Now science is telling us that the Holocene Epoch in the geological time scale ended, replaced by the onset of a...
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Let the People Rule: How Direct Democracy Can Meet the Populist ChallengeHow referendums can diffuse populist tensions by putting power back into the hands of the people Propelled by the belief that government has slipped out of the hands of ordinary citizens, a surging wave of populism is destabilizing democracies around the world. As John...
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Jewish Lives Under Communism: New PerspectivesThis volume provides new, groundbreaking views of Jewish life in various countries of the pro-Soviet bloc from the end of the Second World War until the collapse of Communism in late 1989. The authors, twelve leading historians and anthropologists from Europe, Israel and the...
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Freedom on the Offensive: Human Rights, Democracy Promotion, and Us Interventionism in the Late Cold WarIn Freedom on the Offensive, William Michael Schmidli illuminates how the Reagan administration's embrace of democracy promotion was a defining development in US foreign relations in the late twentieth century. Reagan used democracy promotion to refashion the bipartisan Cold War consensus that had collapsed...
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Blue Labour: The Politics of the Common GoodLabour has been on a wild ride over the past thirty years. New Labour argued that we had no choice but to accept a globalized free market economy in which the race was to the swift, the open and the flexible. Corbynism reacted against...
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UtopiaThomas More, a 16th century English lawyer, statesman, and philosopher, was one of the most controversial figures of his time. More opposed the Protestant reformation and denied the King's position as head of the Church of England. This act would ultimately lead to his...
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Local Interests: Politics, Policy, and Interest Groups in Us City GovernmentsA policy-focused approach to understanding the role of interest groups in US municipal governments. Local politics in the United States once seemed tranquil compared to the divisiveness and dysfunction of the country's national politics. Those days have passed. As multiple wide-ranging crises have thrust...
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PsicopoliticaByung-Chul Han continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault's biopower, has discovered the productive force of the psyche. Han elaborates a framework that provides an original theory of Big Data and a lucid phenomenology...
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Perfect Imbalance: China and RussiaPerfect Imbalance seeks to answer one of the most important outstanding questions in twenty-first century politics: how close are Putin's Russia and Xi's China?Written by a scholar fluent in both Chinese and Russian, this book examines the current China-Russia partnership from several perspectives. First,...
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Unequal Encounters: A Reader in Early Latin American Political ThoughtThis volume presents a selection of the most compelling political writings from early colonial Latin America that address the themes of conquest, colonialism, and enslavement. It will be invaluable for students and scholars of Latin American political thought and other fields in the social...
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Spearheading Environmental Change: The Legacy of Indiana Congressman Floyd J. FithianSpearheading Environmental Change: The Legacy of Indiana Congressman Floyd J. Fithian describes the life of a four-term United States congressman, focusing on his role in the emerging environmental movement in late twentieth-century America. Spearheading Environmental Change highlights Fithian's legislative efforts regarding three water-related issues...
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I Led 3 Lives: Citizen, Communist, CounterspyThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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The Jacaranda TreeThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Carceral Afterlives: Prisons, Detention, and Punishment in Postcolonial UgandaDrawing upon social history, political history, and critical prison studies, this book analyzes how prisons and other instruments of colonial punishment endured after independence and challenges their continued existence.In Carceral Afterlives, Katherine Bruce-Lockhart traces the politics, practices, and lived experiences of incarceration in postcolonial...
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Homegrown Hate: Why White Nationalists and Militant Islamists Are Waging War Against the United StatesCHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2022 To better understand current events and threats, this book outlines the organizations and beliefs of domestic terrorists in the United States and how to counter their attacks on American democracy. Who are the American citizens--White nationalists and militant Islamists--perpetrating...
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When Hope and History Rhyme: Natural Law and Human Rights from Ancient Greece to Modern America"A study of how the struggle over natural law and human rights has transformed the relationship between state and citizen from antiquity to the present"--Author: Douglas BurgessPublisher: ImaginePublished: 03/08/2022Pages: 304Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.30dISBN: 9781623545062Review Citation(s): Library Journal 03/11/2022 pg....
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