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Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the Decade After World War ICharles Maier, one of the most prominent contemporary scholars of European history, published Recasting Bourgeois Europe as his first book in 1975. Based on extensive archival research, the book examines how European societies progressed from a moment of social vulnerability to one of political...
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The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of NationsExplaining--and solving--the oil curse in the developing world Countries that are rich in petroleum have less democracy, less economic stability, and more frequent civil wars than countries without oil. What explains this oil curse? And can it be fixed? In this groundbreaking analysis, Michael...
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Running Randomized Evaluations: A Practical GuideA comprehensive guide to running randomized impact evaluations of social programs in developing countries This book provides a comprehensive yet accessible guide to running randomized impact evaluations of social programs. Drawing on the experience of researchers at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab,...
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This Side of Peace: A Personal AccountFrom the world-recognized leader of the Palestinians comes an inside view of Arafat and of the secret negotiations and last-minute decisions that led to the Oslo Peace Talks. An insider's view of Mideast diplomacy, the PLO hierarchy, and the author's own life reveals Hanan...
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Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal CourthouseCourtroom 302 is the fascinating story of one year in Chicago's Cook County Criminal Courthouse, the busiest felony courthouse in the country. Here we see the system through the eyes of the men and women who experience it, not only in the courtroom but...
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The Right to PrivacyCan the police strip-search a woman who has been arrested for a minor traffic violation? Can a magazine publish an embarrassing photo of you without your permission? Does your boss have the right to read your email? Can a company monitor its employees' off-the-job...
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Inventing the Immigration Problem: The Dillingham Commission and Its LegacyIn 1907 the U.S. Congress created a joint commission to investigate what many Americans saw as a national crisis: an unprecedented number of immigrants flowing into the United States. Experts--women and men trained in the new field of social science--fanned out across the country...
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Why Hitler Came Into PowerIn 1934 Theodore Abel went to Germany and offered a prize, under the auspices of Columbia University, for autobiographies of members of the National Socialist movement. The six hundred essays he received constitute the single best source on grassroots opinion within the Nazi Party,...
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On Reading the ConstitutionOur Constitution speaks in general terms of "liberty" and "property," of the "privileges and immunities" of citizens, and of the "equal protection of the laws"--open-ended phrases that seem to invite readers to reflect in them their own visions and agendas. Yet, recognizing that the...
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Judaism, Human Values, and the Jewish StateA biochemist by profession, a polymath by inclination and erudition, Yeshayahu Leibowitz has been, since the early 1940s, one of the most incisive and controversial critics of Israeli culture and politics. His direct involvement, compelling polemics, and trenchant criticism have established his steadfast significance...
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In Struggle: Sncc and the Black Awakening of the 1960sWith its radical ideology and effective tactics, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was the cutting edge of the civil rights movement during the 1960s. This sympathetic yet evenhanded book records for the first time the complete story of SNCC's evolution, of its successes...
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First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within, Second EditionThe First Socialist Society is the compelling and often tragic history of what Soviet citizens lived through from 1917 to 1993, told with great sympathy and perception. Tracing the evolution of the Soviet political system from its origins in 1917, Geoffrey Hosking shows how...
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Economic Structure of Corporate Law (Revised)The authors argue that the rules and practices of corporate law mimic contractual provisions that parties would reach if they bargained about every contingency at zero cost and flawlessly enforced their agreements. But bargaining and enforcement are costly, and corporate law provides the rules...
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Jealousy of Trade: International Competition and the Nation-State in Historical PerspectiveThis collection explores eighteenth-century theories of international market competition that continue to be relevant for the twenty-first century. "Jealousy of trade" refers to a particular conjunction between politics and the economy that emerged when success in international trade became a matter of the military...
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Saving Persuasion: A Defense of Rhetoric and JudgmentIn today's increasingly polarized political landscape it seems that fewer and fewer citizens hold out hope of persuading one another. Even among those who have not given up on persuasion, few will admit to practicing the art of persuasion known as rhetoric. To describe...
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Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for DemocracyDespite black gains in modern America, the end of racism is not yet in sight. Nikhil Pal Singh asks what happened to the worldly and radical visions of equality that animated black intellectual activists from W. E. B. Du Bois in the 1930s to...
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A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great MigrationThis is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people--an embryonic black nation. As Steven Hahn demonstrates, rural African-Americans were central political actors in the great events of disunion, emancipation, and nation-building. At the...
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Age of Reason: The Definitive EditionAge of Reason, The Definitive Edition, includes Paine's original two volumes of Age of Reason, plus his third volume which remained unreleased until 1807. President Thomas Jefferson convinced Paine not to publish his third volume in 1802, as Paine originally intended, out of fear...
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Dictator's Handbook: a practical manual for the aspiring tyrantEver wonder if the world's tyrants are all using the same instruction manual? They are: here it is. From getting to power to dividing your enemies, suppressing revolution, stealing elections, and making your fortune, this 320 page volume shows you how the pros have...
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Puppetmasters: The Political Use of Terrorism in ItalyAuthor: Philip P. WillanPublisher: iUniversePublished: 10/07/2002Pages: 376Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.24h x 6.14w x 0.94dISBN: 9780595246977This title is not returnable
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