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Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial EnlightenmentAt this stalled and disillusioned juncture in postcolonial history--when many anticolonial utopias have withered into a morass of exhaustion, corruption, and authoritarianism--David Scott argues the need to reconceptualize the past in order to reimagine a more usable future. He describes how, prior to independence,...
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The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive AccumulationThe originators of classical political economy-Adam Smith, David Ricardo, James Steuart, and others-created a discourse that explained the logic, the origin, and, in many respects, the essential rightness of capitalism. But, in the great texts of that discourse, these writers downplayed a crucial requirement...
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The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and CitizenshipIn The Queen of America Goes to Washington City, Lauren Berlant focuses on the need to revitalize public life and political agency in the United States. Delivering a devastating critique of contemporary discourses of American citizenship, she addresses the triumph of the idea of...
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The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age: American Intellectuals in the 1940s and 1950sAn excellent study of American intellectuals in the 40's and 50's.Author: Richard H. PellsPublisher: Wesleyan University PressPublished: 09/01/1989Pages: 488Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.31lbsSize: 8.46h x 5.54w x 1.22dISBN: 9780819562258About the AuthorRICHARD H. PELLS is a graduate of Rutgers University (B.A., 1963) and Harvard (Ph.D., 1969)....
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Survival Pending Revolution: The History of the Black Panther PartyThe Black Panther Party (BPP) seized the attention of America in the frenetic days of the late 1960s when a series of assassinations, discontent with the Vietnam War, and impatience with lingering racial discrimination roiled the United States, particularly its cities. The BPP inspired...
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The Rhetoric of FascismHighlights the persuasive devices most common to fascist appeals Fascism has resurfaced as one of the most pressing problems of our time. The rise of extremist parties and candidates in Europe, the United States, and around the globe has led even mainstream political commentators...
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The End Of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political EconomyIn the mid-1990s, at the height of academic discussion about the inevitability of capitalist globalization, J. K. Gibson-Graham presented a groundbreaking and controversial argument for envisioning alternative economies. This new edition includes an introduction in which the authors address critical responses to The End...
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Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender, and Race in U.S. CultureAuthor: Joy JamesPublisher: University of Minnesota PressPublished: 10/15/1996Pages: 280Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 8.95h x 5.95w x 0.63dISBN: 9780816628131Review Citation(s): Library Journal 09/01/1996 pg. 199This title is only available via back order
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Detours: Travel and the Ethics of Research in the Global SouthTouring. Seeing. Knowing. Travel often evokes strong reactions and engagements. But what of the ethics and politics of this experience? Through critical, personal reflections, the essays in Detours grapple with the legacies of cultural imperialism that shape travel, research, and writing. Influenced by the...
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México Beyond 1968: Revolutionaries, Radicals, and Repression During the Global Sixties and Subversive SeventiesM xico Beyond 1968 examines the revolutionary organizing and state repression that characterized Mexico during the 1960s and 1970s. The massacre of students in Mexico City in October 1968 is often considered the defining moment of this period. The authors in this volume challenge...
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Planning Paradise: Politics and Visioning of Land Use in Oregon"Sprawl" is one of the ugliest words in the American political lexicon. Virtually no one wants America's rural landscapes, farmland, and natural areas to be lost to bland, placeless malls, freeways, and subdivisions. Yet few of America's fast-growing rural areas have effective rules to...
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Systematic Thinking for Social Action" How can we identify who benefits from government programs aimed at solving our social problem and who pays for them? With so many problems, how can we allocate scarce funds to promote the maximum well-being of our citizens? In this book, originally presented...
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The Senkaku Paradox: Risking Great Power War Over Small StakesAmerica needs better options for resolving potential crisesIn recent years, the Pentagon has elevated its concerns about Russia and China as potential military threats to the United States and its allies. But what issues could provoke actual conflict between the United States and either...
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Beyond NATO: A New Security Architecture for Eastern EuropeIn this new Brookings Marshall Paper, Michael O'Hanlon argues that now is the time for Western nations to negotiate a new security architecture for neutral countries in eastern Europe to stabilize the region and reduce the risks of war with Russia. He believes NATO...
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Massive Entanglement, Marginal Influence: Carter and Korea in Crisis" Using extensive documentation, this book examines how President Jimmy Carter's troop withdrawal and human rights policies--conceived in abstraction from East Asian realities--contributed to the demise of Korean President Park Chung Hee. The author suggests that some lessons are relevant beyond Korea, for example,...
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Public Policymaking by Private Organizations: Challenges to Democratic Governance" How private groups increasingly set public policy and regulate lives--with little public knowledge or attention. From accrediting doctors and lawyers to setting industry and professional standards, private groups establish many of the public policies in today's advanced societies. Yet this important role of...
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Global Cities: A Short History" Why have some cities become great global urban centers, and what cities will be future leaders? From Athens and Rome in ancient times to New York and Singapore today, a handful of cities have stood out as centers of global economic, military, or...
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Inequality: A Short HistoryInequality endangers the fabric of our societies, distorts the functioning of democracy, and derails the globalization process. Yet, it has only recently been recognized as a problem worth examining. Why has this issue been neglected for so long?In Inequality: A Short History, Michele Alacevich...
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China and the Major Powers in East Asia" The foreign policy of the People's Republic of China has been dominated in recent decades by the problems of dealing with the other major powers in East Asia. Although many ideological, political, and economic aims have shaped particular Chinese policies, Peking's dominant concern...
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Ceremonial Chemistry: The Ritual Persecution of Drugs, Addicts, and PushersResponding to the controversy surrounding drug use and drug criminalization, Thomas Szasz suggests that the "therapeutic state" has overstepped its bounds in labeling certain drugs as "dangerous" substances and incarcerating drug "addicts" in order to cure them. Szasz shows that such policies scapegoat certain...
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