Political Science
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Mission to Oslo: Dancing with the Queen, Dealmaking with the Russians, Shaping HistoryMission to Oslo is a rollicking tale of the true adventures of President Bill Clinton's ambassador to the Kingdom of Norway: Tom Loftus, grandson of Norwegian immigrants and former Speaker of the Wisconsin Assembly.Told with wit and wry humor, the memoir covers 1993 to...
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Mission to Mao: US Intelligence and the Chinese Communists in World War IIAn innovative history of US intelligence officers on the ground and the first official contacts between the United States and the Chinese Communist PartyFrom 1944 to 1947, the United States planted a liaison mission in the headquarters of Chinese Communist forces behind the lines....
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Migration Governance in North America: Policy, Politics, and CommunityMillions of people arrive in North America each year, including highly skilled immigrants and temporary workers, refugees, and international students. Migration, border control, and asylum are ongoing flashpoints in Canadian, American, and Mexican relations, and deeply affect the domestic politics and economies of each...
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Matthew Thornton Of New Hampshire: A Patriot Of The American Revolution (1903)""Matthew Thornton of New Hampshire: A Patriot of the American Revolution"" is a historical biography written by Charles Thornton Adams and originally published in 1903. The book tells the story of Matthew Thornton, a prominent figure in the American Revolution and one of the...
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Marxism & Smart Life: A Critical Analysis of Marxism & an Inquiry Into Human SocietyMarxism and Smart Life is a compelling and thought-provoking examination of different aspects of human society. Comprised of two impressive volumes of philosophical, political, and economic thought-"Is Karl Marx Right?" and "Modern Human Smart Life"-author Nima Mazhari begins by exploring Marx's theory of capital...
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MarxThe writings of Karl Marx (1818-1883) have left an indelible mark not only on the understanding of economics and political thought but on the lives of millions of people who lived in regimes that claimed (wrongly) his influence. Trained as a philosopher and steeped...
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Marked Men: Black Politicians and the Racialization of ScandalExamines Black Americans' suspicion about the potential political harassment of Black elected officials In Marked Men, Nyron N. Crawford offers a novel perspective on political scandal, corruption, and racial politics in the United States. Contrary to traditional beliefs that politicians are forgiven for their...
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Learning for Work: How Industrial Education Fostered Democratic OpportunityFounded in 1883, the Chicago Manual Training School (CMTS) was a short-lived but influential institution dedicated to teaching a balanced combination of practical and academic skills. Connie Goddard uses the CMTS as a door into America's early era of industrial education and the transformative...
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Lasagna: The Man Behind the MaskThe events at Oka in 1990 saw the might of the Canadian Armed Forces in the service of the governments of both Quebec and Canada confront some 40 armed Mohawk "Warriors" who were defending their local community's resistance against a further colonial encroachment on...
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Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American EmpireIn Judicial Territory, Shaina Potts reveals how the American empire has benefited from the post-World War II expansion of United States judicial authority over the economic decisions of postcolonial governments. Introducing the term "judicial territory" to refer to the increasingly transnational space over which...
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Jews and Blacks: A Dialogue on Race, Religion, and Culture in America"Credible and important."--Kirkus Reviews Examining the issues that have united Blacks and Jews in the past and now separate them, two long-time friends and leading intellectuals try to restore the special relationship between the two groups in a hard-hitting and worthwhile exchange. Can Jews...
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I've Been to the MountaintopA commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's last speech ""I've Been to the Mountaintop,"" part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.On April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood at the pulpit of Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee, and delivered...
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It's What You Do Next: The Fall and Rise of Nashville's First Female MayorAt some point, all of us will be at our worst, and while some of us will be remembered for it, none of us should be defined by it. In 2015, after a historic run-off election, Megan Barry became the first female mayor of...
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Infinity for Marxists: Essays on Poetry and CapitalBreaking from half a century of postmodernist readings of poetry, and bypassing the false divide between formalist and historicist criticism, these essays chart a path toward a new Marxist poetics.In these innovative essays on poetry and capitalism, collected over the last fifteen years, Christopher...
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Indigenous Rights and the Legacies of the Bible: From Moses to MaboA Christian imagination of colonial discovery permeated the early modern world, but legal histories developed in very different ways depending on imperial jurisdictions. Indigenous Rights and the Legacies of the Bible: From Moses to Mabo explores the contradictions and ironies that emerged in the...
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In Defense of Common Life: The Political Thought of Raquel Guti?rrez AguilarThe essential political and theoretical work of one of Latin America's most important contemporary theorists.Raquel Guti?eacute;rrez Aguilar is one of the foremost Latin American political thinkers. From armed Indigenous struggle in the Bolivian altiplano to the contemporary wave of feminist uprisings, Raquel Guti?rrez's life...
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How We Got Here: Melville Plus Nietzsche Divided by the Square Root of (Allan) Bloom Times Zizek (Squared) Equals BannonKellyanne Conway, Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Q-Anon, Fox News, etc., etc., etc. have kidnapped the last century of intellectual thought and philosophical investigation: poststructuralism, quantum physics, deconstruction, the current "crisis" in "nonfiction"-journalism- media-"truthiness." If the perceiver, by his very presence, alters what's perceived, Steve...
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How Elites Ate the Social Justice MovementAn eye-opening exploration of American policy reform, or lack thereof, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement and how the country can do better in the future from Fredrik deBoer, "one of the sharpest and funniest...
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Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten RadicalsThe extraordinary story of a group of forgotten radicals who found themselves drawn to communist Moscow's hotbed of international revolutionary activity: the Hotel Lux. Hotel Lux follows Irish radical May O'Callaghan and her friends, three revolutionary families brought together by their vision for a...
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Home Is Where Your Politics Are: Queer Activism in the U.S. South and South AfricaHome Is Where Your Politics Are is a transnational consideration of queer and trans activism in the US South and South Africa. Through ethnographic exploration of queer and trans activist work in both places, Jessica Scott paints a vibrant picture of what life is...
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