Political Science
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'The People' vs. the Liberal International Order?: Varieties of Populism and the International Politics of Democratic LegitimacyWhy, since the 1980s, did populists rise across liberal democracies? And, given that they challenge democracies and the liberal international order (LIO) in radical but diverse ways, which variety of populism gains under which conditions? Rather than emphasising populists as a cause of the...
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Theory of the Rearguard: How to Survive Contemporary Art (and Almost Everything Else)Cuban art critic and curator Iv?n de la Nuez returns with an ironic epitaph for contemporary art. Art criticism that examines contemporary art in the 21st century in relationship to politics, iconography, and literature. "Iv?n de la Nuez transforms art criticism into an art...
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The Origins of Spanish Colonialism in Morocco, 1859-62: A Global Feminist MicrohistoryThis book investigates the beginnings of Spanish colonialism in Morocco in the mid-nineteenth century, focusing on the Spanish invasion of northern Morocco and the twenty-seven-month occupation of the city of Tetouan from 1859 to 1862. By homing in on specific events, scenes, and records,...
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The Longest Boundary: Volume 1 - Coast to CoastThis is the only book to tell, in a way that should appeal to both specialised historians and the general reader, the story of how the course of what became the US-Canadian border was agreed, step by step, between 1763 and 1910, and to...
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The Late Marxs Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous CommunismThe author of the acclaimed Marx at the Margins analyses the late Marx on Indigenous communism, gender, and anti-colonialism. In his late writings, Marx went beyond the boundaries of capital and class in the Western European and North American contexts. Kevin Anderson carries out...
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The Last Bake Sale: The Fight for Fair School FundingDuring this time of attacks on public education, teacher layoffs and funding crises, it's crucial to understand why some schools struggle for lack of resources while others flourish. Why is education funding in America so embattled and so unequal? In The Last Bake Sale,...
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The Jailhouse LawyerA searing and ultimately hopeful account of Calvin Duncan, "the most extraordinary jailhouse lawyer of our time" (Sister Helen Prejean), and his thirty-year path through Angola after a wrongful murder conviction, his coming-of-age as a legal mind while imprisoned, and his continued advocacy for...
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The Illicit Global Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)The illicit global economy encompasses cross-border flows of goods, people, money, and information unauthorized by either the sending or receiving country. Typically, this means flows that are prohibited (endangered species and narcotics), regulated (migrants, cigarettes, arms), stolen (art and antiquities), or counterfeit (ranging from...
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The Global Rise of Populism: Performance, Political Style, and RepresentationOnce seen as a fringe phenomenon, populism is back. While some politicians and media outlets present it as dangerous to the U.S., Europe, and Latin America, others hail it as the fix for broken democracies. Not surprisingly, questions about populism abound. Does it really...
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The Future of U.S. Global Health Work in Asia: How Can U.S. Civil-Military Health Assistance Enhance Asia's Health Security?This report provides a comprehensive review of the capacity and gaps in Asia's global health security (GHS) networks and U.S. agencies' GHS efforts in the region. The report includes recommendations aimed at helping U.S. policymakers develop practical steps to reassert GHS leadership in Asia...
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The Fiery Spirits: Popular Protest, Parliament and the English RevolutionThe thrilling history of Parliament's 'fiery spirits', whose actions led to the defeat of Charles I in the English Civil War and paved the way for the execution of the King in 1649 The Fiery Spirits tells the story of the MPs in parliament...
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The Dmk Years: Ascent, Descent, SurvivalOn 17 September 1949, C.N. Annadurai (Anna) founded the DMK after his split with Periyar E.V. Ramaswamy. The DMK slowly but surely caught the imagination of the Tamil masses. In 1962, faced with the prospect of a ban, the party shed its separatist agenda...
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The Crossing: El Paso, the Southwest, and America's Forgotten Origin StoryA radical work of history that re-centers the American story around El Paso, Texas, gateway between north and south, center of indigenous power and resistance, locus of European colonization of North America, centuries-long hub of immigration, and underappreciated modern blueprint for a changing United...
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The Catastrophe Hour: Selected EssaysFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of The Unspeakable and The Problem with Everything comes a new collection of unputdownable essays. "For the last five or six years, on many afternoons around 4 or 5 p.m., I've been overcome with the sensation that my...
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The Breach: Iran-Contra and the Assault on American DemocracyA president defying Congress. Disrespect for the law. Attacks on the press. Evasion in the courts. The privatization of war. Quid pro quos with foreign nations. The mounting dangers to American democracy have long been with us. But all these perils first emerged together...
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The Breach: Iran-Contra and the Assault on American DemocracyA president defying Congress. Disrespect for the law. Attacks on the press. Evasion in the courts. The privatization of war. Quid pro quos with foreign nations. The mounting dangers to American democracy have long been with us. But all these perils first emerged together...
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The American Mirage: How Reality TV Upholds the Myth of MeritocracyHow the entertainment narrative of upward mobility distorts the harsh economic realities in America In an age of growing wealth disparities, politicians on both sides of the aisle are sounding the alarm about the fading American Dream. Yet despite all evidence to the contrary,...
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The Almightier: How Money Became God, Greed Became Virtue, and Debt Became SinThe complete story of how we came to worship money, and how we can stop greed from destroying everything.The pursuit of wealth is considered an essential function of human nature, and greed is an unspoken civic virtue. Many of us revere billionaires and Wall...
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The Aid Trap: Hard Truths about Ending PovertyOver the past twenty years more citizens in China and India have raised themselves out of poverty than anywhere else at any time in history. They accomplished this through the local business sector--the leading source of prosperity for all rich countries. In most of...
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The Age of Liutprand: Dynamics of Power in Eighth-Century ItalyThe Age of Liutprand provides a thematic analysis of Lombard Italy in the pivotal early part of the 8th century. It surveys the crucial role and rule of Liutprand [712-44], the powerful and effective Lombard king. By restoring this successful exemplar of Lombard kingship...
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