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Fighting Words: Why Government and Culture Should Fear the ChurchDr. Louis Day grew up as a white minority in a violent time and place in northern New Mexico in the 1970s. It was not unusual for him to see tanks and armed military in his neighborhood. News of kidnapping, torture, and assassinations were...
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Every Hill a Burial Place: The Peace Corps Murder Trial in East AfricaOn March 28, 1966, Peace Corps personnel in Tanzania received word that volunteer Peppy Kinsey had fallen to her death while rock climbing during a picnic. Local authorities arrested Kinsey's husband, Bill, and charged him with murder as witnesses came forward claiming to have...
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Diplomatic Games: Sport, Statecraft, and International Relations Since 1945International sporting events, including the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup, have experienced profound growth in popularity and significance since the mid-twentieth century. Sports often facilitate diplomacy, revealing common interests across borders and uniting groups of people who are otherwise divided by history,...
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Soccer Diplomacy: International Relations and Football Since 1914Although the game of soccer is known by many names around the world-football, fútbol, Fu ball, voetbal-the sport is a universal language. Throughout the past century, governments have used soccer to further their diplomatic aims through a range of actions including boycotts, carefully orchestrated...
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Military Agility: Ensuring Rapid and Effective Transition from Peace to WarThe need to quickly enter into conflict and succeed in the initial engagements is an enduring demand on militaries around the world. Given today's dynamic geopolitical environment, the concept of successful, rapid transition or organizational and mental readiness is more relevant than ever.Using the...
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The Children of Harvey Milk: How LGBTQ Politicians Changed the WorldPart political thriller, part meditation on social change, part love story, The Children of Harvey Milk tells the epic stories of courageous men and women around the world who came forward to make their voices heard during the struggle for equal rights. Featuring LGBTQ...
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Gefallene Helden: Afrikanische Führer, deren Ermordung den Kontinent Verwirrte und Ausländische Interessen BegünstigteKein Kontinent hat seit der zweiten H lfte des 20. Jahrhunderts halb so viele politische ermordung, Staatsstreiche, interne und externe Kriege, Unruhen und wirtschaftliche Umw lzungen erlebt wie Afrika. Kaum ein ernsthafter Experte w rde jedoch sagen, dass die H nde gro er ausl...
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India in the Era of China's Belt and Road Initiative: How Modi Responds to XIAnil Sigdel dives into some of the most interesting trends in international relations, such as the rising influence of China and the instruments it uses to advance its interests worldwide, chiefly among them the Belt and Road Initiative(BRI) and the interplay between China and...
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The StateThe State is a book by German sociologist Franz Oppenheimer first published in Germany in 1908. The work summarizes Oppenheimer's general theory on the origin, development and future transformation of the state. The State, which Oppenheimer's missionary zeal pervades, was widely read and passionately...
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The Political Effects of Entertainment Media: How Fictional Worlds Affect Real World Political PerspectivesEntertainment media are rife with material that touches on the political. The stories with which we entertain ourselves often show us, for better or worse, that everything can be solved by the rise of an individual hero, and that the "best way" to deal...
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Canadian Political EconomyIn Canadian Political Economy, experts from a number of disciplinary backgrounds come together to explore Canada's empirical political economy and the field's contributions to theory and debate. Considering both historical and contemporary approaches to CPE, the contributors pay particular attention to key actors and...
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The Rise of the Nation-State in Europe: Absolutism, Enlightenment and Revolution, 1603-1815The 1648 Treaty of Westphalia marked the emergence of the nation-state as the dominant political entity in Europe. This book traces the development of the nation-state from its infancy as a virtual dynastic possession, through its incarnation as the embodiment of the sovereign popular...
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Labor Under Fire: A History of the AFL-CIO Since 1979From the Reagan years to the present, the labor movement has faced a profoundly hostile climate. As America's largest labor federation, the AFL-CIO was forced to reckon with severe political and economic headwinds. Yet the AFL-CIO survived, consistently fighting for programs that benefited millions...
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The Scholar and the Struggle: Lawrence Reddick's Crusade for Black History and Black PowerLawrence Reddick (1910-1995) was among the most notable African American intellectuals of his generation. The second curator of the Schomburg Library and a University of Chicago PhD, Reddick helped spearhead Carter Woodson's black history movement in the 1930s, guide the Double Victory campaign during...
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How the Streets Were Made: Housing Segregation and Black Life in AmericaIn this book, Yelena Bailey examines the creation of "the streets" not just as a physical, racialized space produced by segregationist policies but also as a sociocultural entity that has influenced our understanding of blackness in America for decades. Drawing from fields such as...
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Black Power on the Move: Migration, Internationalism, and the British and Israeli Black PanthersThough born in the American South in the mid-1960s, the Black Power movement traveled the world in the years between 1967 and 1972, capturing the imagination of people of color across the Caribbean, Africa, Australasia, Europe, and the Middle East. In Black Power on...
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The End of the Rhetorical Presidency?: Public Leadership in the Trump EraThe End of the Rhetorical Presidency? Public Leadership in the Trump Era explores one of the most disruptive aspects of the Trump presidency. Since the FDR administration, presidents developed the capacity and skill to use the public to influence the legislative arena, gain reelection,...
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The Socratic Way of Life: Xenophon's "Memorabilia"The Socratic Way of Life is the first English-language book-length study of the philosopher Xenophon's masterwork. In it, Thomas L. Pangle shows that Xenophon depicts more authentically than does Plato the true teachings and way of life of the citizen philosopher Socrates, founder of...
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The Political Economy of Italy's DeclineItaly is a country of recent decline and long-standing idiosyncratic traits. A rich society served by an advanced manufacturing economy, where the rule of law is weak and political accountability low, it has long been in downward spiral alimented by corruption and clientelism. From...
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Blood Over Different Shades of Green: East Pakistan 1971: History RevisitedThe famous British philosopher and historian, R.G. Collingwood, suggested that a historian must reconstruct history by using 'historical imagination' to're-enact' the thought processes of historical persons based on information and evidence from historical sources. That is what the authors of the present book have...
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