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From Black Power To Hip Hop - Racism, Nationalism, And Feminism

by Patricia Hill Collins

37,03€ + 10% CARD

 Examines the forms of racism in American life and the political responses to them. Using the experiences of African American men and women, this book covers a range of issues that connect questions of race to American identity. It investigates how nationalism has operated and reemerged in the wake of globalization.
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Workers Of The World, Enjoy! - Aesthetic Politics From Revolutionary Syndicalism To The Global Justice Movement

by Jr. Kenneth H. Tucker

43,66€ + 10% CARD

 The rise of the public sphere, as chronicled by social movements spanning the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries
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Undevelopment Of Capitalism - Sectors And Markets In Fifteenth-Century Tuscany

by Rebecca Emigh

47,63€ + 10% CARD

 Argues that the expansion of the Florentine economic market in the fifteenth century helped to undo the development of markets of other economies - especially the rural economy of Tuscany. This title shows how sectoral relations are crucial to transitions to capitalism and how capitalist development can also contract markets.
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Resentment'S Virtue - Jean Amery And The Refusal To Forgive

by Thomas Brudholm

39,68€ + 10% CARD

 Presents an argument against 'forgive and forget'.
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Seeking Mandela - Peacemaking Between Israelis And Palestinians

by Heribert Adam

41,01€ + 10% CARD

 <div>The ongoing violence, despair and paralysis among Israelis and Palestinians resemble the gloomy period in South Africa during the late 1980s. Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley show that these analogies with South Africa can be applied to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for two purposes: to showcase South Africa as an inspiring model for a negotiated settlement and to label Israel a "colonial settler state" that should be confronted with strategies (sanctions, boycotts) similar to those applied against the apartheid regime. Because of the different historical and socio-political contexts, both assumptions are problematic. Whereas peacemaking resulted in an inclusive democracy in South Africa, the favored solution for Israel and the West Bank is territorial separation into two states. Adam and Moodley speculate on what would have happened in the Middle East had there been what they call "a Palestinian Mandela" providing unifying moral and strategic leadership in the ethnic conflict. A timely, relevant look at the issues of a polarized struggle, <i>Seeking Mandela</i> is an original comparison of South Africa and Israel, as well as an important critique on the nature of comparative politics.</div>
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Revolutionary Passage - From Soviet To Post-Soviet Russia

by Marc Garcelon

42,33€ + 10% CARD

 Presents the cultural, social, and political history of Russia, during fifteen crucial years. This book traces this history from perestroika to the rise of Vladimir Putin, and argues that the pressures put on the soviet system by Gorbachev's reforms gave birth to movements for democratic reform. It also examines the DemRossiia movement.
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Undoing The Revolution - Comparing Elite Subversion Of Peasant Rebellions

by Vasabjit Banerjee

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 <div> <p><i>Undoing the Revolution</i> looks at the way rural underclasses ally with out-of-power elites to overthrow their governments—only to be shut out of power when the new regime assumes control. Vasabjit Banerjee first examines why peasants need to ally with dissenting elites in order to rebel. He then shows how conflict resolution and subsequent bargains to form new state institutions re-empower allied elites and re-marginalize peasants. </p> <p>Banerjee evaluates three different agrarian societies during distinct time periods spanning the twentieth century: revolutionary Mexico from 1910 to 1930; late-colonial India from 1920 until 1947; and White-dominated Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) from the mid-1960s to 1980. This comparative approach also allows examination of both the underclass need for elite participation and the variety of causes that elites use to incentivize peasant classes to participate, extending from religious-ethnic identity and common political targets to the peasants’ and elites’ own economic grievances. </p> <p><i>Undoing the Revolution</i> demonstrates that both international and domestic investors in cash crops, natural resources, and finance can ally with peasant rebels; and, after threatened or actual state collapse, they can bargain with each other to select new state institutions.</p> </div>
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Four Germanys - A Chronicle Of The Schorcht Family

by Donald S. Pitkin

46,31€ + 10% CARD

 <div> <p>In this last book by the late Donald Pitkin, author of <i>The House that Giacomo Built</i>, comes a story of the Schorcht family, through whose fortunes and struggles one can see the transformations of Germany through the long twentieth century.</p> <p>Each chapter of <i>Four Germanys</i> is reflective of generational rather than historical time. In 1922, Edwin Schorcht inherited his family farm, and in Part One, Pitkin traces the derivation of this farmstead. Part Two focuses on Schorcht’s children who came of age in Hitler’s Germany. Part Three has the Schorchts growing up in the Ulbricht years (1950-73) of the German Democratic Republic. The book concludes with the great-granddaughter, Maria, looking back to the past in relation to the new Germany that history had bequeathed her.</p> <p>Ultimately, <i>Four Germanys</i> reflects the impact of critical historical events on ordinary East Germans while it also reveals how one particular family managed its own historical adaptation to these events.</p> </div>
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Transformations Of Warfare In The Contemporary World

by David Jacobson

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 <div> <p>Today’s warfare has moved away from being an event between massed national populations and toward small numbers of combatants using high-tech weaponry. The editors of and contributors to the timely collection <i>Transformations of Warfare in the Contemporary World</i> show that this shift reflects changes in the technological, strategic, ideological, and ethical realms.</p> <p>The essays in this volume discuss:</p> <p>·the waning connection between citizenship and soldiering; </p> <p>·the shift toward more reconstructive than destructive activities by militaries; </p> <p>·the ethics of irregular or asymmetrical warfare; </p> <p>·the role of novel techniques of identification in military settings; </p> <p>·the stress on precision associated with targeted killings and kidnappings; </p> <p>·the uses of the social sciences in contemporary warfare. </p> <p>In his concluding remarks, David Jacobson explores the extent to which the contemporary transformation of warfare is a product of a shift in the character of the combatants themselves. </p> <p><i>Contributors include: Ariel Colonomos, Roberto J. González, Travis R. Hall, Saskia Hooiveld, Rob Johnson, Colonel C. Anthony Pfaff, Ian Roxborough, and the editors</i></p> </div>
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Identity Dilemma - Social Movements And Collective Identity

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 <div>Collective identities are politically necessary, or at least useful, as banners for recruiting others and engaging opponents and the state. However, not every member fits or accepts the label in the same way or to the same degree. <i>The Identity Dilemma</i> provides eight diverse case studies of social movements to show the benefits, risks, and tradeoffs when a group develops a strong sense of collective identity. <br> <br> The editors and contributors to this pathbreaking volume examine how collective identities can provide powerful advantages but also generate conflicts. The various chapters help to develop our understanding of collective identity from how strategic identities are developed for protest groups to how stigmatized groups negotiate identity dilemmas.<br> <br> Ultimately, <i>The Identity Dilemma</i> contributes a new strategic approach to understanding social movements that highlights the choices and tensions that groups inevitably face in articulating their ideas and interests.<br> <br> <i>Contributors include: Marian Barnes, Cristina Flesher Fominaya, Umut Korkut, Elzbieta Korolczuk, John Nagle, Clare Saunders, Neil Stammers, Marisa Tramontano, Huub Van Baar, and the editors. </i><br></div>
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French Gastronomy And The Magic Of Americanism

by Rick Fantasia

52,93€ + 10% CARD

 Analyzing the effects of corporate-driven industrial processes on the practices, and the practitioners, of French gastronomy
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Imagined Liberation - Xenophobia, Citizenship, And Identity In South Africa, Germany, And Canada

by Heribert Adam e Kogila Moodley

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 <div>On a spectrum of hostility towards migrants, South Africa ranks at the top, Germany in the middle and Canada at the bottom. South African xenophobic violence by impoverished slum dwellers is directed against fellow Africans. "Foreign" Africans are blamed for a high crime rate and most other maladies of an imagined liberation.<br> <br> Why would a society that liberated itself in the name of human rights turn against people who escaped human rights violations or unlivable conditions at home? What happened to the expected African solidarity? Why do former victims become victimizers?<br> <br> With porous borders, South Africa is incapable of upholding the blurred distinction between endangered refugees and economic migrants. <i>Imagined Liberation</i> asks what xenophobic societies can learn from other immigrant societies, such as Canada, that avoided the backlash against multiculturalism in Europe. Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley stress an innovative teaching of political literacy that makes citizens aware as to why they hate.</div>
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Art, Politics, And Development

by Philipp H Lepenies

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 Explains the shortcomings of modern aid in a novel fashion, he also proposes how aid could be done differently.
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Sportista - Female Fandom In The United States

by Andrei S. Markovits e Emily Albertson

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 The travails in the changing world of women as athletes and sports fans
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Teaching Marianne And Uncle Sam - Public Education, State Centralization, And Teacher Unionism In France And The United States

by Nicholas Toloudis

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 <div> <p>Offering the first systematic, comparative examination of the origins of teachers’ unions in two countries—France and the United States—Teaching Marianne and Uncle Sam shows how teachers’ unions came into existence not because of the willful efforts of particular actors, but over the course of decades of conflict over the proper role of professional educators in public politics.</p> <p>Nicholas Toloudis traces teacher unionism back to the first efforts of governments to centralize public education. He carefully documents how centralization created new understandings of the role of teachers in their societies and generated new sources of conflict within teachers’ corps. Using rare archival source materials, Toloudis illustrates how these internal conflicts became salient in teachers’ battles with governments over their legitimate right to exist as collective claim-makers within the polity.</p> <p>In the series Politics, History, and Social Change, edited by John C. Torpey<br></p> </div>
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Borders Of Justice

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 Exploring the limits of and contradictions of transitional justice
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Sins Of The Parents - Politics Of National Apologies In The U.S.

by Brian Weiner

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 Focuses on whether the present-day United States government should apologize for past wrongs done in its name.
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Nearest East - American Millenialism And Mission To The Middle East

by Hans-Lukas Kieser

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 Discusses how missionaries and evangelical politics influenced American government policy in the Middle East
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Unchopping A Tree - Reconciliation In The Aftermath Of Political Violence

by Ernesto Verdeja

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 <div>Political violence does not end with the last death. A common feature of mass murder has been the attempt at destroying any memory of victims, with the aim of eliminating them from history. Perpetrators seek not only to eliminate a perceived threat, but also to eradicate any possibility of alternate, competing social and national histories. In his timely and important book, Unchopping a Tree, Ernesto Verdeja develops a critical justification for why transitional justice works. He asks, "What is the balance between punishment and forgiveness? And, "What are the stakes in reconciling?" <br> <br> Employing a normative theory of reconciliation that differs from prevailing approaches, Verdeja outlines a concept that emphasizes the importance of shared notions of moral respect and tolerance among adversaries in transitional societies. Drawing heavily from cases such as reconciliation efforts in Latin America and Africa—and interviews with people involved in such efforts—Verdeja debates how best to envision reconciliation while remaining realistic about the very significant practical obstacles such efforts face<br> <br> Unchopping a Tree addresses the core concept of respect across four different social levels—political, institutional, civil society, and interpersonal—to explain the promise and challenges to securing reconciliation and broader social regeneration.</div>
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The Protestant Ethic Revisited

by Philip S. Gorski

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 Essays on the contradictory resurgence of religion and liberalism in the twenty-first century by one of the most important voices in the study of the sociology of religion
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Revolutionary Passage - From Soviet To Post-Soviet Russia

by Marc Garcelon

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 Presents the cultural, social, and political history of Russia, during fifteen crucial years. This book traces this history from perestroika to the rise of Vladimir Putin, and argues that the pressures put on the soviet system by Gorbachev's reforms gave birth to movements for democratic reform. It also examines the DemRossiia movement.
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From Black Power To Hip Hop - Racism, Nationalism, And Feminism

by Patricia Hill Collins

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 Examines the forms of racism in American life and the political responses to them. Using the experiences of African American men and women, this book covers a range of issues that connect questions of race to American identity. It investigates how nationalism has operated and reemerged in the wake of globalization.
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Uncertainties Of Knowledge

by Immanuel Wallerstein

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 Argues that the disciplinary divisions of academia have trapped us in a paradigm that assumes knowledge is a certainty and that it can help us explain the social world. This work offers a fresh conception of the social sciences, one whose methodology allows for uncertainties.
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Undoing The Revolution - Comparing Elite Subversion Of Peasant Rebellions

by Vasabjit Banerjee

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