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Industrial Democracy In America - The Ambiguous Promise

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 A close examination of what came to be known among collars of any colour as 'the labour problem' with the railroad strikes of the 1870s. The contributors cover the theory and practice of the American labour movement, the promise and demise of industrial jurisprudence, the law of collective bargaining, workplace contractualism, and shop-floor reality in the United States auto industry.
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Reforming The Tsar'S Army - Military Innovation In Imperial Russia From Peter The Great To The Revolution

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 This volume examines how Imperial Russia's armed forces sought to adapt to the challenges of modern warfare. Russian rulers always understood the need to maintain armed forces capable of preserving the empire's power, yet they faced the dilemma of importing European military innovations while keeping out subversive political ideas.
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The Politics Of Elections In Southeast Asia

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 Though most governments in Southeast Asia are considered authoritarian, elections have been a feature for many decades. This volume examines the countries that have conducted multi-party elections, identifying common and distinguishing political features.
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A Culture Of Rights - The Bill Of Rights In Philosophy, Politics And Law 1791 And 1991

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 Written by leading authorities in history, philosophy, jurisprudence and political theory, the essays in this volume provide insights into the variable and changing contents of the rights thinking and consciousness that lie at the core of American political culture and shape its central political institutions.
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Reforming The Tsar'S Army - Military Innovation In Imperial Russia From Peter The Great To The Revolution

59,48€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This volume examines how Imperial Russia's armed forces sought to adapt to the challenges of modern warfare. Russian rulers always understood the need to maintain armed forces capable of preserving the empire's power, yet they faced the dilemma of importing European military innovations while keeping out subversive political ideas.
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Imperial Russian Foreign Policy - Conference : Revised Papers

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 With contributions from both Russia and the West, this new book aims to demythologise a field hitherto dominated by suspicion and fear, that of Russian foreign policy. The book claims that the tsar was directly responsible for the formulation of most foreign policy and reveals the complex of motives behind his decisions.
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Dilemmas Of Scale In America'S Federal Democracy

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 Nationalist and local traditions vie within the American federal system and the American experiment with self-government. Bringing together contributions from history, political science and sociology, this book focuses primarily on the local, seeking to recapture its origins, explain its current impact and assess its worth.
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The Truman Presidency

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 The essays in this volume provide a wide-ranging overview of the intentions, achievements, and failures of the Truman administration.
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The Historical Imagination In Early Modern Britain - History, Rhetoric, And Fiction, 1500â€“1800

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 Some of the most distinguished historians and literary scholars in the English-speaking world explore the overlap, interplay, and interaction between history and fiction in British writing from the Tudor period to the Enlightenment, with the primary focus on writers such as Thomas More, John Foxe, Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, and Edward Gibbon.
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Dilemmas Of Scale In America'S Federal Democracy

141,95€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Nationalist and local traditions vie within the American federal system and the American experiment with self-government. Bringing together contributions from history, political science and sociology, this book focuses primarily on the local, seeking to recapture its origins, explain its current impact and assess its worth.
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Urban Spaces In Contemporary China - The Potential For Autonomy And Community In Post-Mao China

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 This essay collection explores the impact of post-Mao reforms on the economic, social and cultural dimensions of China's cities. The authors consider how the character of city life shifted after the political-economic restructuring intensified in 1984, and how this shift affected individual autonomy and associational life.
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A Culture Of Rights - The Bill Of Rights In Philosophy, Politics And Law 1791 And 1991

106,80€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Written by leading authorities in history, philosophy, jurisprudence and political theory, the essays in this volume provide insights into the variable and changing contents of the rights thinking and consciousness that lie at the core of American political culture and shape its central political institutions.
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The Historical Imagination In Early Modern Britain - History, Rhetoric, And Fiction, 1500â€“1800

168,98€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Some of the most distinguished historians and literary scholars in the English-speaking world explore the overlap, interplay, and interaction between history and fiction in British writing from the Tudor period to the Enlightenment, with the primary focus on writers such as Thomas More, John Foxe, Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, and Edward Gibbon.
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Reform In Modern Russian History - Progress Or Cycle?

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 This volume provides a historical introduction to the question of whether Russian state and society can be reformed successfully for Russia to become a full-fledged members of the European community of nations, or whether its attempts at modernization are destined to suffer cyclical failures.
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Between The Blocs - Problems And Prospects For Europe'S Neutral And Nonaligned States

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 Between the Blocs, published in 1990, examines the phenomenon of Europe's neutral analysis of the phenomenon of Europe's natural and non-aligned states. It features many of the pre-eminent scholars and political figures who have crafted the shape and meaning of the modern policy of neutrality and nonalignment in contemporary Europe.
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The Idea Of Europe - From Antiquity To The European Union

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 This collection discusses what it means to be 'European', covering the period from Antiquity to the end of the twentieth century. Addressing politics, law, religion, culture, literature and affectivity, this broad account shows how a distinctive European identity has grown over the centuries, and looks at the European Union's future.
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The Social Legacy Of Communism

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 This book analyzes the social impact of the transition from communism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
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The State And Economic Knowledge - The American And British Experiences

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 This collection of essays addresses an important but inadequately recognized dimension of the activities of the modern state - the role it plays in producing the theoretical and practical knowledge necessary for economic policy-making. The approach is comparative, focusing on developments in Britain and the United States.
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The Social Legacy Of Communism

141,95€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This book analyzes the social impact of the transition from communism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
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The Crisis In Kashmir - Portents Of War, Hopes Of Peace

de Sumit (City University Of New York) Ganguly

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 This book traces the origins of the insurgency in Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir. The first theoretically-grounded account, it is based on extensive interviews. Professor Ganguly's central argument is that the insurgency can be explained by political mobilisation and institutional decay.
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Money Sings - The Changing Politics Of Urban Space In Post-Soviet Yaroslavl

de Blair A. Ruble

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 Money Sings explores the sweeping reorganization of Russian life during the initial post-Soviet era by examining the politics of property in the city of Yaroslavl. Through case studies of housing privatization, historic preservation and urban planning, this volume investigates systemic change in post-Soviet Russia.
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Kinship And Capitalism - Marriage, Family, And Business In The English-Speaking World, 1580â€“1740

de Richard Grassby

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 This uncompromisingly empirical study reconstructs the public and private lives of urban business families during the period of England's emergence as a world economic power. Using a broad cross-section of archival sources, it tests the orthodox view that the family as an institution was transformed by capitalism and individualism.
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Knowledge And Belief In America - Enlightenment Traditions And Modern Religious Thought

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 This volume unites the work theologians, historians, literary critics, and philosophers to explore the interaction between Enlightenment ideals and American religion. The essays focus on the Enlightenment's effect on the major religious traditions and explore religion in the thinking of such representative figures as Edwards, Emerson, Lincoln, and Eliot.
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Churchill As Peacemaker

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 Although he is best remembered as a man of war, the primary focus of Churchill's long career was his attempt to keep and restore peace throughout the world. In this book, scholars from the United States, Great Britain, and South Africa examine this other facet of his statesmanship.
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