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Sustainable Peace - Power And Democracy After Civil Wars

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 How can leaders craft political institutions that will sustain the peace and foster democracy in ethnically divided societies after conflicts as destructive as civil wars? This volume compares power-dividing and power-sharing solutions.
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The Hour-Glass - Manuscript Materials

de W. B. Yeats

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 This volume brings together all extant manuscripts of "The Hour-Glass," from a handwritten three-page fragment of the 1902 prose version to Yeats's typescripts of the 1922 verse rendition.
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The Resurrection - Manuscript Materials

de W. B. Yeats

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 A documentary edition of Yeats's 1932 play that traces multiple textual revisions.
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"Parnell'S Funeral And Other Poems" From "A Full Moon In March" - Manuscript Materials

de W. B. Yeats

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 The manuscripts transcribed and reproduced in this volume of the Cornell Yeats were written from spring 1933 through December 1934.
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The Words Upon The Windowpane - Manuscript Materials

de W. B. Yeats

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 The Cornell Yeats edition of this play contains transcriptions and photographic reproductions of the drafts with variant readings from proofs, typescripts, and notebook entries, as well as other materials pertaining to its writing and performance.
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The King'S Threshold - Manuscript Materials

de W. B. Yeats

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 The Cornell Yeats edition of this play about a bard's hunger strike includes the preliminary notes and first prose drafts dictated by Yeats to his patron and collaborator, Lady Gregory, in March and April 1903.
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Impossible Women - Lesbian Figures And American Literature

de Valerie Rohy

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 Impossible Women fills a critical gap in queer theory by spotlighting representations of lesbian sexuality in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature. Reading through the lens of feminist and psychoanalytic theory, Valerie Rohy considers...
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The Colonial Unconscious - Race And Culture In Interwar France

de Elizabeth Ezra

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 France between the two World Wars was pervaded by representations of its own colonial power, expressed forcefully in the human displays at the expositions coloniales, films starring Josephine Baker, and the short stories of Paul Morand, and more...
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Political Allegory In Late Medieval England

de Ann W. Astell

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 The author offers a new understanding of the rhetorical nature of allegorical poetry in the late Middle Ages. She shows that major English writers of that era - including Langland, Gower, Chaucer and the "Gawain" poet - offered in their works timely commentary on current events and public issues.
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Negotiating The Constitution - The Earliest Debates Over Original Intent

de Joseph M. Lynch

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 No concept sparks more controversy in constitutional debate than "original intent." Offering a legal historian's approach to the subject, this book demonstrates that the framers deliberately obscured one of their more important decisions. Joseph M...
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Nietzsche'S Conscience - Six Character Studies From The "Genealogy"

de Aaron Ridley

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 Aaron Ridley explores Nietzsche's mature ethical thought as expressed in his masterpiece, arranging his book thematically around the six characters who loom largest in that workâ€"slave, priest, philosopher, artist, scientist, and noble.
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State Building And Late Development

de David Waldner

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 Why does state building sometimes promote economic growth and in other cases impede it? Through an analysis of political and economic development in four countriesâ€"Turkey, Syria, Korea, and Taiwanâ€"this book explores the origins of political-economic...
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The Humiliation Of Sinners - Public Penance In Thirteenth-Century France

de Mary Mansfield

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 This compelling book, first published in 1995, changed historians' understanding of the history of public penance...
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Theories Of The Theatre - A Historical And Critical Survey, From The Greeks To The Present

de Marvin A. Carlson

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 Beginning with Aristotle and the Greeks and ending with semiotics and post-structuralism, Theories of the Theatre is the first comprehensive survey of Western dramatic theory. In this expanded edition the author has updated the book and added a new...
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Humiliation - And Other Essays On Honor, Social Discomfort, And Violence

de William Ian Miller

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 A brilliant, sometimes unsettling look at how ancient codes of honor figure in the social discomforts of everyday life.
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Kantian Ethics Almost Without Apology

de Marcia W. Baron

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 A reappraisal on the emphasis on duty in Immanuel Kant's ethics is long overdue. Marcia W. Baron evaluates and for the most part defends Kantian ethics against two frequent criticisms: that duty plays too large a role, leaving no room for the supererogatory; and that Kant places too much value on acting from duty.
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Weapons Of The Wealthy - Predatory Regimes And Elite-Led Protests In Central Asia

de Scott B. Radnitz

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 Focusing on the region of post-Soviet Central Asia, Radnitz investigates the causes of elite-led protest in nondemocratic states, where economic and political opportunities create elites who are independent of the regime, yet vulnerable to harassment.
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Ethnic Politics After Communism

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 The Soviet Union encompassed dozens of nationalities and ethnicities, and in the wake of its collapse, the politics of ethnicity within its former borders and throughout Eastern Europe have undergone tremendous changes. In this book, Zoltan Barany and...
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The Truce - Lessons From An L.A. Gang War

de Karen Umemoto

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 This ethnography of a gang war in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Oakwood, just blocks from the famed Venice Beach boardwalk, provides a rare eyewitness account of the urban violence pervasive in the recent history of the United States. With seventeen...
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Unknowing - The Work Of Modernist Fiction

de Philip Weinstein

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 Philip Weinstein explores the modernist commitment to "unknowing" by addressing the work of three supreme experimental writers: Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, and William Faulkner. In their novels, the narrative props that support the drama of coming to...
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Bootstrap Dreams - U.S. Microenterprise Development In An Era Of Welfare Reform

de Nancy Jurik

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 Declines in real wages, increases in the number of poor families, and cutbacks to welfare and other safety-net programs have stimulated the popularity of microenterprise development programs (MDPs). These programs typically offer training and loans to...
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Monomania - The Flight From Everyday Life In Literature And Art

de Marina Van Zuylen

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 "This book is about the obsessive strategies people use to keep the arbitrary out of their lives; it is about the fanaticism and intolerance linked to their ideas of perfection and permanence.... Those readers who have brushed against the dangers...
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Satanic Mills Or Silicon Islands? - The Politics Of High-Tech Production In The Philippines

de Steven C. Mckay

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 Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands? challenges the myth of globalization's homogenizing power, arguing that the uniqueness of place is becoming more, not less important.
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Promise Unfulfilled - Unions, Immigration, And The Farm Workers

de Philip L. Martin

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 In 1975, after vigorous campaigning by the United Farm Workers union, the state of California passed the Agricultural Labor Relations Act (ALRA), a pioneering self-help strategy granting farm workers the right to organize into unions. A quarter...
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