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  • - Making Religious Pluralism an American Value at the Dawn of the Secular Age
    av David Mislin
    659

    Chronicling the transformative historical moment when Americans began to reimagine their nation as one strengthened by the diverse faiths of its peoples as liberal Protestant leaders abandoned religious exclusivism and leveraged their considerable cultural influence to push others to do the same.

  • - A Borderland City between Stalinists, Nazis, and Nationalists
    av Tarik Cyril Amar
    399 - 539,-

    In The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv, Tarik Cyril Amar reveals the local and transnational forces behind the twentieth-century transformation of one of East Central Europe's most important multiethnic borderland cities into a Soviet and Ukrainian urban center. Today, Lviv is the modern metropole of the western part of independent Ukraine and a...

  • - Nationalism and Political Imagination in the Balkans, 1840-1914
    av Edin Hajdarpasic
    639,-

    As the site of the assassination that triggered World War I and the place where the term "ethnic cleansing" was invented during the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s, Bosnia has become a global symbol of nationalist conflict and ethnic division. But as Edin Hajdarpasic shows, formative contestations over the region began well before 1914, emerging...

  • - Presidents, Politics, and American Democracy
    av John M. Schuessler
    359,-

    In Deceit on the Road to War, John M. Schuessler examines how U.S. presidents have deceived the American public about fundamental decisions of war and peace. Deception has been deliberate, he suggests, as presidents have sought to shift blame for war onto others in some cases and oversell its benefits in others.

  • - Battlefield Effectiveness in Authoritarian Regimes
    av Caitlin Talmadge
    419

    A compelling new argument to help us understand why authoritarian militaries sometimes fight very well-and sometimes very poorly. Talmadge's framework for understanding battlefield effectiveness focuses on four key sets of military organizational practices.

  • - Official Emotion on the International Stage
    av Todd H. Hall
    449 - 575,-

    In Emotional Diplomacy, Todd H. Hall explores the politics of officially expressed emotion on the international stage, looking at the ways in which state actors strategically deploy emotional behavior to shape the perceptions of others. Examining diverse instances of emotional behavior, Hall reveals that official emotional displays are not...

  • - U.S. Civil-Military Relations and Multilateral Intervention
    av Stefano Recchia
    575

    Recchia draws on declassified documents and about one hundred interviews with civilian and military leaders to illuminate little-known aspects of U.S. decision making in the run-up to interventions in Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Iraq.

  • - A Site and Field Guide
    av Allison Childs Wells, Jeffrey V. Wells & Robert Dean
    489,-

    Birds of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao is the essential guide for anyone traveling to those islands. It showcases the more than 280 species seen on Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao and provides descriptions of and directions to the best places to bird, from the famous white sand beaches to hidden watering holes to the majestic national parks.

  • - Black Panther Party Internationalism during the Cold War
    av Sean L. Malloy
    265,-

    In Out of Oakland, Sean L. Malloy explores the evolving internationalism of the Black Panther Party. He traces the shifting intersections between the black freedom struggle in the United States, Third World anticolonialism, and the Cold War.

  • - Why National Movements Compete, Fight, and Win
    av Peter Krause
    369 - 1 465

    Many of the world's states are the result of robust national movements that achieved independence. Many other national movements have failed in their attempts to achieve statehood, including the Basques, the Kurds, and the Palestinians. In Rebel Power, Peter Krause offers a powerful new theory to explain this variation.

  • - Lessons from Jewish Thought for Confronting the German Past
    av C. K. Martin Chung
    399 - 1 885

    In Repentance for the Holocaust, C. K. Martin Chung develops the biblical idea of "turning" (tshuvah) into a conceptual framework to analyze a particular area of contemporary German history, commonly referred to as Vergangenheitsbewaltigung or "coming to terms with the past."

  • - China's Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake
    av Christian P. Sorace
    635

    In Shaken Authority, Christian P. Sorace examines the political mechanisms at work in the aftermath of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake and the broader ideological energies that drove them. Sorace takes Communist Party ideas and discourse as central to how that organization formulates policies, defines legitimacy, and exerts its power. Sorace argues...

  • - Spirit Worlds and Emerging Economies in the Mongolian Gold Rush
    av Mette M. High
    395,-

    Mongolia over the last decade has seen a substantial and ongoing gold rush. The widespread mining of gold looks at first glance to be a blessing for a desperately poor and largely pastoralist country where people's lives were disrupted by the end of the USSR and tens of millions of livestock were killed in devastating droughts in the early...

  • - Kingship in Epic Mahabharata
    av Kevin McGrath
    855

    In Raja Yudhisthira, Kevin McGrath brings his comprehensive literary, ethnographic, and analytical knowledge of the epic Mahabharata to bear on the representation of kingship in the poem.

  • - The Music, the Myth, and the Magnificence of the Grateful Dead's Concert at Barton Hall
    av Peter Conners
    305,-

    Cornell '77 is about far more than just a single Grateful Dead concert. It is a social and cultural history of one of America's most enduring and iconic musical acts, their devoted fans, and a group of Cornell students whose passion for music drove them to bring the Dead to Barton Hall.

  • - Antiquarianism and Material Culture since 1500
    av Peter N. Miller
    545

    In History and Its Objects, Peter N. Miller uncovers the forgotten origins of our fascination with exploring the past through its artifacts by highlighting the role of antiquarianism in grasping the significance of material culture.

  • - Life and Death in a Field Hospital
    av Mark de Rond
    285,-

    Doctors at War is a candid account of a trauma surgical team based, for a tour of duty, at a field hospital in Helmand, Afghanistan.

  • - Economy and Family in Russian Modernism
    av Jacob Emery
    1 465

    According to Marx, the family is the primal scene of the division of labor and the "germ" of every exploitative practice. In this insightful study, Jacob Emery examines the Soviet Union's programmatic effort to institute a global siblinghood of the proletariat, revealing how alternative kinships motivate different economic relations and make...

  • av Stephen A. Mitchell
    405 - 855

    In Heroic Sagas and Ballads, Stephen A. Mitchell examines the world of the medieval Icelandic legendary sagas and their legacy in Scandinavia.

  • - When Your Good Idea Is Not Enough
    av Samuel B. Bacharach
    249

    Organizations, institutions, and individuals get stuck in spite of their innovative ideas and ambitious agendas. Never has the timing been better for a book that cuts through the theoretical jargon and delineates the exact political and managerial skills leaders need to move agendas forward. Whether you're a team leader trying to lead change...

  • - How Tokyo, London, and New York Shaped the Modern World
    av Simon James Bytheway & Mark Metzler
    565,-

    Central bankers have enjoyed great power and autonomy. They have cooperated to construct and preserve towering structures of debt, reshaping relations of power and ownership around the world. In Central Banks and Gold, Simon James Bytheway and Mark Metzler explore how this financialized form of globalism first took shape a century ago.

  • - Tropes of Love in German Jewish Culture
    av Katja Garloff
    395 - 1 465

    In Mixed Feelings, Katja Garloff asks what it means for literature (and philosophy) to use love between individuals as a metaphor for group relations.

  • - Identity, Nationalism, and Memory in a Balkan Community
    av Max Bergholz
    529,-

    During two terrifying days and nights in early September 1941, the lives of nearly two thousand men, women, and children were taken savagely by their neighbors in Kulen Vakuf, a small rural community straddling today's border between northwest Bosnia and Croatia. This frenzy-in which victims were butchered with farm tools, drowned in rivers...

  • - Republican Nationalism and the Idea of Anschluss
    av Erin R. Hochman
    645

    In Imagining a Greater Germany, Erin R. Hochman offers a fresh approach to the questions of state- and nation-building in interwar Central Europe.

  • - English Antisemitism from Bede to Milton
    av Kathy Lavezzo
    905

    In The Accommodated Jew, Kathy Lavezzo rethinks the complex and contradictory relation between England's rejection of "the Jew" and the centrality of Jews to classic English literature.

  • - Architectural Decay in Berlin since 1989
    av Daniela Sandler
    419 - 1 885

    In Berlin, decrepit structures do not always denote urban blight. Decayed buildings are incorporated into everyday life as residences, exhibition spaces, shops, offices, and as leisure space. In this book, Daniela Sandler introduces the concept of counterpreservation as a way to understand this intentional appropriation of decrepitude.

  • - Treating Alcoholism in the Post-Soviet Clinic
    av Eugene Raikhel
    395 - 1 885

    Governing Habits is an ethnography of extraordinary sensitivity and awareness that shows how therapeutic practice and expertise is expressed in the highly specific, yet rapidly transforming milieu of hospitals, clinics, and rehabilitation centers in post-Soviet Russia.

  • - Why Iraq and Libya Failed to Build Nuclear Weapons
    av Malfrid Braut-Hegghammer
    565,-

    Many authoritarian leaders want nuclear weapons, but few manage to acquire them. Autocrats seeking nuclear weapons fail in different ways and to varying degrees-Iraq almost managed it; Libya did not come close. In Unclear Physics, Malfrid Braut-Hegghammer compares the two failed nuclear weapons programs.

  • - Cultural Resilience among the Jorai of Northeast Cambodia
    av Krisna Uk
    419

    In Salvage, Krisna Uk draws on extensive research in a Cambodian village she calls Leu to provide a unique ethnography of the Jorai, an ethnic minority group that lives in Vietnam and in the most heavily bombed region of northeast Cambodia.

  • av Dara Kay Cohen
    285,-

    Rape is common during wartime, but even within the context of the same war, some armed groups perpetrate rape on a massive scale while others never do. In Rape during Civil War Dara Kay Cohen examines variation in the severity and perpetrators of rape using an original dataset of reported rape during all major civil wars from 1980 to 2012.

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