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  • - An Anthology
     
    459

    This anthology explores artistic practices and works from a diverse and vibrant region.

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    695

    Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands engages with the evolving historiography around the concept of belonging in the Russian and Ottoman empires. The contributors to this book argue that the popular notion that empires do not care about belonging is simplistic and wrong.Chapters address numerous and varied dimensions of belonging in...

  • - Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias
    av W. Bruce Lincoln
    339,-

  • - Culture, Practice, and Science
     
    739

  • - The Future of the Balance of Power
     
    1 885

    American power today is without historical precedent, dominating the world system. No other nation has enjoyed such formidable advantages in military, economic, technological, cultural, and political capabilities. How stable is this unipolar American...

  • - Vietnamese Perspectives on Nation Building
     
    359

    Through the voices of senior officials, teachers, soldiers, journalists, and artists, The Republic of Vietnam, 1955-1975, presents us with an interpretation of "South Vietnam" as a passionately imagined nation in the minds of ordinary Vietnamese, rather than merely as an expeditious political construct of the United States government.The moving...

  • - An Eventful Sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement
     
    399,-

    In a comprehensive and theoretically novel analysis, Take Back Our Future unveils the causes, processes, and implications of the 2014 seventy-nine-day occupation movement in Hong Kong known as the Umbrella Movement. The essays presented here by a team of experts with deep local knowledge ask: how and why had a world financial center known for...

  • av Maria Montero
    255,-

    Costa Rica is much more than a verdant paradise. It's a land of diverse landscapes and cultures. This collection of regional guides reveals unknown facets of Costa Rica and helps travelers understand what makes this country so unique. In this volume we introduce Guanacaste, a place of world-renowned surf spots and great natural beauty. It is a...

  • - An Eventful Sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement
     
    1 465

    In a comprehensive and theoretically novel analysis, Take Back Our Future unveils the causes, processes, and implications of the 2014 seventy-nine-day occupation movement in Hong Kong known as the Umbrella Movement. The essays presented here by a team of experts with deep local knowledge ask: how and why had a world financial center known for...

  • - Suppressing Violence through Local Agents
     
    465,-

    The most common image of world politics involves states negotiating, cooperating, or sometimes fighting with one another; billiard balls in motion on a global pool table. Yet working through local proxies or agents, through what Eli Berman and David A. Lake call a strategy of "indirect control," has always been a central tool of foreign policy...

  • - Master Narratives and Regime Change in U.S. Foreign Policy, 1900-2011
    av C. William Walldorf
    579,-

    Why does the United States pursue robust military invasions to change some foreign regimes but not others? Conventional accounts focus on geopolitics or elite ideology. C. William Walldorf, Jr., argues that the politics surrounding two broad, public narratives-the liberal narrative and the restraint narrative-often play a vital role in shaping...

  • - How Democracy Aid Influences Election Violence
    av Inken von Borzyskowski
    729

    The key to the impact of international election support is credibility; credible elections are less likely to turn violent. So argues Inken von Borzyskowski in The Credibility Challenge, in which she provides an explanation of why and when election support can increase or reduce violence. Von Borzyskowski answers four major questions: Under...

  • - The New Hollywood Revisited
     
    325,-

    In When the Movies Mattered Jonathan Kirshner and Jon Lewis gather a remarkable collection of authors to revisit the unique era in American cinema that was New Hollywood. Ten eminent contributors, some of whom wrote about the New Hollywood movement as it unfolded across the 1960s and 1970s, assess the convergence of film-industry developments...

  • - Volume 16
     
    665

    Research in Outdoor Education is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal seeking to support and further outdoor education and its goals, including personal growth and moral development, team building and cooperation, outdoor knowledge and skill development, environmental awareness, education and enrichment, and research that directly supports...

  • - Volume 14
     
    665

    Research in Outdoor Education is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal seeking to support and further outdoor education and its goals, including personal growth and moral development, team building and cooperation, outdoor knowledge and skill development, environmental awareness, education and enrichment, and research that directly supports...

  • - Power and Politics in East Asia
     
    1 465

    Strategic Adjustment and the Rise of China demonstrates how structural and domestic variables influence how East Asian states adjust their strategy in light of the rise of China, including how China manages its own emerging role as a regional great power.

  • - From Nabopolassar to Alexander the Great (626-331 BC)
    av Muhammad A. Dandamaev
    515

    Presents an analysis of the economics of slavery and a picture of Neo-Babylonian society as a whole.

  • - Family and Community in the Post-Emancipation Period
    av Christine D. Worobec
    265,-

  • - The American Revolution as Seen through the British Press
    av Troy Bickham
    493,99

    A study of the British perspective of the Revolutionary War. It offers a look at the British press as a whole - including analysis of London newspapers, provincial newspapers, and monthly magazines. It leads readers on an exploration into the varied national debates that raged throughout Britain during the American Revolution.

  • - The Documentary Moment in Early Soviet Culture
    av Elizabeth Astrid Papazian
    515,-

    Focusing on the years 1921-1934, this book explores the great upsurge in documentary methods and approaches in the arts and reveals how the documentary impulse influenced the development of Stalinist culture. It is suitable for readers of Russian history, cultural history, literature, and film studies.

  • av Robert Nemes
    575

    This book traces the complex process by which Budapest became a Hungarian city. Few cities grew as rapidly, and in none was nationalism woven so tightly into the urban fabric. Nemes views modern nationalism as expressed in daily events and maps its inroads into every corner of urban life.

  • - A Biography of Plowmakers John and Charles Deere
    av Neil Dahlstrom
    349,-

    Today, John Deere is remembered - some say mistakenly - as the investor of the steel plow. Who was this legendary man and how did he create the internationally renowned company that still bears his name?

  • - Language Culture and the Politics of Voice in Revolutionary Russia
    av Michael S. Gorham
    619

    This work explores how early Soviet language culture gave rise to unparalleled verbal creativity and utopian imagination, while sowing the seeds for perhaps the most notorious forms of Orwellian "newspeak" known to the modern era.

  • av Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter
    685

    How did educated 18th-century Russians view society? In this study, historian Elise Wirtschafter turns to literary plays to reconstruct the social thinking of the past and to discover how Russians of the Enlightenment understood themselves.

  • - Eighteenth-Century Rulers and Writers in Political Dialogue
    av Cynthia H. Whittaker
    639,-

    Russian monarchs have long been regarded as majestic and despotic, ruling mute and servile subjects in a vast empire isolated from the rest of Europe. Challenging this view, Whittaker uncovers a political dialogue about the nature and limitations of monarchy in 18th-century Russia.

  • - A History of the Chicago & North Western Railway System
    av H. Roger Grant
    769

    This comprehensive history of the Chicago and North Western Railway chronicles the developments of one of America's great railroads.

  • - Imperial Russia's "People of Various Ranks"
    av Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter
    595

  • - The "Changing Signposts" Movement among Russian Emigres in the Early 1920s
    av Hilde Hardeman
    579,-

  • - American Technology and the Small Arms Industry in Nineteenth-Century Russia
    av Joseph Bradley
    539,-

  • - A Social and Cultural Portrait of Two Generations, 1840-1905
    av Jo Ann Ruckman
    505,-

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