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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781009086769
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 511 Seiten)
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    DDC: 784.4/973
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1492-1942 ; Geschichte 1492- ; Folk music / United States / History and criticism ; Folk songs / United States / History and criticism ; Protest songs / United States / History and criticism ; Folksong ; Patriotisches Lied ; Politisches Lied ; Protestsong ; USA ; USA ; Protestsong ; Geschichte 1492-1942 ; USA ; Folksong ; Politisches Lied ; Patriotisches Lied ; Geschichte 1492-
    Abstract: Long before anyone ever heard of 'protest music', people in America were singing about their struggles. They sang for justice and fairness, food and shelter, and equality and freedom; they sang to be acknowledged. Sometimes they also sang to oppress. This book uncovers the history of these people and their songs, from the moment Columbus made fateful landfall to the start of the Second World War, when 'protest music' emerged as an identifiable brand. Cutting across musical genres, Will Kaufman recovers the passionate voices of America itself. We encounter songs of the mainland and the conquered territories of Hawai'i, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines; we hear Indigenous songs, immigrant songs and Klan songs, minstrel songs and symphonies, songs of the heard and the unheard, songs of the celebrated and the anonymous, of the righteous and the despicable. This magisterial book shows that all these songs are woven into the very fabric of American history
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781009072229
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 421 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Global and International History
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    DDC: 325.3
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    Keywords: International Colonial Institute / History ; Colonies / Administration / History / 19th century ; Internationalism / History / 20th century ; Internationalism / History / 19th century ; Colonization / History / 20th century ; Colonization / History / 19th century ; Colonies / Administration / History / 20th century ; Kolonialismus ; Institut ; Internationale Kooperation ; Geschichte ; Hochschulschrift ; Kolonialismus ; Internationale Kooperation ; Institut ; Geschichte
    Abstract: In 1893, a group of colonial officials from thirteen countries abandoned their imperial rivalry and established the International Colonial Institute (ICI), which became the world's most important colonial think tank of the twentieth century. Through the lens of the ICI, Florian Wagner argues that this international cooperation reshaped colonialism as a transimperial and governmental policy. The book demonstrates that the ICI's strategy of using indigenous institutions and customary laws to encourage colonial development served to maintain colonial rule even beyond the official end of empires. By selectively choosing loyalists among the colonized to participate in the ICI, it increased their autonomy while equally delegitimizing more radical claims for independence. The book presents a detailed study of the ICI's creation, the transcolonial activities of its prominent members, its interactions with the League of Nations and fascist governments, and its role in laying the groundwork for the structural and discursive dependence of the Global South after 1945
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9781108917551
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 248 Seiten)
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    Keywords: Women slaves / United States / History / 18th century ; Slaves / United States / Social conditions ; Women slaves / United States / Social conditions ; Slavery / United States / History / 18th century ; Fugitive slaves / United States / History / 18th century ; Unabhängigkeitsbewegung ; Emanzipation ; Sklaverei ; Frau ; United States / History / Revolution, 1775-1783 / African Americans ; United States / History / Revolution, 1775-1783 / Influence ; USA ; USA ; Sklaverei ; Frau ; Emanzipation ; Unabhängigkeitsbewegung
    Abstract: Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and after the Revolutionary War. Karen Cook Bell's enlightening and original contribution to the study of slave resistance in eighteenth-century America explores the individual and collective lives of these women and girls of diverse circumstances, while also providing details about what led them to escape. She demonstrates that there were in fact two wars being waged during the Revolutionary Era: a political revolution for independence from Great Britain and a social revolution for emancipation and equality in which Black women played an active role. Running from Bondage broadens and complicates how we study and teach this momentous event, one that emphasizes the chances taken by these 'Black founding mothers' and the important contributions they made to the cause of liberty
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Jul 2021) , Enslaved Women's Fugitivity -- "A Negro Wench Named Lucia": Enslaved Women during the Eighteenth Century -- "A Mulatto Woman Named Margaret": Pre-Revolutionary Fugitive Women -- "A Well Dressed Woman Named Jenny": Revolutionary Black Women, 1776-1781 -- "A Negro Woman Called Bett": Overcoming Obstacles to Freedom in Post-Revolutionary America -- Confronting the Power Structures: Marronage and Black Women's Fugitivity
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    ISBN: 9781108764971
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 317 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Global and international history
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    DDC: 305.896017/541
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Blacks / Civil rights / French-speaking countries / History / 20th century ; Blacks / Civil rights / United States / History / 20th century ; Bürgerrecht ; Schwarze ; Französisches Sprachgebiet ; USA ; Französisches Sprachgebiet ; USA ; Schwarze ; Bürgerrecht ; Geschichte 1900-2000
    Abstract: Sarah C. Dunstan constructs a narrative of black struggles for rights and citizenship that spans most of the twentieth century, encompassing a wide range of people and movements from France and the United States, the French Caribbean and African colonies. She explores how black scholars and activists grappled with the connections between culture, race and citizenship and access to rights, mapping African American and Francophone black intellectual collaborations from the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 to the March on Washington in 1963. Connecting the independent archives of black activist organizations within America and France with those of international institutions such as the League of Nations, the United Nations and the Comintern, Dunstan situates key black intellectuals in a transnational framework. She reveals how questions of race and nation intersected across national and imperial borders and illuminates the ways in which black intellectuals simultaneously constituted and reconfigured notions of Western civilization
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108879170
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 332 pages)
    Series Statement: SSRC anxieties of democracy
    DDC: 339.20973
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    Keywords: Demokratie ; Sozialer Wandel ; Unsicherheit ; Income distribution 21st century ; Political culture 21st century ; Polarization (Social sciences) 21st century ; Equality 21st century ; USA
    Abstract: The authors of this timely book, Who Gets What?, harness the expertise from across the social sciences to show how skyrocketing inequality and social dislocation are fracturing the stable political identities and alliances of the postwar era across advanced democracies. Drawing on extensive evidence from the United States and Europe, with a focus especially on the United States, the authors examine how economics and politics are closely entwined. Chapters demonstrate how the new divisions that separate people and places-and fragment political parties-hinder a fairer distribution of resources and opportunities. They show how employment, education, sex and gender, and race and ethnicity affect the way people experience and interpret inequality and economic anxieties. Populist politics have addressed these emerging insecurities by deepening social and political divisions, rather than promoting broad and inclusive policies.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108765961
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 403 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
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    DDC: 306.0973
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    Keywords: Nachkriegszeit ; Soziale Schichtung ; Soziale Probleme ; USA
    Abstract: The social sciences underwent rapid development in postwar America. Problems once framed in social terms gradually became redefined as individual with regards to scope and remedy, with economics and psychology winning influence over the other social sciences. By the 1970s, both economics and psychology had spread their intellectual remits wide: psychology's concepts suffused everyday language, while economists entered a myriad of policy debates. Psychology and economics contributed to, and benefited from, a conception of society that was increasingly skeptical of social explanations and interventions. Sociology, in particular, lost intellectual and policy ground to its peers, even regarding 'social problems' that the discipline long considered its settled domain. The book's ten chapters explore this shift, each refracted through a single 'problem': the family, crime, urban concerns, education, discrimination, poverty, addiction, war, and mental health, examining the effects an increasingly individualized lens has had on the way we see these problems.
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    ISBN: 9781108914123
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (85 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Cambridge elements: Elements in American politics
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1990-2020 ; Polarization (Social sciences) / United States ; Polarization (Social sciences) / Cross-cultural studies ; Right and left (Political science) / United States ; Political parties / United States ; Spaltung ; Politik ; Gesellschaft ; Polarisierung ; United States / Politics and government / 1989- ; USA ; USA ; Politik ; Polarisierung ; Gesellschaft ; Spaltung ; Geschichte 1990-2020
    Abstract: American political observers express increasing concern about affective polarization, i.e., partisans' resentment toward political opponents. We advance debates about America's partisan divisions by comparing affective polarization in the US over the past 25 years with affective polarization in 19 other western publics. We conclude that American affective polarization is not extreme in comparative perspective, although Americans' dislike of partisan opponents has increased more rapidly since the mid-1990s than in most other Western publics. We then show that affective polarization is more intense when unemployment and inequality are high; when political elites clash over cultural issues such as immigration and national identity; and in countries with majoritarian electoral institutions. Our findings situate American partisan resentment and hostility in comparative perspective, and illuminate correlates of affective polarization that are difficult to detect when examining the American case in isolation
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108773706
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 318 pages)
    Series Statement: Global and international history
    DDC: 335/.830972909034
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1890- ; Anarchismus ; Karibik ; USA
    Abstract: Anarchists who supported the Cuban War for Independence in the 1890s launched a transnational network linking radical leftists from their revolutionary hub in Havana, Cuba to South Florida, Puerto Rico, Panama, the Panama Canal Zone, and beyond. Over three decades, anarchists migrated around the Caribbean and back and forth to the US, printed fiction and poetry promoting their projects, transferred money and information across political borders for a variety of causes, and attacked (verbally and physically) the expansion of US imperialism in the 'American Mediterranean'. In response, US security officials forged their own transnational anti-anarchist campaigns with officials across the Caribbean. In this sweeping new history, Kirwin R. Shaffer brings together research in anarchist politics, transnational networks, radical journalism and migration studies to illustrate how men and women throughout the Caribbean basin and beyond sought to shape a counter-globalization initiative to challenge the emergence of modern capitalism and US foreign policy whilst rejecting nationalist projects and Marxist state socialism.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108185875
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 359 pages)
    DDC: 305.896/073
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    Keywords: Walker, David ; Afroamerikanismus ; Politisches Denken ; USA
    Abstract: In Black Political Thought: From David Walker to the Present, Sherrow O. Pinder has brought together the writings and discourses central to black political thought and African American politics, compiling a unique anthology of speeches and articles from over 150 years of African American history. Providing in-depth examinations and critical analyses of topics such as slavery, reconstruction, race and racism, black nationalism and black feminism - from a range of perspectives - students are equipped with a comprehensive and informative account of how these issues have fundamentally shaped and continue to shape black political thinking. Each of the six thematic parts is framed by an introduction written by black scholars working in the field, and a list of further readings. Individual chapters are then enhanced by end-of-chapter questions and author biographies. Written for the interdisciplinary field of black studies, and other social science and humanities disciplines, this textbook offers a unique resource for political scientists, sociologists, historians, feminists, and the general reader of black political thought.
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  • 10
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108770316
    Language: English , English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 277 pages)
    Uniform Title: Hayatlarının çeşitli safhalarında harem-i hümayun cariyeleri 18. yüzyıl.
    DDC: 306.3/6208209561
    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: The first study to explore the lives of female slaves of the Ottoman imperial court, including the period following their manumission and transfer from the imperial palace. Through an analysis of a wide range of hitherto unexplored primary sources, Betül İpşirli Argıt demonstrates that the manumission of female palace slaves and their departure from the palace did not mean the severing of their ties with the imperial court; rather, it signaled the beginning of a new kind of relationship that would continue until their death. Demonstrating the diversity of experiences in non-dynastic female-agency in the early-modern Ottoman world, Life After the Harem shows how these evolving relationships had widespread implications for multiple parties, from the manumitted female palace slaves, to the imperial court, and broader urban society. In so doing, İpşirli Argıt offers not just a new way of understanding the internal politics and dynamics of the Ottoman imperial court, but also a new way of understanding the lives of the actors within it.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108685382
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 220 Seiten) , Diagramme
    Uniform Title: Sacred and secular protest in the Chinese diaspora
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    DDC: 303.48/40951
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    Keywords: Chinesen ; Falun Gong ; Politischer Protest ; Politisches Engagement ; Falun Gong (Organization) ; Chinese / Political activity / Foreign countries ; Democratization / China ; Protest movements / China ; Social movements / China ; Transnationalism / Political aspects / China ; China / History / Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 ; China / Politics and government / 1976-2002 ; China / Politics and government / 2002- ; Hochschulschrift ; Chinesen ; Falun Gong ; Politisches Engagement ; Politischer Protest
    Abstract: Becoming Activists in Global China is the first purely sociological study of the religious movement Falun Gong and its resistance to the Chinese state. The literature on Chinese protest has intensively studied the 1989 democracy movement while largely ignoring opposition by Falun Gong, even though the latter has been more enduring. This comparative study explains why the Falun Gong protest took off in diaspora and the democracy movement did not. Using multiple methods, Becoming Activists in Global China explains how Falun Gong's roots in proselytizing and its ethic of volunteerism provided the launch pad for its political mobilization. Simultaneously, diaspora democracy activists adopted practices that effectively discouraged grassroots participation. The study also shows how the policy goal of eliminating Falun Gong helped shape today's security-focused Chinese state. Explaining Falun Gong's two decades of protest illuminates a suppressed piece of Chinese contemporary history and advances our knowledge of how religious and political movements intersect
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108684804
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxi, 318 Seiten)
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    DDC: 306.44/971
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    Keywords: Sprachpolitik ; Kanada ; USA ; Language policy ; United States ; Language policy ; Canada ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Kanada ; Sprachpolitik
    Abstract: Tensions and conflicts related to linguistic identity and security are inevitable - even necessary - in liberal democracies. However, if conflicts related to language and identity negatively impact democratic participation, and lead to social fragmentation, civic withdrawal, and lack of trust in societal institutions, then the political system itself may become suspect and unstable. Written by experts from the fields of sociolinguistics, bilingual studies, political science/philosophy, and education, this volume provides a comprehensive picture of the current political, cultural and social factors impacting language policy in the United States and Canada. The chapters cover many aspects of social life in North America, such as immigration, bilingual education, heritage languages, and linguistic identity, and explore the challenges and set-backs, along with the many positive steps taken in recent years to advance the values of inclusion amidst diversity in a variety of contexts and domains in the United States and Canada
    Note: Machine generated contents note: Part I. Theoretical Orientations: 1. The Liberal Tradition in America: A Historical-Institutionalist Approach to U.S. Language Policy / Selma K. Sonntag; 2. The Political Ethics of Linguistic In-Betweenness / Yael Peled; 3. Alienation, Language Work, and the so-called Commodification of Language / John Petrovic; 4. Putting Canadian Language Politics in a Global Context / Peter Ives; Part II. The U.S.A. Context: 5. Disciplining Bilingual Education / Nelson Flores; 6. Measuring Multilingualism in Canada and the US: Ideology, Policy and Census Language Questions / Jennifer Leeman; 7. The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Bilingual Education in U.S. Educational Policy and the New American Dilemma / Terrence G. Wiley; 8. Language Policy Conflicts: New York City's Efforts to Expand Bilingual Education Amidst English-Only Assimilationist Pressures / Kate Menken and Sharon Avni; 9. Indigenous Language Reclamation-Cautionary Tale and Necessary Intervention in Raciolinguistic Inequality / Teresa L. McCarty; 10. The Politics of Language Education Policy Development and Implementation: Minnesota (Not So) Nice? / Kendall King and Martha Bigelow; Part III. The Canadian Context: 11. Heritage Language Education Policies and the Regulation of Racial and Linguistic Difference in Ontario / Jeff Bale; 12. A Foucauldian Approach to Language Policy in Canada / Eve Haque; 13. Promises, Acts, and Action: Indigenous Language Politics in Canada / Donna Patrick; 14. Language, Land, and Stewardship: Indigenous Imperatives and Canadian Policies / Mark Fettes; 15. A Land of Immigration and Official French-English Bilingualism: Politics and Policies for Integration of Adult Immigrants into French-Canadian Minority Communities / Monika Jezak; 16. Ethnocultural and Linguistic Diversity: New Challenges to Canada's Language Regime / Linda Cardinal and Remi Leger
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108616324
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxix, 345 pages)
    DDC: 306.3/6209730904
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Sklavenhandel ; Sklavenaufstand ; USA ; Atlantikküste
    Abstract: In late October 1841, the Creole left Richmond with 137 slaves bound for New Orleans. It arrived five weeks later minus the Captain, one passenger, and most of the captives. Nineteen rebels had seized the US slave ship en route and steered it to the British Bahamas where the slaves gained their liberty. Drawing upon a sweeping array of previously unexamined state, federal, and British colonial sources, Rebellious Passage examines the neglected maritime dimensions of the extensive US slave trade and slave revolt. The focus on south-to-south self-emancipators at sea differs from the familiar narrative of south-to-north fugitive slaves over land. Moreover, a broader hemispheric framework of clashing slavery and antislavery empires replaces an emphasis on US antebellum sectional rivalry. Written with verve and commitment, Rebellious Passage chronicles the first comprehensive history of the ship revolt, its consequences, and its relevance to global modern slavery.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108565714
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 343 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Publications of the German Historical Institute
    DDC: 303.48/24305209042
    Keywords: Geschichte 1919-1936 ; Massenmedien ; Nationalsozialismus ; Berichterstattung ; Deutschlandbild ; Japanbild ; Japan ; Deutschland ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108596237
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 210 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in contentious politics
    DDC: 303.48/40973
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    Keywords: Solidarität ; Soziales Engagement ; Politisches Handeln ; Protestbewegung ; USA
    Abstract: Cross-border solidarity has captured the interest and imagination of scholars, activists and a range of political actors in such contested areas as the US-Mexico border and Guantanamo Bay. Chandra Russo examines how justice-seeking solidarity drives activist communities contesting US torture, militarism and immigration policies. Through compelling and fresh ethnographic accounts, Russo follows these activists as they engage in unusual and high risk forms of activism (fasting, pilgrimage, civil disobedience). She explores their ideas of solidarity and witnessing, which are central to how the activists explain their activities. This book adds to our understanding of solidarity activism under new global arrangements, and illuminates the features of movement activity that deepen activists' commitment by helping their lives feel more humane, just and meaningful. Based on participant observation, interviews, surveys and hundreds of courtroom statements, Russo develops a new theorization of solidarity that will take a central place in social movement studies.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108555722
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 262 pages)
    DDC: 363.5/10973
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    Keywords: Rassendiskriminierung ; Segregation ; Wirtschaftssoziologie ; USA
    Abstract: Segregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and class segregation. Starting in the early twentieth century, cities have used their power of land use control to determine the location and availability of housing, amenities (such as parks), and negative land uses (such as garbage dumps). The result has been segregation - first within cities and more recently between them. Documenting changing patterns of segregation and their political mechanisms, Trounstine argues that city governments have pursued these policies to enhance the wealth and resources of white property owners at the expense of people of color and the poor. Contrary to leading theories of urban politics, local democracy has not functioned to represent all residents. The result is unequal access to fundamental local services - from schools, to safe neighborhoods, to clean water.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108559553
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: The Cambridge applied linguistics series
    DDC: 808.2/25014
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    Keywords: Fernsehserie ; Amerikanisches Englisch ; Dialog ; Diskursanalyse ; Konversationsanalyse ; Sprachstil ; USA
    Abstract: This book offers a comprehensive linguistic analysis of contemporary US television series. Adopting an interdisciplinary and multimethodological approach, Monika Bednarek brings together linguistic analysis of the Sydney Corpus of Television Dialogue with analysis of scriptwriting manuals, interviews with Hollywood scriptwriters, and a survey undertaken with university students about their consumption of TV series. In so doing, she presents five new and original empirical studies. The focus on language use in a professional context (the television industry), on scriptwriting pedagogy, and on learning and teaching provides an applied linguistic lens on TV series. This is complemented by perspectives taken from media linguistics, corpus linguistics and sociocultural linguistics/sociolinguistics. Throughout the book, multiple dialogue extracts are presented from a wide variety of well-known fictional television series, including The Big Bang Theory, Grey's Anatomy and Bones. Researchers in applied linguistics, discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics and media linguistics will find the book both stimulating and unique in its approach.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108225045
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 262 pages)
    DDC: 306.74/5
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    Keywords: Jugend ; Prostitution ; Ethnische Gruppe ; Geschlechterrolle ; Politik ; Sexueller Missbrauch ; USA ; Bibliografie ; Bibliografie
    Abstract: Campaigns against prostitution of young people in the United States have surged and ebbed multiple times over the last fifty years. Fighting the US Youth Sex Trade: Gender, Race, and Politics examines how politically and ideologically diverse activists joined together to change perceptions and public policies on youth involvement in the sex trade over time, reframing 'juvenile prostitution' of the 1970s as 'commercial sexual exploitation of children' in the 1990s, and then as 'domestic minor sex trafficking' in the 2000s. Based on organizational archives and interviews with activists, Baker shows that these campaigns were fundamentally shaped by the politics of gender, race and class, and global anti-trafficking campaigns. The author argues that the very frames that have made these movements so successful in achieving new laws and programs for youth have limited their ability to achieve systematic reforms that could decrease youth vulnerability to involvement in the sex trade.
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    ISBN: 9781108686228
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 162 pages)
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    DDC: 320.801/9
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    Keywords: Political sociology ; Patriarchy ; Feminism Political aspects ; Sex role Political aspects ; Hierarchies ; Political psychology ; Patriarchy ; Feminism ; Patriarchat ; Feminismus ; USA ; USA ; Patriarchat ; Feminismus
    Abstract: In the fall of 2016 those promoting patriarchal ideals saw their champion Donald Trump elected president of the United States and showed us how powerful patriarchy still is in American society and culture. Darkness Now Visible: Patriarchy's Resurgence and Feminist Resistance explains how patriarchy and its embrace of misogyny, racism, xenophobia, homophobia, and violence are starkly visible and must be recognized and resisted. Carol Gilligan and David A. J. Richards offer a bold and original thesis: that gender is the linchpin that holds in place the structures of unjust oppression through the codes of masculinity and femininity that subvert the capacity to resist injustice. Feminism is not an issue of women only, or a battle of women versus men - it is the key ethical movement of our age
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316690932
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xviii, 205 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge essential histories
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    DDC: 305.6/8273
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1620-1860 ; Anti-Catholicism ; Antikatholizismus ; Kolonialismus ; Unabhängigkeitskrieg ; USA ; Kanada ; USA ; Kanada ; Kolonialismus ; Unabhängigkeitskrieg ; Antikatholizismus ; Geschichte 1620-1860
    Abstract: Using fears of Catholicism as a mechanism through which to explore the contours of Anglo-American understandings of freedom, Anti-Catholicism in America, 1620–1860 reveals the ironic role that anti-Catholicism played in defining and sustaining some of the core values of American identity, values that continue to animate our religious and political discussions today. Farrelly explains how that bias helped to shape colonial and antebellum cultural understandings of God, the individual, salvation, society, government, law, national identity, and freedom. In so doing, Anti-Catholicism in America, 1620–1860 provides contemporary observers with a framework for understanding what is at stake in the debate over the place of Muslims and other non-Christian groups in American society
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139226585
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 258 Seiten)
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    DDC: 306.3/620973
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Slavery / United States / History ; Slavery / Economic aspects / United States ; Cotton trade / United States / History ; Sklaverei ; USA ; USA ; Sklaverei ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Written as a narrative history of slavery within the United States, Unrequited Toil details how an institution that seemed to be disappearing at the end of the American Revolution rose to become the most contested and valuable economic interest in the nation by 1850. Calvin Schermerhorn charts changes in the family lives of enslaved Americans, exploring the broader processes of nation-building in the United States, growth and intensification of national and international markets, the institutionalization of chattel slavery, and the growing relevance of race in the politics and society of the republic. In chapters organized chronologically, Schermerhorn argues that American economic development relied upon African Americans' social reproduction while simultaneously destroying their intergenerational cultural continuity. He explores the personal narratives of enslaved people and develops themes such as politics, economics, labor, literature, rebellion, and social conditions
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 Aug 2018) , Counter-revolutionaries -- Slow death for slavery? -- Cotton empire -- Black insurgency -- Financial chains -- Life in the quotidian -- Landscape of sexual violence -- Industrial discipline -- Narratives -- Geopolitics -- Abolition war -- No justice, no peace -- Conclusion
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  • 22
    ISBN: 9781108557740
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 271 Seiten)
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    Keywords: Violence / Political aspects / United States ; Vigilantes / United States ; Police / United States ; Firearms ownership / United States ; Politik ; Waffenrecht ; Polizei ; Gewalt ; USA ; USA ; Politik ; Gewalt ; Polizei ; Waffenrecht
    Abstract: American violence is schizophrenic. On the one hand, many Americans support the creation of a powerful bureaucracy of coercion made up of police and military forces in order to provide public security. At the same time, many of those citizens also demand the private right to protect their own families, home, and property. This book diagnoses this schizophrenia as a product of a distinctive institutional history, in which private forms of violence - vigilantes, private detectives, mercenary gunfighters - emerged in concert with the creation of new public and state forms of violence such as police departments or the National Guard. This dual public and private face of American violence resulted from the upending of a tradition of republican governance, in which public security had been indistinguishable from private effort, by the nineteenth-century social transformations of the Civil War and the Market Revolution
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Sep 2018) , Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Jurisdictional Decoupling as Institutional Change; 3. Bandits, Elites, and Vigilantes in Antebellum Illinois; 4. Pinkertons and Police in Antebellum Chicago; 5. Racist Vigilantism as Reform in Reconstruction Louisiana; 6. The Violent Careers of American Gunfighters; 7. Conclusion, Index
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108334945
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 357 pages)
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    DDC: 306.0973
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    Keywords: Social conflict / Political aspects / United States ; Religion and politics / United States ; Political culture / United States ; Cultural pluralism / United States ; Polarization (Social sciences) / United States ; Mediation ; Kulturelle Identität ; Polarisierung ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Politische Kultur ; Soziale Situation ; Sozialer Konflikt ; Konflikt ; United States / Social conditions / 21st century ; USA ; USA ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Sozialer Konflikt ; Politische Kultur ; Polarisierung ; Kulturelle Identität ; Konflikt ; Soziale Situation ; Mediation
    Abstract: US citizens perceive their society to be one of the most diverse and religiously tolerant in the world today. Yet seemingly intractable religious intolerance and moral conflict abound throughout contemporary US public life - from abortion law battles, same-sex marriage, post-9/11 Islamophobia, public school curriculum controversies, to moral and religious dimensions of the Black Lives Matter and Occupy Wall Street movements, and Tea Party populism. Healthy Conflict in Contemporary American Society develops an approach to democratic discourse and coalition-building across deep moral and religious divisions. Drawing on conflict transformation in peace studies, recent American pragmatist thought, and models of agonistic democracy, Jason Springs argues that, in circumstances riven with conflict between strong religious identities and deep moral and political commitments, productive engagement may depend on thinking creatively about how to constructively utilize conflict and intolerance. The result is an approach oriented by the recognition of conflict as a constituent and life-giving feature of social and political relationships
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  • 24
    ISBN: 9781316534144
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 208 Seiten)
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Freedmen / Rome / History ; Slaves / Emancipation / Rome ; Soziale Situation ; Freigelassener ; Römisches Reich ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Römisches Reich ; Freigelassener ; Soziale Situation ; Geschichte
    Abstract: During the transition from Republic to Empire, the Roman aristocracy adapted traditional values to accommodate the advent of monarchy. Freed Slaves and Roman Imperial Culture examines the ways in which members of the elite appropriated strategies from freed slaves to negotiate their relationship to the princeps and to redefine measures of individual progress. Primarily through the medium of inscribed burial monuments, Roman freedmen entered a broader conversation about power, honor, virtue, memory, and the nature of the human life course. Through this process, former slaves exerted a profound influence on the transformation of aristocratic values at a critical moment in Roman history
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108381659
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 332 pages)
    DDC: 305.896/073
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    Keywords: King, Martin Luther ; Geschichte 1963-1972 ; Stadt ; Rassenunruhen ; Cambridge, Md. ; Baltimore, Md. ; York, Pa. ; USA
    Abstract: Between 1963 and 1972 America experienced over 750 urban revolts. Considered collectively, they comprise what Peter Levy terms a 'Great Uprising'. Levy examines these uprisings over the arc of the entire decade, in various cities across America. He challenges both conservative and liberal interpretations, emphasizing that these riots must be placed within historical context to be properly understood. By focusing on three specific cities as case studies - Cambridge and Baltimore, Maryland, and York, Pennsylvania - Levy demonstrates the impact which these uprisings had on millions of ordinary Americans. He shows how conservatives profited politically by constructing a misleading narrative of their causes, and also suggests that the riots did not represent a sharp break or rupture from the civil rights movement. Finally, Levy presents a cautionary tale by challenging us to consider if the conditions that produced this 'Great Uprising' are still predominant in American culture today.
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  • 26
    ISBN: 9781108304405
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 266 pages)
    Series Statement: Communication, society and politics
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    DDC: 302.23/0973
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    Keywords: Race relations and the press ; Racism in mass media ; Mass media and race relations ; Press and politics ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Massenmedien ; USA ; USA ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Massenmedien
    Abstract: Against conventional wisdom, pervasive black-white disparities pair with vitriolic public conversation in politically progressive communities throughout America. Networked News, Racial Divides examines obstacles to public dialogues about racial inequality and opportunities for better discourse in mid-sized, liberal cities. The book narrates the challenges faced when talking about race through a series of stories about each community struggling with K-12 education achievement gaps. Media expert Sue Robinson applies Bourdieusian field theory to understand media ecologies and analyze whose voices get heard and whose get left out. She explores how privilege shapes discourse and how identity politics can interfere with deliberation. Drawing on network analysis of community dialogues, interviews with journalists, politicians, activists, and citizens and deep case study of five cities, this reflexive and occasionally narrative book chronicles the institutional, cultural and other problematic realities to amplifying voices of all people while also recommending strategies to move forward and build trust
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  • 27
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108694605
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 248 pages)
    DDC: 320.973/08905
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    Keywords: Rassenpolitik ; Schwarze ; USA
    Abstract: The US is transforming into a multiracial society: today one-in-six new marriages are interracial and the multiple-race population is the fastest-growing youth group in the country. In Politics Beyond Black and White, Lauren D. Davenport examines the ascendance of multiracial identities and their implications for American society and the political landscape. Amassing unprecedented evidence, this book systematically investigates how race is constructed and how it influences political behavior. Professor Davenport shows that biracials' identities are the product of family, interpersonal interactions, environment, and, most compellingly, gender stereotypes and social class. These identities, in turn, shape attitudes across a range of political issues, from affirmative action to same-sex marriage, and multiracial identifiers are shown to be culturally and politically progressive. But the book also reveals lingering prejudices against race-mixing, and that intermarriage and identification are highly correlated with economic prosperity. Overall findings suggest that multiracialism is poised to dismantle some racial boundaries, while reinforcing others.
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  • 28
    ISBN: 9781108236003
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xxv, 271 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1985-2004 ; Women and war ; Women and war ; Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 ; Women Political activity ; Women Political activity ; Social change ; Social change ; Politischer Wandel ; Gewalttätigkeit ; Politische Mobilisierung ; Frau ; Krieg ; Rwanda History Civil War, 1994 ; Rwanda History Civil War, 1990-1993 ; Bosnien-Herzegowina ; Ruanda ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Ruanda ; Bosnien-Herzegowina ; Krieg ; Frau ; Ruanda ; Bosnien-Herzegowina ; Gewalttätigkeit ; Frau ; Politische Mobilisierung ; Politischer Wandel ; Geschichte 1985-2004
    Abstract: Rwanda and Bosnia both experienced mass violence in the early 1990s. Less than ten years later, Rwandans surprisingly elected the world's highest level of women to parliament. In Bosnia, women launched thousands of community organizations that became spaces for informal political participation. The political mobilization of women in both countries complicates the popular image of women as merely the victims and spoils of war. Through a close examination of these cases, Marie E. Berry unpacks the puzzling relationship between war and women's political mobilization. Drawing from over 260 interviews with women in both countries, she argues that war can reconfigure gendered power relations by precipitating demographic, economic, and cultural shifts. In the aftermath, however, many of the gains women made were set back. This book offers an entirely new view of women and war and includes concrete suggestions for policy makers, development organizations, and activists supporting women's rights
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108120517
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 320 Seiten)
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    Keywords: Women / Iraq / Social conditions ; Sexism / Iraq / History ; Women's rights / Iraq ; Muslim women / Attitudes ; Feminism / Religious aspects / Islam ; Geschlechterrolle ; Nationenbildung ; Frau ; Irak ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Irak ; Frau ; Geschlechterrolle ; Nationenbildung
    Abstract: Since the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, the challenges of sectarianism and militarism have weighed heavily on the women of Iraq. In this book, Zahra Ali foregrounds a wide-range of interviews with a variety of women involved in women's rights activism, showing how everyday life and intellectual life has developed since the US-led invasion. In addition to this, Ali offers detailed historical research of social, economic and political contexts since the formation of the Iraqi state in the 1920s. Through a transnational and postcolonial feminist approach, this book also considers the ways in which gender norms and practices, Iraqi feminist discourses, and activisms are shaped and developed through state politics, competing nationalisms, religious, tribal and sectarian dynamics, wars, and economic sanctions. The result is a vivid account of the everyday life in today's Iraq and an exceptional analysis of the future of Iraqi feminisms
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 Aug 2018) , Introduction -- Genesis of the "woman question" : the colonial state and the rise and fall of the new Iraqi Republic (1917-1968) -- Women, gender, nation and the ba'th authoritarian regime -- Experiencing the invasion and occupation and the women of the new regime -- The emergence of women's groups and networks -- Kurdish women's activism in Iraqi Kurdistan -- Mobilizing for women's legal rights : gender and sectarianism -- Iraqi feminisms : searching for common grounds -- Bibliography
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316676400
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 233 Seiten)
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    DDC: 781.640973
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1950-2016 ; Popular music / United States / History and criticism ; Ballads, English / United States / History and criticism ; Ballad ; Popsong ; USA ; USA ; Ballad ; Popsong ; Geschichte 1950-2016
    Abstract: While ballads have been a cornerstone of popular music for decades, this is the first book to explore the history and appeal of these treasured songs. David Metzer investigates how and why the styles of ballads have changed over a period of more than seventy years, offering a definition of the genre and discussing the influences of celebrated performers including Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, and Whitney Houston. The emotional power of the ballad is strongly linked to the popular mood of the time, and consequently songs can tell us much about how events and emotions were felt and understood in wider culture at specific moments of recent American history. Tracing both the emotional and stylistic developments of the genre from the 1950s to the present day, this lively and engaging volume is as much a musical history as it is a history of emotional life in America
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107415713
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xv, 372 pages)
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    Keywords: Linguistic minorities ; Immigrants ; Languages in contact ; Code-switching (Linguistics) ; Sprache ; Einwanderung ; USA ; USA ; Einwanderung ; Sprache
    Abstract: Exploring the complex relationship between language and immigration in the United States, this timely book challenges mainstream, historically established assumptions about American citizenship and identity. Set within both a historical and a current political context, this book covers hotly debated topics such as language and ethnicity, the relationship between non-native English and American identity, perceptions and stereotypes related to foreign accents, code-switching, hybrid language forms such as Spanglish, language and the family, and the future of language in America. Work from the fields of linguistics, education policy, history, sociology, and politics are brought together to provide an accessible overview of the key issues. Through specific examples and case studies, immigrant America is presented as a diverse, multilingual, and multidimensional space in which identities are often hybridized and always multifaceted
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316771501
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xv, 231 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies on the African diaspora
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1780-1867 ; Geschichte ; Sklaverei ; Slave trade / Atlantic Coast (Africa, Central) / History ; Slave trade / Angola / History ; Slave trade / Africa, Central / History ; Slavery / Africa, Central / History ; Slavery / Angola / History ; Sklavenhandel ; Angola ; Westafrika ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Westafrika ; Angola ; Sklavenhandel ; Geschichte 1780-1867
    Abstract: The Atlantic Slave Trade from West Central Africa, 1780–1867, traces the inland origins of slaves leaving West Central Africa at the peak period of the transatlantic slave trade. Drawing on archival sources from Angola, Brazil, England, and Portugal, Daniel B. Domingues da Silva explores not only the origins of the slaves forced into the trade but also the commodities for which they were exchanged and their methods of enslavement. Further, the book examines the evolution of the trade over time, its organization, the demographic profile of the population transported, the enslavers' motivations to participate in this activity, and the Africans' experience of enslavement and transportation across the Atlantic. Domingues da Silva also offers a detailed 'geography of enslavement', including information on the homelands of the enslaved Africans and their destination in the Americas
    Description / Table of Contents: The Atlantic slave trade in the century of abolition -- - The commercial organization of the slave trade -- - The origins of slaves leaving West Central Africa -- - The demographic profile of the enslaved population -- - African patterns of consumption -- - Experiences and methods of enslavement -- - Conclusion -- - Appendix A. - Slave origins data -- - Appendix B. - Slave prices data -- - Appendix C. - Exchange commodities data
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139924719
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 295 pages)
    DDC: 324.089/68073
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    Keywords: Einwanderung ; Lateinamerikaner ; USA
    Abstract: In the spring of 2006, millions of Latinos across the country participated in the largest civil rights demonstrations in American history. In this timely and highly anticipated book, Chris Zepeda-Millán analyzes the background, course, and impacts of this unprecedented wave of protests, highlighting their unique local, national, and demographic dynamics. He finds that because of the particular ways the issue of immigrant illegality was racialized, federally proposed anti-immigrant legislation (H.R. 4437) helped transform Latinos' sense of latent group membership into the racial group consciousness that incited their engagement in large-scale collective action. Zepeda-Millán shows how nativist policy threats against disenfranchised undocumented immigrants can provoke a political backlash - on the streets and at the ballot box - from not only 'people without papers', but also naturalized and US-born citizens. Latino Mass Mobilization is an important intervention into contemporary debates regarding immigration policy, social movements, and racial politics in the United States.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108277846
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 221 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in stratification economics: economics and social identity
    DDC: 330.9730089/96073
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    Keywords: Schwarze ; Rassismus ; Einkommensunterschied ; Ungleichgewicht ; USA
    Abstract: Why do black families own less than white families? Why does school segregation persist decades after Brown v. Board of Education? Why is it harder for black adults to vote than for white adults? Will addressing economic inequality solve racial and gender inequality as well? This book answers all of these questions and more by revealing the hidden rules of race that create barriers to inclusion today. While many Americans are familiar with the histories of slavery and Jim Crow, we often don't understand how the rules of those eras undergird today's economy, reproducing the same racial inequities 150 years after the end of slavery and 50 years after the banning of Jim Crow segregation laws. This book shows how the fight for racial equity has been one of progress and retrenchment, a constant push and pull for inclusion over exclusion. By understanding how our economic and racial rules work together, we can write better rules to finally address inequality in America.
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    ISBN: 9781108123655
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 184 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social theory, religion, and politics
    DDC: 282/.7308996073
    Keywords: Katholische Kirche ; Schwarze ; Religiöses Leben ; USA
    Abstract: African American Catholics, though small in number and historically the targets of racial intolerance, are now the backbone of the church. The vast majority of African American Catholics do not perceive racial marginalization and intolerance in the church. African American Catholics are among the strongest religious identifiers in the church, while whites show a more fragile Catholic identity. The Catholic church may have finally overcome its racist past for the vast majority of African American Catholics, but serious concerns remain for white Catholics. Based on data from a national religion survey, this book explores religious attitudes from an African American Catholic perspective.
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  • 36
    ISBN: 9781108151801
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online Ressource (xx, 266 Seiten)
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    Keywords: Vor- und Frühgeschichte ; Geschichte ; Kulturkontakt ; Mythologie ; Griechenland ; Türkei ; Caria / History ; Crete (Greece) / History ; Caria / Relations / Greece / Crete ; Crete (Greece) / Relations / Turkey / Caria ; Karien ; Kreta ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Karien ; Mythologie ; Kulturkontakt ; Kreta ; Vor- und Frühgeschichte
    Abstract: A persistent tradition existed in antiquity linking Caria with the island of Crete. This central theme of regional history is mirrored in the civic mythologies, cults and toponyms of southwestern Anatolia. This book explains why by approaching this diverse body of material with a broad chronological view, taking into account both the origins of this regional narrative and its endurance. It considers the mythologies in the light of archaeologically attested contacts during the Bronze Age, exploring whether such interaction could have left a residuum in later traditions. The continued relevance of this aspect of Carian history is then considered in the light of contacts during the Classical and Hellenistic periods, with analysis of how, and in which contexts, traditions survived. The Carians were an Anatolian people; however, their integration into the mythological framework of the Greek world reveals that interaction with the Aegean was a fundamental aspect of their history
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 331 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1870-1940 ; Charisma ; Attraktion ; Gefühl ; Politische Führung ; Sozialer Wandel ; Soziale Bewegung ; USA
    Abstract: An innovative examination of American society, culture, and politics, The Age of Charisma argues that the modern relationship between American leaders and followers grew out of a unique group of charismatic social movements prominent in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Drawing on hundreds of letters and testimonials, Jeremy C. Young illustrates how 'personal magnetism' in public speaking shaped society by enabling a shift from emotionally-inaccessible leadership to emotionally-available leadership. This charismatic speaking style caused a rapid transformation in the leader-follower relationship, creating an emotional link between speakers and listeners, and the effects of this social transformation remain with us today. Young argues that ultimately, charismatic movements enhanced American democracy by encouraging the personalization of leadership - creating a culture in which today's leaders appeal directly to Americans through mass media.
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    ISBN: 9781139049283
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 390 pages)
    DDC: 387.50973/09033
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1750-1850 ; Seemann ; Sprachgebrauch ; USA
    Abstract: Anyone could swear like a sailor! Within the larger culture, sailors had pride of place in swearing. But how they swore and the reasons for their bad language were not strictly wedded to maritime things. Instead, sailor swearing, indeed all swearing in this period, was connected to larger developments. This book traces the interaction between the maritime and mainstream world in the United States while examining cursing, language, logbooks, storytelling, sailor songs, reading, images, and material goods. To Swear Like a Sailor offers insight into the character of Jack Tar - the common seaman - and into the early republic. It illuminates the cultural connections between Great Britain and the United States and the appearance of a distinct American national identity. The book explores the emergence of sentimental notions about the common man - through the guise of the sailor - appearing on stage, in song, in literature, and in images.
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    ISBN: 9781139680998
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvi, 275 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies on the American South
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    DDC: 305.896/073
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte ; Schwarze. USA ; Slaves / Emancipation / United States ; African Americans / History / 19th century ; African Americans / Social conditions / 19th century ; USA ; United States / Race relations / History / 19th century ; Southern States / Social conditions / 19th century ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: On January 1, 1863, Abraham Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation, an event that soon became a bold statement of presidential power, a dramatic shift in the rationale for fighting the Civil War, and a promise of future freedom for four million enslaved Americans. But the document marked only a beginning; freedom's future was anything but certain. Thereafter, the significance of both the Proclamation and of emancipation assumed new and diverse meanings, as African Americans explored freedom and the nation attempted to rebuild itself. Despite the sweeping power of Lincoln's Proclamation, struggle, rather than freedom, defined emancipation's broader legacy. The nine essays in this volume unpack the long history and varied meanings of the emancipation of American slaves. Together, the contributions argue that 1863 did not mark an end point or a mission accomplished in black freedom; rather, it initiated the beginning of an ongoing, contested process
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction / William A. Link and James J. Broomall -- Part I. Claiming emancipation -- A universe of flight / Yael Sternhell -- Force, freedom, and the making of emancipation / Greg Downs -- A tainted ballot: military interference in elections and the Thirteenth Amendment / William A. Blair -- Part II. Contesting emancipation -- One pillar of the social fabric may still stand firm: border south marriages in the emancipation era / Allison Fredette -- Axes of empire: race, region, and the "greater reconstruction" of federal authority after emancipation / Carole Emberton -- The fear of reenslavement: Black political mobilization in response to the waning of Reconstruction / Justin Behrend -- Part III. Remembering emancipation -- African Americans and the long emancipation in new south Atlanta / William A. Link -- Washington, Toussaint, and Bolivar: the glorious advocates of liberty': Black internationalism and reimagining emancipation / Paul Ortiz -- "Remembering the abolitionists and the meanings of freedom / John Stauffer -- Epilogue: Emancipation and the nation / Laura Edwards
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    ISBN: 9781316417645
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xvii, 226 pages)
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    DDC: 303.48/4098
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    Keywords: Politik ; Wirtschaft ; Social movements / Latin America ; Protest movements / Latin America ; Political participation / Latin America ; Grundnahrungsmittel ; Protestbewegung ; Privatisierung ; Lateinamerika ; Latin America / Economic conditions ; Latin America / Social conditions ; Latin America / Politics and government ; Cochabamba ; Mexiko ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Cochabamba ; Mexiko ; Grundnahrungsmittel ; Privatisierung ; Protestbewegung
    Abstract: Meaningful Resistance explores the origins and dynamics of resistance to markets through an examination of two social movements that emerged to voice and channel opposition to market reforms. Protests against water privatization in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and rising corn prices in Mexico City, Mexico, offer a lens to analyze the mechanisms by which perceived, market-driven threats to material livelihood can prompt resistance. By exploring connections among marketization, local practices, and political protest, the book shows how the material and the ideational are inextricably linked in resistance to subsistence threats. When people perceive that markets have put subsistence at risk, material and symbolic worlds are both at stake; citizens take to the streets not only to defend their pocketbooks, but also their conceptions of community. The book advances contemporary scholarship by showing how attention to grievances in general, and subsistence resources in particular, can add explanatory leverage to analyses of contentious politics
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    ISBN: 9781316181607
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 251 pages)
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    Keywords: Sozialpolitik ; Wohlfahrtsstaat ; Einkommensverteilung ; Gleichheit ; USA
    Abstract: How does political party control determine changes to social policy, and by extension, influence inequality in America? Conventional theories show that Democratic control of the federal government produces more social expenditures and less inequality. Welfare for the Wealthy re-examines this relationship by evaluating how political party power results in changes to both public social spending and subsidies for private welfare - and how a trade-off between the two, in turn, affects income inequality. Christopher Faricy finds that both Democrats and Republicans have increased social spending over the last forty-two years. And while both political parties increase federal social spending, Democrats and Republicans differ in how they spend federal money, which socioeconomic groups benefit, and the resulting consequences for income inequality.
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    ISBN: 9781107709386
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 363 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in North American Indian history
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1880-1930 ; Indianer ; Intellektueller ; Ethnische Identität ; Weiße ; Kultur ; USA
    Abstract: In the United States of America today, debates among, between, and within Indian nations continue to focus on how to determine and define the boundaries of Indian ethnic identity and tribal citizenship. From the 1880s and into the 1930s, many Native people participated in similar debates as they confronted white cultural expectations regarding what it meant to be an Indian in modern American society. Using close readings of texts, images, and public performances, this book examines the literary output of four influential American Indian intellectuals who challenged long-held conceptions of Indian identity at the turn of the twentieth century. Kiara M. Vigil traces how the narrative discourses created by these figures spurred wider discussions about citizenship, race, and modernity in the United States. Vigil demonstrates how these figures deployed aspects of Native American cultural practice to authenticate their status both as indigenous peoples and as citizens of the United States.
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    ISBN: 9781139814799
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 247 pages)
    Series Statement: Communication, society and politics
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1940-1960 ; Massenmedien ; Medienpolitik ; USA
    Abstract: How did the American media system become what it is today? Why do American media have so few public interest regulations compared with other democratic nations? How did the system become dominated by a few corporations, and why are structural problems like market failures routinely avoided in media policy discourse? By tracing the answers to many of these questions back to media policy battles in the 1940s, this book explains how this happened and why it matters today. Drawing from extensive archival research, the book uncovers the American media system's historical roots and normative foundations. It charts the rise and fall of a forgotten media reform movement to recover alternatives and paths not taken. As much about the present and future as it is about the past, the book proposes policies for remaking media based on democratic values for the digital age.
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    ISBN: 9781139649728
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 346 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in contentious politics
    DDC: 323.1196/0730904
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    Keywords: Schwarze ; Protestbewegung ; USA
    Abstract: How do social movements die? Some explanations highlight internal factors like factionalization, whereas others stress external factors like repression. Christian Davenport offers an alternative explanation where both factors interact. Drawing on organizational, as well as individual-level, explanations, Davenport argues that social movement death is the outgrowth of a coevolutionary dynamic whereby challengers, influenced by their understanding of what states will do to oppose them, attempt to recruit, motivate, calm, and prepare constituents while governments attempt to hinder all of these processes at the same time. Davenport employs a previously unavailable database that contains information on a black nationalist/secessionist organization, the Republic of New Africa, and the activities of authorities in the US city of Detroit and state and federal authorities.
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    ISBN: 131609586X , 1316248496 , 9781316095867 , 9781316248492
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 232 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Anthropologies of Class
    DDC: 305.5
    Keywords: Social classes ; Anthropology ; Sozialanthropologie ; Soziale Schichtung ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; Soziale Klasse ; Arbeiterklasse ; Mittelstand ; Indigenismus ; Theoriendynamik ; Sociala klasser ; Jämlikhet ; Social rörlighet ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Anthropology ; Social classes ; Neoliberalismus ; Case studies ; Mauritius ; Irland ; USA ; Brasilien ; Indien ; Spanien ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: Introduction : class and the new anthropological holism / Don Kalb -- The concept of class / James G. Carrier -- Dispossession, disorganization and the anthropology of labor / August Carbonella and Sharryn Kasmir -- The organic intellectual and the production of class in Spain / Susana Narotzky -- Through a class darkly, but then face to face : praxis through the lens of class / Gavin Smith -- Walmart, American consumer-citizenship and the erasure of class / Jane Collins -- When space draws the line on class / Marc Morell -- Class trajectories and indigenism among agricultural workers in Kerala / Luisa Steur -- Making middle-class families in Calcutta / Henrike Donner -- Working-class politics in a Brazilian steel town / Massimiliano Mollona -- Export processing zones and global class formation / Patrick Neveling -- Global systemic crisis, class and its representations / Jonathan Friedman.
    Abstract: Rising social, political and economic inequality has seen the restoration of the concept of 'class' to a prominent place in contemporary anthropological debates. This book explores the concept of class and its importance for understanding the key sources of that inequality and of people's attempts to deal with it
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    ISBN: 9781107278820
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    Pages: 1 Online-Resource (vii, 239 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge essential histories
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte ; Jugend ; Hippies / United States / History ; Youth / United States / History / 20th century ; Counterculture / United States / History / 20th century ; Hippie ; Subkultur ; USA ; United States / Civilization / 1945- ; United States / History / 1961-1969 ; USA ; USA ; Hippie ; Subkultur
    Abstract: In the late 1960s and early 1970s hundreds of thousands of white middle-class American youths suddenly became hippies. This short overview of the hippie social movement in the United States examines the movement's beliefs and practices, including psychedelic drugs, casual sex, and rock music, as well as the phenomena of spiritual seeking, hostility to politics, and communes. W. J. Rorabaugh synthesizes how hippies strived for authenticity, expressed individualism, and yearned for community. Viewing the tumultuous Sixties from a new angle, Rorabaugh shows how the counterculture led to subsequent social and cultural changes in the United States with legacies including casual sex, natural foods, and even the personal computer
    Description / Table of Contents: Origins -- Drugs, music, and spirituality -- Bodies, sex, and gender -- Diggers, yippies, and people's park -- Communes
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    ISBN: 9781107107373 , 9781316227657
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: 1. publ.
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    Keywords: Sociology ; Critical theory ; Selbstkritik ; Soziologie ; Kritischer Realismus ; USA ; USA ; Soziologie ; Kritischer Realismus ; Selbstkritik
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    ISBN: 9781139027700
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 355 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1945-1989 ; Geschichte ; Politik ; Radikalismus ; Social movements / United States / History / 20th century ; Social movements / United States / History / 21st century ; Radicalism / United States / History ; Political activists / United States / History ; Dissenters / United States / History ; Liberalism / United States / History ; Right and left (Political science) / United States / History ; Kommunismus ; Bürgerrechtsbewegung ; Sozialismus ; Indigenes Volk ; Pazifismus ; Feminismus ; USA ; United States / Politics and government / 1933-1945 ; United States / Politics and government / 1945-1989 ; United States / Politics and government / 1989- ; USA ; USA ; Sozialismus ; Kommunismus ; Feminismus ; Pazifismus ; Bürgerrechtsbewegung ; Indigenes Volk ; Geschichte 1945-1989
    Abstract: Radicals in America is a masterful history of controversial dissenters who pursued greater equality, freedom and democracy - and transformed the nation. Written with clarity and verve, Radicals in America shows how radical leftists, while often marginal or ostracized, could assume a catalytic role as effective organizers in mass movements, fostering the imagination of alternative futures. Beginning with the Second World War, Radicals in America extends all the way down to the present, making it the first comprehensive history of radicalism to reach beyond the sixties. From the Communist Party and the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, its coverage extends to the Battle of Seattle and Occupy Wall Street. Each chapter begins with a particular life story, including a Harlem woman deported in the McCarthy era, a gay Japanese-American opponent of the Vietnam War, and a Native American environmentalist, vignettes that bring to life the personal within the political
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Margin and Mainstream in the American Radical Experience -- War and Peace, 1939-1948 -- All Over this Land, 1949-1959 -- A New Left, 1960-1964 -- The Revolution Will Be Live, 1965-1973 -- Anticipation, 1973-1980 -- Over the Rainbow, 1981-1989 -- What Democracy Looks Like, 1990 to the Present -- Conclusion: Radicalism's Future
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    ISBN: 9781316179093
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 296 pages)
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    Keywords: Demokratie ; Gesellschaft ; Gewalt ; USA
    Abstract: Violence and tragedy riddle democracy - not due to fatal shortcomings or unnecessary failures, but because of its very design and success. To articulate this troubling claim, Steven Johnston explores the cruelty of democratic founding, the brutal use democracies make of citizens and animals during wartime, the ambiguous consequences of legislative action expressive of majority rule, and militant practices of citizenship required to deal with democracy's enemies. Democracy must take responsibility for its success: to rule in denial of violence merely replicates it. Johnston thus calls for the development of a tragic democratic politics and proposes institutional and civic responses to democracy's reign, including the reinvention of tragic festivals and holidays, a new breed of public memorials, and mandatory congressional reparations sessions. Theorizing the violent puzzle of democracy, Johnston addresses classic and contemporary political theory, films, little known monuments, the subversive music of Bruce Springsteen, and the potential of democratic violence by the people themselves.
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    ISBN: 9781107337503
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 274 pages)
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    Abstract: This book utilizes cuisine to understand the construction of the colonial middle class in Bengal who indigenized new culinary experiences as a result of colonial modernity. This process of indigenization developed certain social practices, including imagination of the act of cooking as a classic feminine act and the domestic kitchen as a sacred space. The process of indigenization was an aesthetic choice that was imbricated in the upper caste and patriarchal agenda of the middle-class social reform. However, in these acts of imagination, there were important elements of continuity from the pre-colonial times. The book establishes the fact that Bengali cuisine cannot be labeled as indigenist although it never became widely commercialized. The point was to cosmopolitanize the domestic and yet keep its tag of 'Bengaliness'. The resultant cuisine was hybrid, in many senses like its makers.
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    ISBN: 9781107115187 , 9781107535541 , 9781316335666
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    Keywords: Politik ; Aging Government policy ; Ageism ; Older people Social conditions ; Older people Services for ; Neoliberalismus ; Sozialpolitik ; Altern ; USA ; Großbritannien ; USA ; Großbritannien ; Altern ; Neoliberalismus ; Sozialpolitik
    Abstract: "This book explores an issue central to the study of age and ageing: Do we wish to preserve old age as a discrete stage of life, to be protected by welfare policies specifically targeting 'the old'? Should old age be accorded a privileged status? This may recognise the needs of a particular age group with regard to health, income and social care. But by doing so, we support the inaccurate and possibly offensive definition of 'old age' as the stage of life beyond age 65 - a demarcation line which has no biological or cognitive significance, since human beings age at very different rates. Defining old age in this way may ghettoise and marginalise one group of people in society, encouraging prejudice against them via policies that 'single out, stigmatise and isolate the aged from the rest of society', in a way that can be seen as subtly ageist. On the other hand, should we dispense with age as a categorisation and work towards an 'age-irrelevant', 'age-neutral' or 'ageless' society - one in which individuals will be judged by the content of their character, rather than their chronological age? Is the concept of old age an outmoded relic from the past?"..
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    ISBN: 9781139963107
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    Keywords: USA ; Politische Kultur ; Politische Psychologie ; Öffentliche Meinung ; Angst ; Gesundheitspolitik ; Einwanderung ; Terrorismus ; Klimaänderung
    Abstract: Emotions matter in politics - enthusiastic supporters return politicians to office, angry citizens march in the streets, a fearful public demands protection from the government. Anxious Politics explores the emotional life of politics, with particular emphasis on how political anxieties affect public life. When the world is scary, when politics is passionate, when the citizenry is anxious, does this politics resemble politics under more serene conditions? If politicians use threatening appeals to persuade citizens, how does the public respond? Anxious Politics argues that political anxiety triggers engagement in politics in ways that are potentially both promising and damaging for democracy. Using four substantive policy areas (public health, immigration, terrorism, and climate change), the book seeks to demonstrate that anxiety affects how we consume political news, who we trust, and what politics we support. Anxiety about politics triggers coping strategies in the political world, where these strategies are often shaped by partisan agendas.
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    ISBN: 9781316018880
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    Keywords: Alltag, Brauchtum ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Death / Social aspects / United States ; Mourning customs / United States ; Bereavement / United States ; Sterben ; Bestattungsritus ; USA ; Southern States / Social life and customs ; Southern States / History ; USA Südstaaten ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Sterben ; Bestattungsritus ; USA Südstaaten
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    ISBN: 9781139381345
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies on the American South
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    DDC: 306.3/62097509034
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1783-1865 ; Geschichte ; Sklaverei ; Slavery / Southern States / History / 19th century ; Slave trade / Southern States / History / 19th century ; Forced migration / Southern States / History / 19th century ; Migration, Internal / Southern States / History / 19th century ; Slaves / Southern States / Social conditions / 19th century ; Migrant labor / Southern States / History / 19th century ; Assimilation (Sociology) / Southern States / History / 19th century ; Sklavenhandel ; Sklaverei ; Southern States / Social conditions / 19th century ; Southern States / Race relations / History / 19th century ; USA ; USA ; Sklaverei ; Sklavenhandel ; Geschichte 1783-1865
    Abstract: American slavery in the antebellum period was characterized by a massive wave of forced migration as millions of slaves were moved across state lines to the expanding southwest, scattered locally, and sold or hired out in towns and cities across the South. This book sheds new light on domestic forced migration by examining the experiences of American-born slave migrants from a comparative perspective. Juxtaposing and contrasting the experiences of long-distance, local, and urban slave migrants, it analyzes how different migrant groups anticipated, reacted to, and experienced forced removal, as well as how they adapted to their new homes
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139061148
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 266 pages)
    DDC: 973.7/415
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1861-1865 ; Sklaverei ; Befreiung ; Schwarze ; Emanzipation ; USA
    Abstract: For a century and a half, Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation has been the dominant narrative of African American freedom in the Civil War era. However, David Williams suggests that this portrayal marginalizes the role that African American slaves played in freeing themselves. At the Civil War's outset, Lincoln made clear his intent was to save the Union rather than free slaves - despite his personal distaste for slavery, he claimed no authority to interfere with the institution. By the second year of the war, though, when the Union army was in desperate need of black support, former slaves who escaped to Union lines struck a bargain: they would fight for the Union only if they were granted their freedom. Williams importantly demonstrates that freedom was not simply the absence of slavery but rather a dynamic process enacted by self-emancipated African American refugees, which compelled Lincoln to modify his war aims and place black freedom at the center of his wartime policies.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107449343
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 332 pages)
    DDC: 305.80097309/04
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1919 ; Schwarze ; Rassenunruhen ; Bürgerrechtsbewegung ; USA
    Abstract: 1919, The Year of Racial Violence recounts African Americans' brave stand against a cascade of mob attacks in the United States after World War I. The emerging New Negro identity, which prized unflinching resistance to second-class citizenship, further inspired veterans and their fellow black citizens. In city after city - Washington, DC; Chicago; Charleston; and elsewhere - black men and women took up arms to repel mobs that used lynching, assaults, and other forms of violence to protect white supremacy; yet, authorities blamed blacks for the violence, leading to mass arrests and misleading news coverage. Refusing to yield, African Americans sought accuracy and fairness in the courts of public opinion and the law. This is the first account of this three-front fight - in the streets, in the press, and in the courts - against mob violence during one of the worst years of racial conflict in US history.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139028967
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxviii, 322 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in public opinion and political psychology
    DDC: 305.800973
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    Keywords: Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Öffentliche Meinung ; Ethnische Identität ; Nationalbewusstsein ; USA
    Abstract: The civil rights movement and immigration reform transformed American politics in the mid-1960s. Demographic diversity and identity politics raised the challenge of e pluribus unum anew, and multiculturalism emerged as a new ideological response to this dilemma. This book uses national public opinion data and public opinion data from Los Angeles to compare ethnic differences in patriotism and ethnic identity and ethnic differences in support for multicultural norms and group-conscious policies. The authors find evidence of strong patriotism among all groups and the classic pattern of assimilation among the new wave of immigrants. They argue that there is a consensus in rejecting harder forms of multiculturalism that insist on group rights but also a widespread acceptance of softer forms that are tolerant of cultural differences and do not challenge norms, such as by insisting on the primacy of English.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139226479
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 359 pages)
    DDC: 305.0973
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    Keywords: Konfession ; Sozialstatus ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Despite the growing quantity and quality of research connecting religion to inequality, no single volume to date brings together key figures to discuss various components of this process. This volume aims to fill this gap with contributions from top scholars in the fields of religion and sociology. The essays in this volume provide important new details about how and why religion and inequality are related by focusing on new indicators of inequality and well-being, combining and studying mediating factors in new and informative ways, focusing on critical and often understudied groups, and exploring the changing relationship between religion and inequality over time.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511996443
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 399 pages)
    DDC: 305.80097309/04
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    Keywords: Boas, Franz ; Anthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Rasse ; Geschichte ; USA ; Ausstellungskatalog ; Ausstellungskatalog
    Abstract: Constructing Race helps unravel the complicated and intertwined history of race and science in America. Tracy Teslow explores how physical anthropologists in the twentieth century struggled to understand the complexity of human physical and cultural variation, and how their theories were disseminated to the public through art, museum exhibitions, books, and pamphlets. In their attempts to explain the history and nature of human peoples, anthropologists persistently saw both race and culture as critical components. This is at odds with a broadly accepted account that suggests racial science was fully rejected by scientists and the public following World War II. This book offers a corrective, showing that both race and culture informed how anthropologists and the public understood human variation from 1900 through the decades following the war. The book offers new insights into the work of Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Ashley Montagu, as well as less well-known figures, including Harry Shapiro, Gene Weltfish, and Henry Field.
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    ISBN: 9781139540612
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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    DDC: 306.30973/09033
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1700-1800 ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Wirtschaft ; Consumption (Economics) / Social aspects / United States / History / 18th century ; Middle class / United States / Economic conditions / 18th century ; Consumer behavior / United States / History / 18th century ; USA
    Abstract: This interdisciplinary study presents compelling evidence for a revolutionary idea: that to understand the historical entrenchment of gentility in America, we must understand its creation among non-elite people: colonial middling sorts who laid the groundwork for the later American middle class. Focusing on the daily life of Widow Elizabeth Pratt, a shopkeeper from early eighteenth-century Newport, Rhode Island, Christina J. Hodge uses material remains as a means of reconstructing not only how Mrs Pratt lived, but also how these objects reflect shifting class and gender relationships in this period. Challenging the 'emulation thesis', a common assumption that wealthy elites led fashion and culture change while middling sorts only followed, Hodge shows how middling consumers were in fact discerning cultural leaders, adopting genteel material practices early and aggressively. By focusing on the rise and emergence of the middle class, this book brings new insights into the evolution of consumerism, class, and identity in colonial America
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107358270
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 501 pages)
    DDC: 791.450973
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    Keywords: Fernsehserie ; USA
    Abstract: Something has happened in the world of television drama. For the last decade and a half America has assumed a dominant position. Novelists, screenwriters and journalists, who would once have had no interest in writing for television, indeed who often despised it, suddenly realised that it was where America could have a dialogue with itself. The new television drama was where writers could engage with the social and political realities of the time, interrogating the myths and values of a society moving into a new century. Familiar genres have been reinvented, from crime fiction to science fiction. This is a book as much about a changing America as about the television series which have addressed it, from The Sopranos and The Wire to The West Wing, Mad Men and Treme, in what has emerged as the second golden age of American television drama.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107030459 , 9781139616614 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 272 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781139616614
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    DDC: 305.800973
    Keywords: USA ; Schwarze ; Hispanos ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: This is the first systematic study of Black-Latino intergroup relations at the national level of United States politics.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139565806
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 318 pages)
    DDC: 305.892/4073
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1920-2012 ; Die Linke ; Linksradikalismus ; Antisemitismus ; USA
    Abstract: Stephen H. Norwood has written the first systematic study of the American far left's role in both propagating and combating antisemitism. This book covers Communists from 1920 onward, Trotskyists, the New Left and its black nationalist allies, and the contemporary remnants of the New Left. Professor Norwood analyzes the deficiencies of the American far left's explanations of Nazism and the Holocaust. He explores far left approaches to militant Islam, from condemnation of its fierce antisemitism in the 1930s to recent apologies for jihad. Norwood discusses the far left's use of long-standing theological and economic antisemitic stereotypes that the far right also embraced. The study analyzes the far left's antipathy to Jewish culture, as well as its occasional efforts to promote it. He considers how early Marxist and Bolshevik paradigms continued to shape American far left views of Jewish identity, Zionism, Israel, and antisemitism.
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    ISBN: 9781107324961
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (iv, 111 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge library collection. Slavery and abolition
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.5670922758
    Keywords: Craft, William ; Craft, Ellen ; Sklaverei ; Slavery / Georgia / Biography ; Fugitive slaves / United States / Biography ; Slavery / United States / Biography ; USA ; Biografie ; Biografie
    Abstract: In this short work of 1860, William Craft (c.1825–1900), assisted by his wife Ellen (c.1825–91), recounts the remarkable story of how they escaped from slavery in America. Having married as slaves in Georgia, yet unwilling to raise a family in servitude, the couple came up with a plan to disguise the light-skinned Ellen as a man, with William acting as her slave, and to travel to the north in late 1848. This compelling narrative traces their successful journey to Philadelphia and their subsequent move to Boston, where they became involved in abolitionist activities. Later, the couple sought greater safety in England, where they lived for a number of years and had five children. A success upon its first appearance, the book touches on the themes of race, gender and class in mid-nineteenth-century America, offering modern readers a first-hand account of how barriers to freedom could be overcome
    Note: Facsimile reprint. Originally published: London : William Tweedie, 1860. - Inscribed to William Lloyd Garrison Esq. with William & Ellen Craft's sincere thanks for his indefatigable labours in the cause of freedom. Hammersmith London June 27th 1860. - Portrait of Ellen Craft engraved by S.A. Schoff after Hale's dag
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    ISBN: 1139625977 , 113938127X , 9781139625975 , 9781139381277
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 191 pages) , illustrations, maps
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in contentious politics
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Gillion, Daniel Q., 1979- Political power of protest
    DDC: 303.6/1
    Keywords: Protest movements ; Political participation ; Minorities Civil rights ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Government ; General ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Violence in Society ; Minorities ; Civil rights ; Political participation ; Protest movements ; Protestbewegung ; Minderheit ; Bürgerrecht ; Politische Beteiligung ; United States ; USA
    Abstract: "This book demonstrates the direct influence that political protest behavior has on Congress, the presidency, and the Supreme Court, illustrating that protest is a form of democratic responsiveness that government officials have used, and continue to draw on, to implement federal policies. Focusing on racial and ethnic minority concerns, this book shows that the context of political protest has served as a signal for political preferences. As pro-minority rights behavior grew and anti-minority rights actions declined, politicians learned from minority protest and responded when they felt emboldened by stronger informational cues stemming from citizens' behavior, a theory referred to as the "information continuum." Given the influence that minority protest actions have wielded over national government, the book offers a powerful implication. Although the shift from protest to politics as a political strategy has opened the door for institutionalized political opportunity, racial and ethnic minorities have neglected a powerful tool to illustrate the inequalities that exist in contemporary society"--
    Abstract: 1. A continuum of information: the influence of minority political protest -- 2. Measuring information in minority protest -- 3. Viewing minority protest from the hill: the response from an individual and collective body of Congress -- 4. Knocking on the president's door: the impact of minority protest on presidential responsiveness -- 5. Appealing to an unlikely branch: minority political protest and the Supreme Court -- 6. Conclusion: settling protest dust and a future outlook on minority policies.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139507691
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 349 pages)
    DDC: 306.0973
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    Keywords: USA ; Geschichte 1861-1936 ; Progressismus ; Sozialpolitik
    Abstract: This book tells the story of constitutional government in America during the period of the 'social question'. After the Civil War and Reconstruction, and before the 'second Reconstruction' and cultural revolution of the 1960s, Americans dealt with the challenges of the urban and industrial revolutions. In the crises of the American Revolution and the Civil War, the American founders - and then Lincoln and the Republicans - returned to a long tradition of Anglo-American constitutional principles. During the Industrial Revolution, American political thinkers and actors gradually abandoned those principles for a set of modern ideas, initially called progressivism. The social crisis, culminating in the Great Depression, did not produce a Lincoln to return to the founders' principles, but rather a series of leaders who repudiated them. Since the New Deal, Americans have lived in a constitutional twilight, not having completely abandoned the natural-rights constitutionalism of the founders, nor embraced the entitlement-based welfare state of modern liberalism.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 1139612840 , 1139625861 , 1139333682 , 9781139625869 , 9781139333689 , 9781139612845
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (308 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Fumurescu, Alin, 1967- Compromise
    DDC: 302.3
    Keywords: Political science Philosophy ; Compromise (Ethics) ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; History & Theory ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Negotiating ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Interpersonal Relations ; Compromise (Ethics) ; Political science ; Philosophy ; Kompromiss ; Politische Theorie ; Compromissen ; Filosofische aspecten ; Electronic books ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: "This book offers for the first time a conceptual history of compromise. Alin Fumurescu combines contextual historical analysis of daily parlance and a survey of the usage of the word from the end of the sixteenth century to the beginning of the eighteenth century in both French and English with an analysis of canonical texts in the history of political thought. This book fills a significant gap in the literature about compromise and demonstrates the connection between different understandings of compromise and corresponding differences in understandings of political representation. In addition, Fumurescu addresses two controversial contemporary debates about when compromise is beneficial and when it should be avoided at all costs. A better understanding of the genealogy of compromise offers new venues for rethinking basic assumptions regarding political representation and the relationship between individuals and politics"--
    Abstract: "This book offers a conceptual history of compromise that demonstrates the connection between different understandings of compromise and corresponding differences in understandings of political representation"--
    Abstract: 3.2. Compromissum as Electio3.3. The French Méfiance about Compromise; 3.4. The Virtues of British Compromise; 4 The Dialectic of the Individual; 4.1. The Ambivalent Christian; 4.2. One Individual, Two Fora; 4.3. Two Fora, One Church; 4.4. One Res publica, Two Fora; 4.5. Individuals and Representation; 5 Compromise and Centripetal Individualism; 5.1. The Emergence of Centripetal Individualism; 5.2. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose -- Sovereignty: Between Will and Reason; 5.3. State versus People; 5.4. Centripetal Individualism and Hands-On Politics.
    Abstract: 6 Compromise and Centrifugal Individualism6.1. "And the British Being Utterly Divided from the Whole World"; 6.2. The Common Weal of Individuals; 6.3. Collapsing the Two Fora; 6.4. Centrifugal Individualism, Compromise, and Contractualism; 6.5. Parliament and Ascending Representation; 6.6. Compromise as Political Practice; 6.7. The Glorious Compromise; 7 The Forgotten Road of Representation; 7.1. The French 'Contracts of Reason'; 7.2. Other Continental Versions of Contract Theory; 7.3. French Contractualism after Hobbes and Locke; 8 The British Contract as Com-promise.
    Abstract: 8.1. Patriarchalism and Contractualism8.2. Republicanism and Contractualism; 8.3. The Advent of the 'New' Compromise in Politics; 9 Conclusions; 9.1. Compromise and the Two-Dimensional Man; 9.2. Compromise and the One-Dimensional Man; 9.3. Compromise and Civil Society; 9.4. Compromise and Ascending Representation; 9.5. Render Unto Compromise ... ; 9.6. The Future of Political Compromise; Index.
    Abstract: Cover; HalfTitle; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 1.1. The Opportunity; 1.2. The Challenges; 1.3. Compromise and Self-Representation; 1.4. Compromise and Political Representation; 1.5. The Structure of the Argument; 1.6. Preliminary Conclusions; 2 No Compromise about Compromise; 2.1. Compromise before Compromise?; 2.2. Compromise: From Method to Principle; 2.3. Compromise Without Compromising?; 2.4. The (A)Morality of Compromise; 2.5. Compromise as a National Feature?; 3 The Genealogy of Compromise and Its Vagaries; 3.1. Compromissum as Arbitratio.
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    ISBN: 1107250307 , 1107248647 , 1139344153 , 9781107248649 , 9781139344159 , 9781107250307
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 365 pages) , illustrations, maps
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Huber, Valeska, 1980- Channelling mobilities
    DDC: 304.80962/15
    Keywords: Migration, Internal History ; Trade routes History ; Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages History ; Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages ; Trade routes ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Emigration & Immigration ; Migration, Internal ; History ; Suez Canal (Egypt) History ; Egypt ; Suez ; Egypt ; Suez Canal ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: "The history of globalisation is usually told as a history of shortening distances and acceleration of the flows of people, goods and ideas. Channelling Mobilities refines this picture by looking at a wide variety of mobile people passing through the region of the Suez Canal, a global shortcut opened in 1869. As an empirical contribution to global history, the book asks how the passage between Europe and Asia and Africa was perceived, staged and controlled from the opening of the Canal to the First World War, arguing that this period was neither an era of unhampered acceleration, nor one of hardening borders and increasing controls. Instead, it was characterised by the channelling of mobilities through the differentiation, regulation and bureaucratisation of movement. Telling the stories of tourists, troops, workers, pilgrims, stowaways, caravans, dhow skippers and others, the book reveals the complicated entanglements of empires, internationalist initiatives and private companies."--Publisher's website
    Abstract: Introduction : mobility and its limits -- Rites de passage and perceptions of global space -- Regimes of passage : troops in the canal zone -- Companies and workers -- Bedouin and caravans -- Dhows and slave trading in the Red Sea -- Mecca pilgrims under imperial surveillance -- Contagious mobility and the filtering of disease -- Rights of passage and the identification of individuals -- Conclusion : rites de passage and rights of passage in the Suez Canal region and beyond.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-354) and index
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    ISBN: 9781139016872
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 392 pages)
    Series Statement: New approaches to European history 46
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1890-2010 ; Europa ; USA
    Abstract: This is a fascinating new overview of European-American relations during the long twentieth century. Ranging from economics, culture and consumption to war, politics and diplomacy, Mary Nolan charts the rise of American influence in Eastern and Western Europe, its mid-twentieth century triumph and its gradual erosion since the 1970s. She reconstructs the circuits of exchange along which ideas, commodities, economic models, cultural products and people moved across the Atlantic, capturing the differing versions of modernity that emerged on both sides of the Atlantic and examining how these alternately produced co-operation, conflict and ambivalence toward the other. Attributing the rise and demise of American influence in Europe not only to economics but equally to wars, the book locates the roots of many transatlantic disagreements in very different experiences and memories of war. This is an unprecedented account of the American Century in Europe that recovers its full richness and complexity.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780521871679 , 9781139570718 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 406 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781139570718
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    Series Statement: New Approaches to European History
    DDC: 303.4824073
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1890-2010 ; Europa ; USA ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: An unprecedented account of the American Century in Europe, ranging from economics, culture and consumption to war, politics and diplomacy.
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    ISBN: 9780511998171
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 266 pages)
    DDC: 972/.1
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Staatsgrenze ; Mexikaner ; Rückwanderung ; USA ; Mexiko
    Abstract: This study is a reinterpretation of nineteenth-century Mexican American history, examining Mexico's struggle to secure its northern border with repatriates from the United States, following a war that resulted in the loss of half Mexico's territory. Responding to past interpretations, Jose Angel Hernández suggests that these resettlement schemes centred on developments within the frontier region, the modernisation of the country with loyal Mexican American settlers, and blocking the tide of migrations to the United States to prevent the depopulation of its fractured northern border. Through an examination of Mexico's immigration and colonisation policies as they developed in the nineteenth century, this book focuses primarily on the population of Mexican citizens who were 'lost' after the end of the Mexican American War of 1846–8 until the end of the century.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511791496 , 1139190768 , 9781139190763 , 9780511791499
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 304 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Gilreath, Shannon, 1977- End of straight supremacy
    DDC: 306.76/60973
    Keywords: Gays Social conditions ; Gay rights History ; Gay liberation movement History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gay Studies ; Gay liberation movement ; Gay rights ; Gays ; Social conditions ; Gleichstellung ; Homosexualität ; Homosexuellenbewegung ; LAW ; General ; History ; United States ; USA
    Abstract: "This book presents a cohesive theory of gay life under straight domination and calls for the difficult task of rethinking what liberation and equality really mean"--
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: The metaethics of gay liberation -- Part I. Equality and Making Meaning: 2. Law/morality: thoughts on morality, equality, and caste; 3. Law/power: the appropriation of gay identity in Lawrence v. Texas -- and the substantive alternative -- Part II. Equality, Sexuality, and Expression: 4. Speech/hate propaganda: a comment on Harper v. Poway Unified School District; 5. Pornography/death: the problem of gay pornography in a straight supremacist system -- Part III. Millennial Equality: A Primer on Gay Liberation in the Twenty-First Century: 6. Gay/straight: the binary ontology of the gay marriage debate; 7. Knowledge/power: reversing the heteroarchal reversals of religion, marriage, and caste; 8. Trans/sex: transsexualism, patriarchal ontology, and postmodern praxis -- (Non)Epilogue: flaming, but not burning.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9780511842986
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.5120973
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    Keywords: Gleichheit ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; Soziale Schichtung ; USA
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107010680 , 9781139377096 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 192 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781139377096
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 303.4973
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    Keywords: Internationale Politik ; Machtpolitik ; Außenpolitik ; USA ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: This book makes a strong argument against the widely proclaimed notion that the United States is destined to decline.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511846366
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 361 pages)
    Series Statement: Communication, society and politics
    DDC: 071/.3
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    Keywords: Massenmedien ; Nachrichtensendung ; Neue Medien ; Politische Berichterstattung ; Politische Kommunikation ; USA
    Abstract: The new media environment has challenged the role of professional journalists as the primary source of politically relevant information. After Broadcast News puts this challenge into historical context, arguing that it is the latest of several critical moments, driven by economic, political, cultural and technological changes, in which the relationship among citizens, political elites and the media has been contested. Out of these past moments, distinct 'media regimes' eventually emerged, each with its own seemingly natural rules and norms, and each the result of political struggle with clear winners and losers. The media regime in place for the latter half of the twentieth century has been dismantled, but a new regime has yet to emerge. Assuring this regime is a democratic one requires serious consideration of what was most beneficial and most problematic about past regimes and what is potentially most beneficial and most problematic about today's new information environment.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139028547
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 248 pages)
    DDC: 201/.73
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    Keywords: Wohlstand ; Verteilung ; Religion ; USA
    Abstract: For those who own it, wealth can have extraordinary advantages. High levels of wealth can enhance educational attainment, create occupational opportunities, generate social influence and provide a buffer against financial emergencies. Even a small amount of savings can improve security, mitigate the effects of job loss and other financial setbacks and improve well-being dramatically. Although the benefits of wealth are significant, they are not enjoyed uniformly throughout the United States. In the United States, because religion is an important part of cultural orientation, religious beliefs should affect material well-being. This book explores the way religious orientations and beliefs affect Americans' incomes, savings and net worth.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780521896511 , 9781139137454 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 262 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Ann Arbor, Michigan Proquest Online-Ressource ISBN 9781139137454
    Edition: ISBN (falsch) 9781139141475
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 201/.73
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    Keywords: Wohlstand ; Verteilung ; Religion ; USA
    Abstract: This book explores the way religious orientations and beliefs affect Americans' incomes, savings and net worth.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107004597 , 9781139188166 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 320 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781139188166
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 306.7660973
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Homosexualität ; Recht ; Homosexuellenbewegung ; Gleichstellung ; USA
    Abstract: This book presents a cohesive theory of gay life under straight domination.
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  • 79
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511761249
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 269 pages)
    DDC: 973
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    Keywords: Nationalcharakter ; Einwanderung ; Akkulturation ; USA
    Abstract: This book explores public opinion about being and becoming American, and its implications for contemporary immigration debates. It focuses on the causes and consequences of two aspects of American identity: how people define being American and whether people think of themselves primarily as American rather than as members of a panethnic or national origin group. Importantly, the book evaluates the claim – made by scholars and pundits alike – that all Americans should prioritize their American identity instead of an ethnic or national origin identity. It finds that national identity within American democracy can be a blessing or a curse. It can enhance participation, trust, and obligation. But it can be a curse when perceptions of deviation lead to threat and resentment. It can also be a curse for minorities who are attached to their American identity but also perceive discrimination.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511558573
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (275 pages) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Ideas in context 15
    Series Statement: Ideas in context
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    DDC: 306/.094
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    Keywords: Morel, Bénédict Augustin ; Lombroso, Cesare ; Maudsley, Henry ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1848-1918 ; Geschichte ; Degeneration / History / 19th century ; Dekadenz ; Biologismus ; Sozialphilosophie ; Europa ; Europe / Social conditions / 1789-1900 ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Dekadenz ; Geschichte 1848-1918 ; Maudsley, Henry 1835-1918 ; Lombroso, Cesare 1836-1909 ; Morel, Bénédict Augustin 1809-1873 ; Sozialphilosophie ; Biologismus ; Geschichte 1848-1918 ; Dekadenz ; Sozialphilosophie ; Geschichte 1848-1918
    Abstract: This book investigates the specific conception and descent of a language of 'degeneration' from 1848–1918, with particular reference to France, Italy and England. Daniel Pick shows how in the refraction and wake of evolution and naturalism, new images and theories of atavism, 'degenerescence' and socio-biological decline emerged in European culture and politics. He indicates the wide cultural and political importance of the idea of degeneration, whilst showing that the notion could mean different things at different times in different places
    Note: Contexts , France , Degenerescence and revolution , Zola's prognosis , The wake of degenerescence , Italy , Lombroso's criminal science , England , Fictions of degeneration , Crime, urban degeneration and national decadence
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139003650
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 411 pages)
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    Keywords: Philosophie ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Wiedergutmachung ; Quotierung ; Hate crime ; USA
    Abstract: In this book, philosopher David Boonin attempts to answer the moral questions raised by five important and widely contested racial practices: slave reparations, affirmative action, hate speech restrictions, hate crime laws and racial profiling. Arguing from premises that virtually everyone on both sides of the debates over these issues already accepts, Boonin arrives at an unusual and unorthodox set of conclusions, one that is neither liberal nor conservative, color conscious nor color blind. Defended with the rigor that has characterized his previous work but written in a more widely accessible style, this provocative and important new book is sure to spark controversy and should be of interest to philosophers, legal theorists and anyone interested in trying to resolve the debate over these important and divisive issues.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511777943 , 9780511858161 , 9780521517997 , 9780521734455
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 335 pages) , graph. Darst.
    DDC: 304.8/73
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Einwanderer ; Geschichte ; Migration ; Immigrants / United States / History ; Einwanderer ; USA ; United States / Emigration and immigration / History ; USA ; USA ; Einwanderer ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Immigration makes America what it is and is formative for what it will become. America was settled by three different models of immigration, all of which persist to the present. The Virginia Colony largely equated immigration with the arrival of laborers, who had few rights. Massachusetts welcomed those who shared the religious views of the founders but excluded those whose beliefs challenged the prevailing orthodoxy. Pennsylvania valued pluralism, becoming the most diverse colony in religion, language, and culture. This book traces the evolution of these three models of immigration as they explain the historical roots of current policy debates and options. Arguing that the Pennsylvania model has best served the country, the final chapter makes recommendations for future immigration reform. Given the highly controversial nature of immigration in the United States, this book provides thoughtful analysis, valuable to both academic and policy audiences
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. 'Gentlemen, tradesmen, serving-men, libertines'; 3. 'A city upon a hill'; 4. 'The seed of the nation'; 5. Immigration and the formation of the republic; 6. Building a nation: 1830-1880; 7. The golden door: 1880-1917; 8. The triumph of restrictionism: 1882-1924; 9. Turning inward: 1924-1964; 10. 'A nation of immigrants': 1965-1994; 11. A nation of refuge; 12. The Pennsylvania model at risk: 1993-2009; 13. Looking ahead
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780521879927 , 9781139081535 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 376 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781139081535
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    DDC: 305.42097309045
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1976-1986 ; Pornografie ; Frauenbewegung ; USA ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: The rise and fall of the American feminist anti-pornography movement, discovering its origins in 1970s political and cultural conditions.
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    ISBN: 9781107017221 , 9781139221429 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 450 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781139221429
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    DDC: 305.868/073
    Keywords: Hispanos ; Ethnische Identität ; Politik ; USA
    Abstract: Provides essential knowledge about Latinos, contextualizing research data by structuring discussion around many dimensions of Latino political life in the US.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511779473
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xx, 242 pages)
    Edition: Second edition
    Series Statement: New approaches to the Americas
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    DDC: 306.3/6209
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Slave trade / Africa ; Slave trade / Europe ; Slave trade / America ; Sklavenhandel ; Geschichte ; Afrika ; Amerika ; Europa ; Europa ; USA ; Afrika ; Amerika ; USA ; Europa ; Afrika ; Sklavenhandel ; Geschichte ; Europa ; Sklavenhandel ; Geschichte ; Amerika ; Sklavenhandel ; Geschichte ; Afrika ; Sklavenhandel ; Geschichte ; Amerika ; Sklavenhandel ; Geschichte
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511750717
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xv, 224 pages)
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    DDC: 305.800973
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Nationalismus ; Psychologie ; National characteristics, American ; National characteristics, American / Psychological aspects ; Nationalism / Social aspects / United States ; Nationalism / United States / Psychological aspects ; Group identity / United States ; Loyalty / Social aspects / United States ; Social psychology / United States ; Nationalbewusstsein ; USA ; United States / Social conditions / 1980- ; USA ; USA ; Nationalbewusstsein
    Abstract: Why is national identity such a potent force in people's lives? And is the force positive or negative? In this thoughtful and provocative book, Elizabeth Theiss-Morse develops a social theory of national identity and uses a national survey, focus groups, and experiments to answer these important questions in the American context. Her results show that the combination of group commitment and the setting of exclusive boundaries on the national group affects how people behave toward their fellow Americans. Strong identifiers care a great deal about their national group. They want to help and to be loyal to their fellow Americans. By limiting who counts as an American, though, these strong identifiers place serious limits on who benefits from their pro-group behavior. Help and loyalty are offered only to 'true Americans,' not Americans who do not count and who are pushed to the periphery of the national group
    Description / Table of Contents: The need for a social theory of national identity -- Commitment to the national group -- The setting of national group boundaries -- The desire to help the national group -- Loyalty in the face of criticism -- Is national identity good or bad?
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511490835
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 336 pages)
    DDC: 305.50973
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    Keywords: Herrnstein, Richard J. ; Intelligenzquotient ; Intelligenzniveau ; Rasse ; Ungleichheit ; USA
    Abstract: Professor James R. Flynn is renowned for his belief that the IQ gap between black and white Americans is not genetic, but environmental in origin. Flynn's controversial new book offers an alternative to the vision of American society popularized by Herrnstein and Murray in The Bell Curve and is a must-read for all those wanting to keep up to date with the IQ debate. It traces the history of American idealism from Jefferson to the followers of Leo Strauss; analyses the black marriage market, the case for affirmative action, the folly of Iraq, and the liberal failure of will; and concludes with a powerful defence of humane ideals and human autonomy. With its clear and attractive prose, social scientists, philosophers and the general public will find this a unique and exciting book that will rearm American idealism with new ideas.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511482748 , 9780511388262
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 375 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.36209
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Geschichte ; Sklaverei ; Slavery / Greece / History ; Slavery / Rome / History ; Slavery / America / History ; Civilization, Classical ; Civilization, Modern ; Sklaverei ; Amerika ; Griechenland ; Rom ; USA ; Griechenland ; Lateinamerika ; Karibik ; Römisches Reich ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Griechenland ; Römisches Reich ; USA ; Lateinamerika ; Karibik ; Sklaverei ; Geschichte
    Abstract: A ground-breaking edited collection charting the rise and fall of forms of unfree labour in the ancient Mediterranean and in the modern Atlantic, employing the methodology of comparative history. The eleven chapters in the book deal with conceptual issues and different approaches to historical comparison, and include specific case-studies ranging from the ancient forms of slavery of classical Greece and of the Roman empire to the modern examples of slavery that characterised the Caribbean, Latin America and the United States. The results demonstrate both how much the modern world has inherited from the ancient in regard to ideology and practice of slavery; and also how many of the issues and problems related to the latter seem to have been fundamentally similar across time and space
    Note: The study of ancient and modern slave systems : setting an agenda for comparison , Slavery, gender, and work in the pre-modern world and early Greece : a cross-cultural analysis , Slaving as historical process : examples from the ancient Mediterranean and the modern Atlantic , The comparative economics of slavery in the Greco-Roman world , Slavery and technology in pre-industrial contexts , Comparing or interlinking? : economic comparisons of early nineteenth-century slave systems in the Americas in historical perspective , Ideal models of slave management in the Roman world and in the ante-bellum American South , Panis, disciplina, et opus servo : the Jesuit ideology in Portuguese America and Greco-Roman ideas of slavery , Processes of exiting the slave systems : a typology , Emancipation schemes : different ways of ending slavery , Spartiates, helots, and the direction of the agrarian economy: toward an understanding of helotage in comparative perspective
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780511428197
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (352 pages)
    DDC: 305.50973
    Keywords: Herrnstein, Richard J. ; Intelligenzquotient ; Intelligenzniveau ; Rasse ; Ungleichheit ; USA
    Abstract: A controversial, left wing discussion arguing that IQ gaps between black and white Americans are environmental not genetic.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780511504266
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (204 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
    DDC: 305.48896073
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Gruppenidentität ; Frau ; Identität ; Schwarze ; Ethnische Identität ; Frauenbewegung ; USA
    Abstract: Examines the racial and gender social movements of the 1960s in the context of the traditions from which they evolved.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511269587 , 0511268718 , 0511270143 , 6610750491 , 9780511268717 , 9780511270147 , 9780511269585 , 9786610750498
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxvii, 540 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rosefielde, Steven Masters of illusion
    DDC: 306.20973
    Keywords: USA ; Government information ; Political culture ; National security ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Government information ; National security ; Political culture ; Politics and government ; Innere Sicherheit ; Politische Führung ; Politische Kultur ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; United States Politics and government ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Assesses the forces that will buffet the United States and the global order through 2050
    Abstract: A world wounded -- Long-term economic realism -- "Smooth comforts false" -- the illusions that confuse us -- Towers of illusion: dysfunctional behaviors -- Mythomaniacs: the sources of our illusions -- Champions of freedom or imperialists: how we're perceived -- We're different now -- The economic roots of American power -- Economic disparities among nations -- Geopolitical aspirations of the nations -- A witch's brew of troubles: the next big wars -- The Middle East -- Strategic independence: an ounce of prevention -- America as mature superpower -- The dangers of overreach -- The transatlantic trap -- The middle course -- How public culture inhibits presidential leadership -- Choosing a great president -- Master of illusions.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-523) and index
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511840067
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 276 pages)
    DDC: 305.420973/09047
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1970-1990 ; Frau ; Sexuelle Belästigung ; Feminismus ; USA
    Abstract: This book recounts the story of how a diverse social movement placed sexual harassment on the public agenda in the 1970s and 1980s. The collaboration of women from varying racial, economic, and geographic backgrounds strengthened the movement by representing the experiences and perspectives of a broad range of women, and incorporating their resources and strategies for social change. Black women; middle-class feminists; women breaking into construction, coal mining, and other non-traditional occupations; and women in pink-collar and working-class white-collar jobs all helped to convince governments to adopt public policies against sexual harassment in the United States. Based on interviews and original research, this book shows how the movement against sexual harassment fundamentally changed American life in ways that continue to advance women's opportunities today.
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  • 93
    ISBN: 9781139878425
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvii, 315 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in public opinion and political psychology
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    DDC: 302.23
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1935-2005 ; Massenmedien ; Politik ; Mass media / Political aspects ; Mass media / Influence ; Politik ; Massenmedien ; USA ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; USA ; Massenmedien ; Politik ; Geschichte 1935-2005
    Abstract: The media environment is changing. Today in the United States, the average viewer can choose from hundreds of channels, including several twenty-four hour news channels. News is on cell phones, on iPods, and online; it has become a ubiquitous and unavoidable reality in modern society. The purpose of this 2007 book is to examine systematically, how these differences in access and form of media affect political behaviour. Using experiments and survey data, it shows how changes in the media environment reverberate through the political system, affecting news exposure, political learning, turnout, and voting behaviour
    Description / Table of Contents: ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. Conditional political learning -- pt. 1: The participatory effects of media choice. ch. 3. Broadcast television, political knowledge, and turnout -- Appendix to ch. 3. Measuring political knowledge, NES 1952-1968 -- ch. 4. From low choice to high choice : the impact of cable television and Internet on news exposure, political knowledge, and turnout -- Appendix to ch. 4. Description of knowledge measures -- ch. 5. From low choice to high choice : Does greater media choice affect total news consumption and average turnout? -- pt. 2: The political effects of media choice. ch. 6. Broadcast television, partisanship, and the incumbency advantage -- ch. 7. Partisan polarization in the high-choice media environment -- Appendix to ch. 7. Using a selection model to simulate partisan vote strength in the full electorate ch. 8. Divided by choice : audience fragmentation and political inequality in the post-broadcast media environment
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511286554 , 0511285833 , 9780511286551 , 9780511285837
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 314 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) , illustrations, maps
    Series Statement: New approaches to the Americas
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bergad, Laird W., 1948- Comparative histories of slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States
    DDC: 306.3/62097
    Keywords: Slavery History ; Slavery History ; Slavery History ; Slavery ; Sklaverei ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Slavery ; History ; Cuba ; United States ; Brazil ; Brasilien ; Kuba ; USA
    Abstract: Introduction -- From colonization to abolition : patterns of historical development in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States -- The diversity of slavery in the Americas to 1790 -- Slaves in their own words -- Slave populations -- Economic aspects -- Making space -- Resistance and rebellions -- Abolition.
    Abstract: This book is an introductory history of racial slavery in the Americas
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-302) and index
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  • 95
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780511284250
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (342 pages)
    Series Statement: New Approaches to the Americas
    DDC: 306.3620973
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Sklaverei ; Brasilien ; Kuba ; USA
    Abstract: This 2007 book is an introductory history of racial slavery in the Americas.
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  • 96
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511489112
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 255 pages)
    DDC: 305.3
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    Keywords: Europäische Union ; Sexuelle Belästigung ; USA ; Deutschland
    Abstract: Sexual harassment, in particular in the workplace, is a controversial topic which often makes headline news. What accounts for the cross-national variation in laws, employer policies, and implementation of policies dealing with sexual harassment in the workplace? Why was the United States on the forefront of policy and legal solutions, and how did this affect politicization of sexual harassment in the European Union and its member states? Exploring the way sexual harassment has become a global issue, Kathrin Zippel draws on theories of comparative feminist policy, gender and welfare state regimes, and social movements to explore the distinct paths that the United States, the European Union and its member states, specifically Germany, have embarked on to address the issue. This comparison provides invaluable insights on the role of transnational movements in combatting sexual harassment, and on future efforts to implement the European Union Directive of 2002.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511550560
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 308 pages)
    DDC: 331.3/98133
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1920-2005 ; Alter ; Diskriminierung ; USA ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: Age discrimination is a highly topical issue in all industrialised societies, against a background of concerns about shortening working lives and ageing populations in the future. Based upon detailed research, and adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this unique study traces the history of the age discrimination debate in Britain and the USA since the 1930s. It critically analyses the concepts of ageism in social relations and age discrimination in employment. Case-studies on generational equity and health care rationing by age are followed by an analysis of the British government's initiatives against age discrimination in employment. The book then traces the history of the debate on health status and old age, addressing the question of whether working capacity has improved sufficiently to justify calls to delay retirement and extend working lives. It concludes with a detailed examination of the origins and subsequent working of the USA's 1967 Age Discrimination in Employment Act.
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  • 98
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511486104
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 241 pages)
    DDC: 820.9
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1730-1830 ; Gesellschaftskritik ; Frau ; Kulturkritik ; Nordamerika ; USA
    Abstract: Early American Women Critics demonstrates that performances of various kinds - religious, political and cultural - enabled women to enter the human rights debates that roiled the American colonies and young republic. Black and white women staked their claims on American citizenship through disparate performances of spirit possession, patriotism, poetic and theatrical production. They protected themselves within various shields which allowed them to speak openly while keeping the individual basis of their identities invisible. Cima shows that between the First and Second Great Religious Awakenings (1730s–1830s), women from West Africa, Europe, and various corners of the American colonies self-consciously adopted performance strategies that enabled them to critique American culture and establish their own diverse and contradictory claims on the body politic. This book restores the primacy of religious performances - Christian, Yoruban, Bantu and Muslim - to the study of early American cultural and political histories, revealing that religion and race are inseparable.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511606663
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 213 pages)
    DDC: 306.84/80973090511
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    Keywords: Eingetragene Lebenspartnerschaft ; Homosexuelles Paar ; Eheschließung ; USA
    Abstract: America's Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage chronicles the evolution of the social movement for same-sex marriage in the United States and examines the political controversies surrounding gay people's quest for access to the civil institution of marriage. The book focuses on the momentous events that began in November 2003, when the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court declared unequivocally that the state's conferral of marriage only on opposite-sex couples violated constitutional principles of respect for individual autonomy and equality under law. The decision both triggered a political backlash of national proportion and prompted officials in Massachusetts, San Francisco, Multnomah County, Sandoval County and New Paltz to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The volume relies on in-depth interviews to provide an insider account of how courts, politicians, and activists maneuver and deal with a cutting-edge social policy issue, as well as real-life narratives about everyday people whom the debate immediately affects.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780511259715
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (273 pages)
    Series Statement: Communication, Society and Politics
    DDC: 384
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    Keywords: Massenmedien ; Unternehmenskonzentration ; Eigentümer ; Pressefreiheit ; USA
    Abstract: This book provides a normative critique of mass media ownership concentration.
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