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  • 1
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    Does war make states? : investigations of Charles Tilly's historical sociology (2017)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781316595633
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 333 pages)
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    DDC: 303.66
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    Keywords: Tilly, Charles Political and social views ; Tilly, Charles Political and social views ; Tilly, Charles - Political and social views ; State, The ; War and society ; War and society ; State, The ; Historical sociology ; Krieg ; Staat ; Nationenbildung ; Staatslehre ; Politische Soziologie ; Geschichte ; Forschung ; Meinungsänderung ; Erde ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 02.10.2009-03.10.2009 ; Konferenzschrift 28.05.2010-29.05.2010 ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 02.10.2009-03.10.2009 ; Konferenzschrift 28.05.2010-29.05.2010 ; Konferenzschrift 02.10.2009-03.10.2009 ; Konferenzschrift 28.05.2010-29.05.2010 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 02.10.2009-03.10.2009 ; Konferenzschrift 28.05.2010-29.05.2010 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Historische Soziologie ; Staat ; Kriegführung
    Abstract: "This volume is the result of two meetings held at Copenhagen Business School (2-3 October 2009 and 28-9 May 2010) [...]." (Acknowledgments)
    Abstract: This engaging volume scrutinises the causal relationship between warfare and state formation, using Charles Tilly's work as a foundation.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: State Formation Theory: Status, Problems, and Prospects -- Theorising the State -- Mapping State-Formation Theories -- Locating Charles Tilly -- Structure of the Volume -- Part I Lineages -- 1 After the Tilly Thesis: Social Conflict, Differential State-formation and Geopolitics in the Construction of the European System of States -- Historical Sociology, International Relations and the Tilly Thesis -- Overcoming 'Methodological Nationalism': Encompassing Comparison -- Defining Capitalism: From Marx to Weber -- The State and the Exteriority of the Interstate System: From Weber to Waltz -- The Absence of a Social Theory of War -- Two Logics of Capital and Coercion and the Reification of Agency -- Explaining Variations: Tri-linearity and the Bracketing of the Peasantry -- Reversing the Tilly Thesis: Pre-Capitalist States Made War and War Unmade These States -- (Geo-)Political Marxism: Basic Theoretical Premises -- Conclusion -- 2 Otto Hintze, Stein Rokkan and Charles Tilly's Theory of European State-building -- Introduction -- Hintze's Early Writings -- Tilly's Two State-building Models -- Hintze's Later Writings: An Alternative to Rokkan and Tilly -- Conclusion -- Part II Challenges -- 3 War and State Formation: Amending the Bellicist Theory of State Making -- Introduction -- The Military Revolution and State Development in Europe -- The Empirical Record -- The Foundational Work of Charles Tilly -- The Impact of the Bellicist Argument on Contemporary Social Science Scholarship -- Specifying the Connections between War and State Making -- Problematizing Warfare and State Building -- State Capacity or Territorial Sovereign Authority?
    Abstract: Strong Form Selection and Optimal State Organization -- Amending the Bellicist Theory of War: Accounting for Systemic Context and Agency -- Clarification of Domestic Coalitions -- Specification of the Mechanism of Aggregation -- Conclusion -- 4 Beyond the Tilly Thesis: ''Family Values'' and State Formation in Latin Christendom -- Introduction -- The Neo-Darwinian Approach to State Consolidation: Summary and Critique -- The Neo-Malthusian Approach: Specifications and Adjudications -- Primogeniture -- Female Inheritance and Dynastic Unions -- The Fragility of the Dynastic Family -- Dynasticism and Territorial Consolidation -- The Bureaucratization of State Administration: A Neo-Weberian Account -- Patrimonialism and Military Organization in Early Modern Europe -- Conclusion: ''Family Values'' and the ''Rise of the West'' -- Part III Omissions -- 5 The Space of State Formation -- Introduction -- The Theoretical Problem of Space and State Formation -- The Territorial State -- The Nature of Space -- Cartography and Spatial History -- A Cartographic Transition -- Knowing the Territory -- Cartographic Territory -- Mapping Denmark -- Cartography and Territorial Sovereignty -- Conclusion -- 6 The Realm as a European Form of Rule: Unpacking the Warfare Thesis through the Holy Roman Empire -- Introduction -- The Warfare Thesis and the Absence of the Holy Roman Empire -- The Early Modern Holy Roman Empire as a Resilient Non-State Polity -- When the Holy Roman Empire Was Not an Anomaly -- The Similarity and Later Divergence of England, ''France'' and the HRE -- Medieval Polities Did Not Conform to Modern Definitions of Statehood -- Realm as a Form of Rule Distinct from States and Lineage Systems -- Tilly's Concept of the State Revisited
    Abstract: The Realm-State Distinction Suggests a Missing Element in Contemporary State-Building -- Conclusions and Future Directions -- 7 War, Conflict and the State Reconsidered -- War and the State -- What Is War? -- War as Politics -- Rank, Status and Violence -- Institutions and Violence -- The Types of War in Premodern Europe -- War and Society in Medieval and Early Modern Europe -- Limited War -- Institutions and Total War -- Peasants and Social Conflict -- Religious Conflict -- Constitutional Conflict -- Conquest and Territorial Domination in Medieval and Early Modern Europe -- Conclusion -- Part IV Vistas -- 8 War and State in the Middle East: Reassessing Charles Tilly in a Regional Context -- Tilly's Paradigm and Historical Sociology -- War-Making and State-Making in the Middle East -- The ''Arab Spring'' and Middle Eastern Authoritarianism: Tilly on Its Head -- Theory of Contemporary State Formation: Charles Tilly and Beyond -- 9 Beyond Mere War: Authority and Legitimacy in the Formation of the Latin American States -- Introduction -- What Is the Latin American State? -- What Can War Explain about Latin American State Making? -- When Is a State or Government ''Legitimate''? -- The Search for Authority in Latin American State Making -- 10 How Tilly's State Formation Paradigm is Revolutionizing the Study of Chinese State-making -- Tilly's Critics -- Tilly and the Case of China -- Chinese State-Making in the Classical Period -- Chinese State-Making in the Modern Period -- Chinese State-Making in the Imperial Period -- Tilly and Chinese State-Making Today -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index
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    From Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chavez : intellectuals and a century of political hero worship (2016)
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    ISBN: 9781107071032 , 9781107741966
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 325 pages)
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    Keywords: Mussolini, Benito ; Chávez Frías, Hugo ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1925-2013 ; Geschichte ; Intellectuals / Political activity / History / 20th century ; Intellectuals / Attitudes / History / 20th century ; Diktator ; Intellektueller ; Politisches System ; Politiker ; Diktatur ; Chávez Frías, Hugo 1954-2013 ; Mussolini, Benito 1883-1945 ; Diktatur ; Politisches System ; Politiker ; Diktator ; Intellektueller ; Geschichte 1925-2013
    Abstract: During the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, political dictators were not only popular in their own countries, but were also admired by numerous highly educated and idealistic Western intellectuals. The objects of this political hero-worship included Benito Mussolini, Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro and more recently Hugo Chavez, among others. This book seeks to understand the sources of these misjudgements and misperceptions, the specific appeals of particular dictators, and the part played by their charisma, or pseudo-charisma. It sheds new light not only on the political disposition of numerous Western intellectuals - such as Martin Heidegger, Eric Hobsbawm, Norman Mailer, Ezra Pound, Susan Sontag and George Bernard Shaw - but also on the personality of those political leaders who encouraged, and in some instances helped to design, the cult surrounding their rise to dictatorship
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 Jan 2017) , Introduction: intellectuals and politics -- Mussolini, fascism and intellectuals -- Hitler, nazism and intellectuals -- Stalin, Rakosi, Soviet communism and intellectuals -- Castro, Che Guevara, and their western admirers -- Western intellectuals, Mao's China and Cambodia under Pol Pot -- Other dictators and their admirers in more recent times -- Conclusions: the personal and the political
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    Taming Babel : language in the making of Malaysia (2016)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781316563007
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xx, 261 pages)
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    DDC: 306.44/9595
    RVK:
    ES 129
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1870-1970 ; Geschichte ; Politik ; Language policy / Malaysia / History / 19th century ; Language policy / Malaysia / History / 20th century ; Multilingualism / Political aspects / Malaysia / History ; Malay language / Political aspects / Malaysia / History ; Chinese language / Political aspects / Malaysia / History ; Postcolonialism / Malaysia / History ; Herrschaft ; Sprache ; Sprachpolitik ; Malaysia / Politics and government / 19th century ; Malaysia / Politics and government / 20th century ; Malaysia ; Malaysia ; Sprachpolitik ; Sprache ; Herrschaft ; Geschichte 1870-1970
    Abstract: Taming Babel sheds new light on the role of language in the making of modern postcolonial Asian nations. Focusing on one of the most linguistically diverse territories in the British Empire, Rachel Leow explores the profound anxieties generated by a century of struggles to govern the polyglot subjects of British Malaya and postcolonial Malaysia. The book ranges across a series of key moments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in which British and Asian actors wrought quiet battles in the realm of language: in textbooks and language classrooms; in dictionaries, grammars and orthographies; in propaganda and psychological warfare; and in the very planning of language itself. Every attempt to tame Chinese and Malay languages resulted in failures of translation, competence, and governance, exposing both the deep fragility of a monoglot state in polyglot milieux, and the essential untameable nature of languages in motion
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I. The Colonial State -- The technocrats : challenges of governance in a polyglot society -- The knowledge producers : taming sounds, scripts and selves -- Part II. Word Wars -- The lexicographers : dictionaries and the making of postwar politics -- The propagandists : public relations, psychological warfare and the making of the influential state -- Part III. The Postcolonial State -- The language planners : Dewan Bahasa in the invention and constriction of the postcolonial nation-state -- Postscript -- Appendices -- Glossary
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    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781316563007
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    In Defense of Uncle Tom : Why Blacks Must Police Racial Loyalty (2015)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781107070042 , 9781107707160
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (376 pages)
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    DDC: 305.896/073
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Geschichte 1865-2014 ; Uncle Tom (Fictitious character) ; Diskriminierung ; Rechtsstellung ; Bürgerrechtsbewegung ; Schwarze ; USA ; USA ; Schwarze ; Diskriminierung ; Geschichte 1865-2014 ; USA ; Schwarze ; Rechtsstellung ; Geschichte 1865-2014 ; USA ; Bürgerrechtsbewegung ; Geschichte
    Abstract: 'Uncle Tom' is the most piercing epithet blacks can hurl at one another. It marks targets as race traitors, and that painful stain is often permanent. Much more than a slur, Uncle Tom is a vital component of a system of social norms in the black community that deters treachery. In this book, Brando Simeo Starkey provocatively argues that blacks must police racial loyalty and that those successfully prosecuted must be punished with the label Uncle Tom. This book shadows Uncle Tom throughout history to understand how these norms were constructed, disseminated, applied, and enforced. Why were Martin Luther King, Jr, Marcus Garvey, Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson, Thurgood Marshall and others accused of racial betrayal? In Defense of Uncle Tom answers this and other questions and insists that Uncle Tom is too valuable to discard. Because it deters treachery, this epithet helps build black solidarity, a golden tool in promoting racial progress
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    Radicals in America : the U.S. Left since the Second World War (2015)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139027700
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 355 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge essential histories
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    DDC: 303.48/4
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    MG 70370
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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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    The politics of heritage in Africa : economies, histories, and infrastructures (2015)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781316151181
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XX, 291 S.)
    Series Statement: The International African library 48
    Series Statement: The International African library
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    DDC: 363.69096
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Politik ; Cultural property / Political aspects / Ghana / Congresses ; Cultural property / Political aspects / South Africa / Congresses ; Heritage tourism / Political aspects / Ghana / Congresses ; Heritage tourism / Political aspects / South Africa / Congresses ; Cultural property / Protection / Ghana / Congresses ; Cultural property / Protection / South Africa / Congresses ; Ethnological museums and collections / Political aspects / Ghana / Congresses ; Ethnological museums and collections / Political aspects / South Africa / Congresses ; Kulturpolitik ; Kulturerbe ; Südafrika (Staat) ; Afrika ; Johannesburg ; Konferenzschrift 2011 ; Afrika ; Kulturerbe ; Kulturpolitik ; Geschichte ; Johannesburg
    Abstract: Heritage work has had a uniquely wide currency in Africa's politics. Secure within the pages of books, encoded in legal statutes, encased in glass display cases and enacted in the panoply of court ritual, the artefacts produced by the heritage domain have become a resource for government administration, a library for traditionalists and a marketable source of value for cultural entrepreneurs. The Politics of Heritage in Africa draws together disparate fields of study - history, archaeology, linguistics, the performing arts and cinema - to show how the lifeways of the past were made into capital, a store of authentic knowledge that political and cultural entrepreneurs could draw from. This book shows African heritage to be a mode of political organisation, a means by which the relics of the past are shored up, reconstructed and revalued as commodities, as tradition, as morality or as patrimony
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    Biometric state : the global politics of identification and surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the present (2014)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139939546
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 252 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1850-2014 ; Geschichte ; Politik ; Citizenship / South Africa / History ; Biometric identification / Government policy / South Africa / History ; Biometric identification / Political aspects / South Africa / History ; Politische Kontrolle ; Biometrie ; Südafrika (Staat) ; South Africa / Politics and government / 19th century ; South Africa / Politics and government / 20th century ; Südafrika ; Südafrika ; Biometrie ; Politische Kontrolle ; Geschichte 1850-2014
    Abstract: Biometric identification and registration systems are being proposed by governments and businesses across the world. Surprisingly they are under most rapid, and systematic, development in countries in Africa and Asia. In this groundbreaking book Keith Breckenridge traces how the origins of the systems being developed in places like India, Mexico, Nigeria and Ghana can be found in a century-long history of biometric government in South Africa, with the South African experience of centralized fingerprint identification unparalleled in its chronological depth and demographic scope. He shows how empire, and particularly the triangular relationship between India, the Witwatersrand and Britain, established the special South African obsession with biometric government, and shaped the international politics that developed around it for the length of the twentieth century. He also examines the political effects of biometric registration systems, revealing their consequences for the basic workings of the institutions of democracy and authoritarianism
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: the global biometric arena -- Science of empire: the South African origins and objects of Galtonian eugenics -- Asiatic despotism: Edward Henry on the Witwatersrand -- Gandhi's biometric entanglement: fingerprints, Satyagraha and the global politics of Hind Swaraj -- No will to know: biometric registration and the limited curiosity of the gatekeeper state -- Verwoerd's bureau of proof: the apartheid bewysburo and the end of documentary government -- Galtonian reversal: apartheid and the making of biometric citizenship -- Epilogue: empire and the mimetic fantasy
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    An environmental history of Russia (2013)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139021043
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 340 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Studies in environment and history
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    DDC: 304.20947
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1861-1991 ; Geschichte ; Indigenes Volk ; Umweltpolitik ; Ökologie ; Human ecology / Russia (Federation) / History ; Indigenous peoples / Ecology / Russia (Federation) / History ; Environmental degradation / Russia (Federation) / History ; Environmental policy / Russia (Federation) / History ; Natur ; Umwelt ; Russia (Federation) / Environmental conditions ; Sowjetunion ; Russland ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Russland ; Sowjetunion ; Umwelt ; Natur ; Geschichte 1861-1991
    Abstract: The former Soviet empire spanned eleven time zones and contained half the world's forests; vast deposits of oil, gas and coal; various ores; major rivers such as the Volga, Don and Angara; and extensive biodiversity. These resources and animals, as well as the people who lived in the former Soviet Union - Slavs, Armenians, Georgians, Azeris, Kazakhs and Tajiks, indigenous Nenets and Chukchi - were threatened by environmental degradation and extensive pollution. This environmental history of the former Soviet Union explores the impact that state economic development programs had on the environment. The authors consider the impact of Bolshevik ideology on the establishment of an extensive system of nature preserves, the effect of Stalinist practices of industrialization and collectivization on nature, and the rise of public involvement under Khrushchev and Brezhnev, and changes to policies and practices with the rise of Gorbachev and the break-up of the USSR.
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    Power in movement : social movements and contentious politics (2011)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511973529
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xx, 328 pages)
    Edition: Third edition
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Social movements / History ; Collective behavior / History ; Social change / History ; Soziale Bewegung ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Politischer Wandel ; Sozialer Wandel ; Demokratie ; Bürgerinitiative ; Sozialer Wandel ; Soziale Bewegung ; Soziale Bewegung ; Politischer Wandel ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Demokratie ; Bürgerinitiative
    Abstract: Social movements have an elusive power but one that is altogether real. From the French and American revolutions to the post-Soviet, ethnic and terrorist movements of today, contentious politics exercises a fleeting but powerful influence on politics, society and international relations. This study surveys the modern history of the modern social movements in the West and their diffusion to the global South through war, colonialism and diffusion, and it puts forward a theory to explain its cyclical surges and declines. It offers an interpretation of the power of movements that emphasizes effects on the lives of militants, policy reforms, political institutions and cultural change. The book focuses on the rise and fall of social movements as part of contentious politics in general and as the outcome of changes in political opportunities and constraints, state strategy, the new media of communication and transnational diffusion
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Contentious politics and social movements; Part I. The birth of the modern social movement; 2. Modular collective action; 3. Print and association; 4. States, capitalism, and contention; Part II. Powers in Movement: 5. Acting contentiously; 6. Networks and organizations; 7. Making meanings; 8. Threats, opportunities, and regimes; Part III. Dynamics of Contention: 9. Mechanisms and processes of contention; 10. Cycles of contention; 11. Struggling to reform; 12. Transnational contention; Conclusion: the future of social movements
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    A nation of immigrants (2011)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511777943 , 9780511858161 , 9780521517997 , 9780521734455
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 335 pages) , graph. Darst.
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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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    Migration and diaspora in modern Asia (2011)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511976346
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xviii, 216 pages)
    Series Statement: New approaches to Asian history 7
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1850-2010 ; Einwanderer ; Geschichte ; Migration ; Asian diaspora ; Asians / Migrations ; Immigrants / Asia / History ; Refugees / Asia / History ; Migration ; Asien ; Asia / Emigration and immigration / History ; Asien ; Asien ; Migration ; Geschichte 1850-2010
    Abstract: Migration is at the heart of Asian history. For centuries migrants have tracked the routes and seas of their ancestors - merchants, pilgrims, soldiers and sailors - along the Silk Road and across the Indian Ocean and the China Sea. Over the last 150 years, however, migration within Asia and beyond has been greater than at any other time in history. Sunil S. Amrith's engaging and deeply informative book crosses a vast terrain, from the Middle East to India and China, tracing the history of modern migration. Animated by the voices of Asian migrants, it tells the stories of those forced to flee from war and revolution, and those who left their homes and their families in search of a better life. These stories of Asian diasporas can be joyful or poignant, but they all speak of an engagement with new landscapes and new peoples
    Description / Table of Contents: Asia's great migrations, 1850-1930 -- The making of Asian diasporas, 1850-1930 -- War, revolution and refugees, 1930-1950 -- Migration, development and the Asian city, 1950-1970 -- Asian migrants in the age of globalization, 1970-2010
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    Europe since 1980 (2010)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511844867
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 331 pages)
    Series Statement: The World since 1980
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1980-2008 ; Geschichte ; Technological innovations / Economic aspects / Europe ; Integration ; Politischer Wandel ; Wirtschaftliche Integration ; Sozialer Wandel ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel ; Europa ; Europäische Union. Mitgliedsstaaten ; Europe / Social conditions / 20th century ; Europe / Social conditions / 21st century ; European Union countries / Economic integration / History / 20th century ; Former communist countries / Relations / European Union countries ; European Union countries / Relations / Former communist countries ; Osteuropa ; Europa ; Europa ; Osteuropa ; Wirtschaftliche Integration ; Politischer Wandel ; Sozialer Wandel ; Geschichte 1980-2008 ; Europa ; Politischer Wandel ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel ; Geschichte 1980-2008 ; Europa ; Integration ; Wirtschaftliche Integration ; Geschichte 1980-2008
    Abstract: This book tells the dramatic story of the economic, social, political, and cultural transformation of Europe during the transition from the Cold War to the European Union. Ivan Berend charts, in particular, the overwhelming impact of the collapse of communism on every aspect of European life. Europe became safer and more united, and Central and Eastern Europe started on the difficult road to economic modernization. However, the western half of Europe also changed. European integration gained momentum. The single market and the common currency were introduced, and the Union enlarged from nine to twenty-seven countries. This period also saw a revolution in information and communication technology, the increasing impact of globalization and the radical restructuring of the political system. The book explores the impact of all of these changes as well as the new challenges posed by the economic crisis of 2008–9 and asks which way now for Europe?
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    Darwinism, war and history : the debate over the biology of war from the "Origin of species" to the First World War (2009)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511521348
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 306 Seiten)
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    Keywords: Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882 / Influence ; Darwin, Charles ; Geschichte 1859-1918 ; Geschichte ; Psychologie ; Weltkrieg (1914-1918) ; Aggressiveness / History ; Social Darwinism / History ; Biopolitics / History ; World War, 1914-1918 / Causes ; War / Psychological aspects / History ; Peace / Psychological aspects / History ; Theorie ; Biologie ; Friede ; Krieg ; Darwinismus ; Soziobiologie ; Gesellschaft ; Sozialdarwinismus ; Darwinismus ; Gesellschaft ; Darwinismus ; Krieg ; Krieg ; Theorie ; Darwinismus ; Geschichte 1859-1918 ; Krieg ; Sozialdarwinismus ; Geschichte 1859-1918 ; Krieg ; Soziobiologie ; Geschichte 1859-1918 ; Darwin, Charles 1809-1882 On the origin of species by means of natural selection ; Krieg ; Friede ; Krieg ; Friede ; Biologie ; Geschichte 1859-1918
    Abstract: While much has been written upon Social Darwinism, the historical impact of Darwinism upon theories of war and human aggression has been sadly neglected. This book is the first to study this discourse in depth. It challenges the received view that Darwinism generated essentially aggressive and warlike social values and pugnacious images of humankind. Paul Crook reconstructs the influential discourse of 'peace biology', whose liberal vision was of a basically free humanity, not fettered by iron laws of biological necessity or governed by violent genes. By exploring a gamut of Darwinian readings of history and war, mainly in the English-speaking world to 1919, this study throws new light upon militarism, peace movements, the origins of World War I and British social thought
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. The Darwinian legacy.--2. The age of Spencer and Huxley.--3. Crisis in the west: the pre-war generation and the new biology.-- 4. 'The natural decline of warfare': anti-war evolutionism prior to 1914.--5. The first owrld war: man the fighting animal.--6. The survival of peace biology.--7. Naturalistic fallacies and noble ends.--8. Conclusion
    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511521348
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    A history of Egypt : from the Arab conquest to the present (2007)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511607578
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 184 pages)
    Edition: Second edition
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    Keywords: Geschichte 639-2006 ; Geschichte 639-1985 ; Geschichte ; Politik ; Geschichte ; Egypt / History / 640-1882 ; Egypt / History / 1798- ; Egypt / Civilization ; Egypt / Politics and government ; Ägypten ; Ägypten ; Geschichte 639-2006 ; Ägypten ; Geschichte 639-1985 ; Ägypten ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Egypt occupies a central position in the Arab world. Its borders between sand and sea have existed for millennia and yet, until 1952, the country was ruled by foreigners. Afaf al-Sayyid Marsot explores the paradoxes of Egypt's history in an updated edition of her successful A Short History of Modern Egypt. Charting the years from the Arab conquest, through the age of the Mamluks, Egypt's incorporation into the Ottoman Empire, the liberal experiment in constitutional government in the early twentieth century, followed by the Nasser and Sadat years, the new edition takes the story up to the present day. During the Mubarak era, Egyptians have seen major changes with the rise of globalization and its effects on their economy, the advent of new political parties, the entrenchment of Islamic fundamentalism and the consequent changing attitudes to women. This short history is ideal for students and travelers
    Description / Table of Contents: The Arab conquest of Egypt to the end of the Ayyubi dynasty, 639-1250 -- The age of the mamluks, 1250-1516 -- The Ottoman age, 1516-1805 -- The beginning of the state system, 1805-1922 -- The liberal experiment, 1922-52 -- The Nasser years, 1952-70 -- From Sadat to Mubarak, 1970 to the present day
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    The killing trap : genocide in the twentieth century (2005)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511491023
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xv, 461 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte ; Genocide ; Genocide / History / 20th century ; Völkermord ; Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit ; Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Völkermord ; Geschichte 1900-2000
    Abstract: The Killing Trap, first published in 2005, offers a comparative analysis of the genocides, politicides and ethnic cleansings of the twentieth century, which are estimated to have cost upwards of forty million lives. The book seeks to understand both the occurrence and magnitude of genocide, based on the conviction that such comparative analysis may contribute towards prevention of genocide in the future. Manus Midlarsky compares socio-economic circumstances and international contexts and includes in his analysis the Jews of Europe, Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, Tutsi in Rwanda, black Africans in Darfur, Cambodians, Bosnians, and the victims of conflict in Ireland. The occurrence of genocide is explained by means of a framework that gives equal emphasis to the non-occurrence of genocide, a critical element not found in other comparisons, and victims are given a prominence equal to that of perpetrators in understanding the magnitude of genocide
    Description / Table of Contents: pt. I. Introduction -- 1. Preliminary considerations -- Purposes of the book -- The role of theory -- Research strategy -- Plan of the book -- 2. Case selection -- Excluded cases -- Three cases of genocide -- pt. II. Explaining perpetrators : theoretical foundations -- 3. Continuity and validation -- Continuity of the killing in three cases -- Validation -- 4. Prologue to theory -- Rational choice -- Utopianism -- Two historical cases -- 5. A theoretical framework -- The domain of losses and state insecurity -- Three types of realpolitik -- Realpolitik, property, and loss compensation -- The domain of losses, risk, and loss compensation -- Altruistic punishment -- pt. III. The theory applied -- 6. Threat of numbers, realpolitik, and ethnic cleansing -- The Irish famine -- Germans and Jews in Poland -- Muslims in Bosnia -- 7. Realpolitik and loss -- The Holocaust -- The Armenians -- The Tutsi -- Conclusion -- 8. The need for unity and altruistic punishment -- Germany -- The Ottoman empire -- Rwanda -- Himmler and the necessity for cooperation -- Conclusion -- 9. Perpetrating states -- Italy : a genocidal trajectory -- Vichy France -- Romania
    Description / Table of Contents: pt. IV. Victim vulnerability : explaining magnitude and manner of dying -- 10. Raison d'état, raison d'église -- The Armenians -- The Holocaust -- The Tutsi -- Conclusion -- 11. Cynical realpolitik and the unwanted -- The United States -- Great Britain and commonwealth countries -- Impact on the Holocaust -- 12. High victimization : the role of realpolitik -- Hungary -- The Netherlands -- 13. Inequality and absence of identification -- Inequality and absence of identification between perpetrators and victims -- Inequality and absence of identification among the victims -- On the possibilities of survival -- Equality and identification between Jews and non-Jews -- 14. On the possibility of revolt and altruistic punishment -- Łódź -- Warsaw -- Vilna -- Comparisons among the three ghettos -- Conclusion : the role of altruistic punishment
    Description / Table of Contents: pt. V. Exceptions -- 15. A dog of a different nature : the Cambodian politicide -- Variation in victimization -- Genocide of the Vietnamese -- The communist models -- Purges -- Summary comparisons -- 16. Dogs that didn't bark I : realpolitik and the absence of loss -- Bulgaria -- Finland -- Comparisons -- 17. Dogs that didn't bark II : affinity and vulnerability reduction -- Affinity and genocide -- Greeks in the Ottoman empire -- Jews in Eastern Europe -- Poland at the time of the Partitions -- Britain and Ireland -- Israel and intifada II -- The impact of war -- pt. VI. Conclusion -- 18. Findings, consequences, and prevention -- Similarities and differences -- Consequences of genocide -- Genocide prevention and the role of democracy -- Validation -- Coda
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    Racial politics in post-revolutionary Cuba (2005)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511791031
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xxii, 199 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1960-2006 ; Geschichte ; Politik ; Race discrimination / Cuba / History / 20th century ; Rassenpolitik ; Cuba / Race relations / Political aspects ; Cuba / Politics and government / 1959-1990 ; Kuba ; Kuba ; Rassenpolitik ; Geschichte 1960-2006
    Abstract: This book analyzes the triumphs and failures of the Castro regime in the area of race relations. It places the Cuban revolution in a comparative and international framework and challenges arguments that the regime eliminated racial inequality or that it was profoundly racist. Through interviews, historical materials, and survey research, it provides a balanced view. The book maintains that Cuba has not been a racial democracy as some have argued. However, it also argues that Cuba has done more than any other society to eliminate racial inequality. The contemporary outlook of the book demonstrates how much of Cuban racial ideology was unchanged by the revolution. Thus, the current implementation of market reforms and in particular tourism has exacerbated racial inequalities. Finally, it holds that despite these shortcomings, the regime remains popular among blacks because they perceive their alternatives of the US and the Miami Exile community to be far worse
    Description / Table of Contents: Race cycles, racial hierarchy, and inclusionary discrimination : a dynamic approach -- Freedom and discrimination : uneven inequality and inclusion in prerevolutionary Cuba -- Race and revolution : transformation and continuity -- Match made in heaven or strange bedfellows? : Black radicals in Castro's Cuba -- Race and daily life in Cuba during the Special Period : Part I. Interview data -- Race and daily life in Cuba during the Special Period : Part II. Survey research. -- Racial politics in Miami : Ninety miles and a world away
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    Re-imagining Rwanda : conflict, survival and disinformation in the late twentieth century (2002)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511491092
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xvii, 251 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte ; Berichterstattung ; Völkermord in Ruanda ; Rwanda / History / Civil War, 1994 ; Rwanda / Ethnic relations / History / 20th century ; Online-Publikation ; Völkermord in Ruanda ; Berichterstattung
    Abstract: The tragic conflict in Rwanda and the Great Lakes in 1994–1996 attracted the horrified attention of the world's media. Journalists, diplomats and aid workers struggled to find a way to make sense of the bloodshed. Johan Pottier's troubling study shows that the post-genocide regime in Rwanda was able to impose a simple yet persuasive account of Central Africa's crises upon international commentators new to the region, and he explains the ideological underpinnings of this official narrative. He also provides a sobering analysis of the way in which this simple, persuasive, but fatally misleading analysis of the situation on the ground led to policy errors that exacerbated the original crisis. Professor Pottier has extensive field experience in the region, from before and after the genocide, and he has also worked among refugees in eastern Zaire
    Description / Table of Contents: Build-up to war and genocide : society and economy in Rwanda and eastern Zaire -- Mind the gap : how the international press reported on society, politics, and history -- For beginners, by beginners : knowledge construction under the Rwandese Patriotic Front -- Labelling refugees : international aid and the discourse of genocide -- Masterclass in surreal diplomacy : understanding the culture of "political correctness" -- Land and social development : challenges, proposals, and their imagery
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    The East European gypsies : regime change, marginality, and ethnopolitics (2002)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511817373
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 408 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1990-1999 ; Geschichte ; Romanies / Europe, Eastern / History ; Politik ; Wirtschaft ; Geschichte ; Nationale Minderheit ; Minderheitenpolitik ; Gesellschaft ; Diktatur ; Staatssozialismus ; Roma ; Zigeuner ; Osteuropa ; Osteuropa ; Nationale Minderheit ; Roma ; Politik ; Wirtschaft ; Gesellschaft ; Geschichte 1990-1999 ; Zigeuner ; Diktatur ; Nationale Minderheit ; Osteuropa ; Minderheitenpolitik ; Zigeuner ; Osteuropa ; Zigeuner ; Geschichte ; Osteuropa ; Roma ; Geschichte ; Staatssozialismus ; Roma
    Abstract: This 2001 book is an attempt by a social scientist to explain the predicament of Gypsies (or Roma), Eastern Europe's largest ethnic minority, and their relationship to the region's states and societies. Barany examines the Gypsies' socioeconomic and political marginality and policies toward them through seven centuries and in seven East European states. He illuminates the reasons why the Roma have consistently occupied the bottom of social, economic, and political hierarchies regardless of historical period or geographic location. Barany argues that the current nostalgia of many Gypsies for the socialist period is easy to understand, given the disastrous effect of the post-communist socioeconomic transformation on the Roma's conditions over the last decade. He explains the impact of Gypsy political mobilization, and the activities of international organizations and NGOs, on government policies. This pioneering multidisciplinary work will engage political scientists, sociologists and historians, as well as students of ethnic and racial studies
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: PART I. THE ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK -- 1. Regimes, States, and Minorities -- 2. Marginality and Ethnic Mobilization -- PART II. NONDEMOCRATIC SYSTEMS AND GYPSY MARGINALITY -- 3. The Gypsies in Imperial and Authoritarian States -- 4. The Roma under State-Socialism -- PART III. THE GYPSIES IN EMERGING DEMOCRACIES -- 5. The Socioeconomic Impact of Regime Change: Gypsy -- Marginality in the 1990s -- 6. Romani Mobilization -- 7. The International Dimension: Migration and Institutions -- State Institutions and Policies toward the Gypsies -- 8. Romani Marginality Revisited -- Conclusion -- References
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    Understanding ethnic violence : fear, hatred, and resentment in twentieth-century Eastern Europe (2002)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511840661
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 296 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1905 ; Geschichte 1848-1998 ; Geschichte 1918-2000 ; Geschichte ; Ethnic conflict / Europe, Eastern / History / 20th century ; Gewalt ; Minderheitenfrage ; Europe, Eastern / Ethnic relations / History / 20th century ; Osteuropa ; Baltikum ; Jugoslawien ; Tschechoslowakei ; Tschechoslowakei ; Minderheitenfrage ; Gewalt ; Geschichte 1848-1998 ; Baltikum ; Minderheitenfrage ; Gewalt ; Geschichte 1905 ; Osteuropa ; Minderheitenfrage ; Gewalt ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Jugoslawien ; Minderheitenfrage ; Gewalt ; Geschichte 1918-2000
    Abstract: This 2002 book seeks to identify the motivations of individual perpetrators of ethnic violence. The work develops four models, labeled Fear, Hatred, Resentment, and Rage, gleaned from existing social science literatures. The empirical chapters apply these four models to important events of ethnic conflict in Eastern Europe, from the 1905 Russian Revolution to the collapse of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Each historical chapter generates questions about the timing and target of ethnic violence. The four models are then applied to the case, to learn which does the best job in explaining the observed patterns of ethnic conflict. The findings challenge conventional wisdom, in that the Resentment narrative, centered on a sense of unjust group status, provides the best fit for a variety of cases. While Fear, Hatred, and Rage do motivate hostile actions, Resentment pervasively appears to inflame ethnic animosity and drive outcomes in the timing and pattern of action
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    Power in movement : social movements and contentious politics (1998)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511813245
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xv, 271 pages)
    Edition: Second edition
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Social movements / History ; Collective behavior / History ; Social change / History ; Bürgerinitiative ; Demokratie ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Soziale Bewegung ; Politischer Wandel ; Sozialer Wandel ; Sozialer Wandel ; Soziale Bewegung ; Soziale Bewegung ; Politischer Wandel ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Demokratie ; Bürgerinitiative
    Abstract: Unlike political or economic institutions, social movements have an elusive power, but one that is no less real. From the French and American revolutions through the democratic and workers' movements of the nineteenth century to the totalitarian movements of today, movements exercise a fleeting but powerful influence on politics and society. This study surveys the history of the social movement, puts forward a theory of collective action to explain its surges and declines, and offers an interpretation of the power of movement that emphasises its effects on personal lives, policy reforms and political culture. While covering cultural, organisational and personal sources of movements' power, the book emphasises the rise and fall of social movements as part of political struggle and as the outcome of changes in political opportunity structure
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    Creating socialist women in Japan : gender, labour, and activism, 1900-1937 (1997)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511518270
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (ix, 252 pages)
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    DDC: 305.42/0952
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1900-1937 ; Geschichte ; Women socialists / Japan / History / 20th century ; Feminists / Japan / History / 20th century ; Sozialismus ; Frauenbewegung ; Japan ; Japan ; Frauenbewegung ; Sozialismus ; Geschichte 1900-1937
    Abstract: This 1997 book tells the inspiring story of a group of women who challenged the expectations of their society in their writings and in their actions. Vera Mackie surveys the developments of socialist women's activism in Japan from the 1900s to the 1930s, in the broader context of the industrial and political development of modern Japan. She outlines the major socialist women's organisations and their debates with their liberal and anarchist sisters. The book also offers close analysis of the political and creative writings of socialist women
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Imperial Subjects. Liberalism and Gender. The Constitutional System. Gendered Subjecthood. Discourses of Family and State -- 3. Wives. The Conjunction of Feminism and Socialism. Women in the Socialist Movement. The Socialist Women's Seminar. Socialist Views of Marriage and the Family. Imagining New Relationships. Socialists and the Patriotic Women's Association. The Campaign for the Repeal of Article Five. Two Incidents. Beyond the Heiminsha Family -- 4. Mothers. Factory Legislation. The Yuaikai Women's Division. The New Women. The Bluestockings and the Socialists. 'The True New Woman'. The Motherhood Protection Debate. Discourses of Protection. Speaking as a Mother -- 5. Workers. Women in Industry. May Day and International Women's Day. Women's Special Demands. Organizing Women in the Yuaikai/Sodomei. The Hyogikai Debates on the Women's Division. Women in the Nichiro Unions. Imagining Women Workers. Striking Women. From Worker to Activist -- 6. Activists
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    Social Darwinism in European and American thought, 1860-1945 : nature as model and nature as threat (1997)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511558481
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 344 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1860-1945 ; Geschichte ; Social Darwinism / History ; Geschichte ; Sozialdarwinismus ; Sozialdarwinismus ; Geschichte ; Sozialdarwinismus ; Geschichte 1860-1945
    Abstract: This wide-ranging study focuses upon the controversies surrounding the meaning and significance of Social Darwinism. It clarifies the nature of Social Darwinism and its relationship to the ideas of Darwin, Lamarck and Herbert Spencer. After examining the development of Social Darwinist theories by a number of European and American thinkers, Mike Hawkins explores the use of these theories in a number of ideological debates and movements of the period 1860–1945. These include socio-political reform, national and racial conflict, eugenics, the position of women and Nazism/Fascism. The aim is to illuminate, through detailed comparative analyses, both the flexibility and the limits of Social Darwinism - limits which derive from the view of nature which lies at the very heart of Social Darwinism. The study concludes with a discussion of modern sociobiology in order to assess the continuing vitality of Social Darwinism
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , Defining Social Darwinism , Defining Social Darwinism , Distinctiveness of Social Darwinism , Pioneers , Emergence of Social Darwinism , Herbert Spencer and cosmic evolution , Social Darwinism in the USA , Social Darwinism in France and Germany , Case studies , Reform Darwinism , Races, nations and the struggle for existence , Eugenic conscience , Social Darwinism, nature and sexual difference , Nazism, Fascism and Social Darwinism
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    Latvia in transition (1996)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511628344
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (ix, 214 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Politischer Wandel ; Sozialer Wandel ; Wirtschaftsreform ; Latvia / History / 1991- ; Lettland ; Lettland ; Politischer Wandel ; Lettland ; Sozialer Wandel ; Lettland ; Wirtschaftsreform
    Abstract: Latvia in Transition provides the material necessary to understand present-day Latvia. The author examines the main events, processes and problems of the transitional period of this country from a dependent and Moscow-dominated Soviet Republic to an independent and also interdependent state. The book presents the most relevant and essential aspects of Latvia's history, politics, economics and society. The historical analysis highlights the formative events which are still recalled in Latvian political discourse. The period of awakening is discussed in detail to reflect its world-wide resonance and impact on similar processes in other Soviet Republics. The creation of a new state and the establishment of democracy have forced the elite to cope with a multitude of problems simultaneously. This book describes the approach to politics, market economics, ethnic relations and the environment, and also reasserted impact of religion
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Historical residues and impact on present-day politics -- 2. The Latvian national rebirth -- 3. Regaining independence -- establishing democracy -- 4. Economics and reform -- 5. Demography, language and ethnic relations
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    Nationalism reframed : nationhood and the national question in the New Europe (1996)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511558764
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 202 pages)
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    DDC: 320.5/4/0947
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1989-1998 ; Geschichte ; Nationalismus ; Politik ; Nationalism / Europe, Eastern ; Nationalism / Soviet Union / Republics ; Nationalism / Europe ; Politik ; Postkommunismus ; Nationalstaat ; Nationalismus ; Nationalitätenfrage ; Europa ; Sowjetunion ; Europe, Eastern / Politics and government / 1989- ; Former Soviet republics / Politics and government ; Europe / Politics and government / 20th century ; Osteuropa ; Europa ; Osteuropa ; Nationalismus ; Geschichte 1989-1998 ; Europa ; Nationalismus ; Nationalstaat ; Osteuropa ; Nationalitätenfrage ; Nationalstaat ; Politik ; Geschichte ; Postkommunismus
    Abstract: The birthplace of the nation-state and modern nationalism at the end of the eighteenth century, Europe was supposed to be their graveyard at the end of the twentieth. Yet, far from moving beyond the nation-state, fin-de-siècle Europe has been moving back to the nation-state, most spectacularly with the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia into a score of nationally defined successor states. This massive reorganisation of political space along national lines has engendered distinctive, dynamically interlocking, and in some cases explosive forms of nationalism. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu and the 'new institutionalist' sociology, and comparing contemporary nationalisms with those of interwar Europe, Rogers Brubaker provides a theoretically sophisticated and historically rich account of one of the most important problems facing the 'New Europe'
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Rethinking nationhood: nation as institutionalized form, practical category, contingent event -- 2. Nationhood and the national question in the Soviet Union and its successor states: an institutionalist account -- 3. National minorities, nationalizing states, and external national homelands in the New Europe -- 4. Nationalizing states in the old "New Europe" -- and the new -- 5. Homeland nationalism in Weimar Germany and "Weimar Russia" -- 6. Aftermaths of empire and the unmixing of peoples
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    The National question in Europe in historical context (1993)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511622298
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xx, 343 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Nationalismus ; Politik ; Nationalism / Europe ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Nationalitätenfrage ; Nationalismus ; Nationalbewegung ; Geschichte ; Europa ; Europe / Politics and government ; Europa ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europa ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Geschichte ; Europa ; Nationalismus ; Geschichte ; Europa ; Nationalitätenfrage ; Geschichte ; Europa ; Nationalbewegung ; Geschichte
    Abstract: The historical impact of national movements in Europe has been dramatic and continues to be an issue of major importance. Leading historians discuss authoritatively European nationalism in its historical context. Nationalism is not of course a specifically European phenomenon, but for reasons of space and intelligibility coverage has been limited geographically. The aim is that the essays should attract readers interested in a historical problem which has been difficult to encompass theoretically and to deal with practically. A glance at what is being shown or written in the media with regard to national and ethnical issues demonstrates the validity of this aim, not only with regard to the multinational former Soviet Union or Yugoslavia in eastern Europe, but also (for example) to the 'four nations' of the British Isles or bi-national Belgium in the west
    Description / Table of Contents: The British Isles : Celt and Saxon / Victor Kiernan -- The making of the French nation / Douglas Johnson -- The national question in Italy / Adrian Lyttelton -- The roots of the national question in Spain / Simon Barton -- Shifting nationalism : Belgians, Flemings and Walloons / Louis Vos -- The nation in German history / Walter Schmidt -- Nationalism and nation-state in Germany / Heinrich August Winkler -- The national identity of the Austrians / Ernst Bruckmüller -- The Czechs / Arnošt Klíma -- The national question in Hungary / Emil Niederhauser -- The union of Dalmatia with northern Croatia : a crucial question of the Croatian national integration in the nineteenth century / Miṙjana Gross -- The national question in Poland in the twentieth century / Jerzy Tomaszewski -- Finland : from Napoleonic legacy to Nordic co-operation / Matti Klinge
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    The retreat of scientific racism : changing concepts of race in Britain and the United States between the world wars (1992)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511558351
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 381 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1919-1939 ; Geschichte 1919-1933 ; Geschichte 1914-1945 ; Geschichte ; Race ; Physical anthropology ; Eugenics / Great Britain / History ; Eugenics / United States / History ; Racism / Great Britain / History ; Racism / United States / History ; Rassenfrage ; Ethnologie ; Biologie ; Wissenschaft ; Geschichte ; Rassismus ; Rasse ; Anthropologie ; Begriff ; Großbritannien ; USA ; Great Britain / Race relations ; United States / Race relations ; USA ; Großbritannien ; USA ; Rassismus ; Anthropologie ; Biologie ; Großbritannien ; Geschichte 1919-1933 ; USA ; Rasse ; Begriff ; Wissenschaft ; Großbritannien ; Geschichte 1919-1933 ; USA ; Rassismus ; Ethnologie ; Biologie ; Großbritannien ; Geschichte ; USA ; Rassismus ; Wissenschaft ; Geschichte 1919-1939 ; Großbritannien ; Rassismus ; Wissenschaft ; Geschichte 1919-1939 ; USA ; Rassenfrage ; Geschichte 1914-1945 ; Rassenfrage ; Großbritannien ; Geschichte 1914-1945
    Abstract: This fascinating study in the sociology of knowledge documents the refutation of scientific foundations for racism in Britain and the United States between the two World Wars, when racial differences were no longer attributed to cultural factors. Professor Barkan considers the social significance of this transformation, particularly its effect on race relations in the modern world. Discussing the work of the leading biologists and anthropologists who wrote between the wars, he argues that the impetus for the shift in ideologies came from the inclusion of outsiders (women, Jews, and leftists) who infused greater egalitarianism into scientific discourse. But even though the emerging view of race was constrained by a scientific language, he shows that modern theorists were as much influenced by social and political events as were their predecessors
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , Anthropology , Constructing a British identity , Colors into races , A transition to modern British anthropology , The founding fathers , Mummies, bones and stones , The shift in British archaeology , A British glimpse at race relations , American diversity , Haunted sentinels , European skulls and the primitive mind , The Boasians , American physical anthropology , The politics of coexistence , Dionysia in the Pacific , Biology , In search of a biology of race , NewGenics , The statistician's fable , Race crossing in Jamaica , A Canadian in London: rigid Reginald Ruggles Gates , The limit of traditional reform , A racist liberal: Julian Huxley's early years , Herbert Spencer Jennings and progressive eugenics , A conservative critique: Raymond Pearl , Bridging race formalism and population genetics , Mitigating racial differences , Lancelot Hogben , "Africa view"--Huxley's changing perspectives , J.B.S. Haldane: a defiant aristocrat , Medicine and eugenics: expanding the environment , Eugenics reformed , Politics , Confronting racism: scientists as politicians , 1933--Early hesitations , Britain--Race and Culture Committee , We Europeans , The American scene , An international interlude , The Paris Congress , The population committee , Out of the closet
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    Belonging in the two Berlins : kin, state, nation (1992)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511607714
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 386 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 86
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1945-1989 ; Sozialgeschichte 1945-1989 ; Geschichte ; Alltag, Brauchtum ; Wirtschaft ; Ethnology / Germany / Berlin ; Kinship / Germany / Berlin ; National characteristics, West German ; National characteristics, East German ; Ost-West-Konflikt ; Wirtschaftsstruktur ; Bevölkerung ; Politische Identität ; Alltag ; Verwandtschaft ; Politisches Bewusstsein ; Sozialstruktur ; Deutschland ; Berlin (Germany) / Social conditions ; Berlin (Germany) / Economic conditions ; Berlin (Germany) / Social life and customs ; Berlin ; Berlin ; Berlin ; Berlin ; Sozialstruktur ; Wirtschaftsstruktur ; Berlin ; Geschichte 1945-1989 ; Berlin ; Alltag ; Politische Identität ; Berlin ; Geschichte ; Berlin ; Politisches Bewusstsein ; Ost-West-Konflikt ; Geschichte ; Sozialstruktur ; Berlin ; Geschichte 1945-1989 ; Berlin ; Verwandtschaft ; Geschichte 1945-1989 ; Berlin ; Bevölkerung ; Berlin ; Berlin ; Sozialgeschichte 1945-1989
    Abstract: Belonging in the two Berlins is an ethnographic investigation into the meaning of German selfhood during the Cold War. Taking the practices of everyday life in the divided Berlin as his point of departure, Borneman shows how ideas of kin, state, and nation were constructed through processes of mirror-imaging and misrecognition. Using linguistics and narrative analysis, he compares the autobiographies of two generations of Berlins residents with the official version of the lifecourse prescribed by the two German states. He examines the relation of the dual political structure to everyday life, the way in which the two states legally regulated the lifecourse in order to define the particular categories of self which signify Germanness, and how citizens experientially appropriated the frameworks provided by these states. Living in the two Berlins constantly compelled residents to define themselves in opposition to their other half. Borneman argues that this resulted in a de facto divided Germany with two distinct nations and peoples. The formation of German subjectivity since World War II is unique in that the distinctive features for belonging - for being at home - to one side exclude the other. Indeed, these divisions inscribed by the Cold War account for many of the problems in forging a new cultural unity
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    Women and society in Russia and the Soviet Union (1992)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511520877
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    Pages: 1 online resource (ix, 233 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1870-1917 ; Frau ; Geschichte ; Wirtschaft ; Women / Soviet Union / History / Congresses ; Women / Soviet Union / Social conditions / Congresses ; Women / Soviet Union / Economic conditions / Congresses ; Sozialgeschichte ; Frauenemanzipation ; Frau ; Geschichte ; Sowjetunion ; Sowjetunion ; Russland ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Russland ; Frauenemanzipation ; Geschichte ; Sowjetunion ; Frauenemanzipation ; Geschichte ; Sowjetunion ; Frau ; Geschichte ; Russland ; Frau ; Geschichte 1870-1917 ; Russland ; Frau ; Sozialgeschichte ; Sowjetunion ; Frau ; Sozialgeschichte
    Abstract: Until the late 1960s, most Western scholars studying the history, culture, social and political life and economy of Russia and the Soviet Union, paid scant attention to the participation and experience of women. The multifarious ways in which gender roles and perceptions of gender were influenced by and in turn influenced the heterogeneous cultures of the Soviet empire were largely ignored. However, this neglect has slowly been rectified and now the study of women and gender relations has become one of the most productive fields of research into Russian and Soviet society. This volume demonstrates the originality and diversity of this recent research. Written by leading Western scholars, it spans the last decade of tsarist Russia, the 1917 revolutions and the Soviet period. The essays reflect the interdisciplinary nature of women's work, women and politics, women as soldiers, female prostitution, popular images of women and women's experience of perestroika
    Description / Table of Contents: 'Better halves'? : representations of women in Russian urban popular entertainments, 1870-1910 / Catriona Kelly -- The Silver Age : highpoint for women? / Charlotte Rosenthal -- Women pharmacists in Russia before World War I : women's emancipation, feminism, professionalization, nationalism and class conflict / Mary Schaeffer Conroy -- Women's rights, civil rights and the debate over citizenship in the 1905 Revolution / Linda Edmondson -- Laying the foundations of democracy in Russia : E.D. Kuskova's contribution, February-October 1917 / Barbara T. Norton -- Mariia L. Bochkareva and the Russian amazons of 1917 / Richard Abraham -- Russian women writers : an overview : post-revolutionary dispersion and adjustment / Marina Ledkovsky (Astman) -- Victim or villain? : prostitution in post-revolutionary Russia / Elizabeth Waters
    Description / Table of Contents: Young women and perestroika / Sue Bridger -- Glasnost and the woman question / Mary Buckley
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    Ethnicity and nationalism in post-imperial Britain (1991)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511898136
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 271 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1945-1991 ; Geschichte ; Nationalismus ; Politik ; Nationalism / Great Britain / History / 20th century ; Ethnizität ; Nationalität ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Ethnische Gruppe ; Nationalismus ; Großbritannien ; Great Britain / Ethnic relations / History / 20th century ; Great Britain / Politics and government / 1979-1997 ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Geschichte 1945-1991 ; Großbritannien ; Nationalismus ; Ethnische Gruppe ; Großbritannien ; Nationalität ; Ethnizität
    Abstract: Harry Goulbourne's theme is how post-imperial Britain has come to define the national community in terms of ethnic affinity, instead of a traditional multi-ethnic/multi-racial understanding of the nation. He argues that the continuing 'reception-experience' of non-white groups in post-war Britain not only arose out of an ethnic perception of the British nation by the indigenous population, as expressed through state action, but has also, in turn, encouraged an equally ethnic awakening or mobilisation among non-white minorities. The result is a failure to construct a common national ground or sense of community by all those claiming a formal British identity. Goulbourne draws upon a diverse literature, including race relations, politics and history. His two case studies of the Khalistan question in the Punjab and democracy in Guyana are examples of how exilic politics may affect Britain's ethnic minorities, partly as a result of the experience of exclusion from British society
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    Professionals, power, and Solidarity in Poland : a critical sociology of Soviet-type society (1991)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 421 pages)
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    Keywords: NSZZ "Solidarność" (Labor organization) / History ; NSZZ "Solidarność" ; Sozialgeschichte 1945-1989 ; Geschichte ; Politik ; Power (Social sciences) ; Elite (Social sciences) / Poland ; Sozialismus ; Politik ; Gesellschaft ; Intellektueller ; Polen ; Poland / Social conditions / 1945- ; Poland / Politics and government / 1945-1980 ; Poland / Politics and government / 1980-1989 ; Polen ; Sozialismus ; Gesellschaft ; NSZZ "Solidarność" ; Polen ; Politik ; Polen ; Intellektueller ; Polen ; Gesellschaft ; Polen ; Sozialgeschichte 1945-1989
    Abstract: The Solidarity movement of the early 1980s not only triggered a transformation in Polish society, it forced a fundamental reconsideration of the nature of socialism throughout the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Seen as one of the most important social movements of the twentieth century, Michael Kennedy develops a theoretical conception of Soviet-type societies by analysing Solidarity's significance. He explains the background to the nature of the conflict between Solidarity and the authorities and considers the implications of Solidarity's struggle for the theory of the Soviet-type system's reproduction and transformation. Then, the internal constitution of Solidarity in terms of gender and, in particular, cross-class alliances is examined, which is followed by the implications of his analysis both for understanding perestroika in the Soviet Union and more generally for reformulating a critical sociology of Soviet-type societies
    Description / Table of Contents: The historical genealogy of Solidarity -- The nature and causes of Solidarity -- The Solidarity movement as emancipatory praxis -- Solidarity, modernization and class -- Solidarity, culture and civil society -- A theory of power relations in Soviet-type society -- Professionals, power and prestige -- Engineers in Solidarity -- Physicians in Solidarity -- Critical sociology and Soviet-type society
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    Socialism, radicalism, and nostalgia : social criticism in Britain, 1775-1830 (1987)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1700-1800 ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Sozialgeschichte 1775-1830 ; Geschichte 1775-1830 ; Geschichte ; Radikalismus ; Radicalism / Great Britain / History / 18th century ; Radicalism / Great Britain / History / 19th century ; Quelle ; Gesellschaftskritik ; Großbritannien ; Great Britain / Social conditions / 18th century ; Great Britain / Social conditions / 19th century ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; Gesellschaftskritik ; Geschichte 1775-1830 ; Quelle ; Großbritannien ; Sozialgeschichte 1775-1830
    Abstract: The years of the first industrial revolution saw a remarkable flowering of radical social criticism in Britain. This is a study of the ideas that emerged then and of the social and intellectual conditions from which they developed. Dr Stafford begins in Part I by presenting what will be seen as a very valuable general account of the historical and cultural setting, showing how the language of social debate had been affected by intellectual developments and the increasingly rapid transformations of society. Then in Part II he discusses ten major critics of British society, from Thomas Spence to William Cobbett, who represent a wide range of political opinion from anarchism to Tory radicalism. Dr. Stafford takes a key text by each author, sets out its argument, and analyzes it both critically and historically, showing the particular influences that shaped it and revealing the ways in which the social thought of the time resembles or diverges from our own. This book will help to recover from unwarranted neglect this important tradition of writing that did much to form subsequent thinking about society. It will make a valuable contribution to the study of the literature and the social and intellectual history of the period
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    Building democracy in Ireland : political order and cultural integration in a newly independent nation (1986)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511898273
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 259 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1922-1932 ; Geschichte 1922-1949 ; Geschichte ; Politik ; Constitutional history / Ireland ; Representative government and representation / Ireland / History / 20th century ; Demokratie ; Politisches System ; Irland ; Ireland / Politics and government / 1922-1949 ; Irland ; Irland ; Politisches System ; Geschichte 1922-1949 ; Irland ; Demokratie ; Geschichte 1922-1949 ; Irland ; Geschichte 1922-1932
    Abstract: Most of the independent nations of the twentieth century have been racked by political disorder and social instability. Ireland is one of the few to have successfully established a stable democratic order. In this book, Jeffrey Prager examines the first decade of Irish independence in order to explain how the Republic of Ireland achieved democracy. In so doing, he provides a deeper understanding of the Irish case while shedding light on the process of democratic consolidation in modern state-building. His combination of political and cultural approaches also contributes to the development of a political sociology that encompasses the problem of cultural meaning as a crucial domain of analysis. By exploring the interconnections between political structures, social activities, and cultural legacies, he promotes an awareness of the vital dimensions of political life and institutions
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    The working class in modern British history : essays in honour of Henry Pelling (1983)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511896569
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 315 pages)
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    Keywords: Pelling, Henry ; Pelling, Henry ; Labour Party (Great Britain) / History ; Geschichte 1870-1950 ; Sozialgeschichte 1870-1950 ; Geschichte ; Working class / Great Britain / History ; Bibliografie ; Arbeiterklasse ; Arbeiter ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Festschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Festschrift ; Großbritannien ; Arbeiter ; Geschichte 1870-1950 ; Großbritannien ; Arbeiterklasse ; Sozialgeschichte 1870-1950 ; Großbritannien ; Arbeiterklasse ; Geschichte 1870-1950 ; Pelling, Henry 1920-1997 ; Bibliografie
    Abstract: The thirteen essays in this book reflect the dual character of writing about the history of the British working class. The first section focuses on the outlook, organization, and policies of the Labour movement. The second section is concerned with central aspects of the social history of the working class. Together, these essays provide striking evidence of the ways in which the experience of class has pervaded virtually every corner of this nation's public life. They also show that the mixed political record of organized Labour, its hesitations and failures as well as its struggles and successes, cannot be understood without a full appreciation of the collective and individual lives of working people outside the political arena
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    Work and politics : the division of labor in industry (1982)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511571572
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 304 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in modern political economies
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1700-1982 ; Geschichte ; Work / History ; Division of labor / History ; Industrial sociology / History ; Social conflict / History ; Soziale Klasse ; Industriesoziologie ; Klassentheorie ; Soziologie ; Geschichte ; Kapitalismus ; Arbeiter ; Industrie ; Arbeitsteilung ; USA ; Arbeitsteilung ; Kapitalismus ; Geschichte 1700-1982 ; Arbeiter ; Soziologie ; Geschichte ; Industriesoziologie ; Klassentheorie ; Soziale Klasse ; USA ; Industrie
    Abstract: Work and Politics develops a historical and comparative sociology of workplace relations in industrial capitalist societies. Professor Sabel argues that the system of mass production using specialized machines and mostly unskilled workers was the result of the distribution of power and wealth in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Great Britain and the United States, not of an inexorable logic of technological advance. Once in place, this system created the need for workers with systematically different ideas about the acquisition of skill and the desirability of long-term employment. Professor Sabel shows how capitalists have played on naturally existing division in the workforce in order to match workers with diverse ambitions to jobs in different parts of the labor market. But he also demonstrates the limits, different from work group to work group, of these forms of collaboration
    Description / Table of Contents: Workers and world views -- The structure of the labor market -- Careers at work -- Interests, conflicts, classes -- The end of Fordism?
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    Chinese ritual and politics (1981)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511659775
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (ix, 144 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Politik ; Religion and politics / China ; Rites and ceremonies / China ; Politik ; Ritual ; China / Politics and government ; China ; China ; Politik ; Ritual ; Geschichte
    Abstract: As a result of the strength and dominance of the centralized state, ritual action in China often takes its logic from political action. In this book Emily Ahern explores the implications of this. She argues that forms of control attempted ritually on non-human persons (gods and other spirits) in China parallel those forms of control which people regard as effective in ordinary life, namely political control, and draws important conclusions from this. She shows that in China it is possible to discard terms such as 'magic', which imply that acts directed to spirits operate on a different basis from acts in ordinary life. She also challenges claims in anthropology that, since they seem arbitrary and the actions of participants in them highly predictable, rituals support established authority. Her book will be of interest not only to specialists in Chinese studies, but to social anthropologists and others interested in the link between ritual and political processes
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I. Interpersonal communication -- 1. Interpersonal versus non-interpersonal transaction -- 2. Written bureaucratic communication -- 3. Etiquette and control -- PART II. Codes -- 4. Divination -- 5. Open and closed practices -- PART III. Politics -- 6. Ritual and political authorities -- 7. Ritual as a learning game -- Conclusions and further questions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Character list -- Index
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