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  • 1
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    American affective polarization in comparative perspective (2020)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108823449
    Language: English
    Pages: 85 Seiten , Diagramme
    Series Statement: Cambridge elements: Elements in American politics
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    DDC: 306.0973
    RVK:
    MG 70329
    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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  • 2
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    American affective polarization in comparative perspective (2020)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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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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    DDC: 306.0973
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    MG 70329
    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
    DOI: 10.1017/9781108914123
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  • 3
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    The value of disorder : autonomy, prosperity, and plunder in the Chadian Sahara (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108566315
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 348 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: African studies series 142
    Series Statement: African studies series
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    DDC: 305.89653096743
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    MI 45010
    Keywords: Daza (Dazaga-speaking people) ; Teda (African people) ; Bewaffneter Konflikt ; Wirtschaft ; Gesellschaftsleben ; Oase ; Faya (Chad) History ; Faya (Chad) Economic conditions ; Faya (Chad) Social conditions ; Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti (Chad) History ; Chad Politics and government ; Sahara ; Tschad ; Tschad ; Sahara ; Oase ; Gesellschaftsleben ; Tschad ; Sahara ; Oase ; Wirtschaft ; Tschad ; Sahara ; Bewaffneter Konflikt
    DOI: 10.1017/9781108566315
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  • 4
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    The politics of borders : sovereignty, security, and the citizen after 9/11 (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781316761663
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xix, 248 pages)
    Series Statement: Problems of international politics
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    DDC: 325.73
    RVK:
    LB 74610
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    MD 4300
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    MD 4600
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    RU 10912
    Keywords: Border security ; Politische Theorie ; Grenze ; Gesellschaft ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Elfter September ; USA ; USA ; Grenze ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Elfter September ; Politische Theorie ; Gesellschaft
    Abstract: Borders sit at the center of global politics. Yet they are too often understood as thin lines, as they appear on maps, rather than as political institutions in their own right. This book takes a detailed look at the evolution of border security in the United States after 9/11. Far from the walls and fences that dominate the news, it reveals borders to be thick, multi-faceted and binational institutions that have evolved greatly in recent decades. The book contributes to debates within political science on sovereignty, citizenship, cosmopolitanism, human rights and global justice. In particular, the new politics of borders reveal a sovereignty that is not waning, but changing, expanding beyond the state carapace and engaging certain logics of empire
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Nov 2017)
    DOI: 10.1017/9781316761663
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  • 5
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    After rape : violence, justice, and social harmony in northern Uganda (2017)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781316841297
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 255 pages)
    Series Statement: International African library 53
    Series Statement: International African library
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    DDC: 364.1532096761
    RVK:
    LB 51547
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    MI 58094
    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1986-2006 ; Gesellschaft ; Rape / Social aspects / Uganda ; Rape as a weapon of war / Uganda ; Conflict management / Uganda ; Justice, Administration of / Uganda ; Acholi (African people) / Uganda / Social conditions / 20th century ; Acholi (African people) / Uganda / Social conditions / 21st century ; Acholi ; Bürgerkrieg ; Vergewaltigung ; Menschenrecht ; Uganda ; Hochschulschrift ; Uganda ; Acholi ; Vergewaltigung ; Menschenrecht ; Bürgerkrieg ; Geschichte 1986-2006
    Abstract: Following the ICC intervention in 2005, northern Uganda has been at the heart of international justice debates. The emergent controversy, however, missed crucial aspects of Acholi realities: that the primary moral imperative in the wake of wrongdoing was not punishment but, instead, the restoration of social harmony. Drawing upon abundant fieldwork and in-depth interviews with almost 200 women, Holly Porter examines issues surrounding wrongdoing and justice, and sexual violence and rape, among the Acholi people in northern Uganda. This intricate exploration offers evidence of a more complicated and nuanced explanation of rape and its aftermath, suggesting a re-imagining of the meanings of post-atrocity justice, whilst acknowledging the role of sex, power and politics in all sexual experiences between coercion and consent. With its wide investigation of social life in northern Uganda, this provocative study offers vital analysis for those interested in sexual and gender violence, post-conflict reconstruction and human rights
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 Jan 2017)
    DOI: 10.1017/9781316841297
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  • 6
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    Understanding national identity (2015)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781107100381 , 9781107496194
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 226 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    DDC: 305.8
    RVK:
    HD 405
    RVK:
    LB 48000
    RVK:
    LB 52000
    RVK:
    MC 7100
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General ; Gesellschaft ; Nationalismus ; National characteristics ; Nationalism ; Identity (Psychology) Social aspects ; Group identity ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General ; Nationalcharakter ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Schottland ; England ; England ; Schottland ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Nationalcharakter
    Abstract: "We live in a world in which being a 'citizen' of a state and being a 'national' are by no means the same. Amidst much scholarly debate about 'nations' and 'nationalism', comparatively little has been written explicitly on 'national identity' and a great deal less is solidly evidence-based. This book focuses on national identity in England and Scotland. Using data collected over twenty years it asks: does national identity really matter to people? How does 'national identity' differ from 'nationality' and having a passport? Are there particular people and places which have ambiguous or contested national identities? What happens if someone makes a claim to a national identity? On what basis do others accept or reject the claim? Does national identity have much internal substance, or is it simply about defending group boundaries? How does national identity relate to politics and constitutional change?"..
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  • 7
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    The Golem at large : what you should know about technology (2014)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781107589049
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 213 pages)
    Series Statement: Canto classics
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.483
    RVK:
    ZG 8645
    Keywords: Geschichte 1986-1995 ; Gesellschaft ; Technology / Social aspects / Case studies ; Technologie ; Katastrophe ; Wirtschaftswissenschaften ; Krieg ; Risiko ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Gesellschaft ; Techniksoziologie ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Katastrophe ; Risiko ; Geschichte 1986-1995 ; Gesellschaft ; Techniksoziologie ; Technologie ; Krieg ; Wirtschaftswissenschaften
    Abstract: In the very successful and widely discussed first volume in the Golem series, The Golem: What You Should Know about Science, Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch likened science to the Golem, a creature from Jewish mythology, a powerful creature which, while not evil, can be dangerous because it is clumsy. In this second volume, the authors now consider the Golem of technology. In a series of case studies they demonstrate that the imperfections in technology are related to the uncertainties in science described in the first volume. The case studies cover the role of the Patriot anti-missile missile in the Gulf War, the Challenger space shuttle explosion, tests of nuclear fuel flasks and of anti-misting kerosene as a fuel for airplanes, economic modeling, the question of the origins of oil, analysis of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and the contribution of lay expertise to the analysis of treatments for AIDS.
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    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781107589049
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  • 8
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    Space and society in the Greek and Roman worlds (2013)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511920653
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvii, 212 pages)
    Series Statement: Key themes in ancient history
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    DDC: 304.2/30937
    RVK:
    LG 7100
    RVK:
    NH 5285
    RVK:
    ZH 9303
    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Space and time / Social aspects / Greece ; Space and time / Social aspects / Rome ; Cultural geography / Greece ; Cultural geography / Rome ; Raum ; Gesellschaft ; Griechenland ; Rom ; Greece / Civilization / To 146 B.C. ; Rome / Civilization ; Römisches Reich ; Griechenland ; Griechenland ; Römisches Reich ; Raum ; Gesellschaft
    Abstract: We cannot properly understand history without a full appreciation of the spaces through which its actors moved, whether in the home or in the public sphere, and the ways in which they thought about and represented the spaces of their worlds. In this book Michael Scott employs the full range of literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence in order to demonstrate the many different ways in which spatial analysis can illuminate our understanding of Greek and Roman society and the ways in which these societies thought of, and interacted with, the spaces they occupied and created. Through a series of innovative case studies of texts, physical spaces and cultural constructs, ranging geographically across North Africa, Greece and Roman Italy, as well as an up-to-date introduction on spatial scholarship, this book provides an ideal starting point for students and non-specialists
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Inheriting and articulating a community: the agora at Cyrene; 2. Networks of polytheism: spaces for the gods at Delos; 3. Spaces of alienation: street-lining Roman cemeteries; 4. A spatial approach to relationships between colony and metropolis: Syracuse and Corinth; 5. The place of Greece in the oikoumene of Strabo's Geography; Conclusion: space and society in the Greek and Roman worlds
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511920653
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  • 9
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    Americanism in the twenty-first century : public opinion in the age of immigration (2011)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511761249
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 269 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 973
    RVK:
    LB 52610
    RVK:
    MG 70100
    Keywords: Einwanderer ; Gesellschaft ; Migration ; National characteristics, American ; Americanization ; Immigrants / United States / Social conditions ; Social integration / United States ; Assimilation (Sociology) / United States ; Nationalcharakter ; Akkulturation ; Einwanderung ; USA ; United States / Emigration and immigration / Social aspects ; USA ; USA ; Nationalcharakter ; Einwanderung ; Akkulturation
    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
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. The 21st century Americanism survey; 3. Defining American identity in the 21st century; 4. Policy implications of multidimensional Americanism; 5. The myths and realities of identity prioritization; 6. Does 'becoming American' create a 'better' American?; 7. Immigrant resentment: when the work ethic backfires; 8. The politics of American identity
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511761249
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  • 10
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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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    DDC: 303.6/6
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    WH 2300
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    CV 7500
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    NB 4300
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    MK 3100
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    WB 2370
    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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  • 11
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    Principles of conflict economics : a primer for social scientists (2009)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511813474
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xxi, 321 pages)
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    DDC: 303.6/6
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    Keywords: Social conflict ; Arms control / Economic aspects ; Disarmament / Economic aspects ; Peace ; Bewaffneter Konflikt ; Wirtschaft ; Politische Ökonomie ; Konfliktforschung ; Friede ; Sozialer Konflikt ; Abrüstung ; Politische Ökonomie ; Bewaffneter Konflikt ; Abrüstung ; Sozialer Konflikt ; Wirtschaft ; Friede ; Konfliktforschung ; Bewaffneter Konflikt ; Politische Ökonomie
    Abstract: Conflict economics contributes to an understanding of violent conflict in two important ways. First, it applies economic analysis to diverse conflict activities such as war, arms races, and terrorism, showing how they can be understood as purposeful choices responsive to underlying incentives. Second, it treats appropriation as a fundamental economic activity, joining production and exchange as a means of wealth acquisition. Drawing on a half-century of scholarship, this book presents a primer on the key themes and principles of conflict economics. Although much work in the field is abstract, the book is made accessible to a broad audience of scholars, students and policymakers by relying on historical data, relatively simple graphs and intuitive narratives. In exploring the interdependence of economics and conflict, the book presents current perspectives of conflict economics in novel ways and offers new insights into economic aspects of violence
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : definition and scope of conflict economics -- Production possibilities and the guns versus butter trade-off -- Rational choice and equilibrium -- Fundamentals of game theory -- A bargaining model of conflict -- Conflict between states -- Civil war and genocide -- Terrorism -- Geography and technology of conflict -- Arms rivalry, proliferation, and arms control -- Military alliances -- Conflict success functions and the theory of appropriation possibilities
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    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511813474
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  • 12
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    Ghosts of war in Vietnam (2008)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511807596
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (viii, 222 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare 27
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    DDC: 959.7043
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Vietnamkrieg ; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 / Social aspects ; Collective memory / Vietnam ; Ghosts ; Vietnamkrieg ; Geister ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Vietnam ; Vietnam ; Vietnamkrieg ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Geister
    Abstract: This book is a fascinating study of the Vietnamese experience and memory of the Vietnam War through the lens of popular imaginings about the wandering souls of the war dead. These ghosts of war play an important part in postwar Vietnamese historical narrative and imagination, and Heonik Kwon explores the intimate ritual ties with these unsettled identities which still survive in Vietnam today as well as the actions of those who hope to liberate these hidden but vital historical presences from their uprooted social existence. Taking a unique approach to the cultural history of war, he introduces gripping stories about spirits claiming social justice and about his own efforts to wrestle with the physical and spiritual presence of ghosts. Although these actions are fantastical, this book shows how examining their stories can illuminate critical issues of war and collective memory in Vietnam and the modern world more generally
    Description / Table of Contents: Ghosts of war -- Mass excavation -- Missing in action -- The phantom leg -- Death in the street -- Transforming ghosts -- Money for ghosts
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    Where have all the liberals gone? : race, class, and ideals in America (2008)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511490835
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 336 pages)
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    DDC: 305.50973
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    Keywords: Herrnstein, Richard J. / Bell curve ; Gesellschaft ; Idealism, American ; Intelligence levels / Social aspects ; Equality / United States ; Socialism / United States ; Soziale Klasse ; Rasse ; Sozialstaat ; USA ; USA ; USA ; Rasse ; Soziale Klasse ; Sozialstaat
    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
    Description / Table of Contents: Something beautiful is vanished -- The lost boys -- What Germany did that America has not -- Do we want affirmative action for whites only? -- Saving equality from the dustbin of history -- Jefferson and social democracy -- The America who would be king -- William James and Leo Strauss -- The status of the good life -- Choosing to be free
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    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511490835
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  • 14
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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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    DDC: 947/.00491497
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    LB 48005
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    LB 48270
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    MG 80968
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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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    Australia reshaped : 200 years of institutional transformation (2002)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0521817498 , 0521520754
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 302 S. , Ill.
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series Statement: Reshaping Australian institutions
    DDC: 320.9940904
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    Keywords: Changement social - Australie ; Instituties ; Institutions sociales - Australie ; Politieke verandering ; Sociale verandering ; Politik ; Sozialer Wandel ; Wirtschaft ; Social change ; Social institutions ; Politik ; Geschichte ; Politisches System ; Australie - Conditions économiques ; Australie - Politique et gouvernement ; Australien ; Australia Economic conditions ; Australia Politics and government ; Australien ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Australien ; Politisches System ; Geschichte ; Australien ; Politik ; Geschichte
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    Factional competition and political development in the New World (1994)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511598401
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 234 pages)
    Series Statement: New directions in archaeology
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    DDC: 306.2
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    Keywords: Geschichte Anfänge-1500 ; Funde ; Politik ; Indians / Politics and government ; Political anthropology / America ; Social archaeology / America ; Indians / Antiquities ; Politik ; Entwicklung ; Indianer ; Gesellschaft ; Amerika ; America / Antiquities ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Indianer ; Gesellschaft ; Entwicklung ; Geschichte Anfänge-1500 ; Indianer ; Politik ; Geschichte Anfänge-1500
    Abstract: Factionalism is an important force of social transformation, and this volume examines how factional competition in the kinship and political structures in ancient New World societies led to the development of chiefdoms, states and empires. The case studies, from a range of New World societies, represent all levels of non-egalitarian societies and a wide variety of ecological settings in the New World. They document the effects of factionalism on the structure of particular polities: for example, how it might have led to the growth of social inequality, or to changing patterns of chiefly authority, or to state formation and expansion, or institutional specialisation. The work is a creative and substantial contribution to our understanding of the political dynamics in early state society, and will interest archaeologists, anthropologists, political scientists and historians
    Description / Table of Contents: 9. Factional divisions within the Aztec (Colhua) royal family / Rudolf van Zantwijk -- 10. Alliance and intervention in Aztec imperial expansion / Frederic Hicks -- 11. Political factions in the transition from Classic to Postclassic in the Mixteca Alta / Bruce E. Byland and John M.D. Pohl -- 12. Internal subdivisions of communities in the prehispanic Valley of Oaxaca / Stephen A. Kowalewski -- 13. Cycles of conflict: political factionalism in the Maya Lowlands / Mary E.D. Pohl and John M.D. Pohl -- 14. Political cosmology among the Quiche Maya / John W. Fox -- 15. Factions and political development in the central Andes / Terence N. D'Altroy -- 16. Factional competition and historical materialism / Glenn Perusek -- 17. Conclusions: moietal opposition, segmentation, and factionalism in New World political arenas / John W. Fox
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    State power and social forces : domination and transformation in the Third World (1994)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139174268
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 333 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
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    DDC: 306.2/09172/4
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1994 ; Entwicklungsländer ; Politik ; Gesellschaft ; Staat ; Developing countries / Politics and government ; Developing countries / Social conditions ; Entwicklungsländer ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Entwicklungsländer ; Staat ; Gesellschaft ; Geschichte 1800-1994
    Abstract: This eminently readable 1994 collection of high-quality, country-specific essays on Third World politics provides, through a variety of well-integrated themes and approaches, an examination of 'state theory' as it has been practised in the past, and how it must be refined for the future. The contributors go beyond the previously articulated 'bringing the state back in' model to offer their own 'state-in-society' approach. They argue that states, which should be disaggregated for meaningful comparative study, are best analysed as parts of societies. States may help mould, but are also continually moulded by, the societies within which they are embedded. States' capacities, further, will vary depending on their ties to other social forces. And other social forces will be capable of being mobilised into political contention only under certain conditions. Political contention pitting states against other social forces may sometimes be mutually enfeebling, but at other times, mutually empowering
    Description / Table of Contents: The state in society : an approach to struggles for domination / Joel S. Migdal -- Traditional politics against state transformation in Brazil / Frances Hagopian -- State power and social organization in China / Vivienne Shue -- Centralization and powerlessness : India's democracy in a comparative perspective / Atul Kohli -- States and ruling classes in postcolonial Africa : the enduring contradictions of power / Catherine Boone -- Labor divided : sources of state formation in modern China / Elizabeth J. Perry -- Business conflict, collaboration, and privilege in interwar Egypt / Robert Vitalis -- A time and a place for the nonstate : social change in the Ottoman Empire during the "long nineteenth century" / Reşat Kasaba -- Peasant-state relations in postcolonial Africa : patterns of engagement and disengagement / Michael Bratton -- Engaging the state : associational life in sub-Saharan Africa / Naomi Chazan -- State power and social forces : on political contention and accommodation in the Third World / Atul Kohli and Vivienne Shue
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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
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (ix, 233 pages)
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    DDC: 305.4/0947
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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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    Professionals, power, and Solidarity in Poland : a critical sociology of Soviet-type society (1991)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511551604
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 421 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet studies 79
    Series Statement: Cambridge Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet studies
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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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    The Economic limits to modern politics (1990)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511559174
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 226 pages)
    Series Statement: Murphy Institute studies in political economy
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    Keywords: Politische Wissenschaft ; Political science / Economic aspects ; Ökonomische Theorie der Politik ; Politik ; Wirtschaft ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 1986 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 1986 ; Politik ; Wirtschaft ; Ökonomische Theorie der Politik
    Abstract: The central problem of modern government and political action is how to choose and implement effective economic policies. For this reason, the economic considerations of public policy have assumed a more prominent place in contemporary political thought. Despite efforts among political scientists, economists, and sociologists to fathom the complexities of this added dimension, none of these solid sciences offers a satisfying approach to the problem. This volume attempts to display the historical novelty and intellectual importance of this dilemma, to uncover its origins, and to procure a remedy through a clearer and steadier focus. The book's contributors range from historians of ideas to economic theorists, who bring the approach of their own intellectual discipline to bear upon the issue
    Description / Table of Contents: The economic limits to modern politics / John Dunn -- Free trade and the economic limits to national politics: neo-Machiavellian political economy reconsidered / Istvan Hont -- The political limits to premodern economics / J.G.A. Pocock -- On some economic limits in politics / Frank Hahn -- International liberalism reconsidered / Robert O. Keohane -- Capitalism, socialism and democracy: compatibilities and contradictions / John Dunn
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    Power and the ruling classes in northeast Brazil : Juazeiro and Petrolina in transition (1990)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xvii, 383 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge Latin American studies 69
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    Keywords: Kapitalismus ; Wirtschaft ; Elite (Social sciences) / Brazil / Juazeiro (Bahia) ; Capitalism / Brazil / Juazeiro (Bahia) ; Elite (Social sciences) / Brazil / Petrolina (Pernambuco) ; Capitalism / Brazil / Petrolina (Pernambuco) ; Oberschicht ; Wirtschaft ; Politische Elite ; Elite ; Brasilien ; Juazeiro (Bahia, Brazil) / Economic conditions ; Petrolina (Pernambuco, Brazil) / Economic conditions ; Juazeiro ; Petrolina ; Brasilien ; Juazeiro ; Politische Elite ; Wirtschaft ; Petrolina ; Politische Elite ; Wirtschaft ; Petrolina ; Oberschicht ; Brasilien Nordost ; Oberschicht ; Brasilien Nordost ; Elite ; Juazeiro ; Oberschicht
    Abstract: This case study of the structure of power and ruling-class domination in the heart of the sertão of Northeast Brazil is based upon six field trips over a period of fifteen years. Analysis of the political economy of Juazeiro, Bahia, and Petrolina, Pernambuco - two contiguous towns along the São Francisco River - focuses on the history of patriarchal families, ruling class, and patrimonial governments. Family dominance is related to the rise of the Coelhos in Petrolina and the decline of the Vianas in Juazeiro. Agressive tactics and links to Recife allowed the Coelhos to expand and assume control over most commerce in Petrolina and neighbouring municipalities to Juazeiro. In both situations the intervention of the state in the region, usually bolstered by international credits, affected traditional standards of living. The construction of the Sobradinho Dam, for example, brought problems for small farmers along the banks of the São Francisco who could no longer count on the natural flow of river water. State policy also favored corporations to the detriment of small producers on cooperative farms
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    New profession, old order : engineers and German society, 1815-1914 (1989)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511528842
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 357 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1815-1914 ; Sozialgeschichte 1815-1914 ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Ingenieurwissenschaften ; Engineering / Social aspects / Germany / History ; Ingenieur ; Deutschland ; Deutschland ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Deutschland ; Ingenieur ; Geschichte 1815-1914 ; Deutschland ; Ingenieur ; Sozialgeschichte 1815-1914
    Abstract: New Profession, Old Order explores the creative tension between modern technology and preindustrial Germany. It offers an explanation of why the engineering profession is so successful in transforming the physical world, did not achieve the professional power, cohesion, and prestige that its technological accomplishments would seem to have warranted. On the one hand, engineers were agents of modern instrumental rationality, specialization, practical knowledge, and entrepreneurial capitalism - forces antiasthetical to the quasi-aristocratic world of Bildung and bureaucracy that was the life blood of the preindustrial social hierarchy. On the other hand, it was this latter universe in which engineers had to survive and by whose standards they were judged for membership in the educated middle class or for access to prestigious careers. The result was an orientation that combined the old and the new in ways that were at once uniquely German and paradigmatic for modern industrial society
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    Powers of theory : capitalism, the state, and democracy (1985)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511598302
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvi, 502 pages)
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    ME 3300
    Keywords: State, The ; Politische Theorie ; Demokratie ; Staatslehre ; Gesellschaft ; Kapitalismus ; Staat ; Staat ; Gesellschaft ; Kapitalismus ; Demokratie ; Staatslehre ; Politische Theorie
    Abstract: Existing theories of the nature of the state in Western capitalist democracies have been mostly propounded from one of three major theoretical perspectives, each emphasising a particular aspect of the state: the 'pluralist', which emphasises its democratic aspect: the 'managerial', which emphasises its bureaucratic elements: and the 'class', which focuses on its capitalistic aspect. Each of these theoretical perspectives has contributed something to our understanding of the state, but each also has its limitations. In this book, Alford and Friedland evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each perspective and present a new, synthetic framework for a more comprehensive theory of the state. Impartially reviewing the major historical and empirical works within each theoretical tradition, they reveal how empirical study has been shaped by theoretical assumptions. They agree that each perspective has a distinctive 'power' to understand part of the reality of the modern state, although it is powerless to explain other parts. In each case, the part that can be explained is the perspective's 'home domain', or the aspect of the state that it emphasises, while other aspects are either rejected or reinterpreted. The authors argue that the state cannot be adequately understood unless full account is taken of each of these home domains, and they suggest how the contributions of each perspective to the explanation of its own domain can be integrated into a new, and more powerful, theory
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    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511598302
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    URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511598302
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