Affirmative Action Empire. Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939, Paperback - Terry Martin

The Soviet Union was the first of Europe's multiethnic states to confront the rising tide of nationalism by systematically promoting the national c...

This book discusses trans-border ethnic populations in the former Soviet Union in a broader conceptual context, highlighting the importance of dias...

DescriptionIn this important book, an eminent authority presents a new perspective on affirmative action, investigating its actual consequences in ...

The definitive guide to Soviet forces for }Bolt Action{ players.

A founding text of transnational feminism For twenty-five years, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World has been an essential primer on the la...

Reducere. As Christianity adopted to the needs of nations and empires over the centuries, the Gospel message as originally delivered by Christ and the Apostl...

Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality - E. J. Hobsbawm

In October 1785, American statesman John Jay acknowledged that the more his countrymen "are treated ill abroad, the more we shall unite and consoli...

Drawing on newspaper accounts, prisoner narratives, and government records, David Dzurec explores how stories of American captivity in North Americ...

DescriptionAfter the death of Joseph Stalin, Soviet-era Russia experienced a flourishing artistic movement due to relaxed censorship and new econom...

"...that rare thing, a piece of careful scholarship that is also superby entertaining...Starr, who is president of Oberlin College and has been ass...

Challenging the widely accepted narrative that national languages create national identity, Tam narrates the history of the Chinese nation and Chin...

Reducere. Nations and Nationalism: A Reader, Paperback

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Stefanos (Associate Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies and Assistant Instructional Profes...

This updated edition of Ernest Gellner's classic exploration of the roots of nationalism includes an extended introduction from John Breuilly, trac...

This book examines, through a detailed study of Soviet residential childcare homes and boarding schools, the much wider issues of Soviet policies t...

Malaysia and South Africa implement the most extensive affirmative action programmes worldwide. This book explores why and how to effect preferenti...

The Political Philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal: Islam and Nationalism in Late Colonial India - Iqbal Singh Sevea

Based on extensive archival research, the contributions in this collection examine the nuances of neutrality leading up to and during the Cold War....

Can affirmative action in US college admissions survive mounting threats? This judicious review, part of the Sociology of Diversity series, conside...

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Reducere. The Soviet Union was not renowned for its fashionable clothing. However, after the World War II the Soviet Government opened several parallel organ...

Deepens our understanding of the modernist nation-building processes in post-Ottoman Turkey through the perspective of ordinary citizens.

This book is concerned with nations and states, and only to a lesser extent with nationalism. It focuses on the activities, political aims and soci...

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This 2002 study examines the process by which the seemingly impossible in 1987 - the disintegration of the Soviet state - became the seemingly inev...

In this book, readers will gain a clear understanding of the rise of German opera in the early nineteenth century and the cultural and historical c...

Through perspectives that range from Eastern European art history to theology, with a concentration on the nexus of political, social, and religiou...

A German soldier's graphic first-hand account of his escape from Soviet captivity during the Red Army's offensive on the Eastern Front in 1944. Dra...

A German soldier's graphic first-hand account of his escape from Soviet captivity during the Red Army's offensive on the Eastern Front in 1944.Publ...

Dangerous Creole Liaisons examines the neglected corpus of white Creole writers from the French Caribbean and how their discourse has been reapprop...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Steven E. (UCLA Center for Middle East Development, USA) ZippersteinIllustration(s): 55 Halftones, black ...

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This concise introduction offers an overview of the global rise and spread of nationalism since the late 18th century. Reflecting on key themes and...