Righteous Revolutionaries. Morality, Mobilization, and Violence in the Making of the Chinese State, Paperback - Jeffrey A. Javed

Illustrates how states appeal to popular morality to forge new group identities and mobilize violence against perceived threats. In an era where st...

Reducere. In 1945, six African American families from St. Louis, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., began a desperate fight to keep their homes. Each of them had...

Reducere. Indigenous women migrants from Central America and Mexico face harrowing experiences of violence before, during, and after their migration to the U...

Lifting the lid on China's secret struggle with home-grown Islamic Terrorism

After isolated terrorist incidents in 2015, the Chinese leadership has cracked down hard on Xinjiang and its Uyghurs. Today, there are thought to b...

Reducere. When we think of constitutional law, we invariably think of the United States Supreme Court and the federal court system. Yet much of our constitut...

Reducere. Connections between what people eat and who they are--between cuisine and identity--reach deep into Mexican history, beginning with pre-Columbian i...

Publisher: Harvard University PressAuthor(s): Beth Lew-WilliamsIllustration(s): 6 MapsNumber of pages: 360Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 156 x 2...

Telling a neglected history of decolonisation and violence in Burundi, Aidan Russell examines the political language of truth that drove extraordin...

Examines the often graphic depictions of violence which are characteristic of many genres of Latin literature, from Plautine comedy to the Christia...

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

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Lisa Jane DischNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 18Cover type:...

Reducere. Turkey has gone through significant transformations over the last century--from the Ottoman Empire and Young Turk era to the Republic of today--but...

Reducere. This eloquent and provocative autobiography, originally published in 1972, records a day by day, sometimes hour by hour, compassionate account of t...

Reducere. Leo Strauss's readings of historical figures in the philosophical tradition have been justly well explored; however, his relation to contemporary t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: T. R. C. HuttonThe notorious conflict between the Hatfield and the McCoy families of West Virginia and Kentucky is often re...

Offers informed and dispassionate analyses of how the many populations of these borderlands managed to coexist

Reducere. In timp ce studiul de fata isi propune sa analizeze dezvoltarea intelectualului modern dintr-un punct de vedere predominant literar, se acorda si o...

Reducere. In 1957, renowned Indian historian Romila Thapar visited China, where, together with Sri Lankan art historian Anil de Silva, she worked at two cave...

Reducere. Treats the question of interpreting difficult texts of the Bible that seem to shock our modern understanding of God and religious ideas.

Ashley M. Williard argues that early Caribbean reconstructions of masculinity and femininity sustained occupation, slavery, and nascent ideas of ra...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Bedross Der MatossianNumber of pages: 360Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 230 x 151 x 25Cover type:...

From the deserts of Sudan to the jungles of Colombia, and from the streets of Belfast to the mountains of Kurdistan, paramilitaries have appeared i...

Reducere. Have you ever heard of the Blair Witch? This simple question captivated moviegoers in the summer of 1999. From the start, The Blair Witch Project w...

What keeps capitalism afloat? The global ocean has through the centuries served as a trade route, strategic space, fish bank and supply chain for t...

Reducere. The waves of protest ignited by the self-immolation of Muhammad Bouazizi in Tunisia in late 2010 highlighted for an international audience the impo...

Reducere. The American imagination still exalts the Founders as the prime movers of the Revolution, and the War of Independence has become the stuff of legen...

DescriptionSometime in April 1285, five Muslim horsemen crossed from the Islamic kingdom of Granada into the realms of the Christian Crown of Arago...

Reducere. Indigenous women migrants from Central America and Mexico face harrowing experiences of violence before, during, and after their migration to the U...

An in-depth and revealing account of the violence that has swept the Central African Republic.

Reducere. What did the U.S. Constitution originally mean, and who has understood its meaning best? Do we look to the intentions of its framers at the Federal...

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Reducere. 'Spud Ely tells it like it was, from first-hand experience. No glory, just guts. You can almost smell the dirt and the blood' - The SunSpud Ely's S...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Ryan BoehmIllustration(s): 6 mapsNumber of pages: 316Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 22...

Publisher: BackPage Press LimitedAuthor(s): Graham HunterNumber of pages: 450Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 229 x 150 x 36Cover type: Paperback ...

Based on John Kingdon's theory of the multiple streams, the book explains the origins of the legislative process and its outcomes by examining the ...

Reducere. When we think of constitutional law, we invariably think of the United States Supreme Court and the federal court system. Yet much of our constitut...

Publisher: Transworld Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Sam HarrisNumber of pages: 464Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 126 x 197 x 36Cover type: Paperback ...

A New York Times New and Noteworthy BookFrom the bestselling author of Waking Up and The End of Faith, an adaptation of his wildly popular, often c...

Originally published in Chinese by Horizon Media Co., Ltd., 2014.

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Reducere. This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It focuses especially on the cau...

Reducere. From sociologists to political theorists and literary critics, psychologists and anthropologists, there has been a rich legacy of perspectives on t...

Reducere. The last two decades have seen a slow but steady increase in nuclear armed states, and in the seemingly less constrained policy goals of some of th...

Reducere. How is the state produced? In what ways did enslaved African Americans shape modern governing practices? Ryan A. Quintana provocatively answers the...

The Work of Politics advances a new understanding of how democratic social movements work with welfare institutions to challenge structures of domi...

Draws together economic, political and diplomatic history to explain how the French state and its fiscal system were transformed in the aftermath o...

DescriptionIn 2017, Myanmar's military launched a campaign of violence against the Rohingya minority that UN experts later said amounted to a genoc...