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Money Sings
The Changing Politics of Urban Space in Post-Soviet Yaroslavl
Av Blair A. Ruble, Lee H. Hamilton
Häftad, 2006
520 kr
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The politics surrounding the use of urban space expose the interaction of economic, physical, social and political factors that shape contemporary society. This exposure is especially revealing when focused on a single community during a period of dramatic transformation. Money Sings explores the …
Kinship and Capitalism
Marriage, Family, and Business in the English-Speaking World, 1580-1740
Av Richard Grassby, Lee H. Hamilton
Häftad, 2007
720 kr
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This uncompromisingly empirical study reconstructs the public and private lives of urban business families during the period of England's emergence as a world economic power. Using a broad cross-section of archival, rather than literary, sources, it tests the orthodox view that the family as an …
Dilemmas of Scale in America's Federal Democracy
Häftad, 2007
602 kr
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Nationalist and local traditions vie within the American federal system and the American experiment with self-government. Bringing together contributions from history, political science and sociology, this book focuses primarily on the local, seeking to recapture its origins, explain its current …
Reforming the Tsar's Army
Military Innovation in Imperial Russia from Peter the Great to the Revolution
Av David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Bruce W. Menning
Häftad, 2011
754 kr
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This volume examines how Imperial Russia's armed forces sought to adapt to the challenges of modern warfare. Russian rulers always understood the need to maintain an army and navy capable of preserving the empire's great power status. Yet they inevitably faced the dilemma of importing European …
Between the Blocs
Problems and Prospects for Europe's Neutral and Nonaligned States
Av Joseph Kruzel, Michael H. Haltzel
Inbunden, 1990
1824 kr
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The major European neutrals - Austria, Finland, Ireland, Sweden and Switzerland - are heirs to a venerable and adaptable tradition. In the turmoil of the past two centuries, many neutral states have disappeared, others have joined alliance systems, and those that have remained or become neutral …
Religion and Twentieth-Century American Intellectual Life
Inbunden, 1989
1563 kr
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Concerned primarily with relations between Protestant Christianity and the main currents in secular intellectual life over the course of the past century, the essays in this volume disclose the persistence, complexity, and fragility of religious thought in the new university dominated intellectual …
The USSR and Marxist Revolutions in the Third World
Av Mark N. Katz
Inbunden, 1991
1041 kr
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What did Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of perestroika mean for future Soviet support of Marxist revolution in the third world? In this book, four experts on Soviet relations with the third world take a sharp-eyed look at the role the Soviet Union played in providing assistance to Marxist …
The State and Economic Knowledge
The American and British Experiences
Av Mary O. Furner, Barry Supple
Inbunden, 1990
1222 kr
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This book addresses an important but inadequately recognized dimension of the activities of the modern state - the role it plays in producing the theoretical and practical knowledge necessary for economic policy-making. The traditional assumption, which this collection of essays challenges, is that …
The Truman Presidency
Häftad, 1991
653 kr
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Written by leading authorities in the fields of the contemporary social, political, and diplomatic history of the United States, the essays in this volume provide a wide-ranging overview of the intentions, achievements, and failures of the Truman administration. Divided into sections on domestic …
Religion and Twentieth-Century American Intellectual Life
Häftad, 1991
504 kr
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Concerned primarily with relations between Protestant Christianity and the main currents in secular intellectual life over the course of the past century, the essays in this volume disclose the persistence, complexity, and fragility of religious thought in the new university dominated intellectual …
A Culture of Rights
The Bill of Rights in Philosophy, Politics and Law 1791 and 1991
Av Michael James Lacey, Knud Haakonssen
Inbunden, 1991
1302 kr
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Written by leading authorities in history, philosophy, jurisprudence and political theory, the essays in this volume provide insights into the variable and changing contents of the rights thinking and consciousness that lie at the core of American political culture and shape its central political …
Unsilent Revolution
Television News and American Public Life, 1948-1991
Av Robert J. Donovan, Raymond L. Scherer
Häftad, 1992
394 kr
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In four decades since its first broadcasts, television news has revolutionized public life and political policy making, transformed political careers, advanced civil rights, and radically changed newspapers and magazines. In Unsilent Revolution, veteran journalists Robert J. Donovan and Ray Scherer …
Industrial Democracy in America
The Ambiguous Promise
Av Nelson Lichtenstein, Howell John Harris
Inbunden, 1993
1563 kr
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Industrial Democracy in America begins its close examination of what came to be known among collars of any colour as 'the labour problem' with the railroad strikes of the 1870s. The contributors cover the theory and practice of the American labour movement, the promise and demise of industrial …
Imperial Russian Foreign Policy
Inbunden, 1993
1576 kr
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Imperial Russian Foreign Policy aims to demythologise a field hitherto dominated by suspicions of diabolical cunning, inscrutable motives, and international plots using unseen forces of the gigantic, fear-inspiring empire of the tsar. The contributors, leading historians from both Russia and the …
A Culture of Rights
The Bill of Rights in Philosophy, Politics and Law 1791 and 1991
Av Michael James Lacey, Knud Haakonssen
Häftad, 1992
644 kr
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Written by leading authorities in history, philosophy, jurisprudence and political theory, the essays in this volume provide insights into the variable and changing contents of the rights thinking and consciousness that lie at the core of American political culture and shape its central political …
Reform in Modern Russian History
Progress or Cycle?
Inbunden, 1995
1290 kr
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This volume provides a comparative study of the problems and prospects of reform in modern Russian history. Drawn from contributions to a May 1990 conference sponsored by the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, the book raises important methodological and historiographic questions …
Northern Ireland and the Politics of Reconciliation
Av Dermot Keogh, Michael H. Haltzel
Häftad, 1994
468 kr
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This collection adds to the extensive literature on Northern Ireland and Ireland by bringing together the leading academic and political figures working in the field and offering a comprehensive, multidisciplinary overview of the historical process. The topics discussed include the remote and …
The Social Legacy of Communism
Av James R. Millar, Sharon L. Wolchik
Inbunden, 1994
1726 kr
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Work on the transition from communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union has emphasized the 'polity' and the 'economy'; this book analyzes the 'society', and thereby helps fill an important gap in the literature. It endeavors to summarize developments and impose some coherence on the subject by …
The Social Legacy of Communism
Av Wwcs Millar, James R. Millar m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
634 kr
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Work on the transition from communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union has emphasized the 'polity' and the 'economy'; this book analyzes the 'society', and thereby helps fill an important gap in the literature. It endeavors to summarize developments and impose some coherence on the subject by …
On Mozart
Inbunden, 1994
1677 kr
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The book, first published in 1995, is an attempt to suggest how much more complicated a figure Mozart was than popular legends and media portrayals would have us believe. He was surely a genius - in that, the legends are correct, and the evidence abounds - but he was also a working composer in a …
Urban Spaces in Contemporary China
The Potential for Autonomy and Community in Post-Mao China
Av Deborah S. Davis, Deborah S. Davis m. fl.
Inbunden, 1995
2149 kr
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The post-Mao urban reforms of the last decade have physically and psychologically transformed China's cities. These essays explore how the character of city life shifted after the political-economic restructuring intensified in 1984, and how this shift affected the creation of new physical, …
On Mozart
Häftad, 1994
720 kr
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The book, first published in 1995, is an attempt to suggest how much more complicated a figure Mozart was than popular legends and media portrayals would have us believe. He was surely a genius - in that, the legends are correct, and the evidence abounds - but he was also a working composer in a …
Urban Spaces in Contemporary China
The Potential for Autonomy and Community in Post-Mao China
Av Davis Et Al, Et Al Davis Et Al m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
764 kr
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The post-Mao urban reforms of the last decade have physically and psychologically transformed China's cities. These essays explore how the character of city life shifted after the political-economic restructuring intensified in 1984, and how this shift affected the creation of new physical, …
Money Sings
The Changing Politics of Urban Space in Post-Soviet Yaroslavl
Av Blair A. Ruble, Lee H. Hamilton
Inbunden, 1995
1058 kr
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The politics surrounding the use of urban space expose the interaction of economic, physical, social and political factors that shape contemporary society. This exposure is especially revealing when focused on a single community during a period of dramatic transformation. Money Sings explores the …
The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain
History, Rhetoric, and Fiction, 1500-1800
Av Donald R. Kelley, David Harris Sacks
Häftad, 2002
732 kr
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This collection of essays by some of the most distinguished historians and literary scholars in the English-speaking world explores the overlap, interplay, and interaction between history and fiction in British imaginative and historical writing from the Tudor period to the Enlightenment. The …
Churchill as Peacemaker
Häftad, 2003
921 kr
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Winston Churchill had an acute appreciation of what belongs to war and what belongs to peace. We tend to remember his resistance to Nazi tyranny during the Second World War and his actions as a man of war. In this book, scholars from the United States, Great Britain, and South Africa examine his …
The State and Economic Knowledge
The American and British Experiences
Av Mary O. Furner, Barry Supple
Häftad, 2002
804 kr
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This book addresses an important but inadequately recognized dimension of the activities of the modern state - the role it plays in producing the theoretical and practical knowledge necessary for economic policy-making. The traditional assumption, which this collection of essays challenges, is that …
Global Ramifications of the French Revolution
Av Joseph Klaits, Michael Haltzel
Häftad, 2002
594 kr
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This collection of essays is the first to examine the impact of the French Revolution. The legacy of the French Revolution extends far beyond the borders of France or even Europe-the ramifications of the Revolution of 1789 are truly global and continue to have an impact today. Although the French …
Funding the Modern American State, 1941-1995
The Rise and Fall of the Era of Easy Finance
Häftad, 2003
639 kr
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The contemporary fiscal crisis faced by the American federal government represents the end of a fiscal regime that began with the financing of World War II. In this volume, an inter-disciplinary group of scholars explores the history of American taxation and public finance since 1941 in an attempt …
Knowledge and Belief in America
Enlightenment Traditions and Modern Religious Thought
Av William M. Shea, Peter A. Huff
Häftad, 2003
553 kr
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The Enlightenment values of individual autonomy, democracy, and secularizing reason conflict with the religious traditions of community, authority, and traditional learning. Yet in American history the two heritages have been intertwined since the colonial era: the development of the Enlightenment …
