Comparative History – alle Bücher und CDs, Seite 5

John Mckay
Contemporary Asia

"For the first time in the modern era, Asia is not dominated by an outside power and contains within it three nations of global significance. Is this the Asian Century? How will tensions between the …

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Ewa Atanassow
Tocqueville's Dilemmas, and Ours

How Tocqueville's ideas can help us build resilient liberal democracies in a divided worldHow can today's liberal democracies withstand the illiberal wave sweeping the globe? What can revive our waning fa…

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Matteo Bonotti, Zim Nwokora
Money, Parties, and Democracy

This book evaluates political finance rules and party systems in terms of three distinctive normative dimensions, which capture what parties, at their best, can contribute to democratic politics. Based on…

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Iván de la Nuez,
Theory of the Rearguard

"Theory of the Rearguard examines how contemporary art is in tension with survival, rather than in relation to life. In the twentieth century, Peter Bèurger's Theory of the Avant-Garde was a cult boo…

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Christian Joppke
Political Neoliberalism

In Political Neoliberalism, Christian Joppke tackles one of the most disputed concepts in current social thought, arguing that neoliberalism is a useful lens to make sense of a wide range of political phe…

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Tim Kane
The Immigrant Superpower

In The Immigrant Superpower, Tim Kane argues that immigration has long been a source of American strength and that exceptional immigrants have been crucial to American exceptionalism. Deftly combining sto…

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Barry Eichengreen
Money Beyond Borders

A 2,500-year history of international currencies that reveals new insights about the future of the U.S. dollar---as well as crypto and central bank digital currenciesDoubts about the international dominan…

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Ruixue Jia, Hongbin Li, Claire Cousineau
The Highest Exam

Combining personal narratives with decades of research, a vivid account of how the gaokao-China's high-stakes college admissions test-shapes that society and influences education debates in the United Sta…

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Helge Kragh
The Names of Science

The history of science is echoed in the development of its language and the names chosen for its technical terms. This book examines in detail how new words entered the scientific vocabulary and how some,…

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Alexander Davenport
The Unfulfilled Electoral Potential of West European Liberal Parties

For all their long histories, liberal parties win relatively little popular support in most of Western Europe. This book, however, highlights an influx of voters combining economically free-market and cul…

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Dk
The Politics Book

From ancient and medieval philosophers such as Confucius and Thomas Aquinas, to revolutionary thought leaders such as Thomas Jefferson and Leon Trotsky, to the voices who have shaped modern politics today…

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Dk
The Politics Book

From ancient and medieval philosophers such as Confucius and Thomas Aquinas, to revolutionary thought leaders such as Thomas Jefferson and Leon Trotsky, to the voices who have shaped modern politics today…

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Hana Videen
The Deorhord

An entertaining tour of Old English words for animals, from the author of The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old EnglishMany of the animals we encounter in everyday life, from pets and farm animals to the wild c…

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Paul A Rahe
Sparta's Third Attic War

When the great war pitting the Athenians against the Peloponnesians first erupted, Pericles told his compatriots that, if they kept up their navy, focused on the conflict at hand, and refrained from wasti…

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Renée Bergland
Natural Magic

A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of natureEmily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known a…

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Dennis Yi Tenen
Literary Theory for Robots

Literary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking readers on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past Holl…

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Jessica A Albrecht,
Producing Religion, Gender and National Identities in Sri Lankan Elite Girls' Schools

This book provides the first comparative analysis of how religious, gender and national identities have been constructed in Christian, Buddhist and Hindu girls' schools in Sri Lanka in the context of colo…

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Haun Saussy
The Making of Barbarians

A groundbreaking account of translation and identity in the Chinese literary tradition before 1850—with important ramifications for today Debates on the canon, multiculturalism, and world literature ofte…

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Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way
Revolution and Dictatorship

Why the world’s most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolution Revolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social revolution—such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the So…

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Rod Giblett
Wise Women for Loving Nature

From Rachel Carson and Julia Kristeva to Rebecca Solnit and Nandi Chinna, the writers and artists featured here are 'patron saints', Rod Giblett shows, of a special aspect or approach to environmental con…

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