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"Honorable Mention for the BAAS Book Prize, British Association for American Studies" Sarah Miller-Davenport is lecturer in U.S. history at the University of Sheffield.
How Hawai'i became an emblem of multiculturalism during its journey to statehood in the mid-twentieth century
Gateway State explores the development of Hawai'i as a model for liberal multiculturalism and a tool of American global power in the era of decolonization. The establishment...
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Histoire politique récente de l'Islande
Sous forme de chroniques, Jérme Skalski rend compte de la « Révolution des casseroles » en Islande. Suite au déclenchement de la crise financière internationale à l'automne 2008, l'Islande a choisi de tourner le dos à la « doctrine d'austérité » qui forme actuellement le lieu commun dominant des politiques de gestion de l'après-crise.
Passée du statut de laboratoire de la finance triomphante...
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"Winner of the Edgar S. Furniss Book Award, Mershon Center for International Security Studies" Michael Cotey Morgan is associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The first in-depth account of the historic diplomatic agreement that served as a blueprint for ending the Cold War
The Helsinki Final Act was a watershed of the Cold War. Signed by thirty-five European and North American leaders at a summit in Finland...
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"Co-winner of the 2019 Goldsmith Book Prize for Academic Books, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School" "Winner of the 2018 Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Journalism and Mass Communication Research Award" Matthew Hindman is associate professor of media and public affairs at George Washington University and the author of the award-winning book The Myth of Digital Democracy (Princeton). He lives in Washington,...
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"We are at an inflection point."
Director James Cameron said his film Titanic was "like a great novel that really happened." Ditto Trumpism the Sequel, as Trump is now plausibly hopeful of being the next GOP president as well as plausibly fearful of conviction and incarceration.
The Inflection Election: Democracy or Neo-Fascism? aims to warn busy and credulous Americans that 2024 will be an inflection election between a Party of Progress and...
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Dispatches from an age of impunity by the ABCTV award-winning, investigative reporter, and former foreign correspondent.
For more than 15 years, journalist Sophie McNeill, has reported on some of the most war-ravaged and oppressive places on earth, including Syria, Gaza, Yemen, West Bank and Iraq.
In We Can't Say We Didn't Know, Sophie tells the human stories of devastation and hope behind the headlines, of children, families and refugees, of valiant...
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Historian David Williams has written the first account of the American Civil War as viewed though the eyes of ordinary people-foot soldiers, slaves, women, prisoners of war, draft resisters, Native Americans, and others. Richly illustrated with little-known anecdotes and firsthand testimony, this path-breaking narrative moves beyond presidents and generals to tell a new and powerful story about America's most destructive conflict.
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After World War II, states on both sides of the Atlantic enacted comprehensive social benefits to protect working people and constrain capitalism. A widely shared consensus specifically linked social welfare to democratic citizenship, upholding greater equality as the glue that held nations together. Though the "two Wests," Europe and the United States, differ in crucial respects, they share a common history of social rights, democratic participation,...
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Gyan Prakash is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University. His many books include Mumbai Fables: A History of an Enchanted City (Princeton), Bonded Histories: Genealogies of Labor Servitude in Colonial India, and Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India (Princeton). He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
The gripping story of an explosive turning point in the history of modern India
On the night of June 25,...
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In France, both political culture and theatrical performances have drawn upon melodrama. This "melodramatic thread" helped weave the country's political life as it moved from monarchy to democracy. By examining the relationship between public ceremonies and theatrical performance, James R. Lehning sheds light on democratization in modern France. He explores the extent to which the dramatic forms were present in the public performance of political...
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"Longlisted for the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize, New India Foundation"
Taylor C. Sherman teaches in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her books include Muslim Belonging in Secular India and State Violence and Punishment in India.
An iconoclastic history of the first two decades after independence in India
Nehru's India brings a provocative but nuanced set of new interpretations...
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"A Financial Times Economics Book of the Year" Paul Tucker is a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and the author of Unelected Power (Princeton). He is a former central banker and regulator at the Bank of England, and a former director at Basel's Bank for International Settlements, where he chaired some of the groups designing reforms of the international financial system after the Global Financial Crisis.
How to sustain an international system...
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Jamie Terence Kelly is assistant professor of philosophy at Vassar College.
The past thirty years have seen a surge of empirical research into political decision making and the influence of framing effects--the phenomenon that occurs when different but equivalent presentations of a decision problem elicit different judgments or preferences. During the same period, political philosophers have become increasingly interested in democratic theory, particularly...
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Traditional, secular, and fundamentalist-all three categories are contested, yet in their contestation they shape our sensibilities and are mutually implicated, the one with the others. This interplay brings to the foreground more than ever the question of what it means to think and live as Tradition. The Orthodox theologians of the twentieth century, in particular, have emphasized Tradition not as a dead letter but as a living presence of the Holy...
875) The Phantom Public
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From the best selling author of A Preface to Politics, Public Opinion, and Liberty and the News! The Phantom Public was Lippman's most towering achievement influencing political thought for decades to come. In it Lippman posits that the public exists merely as an illusion, myth, and inevitably a phantom; that the common man cannot be expected to know enough about events entirely beyond their control to cast an informed and meaningful vote.
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An accessible examination of neoliberalism and its effects on higher education and America, by the author of American Nightmare.
Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education reveals how neoliberal policies, practices, and modes of material and symbolic violence have radically reshaped the mission and practice of higher education, short-changing a generation of young people.
Giroux exposes the corporate forces at play and charts a clear-minded and...
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The powerful story of the women who stood up for their right to vote in early twentieth-century Missouri, includes photos.
It was June 14, 1916, a warm, sticky Wednesday morning. The Democratic Convention would soon meet in St. Louis. Inside the Jefferson Hotel, the men ate breakfast and met with their committees. Outside the hotel, thousands of women quietly took their places along both sides of Locust Street.
They stood shoulder to shoulder, each...
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Three Scottish weavers, James Wilson, Andrew Hardie and John Baird, were hanged and beheaded for high treason in the summer of 1820. Nineteen more men were transported to the penal colony of Botany Bay. Their crime? To have taken up arms against a corrupt and nepotistic parliament, and the aristocratic government that refused to reform it.
This 'Radical War' was the culmination of five years of unsuccessful mass petitioning of Westminster by working...
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"This collection contains everything we need to understand the world that gave us Trump, and to arm ourselves for the battles to come" (Sarah Jaffe, author of Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt).
The Democratic Party and mainstream liberal organizations have shown themselves to be completely inadequate to address the key questions facing working people today. The corporate-friendly wing of the party, especially in the aftermath of the Great Recession...
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The remarkable story of the bloody conflict that erupted in 1841 Rhode Island over allowing non-property owners to vote.
The portly Rhode Island aristocrat was hardly the image of the people's champion-but in 1841, Thomas Dorr became just that. At a time when only white male landowners could vote, the idealistic Dorr envisioned a more democratic state.
In October of that year, the People's Convention ratified a new constitution that extended voting...
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