Political Repression in Modern America: From 1870 to 1976
ISBN: 9780252069642 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A history of the dark side of the land of the free, this book covers both famous and little-known examples of governmental repression, including the Haymarket affair, the repression of opposition to World War I, the McCarthy period, and post-World War II abuses of the intelligence agencies.
A history of the dark side of the land of the free, this book covers both famous and little-known examples of governmental repression, including the H...
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Writing and Society : Literacy, Print and Politics in Britain 1590-1660
ISBN: 9780415084970 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Writing and Society is a stunning exploration of the relationship between the growth in popular literacy and the development of new readerships and the authors addressing them. It is the first single volume to provide a year-by-year chronology of political events in relation to cultural production.
This overview of debates in literary critical theory and historiography includes facsimile pages with commentary from the most influential books of the period. The author describes and analyses: * the development of literacy by status, gender and region in Britain * structures of... Writing and Society is a stunning exploration of the relationship between the growth in popular literacy and the development of new readershi...
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656,16 zł |
Writing and Society : Literacy, Print and Politics in Britain 1590-1660
ISBN: 9780415084987 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores the relationship between the growth in popular literacy and the development of new readerships and the authors addressing them. The book provides a year-by-year chronology of political events in relation to cultural production. This overview of relevant debates in literacy critical theory and historiography includes facsimile pages with commentary from the most influential books of the period. The authors describe and analyze: the development of literacy by status; gender and region in Britain; structures of patronage and censorship; the fundamental role of the publishing industry;...
Explores the relationship between the growth in popular literacy and the development of new readerships and the authors addressing them. The book prov...
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196,79 zł |
The Italian Navy and Fascist Expansionism, 1935-1940
ISBN: 9780714644325 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Challenging the views of Benito Mussolini's Italian biographer, Renzo De Felice, this book argues that the Duce's aggressive war against the predominant Mediterranean powers, Britain and France, was the only means whereby Italy might secure access to the world's oceans. Following Hitler's rise to power in 1933, Mussolini actively pursued the Italo-German alliance which he believed would enable him to conquer a Fascist empire stretching from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean. By the eve of Italy's entry in the world war II, the Fascist administration had commissioned substantial new...
Challenging the views of Benito Mussolini's Italian biographer, Renzo De Felice, this book argues that the Duce's aggressive war against the predomina...
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262,42 zł |
The Kohl Chancellorship
ISBN: 9780714648903 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More durable than any other contemporary democratic head of government and all previous German chancellors since Bismarck, Helmut Kohl has earned a place in history by helping to end his own nations's division and shape a new Europe. In this volume, his leadership and legacy are assessed, and the contributors analyze the chancellor's goals and governing style, including his part in promoting European integration, as well as Kohl's domestic political role - vis a vis his own party, its main opponents and the public - among fellow European leaders.
More durable than any other contemporary democratic head of government and all previous German chancellors since Bismarck, Helmut Kohl has earned a pl...
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883,29 zł |
The Latino Threat : Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation
ISBN: 9780804759342 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From volunteers ready to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border to the hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children who have marched in support of immigrant rights, the United States has witnessed a surge of involvement in immigration activism. In The Latino Threat, Leo R. Chavez critically investigates the media stories about and recent experiences of immigrants to show how prejudices and stereotypes have been used to malign an entire immigrant population--and to define what it means to be an American.
Pundits--and the media at large--nurture and perpetuate the notion that Latinos,... From volunteers ready to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border to the hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children who have marched in support of immigra...
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History of American Foreign Policy, Volume 2: From 1895 : From 1895
ISBN: 9780765620569 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thoroughly updated, this respected text provides a clear, concise, and affordable narrative and analytical history of American foreign policy from the revolutionary period to the present.
Thoroughly updated, this respected text provides a clear, concise, and affordable narrative and analytical history of American foreign policy from the...
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Land and Society in the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia: From the 13th to the 20th Century
ISBN: 9780852557631 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gult, a system of land tenure encompassing both taxation and tribute, is unique to highland Ethiopia. It was through this that Ethiopian states and their rulers affected the lives of ordinary people. US, Canada & rest of world (exc. UK, Commonwealth & Europe): University of Illinois Press
Gult, a system of land tenure encompassing both taxation and tribute, is unique to highland Ethiopia. It was through this that Ethiopian states and th...
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Violence, Political Culture and Development in Africa
ISBN: 9780852558942 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Africa has witnessed a number of transitions to democracy in recent years. Coinciding with this upsurge in democratic transitions there also have been spectacular experiences of social disintegration. An alternative to discourses of the 'failed' and 'collapsed' state in Africa is an approach that takes seriously the complexity of historical processes, on which the political development of individual nation states was based. The chapters in this volume run in a continuum from discussions of 'warlord politics' to an understanding of the 'new wars' in Africa as outcomes of fundamental changes in...
Africa has witnessed a number of transitions to democracy in recent years. Coinciding with this upsurge in democratic transitions there also have been...
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126,14 zł |