ilość książek w kategorii: 2300
Secession as an International Phenomenon: From America's Civil War to Contemporary Separatist Movements
ISBN: 9780820330082 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. About half of today's nation-states originated as some kind of breakaway state. The end of the Cold War witnessed a resurgence of separatist activity affecting nearly every part of the globe and stimulated a new generation of scholars to consider separatism and secession. As the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War approaches, this collection of essays allows us to view within a broader international context one of modern history's bloodiest conflicts over secession. The contributors to this volume consider a wide range of topics related to secession, separatism, and the... About half of today's nation-states originated as some kind of breakaway state. The end of the Cold War witnessed a resurgence of separatist activi... |
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729,93 zł |
Secession as an International Phenomenon: From America's Civil War to Contemporary Separatist Movements
ISBN: 9780820337128 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. About half of today's nation-states originated as some kind of breakaway state. The end of the Cold War witnessed a resurgence of separatist activity affecting nearly every part of the globe and stimulated a new generation of scholars to consider separatism and secession. As the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War approaches, this collection of essays allows us to view within a broader international context one of modern history's bloodiest conflicts over secession. The contributors to this volume consider a wide range of topics related to secession, separatism, and the... About half of today's nation-states originated as some kind of breakaway state. The end of the Cold War witnessed a resurgence of separatist activi... |
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188,19 zł |
Nationalism and Revolution in Indonesia
ISBN: 9780877277347 / Angielski / Miękka / 490 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Professor Kahin's classic 1952 study, reprinted for a contemporary audience. An immediate, vibrant portrait of a nation in the age of revolution, featuring interviews with many of the chief players. With new illustrations and a new introduction by...
Professor Kahin's classic 1952 study, reprinted for a contemporary audience. An immediate, vibrant portrait of a nation in the age of revolution, feat...
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181,70 zł |
Ethnic Conflict: Causes, Consequences, and Responses
ISBN: 9780745639307 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why does ethnic conflict remain one of the major security challenges in today's world? Can we avoid another Rwanda in the future? How was it possible, after almost four decades, to achieve a lasting settlement to the conflict in Northern Ireland, while that in Kashmir remains unresolved after more than sixty years?
These and other questions are the focus of this book. Investigating the causes and consequences of ethnic conflict, the authors argue that the most effective responses are those that take into account factors at the local, state, regional and global level... Why does ethnic conflict remain one of the major security challenges in today's world? Can we avoid another Rwanda in the future? How was it possible,...
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292,22 zł |
Kemalism in Turkish Politics: The Republican People's Party, Secularism and Nationalism
ISBN: 9780415612814 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is concerned with Turkey's political evolution, the role of Kemalism, and why a social democratic alternative has never fully developed. Concentrating on the electoral weaknesses of the Turkish centre-left, represented by the Republican People's Party (CHP), Sinan Ciddi examines the roles of nationalism and the political establishment and the role of Kemalist ideology. Established by Kemal Ataturk, the CHP is seen to be the founding party of modern Turkey. Kemalism sought to create a secular and democratic society based on the principles of republicanism, populism, secularism,...
This book is concerned with Turkey's political evolution, the role of Kemalism, and why a social democratic alternative has never fully developed. Con...
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216,98 zł |
Taiwanese Identity in the 21st Century: Domestic, Regional and Global Perspectives
ISBN: 9780415620239 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As we look to enter the second decade of the 21st century, Taiwan's quest for identity remains the most contentious issue in the domestic arena of Taiwanese politics. From here, it spills over into the cross-Strait relationship and impacts on regional and global security. Whether Taiwan is a nation state or whether Taiwan has any claim to be a nation-state and how Taiwan should relate to "China" are issues which have long been hotly debated on the island, although it seems that much of this debate is now more focused on finding an adequate strategy to deal with the Beijing... As we look to enter the second decade of the 21st century, Taiwan's quest for identity remains the most contentious issue in the domesti... |
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706,63 zł |
False Prophets of Peace: Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine
ISBN: 9781608461301 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Long-viewed as a humanistic, democratic, even sadistic tradition, 'False Prophets of Peace' examines the failure of the Zionist left to provide a coherent challenge to Israel's brutal occupation and apartheid treatment of Palestinians.
Long-viewed as a humanistic, democratic, even sadistic tradition, 'False Prophets of Peace' examines the failure of the Zionist left to provide a cohe...
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106,21 zł |
Pan-Asianism: A Documentary History, 1850-1920, Volume 1
ISBN: 9781442205963 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This first volume in a two-volume set provides the only comprehensive, Western-language history of Pan-Asianism through primary sources and commentaries. The book argues that Pan-Asianism, often--though unfairly--associated with the Yellow Peril, has been a powerful political and ideological force in modern Asia. It has shaped national identities and strongly influenced the development of international relations across Asia and the Pacific. Scholars have long recognized the importance of Pan-Asianism as an ideal of Asian solidarity, regional cooperation, and integration but also as an...
This first volume in a two-volume set provides the only comprehensive, Western-language history of Pan-Asianism through primary sources and commentari...
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515,36 zł |
Pan-Asianism: A Documentary History, 1920-Present, Volume 2
ISBN: 9781442205994 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This second volume in a two-volume set provides the only comprehensive, Western-language history of Pan-Asianism through primary sources and commentaries. The book argues that Pan-Asianism, often though unfairly associated with the Yellow Peril, has been a powerful political and ideological force in modern Asia. It has shaped national identities and strongly influenced the development of international relations across Asia and the Pacific. Scholars have long recognized the importance of Pan-Asianism as an ideal of Asian solidarity, regional cooperation, and integration but also as an ideology...
This second volume in a two-volume set provides the only comprehensive, Western-language history of Pan-Asianism through primary sources and commentar...
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515,36 zł |
Individuum Und Herrschaft Im Stalinismus: Emel'jan Jaroslavskij (1878-1943)
ISBN: 9783486589559 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Trotz der Bedeutung der ersten Generation bolschewistischer Fuhrer fur die Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts gibt es bisher nur wenige biographische Studien uber diese Manner und Frauen. Das vorliegende Buch tragt diesem Missverhaltnis Rechnung und stellt ein Konzept fur weitere biographische Studien im sowjetischen Kontext bereit. Es untersucht mit Fokus auf den hochrangigen Bolschewisten, loyalen Stalinanhanger und Stalinkult-Produzenten Emel'jan Jaroslavskij, (1.) wie die erste Generation der bolschewistischen Machthaber vor dem Hintergrund kriegsbedingter und selbstproduzierter politischer,...
Trotz der Bedeutung der ersten Generation bolschewistischer Fuhrer fur die Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts gibt es bisher nur wenige biographische Stu...
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346,91 zł |
Bellizismus und Nation
ISBN: 9783486585162 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 1038 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alle politischen Begriffe und Vorstellungen beziehen sich nach Carl Schmitt auf die politische Unterscheidung von Freund und Feind, deren letzte Konsequenz sich in Krieg oder Revolution auere. Aber was erlaubte es dem Staat, unter Ruckgriff auf die Legitimationsformel der Nation Millionen seiner Burger in den Krieg zu schicken? Vor dem Hintergrund dieser Frage untersucht Jorn Leonhard Ursprung, Wandel und Vielfalt der aus der Erfahrung kriegerischer Gewalt hervorgegangenen nationalen Legitimationsmuster. Auf synchroner Ebene stellt er Frankreich, Deutschland, Grobritannien und die Vereinigten...
Alle politischen Begriffe und Vorstellungen beziehen sich nach Carl Schmitt auf die politische Unterscheidung von Freund und Feind, deren letzte Konse...
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628,96 zł |
Apaisement in Asien: Frankreich Und Der Fernostkonflikt 1937-1940
ISBN: 9783486590128 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 580 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Frankreich stand in der Zwischenkriegszeit nicht nur in Europa unter dem Druck expansiver Diktaturen, sondern auch in Asien. Die Bedrohung durch Japan wurde drangend, als das Kaiserreich ab Juli 1937 China mit Krieg uberzog und auch vor der Kuste der franzosischen Kolonie Indochina seine Macht deutlich demonstrierte. Die Bonner Dissertation von Volker Nies untersucht erstmals, was Paris unternahm, um seine Gromachtposition in Ostasien zu behaupten. Frankreich suchte auf zuweilen doppelbodige Art die Nahe zu Japan. Paris ging dabei so weit, wie es die Rucksicht auf die Beziehungen zu den... Frankreich stand in der Zwischenkriegszeit nicht nur in Europa unter dem Druck expansiver Diktaturen, sondern auch in Asien. Die Bedrohung durch Ja... |
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346,91 zł |
Jose Carlos Mariategui: An Anthology
ISBN: 9781583672457 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jose Carlos Mariategui is one of Latin America s most profound but overlooked thinkers. A self-taught journalist, social scientist, and activist from Peru, he was the first to emphasize that those fighting for the revolutionary transformation of society must adapt classical Marxist theory to the particular conditions of Latin American. He also stressed that indigenous peoples must take an active, if not leading, role in any revolutionary struggle. Today Latin America is the scene of great social upheaval. More progressive governments are in power than ever before, and grassroots... Jose Carlos Mariategui is one of Latin America s most profound but overlooked thinkers. A self-taught journalist, social scientist, and activist fr... |
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170,23 zł |
José Carlos Mariátegui: An Anthology
ISBN: 9781583672464 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jose Carlos Mariategui is one of Latin America s most profound but overlooked thinkers. A self-taught journalist, social scientist, and activist from Peru, he was the first to emphasize that those fighting for the revolutionary transformation of society must adapt classical Marxist theory to the particular conditions of Latin American. He also stressed that indigenous peoples must take an active, if not leading, role in any revolutionary struggle. Today Latin America is the scene of great social upheaval. More progressive governments are in power than ever before, and grassroots... Jose Carlos Mariategui is one of Latin America s most profound but overlooked thinkers. A self-taught journalist, social scientist, and activist fr... |
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574,68 zł |
Soldiers, Martyrs, Traitors, and Exiles: Political Conflict in Eritrea and the Diaspora
ISBN: 9780812221510 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Soldiers, Martyrs, Traitors, and Exiles" is an exploration of the Eritrean struggle for independence from Ethiopia, waged from 1961 to 1991, and the postindependence nation-building project. The book focuses on the way the Eritrean revolution drew refugees and exiles in the urban United States and nationalist guerrilla fighters in the Horn of Africa together in a common, yet contested, political agenda. Through a combination of ethnography and creative exposition, anthropologist Tricia Redeker Hepner recounts the experiences of Eritreans in their homeland and in the United States,... "Soldiers, Martyrs, Traitors, and Exiles" is an exploration of the Eritrean struggle for independence from Ethiopia, waged from 1961 to 1991, and t... |
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151,37 zł |
Germans Absent Nationality & the Holocaust
ISBN: 9781845194451 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. President of Israel Shimon Peres, in a speech to the German Bundestag on 27 January 2010, convened to mark Holocaust Day, voiced an often-repeated enigma that continues to trouble humanity over a half a century after the Holocaust: "The question still remains today why did the Nazis see in the existence of Jews a great and immediate danger? What induced them to invest in the killing machine such extensive resources? What motivated the Nazis to continue operating with such determination to the very end, even though their defeat had already appeared on the horizon? . . . The Nazi rabid hatred...
President of Israel Shimon Peres, in a speech to the German Bundestag on 27 January 2010, convened to mark Holocaust Day, voiced an often-repeated eni...
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212,26 zł |
Historiography and Writing Postcolonial India
ISBN: 9780415672269 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A critical examination of post-colonial Indian history-writing. In the years preceding formal Independence from British colonial rule, Indians found themselves responding to the panorama of sin and suffering that constituted the modern present in a variety of imaginative ways. This book is a critical analysis of the uses made of India's often millennial past by nationalist ideologues who sought a specific solution to India's predicament on its way to becoming a post-colonial state. From independence to the present, it considers the competing visions of India's liberation... A critical examination of post-colonial Indian history-writing. In the years preceding formal Independence from British colonial ru... |
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151,37 zł |
Arab Nationalism: The Politics of History and Culture in the Modern Middle East
ISBN: 9780415499378 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Arab nationalism has been one of the dominant ideologies in the Middle East and North Africa since the early twentieth century. However, a clear definition of Arab nationalism, even as a subject of scholarly inquiry, does not yet exist. Arab Nationalism sheds light on cultural expressions of Arab Nationalism and the sometimes contradictory meanings attached to it in the process of identity formation in the modern world. It presents nationalism as an experiencable set of identity markers in stories, visual culture, narratives of memory and struggles with ideology, sometimes... Arab nationalism has been one of the dominant ideologies in the Middle East and North Africa since the early twentieth century. However, a clear de... |
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757,10 zł |
Arab Nationalism: The Politics of History and Culture in the Modern Middle East
ISBN: 9780415499385 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Arab nationalism has been one of the dominant ideologies in the Middle East and North Africa since the early twentieth century. However, a clear definition of Arab nationalism, even as a subject of scholarly inquiry, does not yet exist. Arab Nationalism sheds light on cultural expressions of Arab Nationalism and the sometimes contradictory meanings attached to it in the process of identity formation in the modern world. It presents nationalism as an experiencable set of identity markers in stories, visual culture, narratives of memory and struggles with ideology, sometimes... Arab nationalism has been one of the dominant ideologies in the Middle East and North Africa since the early twentieth century. However, a clear de... |
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272,51 zł |
Egyptian-Indian Nationalist Collaboration and the British Empire
ISBN: 9780230113640 / Angielski / Twarda / 253 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An examination of the collaboration between Egyptian and Indian nationalists against the British Empire, this book argues that the basis for Third World or Non-Aligned Movement was formed long before the Cold War.
An examination of the collaboration between Egyptian and Indian nationalists against the British Empire, this book argues that the basis for Third Wor...
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194,08 zł |