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Book Gold and Iron

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  • Author : Fritz Stern
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2013-03-06
  • ISBN : 0307829863
  • Pages : 671 pages

Download or read book Gold and Iron written by Fritz Stern and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-03-06 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Lionel Trilling Award Nominated for the National Book Award “A major contribution to our understanding of some of the great themes of modern European history—the relations between Jews and Germans, between economics and politics, between banking and diplomacy.” —James Joll, The New York Times Book Review “I cannot praise this book too highly. It is a work of original scholarship, both exact and profound. It restores a buried chapter of history and penetrates, with insight and understanding, one of the most disturbing historical problems of modern times.” —Hugh J. Trevor-Roper, London Sunday Times “[An] extraordinary book, an invaluable contribution to our understanding of Germany in the second half of the nineteenth century.” —Stanley Hoffman, Washington Post Book World “One of the most important historical works of the past few decades.” —Golo Mann “In many ways this book resembles the great nineteenth-century novels.” —The Economist

Book The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America

Download or read book The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Code of Federal Regulations is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.

Book U S  Hegemony Under Siege

Download or read book U S Hegemony Under Siege written by James Petras and published by Verso. This book was released on 1990-09-17 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Menem’s new Thatcherite experiment in Argentina, through Fujimori’s unexpected victory in Peru, to Collor’s near defeat at the hands of the rapidly growing Workers’ Party of Brazil, Latin American politics is once again in turmoil. Whilst military dictators have been dumped from office, their liberal and populist replacements have found television exposure and playboy reputations insufficient to hold together societies still remorselessly squeezed insufficient to hold together societies still remorselessly squeezed by United States foreign policy. But US influence in the subcontinent is not only under siege from the impoverished masses of increasingly unstable states; it is also threatened by intensifying superpower competition as Japan and a unifying Europe mount their challenges for world dominance. In this wide-ranging and original polemic, Petras and Morley examine the social structures which emerged from neo-liberal economic policy during the 1970s and 1980s. they show how Latin American society is increasingly organized around a continental bourgeoisie maintaining high levels of foreign investment, a national bourgeoisie operating on the margins of legality and committed to both economic deregulation and public-sector activity, and a growing class of low-paid and poorly employed workers subject to the demands of export-oriented capital into international financial circuits is matched by technical and intellectual integration, with a collapse into conformity of formerly critical groupings. For students and the interested general reader, this balanced and rigorous analysis of state power and social form provides a substantial new framework in which to consider the exigent questions of US-Latin American relations.

Book Code of Federal Regulations

Download or read book Code of Federal Regulations written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Populism and Feminism in Iran

Download or read book Populism and Feminism in Iran written by Haideh Moghissi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women presented the first effective challenge to the Islamic regime and the clerical authority in post-revolutionary Iran. Women's activism in support of their legal rights and personal freedom, however, did not develop into a strong movement against the rising fundamentalism. The Iranian socialists did not support women's autonomous organizations. The convergence of the Left's populism with Islamic populism, and the influence of the Iranian/Shiite political culture that promotes male authority and female submission, could not reconcile with women's claims to individual rights, choice, and personal freedom and their struggle for autonomy and self-determination in private or public life.

Book Eleanor Roosevelt

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  • Author : Geraldine Kidd
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-11-20
  • ISBN : 1351984489
  • Pages : 315 pages

Download or read book Eleanor Roosevelt written by Geraldine Kidd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memorialised as a US heroine and an iconoclastic humanitarian who sought to protect society’s marginalised, Eleanor Roosevelt also, at times, disappointed contemporaries and biographers with some of her stances. Examining a period of her life that has not been extensively explored, this book challenges the previously held universality of Eleanor Roosevelt’s humanitarianism. The Palestinian question is used as a case study to explore the practical application of her commitment to social justice, and the author argues that, at times, Roosevelt’s humanitarianism was illogical, limited and flawed by pragmatism. New insights are provided into Eleanor Roosevelt’s human rights activism – its dichotomies, its inspiration, and the effect it had on US relations with the Middle East. This book will appeal to academics working across a range of disciplines including history, diplomatic history, American studies, Middle Eastern studies, US foreign policy, human rights and women’s studies.

Book Nuclear Power And Ratepayer Protest

Download or read book Nuclear Power And Ratepayer Protest written by Wayne H. Sugai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early 1982, the Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS) terminated two nuclear projects, triggering an episode of mass ratepayer insurgency throughout the state. In this survey of the crisis, Dr. Sugai analyzes the political and economic conditions that precipitated the protest and examines citizen opposition to the WPPSS nuclear venture b

Book Risk and Culture

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  • Author : Mary Douglas
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1983-10-27
  • ISBN : 0520050630
  • Pages : 231 pages

Download or read book Risk and Culture written by Mary Douglas and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1983-10-27 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concern of many Americans with dangers to the natural environment is not justified rationally, according to the authors, but results from American cultural biases and the political goals of environmentalists.

Book Islam and Power  RLE Politics of Islam

Download or read book Islam and Power RLE Politics of Islam written by Alexander Cudsi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1970s witnessed a mushrooming of Islamic movements and ideas which was described variously as Islamic revival, Islamic resurgence and Islam on the march. Whether as part of the majority or minority, whether under capitalist or socialist regimes, Muslims have been moved by this reawakening. But what really are the causes and nature of this Islamic resurgence? Is it a purely religious revival? Or is it a social and political movement that must be understood in the context of the Muslim’s conditions and milieu? Will it really lead to the establishment of an Islamic socio-political order or will it end up as an instrument of struggle between Muslim ruling elites and their opposition? And what are the foreign policy implications of these developments? Do they necessarily lead to a more militant and hostile attitude towards the West? These questions and more are tackled by the contributors to Islam and Power. First published in 1981.

Book The Right Stuff

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  • Author : Tom Wolfe
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2008-03-04
  • ISBN : 1429961325
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book The Right Stuff written by Tom Wolfe and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Wolfe at his very best" (The New York Times Book Review), The Right Stuff is the basis for the 1983 Oscar Award-winning film of the same name and the 8-part Disney+ TV mini-series. From "America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek)--a breath-taking epic, a magnificent adventure story, and an investigation into the true heroism and courage of the first Americans to conquer space. " Millions of words have poured forth about man's trip to the moon, but until now few people have had a sense of the most engrossing side of the adventure; namely, what went on in the minds of the astronauts themselves - in space, on the moon, and even during certain odysseys on earth. It is this, the inner life of the astronauts, that Tom Wolfe describes with his almost uncanny empathetic powers, that made The Right Stuff a classic.

Book Bondi in the Sinai

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  • Author : Rodney Gouttman
  • Publisher : University Press of America
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780761804581
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book Bondi in the Sinai written by Rodney Gouttman and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1996 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals the political atmospherics behind Australia's involvement in the American-inspired Multi-national and Observers' Force in the Sinai. A child of the Egypt/Israel peace pact of 1979, the Force's lack of United Nations approval proved a formidable barrier for a skeptical Australian audience. Australia's inclusion in the NFO would not have been possible without the singular efforts of her staunchly anti-Communist Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser. Background factors examined include resentment of the American Alliance, changing attitudes to the Middle East peace process, and the emotional fall-out of the Vietnam War. This book deals with previously unpublished contemporary material in a holist political analysis.

Book The Infernal Desires of Angela Carter

Download or read book The Infernal Desires of Angela Carter written by Joseph Bristow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on many aspects of contemporary feminist theory, this lively collection of essays assesses Angela Carter's polemical fictions of desire. Carter, renowned for her irreverent wit, was one of the most gifted, subversive, and stylish British writers to emerge in the 1960s.

Book Special Relations

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  • Author : Howard Malchow
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2011-02-18
  • ISBN : 0804777837
  • Pages : 706 pages

Download or read book Special Relations written by Howard Malchow and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-18 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special Relations reevaluates Anglo-American cultural exchange by exploring metropolitan London's culture and counterculture from the 1950s to the 1970s. It challenges a tendency in cultural studies to privilege local reception and attempts to restore the concept of Americanization in this critical era of mass tourism, professional exchange, and media globalization—while acknowledging an important degree of cultural hybridity and circularity. The study begins with the influence of American modernism in the built environment and in "Swinging London" generally, and then moves to its central project, the re-exploration of British counterculture—the anti-war movement, student rebellion, hippies, popular music, the alternative press, and the late Sixties triad of black, feminist, and gay liberationisms—as intimately tied to American experience and to American agents of cultural change. Special Relations retrieves these phenomena as more central and enduring in British metropolitan life than the current orthodoxy allows, and subjects to sharp critical scrutiny prevalent assertions of cultural "authenticity" in their British variants. Finally, the book looks at aspects of the turn against modernism and the counterculture in the 1970s.

Book Ebony

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1977-09
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book Ebony written by and published by . This book was released on 1977-09 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

Book The Relentless Pursuit of Tone

Download or read book The Relentless Pursuit of Tone written by Robert Fink and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre in Popular Music assembles a broad spectrum of contemporary perspectives on how "sound" functions in an equally wide array of popular music. Ranging from the twang of country banjoes and the sheen of hip-hop strings to the crunch of amplified guitars and the thump of subwoofers on the dance floor, this volume bridges the gap between timbre, our name for the purely acoustic characteristics of sound waves, and tone, an emergent musical construct that straddles the borderline between the perceptual and the political. Essays engage with the entire history of popular music as recorded sound, from the 1930s to the present day, under four large categories. "Genre" asks how sonic signatures define musical identities and publics; "Voice" considers the most naturalized musical instrument, the human voice, as racial and gendered signifier, as property or likeness, and as raw material for algorithmic perfection through software; "Instrument" tells stories of the way some iconic pop music machines-guitars, strings, synthesizers-got (or lost) their distinctive sounds; "Production" then puts it all together, asking structural questions about what happens in a recording studio, what is produced (sonic cartoons? rockist authenticity? empty space?) and what it all might mean.

Book Parliamentary Debates  Senate  Weekly Hansard

Download or read book Parliamentary Debates Senate Weekly Hansard written by Australia. Parliament. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: