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  • - New Approaches to Theory and Research on Protracted Conflict
     
    1 217

    As scholars attempt to understand the global politics of the post-Cold War system, they must attend not only to changing structures of global order, but to the changing patterns of international, transnational, and domestic behaviour.

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    1 457

    Recently, global and European migration in the post-Cold War world have received much attention. It also examines the contested boundaries between refugees and asylum seekers and citizenship within European nation states and the European Union.

  • av Geraldo U. de Sousa
    1 457

    In this highly entertaining study, De Sousa argues that Shakespeare reinterprets, refashions and reinscribes his alien characters - Jews, Moors, Amazons and gypsies. De Sousa examines how Shakespeare defines other cultures in terms of the interplay of gender, text and habitat.

  • - History, Memory and Representation
     
    1 457

    Bringing together scholars from the Italian and English-speaking worlds, Bosworth and Dogliani's edited book reviews the history of the memory and representation of Fascism after 1945.

  • - The Japanese Occupation of Sarawak, 1941-1945
    av Ooi Keat Gin
    1 761

    This study focuses on Japanese wartime policies and their implementation, and the consequent effects these policies had on the local population. Each ethnic group, including the European community, is examined to evaluate its reaction and response to the Japanese military government and Japanese policies towards these.

  • av T. Moreman
    1 457

    This comprehensive study is the first scholarly account explaining how the British and Indian armies adapted to the peculiar demands of fighting an irregular tribal opponent in the mountainous no-man's-land between India and Afghanistan.

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    1 457

    Besides dealing with the geography of the novelist's imagination, the book explores numerous 'new worlds' such as the inspiring world of Victorian science and Dickens's responses to it or the world of modern literary theory that shapes our own responses to his work.

  • - Colonial Redistribution and Nationalist Mobilization
     
    2 061

    In 1898 the United States and Spain went to war over the political future of Cuba. This book explores the interplay of political, economic, social and military aspects of the 1898 war in the United States, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Spain and the Philippines, all main characters in this short but momentous turn-of-the-century drama.

  • - Confronting the US Embargo
    av Peter Schwab
    1 217

    Cuba: Confronting the US Embargo details and analyses the effects of the US embargo on Cuban society and the response of Cuba and its population to overcoming its consequences.

  • av Lawrence Wilde
    1 457

    Ethical Marxism and its Radical Critics argues that Marx's conception of human essence is the foundation for an ethic of liberation which permeates his social theory. The book has been revised in the light of these criticisms, and offers insights into how progress may be made towards a socialist ethical community.

  • - Politics, Global Trade and the Textile Industry in the Advanced Economies
    av G. Underhill
    1 457

    Written in the context of contemporary theoretical debate in international political economy, this book overturns a number of myths about the political economy of trade in one of the oldest areas of industry.

  • av E. O'Ballance
    1 457

    The sixteen-year long civil war in Lebanon was caused by dissatisfaction over the distribution of political power. Dominated by competing war lords, this civil war was notable for massacres, treachery, atrocities, kidnapping, assassination, changing alliances of convenience, and invasions.

  • - Deconstructing Magic Realism
    av J. Durix
    1 457

    Through a broad-ranging survey of the allegory, utopia, the historical novel and the epic in post-colonial literature, Jean-Pierre Durix proposes a critical reassessment of the theory of genres.

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    1 457

    The book contains sections on Britain, including an account of the campaign to legalize abortion, written by those centrally involved with that campaign; and chapters covering contemporary debates, including men's rights in abortion and abortion for foetal abnormality.

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    1 457

    A unique focus on the relationship between religion and political culture in the Third World using a comparative and thematic approach. Specific issues of religion-politics interaction in the Third World in recent times include: the rise of Islamic fundamentalist groups throughout the Middle East and other parts of the Muslim world;

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    1 457

    The chapters in this volume identify and assess the political process and bases of support for multilateralism in terms of the shifting power relations in world politics, institutional innovations in the United Nations and non-UN multilateralisms.

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    2 061

    This authoritative study of the reform process since 1989 pays particular attention to the way the macroeconomics framework can contribute to an environment that encourages human development and helps to reduce poverty.

  • - Regional Experience and System Reform
     
    1 457

    A guide to the experiences economic reform since the second world war, and system reform and economic integration across the world in the past decade.

  • - Gender and Genre, 1830-1900
     
    1 947

    The first collection to make a comprehensive study of nineteenth-century women's poetry from late Romantic to late Victorian 'new woman' writers.

  • av E. Economakis
    1 457

    Economakis analyses the processes of proletarianization and urbanization undergone by St. Petersburg's industrial working class from its inception in the early nineteenth century up until 1914. The book examines local conditions in sending areas and traces the history of factory work in St. Petersburg by workers from different provinces.

  • - Modernity and Psychosocial Dilemma in the Novels of Joseph Conrad
    av Beth Sharon Ash
    1 347

    In Writing in Between , Beth Sharon Ash develops an important theoretical framework for interpreting Conrad's signal texts and his situation as an author.

  • av Joseph Wayne Smith, Graham Lyons & Gary Sauer-Thompson
    1 457

    We live in times of uncertainty and insecurity, at a personal, national and global level. Writers such as Samuel P. Huntington and Robert D. Kaplan, respectively, have spoken of an emerging 'clash of civilizations' and of 'coming anarchy'. This book is also concerned with the future of civilization, in particular with the conflict between economic growth and the sustainability of the biophysical lifesupport systems of the planet, arguing that the flawed system of orthodox neo-classical economics has justified the modernist belief in the necessity of unending economic growth and the ceaseless exploitation of nature.

  • - Origins of the Media Presidency, 1897-1933
    av Stephen Ponder
    771

    Managing the Press re-examines the emergence of the twentieth century media President, whose authority to govern depends largely on his ability to generate public support by appealing to the citizenry through the news media.

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    - Neo-Populist Parties and Movements in Established Democracies
     
    721

    In the early 1980s right-wing populist parties and movements began to stage a dramatic comeback throughout a growing number of democratically-based countries.

  • av J. Porket
    2 827

    Since the collapse of communism, this tension has manifested itself not as a tension between market capitalism and command socialism but as a tension between the free market and the interventionist variants of market capitalism.

  • - Studies in Ethnic Identity and National Perspectives in Medieval Europe
     
    2 067

    A team of leading scholars in the fields of Medieval Literature and History examine the origins of European ethnic groups which subsequently developed into the nations of Europe.

  • - An Analytical History
    av Hans Bauer & Warren J. Blackman
    1 457

    In this volume the authors provide a survey and an examination of the roots of Swiss banking in order to explain the phenomenal success of Switzerland's banks. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, Swiss banking did not originate with the exiled Hugenot bankers of Geneva.

  • - Reassessing the 'Angel in the House'
    av Andrew Bradstock
    1 457

    Among those whose work is explored are George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Christina Rossetti, George Moore and Anne Bront as well as hymnwriters, missionary biographers, non-conformist obituarists and artists of the Aesthetic Movement.

  • av Deryck Scarr
    771

    The Indian Ocean islands of Mauritius and Bourbon and their satellite colony of Seychelles, collectively known as the Mascareignes, were all plantation colonies, as well as significant naval bases from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries.

  • - A New Social Contract?
    av Martin Rhodes
    1 457

    European welfare states are currently under stress and the 'social contracts' that underpin them are being challenged.

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