Comparative History – alle Bücher und CDs, Seite 5

Matteo Bonotti, Zim Nwokora
Money, Parties, and Democracy

This book evaluates political finance rules and party systems in terms of three distinctive normative dimensions, which capture what parties, at their best, can contribute to democratic politics. Based on…

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Tim Kane
The Immigrant Superpower

In The Immigrant Superpower, Tim Kane argues that immigration has long been a source of American strength and that exceptional immigrants have been crucial to American exceptionalism. Deftly combining sto…

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Helge Kragh
The Names of Science

The history of science is echoed in the development of its language and the names chosen for its technical terms. This book examines in detail how new words entered the scientific vocabulary and how some,…

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Barry Eichengreen
Money Beyond Borders

A 2,500-year history of international currencies that reveals new insights about the future of the U.S. dollar---as well as crypto and central bank digital currenciesDoubts about the international dominan…

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Ruixue Jia, Hongbin Li, Claire Cousineau
The Highest Exam

Combining personal narratives with decades of research, a vivid account of how the gaokao-China's high-stakes college admissions test-shapes that society and influences education debates in the United Sta…

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The Politics Book

From ancient and medieval philosophers such as Confucius and Thomas Aquinas, to revolutionary thought leaders such as Thomas Jefferson and Leon Trotsky, to the voices who have shaped modern politics today…

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Alexander Davenport
The Unfulfilled Electoral Potential of West European Liberal Parties

For all their long histories, liberal parties win relatively little popular support in most of Western Europe. This book, however, highlights an influx of voters combining economically free-market and cul…

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Dk
The Politics Book

From ancient and medieval philosophers such as Confucius and Thomas Aquinas, to revolutionary thought leaders such as Thomas Jefferson and Leon Trotsky, to the voices who have shaped modern politics today…

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Hana Videen
The Deorhord

An entertaining tour of Old English words for animals, from the author of The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old EnglishMany of the animals we encounter in everyday life, from pets and farm animals to the wild c…

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Paul A Rahe
Sparta's Third Attic War

When the great war pitting the Athenians against the Peloponnesians first erupted, Pericles told his compatriots that, if they kept up their navy, focused on the conflict at hand, and refrained from wasti…

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Renée Bergland
Natural Magic

A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of natureEmily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known a…

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Dennis Yi Tenen
Literary Theory for Robots

Literary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking readers on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past Holl…

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Haun Saussy
The Making of Barbarians

A groundbreaking account of translation and identity in the Chinese literary tradition before 1850—with important ramifications for today Debates on the canon, multiculturalism, and world literature ofte…

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Jessica A Albrecht,
Producing Religion, Gender and National Identities in Sri Lankan Elite Girls' Schools

This book provides the first comparative analysis of how religious, gender and national identities have been constructed in Christian, Buddhist and Hindu girls' schools in Sri Lanka in the context of colo…

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Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way
Revolution and Dictatorship

Why the world’s most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolution Revolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social revolution—such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the So…

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Rod Giblett
Wise Women for Loving Nature

From Rachel Carson and Julia Kristeva to Rebecca Solnit and Nandi Chinna, the writers and artists featured here are 'patron saints', Rod Giblett shows, of a special aspect or approach to environmental con…

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Populism, Demagoguery, and Rhetoric in Historical Perspective

Populism, Demagoguery, and Rhetoric in Historical Perspective explores the connections between contemporary populism, populist rhetoric, and a wide range of thinkers and topics in the history of political…

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Mario Telò,
Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler

"Considering Butler's "tragic trilogy"-a set of interventions on Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Bacchae, and Aeschylus's Eumenides-this book seeks to understand not just how Butler uses an…

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African Englishes and Multilingualism for the Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa

This open access edited volume brings together a team of linguists to explore how indigenized varieties of English and multilingualism interact with the holistic transformation of Africa. Contributors dis…

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Jamie L Brummitt
Protestant Relics in Early America

In Protestant Relics in Early America , Jamie L. Brummitt upends long-held assumptions about religion and material culture in the early United States. Brummitt chronicles how American Protestants cultivat…

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