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Social Movements in Latin America
Neoliberalism and Popular Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
The authors trace out the development of capitalism and U.S. imperialism in Latin America in the latest phase of this development, from the installation of the new world order of neoliberal globalization in the early 1980s to the present when U.S. imperialism is held at bay, neoliberalism is in decline, and capitalism is in crisis.
by Evans-Wentz
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Crossing the Color Line
Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Interracial sex mattered to the British colonial state in West Africa. In Crossing the Color Line, Carina E. Ray goes beyond this fact to reveal how Ghanaians shaped and defined these powerfully charged relations. The interplay between African and European perspectives and practices, argues Ray, transformed...
by Randy S. Taylor, Aric W. Dutelle
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Headlines of public service corruption scandals are painful reminders of the need for continuing education in the subjects of ethics and integrity. Public service professionals employed as government officials, forensic scientists, investigators, first responders, and those within the legal and justice...
The Political Thought of Joseph Stalin
A Study in Twentieth Century Revolutionary Patriotism
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003
This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the political thought of Joseph Stalin. Making full use of the documentation that has recently become available, including Stalin's private library with his handwritten margin notes, the book provides many insights on Stalin, and also on western and Russian...
Lenin's Terror
The Ideological Origins of Early Soviet State Violence
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
This book explores the development of Lenin’s thinking on violence throughout his career, from the last years of the Tsarist regime in Russia through to the 1920s and the New Economic Policy, and provides an important assessment of the significance of ideological factors for understanding Soviet...
Georgia after Stalin
Nationalism and Soviet power
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This book explores events in Georgia in the years following Stalin’s death in March 1953, especially the demonstrations of March 1956 and their brutal suppression, in order to illuminate the tensions in Georgia between veneration of the memory of Stalin, a Georgian, together with the associated...
From Orientalism to Postcolonialism
Asia, Europe and the Lineages of Difference
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
This book uses a historical and theoretical focus to examine the key of issues of the Enlightenment, Orientalism, concepts of identity and difference, and the contours of different modernities in relation to both local and global shaping forces, including the spread of capitalism.
The contributors...
Sir John Woodroffe, Tantra and Bengal
'An Indian Soul in a European Body?'
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Working with Bengali mentors, especially his close friend A. B. Ghose, Sir John Woodroffe became the pseudonymous orientalist Arthur Avalon, famous for his tantric studies at the beginning of the twentieth century. Best known for The Serpent Power, the book which introduced 'Kundalini Yoga' to the...
by Liza Cheuk May Chan
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
A no-holds-barred memoir of a Chinese woman born in Hong Kong under British colonial rule, nurtured and groomed in the 1950's and 1960's in that unique, bi-cultural society, came of age as a lesbian-feminist in New York City while an undergraduate at Barnard College in the 1970's, and proceeded to...
The Russian Revolution in Retreat, 1920-24
Soviet Workers and the New Communist Elite
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2008
The Russian revolution of 1917 was a defining event of the twentieth century, and its achievements and failures remain controversial in the twenty-first. This book focuses on the retreat from the revolution’s aims in 1920–24, after the civil war and at the start of the New Economic Policy –...
by Yuwu Song
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This biographical dictionary is an indispensable research tool for information about the prominent persons of the past seven decades in China. The book documents nearly 600 Chinese individuals who contributed, for better or worse, to the development of Chinese life and culture since the founding of...
by Luke Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject South Asian Studies, South-Eastern Asian Studies, Macquarie University, course: Sociology of politics, language: English, abstract: This research paper provides a critical analysis of past and present methods adopted by China, the United...
by Robert Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
"Spiritual mastery encompasses many different means to assimilate and be assimilated by the wisdom, feelings, flow, warmth, function and application of all beings in your world that you will actually contact in some way. A lot of spiritual mastery has been covered in different bits and pieces throughout...