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A World Safe for Capitalism unravels a little-known incident: a Wall Street corporation's takeover of the foreign debt, national railroad, and national bank of the Dominican Republic in the 1890s. Working with the republic's tyrannical president, the American firm tr... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:20 | For almost three decades, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been ignoring the standardized "e;rules"e; of the academy and trespassing across disciplinary boundaries. Today she remains one of the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:20 | Daniel McCool not only chronicles the history of water development agencies in America and the way in which special interests have abused rather than preserved the countrys rivers, he also narrates the second, brighter act in this ongoing story: the surging, grassroo... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:20 | On the most important occasions of our lives, we often find ourselves at a loss for words; when we want to console, celebrate, explain, inspire, or thank, we end up repeating such uninspiring, uninformative phrases as "e;Words cannot express how I feel."e; |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:20 | Colonial Effects analyzes the creation and definition of modern Jordanian identity. Massad studies two key institutions-- the law and the military--and uses them to create an original and precise analysis of the development of Jordanian national identity in the postc... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:20 | How and why have Americans living at particular times and places used and transformed their environment? How have political systems dealt with conflicts over resources and conservation? This is the only major reference work to explore all the major themes and debates... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:20 | Korea Between Empires chronicles the development of a Korean national consciousness. It focuses on two critical periods in Korean history and asks how key concepts and symbols were created and integrated into political programs to create an original Korean understand... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:20 | -- Cheryl A. Wall, Rutgers University |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:20 | Theodor W. Adorno was a major twentieth-century philosopher and social critic whose writings on oppositional culture in art, music, and literature increasingly stand at the center of contemporary intellectual debate. In this excellent collection, Robert Hullot-Kentor... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:21 | In China on Screen, Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar, leaders in the field of Chinese film studies, explore more than one hundred years of Chinese cinema and nation. Providing new perspectives on key movements, themes, and filmmakers, Berry and Farquhar analyze the film... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:21 | In this broad-ranging and ambitious intervention in the debates over the politics, ethics, and aesthetics of cosmopolitanism, Rebecca L. Walkowitz argues that modernist literary style has been crucial to new ways of thinking and acting beyond the nation. While she fo... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:21 | Nation-states often shape the boundaries of historical enquiry, and thus silence the very histories that have sutured nations to territorial states. "e;India"e; and "e;Pakistan"e; were drawn onto maps in the midst of Partition's genocidal violence and... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:21 | From 1854 to 1952, the Chinese Maritime Customs Service delivered one-third to one-half of all revenue available to China's central authorities. Much more than a tax collector, the institution managed China's harbors and surveyed the Chinese coast. It oversaw a colle... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:21 | The Self Possessed is a multifaceted, diachronic study reconsidering the very nature of religion in South Asia, the culmination of years of intensive research. Frederick M. Smith proposes that positive oracular or ecstatic possession is the most common form of spirit... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:21 | Houston A. Baker Jr. condemns those black intellectuals who, he believes, have turned their backs on the tradition of racial activism in America. These individuals choose personal gain over the interests of the black majority, whether they are espousing neoconservati... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:21 | In October of 2002, a series of sniper attacks paralyzed the Washington Beltway, turning normally placid gas stations, parking lots, restaurants, and school grounds into chaotic killing fields. After the spree, ten people were dead and several others wounded. The per... Полное описание |
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{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:21 | Loren Ghiglione recounts the fascinating life and tragic suicide of Don Hollenbeck, the controversial newscaster who became a primary target of McCarthyism's smear tactics. Drawing on unsealed FBI records, private family correspondence, and interviews with Walter Cro... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:22 | This comprehensive anthology collects works of fiction, poetry, drama, and essay-writing from a pivotal time in Japanese history. In addition to their literary achievements, the texts reflect the political, social, and intellectual changes that occurred in Japanese s... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:22 | America's Response to China has long been the standard resource for a succinct, historically grounded assessment of an increasingly complicated relationship. Written by one of America's leading diplomatic historians, this book analyzes the concerns and conceptions th... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:22 | While American national security policy grew more interventionist after the Cold War, Washington hoped to shape the world on the cheap. Misled by the stunning success against Iraq in 1991, administrations of both parties pursued ambitious aims with limited force, com... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:22 | Written in the twelfth century, the Naisadhiyacarita ( The Adventures of Nala, King of Nisadha) is a seminal Sanskrit poem beloved by South Asian literary communities for nearly a millennium. This volume introduces readers to the poem's author, his reading communitie... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:22 | Known as the New Madrid seismic zone, the Midwestern rift between two geologic plates on the continental US has led many people to believe in strong likelihood of an imminent and hugely destructive earthquake in the Midwest. After the San Francisco earthquake of 1905... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:22 | More than just the beloved base ingredient of so many of our favorite dishes, the tomato has generated both profound riches and controversy in its farming, processing, exchange, and consumption. It is a crop infused with national pride and passion for those who grow ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:22 | From mass murder to genocide, slavery to colonial suppression, acts of atrocity have lives that extend far beyond the horrific moment. They engender trauma that echoes through later generations, for those on both sides of the act. Gabriele Schwab reads these legacies... Полное описание |
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