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Political Science

Empire of Civilization The Evolution of an Imperial Idea

Bowden Brett

ISBN: PB: 9780226142401, ISBN: HB: 9780226068145, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The term "civilization" comes with considerable baggage, dichotomizing people, cultures, and histories as "civilized" – or not. While the idea of civilization has been deployed throughout history to justify all manner of interventions and sociopoliti...

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Military

Success and Failure in Limited War Information and Strategy in the Korean, Vietnam, Persian Gulf, and Iraq Wars

Bakich Spencer D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226107714, ISBN: HB: 9780226107684, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 5 tables

Common and destructive, limited wars are significant international events that pose a number of challenges to the states involved beyond simple victory or defeat. Chief among these challenges is the risk of escalation – be it in the scale, scope, cos...

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Political Science

Modernization and Its Political Consequences Weber, Mannheim, and Schumpeter

Blokland Hans, Smyth Van Weesep Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9780300204964, Yale University Press, August 2013
278 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

People's capacity to give meaning and direction to social life is an essential dimension of political freedom. Yet many citizens of Western democracies believe that this freedom has become quite restricted. They feel they are at the mercy of anonymou...

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Political Science

Media Studies

Making the News Politics, the Media, and Agenda Setting

Boydstun Amber E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226065571, ISBN: HB: 9780226065434, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 line drawings, 14 tables

Media attention can play a profound role in whether or not officials act on a policy issue, but how policy issues make the news in the first place has remained a puzzle. Why do some issues go viral and then just as quickly fall off the radar? How is...

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Political Science

Mobilizing Inclusion Transforming the Electorate Through Get-out-the-vote Campaigns

Bedolla Lisa Garcia, Michelson Melissa R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300166781, Yale University Press, September 2012
312 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

Which get-out-the-vote efforts actually succeed in ethnoracial communities – and why? Analyzing the results from hundreds of original experiments, the authors of this book offer a persuasive new theory to explain why some methods work while others do...

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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

Moshe Dayan Plow and Sword

Bar-On Mordechai

ISBN: HB: 9780300149418, Yale University Press, July 2012
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm

Instantly recognizable with his iconic eye patch, Moshe Dayan (1915-1981) was a powerful yet controversial figure in Israel from the 1950s through 70s. A fearless warrior and a strong-headed, charismatic politician, he was admired for his leadership...

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Political Science

Rational Empires Institutional Incentives and Imperial Expansion

Blanken Leo J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226056746, ISBN: HB: 9780226056739, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
218 pp., 25x15 cm, 4 tables, 3 halftones, 1 line illus.

The nineteenth century marked the high point of imperialism, when tsarist Russia expanded to the Pacific and the sun was said never to set on the British Empire. Imperialism remains a perennial issue in international relations today, and nowhere is t...

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Culture Studies

Political Science

Beyond the Wall Writing a Path through Palestine

Bidisha

ISBN: PB: 9780857420398, Seagull Books, May 2012
120 pp., 17.7x10.6 cm

Their voices come from Bethlehem and Hebron. You can hear them from Jerusalem to Nazareth, and witness their protests in Gaza and Ramallah. From the refugee camps in the West Bank, you can hear the voices of the Palestinian people call out to demand...

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Europe

Political Science

Last Dictatorship in Europe Belarus Under Lukashenko

Bennett Brian

ISBN: HB: 9781849041676, Hurst Publishers, January 2012
276 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Belarus is an isolated country dominated by one man. Few tourists go there, despite its fascinating, cultured past and beautiful countryside. Belarussians are friendly and hospitable yet they rarely have the chance to speak the...

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Military

Political Science

Riot Politics Hindu-Muslim Violence and the Indian State

Berenschot Ward

ISBN: PB: 9781849041362, Hurst Publishers, January 2012
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! On 27 February 2002, fifty-eight people died when a train coach caught fire just outside a small-town railway station in Gujarat, Western India. The incident marked the beginning of one of the worst outbursts of Hindu-Muslim vi...

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