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America

Politics and Partnerships The Role of Voluntary Associations in America's Political Past and Present

Clemens Elisabeth S., Guthrie Doug

ISBN: PB: 9780226109978, ISBN: HB: 9780226109961, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
352 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 13 tables, 3 halftones, 17 line illus.

Exhorting people to volunteer is part of the everyday vocabulary of American politics. Routinely, members of both major parties call for partnerships between government and nonprofit organizations. These entreaties increase dramatically during times...

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Political Science

What Was Communism?

Catastrophe in Indonesia

Lane Max

ISBN: HB: 9781906497675, Seagull Books, February 2011
102 pp., 25x15 cm

In 1965 Indonesia had the largest communist movement in the world outside of the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. Indonesian President Sukarno supported the movement and was edging Indonesia towards socialism, when a mutiny coordinate...

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America

Political Science

In the Name of God and Country Reconsidering Terrorism in American History

Fellman Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300168020, Yale University Press, January 2011
288 pp., 22.4x14.7 cm, 9 black&white illus.

With insight and originality, Michael Fellman argues that terrorism, in various forms, has been a constant and driving force in American history. In part, this is due to the nature of American republicanism and Protestant Christianity, which he belie...

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Outsourcing War and Peace How Privatizing Foreign Affairs Threatens Core Public Values and What We Can Do About It

Dickinson Laura A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300144864, Yale University Press, January 2011
256 pp., 23.6x16.3 cm

Over the past decade, states and international organizations have shifted a surprising range of foreign policy functions to private contractors. But who is accountable when the employees of foreign private firms do violence or create harm? This timel...

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Political Science

General

Cloning Terror The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present

Mitchell W. J. T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226532608, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
240 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 38 halftones, 8 colour illus.

The phrase "War on Terror" has quietly been retired from official usage, but it persists in the American psyche, and our understanding of it is hardly complete. Nor will it be, W. J. T Mitchell argues, without a grasp of the images that it spawned, a...

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Political Science

After the Rubicon Congress, Presidents, and the Politics of Waging War

Kriner Douglas L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226453569, ISBN: HB: 9780226453552, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 line drawings, 16 tables, 2 halftones

When the United States goes to war, the nation's attention focuses on the president. As commander in chief, a president reaches the zenith of power, while Congress is supposedly shunted to the sidelines once troops have been deployed abroad. Because...

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Why Iowa? How Caucuses and Sequential Elections Improve the Presidential Nominating Process

Redlawsk David P., Tolbert Caroline J., Donovan Todd

ISBN: PB: 9780226706962, ISBN: HB: 9780226706955, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 tables, 53 line illus.

If Barack Obama had not won in Iowa, most commentators believe that he would not have been able to go on to capture the Democratic nomination for president".Why Iowa?" offers the definitive account of those early weeks of the campaign season: from ho...

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Political Science

Cuban Cure Reason and Resistance in Global Science

Reid-Henry Simon

ISBN: HB: 9780226709178, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

After Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, his second declaration, after socialism, was that Cuba would become a leader in international science. In biotechnology he would be proven right and, today, Cuba counts a meningitis B vaccine and cutting-edge...

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Political Science

Obama's Race The 2008 Election and the Dream of a Post-Racial America

Tesler Michael, Sears David O.

ISBN: PB: 9780226793832, ISBN: HB: 9780226793825, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 tables, 37 line illus.

Barack Obama's presidential victory naturally led people to believe that the United States might finally be moving into a post-racial era".Obama's Race" – and its eye-opening account of the role played by race in the election – paints a dramatically...

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Philosophy

Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty War, Religion, Commerce, Terrain, Technology, Uneasiness of Mind, the Spirit of Political Vigilance, and the Foundations of the Modern Republic

Rahe Paul A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300168082, Yale University Press, October 2010
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This fresh examination of the works of Montesquieu seeks to understand the shortcomings of the modern democratic state in light of this great political thinker's insightful critique of commercial republicanism. The western democracies' muted response...

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