Historie og samfunn

Fully revised and updated, this third edition includes more on local government, the state and political system, mass media and the internet, women, Latino and African Americans, a chronology and new illustrations.

Etter annen verdenskrig styrte Arbeiderpartiet landet nesten uten avbrudd i 30 år. Utad sto ledelsen alltid samlet, innad var det maktkamp, uenighet og konfrontasjoner.I Noen av oss har snakket sammen ... tar forfatter og historiker Hans Olav Lahlum oss bak fasaden til Norges største parti, og forteller historien om alle personskiftene i dets storhetstid.Boken behandler samtlige skifter av statsminister, statsråder og medlemmer av ledelsen i perioden 1945-1975. Hovedfokus settes på to av de aller største fra arbeiderbevegelsens så vel som fra norsk politisk historie: De mangeårige statsministrene og formennene Einar Gerhardsen og Trygve Bratteli. Forfatteren tegner et sammensatt og fascinerende bilde av de to både som politikere og mennesker, og kaster også nytt lys over det kompliserte forholdet mellom dem. Boken begynner med Johan Nygaardsvolds avgang som statsminister sommeren 1945, og avsluttes med at en ung Gro Harlem Brundtland kom inn som statsråd og nestformann i Arbeiderpartiet på 1970-tallet.I Noen av oss har snakket sammen ... er en veldokumentert bok om en viktig periode i norsk politikk og historie.]]>

This study of Soviet military strategy is based upon the relationship between the army and politicians as well as Soviet writings on the subject of military strategy.

Pompey the Great was one of the most important military commanders and politicians in the history of the Roman republic. This biography provides a historical background essential for understanding Pompey's career. It gives readers a look inside the political and military world of ancient Rome and at one of the characters that shaped its destiny.

The Epicurean school of philosophy was one of the dominant philosophies of the Hellenistic period. Founded by Epicurus of Samos (century 341-270 BCE) it was characterized by an empiricist epistemology and a hedonistic ethics. This title offers readers an exposition of the central tenets of Epicurus' philosophy.

'The stoic, detached, empirical, hard-boiled, penetrating, realist mind of James Burnham is something to behold, to admire, to emulate' - National Review¿¿¿¿¿A classic work of political theory and practise, this book makes available an account of the modern Machiavellians, a remarkable group who have been influential in Europe and practically unknown in the United States: Gaetano Mosca, Georges Sorel, Robert Michels and Vilfredo Pareto. In addition, there is a long section on Machiavelli himself.James Burnham contends that the writings of these men hold the key both to the truth about politics and to the preservation of political liberty.

Describing in detail weaponry and armor, daily life on the march or in camp, clothing, food, medical care, military law, and titles of the Byzantine army of the seventh century, this text offers insights into the Byzantine military ethos. It also provides data for the historian, and even for the ethnologist.

Anne Appelbaum, forfatter av internasjonale bestselgere som Gulag og Jernteppet, forteller i denne boken den rystende fortellingen om en av Stalins største forbrytelser, som gir ubehagelige resonanser i dagens Europa. I 1929 startet Stalin kollektiviseringen av landbruket - i praksis en ny revolusjon. Politikken tvang millioner av bønder fra gårdene over til store landbrukskollektiv. Resultatet ble den mest dødelige hungersnød i europeisk historie. Mellom 1931 og 1933 sultet minst fem millioner mennesker i hjel. Men i stedet for å sende hjelp, benyttet sovjetstaten katastrofen til å kvitte seg med et politisk problem. Anne Applebaum hevder at mer enn tre millioner av de døde var ukrainere som ikke var tilfeldige ofre for en dårlig politikk, men at staten hadde som bevisst politikk å drepe dem. Applebaum beviser hva man lenge har hatt mistanke om: Etter en rekke opprør i provinsen, satte Stalin seg fore å ødelegge ukrainsk landbruk. Kreml lukket republikkens grenser og tok kontroll over all tilgang på mat. Sulten satte raskt inn, og folk spiste hva som helst: gress, trebark, hunder, lik. I enkelte tilfeller drepte de hverandre for å få noe å spise. Rød sult skildrer, nådeløst og presist, vanlige menneskers kamp for å overleve ekstraordinær ondskap. I disse dager har Russland, Sovjetunionens arvtaker, nok en gang blikket rettet mot ukrainsk selvstendighet. Applebaums besettende fortelling gjenoppvekker en av de verste forbrytelsene i det tjuende århundre, og viser hvordan den peker frem mot nye trusler i det tjueførste.

Did NATO cause the crisis in Ukraine?

This original and deeply provocative book was the first to make Palestine the subject of a serious debate--one that remains as critical as ever. With the rigorous scholarship he brought to his influential Orientalism and an exile's passion (he is Palestinian by birth), Edward W. Said traces the fatal collision between two peoples in the Middle East and its repercussions in the lives of both the occupier and the occupied--as well as in the conscience of the West. He has updated this landmark work to portray the changed status of Palestine and its people in light of such developments as the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the intifada, the Gulf War, and the ongoing MIddle East peace initiative. For anyone interested in this region and its future, The Question of Palestine remains the most useful and authoritative account available.

In this truly global study, Azar Gat sets out to unravel the 'riddle of war' throughout human history, from the early hunter-gatherers right through to the unconventional terrorism of the twenty-first century.

Maximus the Confessor (c. 580-662) has become one of the most discussed figures in contemporary studies of Byzantine theology and philosophy. This book integrates for the first time Maximus' works and thought into the history of his life in the politically troubled times of seventh-century Byzantium.

Recent years have seen a significant shift in the study of new religious movements. In Satanism studies, interest has moved to anthropological and historical work on groups and inviduals. Self-declared Satanism, especially as a religion with cultural production and consumption, history, and organization, has largely been neglected by academia. This volume, focused on modern Satanism as a practiced religion of life-style, attempts to reverse that trend with 12cutting-edge essays from the emerging field of Satanism studies. Topics covered range from early literary Satanists like Blake and Shelley, to the Californian Church of Satan of the 1960s, to the radical developments that have taken place in the Satanic milieu in recent decades. The contributors analyzesuch phenomena as conversion to Satanism, connections between Satanism and political violence, 19th-century decadent Satanism, transgression, conspiracy theory, and the construction of Satanic scripture. A wide array of methods are employed to shed light on the Devil''s disciples: statistical surveys, anthropological field studies, philological examination of The Satanic Bible, contextual analysis of literary texts, careful scrutiny of obscure historical records, and close readings ofkey Satanic writings. The book will be an invaluable resource for everyone interested in Satanism as a philosophical or religious position of alterity rather than as an imagined other.

Sigvard Heber (1872-1929) var assistentingeniør ved Bergensbanen fra 1904 til 1909. Han fikk først en stilling ved Norges Statsbaner (NSB) i 1894. Fra 1899 til våren 1904 var han involvert i byggingen av Gjøvikbanen. Da Gjøvikbanen var ferdig, og en ordre om overføring til en annen banestrekning var i vente, spurte Heber frivillig om overføring til en av høyfjellstrekningene til Bergensbana i mai 1904. Han ble sendt til sjette avdeling; Haugastøl.Heber forble på Bergensbanen sin høyfjellstrekning til banen åpnet høsten 1909. Heber var et aktivt fjellmenneske og var ofte ute på skiturer, både mellom anleggsbrakker, kommende stasjonsbygninger og til fjelltopper og andre naturlige turmål på Hardangervidda. Han hadde en stor kjærlighet til naturen på høyfjellet. I 1924 ble Da Bergensbanen blev til utgitt. Boken var nedtegninger av Heber fra de fem årene han var på høyfjellet. Det er personlige nedtegninger, og den store kjærligheten hans til høyfjellet, og respekten han har for alle dem menn og kvinner som var aktive på fjellet kommer tydelig frem i boken.

This book explores the relationship between Vikings, Rus' and nomadic (mostly Turkic) steppe dwellers during the course of the Viking Age (c. 750-1050) in a geographical area stretching from Eastern Scandinavia through the Kievan Rus', Byzantium, the Islamic world to the Western Eurasian steppes.

Since 1945 Europe has experienced many periods of turmoil and conflict and as many moments of peace and integration: from the devastation felt in the aftermath of World War II to the recovery in the 1950s and 1960s; to the new challenges in the 1970s and 1980s when neoliberal policies led to fundamental social and economic changes...

Donald Duck er en del av kulturhistorien i Norge. Den særdeles nebbete, matroskledde anden har lært flere generasjoner av nordmenn å lese, han har preget språket vårt, og han har skapt debatter og engasjement i flere tiår. Selv om han ikke bor i Norge, så føles det som akkurat denne anden er norsk! Denne bokserien har som mål å utforske den «norske Donald» - i videste forstand av begrepet. Vi skal nemlig ta deg med på en vandring gjennom Norges Donald-historie. «Det er typisk norsk å være god», uttalte Gro Harlem Bruntland under statsministerens nyttårstale i 1992. Vi i redaksjonen tør å påstå at også Donald har utmerket seg som «typisk norsk», og er blitt allemannseie for det norske folk i løpet av de siste 75 årene. I denne boken skal vi avdekke hva som kan betegnes som typisk norsk - med god hjelp fra elleville historier hvor Donald får bryne seg på alt fra regntunge skyer over Bergen, idyllisk norsk natur fra Vega og «Tellemark», og hytteferier til besvær; til feminismens viktige inntog i Andeby, nebbete nabokrangler, en storsnutet arbeidshverdag som mesterflytter og hagefrisør, og en særdeles halsbrekkende fellesstart i snøkledde alpinbakker.

The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost their land, lives and liberty to white settlers pushing westward.

Any explanation of political collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all complex societies in both the present and future. Dr Tainter describes nearly two dozen cases of collapse and reviews more than 2000 years of explanations. He then develops a new and far-reaching theory that accounts for collapse among diverse kinds of societies, evaluating his model and clarifying the processes of disintegration by detailed studies of the Roman, Mayan and Chacoan collapses.

An acclaimed music scholar presents an accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz

Making Warriors in a Global Era provides ethnographic data, analyses, and discussions to infuse new debates among both military personnel and academics about the rise of special operations forces (SOF) and the ways they impact how armed conflicts are dealt with and how wars are fought.

Terrorism and Counterterrorism introduces students to the field's main debates and helps them critically address this complex and enduring issue.

Neben Albrecht Dürer gelten Hans Holbein d. Ä. und Hans Burgkmair als Wegbereiter der Renaissancemalerei im Norden. Wichtiges Zentrum dieser künstlerischen Blütezeit war die wohlhabende Reichs- und Handelsstadt Augsburg. Anhand hochkarätiger Werke bietet der Band einen umfassenden Einblick in den epochalen Umbruch vom Mittelalter zur Neuzeit.Augsburg wurde früh von der humanistischen Kultur Italiens beeinflusst. Aufgrund der Kunstsinnigkeit international agierender Handelshäuser, wie der Fugger, der zahlreichen Aufenthalte Kaiser Maximilians I. und der häufigen Reichstage bot die Kulturmetropole Künstlern wie Holbein d. Ä. und Burgkmair einen idealen Nährboden für die Entwicklung einer neuen Kunst. Anhand ihrer wichtigsten Tafelbilder, die unter anderem Werken von Dürer gegenübergestellt werden, wird die überaus fruchtbare wie auch unterschiedliche Aneignung der italienischen Renaissance durch die beiden Protagonisten nachgezeichnet.

"For more than a century, governments facing financial crisis have resorted to the economic policies of austerity-cuts to wages, fiscal spending, and public benefits-as a means to regain solvency. While these policies have been successful in appeasing creditors, they've had devastating effects on social and economic welfare in countries all over the world. Today, as austerity remains a favored policy among troubled states, an important question remains: what if solvency was never really the goal? In Capital Order, political economist Clara E. Mattei traces the intellectual origins of austerity to uncover its originating motives: the protection of capital-and indeed capitalism-in times of social upheaval from below. Mattei traces modern austerity to its origins in interwar Britain and Italy, revealing how the threat of working-class power in the years after World War I animated a set of top-down economic policies that elevated owners, smothered workers, and imposed a rigid economic hierarchy across their societies. Where these policies "succeeded," relatively speaking, was in their enrichment of certain parties, including employers and foreign-trade interests, who accumulated power and capital at the expense of labor. Here, Mattei argues, is where the true value of austerity can be observed: its insulation of entrenched privilege and its elimination of all alternatives to capitalism. Drawing on newly uncovered archival material from Britain and Italy, much of it translated for the first time, Capital Order offers a damning and essential new account of the rise of austerity-and of modern economics-at the levers of contemporary political power"--

Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our central assumptions about what it means to be human-and thus distinct from all other life forms. Based on four years of fieldwork among the Runa of Ecuador's Upper Amazon, Eduardo Kohn draws on his rich ethnography to explore how Amazonians interact with the many creatures that inhabit one of the world's most complex ecosystems. Whether or not we recognize it, our anthropological tools hinge on those capacities that make us distinctly human. However, when we turn our ethnographic attention to how we relate to other kinds of beings, these tools (which have the effect of divorcing us from the rest of the world) break down. How Forests Think seizes on this breakdown as an opportunity. Avoiding reductionistic solutions, and without losing sight of how our lives and those of others are caught up in the moral webs we humans spin, this book skillfully fashions new kinds of conceptual tools from the strange and unexpected properties of the living world itself. In this groundbreaking work, Kohn takes anthropology in a new and exciting direction-one that offers a more capacious way to think about the world we share with other kinds of beings.