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    - Civil War and Statebuilding in the Democratic Republic of Congo
    av Alex Veit
    691,-

    Uses a close study of the district of Ituri in the Congo, a major battlefield and a laboratory for international intervention, to explore the micropolitics of warfare and statebuilding. This title shows the effect that humanitarian interventions have on state-society relations.

  • - Modern Sport in Soviet Culture and Society
     
    587,-

    The architects of the Soviet Union intended not merely to remake their society - they also had an ambitious plan to remake the citizenry physically, with the goal of perfecting the socialist ideal of man. This title shows, the Soviet leadership used sports as one of the primary arenas in which to deploy.

  • - The Rise of a Global Business Norm
    av Ursula Muhle
    608,-

    Offers an overview of corporate social responsibility (CSR). This title considers the origins of CSR during the 1970s, highlighting various approaches and explaining its early shortcomings. It then turns to the United Nations Global Compact and the Global Reporting Initiative to investigate why, since the mid-1990s, CSR has been on the rise.

  • - Transnational Contested Identities and Food Practices of Russian-Speaking Jewish Migrants in Israel and Germany
    av Julia Bernstein
    647,-

    In years many Russian-speaking Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union have settled in Germany and Israel. This title conducts an interdisciplinary investigation into the ways in which such immigrants manage their multiple, overlapping identities - as Jews, Russians, and citizens of their newly adopted nations.

  • - Black Genealogies, White Hegemony, and the Essay as Critical Intervention
    av Carsten Junker
    765,-

  • - Sociological Explorations and Applications
    av Helmut Kuzmics
    673,-

    Presents findings on the role of emotions in various facets of society, from the laboratory to the office to the media. This title discusses topics that include: the tensions between feelings and feeling rules, the conscious and unconscious emotions of scientists, emotions and social disorder, and romantic love in US and Israeli codes of conduct.

  • - Beyond National Canons
    av Angelika Epple
    621,-

    Comparing various European and American historiographies from the past two hundred years, this book provides insights into the establishment and cultivation of gendered power relations in different societies and outlines the devastating effects that exclusionary practices can have on each national canon.

  • - Agents - Structures - Encounters
     
    561,-

    Includes articles that address the notion that political space is no longer fully congruent with national borders. Organized into three sections - transnational actors, transnational spaces, and critical encounters - this title explains how transnational political spaces are formed and defined and how they can be traced and conceptualized.

  • - Archiving and Narrating in Historiography
     
    660,-

    Deals with the two central components of work in history: archiving and narrating. This title argues that archival resources, despite their air of impartiality, are the product of established interests and subject to various practices of selection, cataloguing, and preservation.

  • - Exile, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Past and Present
     
    608,-

    Draws on eight case studies, ranging from the early modern period through the twentieth century, to explore the interconnectedness of exile, nationalism, and cosmopolitanism as concepts, ideals, attitudes, and strategies among diasporic groups.

  • - Hospital Ethics Committees in the USA and Germany
    av Helen Kohlen
    608,-

    Looks at the origin and function of internal ethics committees in German hospitals. Using a mix of archival research, participant observation, and interviews, this book explores the debates that surrounded their formation and the functions they have taken on since their creation.

  • - Individuals and Societies Across Time
     
    686,-

    The course of human lives in Western society is inescapably shaped by political, cultural, and economic factors. This title collects articles that offer a range of theoretical and empirical studies of conceptions of the life course. Drawing on research from North America and Europe, it is suitable for those studying human development.

  • - The Question of Belonging Among Turkish Families in Germany
    av Esin Bozkurt
    666,99

    Presenting an account of the lives of Turkish men and women living in contemporary Germany, this title offers insights into how members of a marginalized immigrant community make room for themselves and reconstruct homes away from home. It places the life experiences of Turkish people into a broader theoretical perspective.

  • - The Spanish Civil War in the Age of Total War
     
    621,-

    Addresses the Spanish Civil War's role in the development of total war. Examining such topics as military violence, the experience of war, and the culture of war, this anthology traces how the differentiation between civilian and military sectors crumbled with the onset of civil war.

  • - The Early American World's Fairs and the Formation of Culture
    av Astrid Boger
    492

    The World's Fairs staged in the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries showcased world cultures in peaceful competition and cooperation. This title shows that at the same time the fairs played an important role in the growth of nationalism and American exceptionalism, subtly recasting world history.

  • - Cultures of Remembrance in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Europe
     
    803

    Addresses the complex relationship between memory, culture, and gender - as well as the representation of women in national memory - in several European countries. This volume explores the national allegories of memory in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

  • - Revisions of History in Contemporary East Asia
     
    587,-

    A collection of essays, which analyze historical revisionism in politics, historiography, education, and the media. It demonstrates how and why historical events have been reevaluated in specific social, political, and cultural contexts.

  • - Historical and Fictional Responses to His Rise and Legacy
     
    666,99

    Presents an international spectrum of female opposition, including contemporary letters, diaries, and published writings, as well as historical fiction of the twentieth century. By juxtaposing analyses of these materials, this book discusses links between literary, historical, and gender scholarship.

  • - A Theory of Social Movements and Political Change
    av Felix Kolb
    582,-

    Aims to rejuvenate scholarship by developing a comprehensive theory of social movements and political change. Reviewing the literature on the political outcomes of social movements, this book analyzes the examples of the American civil rights movement and anti-nuclear energy efforts in eighteen countries to forge an understanding of their impact.

  • - The Sharia Conflict in Nigeria
    av Johannes Harnischfeger
    686,-

    When democracy was introduced to Nigeria in 1999, one-third of its federal states declared that they would be governed by sharia, or Islamic law. This work argues that such a break with secular constitutional traditions in a multireligious country can have disastrous consequences.

  • - Governing the Global Knowledge Society
    av Helmut Willke
    673,-

    Offers a different perspective on global governance from the vantage point of a global knowledge society. Employing a case study of the global financial system and an analysis of several governance regimes, this work contends that markets, legal systems, and morality must evolve to cope with uncertainty, build capacities, and achieve resilience.

  • - Politics and Identities in the Baltic and South Caucasian States
     
    608,-

    Since the Baltic nations joined the European Union, debates about reorganizing post-Soviet republics have grown increasingly heated. Based on ethnographies and archival work, this work offers insights into shifts in national identity, cultural geography, and symbolic boundaries.

  • - Local Development in Post-Socialist Europe
    av Eniko Baga
    587,-

  • - A Guide to Empirical Research
    av Marina Hennig
    666,99

    Provides an introduction to empirical network research. This title offers students and practitioners new to social research understandable learning goals, examples, and exercises.

  • - Military Victory Parades in New York City 1899-1946
    av Sebastian Jobs
    608,-

    During the first half of the twentieth century military victory parades in New York became an iconic part of the American cultural memory - ticker tape and soldiers returning to their sweethearts symbolized the joy of a nation at peace. This book focuses on organizers, spectators, and soldiers.

  • - A Primer for Practice
    av Matthias Bergmann
    453,-

    To solve real-world issues, the model of transdisciplinary research, which uses approaches from both the hard and social sciences, has come to the forefront. This book allows researchers to look at a problem from many angles, with the goal of making both societal and scientific advances.

  • - Trends and Mechanisms in Social Stratification Research
     
    574,-

    Analyzes the state of social stratification research from a comparative, international perspective. This book presents theoretical knowledge as well as empirical evidence on questions such as intergenerational social mobility; inequalities of educational opportunity, gender and ethnicity; and the role of education in the labor market.

  • - Perspectives on Theory and Policy
    av Patrick Heady
    621,-

    Over the years, a consensus has grown among European policy specialists that kinship should play a larger role in the welfare state. This title examines the fundamental questions about such kinship ties and seeks to understand how and why family members help each other and in what circumstances they might withhold their aid.

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    660,-

    Over the years, a consensus has grown among European policy specialists that kinship should play a larger role in the welfare state. This title examines the fundamental questions about such kinship ties and seeks to understand how and why family members help each other and in what circumstances they might withhold their aid.

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    660,-

    Over the years, a consensus has grown among European policy specialists that kinship should play a larger role in the welfare state. This title examines the fundamental questions about such kinship ties and seeks to understand how and why family members help each other and in what circumstances they might withhold their aid.

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