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For Zion's Sake

Autor: Fuad Sha'ban
Data wydania: 2005
This book explores the role of religion, especially religious extremism, in American culture. In particular, it examines the development of the Judeo-Christian tradition, its impact on America's self-image, and the way it has influenced America's attitude to the Arab World. The Christian Right has become a very powerful force in American politics. Its basic belief in Christian Zionism has resulted in a steadfast commitment to the establishment of the state of Israel and to its aggressive expansion, and has made Zionism a central part of government policy, for both Republicans and Democrats. Fuad Sha'ban shows how this is not a new phenomenon: what he terms the 'Vision of Zion' in American life has its roots in literature, the arts and internal politics from
89,00 zł

Gale Encyclopedia of US History 2 vols Government & Politics

Autor: P Kepos
Data wydania: 2008
The Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. History consists of a series of 2-volume encyclopedias that provides a broad overview of one particular topic throughout American history, from pre-colonial times until today, with special emphasis placed on how the topic--whether war or government and politics--effects, and is affected by, political, economic, and social change in American and global society. Each set is organized chronologically, by era or event, into 10-15 chapters. Each chapter features an introductory essay on the era or event followed by entries grouped under consistent subheads. Each set consists of approximately 400 entries, including subject entries and biographies; 300-350 images, including maps; a chronology; a glossary; sources for further study; and a general
771,75 zł

German-Jewish History in Modern Times

Data wydania: 1996
This four-volume collective project by a team of leading scholars offers a vivid portrait of Jewish history in German-speaking countries over nearly four centuries. This series is sponsored by the Leo Baeck Institute, established in 1955 in Jerusalem, London, and New York for the purpose of advancing scholarship on the Jews in German-speaking lands.
154,00 zł

Institutions

Autor: Casely Hayford
Data wydania: 2018
110,00 zł

IRAQ Sanctions & Wars

Autor: Adnan Khalil Pasha
Dr. Adnan Khalil Pasha
Data wydania: 2003
37,00 zł

Kosovo

Autor: J Lindsay
James Ker-Lindsay
James Ker-Lindsay
Data wydania: 2009
In February 2008, Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia. Was this the final chapter in the break up of Yugoslavia and the successful conclusion to the Balkan Wars of the 1990s? This book presents an objective history of Kosovo's contested path to the declaration of independence in 2008.
278,25 zł

History of Central America

Autor: Thomas Lee Pearcy
Data wydania: 2007
Central America is an extraordinarily beautiful part of the world, with sweeping panoramic vistas of tropical vegetation, towering mountains, and striking ethnic and racial diversity. This tropical paradise has a history as diverse as its people and cultures. Pearcy begins with the Maya in ancient Mesoamerica, then moves on to discuss European contact and the subsequent subjugation of the people of Central America by the Spaniards during the Colonial period. The book also covers the National period, independence movements, and the subsequent development of independent, sovereign Central American nations. It concludes with a look at the mid-twentieth century, when the economies, governments, and populations of the seven republics had evolved so distinctly that each has
58,42 zł

Impact of Irish-Ireland on Young Poland 1890-1918

Autor: J.A. Merchant
John Merchant
Stephanie Muir
Data wydania: 2008
Moda Polska, young poland, emerged between 1890 and 1918. It was a movement in which Polish intellectuals attempted to combine native forms of expression with the ideals of European modernism to create artistically innovative and inherently Polish work. This title examines the impact of a contemporary movement, Irish-Ireland, on Polish culture.
179,55 zł

Lebanon 1860-1960

Autor: Claude Kanaan
Data wydania: 2005
Explores the differing mythologies of the Maronite, Druze and Sunni communities that led to a brutal clash in Lebanon in 1958. This work offers a fresh perspective on a period in Lebanese history often seen as the product of international friction between pan-Arab nationalism and the growing threat to Western hegemony during the Cold War.
188,00 zł

Lesser Dragons

Autor: Michael Dillon
Data wydania: 2018
Lesser Dragons is a timely introduction to the fascinating and complex world of China's `national minorities'. Based on detailed research, including the author's first-hand fieldwork in several minority areas, it introduces the major non-Han peoples of China, including the Mongols, the Tibetans, the Uyghurs of Xinjiang and the Manchus, and traces the evolution of their relationship with the Han Chinese majority. Each chapter discusses one of the most important minority groups, while an additional chapter is devoted to the parallel but different world of inter-ethnic relations in Taiwan. Lesser Dragons will interest anyone who wishes to understand the reality behind the region's conflicts that are increasingly being reported in the Western media, including the tense
127,00 zł

Polish Community of Worcester

Autor: Barbara Proko
Janice Baniukiewicz Stickles
John Kraska
John Kraska Jr
Data wydania: 2003
83,00 zł

Love on Trial American Scandal in Black & White

Autor: Earl Lewis
Heidi Ardizzone
Data wydania: 2001
Upon marrying Leonard Rhinelander in 1924, Alice Jones, a former nanny, became the first black woman to be listed in the Social Register as a member of one of New York's wealthiest families. When their marriage became a national scandal, Alice and Leonard found themselves thrust into the glare of public scrutiny-and into a Westchester courtroom. Earl Lewis and Heidi Ardizzone tell the story of the marriage and the annulment trial that opened the lives of two vastly different families to the media. Tracking the public obsession withthe case, they unfold a story with a dramatic cast of characters. Would the jury believe Alice's claim that her husband had known she was of mixed racial ancestry before their marriage? Would Leonard's social status sway the verdict? How much
152,00 zł

Manifest Destinys Underworld

Autor: Robert May
Data wydania: 2002
This fascinating study sheds new light on antebellum America's notorious ""filibusters--the freebooters and adventurers who organized or participated in armed invasions of nations with whom the United States was formally at peace. Offering the first full-scale analysis of the filibustering movement, Robert May relates the often-tragic stories of illegal expeditions into Cuba, Mexico, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and other Latin American countries and details surprising numbers of aborted plots, as well. May investigates why thousands of men joined filibustering expeditions, how they were financed, and why the U.S. government had little success in curtailing them. Surveying antebellum popular media, he shows how the filibustering phenomenon infiltrated the American psyche in
205,00 zł

Mexican Dream

Autor: J. M. G. Le Clezio
Data wydania: 2009
Conjures the consciousness of Mexico, evoking the dreams that made and unmade an ancient culture. This book takes readers into the dream that was the religion of the Aztecs, a religion whose own apocalyptic visions anticipated the coming of the Spanish conquerors.
49,35 zł

New Perspectives on Yugoslavia

Autor: D Djokic
Data wydania: 2010
Nearly twenty years after it ceased to exist as a multinational federation, Yugoslavia still has the power to provoke controversy and debate. Bringing together contributions from twelve of the leading scholars of modern and contemporary South East Europe, this volume explores the history of Yugoslavia from creation to dissolution.
160,65 zł

Oil Crisis in Iran

Autor: Ervand Abrahamian
Ervand Abrahamian
Data wydania: 2021
Based on recently declassified CIA and US State Department documents from the Mossadeq administration, this study throws fresh light on the Iranian oil crisis which would culminate in the coup of August 1953, one of the most significant and widely studied episodes of modern Iranian history.
170,00 zł

Order and Insecurity in Germany and Turkey

Autor: Emre Sencer
Emre Sencer
Data wydania: 2018
This book examines processes of military, political and cultural transformation from the perspective of officers in two countries: Germany and Turkey in the 1930s. The national fates of both countries interlocked during the Great War years and their close alliance dictated their joint defeat in 1918.
258,00 zł

Parties, Political Finance, and Governance in Africa

Autor: Rachel Sigman
Data wydania: 2023
Drawing upon in-depth case studies of Benin and Ghana, Rachel Sigman explains the strategies political parties use to extract money from the state and how these strategies shape government performance. Challenging conventional views of ineffective African states, Sigman develops a nuanced understanding of 'good governance' in Africa.
504,00 zł

Piero Gobetti and the Politics of Liberal Revolution

Autor: James Martin
Data wydania: 2008
Piero Gobetti was a radical liberal and critic of Italian politics in the years after World War I, he proposed 'revolutionary liberalism', which guided his opposition to Fascism and inspired key figures in the Italian Resistance. Accessible but critical, this volume is offers a balanced assessment of his enduring significance.
228,90 zł

Poland's Solidarity Movement and the Global Politics of Human Rights

Autor: Robert Brier
Data wydania: 2023
Robert Brier examines how human rights emerged as the dominant political language of our time. By showing how Polish dissidents were entangled in international debates on human rights and political resistance, he demonstrates how human rights became a contested source of legitimacy.
177,00 zł

Policing & War in Europe

Autor: L Knafla
Data wydania: 2002
Policing and War in Europe marks a new departure in Criminal Justice History. These seven chapter essays, together with the reviews of twelve major works in the area, establish the series as a major forum for exploring new areas of research in the criminal justice area in its historical, criminological, legal, and social aspects.
289,00 zł