Book Description
Islamic institutions have turned the Middle East into an extraordinarily repressive region. Their legacies preclude a speedy liberalization.
Author : Timur Kuran
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 18,11 MB
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1009320017
Islamic institutions have turned the Middle East into an extraordinarily repressive region. Their legacies preclude a speedy liberalization.
Author : agi Yorro Jallow
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 49,41 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1491806613
The media plays a crucial role in shaping a healthy and vibrant democracy. It is the backbone of any functioning democracy. This book evaluates the role of the news media in The Gambia, in a variety of contexts and the major constraints and challenges which prevent journalism from fulfilling these ideal roles, and the most effective policy interventions available to strengthen the contribution of the news media to both democratic governance and human development. Specifically, it investigates the relationship between the Gambian Press and the military and quasi-military regimes in The Gambia, in the context of press freedom. This book examines in great detail decrees and laws enacted by the AFPRC-APRC regimes which restricted press freedom during the period of military rule in The Gambia and also in the post-coup era. Furthermore, it identifies and analyses the institutional, legal and non-legal measures and mechanisms utilized by the AFPRC-APRC regimes in controlling the Gambian press from 1994 to date. This work also examines both direct and indirect forms of manipulation the Jammeh regime usedforms that have ranged from selective assassination, extra-constitutional decrees, and promulgation of retroactive laws, to bribery, compulsion to self-censorship, and the offer (and acceptance) of lucrative press relations jobs in the government. This work attempts to address this question: how far can autocracies strengthen popular support by silencing dissent and manipulating the news? The many ways that autocracies seek to control the media are documented. How far has the Gambian leader, with the restrictive media environment in the country, succeeded in manipulating public opinion and strengthening his support at home?
Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
Page : 1948 pages
File Size : 44,55 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Law
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Author : Mar Aguilera Vaqués
Publisher : Edicions Universitat Barcelona
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,92 MB
Release : 2021-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 8491686622
Author : Michelle A. McKinley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 29,54 MB
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1107168988
Fractional Freedoms examines paths to liberty forged in the slaveowning household, and legal claims brought by slaves in colonial Lima.
Author : Allen Carden
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 39,15 MB
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1621900509
The Declaration of Independence proclaimed freedom for Americans from the domination of Great Britain, yet for millions of African Americas caught up in a brutal system of racially based slavery, freedom would be denied for ninety additional years until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Freedom’s Delay: America’s Struggle for Emancipation, 1776–1865 probes the slow, painful, yet ultimately successful crusade to end slavery throughout the nation, North and South. This work fills an important gap in the literature of slavery’s demise. Unlike other authors who focus largely on specific time periods or regional areas, Allen Carden presents a thematically structured national synthesis of emancipation. Freedom’s Delay offers a comprehensive and unique overview of the process of manumission commencing in 1776 when slavery was a national institution, not just the southern experience known historically by most Americans. In this volume, the entire country is examined, and major emancipatory efforts—political, literary, legal, moral, and social—made by black and white, free and enslaved individuals are documented over the years from independence through the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment. Freedom’s Delay dispels many of the myths about slavery and abolition, including that racial servitude was of little consequence in the North, and, where it did exist, it ended quickly and easily; that abolition was a white man’s cause and blacks were passive recipients of liberty; that the South seceded primarily to protect states’ rights, not slavery; and that the North fought the Civil War primarily to end the subjugation of African Americans. By putting these misunderstandings aside, this book reveals what actually transpired in the fight for human rights during this critical era. Carden’s inclusion of a cogent preface and epilogue assures that Freedom’s Delay will find a significant place in the literature of American slavery and freedom. With a compelling preface and epilogue, notes, illustrations and tables, and a detailed bibliography, this volume will be of great value not only in courses on American history and African American history but also to the general reading public. Allen Carden is professor of history at Fresno Pacific University in Fresno, California. He is the author of Puritan Christianity in America: Religion and Life in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts.
Author : John Barbour
Publisher :
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,77 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Scotland
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Author : John Barbour
Publisher :
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 45,92 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Scotland
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Author : John Barbour
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,15 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Scotland
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Author : John Barbour
Publisher :
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 48,87 MB
Release : 1894
Category :
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