Author : Ton Salman
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,86 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
This book, on the one hand, tells the story of the Chilean shantytown organizations during Pinochet's rule. On the other hand, the book presents a survey of the intellectual history of theories of social movements, and embodies a research strategy which c
Author : Rose-Mary Sargent
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 30,39 MB
Release : 2009-04-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226735621
In a provocative reassessment of one of the quintessential figures of early modern science, Rose-Mary Sargent explores Robert Boyle's philosophy of experiment, a central aspect of his life and work that became a model for mid- to late seventeenth-century natural philosophers and for many who followed them. Sargent examines the philosophical, legal, experimental, and religious traditions—among them English common law, alchemy, medicine, and Christianity—that played a part in shaping Boyle's experimental thought and practice. The roots of his philosophy in his early life and education, in his religious ideals, and in the work of his predecessors—particularly Bacon, Descartes, and Galileo—are fully explored, as are the possible influences of his social and intellectual circle. Drawing on the full range of Boyle's published works, as well as on his unpublished notebooks and manuscripts, Sargent shows how these diverse influences were transformed and incorporated into Boyle's views on and practice of experiment.
Author : Jon Beasley-Murray
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 27,94 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0816647143
A challenging new work of cultural and political theory rethinks the concept of hegemony.
Author : Bert Klandermans
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 12,80 MB
Release : 2009-12-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0387765808
This book aims to revisit the interdisciplinary roots of social movement studies. Each discipline raises its own questions and approaches the subject from a different angle or perspective. The chapters of this handbook are written by internationally renowned scholars representing the various disciplines involved. They each review the approach their sector has developed and discuss their disciplines’ contributions and insights to the knowledge of social movements. Furthermore, each chapter addresses the "unanswered questions" and discusses the overlaps with other fields as well as reviewing the interdisciplinary advances so far.
Author : Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,46 MB
Release : 2009-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822973618
With the 2006 election of Michelle Bachelet as the first female president and women claiming fifty percent of her cabinet seats, the political influence of Chilean women has taken a major step forward. Despite a seemingly liberal political climate, Chile has a murky history on women's rights, and progress has been slow, tenuous, and in many cases, non-existent. Chronicling an era of unprecedented modernization and political transformation, Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney examines the negotiations over women's rights and the politics of gender in Chile throughout the twentieth century. Centering her study on motherhood, Pieper Mooney explores dramatic changes in health policy, population paradigms, and understandings of human rights, and reveals that motherhood is hardly a private matter defined only by individual women or couples. Instead, it is intimately tied to public policies and political competitions on nation-state and international levels. The increased legitimacy of women's demands for rights, both locally and globally, has led to some improvements in gender equity. Yet feminists in contemporary Chile continue to face strong opposition from neoconservatism in the Catholic Church and a mixture of public apathy and legal wrangling over reproductive rights and health.
Author : Robine Van Dooren
Publisher : Rozenberg Publishers
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 31,98 MB
Release : 2003-12-12
Category : Clothing trade
ISBN : 9051707398
Garments on the Move presents an analysis of the interaction between local-level cluster dynamics and globalization processes in the garment industry. Geographically, the focus is on La Laguna, a garment export cluster in northern Mexico that has experien
Author : Ellen Mattson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 32,92 MB
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1448113768
'The sky was now a block of darkness, punctured only by driving snow. The stars had gone out, the king was dead. And the wound on his arm refused to heal.' So begins Snow, the first novel by Ellen Mattson to be published in Britain - a brilliant exploration of an individual's codes of ethics and honour in the face of political and social collapse. The man is Jakob Torn, a small-town apothecary, stumbling drunkenly through the streets, a refugee from his own home, carrying a deep stab-wound inflicted by his wife. He does not understand what brought on this sudden violence, any more than he can come to terms with the death, in battle, of his king. When the town begins to fill with the starving, frostbitten remnants of the defeated army, and Jakob is conscripted into helping to embalm the king's body, all his certainties are called into question. Though set in 1718 in the west coast of Sweden, Snow is a profoundly modern and universal novel, interested less in the real-life historical drama that forms the backdrop than in the emotional and moral dilemma of Jakob Torn - a simple, loyal, honourable man who finds himself the damaged centre of a collapsing world.
Author : William Henry Herndon
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 35,23 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Presidents
ISBN : 0252030729
"This new edition restores the original text, includes two chapters added in the revised (1892) edition, and traces the story of how this landmark biography got written. Extensive annotation affords the reader a detailed look at the biography's sources."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Sean Flannery
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 31,52 MB
Release : 1999-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466812818
“A genuine blockbuster . . . With this novel, Sean Flannery takes his rightful place along such masters as Tom Clancy and Clive Cussler.” —Ed Gorman, Mystery Scene The Cold War is over—followed by a deadlier menace than the world has ever known. Its codename: Operation Homeward Bound. Deep within the KGB, a dedicated fraternity conspires to restore the power of its fragmented homeland. Brutal, power-crazed, ruthlessly efficient, these renegade agents want nothing less than the destruction of the US. To insure its mission, this sinister coterie will use every weapon available. Torture. Murder. Even the family of a US security adviser. “Not only do Flannery’s spy thrillers have the ring of truth; sometimes they become the truth. Let’s hope Moving Targets remains fiction.” —Dean Ing, New York Times–bestselling author “Full of intriguing, fully drawn characters from both sides of the old cold war . . . [A] clever and thoroughly believable painting of interagency warfare, diverted loyalties, and political confusion in our time. Quite good.” —Kirkus Reviews
Author : Chitralekha Zutshi
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 22,5 MB
Release : 2024-05-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300270771
A compelling biography of Sheikh Abdullah, the charismatic, combative, and controversial Kashmiri politician Written by the leading historian of modern Kashmir, this is a comprehensive portrayal of one of the most enigmatic politicians in modern South Asia, Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah, known as the Lion of Kashmir. Abdullah (1905-1982) devoted much of his life to mobilizing Kashmiris to assert their rights, to trying to achieve a fair resolution for their politically contested state, to shaping its turbulent relationship with India, and to bridging the divide between India and Pakistan. Although he forged ties with the Indian National Congress, Abdullah's support for Kashmir's accession to India and his advocacy for a more autonomous position for the state within the Indian Union complicated his relationship with India and led to his fall from grace, arrest, and imprisonment. In 1975 he reached a compromise with India that alienated generations of Kashmiris for whose self-determination he had long fought. The people of Kashmir, India, and Pakistan continue to grapple with and contest his legacy. Zutshi's rigorously researched and elegantly crafted biography brings this complex figure to life and offers a window onto the political fissures of twentieth-century South Asia more broadly.
