Autor: Worsley Peter

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Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War

Into the Quagmire presents a closely rendered, almost day-by-day account of America's …


geschrieben von Brian Vandemark (Autor)

Health Care and Reform in Industrialized Countries

This timely Volume examines the health care systems of Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, …


geschrieben von Marshall W. Raffel (Herausgeber)

Consumption, Food and Taste: Culinary Antinomies and Commodity Culture

Exploring the expression of taste through the processes of consumption this book provides an incisive and accessible evaluation of the current theories of consumption, and trends in the representation …

PART ONE: ISSUES OF TASTE
Consumption, Taste and Social Change
The New Manners of Food
Trends and their Sociological Interpretation
Measuring Change in Taste
PART TWO: …


geschrieben von Alan Warde (Autor)

Policing Soviet Society

Since its creation immediately after the Russian revolution, the militia has had a broad range of social, political and economic functions necessary to direct and control a highly centralized …


geschrieben von Louise I. Shelley (Autor) und Shelley Louise (Autor)

Native to the Nation: Disciplining Landscapes and Bodies in Australia

In a world increasingly marked by migration and dislocation, the question of displacement, and of establishing a sense of belonging, has become ever more common and ever more urgent. But what of those …


geschrieben von Allaine Cerwonka (Autor)

Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization

Jeremy Prestholdt is Assistant Professor History at the …

This book boldly unsettles the idea of globalization as a recent phenomenon--and one driven solely by Western interests--by offering a compelling new perspective on global interconnectivity in the …

List of Illustrations Introduction: Histories and Globality 1. Similitude and Global Relationships: Self-Representation in Mutsamudu 2. The Social Logics of Need: Consumer Desire in Mombasa 3. The …


geschrieben von Jeremy Prestholdt (Autor)

What Is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics?: Reading the New Testament

Tat-siong Benny Liew is associate professor of New Testament at the …

This is the first single-authored book on Asian American biblical interpretation. It covers all of the major genres within the New Testament and broadens biblical hermeneutics to cover not only the …


geschrieben von Tat-Siong Benny Liew (Autor)

Modernity and the State: East, West

This volume addresses the problem of how modern societies politically cohere, and poses a fundamental question in contemporary political analysis: how can legitimate authority co-exist with effective …

Preface. Part I: Modernity and Self-Limitation. 1. The Utopia of the Zero Option: Modernity and Modernization as Normative Political Criteria. 2. Bindings, Shackles, Brakes: On Self-Limitation …


geschrieben von Claus Offe (Autor)

Beyond the National Interest: The Future of Un Peacekeeping and Multilateralism in an Era of U.S. Primacy

Jean-Marc Coicaud, a former senior fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace, is the head of the United Nations University (UNU) office at UN headquarters in New York. Coicaud has been a visiting fellow …

Provides an examination of the period of "robust" UN-mandated …

Introduction; The Extent and the Limits of Peace Operations in the 1990s; The United Nations and Its Shortcomings as an International Bureaucracy; The Structure of International Politics and the …


geschrieben von Jean-Marc Coicaud (Autor)


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