Race in the United States has long been associated with heredity and inequality while ethnicity has been linked to language and culture. The "Shadow of Race" recovers the history of this entrenched distinction and the divisive politics it engenders. Victoria Hattam locates the origins of ethnicity in the New York Zionist movement of the early 1900s. In a major revision of widely held assumptions, she argues that Jewish activists identified as ethnics not as a means of assimilating and becoming w...
Lettres Politiques . Premiere Lettre. de la Chambre Des Pairs (Sciences Sociales)
by Sans Auteur
A Propos Des Lois Constitutionnelles (Sciences Sociales)
by Sans Auteur
Karl Marx is the most historically foundational and systematic critic of capitalism to date, and the years since the 2008 financial crisis have witnessed a rebirth of his popular appeal. In a world of rising income inequality, right-wing nationalisms, and global climate change, people are again looking to the father of modern socialism for answers. As this book argues, every era since Marx's death has reinvented him to fit its needs. There is not one Marx forever and for all time. There are a...
Die Deutsch-Persischen Beziehungen Von 1918-1933 (Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studie, #37)
by Ahmad Mahrad
The Sentiments of an Impartial Member of Parliament, Upon the Two Following Questions
by Unknown Author
Metric System of Weights and Measures (Classic Reprint)
by Frederick a P Barnard
The main aim of this book is to argue that the use of private force by states has been restricted by a norm against mercenary use. The book traces the evolution of this norm, from mercenaries in medieval Europe through to private security companies in modern day Iraq, telling a story about how the mercenaries of yesterday have evolved into those of today in the process. The norm against mercenaries has two components. First, mercenaries are considered to be immoral because they use force outsid...
Esquisse d'Une Revolution Par l'Education (Sciences Sociales)
by Lorgueilleux-P-L
Speech of Mr. Winthrop, of Massachusetts, on the Annexation of Texas
by Robert C Winthrop
La Communaute c'Est l'Esclavage Et Le Vol, Ou Theorie de l'Egalite Et Du Droit (Classic Reprint)
by V Avril
Drug War American Style: The Internationalization of Failed Policy and Its Alternatives
Classical Athenian literature often speaks of democratic politics in sexual terms. Citizens are urged to become lovers of the polis, and politicians claim to be lovers of the people. Victoria Wohl argues that this was no dead metaphor. Exploring the intersection between eros and politics in democratic Athens, Wohl traces the private desires aroused by public ideology and the political consequences of citizens' most intimate longings. Love among the Ruins analyzes the civic fantasies that lay ben...