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The World of the American West

The World of the American West

The World of the American West is an innovative collection of original essays that brings the world of the American West to life and conveys the distinctiveness of this diverse constantly changing region. Twenty scholars incorporate the freshest research in the field to take the history of the American West out of its timeworn Cowboys and Indians stereotype right up into the major issues being discussed today from water rights to the presence of the defense industry. Other topics covered in this heavily illustrated highly accessible volume include the effects of leisure and tourism western women politics and politicians Native Americans in the twentieth century and of course oil. With insight both informative and unexpected The World of the American West offers perspectives on the latest developments affecting the modern American West providing essential reading for all scholars and students of the field so that they may better understand the vibrant history of this globally significant ever-evolving region of North America.

GBP 42.99
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Turkey and the West

Turkey and the West

First Published in 1985 Turkey and the West critically examines the likely costs and benefits of closer Turkish relations with the West. Turkey is strategically important to the West and yet set apart by its geographical location political system and level of economic development. Turkey’s political and economic situation its foreign policy and all aspects of its relations with the Western world are closely examined in this book. David Barchard also reviews the ways in which those relations might evolve. This book is an important historical document for scholars and researchers of geopolitics international history international relations and middle east studies.

GBP 85.00
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Korea and the West

Korea and the West

First published in 1986 Korea and the West examines the political culture and the economic development of the two Koreas as well as the state of the military balance on the peninsula. It looks at the interaction of the two Koreas with the outside world particularly with the four major powers – China Japan the USSR and the USA. It considers in detail the extent and nature of West European interests and the future role for the Europeans in developments on the Korean peninsula. This book will be of interest to students of political science history East Asian studies and international relations.

GBP 85.00
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The Mongols and the West 1221-1410

The Mongols and the West 1221-1410

The Mongols and the West provides a comprehensive survey of relations between the Catholic West and the Mongol Empire from the first appearance of Chinggis (Genghis) Khan’s armies on Europe’s horizons in 1221 to the battle of Tannenberg in 1410. This book has been designed to provide a synthesis of previous scholarship on relations between the Mongols and the Catholic world as well as to offer new approaches and conclusions on the subject. It considers the tension between Western hopes of the Mongols as allies against growing Muslim powers and the Mongols’ position as conquerors with their own agenda and evaluates the impact of Mongol-Western contacts on the West’s expanding knowledge of the world. This second edition takes into account the wealth of scholarly literature that has emerged in the years since the previous edition and contains significantly extended chapters on trade and mission. It charts the course of military confrontation and diplomatic relations between the Mongols and the West and re-examines the commercial opportunities offered to Western merchants by Mongol rule and the failure of Catholic missionaries to convert the Mongols to Christianity. Fully revised and containing a range of maps genealogical tables and both European and non-European sources throughout The Mongols and the West is ideal for students of medieval European history and the crusades. | The Mongols and the West 1221-1410

GBP 36.99
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The West Bank History Politics Society And Economy

The West Bank History Politics Society And Economy

First published in 1986. This study of the West Bank was originally undertaken for the Middle East Institute in Washington D. C. under the terms of its contract with the U. S. Defense Intelligence Agency. The study was compiled from a series of draft working papers. Covering The Late Ottoman period to 1967 and the second part looks at the West Bank under Israeli Occupation after 1967. | The West Bank History Politics Society And Economy

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The Rushdie Affair The Novel the Ayatollah and the West

The Rushdie Affair The Novel the Ayatollah and the West

The publication in 1988 of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses triggered a furor that pitted much of the Islamic world against the West over issues of blasphemy and freedom of expression. The controversy soon took on the aspect of a confrontation of civilizations provoking powerful emotions on a global level. It involved censorship protests riots a break in diplomatic relations culminating in the notorious Iranian edict calling for the death of the novelist. In The Rushdie Affair Daniel Pipes explains why the publication of The Satanic Verses became a cataclysmic event with far-reaching political and social consequences. Pipes looks at the Rushdie affair in both its political and cultural aspects and shows in considerable detail what the fundamentalists perceived as so offensive in The Satanic Verses as against what Rushdie's novel actually said. Pipes explains how the book created a new crisis between Iran and the West at the time-disrupting international diplomacy billions of dollars in trade and prospects for the release of Western hostages in Lebanon. Pipes maps out the long-term implications of the crisis. If the Ayatollah so easily intimidated the West can others do the same? Can millions of fundamentalist Muslims now living in the United States and Europe possibly be assimilated into a culture so alien to them? Insightful and brilliantly written this volume provides a full understanding of one of the most significant events in recent years. Koenraad Elst's postscript reviews the enduring impact of the Rushdie affair. | The Rushdie Affair The Novel the Ayatollah and the West

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The Routledge Companion to Gender and the American West

The Routledge Companion to Gender and the American West

This is the first major collection to remap the American West though the intersectional lens of gender and sexuality especially in relation to race and Indigeneity. Organized through several interrelated key concepts The Routledge Companion to Gender and the American West addresses gender and sexuality from and across diverse and divergent methodologies. Comprising 34 chapters by a team of international contributors the Companion is divided into four parts: Genealogies Bodies Movements Lands The volume features leading and newer scholars whose essays connect interdisciplinary fields including Indigenous Studies Latinx and Asian American Studies Western American Studies and Queer Feminist and Gender Studies. Through innovative methodologies and reclaimed archives of knowledge contributors model fresh frameworks for thinking about relations of power and place gender and genre settler colonization and decolonial resistance. Even as they reckon with the ongoing gendered and racialized violence at the core of the American West contributors forge new lexicons for imagining alternative Western futures. This pathbreaking collection will be invaluable to scholars and students studying the origins myths histories and legacies of the American West. This is a foundational collection that will become invaluable to scholars and students across a range of disciplines including Gender and Sexuality Studies Literary Studies Indigenous Studies and Latinx Studies.

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Russia the West and the Ukraine Crisis

Russia the West and the Ukraine Crisis

This book examines the causes and consequences of the Ukraine crisis with a special focus on Russia’s relations with the West. Towards that end it brings together international relations scholars and area specialists. Issues covered include: the evolution of EU–Russia and US–Russia relations the role of strategic culture and ontological insecurities in the formation of Russian foreign policy the role of hybrid warfare in Russian military policy the geopolitical drivers of Russia’s Ukraine policy and a discussion of the decision-making dynamics that led to Russia’s intervention in eastern Ukraine. The contributors employ different theoretical approaches and offer partly complementary and partly competing analyses. In so doing this book seeks to stimulate dialogue between different positions and advance our understanding of a topic that will shape the European security order for many years to come. This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Politics. | Russia the West and the Ukraine Crisis

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The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank The Theatrics of Woeful Statecraft

The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank The Theatrics of Woeful Statecraft

The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank explores the manner in which the Palestinian Authority’s performative acts affect and shape the lives and subjective identities of those in its vicinity in the occupied West Bank. The nature of Palestinians’ statelessness has to contend with the rituals of statecraft that the Palestinian Authority (PA) and its Palestinian functionaries engage in. These rituals are also economically maintained by an international donor community and are vehemently challenged by Palestinian activists antagonistic to the prevalence of the statist agenda in Palestine. Conceptually the understanding of the PA’s ‘theater of statecraft’ is inspired by Judith Butler’s conception of performativity as one that encompasses several repetitive and ritual performative acts. The authors explore what they refer to as the ‘fuzzy state' (personified in the form and conduct of the PA) looks like for those living it from the vantage point of PA institutions NGOs international representative offices and activists. Methodologically the book adopts an ethnographic approach by way of interviews and observations in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank makes an important and long-due intervention by integrating performance studies and politics to suggest an understanding of the theatrics of woeful statecraft in Palestine. The book is an essential resource for students and scholars interested in the study of the state International Relations and Politics Palestine Studies and the Middle East. | The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank The Theatrics of Woeful Statecraft

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Utopia and Dissent in West Germany The Resurgence of the Politics of Everyday Life in the Long 1960s

Utopia and Dissent in West Germany The Resurgence of the Politics of Everyday Life in the Long 1960s

Just as Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was seeking re-election on a campaign of no experiments art avant-garde groups in West Germany were reviving the utopian impulse to unite art and society. Utopia and Dissent in West Germany examines these groups and their legacy. Postwar artists built international as well as intergenerational networks such as Fluxus which was active in Düsseldorf Wiesbaden and Cologne and the Situationist International based in Paris. These groups were committed to undoing the compartmentalization of everyday life and the isolation of the artist in society. And as artists recast politics to address culture and everyday life they helped forge a path for the West German extraparliamentary left. Utopia and Dissent in West Germany traces these connections and presents a chronological map of the networks that fed into the extraparliamentary left as well as a geographical map of increasing radicalism as the locus of action shifted to West Berlin. These two maps show that in West Germany artists and their interventions in the structures of everyday life were a key starting point for challenging the postwar order. | Utopia and Dissent in West Germany The Resurgence of the Politics of Everyday Life in the Long 1960s

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King Alfred's West-Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care With an English Translation the Latin Text Notes and an Introduction

King Alfred's West-Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care With an English Translation the Latin Text Notes and an Introduction

King Alfred's West-Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care (1871) is a key Anglo-Saxon text. Preserved in two manuscripts written during Alfred’s lifetime it affords data of the highest value for fixing the grammatical peculiarities of the West-Saxon dialect of the ninth century. | King Alfred's West-Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care With an English Translation the Latin Text Notes and an Introduction

GBP 105.00
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Poland and European East-West Cooperation in the 1970s The Opening Up

Poland and European East-West Cooperation in the 1970s The Opening Up

This book offers an international reading of the Polish socialist regime’s history in the 1970s and its opening up to the West. It bridges Poland’s socialist domestic history with critical developments of the global and European 1970s including détente in the Cold War western European integration and globalisation. In this period of international transformations socialist Poland under Edward Gierek's leadership multiplied its economic and political contacts with capitalist countries especially western Europe and became a leader of East-West cooperation among Council for Mutual Economic Assistance and Warsaw Pact members. Relying on sources from public and corporate archives in five different European states the book demonstrates both that the global political and economic transformations of that period were critical for the decision-making process in Poland and moreover that the national socialist elites participated in shaping these transformations. By looking at the goals and expectations of the Polish socialist elites and their practices of political and economic exchanges with western Europe the book explains the logic which drove the socialist regime into entanglement with the West. As is shown here this entanglement proved inextricable and critical for the socialist regime's failure and Poland’s political and economic future. This book will be of much interest to students of European history cold war studies socialism studies and International Relations. | Poland and European East-West Cooperation in the 1970s The Opening Up

GBP 130.00
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Ukraine Russia and the West When Value Promotion Met Hard Power

Ukraine Russia and the West When Value Promotion Met Hard Power

Why did Russia’s all-out war against Ukraine come as such a surprise to the West? This is a key question considered by this reflective and wide-ranging book. The book argues that Russia and the West were playing different games: while Russia under Putin had become obsessed with using hard power to restore the Cold War security architecture in Europe the major Western powers had become equally obsessed with value promotion that would ensure a global triumph for the values of the West touted as “universal values. ” The Russian play for spheres of interest was clearly defined and demarcated the Western play for values was by definition without limits. Hence there could be no common ground no constructive communication and no common understanding. While Russia convinced itself that it would be successful in forcing the West to accept its claims for a new security order based on hard power Western governments deluded themselves into believing that value promotion would transform Russia into a liberal democracy and a rules-based market economy. Examining the full situation exploring political military economic and business spheres the book provides a deep analysis of how the present confrontation has come about. | Ukraine Russia and the West When Value Promotion Met Hard Power

GBP 34.99
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Biogeography of the West Indies Patterns and Perspectives Second Edition

Biogeography of the West Indies Patterns and Perspectives Second Edition

As a review of the status of biogeography in the West Indies in the 1980s the first edition of Biogeography of the West Indies: Past Present and Future provided a synthesis of our current knowledge of the systematics and distribution of major plant and animal groups in the Caribbean basin. The totally new and revised Second Edition Biogeography of the West Indies: Patterns and Perspectives emphasizes recent ideas and hypotheses in the field and includes many new chapters and contributions. The authors use the broadest possible interpretations of the concepts of biogeography consider anthropological and geological factors and discuss the conservation of endemic species. Drawing together contributions from the leading experts in biogeography and biodiversity this book introduces new patterns and developments that add to our understanding of how plants and animals are dispersed throughout the region. Many contributions use new techniques such as molecular systematics to test older studies based strictly on morphological data. Unique in its inclusion of a wide variety of organisms and in its coordination of scientific data and conservation strategies Biogeography of the West Indies: Patterns and Perspectives Second Edition provides the only encyclopedic discussion available on the biogeography of the Antilles. | Biogeography of the West Indies Patterns and Perspectives Second Edition

GBP 56.99
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The Defense Of The West Strategic And European Security Issues Reappraised

The Defense Of The West Strategic And European Security Issues Reappraised

Drawing on their daily involvement with defense issues and their interactions with the military and political elements of the national security community civilian and military defense analysts in the U. S. Army War Colleger Strategic Studies Institute offer a lucid analysis of the complex mosaic of strategic and European defense issues. Their contributions are probing balanced and provocative designed for students of foreign and defense affairs as well as for policymakers. In the first section of the book the offensive and defensive aspects of the strategic balance between the United States and the Soviet Union are examined. Going beyond sterile static weapons counts the authors address the relationship between the overall disposition of military forces and deterrence and are attentive to possible future developments including the impact of new technologies and changing Sino-Soviet relations that are likely to affect the U. S. USSR relationship. The second section of the book focuses on crucial East-West defense issues within Europe: the balance of conventional and theater nuclear forces prospects for European arms control the impact of chemical weapons on deterrence and defense and the fashioning of an effective nonnuclear NATO defense. The book concludes with a chapter that illuminates U. S. West European historical and cultural divergences explaining in a new way the political strains that frequently plague the alliance. | The Defense Of The West Strategic And European Security Issues Reappraised

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Teaching and Learning the West Point Way Educating the Next Generation of Leaders

Teaching and Learning the West Point Way Educating the Next Generation of Leaders

Teaching and Learning the West Point Way is a unique compendium of the best teaching and learning practices from one of the most celebrated and storied undergraduate teaching and learning environments and institutions in America – the United States Military Academy at West Point New York USA. Drawing on the broad academic curriculum that the students follow at West Point – in addition to military leadership character development and competitive athletics – this book describes proven and effective undergraduate pedagogy across a number of academic disciplines. Case studies strategies and techniques empirical teaching and learning research results syllabi and assignments developed and deployed by West Point faculty are included which faculty in other higher education institutions can adapt and apply to their own programs and courses. An accompanying companion website provides additional syllabi course guides lesson plans PowerPoint activities and lecture slides as well as videos of the editors and authors discussing how key concepts in their chapters might be applied in different teaching and learning contexts. This is an opportunity to gain an in-depth insight into the programs and practices inside one of the world’s premier leadership development and educational institutions. It should appeal to new and experienced faculty and administrators interested in course creation and syllabus design across a wide range of disciplines in educational institutions and military academies across the globe. | Teaching and Learning the West Point Way Educating the Next Generation of Leaders

GBP 35.99
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The Colonial Agents of the British West Indies A Study in Colonial Administration Mainly in the Eighteenth Century

The Colonial Agents of the British West Indies A Study in Colonial Administration Mainly in the Eighteenth Century

First published in 1924 at the time this was the first detailed study which attempted to investigate the workings and character of the powerful West Indian interest in London in the eighteenth century. At the centre of this interest stood the Colonial Agent an office which had come into existence when the West Indian interest was born. Dr. Penson traces its growth from the Restoration era through the Peace of Paris when its importance began to decline to the nineteenth century when the office finally disappeared. It is based on exhaustive research in public and private archives. | The Colonial Agents of the British West Indies A Study in Colonial Administration Mainly in the Eighteenth Century

GBP 32.99
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Political Institutions of West Africa

Political Institutions of West Africa

This book originally published in 1967 looks at political institutions in Nigeria Ghana Sierra Leone Liberia and Gambia a the time of the establishment of alien rule and goes on to discuss in detail constitutional developments from 1919 to the late 20th Century paying particular attention to the constitutional arrangements of the Commonwealth West African countries after Independence. Aspects such as the judiciary and the enforcement of law and order the public services and finance are discussed in separate chapters. The book ends with a survey of the varying patterns of local government in English-speaking West Africa. | Political Institutions of West Africa

GBP 80.00
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Women and Religion in the West Challenging Secularization

Women and Religion in the West Challenging Secularization

What is the relationship between women and secularization? In the West women are abandoning traditional religion. Yet they continue to make up the majority of religious adherents. Accounting for this seeming paradox is the focus of this volume. If women undergird the foundations of religion but are leaving in large numbers why are they leaving? Where are they going? What are they doing? And what's happening to those who remain? Women and Religion in the West addresses a neglected yet crucial issue within the debate on religious belonging and departure: the role of women in and out of religion and spirituality. Beginning with an analysis of the relationship between gender and secularization the book moves its focus to in-depth examination of women's experiences based on data from key recent qualitative work on women and religion. This volume addresses not only women's place in and out of Christianity (the normal focus of secularization theories) but also alternative spiritualities and Islam asking how questions of secularization differ between faith systems. This book offers students and scholars of religion sociology and women's studies as well as interested general readers an accessible work on the religiosity of western women and contributes fresh analyses of the rapidly shifting terrain of contemporary religion and spirituality. | Women and Religion in the West Challenging Secularization

GBP 48.99
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History of the British West Indies

History of the British West Indies

History of the British West Indies (1954) examines the history of the islands of the Caribbean from their first discovery through the periods of colonisation and slavery and up to the beginnings of their status as independent nations. The actions of other nations are studied as well as the British as the various colonial powers vied for possession of these valuable possessions. Terrible cruelty was inflicted by colonial masters to the indigenous inhabitants the slaves and indentured labour and the worst of these are recorded in separate appendices.

GBP 180.00
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