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After the War Was over: Reconstructing the Family, Nation, and State in Greece, 1943-1960by Mark MazowerISBN 0691058423 (0-691-05842-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Extending innovative historical approaches to Greece, the contributors explore how war and civil war affected the family, the law, and the state. They examine how people led their lives, as communities and individuals, at a time of political polarization in a country on the front line of the Cold War's division of Europe. And they advance the ongoing reassessment of what happened in postwar Europe by including regional and village histories and by examining long-running issues of nationalism and ethnicity. Previously neglected subjects--from children and women in the resistance and in prisons to the state use of pageantry--yield fresh insights.
By focusing on episodes such as the problems of Jewish survivors in Salonika, memories of the Bulgarian occupation of northern Greece, and the controversial arrest of a war criminal, these scholars begin to answer persistent questions about war and its repercussions. How do people respond to repression? How deep are ethnic divisions? Which forms of power emerge under a weakened state? When forced to choose, will parents sacrifice family or ideology? How do ordinary people surmount wartime grievances to live together?
In addition to the editor, the contributors are Eleni Haidia, Procopis Papastratis, Polymeris Voglis, Mando Dalianis, Tassoula Vervenioti, Riki van Boeschoten, John Sakkas, Lee Sarafis, Stathis N. Kalyvas, Anastasia Karakasidou, Bea Lefkowicz, Xanthippi Kotzageorgi-Zymari, Tassos Hadjianastassiou, and Susanne-Sophia Spiliotis.
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Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideasby Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy, Roger HausheerISBN 0691090262 (0-691-09026-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Age of Empire 1875-1914by Eric HobsbawmISBN 0679721754 (0-679-72175-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Centuryby Gary GerstleISBN 0691102775 (0-691-10277-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Animal Farmby George OrwellISBN 0679420398 (0-679-42039-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Farm'Book summary:Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson [via]
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The Arab Awakening: The Story of the Arab National Movementby George AntoniusISBN 0710306733 (0-7103-0673-3)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Being Muslim the Bosnian Way: Identity and Community in a Central Bosnian Villageby Tone BringaISBN 0691001758 (0-691-00175-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europeby Anne ApplebaumISBN 0679421505 (0-679-42150-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Breakdown of Nationsby Leopold KohrISBN 0710208898 (0-7102-0889-8)
Softcover, Routledge
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Child of All Nationsby Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Max LaneISBN 0688127266 (0-688-12726-6)
Hardcover, William Morrow & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Child of All Nations'Book summary:In the second volume of the Baru Tetralogy, the sequel to This Earth of Mankind follows Minke as he struggles to overcome the omnipresent injustice in the Dutch East Indies of the 1890s. 20,000 first printing. $10,000 ad/promo. [via]
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The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Eraby Seyla BenhabibISBN 0691048630 (0-691-04863-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Era'Book summary:How can liberal democracy best be realized in a world fraught with conflicting new forms of identity politics and intensifying conflicts over culture? This book brings unparalleled clarity to the contemporary debate over this question. Maintaining that cultures are themselves torn by conflicts about their own boundaries, Seyla Benhabib challenges the assumption shared by many theorists and activists that cultures are clearly defined wholes. She argues that much debate--including that of "strong" multiculturalism, which sees cultures as distinct pieces of a mosaic--is dominated by this faulty belief, one with grave consequences for how we think injustices among groups should be redressed and human diversity achieved. Benhabib masterfully presents an alternative approach, developing an understanding of cultures as continually creating, re-creating, and renegotiating the imagined boundaries between "us" and "them."
Drawing on contemporary cultural politics from Western Europe, Canada, and the United States, Benhabib develops a double-track model of deliberative democracy that permits maximum cultural contestation within the official public sphere as well as in and through social movements and the institutions of civil society. Agreeing with political liberals that constitutional and legal universalism should be preserved at the level of polity, she nonetheless contends that such a model is necessary to resolve multicultural conflicts.
Analyzing in detail the transformation of citizenship practices in European Union countries, Benhabib concludes that flexible citizenship, certain kinds of legal pluralism and models of institutional powersharing are quite compatible with deliberative democracy, as long as they are in accord with egalitarian reciprocity, voluntary self-ascription, and freedom of exit and association. The Claims of Culture offers invaluable insight to all those, whether students or scholars, lawyers or policymakers, who strive to bridge the gap between the theory and practice of cultural politics in the twenty-first century.
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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Orderby Samuel P. HuntingtonISBN 0684844419 (0-684-84441-9)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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Conflict and Cohesion in Socialist Yugoslavia: Political Decision Making Since 1966by Steven L. BurgISBN 0691076510 (0-691-07651-0)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Constitutional Faithby Sanford LevinsonISBN 0691023212 (0-691-02321-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideasby Isaiah Berlin, Henry HardyISBN 0691058385 (0-691-05838-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas'Book summary:The Crooked Timber of Humanity contains eight of Isaiah Berlin's deservedly influential essays in the history of ideas, all dealing with political thought in the 18th and 19th centuries. One of the essays, "Joseph de Maistre and the Origins of Fascism," is published here for the first time; this reevaluation of the Savoyard counterrevolutionary occupies almost a quarter of the book, and not a word is wasted.
Although written separately, these essays exhibit a common concern with what Berlin calls pluralism, the idea that there can be different, equally valid but mutually incompatible, conceptions of how to live. Whatever their disagreements, traditional writers on politics have implicitly assumed that there is one best way to live, whether it was in the static utopias of More and Harrington or in the dynamic dramas of Hegel and Marx. But in the 18th century, Vico and Herder embraced pluralism, thus inaugurating the historicist turn in political thought. Berlin adeptly pursues pluralism and its repercussions through history, connecting it to the decline of utopian ideas, the origins of fascism and nationalism, the rise of the discipline of cultural history, and much else.
As always, Berlin's prose is graceful and powerful, but what truly makes The Crooked Timber of Humanity exhilarating to read is the depth and power of his intellect. Berlin credits Vico with realizing that "to exercise their proper function, historians require the capacity for imaginative insight, without which the bones of the past remain dry and lifeless." It is a capacity that Berlin himself amply displays here. --Glenn Branch [via]
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Culture and Imperialismby Edward W. SaidISBN 0679750541 (0-679-75054-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Culture and Imperialism'Book summary:Edward Said makes one of the strongest cases ever for the aphorism, "the pen is mightier than the sword." This is a brilliant work of literary criticism that essentially becomes political science. Culture and Imperialism demonstrates that Western imperialism's most effective tools for dominating other cultures have been literary in nature as much as political and economic. He traces the themes of 19th- and 20th-century Western fiction and contemporary mass media as weapons of conquest and also brilliantly analyzes the rise of oppositional indigenous voices in the literatures of the "colonies." Said would argue that it's no mere coincidence that it was a Victorian Englishman, Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, who coined the phrase "the pen is mightier . . ." Very highly recommended for anyone who wants to understand how cultures are dominated by words, as well as how cultures can be liberated by resuscitating old voices or creating new voices for new times. [via]
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The Decay of the Angelby Yukio Mishima, Edward SeidenstickerISBN 0679722432 (0-679-72243-2)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Deliver Us from Evil: Peacekeepers, Warlords and a World of Endless Conflictby William ShawcrossISBN 068483233X (0-684-83233-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Dictionary of the Khazarsby Milorad Pavic, Christina Pribicevic-ZoricISBN 0679724613 (0-679-72461-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Downfall : The End of the Imperial Japanese Empireby Richard B. FrankISBN 067941424X (0-679-41424-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Downfall : The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire'Book summary:Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire is an impeccably written analysis of the last months of the Pacific War and the unfolding of the American air campaign over Japan. The story opens with a searing description of the fire-bombing of Tokyo in March 1945, which caused more deaths than the atom bomb in Hiroshima. Within five months, Japan's economy was collapsing and the country faced catastrophic starvation. Richard B. Frank coolly analyzes different scenarios for ending the war (Russia waited in the wings). Frank concludes that the emperor and the Japanese military were far from ready to surrender, and that the decision to use the atom bomb probably saved millions of lives, not only Allied but Japanese and other Asian lives, also--perhaps a hundred thousand Chinese were dying each month under Japanese occupation. The effects of the bomb worked on many levels, even lending faces to the Japanese militarists, who could convince themselves that they were defeated not by a lack of spiritual power but by superior science. Densely documented, intelligently argued, Downfall recreates the end of the war from the viewpoints of the principals, giving the book an unusual immediacy. A highly valuable insight into the disintegration of the Japanese Empire, one of the most dramatic episodes of World War II. --John Stevenson [via]
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East Timor: Nationalism and Colonialismby Jill JolliffeISBN 0702214817 (0-7022-1481-7)
Softcover, University of Queensland Press
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Error Patterns in Computation: A Semi-Programmed Approachby Robert B. AshlockISBN 0675098807 (0-675-09880-7)
Softcover, Merrill Pub Co
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The Faces of Contemporary Russian Nationalismby John B. DunlopISBN 0691053901 (0-691-05390-1)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Footstepsby Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Max LaneISBN 0688137482 (0-688-13748-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Fragile Speciesby Lewis ThomasISBN 0684843021 (0-684-84302-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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From Hitler to Heimat: The Return of History As Filmby Anton KaesISBN 0674324560 (0-674-32456-0)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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German Question/Jewish Question: Revolutionary Antisemitism from Kant to Wagnerby Paul Lawrence RoseISBN 0691008906 (0-691-00890-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Hamilton's Republic: Readings in the American Democratic Nationalist Traditionby Michael LindISBN 0684831600 (0-684-83160-0)
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A History of the Arab Peoplesby Albert HouraniISBN 0674395654 (0-674-39565-4)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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House of Glassby Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Max LaneISBN 0688145949 (0-688-14594-9)
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The Idea Of A European Superstate: Public Justification And European Integrationby Glyn MorganISBN 0691122466 (0-691-12246-6)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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In the Realm of a Dying Emperorby Norma FieldISBN 0679741895 (0-679-74189-5)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Israel: The Partitioned State A Political History Since 1900by Amos PerlmutterISBN 068418396X (0-684-18396-X)
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Kosovo Crossing: American Ideals Meet Reality on the Balkan Battlefieldsby David FromkinISBN 068486889X (0-684-86889-X)
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Kosovo Crossing : The Reality of American Intervention in the Balkansby David FromkinISBN 0684869535 (0-684-86953-5)
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Letters of the Republic: Publication and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century Americaby Michael WarnerISBN 0674527860 (0-674-52786-0)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Limits of State Autonomy: Post-Revolutionary Mexicoby Nora HamiltonISBN 0691022119 (0-691-02211-9)
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The Macedonian Conflict: Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational Worldby Loring M. DanforthISBN 0691043566 (0-691-04356-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Men and Ideas: History, the Middle Ages, the Renaissanceby Johan HuizingaISBN 0691008027 (0-691-00802-7)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Midnight's Childrenby Salman RushdieISBN 0679444629 (0-679-44462-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Midnight's Children'Book summary:Anyone who has spent time in the developing world will know that one of Bombay's claims to fame is the enormous film industry that churns out hundreds of musical fantasies each year. The other, of course, is native son Salman Rushdie--less prolific, perhaps than Bollywood, but in his own way just as fantastical. Though Rushdie's novels lack the requisite six musical numbers that punctuate every Bombay talkie, they often share basic plot points with their cinematic counterparts. Take, for example, his 1980 Booker Prize-winning Midnight's Children: two children born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947--the moment at which India became an independent nation--are switched in the hospital. The infant scion of a wealthy Muslim family is sent to be raised in a Hindu tenement, while the legitimate heir to such squalor ends up establishing squatters' rights to his unlucky hospital mate's luxurious bassinet. Switched babies are standard fare for a Hindi film, and one can't help but feel that Rushdie's world-view--and certainly his sense of the fantastical--has been shaped by the films of his childhood. But whereas the movies, while entertaining, are markedly mediocre, Midnight's Children is a masterpiece, brilliant written, wildly unpredictable, hilarious and heartbreaking in equal measure.
Rushdie's narrator, Saleem Sinai, is the Hindu child raised by wealthy Muslims. Near the beginning of the novel, he informs us that he is falling apart--literally:
I mean quite simply that I have begun to crack all over like an old jug--that my poor body, singular, unlovely, buffeted by too much history, subjected to drainage above and drainage below, mutilated by doors, brained by spittoons, has started coming apart at the seams. In short, I am literally disintegrating, slowly for the moment, although there are signs of an acceleration.
In light of this unfortunate physical degeneration, Saleem has decided to write his life story, and, incidentally, that of India's, before he crumbles into "(approximately) six hundred and thirty million particles of anonymous, and necessarily oblivious, dust." It seems that within one hour of midnight on India's independence day, 1,001 children were born. All of those children were endowed with special powers: some can travel through time, for example; one can change gender. Saleem's gift is telepathy, and it is via this power that he discovers the truth of his birth: that he is, in fact, the product of the illicit coupling of an Indian mother and an English father, and has usurped another's place. His gift also reveals the identities of all the other children and the fact that it is in his power to gather them for a "midnight parliament" to save the nation. To do so, however, would lay him open to that other child, christened Shiva, who has grown up to be a brutish killer. Saleem's dilemma plays out against the backdrop of the first years of independence: the partition of India and Pakistan, the ascendancy of "The Widow" Indira Gandhi, war, and, eventually, the imposition of martial law.We've seen this mix of magical thinking and political reality before in the works of Günter Grass and Gabriel García Márquez. What sets Rushdie apart is his mad prose pyrotechnics, the exuberant acrobatics of rhyme and alliteration, pun, wordplay, proper and "Babu" English chasing each other across the page in a dizzying, exhilarating cataract of words. Rushdie can be laugh-out-loud funny, but make no mistake--this is an angry book, and its author's outrage lends his language wings. Midnight's Children is Salman Rushdie's irate, affectionate love song to his native land--not so different from a Bombay talkie, after all. --Alix Wilber [via]
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A Nation of Fliers: German Aviation and the Popular Imaginationby Peter FritzscheISBN 067460122X (0-674-60122-X)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Necessary Nationby Gregory JusdanisISBN 0691089027 (0-691-08902-7)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Negotiating Identities: States and Immigrants in France and Germanyby Riva Kastoryano, Barbara HarshavISBN 0691010153 (0-691-01015-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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On the Medieval Origins of the Modern Stateby Joseph Reese StrayerISBN 0691121850 (0-691-12185-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Passion and Paradox: Intellectuals Confront the National Questionby Joan CocksISBN 0691074682 (0-691-07468-2)
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Past in Question: Modern Macedonia and the Uncertainties of Nationby Keith BrownISBN 0691099952 (0-691-09995-2)
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Patriot Fires: Forging a New American Nationalism in the Civil War Northby Melinda LawsonISBN 0700614184 (0-7006-1418-4)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Differenceby Dipesh ChakrabartyISBN 0691049092 (0-691-04909-2)
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Putting Liberalism in Its Placeby Paul W. KahnISBN 0691120242 (0-691-12024-2)
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The Question of Palestineby Edward W. SaidISBN 0679739882 (0-679-73988-2)
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Reproducing the Stateby Jacqueline StevensISBN 069101714X (0-691-01714-X)
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Rob Royby Walter ScottISBN 0679443622 (0-679-44362-2)
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The Ruin of Kaschby Roberto Calasso, William Weaver, Stephen SartarelliISBN 0674780299 (0-674-78029-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ruin of Kasch'Book summary:The Ruin of Kasch examines the rise of the modern state and the origins of romantic nationalism, whose sick fruit has been harvested in places such as Bosnia, Chechnya, and East Timor. Roberto Calasso locates the transformation in the French Revolution, when a frivolous monarchy evaporated before a government that valued order, bureaucracy, and above all secrecy. He also attributes it to Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1838), who was perhaps the first professional civil servant. Ever selfish, Talleyrand proved the perfect servant to the Napoleonic Era; as Napoleon said, "Principles are fine; they don't commit you to anything." The Ruin of Kasch is about Talleyrand, but also, Italo Calvino notes, "about everything else." It's a whirlwind of a book, sometimes maddeningly so. It is one to pick up, ponder, put down, argue with, and then resume reading until the next argument pops up a page or two later. [via]
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The Ruin of Kaschby William Weaver, Stephen Sartarelli, Roberto CalassoISBN 0674780264 (0-674-78026-4)
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Russia: People and Empire 1552-1917by Geoffrey HoskingISBN 0674781198 (0-674-78119-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Russia: People and Empire 1552-1917'Book summary:The Soviet Union crumbles and Russia rises from the rubble, once again the great nation--a perfect scenario, but for one point: Russia was never a nation. And this, says the eminent historian Geoffrey Hosking, is at the heart of the Russians' dilemma today, as they grapple with the rudiments of nationhood. His book is about the Russia that never was, a three-hundred-year history of empire building at the expense of national identity.
Russia begins in the sixteenth century, with the inception of one of the most extensive and diverse empires in history. Hosking shows how this undertaking, the effort of conquering, defending, and administering such a huge mixture of territories and peoples, exhausted the productive powers of the common people and enfeebled their civic institutions. Neither church nor state was able to project an image of "Russian-ness" that could unite elites and masses in a consciousness of belonging to the same nation. Hosking depicts two Russias, that of the gentry and of the peasantry, and reveals how the gap between them, widened by the Tsarist state's repudiation of the Orthodox messianic myth, continued to grow throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Here we see how this myth, on which the empire was originally based, returned centuries later in the form of the revolutionary movement, which eventually swept away the Tsarist Empire but replaced it with an even more universalist one. Hosking concludes his story in 1917, but shows how the conflict he describes continues to affect Russia right up to the present day.
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Sacred Place, Chosen People: Land and National Identity in Welsh Spiritualityby Dorian LlywelynISBN 0708315194 (0-7083-1519-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Seaby Yukio Mishima, John NathanISBN 0679750150 (0-679-75015-0)
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Shattering Silence: Women, Nationalism, and Political Subjectivity in Northern Irelandby Begona AretxagaISBN 069103754X (0-691-03754-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shattering Silence: Women, Nationalism, and Political Subjectivity in Northern Ireland'Book summary:This book, the first feminist ethnography of the violence in Northern Ireland, is an analysis of a political conflict through the lens of gender. The case in point is the working-class Catholic resistance to British rule in Northern Ireland. During the 1970s women in Catholic/nationalist districts of Belfast organized themselves into street committees and led popular forms of resistance against the policies of the government of Northern Ireland and, after its demise, against those of the British. In the abundant literature on the conflict, however, the political tactics of nationalist women have passed virtually unnoticed. Begoña Aretxaga argues here that these hitherto invisible practices were an integral part of the social dynamic of the conflict and had important implications for the broader organization of nationalist forms of resistance and gender relationships.
Combining interpretative anthropology and poststructuralist feminist theory, Aretxaga contributes not only to anthropology and feminist studies but also to research on ethnic and social conflict by showing the gendered constitution of political violence. She goes further than asserting that violence affects men and women differently by arguing that the manners in which violence is gendered are not fixed but constantly shifting, depending on the contingencies of history, social class, and ethnic identity. Thus any attempt at subverting gender inequality is necessarily colored by other dimensions of political experience.
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The Sovereign State and Its Competitors: An Analysis of Systems Changeby Hendrik SpruytISBN 0691029105 (0-691-02910-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sovereign State and Its Competitors: An Analysis of Systems Change'Book summary:The present international system, composed for the most part of sovereign, territorial states, is often viewed as the inevitable outcome of historical development. Hendrik Spruyt argues that there was nothing inevitable about the rise of the state system, however. Examining the competing institutions that arose during the decline of feudalism--among them urban leagues, independent communes, city states, and sovereign monarchies--Spruyt disposes of the familiar claim that the superior size and war-making ability of the sovereign nation-state made it the natural successor to the feudal system.
The author argues that feudalism did not give way to any single successor institution in simple linear fashion. Instead, individuals created a variety of institutional forms, such as the sovereign, territorial state in France, the Hanseatic League, and the Italian city-states, in reaction to a dramatic change in the medieval economic environment. Only in a subsequent selective phase of institutional evolution did sovereign, territorial authority prove to have significant institutional advantages over its rivals. Sovereign authority proved to be more successful in organizing domestic society and structuring external affairs. Spruyt's interdisciplinary approach not only has important implications for change in the state system in our time, but also presents a novel analysis of the general dynamics of institutional change.
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Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisyby Stephen D. KrasnerISBN 069100711X (0-691-00711-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy'Book summary:The acceptance of human rights and minority rights, the increasing role of international financial institutions, and globalization have led many observers to question the continued viability of the sovereign state. Here a leading expert challenges this conclusion. Stephen Krasner contends that states have never been as sovereign as some have supposed. Throughout history, rulers have been motivated by a desire to stay in power, not by some abstract adherence to international principles. Organized hypocrisy--the presence of longstanding norms that are frequently violated--has been an enduring attribute of international relations
Political leaders have usually but not always honored international legal sovereignty, the principle that international recognition should be accorded only to juridically independent sovereign states, while treating Westphalian sovereignty, the principle that states have the right to exclude external authority from their own territory, in a much more provisional way. In some instances violations of the principles of sovereignty have been coercive, as in the imposition of minority rights on newly created states after the First World War or the successor states of Yugoslavia after 1990; at other times cooperative, as in the European Human Rights regime or conditionality agreements with the International Monetary Fund.
The author looks at various issues areas to make his argument: minority rights, human rights, sovereign lending, and state creation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Differences in national power and interests, he concludes, not international norms, continue to be the most powerful explanation for the behavior of states.
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Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002by Salman RushdieISBN 0679783490 (0-679-78349-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002'Book summary:To cross a frontier is to be transformed....The frontier is a wake-up call. At the frontier, we cant avoid the truth; the comforting layers of the quotidian, which insulate us against the worlds harsher realities, are stripped away and, wide-eyed in the harsh fluorescent light of the frontiers windowless halls, we see things as they are.
In Salman Rushdies latest collection of nonfiction, he crosses over the frontier and sees and tells things as they are, inviting readers to step across this line with him.
The essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in Step Across This Line, written over the last ten years, cover an astonishing range of subjects. The collection chronicles Rushdies intellectual odyssey and is also an especially personal look into the writers psyche. With the same fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and very strong opinions that distinguish his fiction, Rushdie writes about his fascination with The Wizard of Oz, his obsession with soccer, and the state of the novel, among many other topics. Most notably, delving into his unique personal experience fighting the Iranian fatwa, he addresses the subject of militant Islam in a series of challenging and deeply felt responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The book ends with the eponymous Step Across This Line, a lecture Rushdie delivered at Yale in the spring of 2002, which has never been published before and is sure to prompt discussion.
Rushdies first collection of nonfiction, Imaginary Homelands, offered a unique vision of politics, literature, and culture for the 1980s. Step Across This Line does the same and more for the last decade of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. [via]More editions of Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002:
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This Earth of Mankindby Pramoedya Ananta ToerISBN 0688093736 (0-688-09373-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This Earth of Mankind'Book summary:Minke is a young Javanese student of great intelligence and ambition. Living equally among the colonists and colonized of 19th-century Java, he battles against the confines of colonial strictures. It is his love for Annelies that enables him to find the strength to embrace his world.[via]More editions of This Earth of Mankind:
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Tin Drumby Gunter Grass, Ralph ManheimISBN 067972575X (0-679-72575-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tin Drum'Book summary:Meet Oskar Matzerath, "the eternal three-year-old drummer." On the morning of his third birthday, dressed in a striped pullover and patent leather shoes, and clutching his drumsticks and his new tin drum, young Oskar makes an irrevocable decision: "It was then that I declared, resolved, and determined that I would never under any circumstances be a politician, much less a grocer; that I would stop right there, remain as I was--and so I did; for many years I not only stayed the same size but clung to the same attire." Here is a Peter Pan story with a vengeance. But instead of Never-Never Land, Günter Grass gives us Danzig, a contested city on the Polish-German border; instead of Captain Hook and his pirates, we have the Nazis. And in place of Peter himself is Oskar, a twisted puer aeternis with a scream that can shatter glass and a drum rather than a shadow. First published in 1959, The Tin Drum's depiction of the Nazi era created a furor in Germany, for the world of Grass's making is rife with corrupt politicians and brutal grocers in brown shirts:
There was once a grocer who closed his store one day in November, because something was doing in town; taking his son Oskar by the hand, he boarded a Number 5 streetcar and rode to the Langasser Gate, because there as in Zoppot and Langfuhr the synagogue was on fire. The synagogue had almost burned down and the firemen were looking on, taking care that the flames should not spread to other buildings. Outside the wrecked synagogue, men in uniform and others in civilian clothes piled up books, ritual objects, and strange kinds of cloth. The mound was set on fire and the grocer took advantage of the opportunity to warm his fingers and his feelings over the public blaze.
As Oskar grows older (though not taller), portents of war transform into the thing itself. Danzig is the first casualty when, in the summer of 1939, residents turn against each other in a pitched battle between Poles and Germans. In the years that follow, Oskar goes from one picaresque adventure to the next--he joins a troupe of traveling musicians; he becomes the leader of a group of anarchists; he falls in love; he becomes a recording artist--until some time after the war, he is convicted of murder and confined to a mental hospital.The Tin Drum uses savage comedy and a stiff dose of magical realism to capture not only the madness of war, but also the black cancer at the heart of humanity that allows such degradations to occur. Grass wields his humor like a knife--yes, he'll make you laugh, but he'll make you bleed, as well. There have been many novels written about World War II, but only a handful can truly be called great; The Tin Drum, without a doubt, is one. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Toward a Feminist Theory of the Stateby Catharine A. MacKinnonISBN 0674896467 (0-674-89646-7)
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The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identityby Charles S. MaierISBN 0674929772 (0-674-92977-2)
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Vico and Herder: Two Studies in the History of Ideasby Isaiah BerlinISBN 0701203625 (0-7012-0362-5)
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We, the People of Europe?: Reflections on Transnational Citizenshipby Etienne Balibar, James SwensonISBN 0691089906 (0-691-08990-6)
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Who Are We: The Challenges to America's National Identityby Samuel P. HuntingtonISBN 0684870541 (0-684-87054-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Who Are We: The Challenges to America's National Identity'Book summary:In his seminal work "The Clash of Civilizations" and the "Remaking of World Order," Samuel Huntington argued provocatively and presciently that with the end of the cold war, "civilizations" were replacing ideologies as the new fault lines in international politics.
His astute analysis has proven correct. Now Professor Huntington turns his attention from international affairs to our domestic cultural rifts as he examines the impact other civilizations and their values are having on our own country.
America was founded by British settlers who brought with them a distinct culture including the English language, Protestant values, individualism, religious commitment, and respect for law. The waves of immigrants that later came to the United States gradually accepted these values and assimilated into America's Anglo-Protestant culture. More recently, however, national identity has been eroded by the problems of assimilating massive numbers of primarily Hispanic
immigrants, bilingualism, multiculturalism, the devaluation of citizenship, and the "denationalization" of American elites.
September 11 brought a revival of American patriotism and a renewal of American identity. But already there are signs that this revival is
fading, even though in the post-September 11 world, Americans face unprecedented challenges to our security.
"Who Are We?" shows the need for us to reassert the core values that make us Americans. Nothing less than our national identity is at stake.
Once again Samuel Huntington has written an important book that is certain to provoke a lively debate and to shape our national conversation about who we are.\
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Who Speaks for Wales?: Nation, Culture, Identityby Daniel Williams, Williams DanielISBN 0708317847 (0-7083-1784-7)
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A World Beyond Politics?: A Defense of the Nation-stateby Pierre Manent, Marc LePainISBN 0691125120 (0-691-12512-0)
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The World, the Text, and the Criticby Edward SaidISBN 0674961870 (0-674-96187-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The World, the Text, and the Critic'Book summary:This extraordinarily wide-ranging work represents a new departure for contemporary literary theory. Author of Beginnings and the controversial Orientalism, Edward Said demonstrates that modern critical discourse has been impressively strengthened by the writings of Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, for example, and by such influences as Marxism, structuralism, linguistics, and psychoanalysis. He argues, however, that the various methods and schools have had a crippling effect through their tendency to force works of literature to meet the requirements of a theory or system, ignoring the complex affiliations binding the texts to the world.
The critic must maintain a distance both from critical systems and from the dogmas and orthodoxies of the dominant culture, Said contends. He advocates freedom of consciousness and responsiveness to history, to the exigencies of the text, to political, social, and human values, to the heterogeneity of human experience. These characteristics are brilliantly exemplified in his own analyses of individual authors and works.
Combining the principles and practice of criticism, the book offers illuminating investigations of a number of writers--Swift, Conrad, Lukacs, Renan, and many others--and of concepts such as repetition, originality, worldliness, and the roles of audiences, authors, and speakers. It asks daring questions, investigates problems of urgent significance, and gives a subtle yet powerful new meaning to the enterprise of criticism in modern society.
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