Author: Scott Fox
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group - Sheffie
Keywords: contradictions, qoheleth
Published: 1989-05-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1850751439
ISBN-13: 9781850751434

Author: Harvey Kaye
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: contradictions, imperialism
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1994-11-23
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0415907977
ISBN-13: 9780415907972

V.G. Kiernan is recognised as one of the most remarkable historians of the 20th. Sensitive to the tragic and ironic character of human history, he addresses the origins, consequences and legacies of modern imperialism and colonialism.

Author: Peter Beilharz
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: contradictions, modernity, socialism
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-08-03
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0816660867
ISBN-13: 9780816660865

This first collection of Peter Beilharz’s highly influential thought traces the themes and problems, manifestations, and trajectories of socialism and modernity as they connect and shift over a twenty-year period. Woven throughout Beilharz’s analysis is the urgent question of modern utopia: how do we imagine freedom and equality in modernity?The essays in this volume explore the relationship between socialism and modernity across the United States, Europe, and Australia from the mid-1980s to the turn of the twenty-first century, a time that witnessed the global triumph of capitalis

Author: Micheline R. Ishay
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: contradictions, betrayal, internationalism
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 1995-04-01
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0816624704
ISBN-13: 9780816624706

Internationalism and Its Betrayal was first published in 1995. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.A new world order, proclaimed Western leaders after the cold war, could extend liberal democracy and human rights around the globe. Yet the specter of nationalism once again haunts the world, threatening to extinguish the spirit of internationalism.Although internationalism is typically understood to be diametrically opposed to nationalism, Mic

Author: G Thomas
Publisher: Amolibros
Keywords: japan, contemporary, contradictions, extremes
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-11-03
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0954678907
ISBN-13: 9780954678906

Author: Franklin E. Zimring
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: punishment, capital, american, contradictions
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2003-05-01
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0195152360
ISBN-13: 9780195152364

Why does the United States continue to employ the death penalty when fifty other developed democracies have abolished it? Why does capital punishment become more problematic each year? How can the death penalty conflict be resolved? In The End of Capital Punishment in America, Frank Zimring reveals that the seemingly insoluble turmoil surrounding the death penalty reflects a deep and long-standing division in American values, a division that he predicts will soon bring about the end of capital punishment in our country. On the one hand, execution would seem to violate our nation’s highes

Author: William A. Joseph
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Keywords: change, contradictions, briefing, china
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 1997-03
List price: $38.95
ISBN-10: 1563248883
ISBN-13: 9781563248887

This work provides a retrospective analysis of important events in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong in the mid-1990s and a prospective look at some of the issues that will shape these areas as they each move toward decisive turning points in their distinct yet intertwined histories.