Author: Geoffrey Baker
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Keywords: colonial, cuzco, society, music, harmony, imposing
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-03-03
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0822341603
ISBN-13: 9780822341604

Imposing Harmony is a groundbreaking analysis of the role of music and musicians in the social and political life of colonial Cuzco. Challenging musicology’s cathedral-centered approach to the history of music in colonial Latin America, Geoffrey Baker demonstrates that rather than being dominated by the cathedral, Cuzco’s musical culture was remarkably decentralized. He shows that institutions such as parish churches and monasteries employed indigenous professional musicians, rivaling Cuzco Cathedral in the scale and frequency of the musical performances they staged.Building on recent scho

Author: Geoff Simo
Publisher: Pluto Pre
Keywords: genocidal, tool, remedy, legal, economic, sanctions, imposing
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 1999-07-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0745313957
ISBN-13: 9780745313955

This text gives an account of the use and misuse of economic sanctions world-wide, highlighting the ways in which sanctions have been employed, ultimately, as weapons of mass destruction, directed primarily against civilian populations. The author details the impact of economic sanctions on a global basis, highlighting their use as a foreign policy tool by powerful nations such as the United States, and revealing the extent to which the US has succeeded in promoting the use of sanctions - in direct violation of the UN charter - through its dominance of the UN Security Council. Using source mat

Author: Demetrios James Caraley
Publisher: Academy of Political Science
Keywords: imposing, democracy, iraq, war, hegemony, preventive, american
Number of Pages: 206
Published: 2004-04
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1884853048
ISBN-13: 9781884853043

Author: Malcolm K. Sparrow
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: approach, compliance, changing, government, duties, imposing
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1994-02-07
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0275947815
ISBN-13: 9780275947811

Policing, environmental protection, and tax administration have much more in common than practitioners in these areas often recognize. In this book, Sparrow draws out remarkable parallels in the ways these professions are adapting to meet their current challenges, as they reject their traditional reliance on retrospective, case-by-case, after-the-fact enforcement. Rather than perpetuating their dependence on processes, procedures, and "coverage," these professions are each developing new capacities for analyzing important patterns of noncompliance, prioritizing risks, and designing intelligent

Author: N. Scott Arnold
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: pllitical, philosophy, oxford, regulation, values, liberalism, imposing
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 2009-03-20
List price: $74.00
ISBN-10: 0195374967
ISBN-13: 9780195374964

A major question for liberal politics and liberal political theory concerns the proper scope of government. Liberalism has always favored limited government, but there has been wide-ranging dispute among liberals about just how extensive the scope of government should be. Included in this dispute are questions about the extent of state ownership of the means of production, redistribution of wealth and income through the tax code and transfer programs, and the extent of government regulation. One of N. Scott Arnold’s goals is to give an accurate characterization of both modern liberalism

Authors:Robert Catley, David Mosler,
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: recalcitrant, world, liberalism, imposing, america, global
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2000-07-30
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0275966623
ISBN-13: 9780275966621

The United States is the most powerful political agency in the world, supported by the strongest economy, largest educated population, and the most lethal military machine. But it supports the ideals of liberalism and is using its power to try to create a liberal world order. No other state can presently resist this process. Nonetheless, the very libertarian nature of the emerging order--with powerful independent corporations and particularistic nationalisms and cultures--may be beyond the capacity of any single state to manage--even the United States.

Author: Roderick P. Neumann
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: studies, california, critical, human, geography, africa, preservation, struggles, wilderness, over, livelihood, nature, imposing
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2002-01-23
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0520234685
ISBN-13: 9780520234680

Arusha National Park in northern Tanzania, known for its scenic beauty, is also a battleground. Roderick Neumann’s illuminating analysis shows how this park embodies all the political-ecological dilemmas facing protected areas throughout Africa. The roots of the ongoing struggle between the park on Mount Meru and the neighboring Meru peasant communities go much deeper, in Neumann’s view, than the issues of poverty, population growth, and ignorance usually cited. These conflicts reflect differences that go back to the beginning of colonial rule. By imposing a European ideal of prist