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Native Americans
Encounter Books 2013; US$ 23.99Are you an American? According to the U.S. Census Bureau, increasing numbers of people are claiming ?American? as their national ancestry. In our melting pot of cultures, they are taking a stand as authentic representatives of the American nation. This growing social phenomenon serves as the launching point for a discussion of what twenty-first century... more...
When Peace Is Not Enough
University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 25.00The state of Israel is often spoken of as a haven for the Jewish people, a place rooted in the story of a nation dispersed, wandering the earth in search of their homeland. Born in adversity but purportedly nurtured by liberal ideals, Israel has never known peace, experiencing instead a state of constant war that has divided its population along the... more...
Air and Sea Power in World War I
I.B.Tauris 2013; US$ 44.00The Great War tore the fabric of Europe apart, killing over 35 million men and challenging the notion of heroism in war. Air and Sea Power in World War I focuses on the experience of World War I from the perspective of British pilots and sailors themselves, to demonstrate that the army-centric view of war studies has been too limited. The Royal Flying... more...
Modern Gnosis and Zionism
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 145.00In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the German intellectual world was challenged by a growing distrust in the rational ideals of the enlightenment, and consequently by a belief in the existence of a radical ?cultural crisis?. One response to this crisis was the emergence of ?Life Philosophy?, which celebrated the irrational, expressive,... more...
The Micro and Meso Levels of Activism
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 90.00Focusing on the Attac movements in France and Germany, this book seeks to explain the dramatic differences that exist between the individual and organisational levels of activism. The author derives engagement patterns for various types of activists and develops a typology of social movement organisations positing possible trends in membership. more...
Grounds of Comparison
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 39.95Benedict Anderson, professor at Cornell and specialist in Southeast Asian studies, is best known for his book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1991). It is no understatement to say that this is one of the most influential books of the last twenty years. Widely read both by social scientists and humanists,... more...
Nazism and German Society, 1933-1945
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 42.95The image of the Third Reich as a monolithic state presiding over the brainwashed, fanatical masses, retains a tenacious grip on the general public's imagination. However, a growing body of research on the social history of the Nazi years has revealed the variety and complexity of the relationships between the Nazi regime and the German people. This... more...
Nationalism and Ethnoregional Identities in China
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 55.95Western political scientists have tended to neglect the ethnic dimension in China, and have overemphasized the development from large empire to unified nation. This book brings together a number of case studies on the ethnic and regional dimensions of Chinese politics and society. more...
For Freedom Alone
Birlinn 2013; US$ 8.44The Declaration of Arbroath, 6 April, 1320, is one of the most remarkable documents to have been produced anywhere in medieval Europe. Quoted by many, understood by few, its historical significance has now almost been overtaken by its mythic status. Since 1998, the US Senate has claimed that the American Declaration of Independence is modeled upon... more...
Nationalism
Wiley 2013; US$ 64.95For the last two centuries, nationalism has been a central feature of society and politics. Few ideologies can match its power and resonance, and no other political movement and symbolic language has such worldwide appeal and resilience. But nationalism is also a form of public culture and political religion, which draws on much older cultural and... more...









