Cornell University Press Forlag
Visning: Type : Alle | Sprog : Alle | Format : Hardback
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Heroic Sagas and Ballads (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)In Heroic Sagas and Ballads, Stephen A. Mitchell examines the world of the medieval Icelandic legendary sagas and their legacy in Scandinavia.
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Epic Singers and Oral Tradition (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Drawing on his extensive fieldwork in living oral traditions, Albert Bates Lord here concentrates on the epic singers and their art as manifested in texts or performance.
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The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution: Statecraft and the Prospect of Armageddon (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Robert Jervis argues here that the possibility of nuclear war has created a revolution in military strategy and international relations. He examines how the potential for nuclear Armageddon has changed the meaning of war, the psychology of...
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Governing Habits: Treating Alcoholism in the Post-Soviet Clinic (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Governing Habits is an ethnography of extraordinary sensitivity and awareness that shows how therapeutic practice and expertise is expressed in the highly specific, yet rapidly transforming milieu of hospitals, clinics, and rehabilitation centers in post-Soviet Russia.
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The Patriotism of Despair: Nation, War, and Loss in Russia (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Examines the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, graphically described in spray paint by a graffiti artist in Barnaul: "We have no Motherland." Once socialism disappeared as a way of understanding the world, what replaced it in people's minds?
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Warring Friends: Alliance Restraint in International Politics (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Pressman draws on and critiques realist, normative, and institutionalist understandings of how alliance decisions are made.
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Communities of the Converted: Ukrainians and Global Evangelism (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)After decades of official atheism, a religious renaissance swept through much of the former Soviet Union beginning in the late 1980s. The Calvinist-like austerity and fundamentalist ethos that had evolved among sequestered and frequently persecuted...
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Overkill: Sex and Violence in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Borenstein argues that the popular cultural products consumed in the post-perestroika era were more than just diversions; they allowed Russians to indulge their despair over economic woes and everyday threats.
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The Political Economy of Grand Strategy (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)A nation's grand strategy rarely serves the best interests of all its citizens. Instead, every strategic choice benefits some domestic groups at the expense of others. When groups with different interests separate into opposing coalitions, societal...
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Defending the Border: Identity, Religion, and Modernity in the Republic of Georgia (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)This book, one of the first in English about everyday life in the Republic of Georgia, describes how people construct identity in a rapidly changing border region.
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Russia Gets the Blues: Music, Culture, and Community in Unsettled Times (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Michael Urban chronicles the advent of blues music in Russia and explores the significance of the genre in the turbulent, postcommunist society. Russians, he explains, have taken a music originating in the "low" culture of the American South and...
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The Ethics of Destruction: Norms and Force in International Relations (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Many assume that in international politics, and especially in war, "anything goes." Civil War general William Sherman said war "is all hell." The implication behind the maxim is that in war, as in hell, there is no order, only chaos; no mercy, only...
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