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Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?: Thinking from Women's Lives (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Sandra Harding here develops further the themes first addressed in her widely influential book, The Science Question in Feminism, and conducts a compelling analysis of feminist theories on the philosophical problem of how we know what we...
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Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Jervis examines the politics and psychology of two of the more spectacular intelligence failures in recent memory: the mistaken belief that the regime of the Shah in Iran was secure and stable in 1978, and the 2002 claim that Iraq had active WMD programs.
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Uncovering Ways of War: U.S. Intelligence and Foreign Military Innovation, 1918–1941 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Thomas G. Mahnken sheds light on the shadowy world of U.S. intelligence-gathering, tracing how America learned of military developments in Japan, Germany, and Great Britain in the period between the two world wars.
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Union Voices: Tactics and Tensions in UK Organizing (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)This book evaluates how British labor unions fared in the political and institutional context created by Great Britain's New Labour government between 1997 and 2010.
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Warlords: Strong-arm Brokers in Weak States (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Kimberly Marten shows why and how warlords undermine state sovereignty. Unlike the feudal lords of a previous era, warlords today are not state-builders. They thrive on illegality and rely on private militias for support.
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The Topography of Modernity: Karl Philipp Moritz and the Space of Autonomy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Elliott Schreiber explores Karl Philipp Moritz's many contributions to the intellectual evolution of the Enlightenment and positions the German thinker as an incisive early observer and theorist of modernity.
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Tolstoy on War: Narrative Art and Historical Truth in "War and Peace" (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)This book brings together a distinguished group of scholars in essays that focus on the wartime sections of War and Peace. Approaching the novel from different disciplines, they wrestle with the book's great themes.
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War and the Engineers: The Primacy of Politics Over Technology (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Do some technologies provoke war? Do others promote peace? Offense-defense theory contends that technological change is an important cause of conflict: leaders will be tempted to launch wars when they believe innovation favors attackers over...
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To Be the Neighbor of Saint Peter: The Social Meaning of Cluny's Property, 909–1049 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Barbara H. Rosenwein here reassesses the significance of property in the tenth and eleventh centuries, a period of transition from the Carolingian empire to the regional monarchies of the High Middle Ages. In To Be the Neighbor of Saint Peter she...
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The Varieties of Ethnic Experience: Kinship, Class, and Gender Among California Italian-Americans (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Taking a novel anthropological approach to the issue of white ethnicity in the United States, this book... Læs mere
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The Unfinished Enlightenment: Description in the Age of the Encyclopedia (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)In The Unfinished Enlightenment, Joanna Stalnaker offers a fresh look at the French Enlightenment by focusing on the era's vast, collective attempt to compile an ongoing and provisional description of the world.
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Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Greenhill offers the first systematic examination of forced migration as an important but largely unrecognized instrument of state influence. She shows both how often this unorthodox brand of coercion has been attempted and how successful it has been.
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