Search Results - "Crusades"

Scapegoats of September 11th hate crimes & state crimes in the war on terror / by Welch, Michael, Ph. D.

Table of Contents: “…Talking about terror -- Seeking a safer society -- Scapegoating and social insecurity -- Crusading against terror -- Hate crimes as backlash violence -- Profiling and detention in post-9/11 America -- State crimes in the war on terror -- Claiming effectiveness -- Assaulting civil liberties -- Culture of denial.…”
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No higher law American foreign policy and the Western Hemisphere since 1776 / by Loveman, Brian

Table of Contents: “…-- The good neighbor -- The new manifest destiny -- The new navy -- Protective imperialism -- Return to normalcy -- Independent internationalism -- Not-so-Cold War, I -- Not-so-Cold War, II -- American crusade -- Not the end of history -- The new normalcy?…”
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Spies and holy wars the Middle East in 20th-century crime fiction / by Simon, Reeva S.

Table of Contents: “…Crime fiction as political metaphor -- Spies and holy war : jihad and World War I -- Holy war and empire : Fu Manchu in Cairo -- The publishing explosion and James Bond -- Secular jihad : international terrorism and economic destabilization -- The American crusade against terror -- Jihad, the apocalypse, and back again.…”
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Pious pro-family rhetoric postures and paradoxes in philosophical perspective / by Newman, Jay, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…The pro-family crusade in cultural context -- Specimens of conservative pro-family rhetoric -- Religion and family values in the culture war -- Progressivist alternatives and responses -- Theological misgivings about pious pro-family rhetoric -- Concerns about authenticity -- Pious pro-family rhetoric and the sign language of the emotions.…”
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No higher law American foreign policy and the Western Hemisphere since 1776 / by Loveman, Brian

Table of Contents: “…-- The good neighbor -- The new manifest destiny -- The new navy -- Protective imperialism -- Return to normalcy -- Independent internationalism -- Not-so-Cold War, I -- Not-so-Cold War, II -- American crusade -- Not the end of history -- The new normalcy?…”
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Spies and holy wars the Middle East in 20th-century crime fiction / by Simon, Reeva S.

Table of Contents: “…Crime fiction as political metaphor -- Spies and holy war : jihad and World War I -- Holy war and empire : Fu Manchu in Cairo -- The publishing explosion and James Bond -- Secular jihad : international terrorism and economic destabilization -- The American crusade against terror -- Jihad, the apocalypse, and back again.…”
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Pious pro-family rhetoric postures and paradoxes in philosophical perspective / by Newman, Jay, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…The pro-family crusade in cultural context -- Specimens of conservative pro-family rhetoric -- Religion and family values in the culture war -- Progressivist alternatives and responses -- Theological misgivings about pious pro-family rhetoric -- Concerns about authenticity -- Pious pro-family rhetoric and the sign language of the emotions.…”
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Undercover Reporting : The Truth About Deception / by Kroeger, Brooke, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Reporting slavery -- Virtual enslavement -- Predators -- Hard labor, hard luck, part one -- Of Jack London and Upton Sinclair -- Hard labor, hard luck, part two -- The color factor -- Undercover under fire -- Sinclair's legatees -- Hard time -- Crusaders and zealots -- Watchdog -- Mirage -- Turkmenistan and beyond.…”
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Undercover Reporting : The Truth About Deception / by Kroeger, Brooke, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Reporting slavery -- Virtual enslavement -- Predators -- Hard labor, hard luck, part one -- Of Jack London and Upton Sinclair -- Hard labor, hard luck, part two -- The color factor -- Undercover under fire -- Sinclair's legatees -- Hard time -- Crusaders and zealots -- Watchdog -- Mirage -- Turkmenistan and beyond.…”
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The politics of memory the writing of partition in the seventeenth-century Low Countries / by Esser, Raingard

Table of Contents: “…The jewel in the crown : Amsterdam and her historians -- Tot Lof van Haarlem : memories in competition -- Nijmegen : city of the Batavians -- Antverpiae antiquitatum -- Faded glory : Leuven -- Crusader kings and warrior saints : Geraardsbergen -- Centre and peripheries : Holland, Zeeland, Gelderland, Drenthe and Overijssel and Flanders -- On the border : Brabantia Sacra or Der Staten Brabant.…”
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The politics of memory the writing of partition in the seventeenth-century Low Countries / by Esser, Raingard

Table of Contents: “…The jewel in the crown : Amsterdam and her historians -- Tot Lof van Haarlem : memories in competition -- Nijmegen : city of the Batavians -- Antverpiae antiquitatum -- Faded glory : Leuven -- Crusader kings and warrior saints : Geraardsbergen -- Centre and peripheries : Holland, Zeeland, Gelderland, Drenthe and Overijssel and Flanders -- On the border : Brabantia Sacra or Der Staten Brabant.…”
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Romanticism and the question of the stranger by Simpson, David, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…After 9/11: the ubiquity of others -- Theorizing strangers: a very long romanticism -- Hearth and home: Coleridge, De Quincey, Austen -- Friends and enemies in Walter Scott's crusader novels -- Small print and wide horizons -- Strange words: the call to translation -- Hands across the ocean: slavery and sociability -- Strange women.…”
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Romanticism and the question of the stranger by Simpson, David, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…After 9/11: the ubiquity of others -- Theorizing strangers: a very long romanticism -- Hearth and home: Coleridge, De Quincey, Austen -- Friends and enemies in Walter Scott's crusader novels -- Small print and wide horizons -- Strange words: the call to translation -- Hands across the ocean: slavery and sociability -- Strange women.…”
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Socialist joy in the writing of Langston Hughes by Scott, Jonathan, 1968-

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Socialist joy in the writing of Langston Hughes by Scott, Jonathan, 1968-

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Steadfast in the faith the life of Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle / by MacGregor, Morris J., 1931-

Table of Contents: “…A Scranton childhood -- A curate's education -- Catholic charities -- Other duties as assigned -- An organization man -- Pomp and circumstance -- Learning on the job -- Fighting Jim Crow -- A capital pulpit -- The measure of the man -- Vatican II -- A fretful man -- A civil rights crusader -- State in fide -- "What'll they think of next?" …”
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Steadfast in the faith the life of Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle / by MacGregor, Morris J., 1931-

Table of Contents: “…A Scranton childhood -- A curate's education -- Catholic charities -- Other duties as assigned -- An organization man -- Pomp and circumstance -- Learning on the job -- Fighting Jim Crow -- A capital pulpit -- The measure of the man -- Vatican II -- A fretful man -- A civil rights crusader -- State in fide -- "What'll they think of next?" …”
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The irrational atheist dissecting the unholy trinity of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens / by Day, Vox

Table of Contents: “…A pride of atheists -- Defining science -- The case against science -- The religion of reason -- Sam Tzu and the art of war -- The war delusion -- The end of Sam Harris -- Darwin's Judas -- A Marxian Apostate -- The pragmatic philosopher -- The Robespierre of atheism -- Hitler, the inquisition, the crusades, and human sacrifice -- The red hand of atheism -- Occam's chainsaw -- Master of puppets or game designer? …”
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The irrational atheist dissecting the unholy trinity of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens / by Day, Vox

Table of Contents: “…A pride of atheists -- Defining science -- The case against science -- The religion of reason -- Sam Tzu and the art of war -- The war delusion -- The end of Sam Harris -- Darwin's Judas -- A Marxian Apostate -- The pragmatic philosopher -- The Robespierre of atheism -- Hitler, the inquisition, the crusades, and human sacrifice -- The red hand of atheism -- Occam's chainsaw -- Master of puppets or game designer? …”
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Human rights at the UN the political history of universal justice / by Normand, Roger, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…First expressions of human rights ideas -- The decline of human rights between World Wars -- The human rights crusade in World War II -- Human rights politics in the United Nations charter -- Laying the human rights foundation -- The universal declaration of human rights -- The human rights covenants -- The human rights of special groups -- The right to development -- Human rights after the Cold War.…”
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