Search Results - "Libération"

The urban voter group conflict and mayoral voting behavior in American cities / by Kaufmann, Karen M., 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Constructing a theory of local voting behavior -- Group interest theory and local elections -- From rioting to Watergate: Los Angeles, 1969 and 1973 -- Tough enough to turn L.A. around :Los Angeles, 1973 to 1993 -- Vote your hopes, not your fears : New York, 1965 to 1993 -- Racial conflict and retrospective voting -- Down but not out : A liberal revival in 2001 -- Changing urban politics in the new millennium.…”
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A local habitation and a name imagining histories in the Italian renaissance / by Ascoli, Albert Russell, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Ventoux' -- Boccaccio's Auerbach: holding the mirror up to mimesis -- Pyrrhus's rules: playing with power in Boccaccio's Decameron -- Petrarch's private politics: Familiares, book 19 -- Machiavelli's gift of counsel -- Ariosto's 'Fier pastor': form and history in Orlando Furioso -- Ericthonius's secret: body politics in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso -- Clizia's histories -- Liberating the tomb: difference and death in Gerusalemme Liberata.…”
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Human rights and African airwaves mediating equality on the Chichewa radio / by Englund, Harri

Table of Contents: “…Rights and wrongs on the radio -- Obligations to dogs : between liberal and illiberal analytics -- Against the occult : journalists and scholars in search of alternatives -- The ethos of equality. …”
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Enlightenment and revolution : the making of modern Greece / by Kitromilides, Paschalis

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to the American edition -- Prologue : the political meaning of the Enlightenment -- The long road to Enlightenment -- The formation of modern Greek historical consciousness -- The geography of civilization : from adulation to revolution -- Enlightened absolutism as a path to change -- Ancients and moderns : cultural criticism and the origins of republicanism -- The revolution in France: the glow and the shadow -- The Enlightenment's political alternative -- The Enlightenment as social criticism -- The republican synthesis : a matrix for nationalism -- The fate of the enlightenment -- Epilogue : the conditions of liberal politics.…”
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From stress to growth : strengthening Asia's financial systems in a post-crisis world /

Table of Contents: “…Financing productivity- and innovation-led growth in developing Asia : international lessons and policy issues -- China : maintaining financial stability amidst financial liberalization -- Bank stress tests and financial stability : lessons from the 2009-14 U.S. and EU-wide tests for Asian emerging economies -- The financial sector and growth in emerging Asian economies -- Financial development and output growth in developing Asia and Latin America : a comparative sectoral analysis.…”
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An introduction to the Unitarian and Universalist traditions by Greenwood, Andrea, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: 1. Liberal religion and the foundations of the Unitarian and Universalist faiths; 2. …”
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The Idea of Democracy in the Modern Era / by Ketcham, Ralph, 1927-

Table of Contents: “…Prospects for government in 1989 -- Aristotelian and Confucian insights -- Tensions of Citizenship: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam -- The first era of modern thought, ca. 1600-1750 -- The United States and first modernity democracy -- The second modernity: from Bentham to Dewey -- Liberal democracy in the twentieth century -- Second modernity thought in Japan and China -- An Asian third modernity -- Postmodernism and a fourth modernity democracy -- Comparing rationales for democracy -- The idea of democracy in the third millennium.…”
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Understanding Ukrainian politics power, politics, and institutional design / by D'Anieri, Paul J., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Institutions and democracy : questioning the connections -- Power and institutions : overview of the argument -- The evolution of Ukrainian politics 1989-2004 -- Societal divisions and the challenge of liberal democracy in Ukraine -- The constitution and executive-legislative relations -- The electoral law : cause or effect of weak parties? …”
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Economic globalization and Asia essays on finance, trade, and taxation / by Rajan, Ramkishen S.

Table of Contents: “…Economic globalization and small and open economies -- International capital flows and regional contagion -- Liquidity enhancing measures and monetary cooperation in East Asia -- Choosing the right exchange rate regime for small and open economies in East Asia -- The nexus between trade liberalization and poverty in Asia -- India's decade long trade reforms -- Singapore's drive to form cross-regional trade pacts --International trade in infrastructural services in East Asia -- Economic globalization and taxation.…”
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Making marriage work a history of marriage and divorce in the twentieth-century United States / by Celello, Kristin

Table of Contents: “…Keeping women on the marital job in war and peace -- They learned to love again : marriage saving in the 1950s -- Radical feminists, liberated housewives, and total women : searching for the future of marriage, 1963-1980 -- Super marital sex and the second shift : new work for wives in the 1980s and 1990s -- Epilogue: still working.…”
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Critical essays on Dagaaba rhetoric by Naaeke, Anthony Y., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…The Dagaaba of Ghana -- The cultural relevance of myth: a reader-response analysis of the Bagre myth with reference to the role and place of women in the Dagaaba society -- African art and persuasion: the rhetoric of the bera among the Dagaaba of Ghana -- Consolatory rhetoric: persuasion in Dagaaba funeral rituals and symbolic action -- Dismantling fear and establishing ethos: missionary activity as persuasion -- Breaking the silence on domestic violence: communication for development in northwestern Ghana -- Liberating the "mistress" in Africa: the prophetic role of development communication.…”
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Children, ethics, and modern medicine by Miller, Richard B.

Table of Contents: “…-- Ericka's sepsis, Lia's convulsions, and cultural differences -- (Properly) marginalized altruism: screening organ donations from strangers -- The politics and ethics of a hospital ethics committee -- Ethical issues in pediatric research -- Conclusion: on liberal care.…”
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Domesticity and dissent in the seventeenth-century English women writers and the public sphere / by Gillespie, Katharine

Table of Contents: “…"Born of the mother's seed": liberalism, feminism, and religious separatism -- 2. …”
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Queering freedom by Winnubst, Shannon

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The seduction of freedom -- Demarcating the space of domination : the politics of freedom -- Liberalism's neutral individual : delimiting racial and sexual difference -- Is the mirror racist? …”
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America's Asia racial form and American literature, 1893-1945 / by Lye, Colleen, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…/ the specter of "cheap farmers" and alien land law fiction -- A new deal for Asians / John Steinbeck, Carey McWilliams, and the liberalism of Japanese-American internment -- One world / Pearl S. …”
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Believing scholars ten Catholic intellectuals /

Table of Contents: “…Colish -- Catholicism and human rights / Mary Ann Glendon -- A feeling for hierarchy / Mary Douglas -- My life as a "woman" : editing the world / Margaret O'Brien Steinfels -- Liberal Catholicism reexamined / Peter Steinfels -- The faith of a theologian / Avery Cardinal Dulles.…”
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The last great Senate by Shapiro, Ira S., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…The grind -- The natural -- Great expectations, different agendas -- Hawk and Dove -- The appearance of impropriety -- The liberal filibuster -- A year of living dangerously -- The Panama Canal battle -- Venturing into the Middle East -- Business vs. labor -- Saving New York -- Closing days -- Before the storm -- After the Iranian Revolution -- Fighting the economic tide -- SALT II: death by a thousand cuts -- A tough political climate -- Battling over America's last frontier -- Fighting to survive -- The lame duck session.…”
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Reclaiming divine wrath a history of a Christian doctrine and its interpretation / by Murray, Stephen Butler

Table of Contents: “…The biblical accounts concerning divine wrath: the Old Testament, the inter-testamental period,and the New Testament -- The development of a Christian theology of divine wrath: from early Christian apologists to the medieval theologians -- The development of Protestant considerations of divine wrath: the era of the reformations -- Divine wrath amidst the rise of evangelicalism and liberal theology: from Wesley to Ritschl -- Divine wrath in the twentieth century: theological proponents and opponents to the wrath of God -- Reclaiming divine wrath: an apologetics for contemporary Christian theology and preaching.…”
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Fictions of dignity embodying human rights in world literature / by Anker, Elizabeth S. (Elizabeth Susan), 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : constructs by which we live -- Bodily integrity and its exclusions -- Embodying human rights : toward a phenomenology of social justice -- Constituting the liberal subject of rights : Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children -- Women's rights and the lure of self-determination in Nawal el Saadawi's Woman at point zero -- J.M. …”
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War, states, and contention : a comparative historical study / by Tarrow, Sidney G.

Table of Contents: “…War, states, and contention -- War and movements in the building of new states -- A movement-state goes to war: France, 1789-799 -- A movement makes war: civil war and reconstruction -- A war makes movements: the strange death of liberal Italy -- Endless wars -- From statist war to composite wars -- Wars at home, 1917-1975 -- The war at home, 2001-2013 -- The American state of terror -- Contesting hegemony -- Internationalization and contention -- The dark side of internationalism.…”
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