Search Results - "Libération"

The vulnerability of cities natural disasters and social resilience / by Pelling, Mark, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Maintaining Civil Society in a Liberal Democracy: Bridgetown, Barbados -- 6. Post-socialism and Barriers to Building a Civil Society: Georgetown, Guyana -- 7. …”
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Law without nations

Table of Contents: “…: the ongoing Jewish discussion / Suzanne Last Stone -- Western imperialism and Islamic law / Margaret Kohn -- Ethnic cleansing, genocides and gross violations of human rights : the state versus humanitarian law / Elazar Barkan -- Geertz's challenge : robust cultural pluralism in a liberal multinational empire / Richard A. Shweder.…”
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China's regulatory state a new strategy for globalization / by Hsueh, Roselyn, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Liberalization two-step : understanding state control of the economy -- China's strategy for international integration : the logic of reregulation -- Telecommunications and textiles : two patterns of state control -- Consolidating central control of telecommunications in the pre-WTO era -- State-owned carriers and centrally led reregulation of telecommunications in the WTO era -- Dismantling central control of textiles in the pre-WTO era -- Sector associations and locally led reregulation of textiles in the WTO era -- Deliberate reinforcement in strategic industries -- Decentralized engagement in nonstrategic industries -- China's development model : a new strategy for globalization.…”
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Labour law and worker protection in developing countries

Table of Contents: “…Labour law and worker protection in the South: an evolving tension between models and reality / Tzehainesh Teklè -- The effectiveness of labour law and decent work aspirations in the developing countries: a framework for analysis / Rachid Filati Meknassi -- Trade liberalization, labour law, and development: a contextualization / Adelle Blackett -- Labour law in Latin America: the gap between norms and reality / Graciela Bensusán -- Labour law: a southern African perspective / Colin Fenwick, Evance Kalula, and Ingrid Landau -- Labour law in South Asia: the need for an inclusive approach / Kamala Sankaran.…”
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A history of Ireland, 1800-1922 : theatres of disorder? / by Larkin, Hilary

Table of Contents: “…Forging the union -- Dawn of a new century -- Catholic mobilisations -- The achievement of emancipation -- Ireland under whig government -- The campaign for repealing union -- The Age of Peel -- Explaining the famine -- Response to famine -- Post-famine Ireland -- Mid-Victorian Ireland -- Gladstoneøs first mission -- Parnell and the Land League -- The Irish liberals: a union of hearts? -- Constructive unionism, 1886-1906 -- Celtic renaissance -- The story of Irish socialism -- The home rule crisis -- World war and insurrection -- The rise of Sinn Fèin -- The Anglo-Irish War -- North and south settlements -- Conclusion.…”
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Whose Detroit? : politics, labor, and race in a modern American city / by Thompson, Heather Ann, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Beyond racial polarization: political complexity in the city and labor movement of the 1950s -- Optimism and crisis in the new liberal metropolis -- Driving desperation on the auto shop floor -- Citizens, politicians, and the escalating war for Detroit's civic future -- Workers, officials, and the escalating war for Detroit's labor future -- From battles on city streets to clashes in the courtroom -- From fights for union office to wildcats in the workplace -- Urban realignment and labor retrenchment: an end to Detroit's war at home -- Conclusion: civic transformation and labor movement decline in postwar urban America -- Epilogue.…”
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Crazy funny : popular black satire and the method of madness / by Guerrero, Lisa

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: black raving mad -- "When keeping it real goes wrong": Dave Chappelle, melancholia, and the phenomenology of race -- "The new millennium minstrel show": unmasking blackface and black madness in Spike Lee's Bamboozled -- "The emancipation disintegration": suicidal ideation and black liberation in Paul Beatty's The white boy shuffle -- "I am not myself today…”
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Modernity and the dilemma of North American Anglican identities, 1880-1950 by Katerberg, William H. (William Henry), 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Manning: Apostolic Order and Evangelical Truth -- 7 Anglicanism in North America, 1920-1950 -- 8 Carl Eckhardt Grammer: Things That Remain in Liberal Anglicanism -- 9 Henry John Cody: Modernity and Mediating Anglicanism -- lo Conclusion: The Modern Project, Fragmentation, and Anglican Identity.…”
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Recognizing religion in a secular society essays in pluralism, religion, and public policy /

Table of Contents: “…Religion in the public realm / El Hassan Bin Talal -- Freedom of religion and the rule of law : a Canadian perspective / Beverly McLachlin, Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Religion and the limits of liberal democracy / William Galston -- Human dignity and the social contract / David Novak -- Persons, politics, and a Catholic understanding of human rights / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Considering secularism / Iain T. …”
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Naming evil, judging evil

Table of Contents: “…Peter Euben -- Evil and the morality of conviction / David Wong -- Combining clarity and complexity : a layered approach to cross-cultural ethics / Elizabeth Kiss -- Liberal dilemmas and moral judgment / Malachi Hacohen -- Between bigotry and nihilism : moral judgment in pluralist democracies / Thomas A. …”
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Freedom's prophet Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black founding fathers / by Newman, Richard S.

Table of Contents: “…I will not rest" -- Gospel labors -- The year of the fever, part 1 : a (deceptively) simple narrative of the Black people -- The year of the fever, part 2 : Allen's antislavery appeal -- "We participate in common" : Allen's role as a Black mediator -- A liberating theology : establishing the AME Church -- Stay or go : Allen and African colonization -- Allen challenged : shadow politics and community conflict in the 1820s -- A Black founders' expanding visions -- Last rights -- Conclusion: Richard Allen and the soul of Black reform.…”
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Rebellion now and forever Mayas, Hispanics, and caste war violence in Yucatán, 1800-1880 / by Rugeley, Terry, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the caste war uncrossed -- Men newly powerful : how Pueblo politics became a caste war -- The extremes of death or triumph : a society goes to war, 1847-1851 -- Nothing more than a new conquest : a world catches its breath -- The roar of a terrible tempest : liberal reform and the civil wars, 1855-1863 -- The empire comes to Mayab -- A world (mostly) restored : the paradoxes of the republic -- Peace, Porfirian-style : East meets West, and a people contort the past -- Conclusion : violence and the ghost of Santiago Imán.…”
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Managing world order United Nations peace operations and the security agenda / by Al-Qaq, Richard Kareem

Table of Contents: “…United Nations peace operations and world order : a reappraisal of purposes and practices, 1948-87 -- Defining the work of the United Nations : from the challenge of third world activism to a resurgent western security agenda -- Reorienting the United Nations after the Cold War : the advance of peace operations -- United Nations misadventures in Somalia : militarised liberal internationalism in the early 1990s -- Post-colonial Rwanda and United Nations conveyance operations : from trusteeship to regime change -- Manufacturing peace in Angola : the Lusaka Protocols and the standard of UN peace operations -- Managing world order on the periphery.…”
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City for empire an Anchorage history, 1914-1941 / by Jones, Preston, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Loussac -- Inside -- Interlude: Mikami family photographs -- Outside -- Transition -- Appendix: Alaska's new era; New conditions; Anchorage; The Japanese menace; Applies to Resurrection Bay; Alaskans form type; Loussac's daily gossip; "The orphan's complaint"; Natives and World War One; Sons of Japan living here; Liberal in all patriotic movements; Immigration; No room for job hunters; Eklutna Industrial School; Civilization is menaced by Spanish savagery; A message from the Kimura family; Good advice.…”
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Authorizing Shakespeare on film and television gender, class, and ethnicity in adaptation / by Pittman, L. Monique, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : gestures that authorize -- Adaptations of the father: paternal authority goes imperial in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet and As you like it -- The liberal-humanist Shakespeare in Michael Radford's The merchant of Venice: Ethnic tolerance and the Portia problem -- Deep-fried American dream: class striving under the heat lamp in Scotland, Pa. -- Teen Shakespeare and the trouble with gender: 10 things I hate about you and She's the man -- The Bard and the beeb : televisual authority and Shakespeare retold -- Tracing Hamlet in slings and arrows: Fathers haunt the theater -- It's not tv, it's Shakespeare: literary-historical adaptation in HBO's Rome.…”
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Edmund Burke in America the contested career of the father of modern conservatism / by Maciag, Drew, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Adams : federalist persuasions -- Democratic America : the ethos of liberalism -- American Whigs : a conservative response -- The Gilded Age : eclectic interpretations -- Theodore Roosevelt : blazing forward, looking backward -- Woodrow Wilson : confronting American maturity -- Modern times : conjunctions and consensus -- Natural law : a neo-traditionalist revival -- The Cold War : existential threat redux -- Contemporary conservatives : victories and illusions -- Conclusion : a world without fathers.…”
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Gods and goddesses in ancient Italy /

Table of Contents: “…; 2 In the name of Diana Feronia and other Italic goddesses in their sacred landscape; 3 Getting to know Diana; 4 Beyond Rome: the cult of Vesta in Latium; 5 The God Castor at Rome: form, function, and cult; 6 Loufir/Liber at the crossroads of religious cultures in Pompeii (third-second centuries BC); 7 Śuri et al.: a 'chthonic' Etruscan face of Apollon?…”
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Beyond Alliances : The Jewish Role in Reshaping the Racial Landscape of Southern California /

Table of Contents: “…Soliz, Rosland Wiener Wyman and the transformation of Jewish liberalism in cold war Los Angeles -- Max Felker-Kantor, Fighting many battles: Max Mont, labor, and interracial civil rights activism in Los Angeles, 1950-1970 -- About the contributors -- About the USC Casden Institute..…”
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New directions in American reception study

Table of Contents: “…Roemer -- Richard Wright's Native son: from naturalist protests to modernist liberation and beyond / Philip Goldstein -- Main street reading Main street / Amy L. …”
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King Hussein of Jordan a political life / by Ashton, Nigel John

Table of Contents: “…The tragedy of King Talal -- Breaking the British connection, 1953-6 -- To hold a throne, 1956-7 -- A dynasty under threat, 1957-61 -- Arab Cold War and détente, 1962-6 -- The path to disaster, 1966-7 -- Lost in a sandstorm: Hussein and the peace process, 1967-8 -- 'Seven questions of Israel': the September 1970 crisis -- The October war -- Disengagement and disillusionment, 1973-7 -- The Camp David disaster, 1977-9 -- The Iran-Iraq war, 1980-88 -- Fishing in the Dead Sea: King Hussein and the peace process, 1980-89 -- Between Iraq and a hard place: King Hussein and the Gulf Crisis, 1990-91 -- From Madrid to Oslo: King Hussein and the peace process, 1991-3 -- The best of enemies, the best of friends: Hussein, Rabin and the Jordanian, Israeli peace treaty -- The bitter aftertaste of peace -- The liberation of Iraq, 1995-7 -- A destiny fulfilled?…”
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