Search Results - "Libération"

Victory in defeat the Wake Island defenders in captivity, 1941-1945 / by Urwin, Gregory J. W., 1955-

Table of Contents: “…"Issue in doubt" : the siege of Wake Island -- "The emperor has ... presented you with your lives" : the shock of capture -- "Very odd people indeed" : the first twenty-four hours in captivity -- "The Japanese continue to treat us with respect" : a deceptively gentle transition to POW life -- "A real hell ship" : from Wake Island to Yokohama on the Nitta Maru -- "Never had I felt so desolate or so weary" : from murder at sea to despair on land -- "The most painful days we spent in prison camp" : hitting bottom at Woosung -- "The Japanese Army ... will improve your conditions" : turning the corner at Woosung -- "Without Red Cross help ... we would never have pulled through" : the impact of outside aid -- "I thought they handled themselves reasonably well" : Japanese-POW relations at Woosung -- "You God damn Americans don't understand anything" : strains, outrages, and departures -- "This camp is the best one that the Japs have" : a new commandant and a new camp -- A hellacious damn deal till we finished" : pushed to the edge on Mount Fuji -- "Optimism ... is running high" : hope revives at Kiangwan -- "The pleasure of raising our flag over the enemy's homeland" : to Japan and liberation -- "98 US PW, 5-10-43" : the Wake Island diaspora, 1942-1945 -- "We had a bond there that's still going" : why so many came home.…”
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Criticism of theology on Marxism and theology III / by Boer, Roland, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…The Alchemy of Michael Löwy -- Elective affinities -- Emergence -- Untidy corners and sexy dialectics -- Liberation theology -- Roman-Catholic social teaching -- The ontological reserve -- One or many? …”
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African scholars and intellectuals in North American academies : reflections on exile and migration /

Table of Contents: “…IDENTITY, HOPE, AND ASPIRATIONS -- Post independence African scholars and the second liberation struggle -- On scholarship and the hyphenated African identity adaugo -- The fallacy of unity between Africans and the African Americans -- The invisible minority: Accented speaker and upward mobility in the workplace.…”
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The legacies of two world wars European societies in the twentieth century /

Table of Contents: “…: the Hague peace conferences as a limited tool for reforming the international system before 1914 / Jost D�ulffer -- "The spirit of 1914" : a critical examination of war enthusiasm in German society / Gerhard Hirschfeld -- Construction and deconstruction of the idea of French "war enthusiasm" in 1914 / Nicolas Beaupr�e -- The mood in Britain, 1914 / Hartmut von Pogge Strandmann -- The First World War in the history of the Weimar Republic / Gerd Krumreich -- Fascism and legacy of the Great War / Angelo Ventrone -- The French desire for peace and security in the 1920's / Jean-Claude Allain -- Britain in the wake in the Great War / Jay Winter -- Germany : war without public backing / Hans Mommsen -- The French entry into the war in September 1939 : between reluctans and resignation / Barbara Lambauer -- Great Britain : declaring war as a matter of honour / Lothar Kettenacker -- Disillusionment, pragmatism, indifference : German society after the "catastrophe" / Clemens Vollnhals -- The French after 1945 : difficulties and disappointments of an immediate post-war period / Fabrice Grenard -- Great Britain : remembering a just war (1945-1950) / Toby Haggith -- Italy after 1945 : war and peace, defeat and liberation / Gustavo Corni.…”
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Policemen of the Tsar : Local Police in an Age of Upheaval / by Abbott, Robert J. (Robert James), 1945-

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The African National Congress and the Regeneration of Political Power / by Booysen, Susan

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Queer Words, Queer Images : Communication and the Construction of Homosexuality /

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Re-forming capitalism institutional change in the German political economy / by Streeck, Wolfgang, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…. -- Systemic change : five parallel trajectories -- From system to process -- Endogenous change : time, age, and the self-undermining of institutions -- Time's up : positive externalities turning negative -- Disorganization as liberalization -- Convergence, non-convergence, divergence -- "Economizing'' and the evolution of political-economic institutions -- Internationalization -- German unification -- History -- Bringing capitalism back in.…”
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To shake their guns in the tyrant's face libertarian political violence and the origins of the militia movement / by Churchill, Robert H.

Table of Contents: “…The precedent of 1774: the role of insurgent violence in the political theory of the founding -- The revolution as living memory: Fries' Rebellion and The Alien and Sedition Act crisis of 1798-1800 -- The libertarian memory of the revolution in the Antebellum Era -- The roots of modern patriotism: conscription, resistance, and the Sons of Liberty conspiracy of 1864 -- Cleansing the memory of the revolution: Americanism, the black legion, and the first Brown Scare -- The making of the second Brown Scare: liberal pluralism and the evolution of the white supremacist right -- The origins of the militia movement: violence and memory on the suburban-rural frontier -- An exploration of militia ideology: the Whig diagnosis of post-Cold War America -- Epilogue: the defense of liberty in the age of terror.…”
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Spinoza and the stoics power, politics and the passions / by DeBrabander, Firmin

Table of Contents: “…The foundation of perfectionism -- Pantheism and determinism -- Vital endeavor and the ground of virtue -- The diagnosis of the passions -- A this-worldly salvation -- Psychotherapy and virtue -- 'What is in my power to do' -- Agreeing with nature -- The sociality of virtue -- A. spinoza's critique of perfectionism -- 'Nothing is more advantageous to man than man' -- Sociality and the diffusion of enlightenment -- Stoic political reason -- Cosmopolis and political duty -- The predicament of politics -- The apotheosis of the free man -- Reason of state -- State of nature, nature of state -- Political right and the most natural state -- The highest form of devotion -- Spinoza's liberalism -- The philosopher in the state -- Christ, the Apostles and Solomon : models of public philosophers? …”
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Fertility and Jewish law feminist perspectives on orthodox responsa literature / by Irshai, Ronit

Table of Contents: “…Artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, and surrogacy in liberal and radical feminist approaches -- Chapt. 6. …”
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Economic and political reform in Africa : anthropological perspectives / by Little, Peter D.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : what it means to be "reformed" -- "They think we can manufacture crops" : contract farming and the nontraditional commodity business -- "Everybody is a petty trader" : peri-urban trade in postconflict Maputo, Mozambique -- "We now milk elephants" : the community conservation business in rural Kenya -- "They are beating us over the head with democracy" : multiparty elections in rural Kenya -- "The government is always telling us what to think" : narratives of food aid dependence in rural Ethiopia -- "Counting the poor" : the politics of pastoralist poverty assessments in Kenya -- "A sort of free business" : hyper-liberalization and Somali transnationalism -- Conclusions : rethinking encounters and reformist narratives.…”
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The Yoruba diaspora in the Atlantic world

Table of Contents: “…Magbaily Fyle -- Liberated slaves and Islam in nineteenth-century West Africa / Gibril R. …”
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Key concepts of Romanian history alternative approaches to socio-political languages /

Table of Contents: “…: the evolution of socio-political concepts and alternative interpretations / Victor Neumann -- On the process of writing the history of Romania : methodological issues / Armin Heinen -- Some reflections on historical semantics, political modernity and Romanian history (1780-1939) / Alexandre Escudier -- The concept of patriotism in Romanian culture / Klaus Bochmann -- Romanian liberalism (1821-1866) / Keith Hitchins -- Democracy, democratic, democratization / Wim van Meurs -- The concept of progress : the fraught relation between liberalism and state intervention / Angela Harre -- The concept of property in Romania's economic-legal history / Dietmar Müller -- The notion of Europe from the perspective of Romanian historical studies / Hans Christian Maner -- Images of Europe : images of Romania (1945/1948-2008) / Armin Heinen -- The concept of constitution in the history of Romanian legal thought / Edda Binder Iijima -- The concept of national style in artistic historiography : asserting a critical vocabulary / Ruxandra Demetrescu -- The conceptualization of national character in the Romanian intellectual tradition / Balázs Trencsényi -- Neam (Romanian for kin) and popor (Romanian for people) : the notions of Romanian ethno-centrism / Victor Neumann -- The concept of totalitarianism in Romanian socio-political languages / Victor Neumann -- Transition, transitions : the conceptualization of change in Romanian culture / Mirela-Luminita Murgescu, Bogdan Murgescu -- The history of politics as a dispute around the concepts of politics, statesman political person, politician / Armin Heinen -- Summary : key-concepts of Romanian history : alternative approaches to socio-political languages / Victor Neumann, Armin Heinen.…”
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How capitalism was built the transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia / by Åslund, Anders, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Liberalization of foreign trade. Labor market policy. …”
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Cooperative collegial democracy for Africa and multi-ethnic societies democracy without tears / by Ezeani, Emefiena

Table of Contents: “…-- Centripetalism : a competitive model of democracy -- Consociationalism : a quasi-cooperative model of democracy -- Democracy in pre-colonial and post-colonial Africa -- Ethnicity, religion, the judiciary and liberal democracy in a multi-ethnic society -- Godfatherism, privatisation of the state and diminution of political space -- Giovanni Sartori : political parties, party-less state and competitive democracy -- The unanswered national questions and the party model of democracy -- The party system and some specific issues -- Voting under the veil of ignorance and the belief in the people's power -- Cooperative collegial democracy : a workable model for Africa and multi-ethnic societies -- Epilogue : corruption and democracy : learning from the Nigerian experience.…”
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Culture, development and social theory : towards an integrated social development / by Clammer, J. R.

Table of Contents: “…Transforming the discourse of development: culture, suffering and human futures ; On cultural studies and the place of culture in development ; Aid, culture and context ; Liberating development from itself: the politics of indigenous knowledge. -- Part II. …”
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Italian critics of capitalism

Table of Contents: “…The transformation of democracy and the plutocratic cycle / Vilfredo Pareto -- The mystification of capitalism / Guglielmo Ferrero -- Economy of competition and historical capitalism / Luigi Einaudi -- The revolution against capital and the crisis of the capitalist system / Antonio Gramsci -- Liberal socialism and modern capitalist society / Carlo Rosselli -- The reform of society in the European perspective / Ernesto Rossi -- Capital / Bruno Rizzi -- The autonomous order of economy / Adriano Olivetti -- The economic and political powers in the capitalistic system / Amintore Fanfani -- The future of democracy and capitalism / Norberto Bobbio -- The capitalist actors and their social role / Franco Ferrarotti -- Toward a new critique of capitalism / Luciano Pellicani -- Rethinking democracy in the age of globalization / Carlo Mongardini.…”
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After the "Speculative Turn": Realism, Philosophy, and Feminism /

Table of Contents: “…Preface : after the "speculative turn" / Katerina Kolozova -- Philosophy, sexism, emotion, rationalism / Nina Power -- The other woman / Katherine Behar -- Liberer epistemologiquement le feminisme / Anne-Françoise Schmid -- Notes for And they were dancing / Patricia Ticineto Clough -- No : Foucault / Joan Copjec -- Thinking WithOut / Jelisaveta Blagojević -- Who is the other woman in the context of transfeminist, transmigrant, and transgender struggles in global capitalism? …”
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That's all folks? ecocritical readings of American animated features / by Murray, Robin L.

Table of Contents: “…Bug Goes to Town: nature with or without us -- Animal liberation in the 1940s and 1950s: what Disney does for the animal rights movement -- The UPA and the environment: a modernist look at urban nature -- Animation and live action: a demonstration of interdependence? …”
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