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Workers' Struggles, Past and Present : A "Radical America" Reader /

Table of Contents: “…The demand for black labor: historical notes on the political economy of racism -- Four decades of change: black workers in Southern Textiles, 1941-1981 -- The stop watch and the wooden shoe: scientific management and the industrial workers of the world -- "The clerking sisterhood": rationalization and the work culture of saleswomen in American department stores, 1890-1960 -- Sexual harassment at the workplace: historical notes -- "Union fever"; organizing among clerical workers, 1900-1930 -- Organizing the unemployed: the early years of the Great Depression, 1929-1933 -- The possibility of radicalism in the early 1930s: the case of steel -- A. …”
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Crisis, politics and critical sociology

Table of Contents: “…Pittman -- Teletechnology and internal dialogue / Gordon Gauchat and Casey Borch -- On surveillance as a solution to security issues / Vida Bajc -- The political economy of school violence in Trinidad : towards a Caribbean theory of youth crime / Daphne Phillips.…”
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Queerying planning challenging heteronormative assumptions and reframing planning practice /

Table of Contents: “…Anacker -- Queerying planning in Australia : the problems and possibilities of multiscalar governance for LGBT sexual minorities / Andrew Gorman-Murray -- Queering the political-economy : antidiscrimination law and the urban regime in Orlando, Florida / Tom Chapman -- Queerying creative cities / Tiffany Muller Myrdahl -- Planning for sex/work / Phil Hubbard -- Queerying urban governance : the emergence of sex industry premises into the planned city / Jason Prior and Penny Crofts -- Reflections on classic articles on planning and LGBT communities -- Reflections on "toward an analysis of the role of gay communities in the urban renaissance" / Mickey Lauria and Larry Knopp -- Revisiting "gender and space : lesbians and gay men in the city" / Sy Adler and Johanna Brenner -- The heterosexist project of planning revisited / Michael Frisch -- Conclusions and reflections for the future : reframing planning practice / Petra L. …”
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Beyond Wari walls regional perspectives on Middle Horizon Peru /

Table of Contents: “…Conlee -- The Wari footprint on the central coast : a view from Cajamarquilla and Pachacamac / Rafael Segura Llanos and Izumi Shimada -- What role did Wari play in the Lima political economy? : the Peruvian central coast at the beginning of the Middle Horizon / Giancarlo Marcone F. -- The Wari state, its use of ancestors, rural hinterland, and agricultural infrastructure / Frank Meddens and Nicholas Branch -- Piecing together the middle : the Middle Horizon in the Norte Chico / Kit Nelson, Nathan Craig, and Manuel Perales -- Contextualizing the Wari-Huamachuco relationship / Theresa Lange Topic and John R. …”
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The dual state parapolitics, Carl Schmitt and the national security complex /

Table of Contents: “…The concept of the parapolitical / Eric Wilson -- State-corporate globalization and the rise and demise of the new deal world order / Tom Reifer -- Capitalism, covert action and state-terrorism: toward a political economy of the dual state / Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed -- "America is addicted to oil": U.S. secret warfare and dwindling oil reserves in the context of peak oil and 9/11 / Daniele Ganser -- Researching parapolitics: replication, qualitative research, and social science methodology / David N. …”
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Development Policies and Policy Processes in Africa Modeling and Evaluation /

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Capital mobility and distributional conflict in Chile, South Korea, and Turkey / by Gemici, Kurtuluş

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A history of Czech economic thought / by Doležalová, Antonie

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Colonial encounters in ancient Iberia Phoenician, Greek, and indigenous relations /

Table of Contents: “…Ex occidente lux: a preface / Michael Dietler and Carolina L�opez-Ruiz -- Theoretical issues and frameworks -- Colonial encounters in Iberia and the western Mediterranean: an exploratory framework / Michael Dietler -- Colonial relations and social change in Iberia (seventh to third centuries bc) / Joan Sanmart�i -- New perspectives on Phoenician and Greek ventures on the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts -- Colonial contacts and protohistoric indigenous urbanism on the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian peninsula / Maria Carme Belarte -- Phoenician colonization on the Atlantic coast of the Iberian peninsula / Ana Marguerida Arruda -- Greeks and the Iberian peninsula: forms of exchange and settlements / Pierre Rouillard -- Plant resources, agrarian practices, and the colonial political economy -- Botanical and archaeological dimensions of the colonial encounter / Ramon Bux�o -- Lumbermen and shipwrights: Phoenicians on the Mediterranean coast of southern Spain / Brigitte Treumann -- The question of Tartessos: a debate reframed -- Phoenicians in Tartessos / Mar�ia Bel�en Deamos -- Precolonization and colonization in the interior of Tartessos / Sebasti�an Celestino P�erez -- Interrogating colonial texts and imagined landscapes -- Tarshish and Tartessos revisited: textual problems and historical implications / Carolina L�opez-Ruiz -- Iberia in the Greek geographical imagination / Javier G�omez Espelos�in -- Colonial encounters in ancient Iberia: a coda.…”
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Governing Water in India : Inequality, Reform, and the State / by Fernandes, Leela

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Oil Wealth and Development in Uganda and Beyond : Prospects, Opportunities, and Challenges

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Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe / by Grashoff, Udo, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Illegal housing: The case for comparison -- 3. Towards a political economy of toleration of illegality: Comparing tolerated squatting in Hong Kong and Paris -- 4. …”
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Theoretical Approaches in Bioarchaeology /

Table of Contents: “…Foreword; Chapter 1 - Theory in Bioarchaeology: An Introduction; Chapter 2 - Embodying Bioarchaeology: Theory and Practice; Chapter 3 - Gender; Chapter 4 - Bioarchaeological Applications of Intersectionality; Chapter 5 - Life Course Approaches and Life History Theory: Synergistic Perspectives for Bioarchaeology; Chapter 6 - Reconstructing Immune Competence in Skeletal Samples: A Theoretical and Methodological Approach; Chapter 7 - Niche Construction Theory in Bioarchaeology; Chapter 8 - Live Through This: Developing a Sustainable Pathway for Resilience Theory in Bioarchaeological Research; Chapter 9 - Structural Violence and Political Economy: Epistemological Considerations for Bioarchaeology; Chapter 10 - Making Silenced Voices Speak: Restoring Neglected and Ignored Identities in Anatomical Collections; Chapter 11 - Theoretical Approaches to Bioarchaeology: The View from Across the Pond; Chapter 12 - Towards a Bioarchaeology beyond Nature and Culture: Potentials and Possibilities in Contemporary Theoretical Bioarchaeology…”
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The Straits of Malacca gateway or gauntlet? / by Freeman, Donald B.

Table of Contents: “…The geographic importance of the Straits of Malacca -- Monsoonal circulation and revolutions in shipping and navigation -- Economic-geographic concepts of long-distance trade, spatial duopoly, and network structures -- Concepts and perspectives from political economy -- Practical incentives and the organization of early long-distance trade -- Asian-European trading systems in the Greco-Roman era : the beginnings of monsoon trade -- Monsoon trade in the early fifteenth century : the Empire of Melaka (Malacca) and its precursors -- The Portuguese trading system in monsoon Asia -- The Dutch trading system and Hollands' ascendancy in the Straits of Malacca -- The British East India Company trading system -- Contemporary trading systems : Japan, oil, and the Straits of Malacca -- Controlling transit trade : the entrepot of Melaka -- The founding of British Penang (Pulau Pinang) -- The rise of Singapore as a global entrepot -- Changing local hinterlands and products in the straits region : Sumatran trade -- Local trader hinterlands and products on the Malay coast of the straits -- Natural hazards and navigation in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore -- Piracy in the Straits of Malacca and surrounding seas -- Twentieth-century military conflicts in the straits area -- Traffic congestion, hazardous cargoes, and pollution in the straits in the contemporary period -- Twenty-first-century trade and globalization : the Asia-Pacific region -- Emerging roles of the straits in global and regional commerce -- Conclusion.…”
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India and South Asia economic developments in the age of globalization /

Table of Contents: “…South Asia at a glance : a taxonomy of growth challenges / Anjum Siddiqui -- The political economy of South Asia / Edelgard Mahant -- India's economic growth miracle in a global economy : past and future / Baldev Raj -- Twin deficits in South Asian economies : observations and empirical evidence / Ahmed M. …”
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Window on freedom race, civil rights, and foreign affairs, 1945-1988 /

Table of Contents: “…Dudziak -- Antiwar Aztlán : the Chicano movement opposes U.S. intervention in Vietnam / Lorena Oropeza -- From Cold War to global interdependence : the political economy of African American antiapartheid activism, 1968-1988 / Donald R. …”
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Reinventing foreign aid

Table of Contents: “…Making aid work / Abhijit Banerjee and Ruimin He -- Use of randomization in the evaluation of development effectiveness / Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer -- It pays to be ignorant : a simple political economy of rigorous program evaluation / Lant Pritchett -- Solutions when the solution is the problem : arraying the disarray in development / Lant Pritchett and Michael Woolcock -- Donors and service delivery / Ritva Reinikka -- The illusion of sustainability / Michael Kremer and Edward Miguel -- An aid-institutions paradox? …”
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Enlarging the Euro area external empowerment and domestic transformation in East Central Europe /

Table of Contents: “…The Baltic States : using pacesetting on EMU accession to consolidate domestic stability culture / Magnus Feldmann -- From laggard to pacesetter : Bulgaria's road to EMU / Vesselin Dimitrov -- From pacesetter to laggard : the political economy of negotiating fit in the Czech Republic / Frank Bönker -- The first shall be the last? …”
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The Salamanca School by Alves, André Azevedo

Table of Contents: “…-- The political and intellectual context of the School of Salamanca -- The decline of scholasticism -- Some key authors of the School of Salamanca -- Francisco de Vitoria -- Domingo de Soto -- Martín de Azpilcueta -- Diego de Covarrubias y Leya -- Tomás de Mercado -- Bartolomé de las Casas -- Luis de Molina -- Juan de Mariana -- Francisco Suárez -- Critical exposition -- Philosophical and political foundations of the school -- Thomism and natural law -- The European revival of Thomism and the Salamanca School -- Theological political disputes -- Applied political thought -- Individual rights and the common good -- The state and the limits of political power -- Legitimate resistance and tyrannicide -- Church and state -- International law and developments in just war theory -- The ethical and juridical framework of the market -- Private property and trade -- Just price and the subjective theory of value -- Usury and interest -- Theories of banking -- Monetary theory and inflation -- Taxation and public finance -- Reception and influence of the work -- The Salamanca School and the new world -- A revolutionary sermon in Hispaniola -- The social experiments of Bartolomé de las Casas -- Just titles and the disputation between Las Casas and Sepúlveda -- Assessing the legacy of Las Casas and the controversies over the new world -- Theological, political impact, and influence on subsequent authors -- Relevance of the work today -- Political philosophy, law, and history -- Political economy and the ethical foundations of the market -- Contemporary C0atholic social thought -- International relations and war.…”
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Islam and democracy the failure of dialogue in Algeria / by Volpi, Frédéric

Table of Contents: “…Understanding political democratisation at the beginning of the XXI century -- Algeria and the 'third wave' of democratic transitions -- Islam and the 'west' : a clash of ideologies in Algeria -- New political actors for a new international order -- Political ideas and practices in historical perspective -- Genealogies of state power : colonial experiences post colonial dilemmas -- Historical perspectives on Islamic fundamentalist ideology : a pragmatic account -- The Algerian political opening : democratic symbols and authoritarian practices (1988-1991) -- The 1988 October riots : the symbol of a new era -- The Algerian democratic opening : successes and failures -- The 1992 coup d'état and beyond : war as politics through other means (1992-1994) -- The 1992 coup d'état -- The military in control : The repressive option -- The Islamic movement : from political opposition to 'holy' war -- A new authoritarianism : guided democracy versus radical Islam (1995-2000) -- The re-composition of the political field -- Electoral marketing : formal representation and informal authoritarianism -- On the margins of politics : the military and the Islamic guerrillas -- A civil society in transition : survivalist strategies and social protest -- Coping with violence and deprivation : survivalist strategies -- The articulation of social protest : defying the regime -- The international arena : strengths and weaknesses of the new world order -- The political economy of the conflict : the role of international actors -- Algeria as the future of democratisation in the Muslim world -- Exporting the jihad : the internationalisation of radical Islamic actors -- Learning and unlearning to be democratic.…”
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