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In this compelling history of the men and ideas that radically changed the course of world history, Lawrence James investigates and analyzes how, within a hundred years, Europeans persuaded and coerced Africa into becoming a subordinate part of the modern world. His narrative is laced with the experiences of participants and onlookers and introduces the men and women who, for better or worse, stamped their wills on Africa. The continent was a magnet...
83) The Psychology of Christian Nationalism: Why People Are Drawn In and How to Talk Across the Divide
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How do we overcome polarization in American society? How do we advocate for justice when one side won't listen to the other and cycles of outrage escalate?
These questions have been pressing for years, but the events of January 6, 2021, and the emergence of a vocal, virulent Christian nationalism have made it even more urgent that we find a way forward.
For Pamela Cooper-White the path lies in balancing the pastoral and the prophetic. Though often...
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Ireland is suffering from a crisis of authority. Catholic Church scandals, political corruption, and economic collapse have shaken the Irish people's faith in their institutions and thrown the nation's struggle for independence into question. While Declan Kiberd explores how political failures and economic globalization have eroded Irish sovereignty, he also sees a way out of this crisis. After Ireland surveys thirty works by modern writers that speak...
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In "The Power of the Masses: Understanding the Social Psychology of Crowd Behavior," we embark on a captivating journey into the heart of human collective behavior and its profound implications for our society. This thought-provoking book delves deep into the intricate dynamics that unfold when individuals come together as part of a crowd, revealing the hidden forces that shape our collective actions, emotions, and decisions.With compelling insights...
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Most people would be surprised to learn that fewer than 12 of the 193 countries in the world today have a democratic government that has survived for more than fifty years. In this remarkable bestselling book, authors Chris Stewart and Ted Stewart examine seven miracles that changed the course of the world and paved the way for the freedoms of democratic government. The authors take actual historical events and skillfully weave in story vignettes...
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Following the German reunification process in the 1990s, a new movement appeared in Germany. This movement rejected all forms of nationalism, including the desirability and legitimacy of national communities, borders, and the existence of the nation-state itself.
Against the Nation covers the background of this movement-the rise of Neo-Nazism, racist violence, restriction in immigration policies, and growing state power-as well as its urge to organize...
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There is a huge concern in America today that the country is in decline, one of the few sentiments that — nationally — our increasingly polarized political leaders can agree on. Americans fear that the economy and our culture itself are in deep crisis. They are also frustrated that the ruling classes are unable to fix America's problems. Kim R. Holmes' Rebound taps into these concerns, taking a fresh look at how America has moved away from the...
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For six months, Army Captain Matt C. Pinsker was deployed to the Mexican-American border as a member of a unique mission. He and a handful of others were assigned to the Department of Justice as Special Prosecutors to handle the increasing number of immigration cases resulting from President Trump's "zero tolerance" policy.
Once arrived, whether he was out in the field leading investigations or trying cases in the courtroom, Captain Pinsker found...
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Christophe Jaffrelot is director of the Centre d' Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS) in Paris. His books include India's Silent Revolution: The Rise of the Lower Castes in North India.
Hindu nationalism came to world attention in 1998, when the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won national elections in India. Although the BJP was defeated nationally in 2004, it continues to govern large Indian states, and...
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Jan-Werner Müller teaches politics at Princeton University. He is the author of A Dangerous Mind: Carl Schmitt in Post-War European Thought and Another Country: German Intellectuals, Unification and National Identity. He regularly contributes to a number of major European newspapers and magazines.
Constitutional Patriotism offers a new theory of citizenship and civic allegiance for today's culturally diverse liberal democracies. Rejecting conventional...
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A través del análisis de destacados intelectuales, apoyado en un amplio despliegue de imágenes, mapas, gráficos, infografías y cronologías, este Atlas pretende constituir un aporte a la comprensión de un movimiento que se encuentra en el corazón de los dramas nacionales. Para encontrar la síntesis que permita encauzar las pasiones y construir una patria realmente justa, libre y soberana.
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"What begins as an affectionate reminiscence of Mannie Murphy's 1990s teenage infatuation with the late actor River Phoenix -- specifically his role in Gus Van Sant's classic film, My Own Private Idaho -- slowly transforms into a remarkable, sprawling account of the city of Portland and state of Oregon's long and shameful history of white nationalism. Told in the style of an illustrated diary, with wet, blue ink washes, the form reveals the author...
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After the staggering slaughter of back-to-back world wars, the West embraced the ideal of the "open society." The promise: By liberating ourselves from the old attachments to nation, clan, and religion that had fueled centuries of violence, we could build a prosperous world without borders, freed from dogmas and managed by experts.
But the populism and nationalism that are upending politics in America and Europe are a sign that after three generations,...
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John G. Matsusaka is the Charles F. Sexton Chair in American Enterprise at the Marshall School of Business and the Gould School of Law at the University of Southern California, where he also serves as executive director of the Initiative and Referendum Institute. He is the author of For the Many or the Few: The Initiative, Public Policy, and American Democracy and lives in Los Angeles.
How referendums can diffuse populist tensions by putting power...
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A party girl with a broken heart gets pissed off at the teachings of church and society that made her an easy victim of a love gone wrong. The result? This irreverent memoir of her own adventures with sex, religion and politics intertwined with our nation's story of how the right hijacked Jesus, subverting his message of love with one of hate. And then she gives moderates and progressives of all faiths and of no faith a recipe for taking back God,...
98) Indian Home Rule
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Indian Home Rule (1909) is a book by Mahatma Gandhi. Originally written in Gujarati, while the author was traveling from London to South Africa, Indian Home Rule or Hind Swaraj is a groundbreaking text that laid out some of Gandhi's core beliefs as an activist and political thinker. Banned in 1910 by the British government in India as a seditious text, Indian Home Rule remains essential to Gandhi's legacy in his native country and around the world....
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Una amarga diatriba contra las imposturas de nuestro tiempo
"La crisis que lleva al procés no es sino un producto propio de una sociedad a la que se le rompen los mitos diferenciales, beatíficos, y que se encuentra, debido a su servidumbre hacia el poder, a los pies de los caballos. Esos caballos que amenazan sobre todo el falso oasis en el que creían vivir, muy lejos del desierto español. Y el adocenamiento de décadas prendió en casi la mitad...
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What is the Alt-Right, and how will it affect America?
Donald Trump's election as president in 2016 suddenly brought to prominence a political movement that few in political circles or the mainstream media had paid much attention to: the so-called Alt-Right. Steven Bannon, Trump's campaign manager, was a leading figure in the movement, and the election results seemed to give it a real opportunity to gain some political power.
But what is the Alt-Right?...
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