Read and Download eBook Full
Author: Andrew Bickford
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011-03-09
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0804773963
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines how states make soldiers and what happens to fallen military elites when they no longer fit into the political spectrum.
Author: Andrew Bickford
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011-03-09
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0804777160
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMilitary officers are often the first to be considered politically dangerous when a state loses its authority. Overnight, actions once considered courageous are deemed criminal, and men once praised as heroes are redefined as villains. In Fallen Elites, Andrew Bickford examines how states make soldiers and what happens to fallen military elites when they no longer fit into the political spectrum. Gaining unprecedented entry into the lives of former East German officers in unified Germany, Bickford relates how these men and their families have come to terms with the shock of unification, capitalism, and citizenship since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Often caricatured as unrepentant, hard-line communists, former officers recount how they have struggled with their identities and much-diminished roles. Their disillusionment speaks to global questions about the contentious relationship between the military, citizenship, masculinity, and state formation today. Casting a critical eye on Western triumphalism, they provide a new perspective on our own deep-seated assumptions about "soldier making," both at home and abroad.
Author: Everett Lee Hunt
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-08
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 1351475088
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCombining a thorough introduction to the work of nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Italian social theorist Vilfredo Pareto with a highly readable English translation of Pareto's last monograph "Generalizations," originally published in 1920, this work illustrates how and why democratic forms of government undergo decay and are eventually reinvigorated. More than any other social scientist of his generation, Pareto offers a well-developed, articulate, and compelling theory of change based on a Newtonian vision of science and an engineering model of social equilibrium. This dynamic involves a shifting balance among the countervailing forces of centralization and decentralization of power, economic expansion and contraction, and liberalism versus traditionalism in public sentiment. By 1920, Pareto had developed a scheme for predicting shifts in magnitude of these forces and subsequent change in the character of society. This book will be of interest to students, teachers, or general readers interested in political science, sociology and late-nineteenth/ early-twentieth century social theory.
Author: Peter N. Stearns
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2013-11-16
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0252095154
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContemporary world history has highlighted militarization in many ways, from the global Cold War and numerous regional conflicts to the general assumption that nationhood implies a significant and growing military. Yet the twentieth century also offers notable examples of large-scale demilitarization, both imposed and voluntary. Demilitarization in the Contemporary World fills a key gap in current historical understanding by examining demilitarization programs in Germany, Japan, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Costa Rica. In nine insightful chapters, this volume's contributors outline each nation's demilitarization choices and how they were made. They investigate factors such as military defeat, border security risks, economic pressures, and the development of strong peace cultures among citizenry. Also at center stage is the influence of the United States, which fills a paradoxical role as both an enabler of demilitarization and a leader in steadily accelerating militarization. Bookended by Peter N. Stearns' thought-provoking historical introduction and forward-looking conclusion, the chapters in this volume explore what true demilitarization means and how it impacts a society at all levels, military and civilian, political and private. The examples chosen reveal that successful demilitarization must go beyond mere troop demobilization or arms reduction to generate significant political and even psychological shifts in the culture at large. Exemplifying the political difficulties of demilitarization in both its failures and successes, Demilitarization in the Contemporary World provides a possible roadmap for future policies and practices.
Author: Ann Morrison
Publisher:
Published: 2020-06-22
Total Pages: 596
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 1966 to 1976, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution personally initiated by Chairman Mao Zedong had swept across the entire mainland China. The book introduces how Tsinghua University carried out the Cultural Revolution in 1966-1968. It truly recorded the major historical events that took place on the Tsinghua campus. The ex-fighters of the two factions in Tsinghua - the Laotuan and the Laosi - personally recalled the real state of affairs of that time. This is the only book to date that records the whole process of the armed conflict at Tsinghua University in Beijing, the most renowned tertiary institution in the country.
Author: Marie Lu
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Published: 2015-10-13
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 0399167846
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVengeful in the aftermath of cruel betrayals by both family and friends, Adelina flees with her sister to build an army of fellow Young Elites in an effort to strike down the white-cloaked Inquisition Axis soldiers who nearly killed her.
Author: Mark S. Mizruchi
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2013-05-07
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 0674075366
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCritics warn that corporate leaders have too much influence over American politics. Mark Mizruchi worries they exert too little. American CEOs have abdicated their civic responsibilities in helping the government address national challenges, with grave consequences for society. A sobering assessment of the dissolution of America’s business class.
Author: Volker Perthes
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781588262660
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe recent deaths of four long-term heads of state in the Arab world heralded important changes, as political power passed from one generation to the next. Shedding light on these changes, Arab Elites explores the attitudes and political agendas of the new leadership emerging throughout the region. A strong analytical framework informs the authors discussion of elites in Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, the Palestinian National Authority, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Tunisia. The result is a portrait of the current state, and likely future, of politics in the Arab Middle East.
Author: Nancy Gonlin
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2015-10-28
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 1457197510
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This volume explores the dynamics of human adaptation to social, political, ideological, economic, and environmental factors in Mesoamerica and includes a wide array of topics, such as the hydrological engineering behind Teotihuacan’s layout, the complexities of agriculture and sustainability in the Maya lowlands, and the nuanced history of abandonment among different lineages and households in Maya centers.The authors aptly demonstrate how culture is the mechanism that allows people to adapt to a changing world, and they address how ecological factors, particularly land and water, intersect with nonmaterial and material manifestations of cultural complexity. Contributors further illustrate the continuing utility of the cultural ecological perspective in framing research on adaptations of ancient civilizations.This book celebrates the work of Dr. David Webster, an influential Penn State archaeologist and anthropologist of the Maya region, and highlights human adaptation in Mesoamerica through the scientific lenses of anthropological archaeology and cultural ecology."
Author: Arrigo Pallotti
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-03
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 1317050312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEach country in southern Africa has a unique history but in all of them socio-economic inequalities and high poverty levels weaken the governments’ legitimacy and represent a challenge to models of economic development. One key issue appears to be the solution of the land question. This vital concern affects both citizenship and democracy in the political systems of the region, yet no government has shown the capacity or commitment to solve it. In this volume leading European, American and African scholars explore in detail the relationship between state, land and democracy. They examine the historical background of asset allocation and its impact on questions of nationality, the definition of citizenship, human rights and the current political and economic processes in southern Africa.
