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Propaganda and Power in the Age of Globalization The Myths We Live By

Propaganda and Power in the Age of Globalization: The Myths We Live By

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By Simon Sherratt
August 30, 2024

Following victory in World War II, the US and Western Europe claimed to be the champions of the political ideals of democracy and freedom, along with the economic ideal of free market capitalism.   Two decades into the twenty-first century, these once noble ideals have been reduced to little more ...

Corruption, Anti-Corruption, Vigilance, and State Building from Early to Late Modern Times

Corruption, Anti-Corruption, Vigilance, and State Building from Early to Late Modern Times

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Edited By Ricard Torra-Prat, Joan Pubill-Brugués, Arndt Brendecke
August 23, 2024

Corruption, Anti-Corruption, Vigilance, and State Building from Early to Late Modern Times challenges current historiographical approaches, proposing new interpretations to rethink the relation between corruption and the socio-political and economic transformations since early globalisation. By ...

The Making of Australia's Gold Coast A Historical Perspective

The Making of Australia's Gold Coast: A Historical Perspective

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By Alan J. Blackman
August 01, 2024

Blackman draws on original material and the work of many earlier researchers to paint a verbal picture of the evolution of a remarkable city. In an easy-to-read style, he highlights some of the conditions, key events, and individuals that have led to the development of Australia’s Gold Coast. The ...

Time and Space in the Internet Age

Time and Space in the Internet Age

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By Stephen Kern
August 01, 2024

This book analyzes how new technologies transformed life and thought between two periods, 1880-1920 and 1980-2020, with a focus on temporal experiences of past, present, future and the spatial experiences of form, distance, and direction. The signature contrast is between experiences of time and ...

Britain and Japan in the 1973 Middle East Oil Crisis Washington’s Silent Partners

Britain and Japan in the 1973 Middle East Oil Crisis: Washington’s Silent Partners

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By Erika Miller
June 17, 2024

Miller examines Britain and Japan’s involvement in the Middle East peace process after the October war of 1973 and how it contributed to the resolution of the oil crisis of 1973-1974. Using important primary sources from Japan, Britain, and the United States—including recently declassified Japanese...

British West Indian Newspapers and the Abolition of Slavery

British West Indian Newspapers and the Abolition of Slavery

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By Andrew Lewis
June 07, 2024

This book is the first overall survey of the British West Indian press in the early nineteenth century—a critical period in the history of the region.   Based on extensive and ground-breaking archival research, this volume provides an in-depth history of early nineteenth-century British West Indian...

Anglo-Chinese Encounters Before the Opium War A Tale of Two Empires Over Two Centuries

Anglo-Chinese Encounters Before the Opium War: A Tale of Two Empires Over Two Centuries

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By Xin Liu
May 27, 2024

Anglo-Chinese Encounters Before the Opium War: A Tale of Two Empires Over Two Centuries studies the fascinating encounters between the two historic empires from Queen Elizabeth I’s first letter to the Ming Emperor Wanli in 1583, to Lord Palmerston’s letter to the Minister of China in 1840. Starting...

Christianity, the Sovereign Subject, and Ethnic Nationalism in Colonial Korea Specters of Western Metaphysics

Christianity, the Sovereign Subject, and Ethnic Nationalism in Colonial Korea: Specters of Western Metaphysics

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By Hannah Amaris Roh
May 27, 2024

One of the first philosophical approaches to the study of Korea’s ethnic nationalism, Christianity, the Sovereign Subject, and Ethnic Nationalism in Colonial Korea traces the impact of Christianity in the formation of Korean national identity, outlining the metaphysical origins of the concept of ...

Jewish Self-Defense in South America Facing Anti-Semitism with a Club in Hand

Jewish Self-Defense in South America: Facing Anti-Semitism with a Club in Hand

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By Raanan Rein
May 27, 2024

Jewish Self-Defense in South America charts the ways in which Jewish youth in Argentina and Uruguay organized self-defense groups in the wake of an anti-Semitic wave that swept the Southern Cone in the 1960s. The kidnapping of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires in 1960 and his trial ...

Journalists and Knowledge Practices Histories of Observing the Everyday in the Newspaper Age

Journalists and Knowledge Practices: Histories of Observing the Everyday in the Newspaper Age

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Edited By Hansjakob Ziemer
May 27, 2024

This multi-disciplinary anthology provides new perspectives on the journalist’s role in knowledge generation in the newspaper age—covering diverse topics from fake news to new technologies. Fake news, journalistic authority, and the introduction of cutting-edge technologies are often viewed as new ...

Missionaries and the Colonial State Radicalism and Governance in Rwanda and Burundi, 1900-1972

Missionaries and the Colonial State: Radicalism and Governance in Rwanda and Burundi, 1900-1972

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By David Whitehouse
May 27, 2024

Catholic and Protestant missionaries followed their own, competing agendas rather than those of the colonial state. This volume unravels these agendas and challenges received wisdom on the histories of Rwanda and Burundi, as well as the colonial relationship between state and mission. The ...

The City and the Railway in the World from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

The City and the Railway in the World from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

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Edited By Ralf Roth, Paul Van Heesvelde
May 27, 2024

This volume explores the relationship between cities and railways over three centuries. Despite their nearly 200-year existence, The City and the Railway in the World shows that urban railways are still politically and historically important to the modern world. Since its inception, cities have ...

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