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  • The Social Movement Society

    Contentious Politics for a New Century

    by David S. Meyer, Matthew Crozat, Patricia L. Hipsher, Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, Margaret E. Keck, Bert Klandermans, Jan Kubik, Clark McPhail, Johan Olivier, Donatella Della Porta0, Herbert Reiter1, Marlene Roefs2, Dieter Rucht3, John D. McCarthy4, Kathryn Sikkink5 ...
    Series series People, Passions, and Power: Social Movements, Interest Organizations, and the P
    Is there more social protest now than there was prior to the movement politics of the 1960s, and if so, does it result in a distinctly less civil society throughout the world? If everybody protests, what does protest mean in advanced industrial societies? This volume brings together scholars from Europe and the U.S., and from both political science and sociology, to consider the ways in which the ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • The Ritual of May Day in Western Europe

    Past, Present and Future

    by Abby Peterson, Herbert Reiter ...
    Series series The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture
    Eric Hobsbawm claimed that the international May Day, which dates back to a proclamation in 1889 by the Second International, 'is perhaps the most ambitious of labour rituals'. The first international May Day demonstrations in 1890 were widely celebrated across Europe and became the one day each year when organized labour could present its goals to the public, an eight-hour workday being the first ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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  • Socialism

    by Kristian Niemietz ...
    Socialism is strangely impervious to refutation by real-world experience. Over the past hundred years, there have been more than two dozen attempts to build a socialist society, from the Soviet Union to Maoist China to Venezuela. All of them have ended in varying degrees of failure. But, according to socialism’s adherents, that is only because none of these experiments were “real socialism”. This ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy

    by Daniel Ziblatt ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    How do democracies form and what makes them die? Daniel Ziblatt revisits this timely and classic question in a wide-ranging historical narrative that traces the evolution of modern political democracy in Europe from its modest beginnings in 1830s Britain to Adolf Hitler's 1933 seizure of power in Weimar Germany. Based on rich historical and quantitative evidence, the book offers a major ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Weimar Germany

    by Anthony McElligott ...
    Series series Short Oxford History of Germany
    The Weimar Republic was born out of Germany's defeat in the First World War and ended with the coming to power of Hitler and his Nazi Party in 1933. In many ways, it is a wonder that Weimar lasted as long as it did. Besieged from the outset by hostile forces, the young republic was threatened by revolution from the left and coups d'états from the right. Plagued early on by a wave of high-profile ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Ours to Master and to Own

    Workers' Control from the Commune to the Present

    Edited by Dario Azzellini, Immanuel Ness ...
    From the dawning of the industrial epoch, wage earners have organized themselves into unions,fought bitter strikes, and gone so far as to challenge the very premises of the system by creatinginstitutions of democratic self-management aimed at controlling production without bosses. Withspecific examples drawn from every corner of the globe and every period of modern history, thispathbreaking volume ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Contemporary Western European Feminism (RLE Feminist Theory)

    by Gisela Kaplan ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory
    Contemporary Western European Feminism is a ground-breaking history of feminism. Gisela Kaplan invites a critical analysis of current ideas, terms and assumptions about our modern world.Written confidently and with compassion, this is the story of a long revolution that has set out to change predominant attitudes and transform value hierarchies and human lifestyles. By outlining the postwar ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Forging Democracy

    The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000

    by Geoff Eley ...
    Neither given nor granted, democracy requires conflict, often violent confrontations, and challenges to the established political order. In Europe, Geoff Eley convincingly shows, democracy did not evolve orgainically out of a natural consensus, the achievement of prosperity, or the negative cement of the Cold War. Rather, it was painstakingly crafted, continually expanded, and doggedly defended by ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World

    Socialist Mobilities between Angola, Mozambique, and East Germany

    by Marcia C. Schenck ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This open access book is about Mozambicans and Angolans who migrated in state-sponsored schemes to East Germany in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. They went to work and to be trained as a vanguard labor force for the intended African industrial revolutions. While they were there, they contributed their labor power to the East German economy.This book draws on more than 260 life history ... Read more

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  • European Planning History in the 20th Century

    A Continent of Urban Planning

    Edited by Max Welch Guerra, Abdellah Abarkan, María A. Castrillo Romón, Martin Pekár ...
    The history of Europe in the 20th century is closely tied to the history of urban planning. Social and economic progress but also the brute treatment of people and nature throughout Europe were possible due to the use of urban planning and the other levels of spatial planning. Thereby, planning has constituted itself in Europe as an international subject. Since its emergence, through intense ... Read more

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  • Europe and the End of the Cold War

    A Reappraisal

    Edited by Frederic Bozo, Marie-Pierre Rey, N. Piers Ludlow, Leopoldo Nuti ...
    Series series Cold War History
    This book seeks to reassess the role of Europe in the end of the Cold War and the process of German unification.Much of the existing literature on the end of the Cold War has focused primarily on the role of the superpowers and on that of the US in particular. This edited volume seeks to re-direct the focus towards the role of European actors and the importance of European processes, most notably ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Cultural Diplomacy in Cold War Finland

    Identity, Geopolitics and the Welfare State

    by Louis Clerc ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book explores the organization and evolution of Finland’s Cold War cultural diplomacy (1945-1975) as the basis for a reflection on the country’s foreign relations, the link between culture and politics, small states’ autonomy during the Cold War, and the porosity of the East-West divide.The book offers a historical survey of the development of Finland’s cultural diplomacy as part ... Read more

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