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  • The Lion and the Star

    Gentile-Jewish Relations in Three Hessian Towns, 1919-1945

    by Jonathan Friedman ...
    The Lion and the Star not only offers an informed glimpse into the intricacies of daily German life but also confirms the continuing danger of making sweeping generalizations about German Jews and non-Jews. In the aftermath of World War II, many viewed the Third Reich as an aberration in German history and laid blame with Hitler and his followers. Since the 1960s, historians have widened their ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • System, Structure, and Contradiction

    The Evolution of 'Asiatic' Social Formations

    by Jonathan Friedman ...
    The first edition of System, Structure, and Contradiction was an important step in merging the materialist determinism of the structuralist Marxists with the cultural, ideological approach favored by anthropologists. By reconciling these two traditionally warring schools of thought, the author provided a more nuanced understanding of the various factors that drive social change and social ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Globalization, the State, and Violence

    by Terence Turner, Saskia Sassen, Simone Ghezzi, Enzo Mingione, Michel Wieviorka (EHESS, Paris), Unni Wikan, Donald M. Nonini, Nina Glick Schiller, Georges Fouron, Bruce Kapferer, Steve Reyna, Steven Sampson, Kajsa Ekholm Friedman ...
    Friedman and a distinguished group of contributors offer a compelling analysis of globalization and the lethal explosiveness that characterizes the current world order. In particular, they investigate global processes and political forces that determine networks of crime, commerce and terror, and reveal the economic, social and cultural fragmentation of transnational networks. In a critical ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Hegemonic Decline

    Present and Past

    by Jonathan Friedman, Christopher Chase-Dunn ...
    Series series Political Economy of the World-System Annuals
    Although the United States is currently the world's only military and economic superpower, the nation's superpower status may not last. The possible futures of the global system and the role of U.S. power are illuminated by careful study of the past. This book addresses the problems of conceptualizing and assessing hegemonic rise and decline in comparative and historical perspective. Several ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Consumption and Identity

    by Jonathan Friedman ...
    First published in 2004. Studies in Anthropology and History is a series that will develop new theoretical perspectives, and combine comparative and ethnographic studies with historical research. Volume fifteen and this is about the relation between consumption and broader cultural strategies. The papers are the product of a workshop organized in Denmark under the aegis of the Center for Research ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The History of Genocide in Cinema

    Atrocities on Screen

    Edited by Jonathan Friedman, William Hewitt ...
    The organization 'Genocide Watch' estimates that 100 million civilians around the globe have lost their lives as a result of genocide in only the past sixty years. Over the same period, the visual arts in the form of documentary footage has aided international efforts to document genocide and prosecute those responsible, but this book argues that fictional representation occupies an equally ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • World System History

    The Social Science of Long-Term Change

    Edited by Robert. A Denemark, Jonathan Friedman, Barry K. Gills, George Modelski ...
    This extraordinary book presents a refreshing and innovative overview of the changes to the global system over the last 5000 years. Featuring renowned contributors - each specialists in their field - this is the only volume to offer so co-ordinated a study of continuity and change in the global social, economic and political system. Key areas covered include: * International Political Economy - ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Places and Politics in an Age of Globalization

    by Roxann Prazniak, Arturo Escobar, Peter Kwong, Elizabeth Rata, Geoffrey White, James H. Mittleman, Margaret M. Zamudio, Arif Dirlik, John Brown Childs, Jonathan Friedman, Wendy Harcourt, Russell C. Leong ...
    This ambitious work provides a unique statement on the question of place-based activism and its relationship to powerful forces of international capital. Arguing that specific places around the world are sites for the defense and enhancement of daily life in the context of rapidly expanding global technologies and investment options, the contributors reach for a vision of social development that ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • PC Worlds

    Political Correctness and Rising Elites at the End of Hegemony

    by Jonathan Friedman ...
    Series Book 2 - Loose Can(n)ons
    This provocative work offers an anthropological analysis of the phenomenon of political correctness, both as a general phenomenon of communication, in which associations in space and time take precedence over the content of what is communicated, and at specific critical historical conjunctures at which new elites attempt to redefine social reality. Focusing on the crises over the last thirty years ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • Borders

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Alexander C. Diener, Joshua Hagen ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Compelling and accessible, this Very Short Introduction challenges the perception of borders as passive lines on a map, revealing them instead to be integral forces in the economic, social, political, and environmental processes that shape our lives. Highlighting the historical development and continued relevance of borders, Alexander Diener and Joshua Hagen offer a powerful counterpoint to the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • War in Human Civilization

    by Azar Gat ...
    Why do people go to war? Is it rooted in human nature or is it a late cultural invention? How does war relate to the other fundamental developments in the history of human civilization? And what of war today - is it a declining phenomenon or simply changing its shape? In this truly global study of war and civilization, Azar Gat sets out to find definitive answers to these questions in an attempt ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Postcolonial Ecologies

    Literatures of the Environment

    Edited by Elizabeth DeLoughrey, George B. Handley ...
    The first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial literature, this volume offers rich and suggestive ways to explore the relationship between humans and nature around the globe, drawing from texts from Africa and the Caribbean, as well as the Pacific Islands and South Asia. Turning to contemporary works by both well- and little-known postcolonial ... Read more

    $36.89 USD