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The Empire Strikes Out

How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy and Promoted the American Way Abroad

by Robert Elias ...

Is the face of American baseball throughout the world that of goodwill ambassador or ugly American? Has baseball crafted its own image or instead been at the mercy of broader forces shaping our society and the globe? The Empire Strikes Out gives us the sweeping story of how baseball and America are intertwined in the export of “the American way.”From the Civil War to George W. Bush and the Iraq ... Read more

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Is the face of American baseball throughout the world that of goodwill ambassador or ugly American? Has baseball crafted its own image or instead been at the mercy of broader forces shaping our society and the globe? The Empire Strikes Out gives us the sweeping story of how baseball and America are intertwined in the export of “the American way.”From the Civil War to George W. Bush and the Iraq
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Major League Rebels

Baseball Battles over Workers' Rights and American Empire

by Robert Elias, Peter Dreier ...

A captivating history of the baseball reformers and revolutionaries who challenged their sport and society—and in turn helped change America.Athletes have often used their platform to respond to and protest injustices, from Muhammad Ali and Colin Kaepernick to Billie Jean King and Megan Rapinoe. Compared to their counterparts, baseball players have often been more cautious about speaking out on ... Read more

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A captivating history of the baseball reformers and revolutionaries who challenged their sport and society—and in turn helped change America.Athletes have often used their platform to respond to and protest injustices, from Muhammad Ali and Colin Kaepernick to Billie Jean King and Megan Rapinoe. Compared to their counterparts, baseball players have often been more cautious about speaking out on
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The Empire Strikes Out

How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy and Promoted the American Way Abroad

by Robert Elias ...

Is the face of American baseball throughout the world that of goodwill ambassador or ugly American? Has baseball crafted its own image or instead been at the mercy of broader forces shaping our society and the globe? The Empire Strikes Out gives us the sweeping story of how baseball and America are intertwined in the export of "the American way."From the Civil War to George W. Bush and the Iraq ... Read more

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Is the face of American baseball throughout the world that of goodwill ambassador or ugly American? Has baseball crafted its own image or instead been at the mercy of broader forces shaping our society and the globe? The Empire Strikes Out gives us the sweeping story of how baseball and America are intertwined in the export of "the American way."From the Civil War to George W. Bush and the Iraq
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University of San Francisco

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Series series Campus History
The University of San Francisco began in 1855 as a one-room schoolhouse named St. Ignatius Academy. Its founding is interwoven with the establishment of the Jesuit Order in California, European immigration to the western United States, and the population growth of California and San Francisco as a result of the California Gold Rush. For 159 years, the University of San Francisco has enriched the ... Read more

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The University of San Francisco began in 1855 as a one-room schoolhouse named St. Ignatius Academy. Its founding is interwoven with the establishment of the Jesuit Order in California, European immigration to the western United States, and the population growth of California and San Francisco as a result of the California Gold Rush. For 159 years, the University of San Francisco has enriched the
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Baseball Rebels

The Players, People, and Social Movements That Shook Up the Game and Changed America

by Peter Dreier, Robert Elias ...

Finalist for the 2023 Seymour MedalForeword INDIES Finalist in HistoryIn Baseball Rebels Peter Dreier and Robert Elias examine the key social challenges—racism, sexism and homophobia—that shaped society and worked their way into baseball’s culture, economics, and politics.Since baseball emerged in the mid-1800s to become America’s pastime, the nation’s battles over race, gender, and sexuality have ... Read more

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Finalist for the 2023 Seymour MedalForeword INDIES Finalist in HistoryIn Baseball Rebels Peter Dreier and Robert Elias examine the key social challenges—racism, sexism and homophobia—that shaped society and worked their way into baseball’s culture, economics, and politics.Since baseball emerged in the mid-1800s to become America’s pastime, the nation’s battles over race, gender, and sexuality have
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Trick Yourself into Losing Weight

A Psychiatrist's Guide to Dieting

by Robert Elias M.D. ...

Trick Yourself into Losing Weight is for people who have learned that diets don't work. If you're not there yet don't buy it. If you are, this will give the information and techniques to painlessly lose weight and keep it off. Patience is required but the results will be lasting. You will be taught how to make small changes in your eating habits and exercise that will make lasting and significant ... Read more

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Trick Yourself into Losing Weight is for people who have learned that diets don't work. If you're not there yet don't buy it. If you are, this will give the information and techniques to painlessly lose weight and keep it off. Patience is required but the results will be lasting. You will be taught how to make small changes in your eating habits and exercise that will make lasting and significant
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Dangerous Danny Gardella

Baseball's Neglected Trailblazer for Today's Millionaire Athletes

by Robert Elias ...

Winner of the 2026 SABR Seymour MedalThe first-ever biography of an unlikely baseball pioneer.While baseball's postwar years are often called the “Golden Age” of the sport, it was also an era when the reserve clause bound players to their teams and suppressed their rights and wages. Into these conditions came Danny Gardella, who openly resisted this bondage and launched the legal fight against the ... Read more

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Winner of the 2026 SABR Seymour MedalThe first-ever biography of an unlikely baseball pioneer.While baseball's postwar years are often called the “Golden Age” of the sport, it was also an era when the reserve clause bound players to their teams and suppressed their rights and wages. Into these conditions came Danny Gardella, who openly resisted this bondage and launched the legal fight against the
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Baseball and the American Dream

Race, Class, Gender, and the National Pastime

by Robert Elias ...

A fascinating look at how America's favorite sport has both reflected and shaped social, economic, and ... Read more

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A fascinating look at how America's favorite sport has both reflected and shaped social, economic, and
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Reconceptualizing Critical Victimology

Interventions and Possibilities

by Ross McGarry, Kieran McEvoy, Sandra Walklate, Dale Spencer, Jillian Patterson, Neil Chakraborti, Jon Shute, Rachel Condry, Robert Elias0, Kirsten McConnachie1, Anette Ballinger2, Carina Gallo3, Rebecca Katz4, David Miers5, Ronnie Lippens6, Hannah Willis7 ...

Since the 1960s, the field of victimology has developed into a variegated discipline with its own theoretical and methodological traditions. In the early 1990s two texts were published—Towards a Critical Victimology (Fattah, 1992) and Critical Victimology (Mawby and Walklate, 1994)—that concretized critical victimology as a paradigm within victimology. Since then, the field has remained ... Read more

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Since the 1960s, the field of victimology has developed into a variegated discipline with its own theoretical and methodological traditions. In the early 1990s two texts were published—Towards a Critical Victimology (Fattah, 1992) and Critical Victimology (Mawby and Walklate, 1994)—that concretized critical victimology as a paradigm within victimology. Since then, the field has remained
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Victims of the System

by Robert Elias ...

This important new book on criminology is a major attempt to evaluate actual victim compensation programs as well as their political and economic contexts, through the eyes of the victims themselves.Elias traces the experiences of violent-crime victims throughout the entire criminal justice process, comparing New York's and New Jersey's victim compensation programs. He shows how programs differ ... Read more

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This important new book on criminology is a major attempt to evaluate actual victim compensation programs as well as their political and economic contexts, through the eyes of the victims themselves.Elias traces the experiences of violent-crime victims throughout the entire criminal justice process, comparing New York's and New Jersey's victim compensation programs. He shows how programs differ
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The Empire Strikes Out

How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy and Promoted the American Way Abroad

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"It's our game…America's game: it has the snap, go, fling of the American atmosphere—belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly as our Constitution's laws, [and] is just as important in the sum total of our historic life."—Walt Whitman on baseballIs the face of American baseball throughout the world that of goodwill ambassador or ugly American? Has baseball crafted its ... Read more

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"It's our game…America's game: it has the snap, go, fling of the American atmosphere—belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly as our Constitution's laws, [and] is just as important in the sum total of our historic life."—Walt Whitman on baseballIs the face of American baseball throughout the world that of goodwill ambassador or ugly American? Has baseball crafted its
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EU and CARICOM

Dilemmas versus Opportunities on Development, Law and Economics

Edited by Alicia Elias Roberts, Stephen Hardy, Winfried Huck ...

Series series Transnational Law and Governance
Investigating the unique EU-CARICOM legal relationship, this book exploresthe major theme of globalisation, which shapes inter-regional organisationsindividually and determines their relationship to one another. It evaluates howEU-CARICOM relations have fostered trade, security and other developmentmeasures, reflecting on the past, future and present of the Caribbean states thatare active in the ... Read more

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Investigating the unique EU-CARICOM legal relationship, this book exploresthe major theme of globalisation, which shapes inter-regional organisationsindividually and determines their relationship to one another. It evaluates howEU-CARICOM relations have fostered trade, security and other developmentmeasures, reflecting on the past, future and present of the Caribbean states thatare active in the
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