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84) Capitalists in spite of themselves: elite conflict and economic transitions in early modern Europe
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Lexington Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This study examines the relationship between the Azerbaijani state and its society in the post-Soviet period. The author analyzes the growing cooperation between secular and religious sectors, the normalization of Islamic discourse, and elite attitudes toward Islam.
Author
Series
Bilingual education and bilingualism volume 35
Publisher
Multilingual Matters
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Author
Series
Revealing antiquity volume 15
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The extent and irreversibility of U.S. decline is becoming ever more obvious as America loses war after war and as one industry after another loses its technological edge. Lachmann explains why the United States will not be able to sustain its global dominance. He contrasts America's relatively brief period of hegemony with the Netherlands' similarly short primacy and Britain's far longer era of leadership. Decline in all those cases was not inevitable...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of What's the Matter With Kansas, a scathing look at the standard-bearers of liberal politics-- a book that asks: what's the matter with Democrats? It is a widespread belief among liberals that if only Democrats can continue to dominate national elections, if only those awful Republicans are beaten into submission, the country will be on the right course. But this is to fundamentally misunderstand the modern Democratic...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An eye-opening exploration of American policy reform, or lack thereof, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement and how the country can do better in the future. In 2020, while the Covid-19 pandemic raged, the United States was hit by a ripple of political discontent the likes of which had not been seen since the 1960s. The spark was the viral video of the horrific police murder of an unarmed Black man in Minneapolis....