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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Vignaud Pamphlets, Sociology
Author: Vignaud Pamphlets. Anthropology
Author: Vignaud Pamphlets
Author: Vignaud Pamphlets
Author: Vignaud Pamphlets: H-T
Author: Vignaud Pamphlets
Author: The Practice of Diplomacy
Author: Keith HamiltonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781134847310
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the unstable international conditions of the post Cold War world, the role of diplomacy has taken on increasing importance with the greater complexity of relationships between international power centres. The Practice of Diplomacy tracks the historical development of diplomatic relations and methods from the earliest period up to their current transformations in the late twentieth century, showing how they have changed to encompass new technological advances and the needs of modern international environments. This coherent and accessible text brings the history of diplomacy fully up to date, exploring altered perspectives and newly emerging practices resulting from United Nations diplomacy and recent political developments in Eastern and central Europe, including the former Yugoslavia.
The Myths That Made America
Author: Heike PaulPublisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839414857
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
This essential introduction to American studies examines the core foundational myths upon which the nation is based and which still determine discussions of US-American identities today. These myths include the myth of »discovery,« the Pocahontas myth, the myth of the Promised Land, the myth of the Founding Fathers, the melting pot myth, the myth of the West, and the myth of the self-made man. The chapters provide extended analyses of each of these myths, using examples from popular culture, literature, memorial culture, school books, and every-day life. Including visual material as well as study questions, this book will be of interest to any student of American studies and will foster an understanding of the United States of America as an imagined community by analyzing the foundational role of myths in the process of nation building.
Colonial Encounters
Author: Peter HulmePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
A Socialist Empire
Author: Louis BaudinPublisher:
ISBN: 9781614271536
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
2011 Reprint of 1961 Edition. Many social scientists have attempted to lump the unique Inca society into modern political and economic categories. Louis Baudin argued that Incan society was socialistic. He claimed that the ayllu system is what classified the Inca as a system of state socialism. Baudin defines state socialism as being based on the idea of the regulative action of a central power in social relations. According to Baudin, the idea of private property in Europe had been in existence for centuries, but no such idea existed at the times of the Incas. He claims, that society in Peru rested on a foundation of collective ownership which, to a certain extent, facilitated its establishment, because the effacement of the individual within a group prepared him to allow himself to be absorbed. Baudin argued that the higher ranking Incas tried, and succeeded to an extent, to force a degree of uniformity on the common Inca. The Inca were forced to dress similarly, eat the same food, practice the same religion, and speak the same language, Quechua.