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Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) was an influential German critic and philosopher, whose ideas included "cultural nationalism" - that every nation has its own personality and pattern of growth. This anthology contains excerpts from Herder's writings on world history and related topics.

In this study, experts provide both a comprehensive introduction to the Bosnian crisis, and a detailed case study of the attempts of the conflicting parties, external powers, and international organizations to resolve it. It draws out the long and short-term implications of the Bosnian case.

Discusses the thought of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, reform and its dilemmas, regionalism in greater China and autonomous areas, and nationalism.

Citing her own accurate predictions of the collapse of the Communist empire, the post-Yugoslavia wars and 9/11, the author warns that we must anticipate the changes in the world before they are upon us, and that we must employ predictions to strengthen nations and principles.

Tells the story of specialized journalists who, because of their expertise, their experience, or their willingness, regularly write about environmental issues. This book provides a view of American journalism in the first decade of the new century, when newspapers and television were the major source of news in America.

In the US and Western Europe the political novel flourished in the 1930s and 1940s, the crisis years of economic depression, fascism, the Spanish Civil War, the consolidation of Stalinism, and the Second World War. This title examines how outstanding novelists of the Cold War era conveyed the major issues of contemporary politics and history.

Articulates positions shared by military figures and political heroes. This work covers America at war and Bolshevism in Russia, ranging in place from the Middle East to Latin America and stops along the way to Byzantium. It examines military reform, great powers grown small, and drugs, crime and corruption as part of common culture of the West.

Presents a reassessment of free will and, as such, seeks to answer the question: Do humans ever act under the guidance of the will? To determine if humans have free will, this book first examines what exactly free will is and how it should function. It also examines the role of nature, nurture, and free choice.

Written by a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a speaker at meetings at the Brookings Institution, the Cato Institute, and the Heritage Foundation, this work examines the political economy of these vital institutions.

Aims to contribute to the understanding of the historic role of capitalism. After reviewing the gestation of the system, this book explains the emergence of capitalism in the eighteenth century, taking it into the nineteenth and its link to the industrial revolution.

Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, and Indonesian forces occupied East Timor from 1975 to 1999. This book examines the horrific consequences of Cambodian communist revolution and Indonesian anti-communist counterinsurgency. It also chronicles the two cases of indigenous resistance to genocide and extermination.

Aimed at literary scholars, intellectual historians, cultural studies specialists, and sociologists, this book attacks the neo-Darwinist approach to the arts and articulates a defense of humanist criticism. It shows that in moving beyond their area of competence, the neo-Darwinists commit an ideology, not a science.

A scholarly work that aims to be both broad enough in scope to satisfy upper-division undergraduates studying folk belief and narrative and detailed enough to meet the needs of graduate students in the field.

This work treats the region of Inner Asia as a single unit, providing both an account of the region's past and an analysis of its present and its prospects in a thematic, rather than a strictly country-by-country manner.

These essays consider the implications for Chinese socialism of the repudiation of the Cultural Revolution and the legacy of Mao Zedong as well as the meaning of the new definition and direction Mao's successors have given socialism.

An anthology of 16 readings dealing with military, political, diplomatic, and social aspects of World War II and its consequences for the contemporary world. The readings consist of complete articles or integral chapters so that each author's argument can be read in its original form.

This work examines how the telephone reveals gender relations in a way not predicted by feminist theories, how it can be used to protect and invade personal privacy, and how people harness telephone answering machines to their advantage.

Joseph Scotchie provides an intellectual history of the Old Right, treating its main figures and defining its conflict with the traditional left-right political mainstream. As Scotchie's account makes clear, the Old Right and its descendants have articulated an arresting and powerful worldview.

What do Michael Milken and Martha Stewart have in common? (Answer: Both became public scapegoats for an outrageous era of greed and excess.) Discussing such questions, this book traces the history of financial scandals from the early days of the young republic through the Enron/WorldCom debacle of modern times.

Challenging many of the assumptions scholars have made about the Cuban Revolution's impact on healthcare, this volume recounts one anthropologist's quest to discover the truth behind the complicated relationship between Cuba's revolution, politics, and healthcare system.

An ethnographic study of how urban youth in Colombia came to be at the intersection of multiple forms of political and drug-related violence in a country undergoing forty years of internal armed conflict. It examines the ways in which youth in the city of Medellin reconfigure their lives and cultural worlds in the face of widespread violence.