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Over Land and Sea: Memoir of an Austrian Rear Admiral's Life in Europe and Africa, 1857-1909 [a memoir]Ludwig Ritter von Höhnel; Ronald E. Coons and Pascal James Imperato, editors; J. Winthrop Aldrich, consulting editor Ludwig Ritter von Höhnel lived a fascinating life—he was an Austrian subject who achieved distinction as an African explorer, a naval officer, and a courtier. The turbulent years preceding the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1918 are revived through Höhnel's vibrant memoir.
An explorer of East Africa in the era of Livingstone and Stanley, Höhnel mapped vast More > | |
Cultivating Inspired Leaders: Making Participatory Management WorkBruce Lansdale Bruce Lansdale draws on the wealth of experience that he gained during his years at the American Farm School to show how managers can progress from their traditional roles as administrators to become inspired leaders with the capability and eagerness to cultivate leadership qualities—as well as a sense of dedication and commitment to their organizations and their associates—in More > | |
Reconcilable Differences: Turning Points in Ethnopolitical ConflictSean Byrne and Cynthia L. Irvin, editors The authors of Reconcilable Differences consider how a range of factors converge to shape the ways that ethnic conflicts are waged and how peaceful change occurs. Focusing on the perceptions, structures, and interactions that contribute to the development and growth of intergroup antagonism, as well as on the mechanisms critical to the peace building, they contribute amply to our understanding of More > | |
Promoting Corporate Citizenship: Opportunities for Business and Civil Society EngagementLaurie Regelbrugge, editor | |
How Context Matters: Linking Environmental Policy to People and PlaceGeorge Honadle Presenting a unique method of looking at environmental policy formulation and implementation, George Honadle clarifies those elements of context that affect how policies work and outlines policymaking approaches that incorporate the important linkages among public policies, human behavior, and natural settings. More > | |
Black Bostonians: Family Life and Community Struggle in the Antebellum North, Revised EditionJames Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton Updated and expanded in this revised edition to reflect twenty years of new research, when published in 1979 Black Bostonians was the first comprehensive social history of an antebellum northern black community.
The Hortons challenged the then widely held view that African Americans in the antebellum urban north were all trapped in "a culture of poverty." Exploring life in black More > | |
Greed and Grievance: Economic Agendas in Civil WarsMats Berdal and David M. Malone, editors Current scholarship on civil wars and transitions from war to peace has made significant progress in understanding the political dimensions of internal conflict, but the economic motivations spurring political violence have been comparatively neglected. This pathbreaking volume identifies the economic and social factors underlying the perpetuation of civil wars, exploring as well the economic More > | |
Japan's Budget Politics: Balancing Domestic and International InterestsTakaaki Suzuki What is the source of the increasing politicization of Japan's budgetary policy? Takaaki Suzuki explores this question, finding the answer in the the interplay of domestic and international politics from the early 1970s through the 1990s.
Suzuki points out that, just as modern state leaders must strike a balance between the appropriate roles of the market and the state in determining how More > | |
Totalitarian and Authoritarian RegimesJuan J. Linz In this classic work, noted political sociologist Juan Linz provides an unparalleled study of the nature of nondemocratic regimes.
Linz's seminal analysis develops the fundamental distinction between totalitarian and authoritarian systems. It also presents a pathbreaking discussion of the personalistic, lawless, nonideological type of authoritarian rule that he calls (following Weber) the More > | |
The Sanctions Decade: Assessing UN Strategies in the 1990sDavid Cortright and George A. Lopez Choice Outstanding Academic Book!
Since the end of the Cold War, economic sanctions have been a frequent instrument of United Nations authority, imposed by the Security Council against nearly a dozen targets. Some efforts appear to have been successful, others are more doubtful—all, though, have been controversial. This book, based on more than two hundred interviews with officials from More > |