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Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists: The Violent Politics of Modern Japan, 1860–1960
Eiko Maruko Siniawer
Cornell University Press, 2011 ISBN: 9780801461859Description:Violence and democracy may seem fundamentally incompatible, but the two have often been intimately and inextricably linked. In Ruffians, Yakuza...
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The Criminalization of Abortion in the West: Its Origins in Medieval Law
Wolfgang P. Müller
Cornell University Press, 2012 ISBN: 9780801464157Description:Anyone who wants to understand how abortion has been treated historically in the western legal tradition must first come to terms with two quite...
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Cornell University Press, 2012 ISBN: 9780801464195Description:
Since the early 1990s, the federal role in education—exemplified by the controversial No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)—has expanded dramatically. Yet...
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Zion's Dilemmas: How Israel Makes National Security Policy
Charles D. Freilich
Cornell University Press, 2012 ISBN: 9780801465741Description:In Zion's Dilemmas, a former deputy national security adviser to the State of Israel details the history and, in many cases, the chronic inadequacies...
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To Follow in Their Footsteps: The Crusades and Family Memory in the High Middle Ages
Nicholas L. Paul
Cornell University Press, 2012 ISBN: 9780801465987Description:When the First Crusade ended with the conquest of Jerusalem in 1099, jubilant crusaders returned home to Europe bringing with them stories, sacred...
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Cornell University Press, 2012 ISBN: 9780801465994Description:
For too long, the study of religious life in Late Antiquity has relied on the premise that Jews, pagans, and Christians were largely discrete groups...
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Cornell University Press, 2012 ISBN: 9780801466052Description:
In Plato's Republic, Socrates contends that philosophers make the best rulers because only they behold with their mind's eye the eternal and purely...
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Cauldron of Resistance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and 1950s Southern Vietnam
Jessica M. Chapman
Cornell University Press, 2013 ISBN: 9780801467417Description:In 1955, Ngo Dinh Diem organized an election to depose chief-of-state Bao Dai, after which he proclaimed himself the first president of the newly...
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Club Red: Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream
Diane P. Koenker
Cornell University Press, 2013 ISBN: 9780801467738Description:The Bolsheviks took power in Russia 1917 armed with an ideology centered on the power of the worker. From the beginning, however, Soviet leaders also...
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Unfinished Utopia: Nowa Huta, Stalinism, and Polish Society, 1949–56
Katherine A. Lebow
Cornell University Press, 2013 ISBN: 9780801468865Description:Unfinished Utopia is a social and cultural history of Nowa Huta, dubbed Poland's "first socialist city" by Communist propaganda of the 1950s. Work...
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