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The Emden, (Hardcover)
Hellmuth Von Mücke, Helene S. White
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R845
Discovery Miles 8 450
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Around the globe, democracy is under assault. For a dozen years,
global freedom has followed a downward slope, according to Freedom
House. Once viewed as the world's model of freedom, the United
States has slipped in world ratings of democracy. For a rising
portion of the world's population, faith in democracy is flagging.
At the same time, a wave of nationalism and xenophobia is rising in
the West, questioning democracy's ability to meet the needs of its
citizens. The contributors to this volume examine democracy's
discontent from a variety of perspectives. What forces have
produced the extreme partisanship and polarization roiling
America's civic life and politics? How has today's populist
movement challenged democratic norms and institutions? What role
has social media played in democracy's discontent and its defense?
How do we overcome persistent racism in the face of emboldened
White supremacist and anti-immigrant agitation? Across the pages of
this book, teachers, teacher educators, and education policy makers
will recognize a common theme in responding to democracy's
discontent - the need to rebuild the nation's civic infrastructure.
Research on best practices in civic learning and engagement serve
as a guide to transforming how we prepare citizens for democratic
deliberation and civic action. Creative and effective teaching
materials and approaches await only the will to invest the needed
time and support. Repairing our civic infrastructure will help to
restore confidence in our civic capabilities and trust in our
ability to work together for the public good. Without a serious
recommitment to the civic mission of schools, the nation will be
ill prepared to defend against those within and beyond our borders
who are intent on undermining democracy.
Woodrow Wilson's presidency marked a seminal period in American
history. Wilson's progressive reforms laid the foundation for FDR's
New Deal and ushered the nation into its modern era. In foreign
policy, his philosophy and the programs he implemented have
influenced the United States' relationship with the rest of the
world throughout the 20th-century. An extremely controversial
president in his time, Wilson has grown in stature in the
intervening years, though some remain critical of the direction in
which he steered the United States. Complementing the 69-volume
DEGREESIPapers of Woodrow Wilson DEGREESR, this book provides a
comprehensive guide to the secondary literature on Wilson.
The complexity of Wilson's personality and the intricacies of
his thought have become evident with the publication of each volume
of his papers, compelling scholars to reassess the often polemical
portrayals of his presidency. This bibliography provides access to
the literature on one of the most fascinating individuals to occupy
the White House.
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Lost Comrades (Hardcover)
Dan S. White
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R1,546
R1,398
Discovery Miles 13 980
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Romanticism and the Rural Community investigates the representation
of the rural village and country town in a range of Romantic texts.
The proper organisation of rural communities was central to
political and social debates at the turn of the eighteenth century,
and featured strongly in 1790s political polemic. This book
considers works by Jane Austen, Robert Burns, John Clare and
William Wordsworth, as well as less well-known writers (Robert
Bloomfield, George Crabbe and Ebenezer Elliott). It is informed by
ideas derived from recent study of communitarian social development
and the role of human links and networks in sustaining adaptable
community structures. Through its focus on the search for local
solutions to what were perceived to be large-scale or national
problems of sustainability, the book is relevant to recent
developments in eco-criticism within Romantic studies. It also
links into the ongoing contemporary debate about the make-up and
function of rural communities.
White's previously published articles and speeches (most
presented after 1989) identify and address critical issues that
range from library education, funding, and leadership to
technology, ethics, and burnout. Although often delivered with
humor, White's probing and sometimes controversial commentaries on
the opportunities and dangers to the profession are certain to
provoke serious thought. Divided into three sections, the book
covers "Librarians, Their Self-Image, and the Perceptions That
Define Their Preparation"; "Librarians and Their Role, As Defined
by Them and by Others"; and "Librarians in the Cruel World of
Politics and Money." The author introduces each section with
general comments. A must for the library professional shelf and a
useful supplementary text for management and issues courses in
library schools.
An international collection of papers focused on media, culture and
society in postcommunist Russia. Contributors deploy a wealth of
primary data in examining the kinds of issues that are central to
our understanding of the kind of system that has been established
in the worlds largest country after a period of far-reaching
change.
There is little consensus about the nature of the political system
that has emerged during the Putin presidency. This collection
considers the issues arising in this connection, focusing more
closely on institutions such as the presidency and the security
police, and on the socioeconomic dimensions of political power.
This is a book about political values - socialist, nationalist,
liberal and democratic values - in five former communist countries:
Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Based on
eleven surveys involving extended interviews with 7350 members of
the public and 504 Members of Parliament it provides an
authoritative account of the extent to which politicians and the
public in East Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union have
rejected communist ideals and adopted nationalist and/or liberal
democratic values.
This collection of essays examines New Labour's claim to stand in
the vanguard of a new form of progressive politics. By examining
the ideology of New Labour, the major policy initiatives of Labour
government, and the record and prospects of social democratic and
progressive governments in the USA and elsewhere in Europe, the
contributors attempt to disentangle the progressive and
conservative aspects of New Labour politics and the possibilities
for genuine progressive advance in Britain and other advanced
capitalist countries.
In September 2009 Dmitrii Medvedev unveiled the term that was to
become the defining objective of his presidency: 'modernization.'
The contributors to this book, drawn from the leading scholars in
Russian affairs, focus on the contested nature of the concept of
modernization and the obstacles that arose in attempting to carry
it out.
As a study of the greatest middle class party of Imperial
Germany, "The Splintered Party" is inevitably, in its broadest
aspect, an inquiry into the weaknesses of liberalism in the Empire
of Bismarck and Wilhelm II. How did the National Liberals, the
dominant force in the Reichstag of the 1870s, become by 1914 a
spent and divided power? Professor White explores this question
from a new perspective, emphasizing regional circumstances as
primary agents of the party's decline. The resulting portrait
underscores the paradox of the National Liberals: a party with
strength in all areas of the Empire, a rarity before 1914, yet a
party whose impact was undermined by divisions among its regional
branches.
In "The Splintered Party" the former Grand Duchy of Hessen
serves as a testing ground where the regional foundations of
National Liberalism can be exposed. As Professor White points out,
the party's reversals on the Imperial plane after 1878--rejection
by Bismarck, electoral defeats, internal splits--not only ended its
early primacy in German affairs but also shifted political
initiative from Berlin and the Reichstag delegation to the National
Liberal branches in the states and provinces, which had maintained
unity, power, and alliances with local government in spite of the
upheaval above them. The consequences of this change become visible
through close examination of the political and social structure in
Hessen. On the regional level a liberalism based on the claim to
majority representation by the notables ("Honoratioren") of
bourgeois society, a creed no longer plausible in national
politics, remained defensible. Through the Heidelberg Declaration
of 1884 the National Liberals of the German Southwest attempted to
buttress this approach with an economic and social platform and,
simultaneously, to make it the impulse of the national party's
revival. But they succeeded only in deferring National Liberalism's
adjustment to democratic politics and in subordinating their
movement to the clash of regional and constituency interests. The
result was a chronically splintered party.
Against the backdrop of this main theme, White delineates
several additional features of the changing political and social
scene in Imperial Germany--the local power of the notables,
Bismarck's skills as a political manager, the character of agrarian
discontent and rural anti-Semitism, the steady advance of
socialism. The uniquely German element in National Liberalism's
failure is assessed in a concluding comparison with the development
of liberal politics in Britain and Italy.
In this unique edited collection, social scientists reflect upon
and openly share insights gathered from researching people and the
sea. Understanding how people use, relate to and interact with
coastal and marine environments has never been more important, with
social scientists having an increasingly vital contribution to
make. Yet practical experiences in deploying social science
approaches in this field are typically hidden away in field notes
and unpublished doctoral manuscripts, with the opportunity for
shared learning that comes from doing research often missed. There
is a need for reflection on how social science knowledge is
produced. This collection presents experiences from the field, its
necessary reflexivity and innovation in methods, and the challenges
and opportunities of translating across disciplines and policy. It
brings to light the tacit expertise needed to study people and the
sea and offers lessons which readers could employ in their own
research. With a focus on the future direction of marine social
sciences, the volume is highly relevant to masters and doctoral
students and more experienced researchers engaged in studying
people and the sea, as well as policy makers, practitioners and
scientists wishing to understand the social dimension of marine and
coastal environments. Chapters 2 and 3 are available open access
under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via
link.springer.com.
Civic Engagement of Asian American Student Leaders delves into the
civic lives of Asian American youth, and analyzes their civic
engagement through in-depth interviews with 15 student leaders from
a Tier One university in Southeast Texas. The book provides a
counter-narrative to the portrayal of Asian Americans as apolitical
and less interested in civic matters. Such depictions arise from
the characterization of Asian Americans as model minority who
mainly focus on economic success and are socially and economically
integrated in American society. However, the stories of the student
leaders, cultivated by Wui and White, illustrate that their
challenging racialized experiences inspired their civic
involvement. Their civic engagement creates empowerment in terms of
asserting their ethnic identity, imbibing leadership qualities,
long-term commitment to civic engagement, and subverting
stereotypes against Asian Americans. The book paints a more varied
picture of Asian American youth civic engagement that is not
entirely anchored in ethnic identity or non-political involvement,
contrary to articulations of existing studies. Wui and White hope
that the student leaders' narratives shed better light on the civic
commitments of Asian Americans to American society especially in
these times when there is increased bias and racial prejudice in
the current atmosphere and culture.
Librarians and libraries now face unprecedented challenges,
risks, and opportunities. In his latest collection of articles and
speeches, White focuses on the professional issues confronting
librarians at a time of increased technological options-when simple
information access can be easily and directly done by end users,
but in which complex information access poses needs and concerns
which the end user may not even recognize, let alone understand.
Often delivered with wit, these insightful and sometimes
controversial commentaries are intended to provoke serious thought,
discussion, and ultimately, action. A must read for library and
information science professionals and valuable supplementary
reading for students of library and information science.
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