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Examines Nigeria's challenges with consolidating democracy and the
crisis of governance arising from structural errors of the state
and the fundamental contradictions of the society in Nigeria's
Fourth Republic reflect a wider crisis of democracy globally.
'Today we are taking a decisive step on the path of democracy,' the
newly sworn-in President Olusegun Obasanjo told Nigerians on 27 May
1999. 'We will leave no stone unturned to ensure sustenance of
democracy, because it is good for us, it is good for Africa, and it
is good for the world.' Nigeria's Fourth Republic has survived
longer than any of the previous three Republics, the most durable
Republic in Nigeria's more than six decades of independence. At the
same time, however, the country has witnessed sustained periods of
violence, including violent clashes over the imposition of Sharia'h
laws, insurgency in the Niger Delta, inter-ethnic clashes, and the
Boko Haram insurgency. Despite these tensions of, and anxieties
about, democratic viability and stability in Nigeria, has
democratic rule come to stay in Africa's most populous country? Are
the overall conditions of Nigerian politics, economy and
socio-cultural dynamics now permanently amenable to uninterrupted
democratic rule? Have all the social forces which, in the past,
pressed Nigeria towards military intervention and autocratic rule
resolved themselves in favour of unbroken representative
government? If so, what are the factors and forces that produced
this compromise and how can Nigeria's shallow democracy be
sustained, deepened and strengthened? This book attempts to address
these questions by exploring the various dimensions of Nigeria's
Fourth Republic in a bid to understand the tensions and stresses of
democratic rule in a deeply divided major African state. The
contributors engage in comparative analysis of the political,
economic, social challenges that Nigeria has faced in the more than
two decades of the Fourth Republic and the ways in which these were
resolved - or left unresolved - in a bid to ensure the survival of
democratic rule. This key book that examines both the quality of
Nigeria's democratic state and its international relations, and
issues such as human rights and the peace infrastructure, will be
invaluable in increasing our understanding of contemporary
democratic experiences in the neo-liberal era in Africa.
Explores Jackie Robinson’s compelling and complicated legacy
Before the United States Supreme Court ruled against segregation in
public schools, and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus
seat in Montgomery, Alabama, Jackie Robinson walked onto the
diamond on April 15, 1947, as first baseman for the Brooklyn
Dodgers, making history as the first African American to integrate
Major League Baseball in the twentieth century. Today a national
icon, Robinson was a complicated man who navigated an even more
complicated world that both celebrated and despised him. Many are
familiar with Robinson as a baseball hero. Few, however, know of
the inner turmoil that came with his historic status. Featuring
piercing essays from a range of distinguished sportswriters,
cultural critics, and scholars, this book explores Robinson’s
perspectives and legacies on civil rights, sports, faith, youth,
and nonviolence, while providing rare glimpses into the struggles
and strength of one of the nation’s most athletically gifted and
politically significant citizens. Featuring a foreword by
celebrated directors and producers Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and
David McMahon, this volume recasts Jackie Robinson’s legacy and
establishes how he set a precedent for future civil rights
activism, from Black Lives Matter to Colin Kaepernick.
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Frank Duveneck: American Master (Hardcover)
Julie Aronson; Contributions by Sarah Burns, Andre Dombrowski, Elizabeth A Simmons, Kristin L. Spangenberg, …
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R1,390
Discovery Miles 13 900
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Seeing the bold, confident handling with which Frank Duveneck
(1848--1919) infuses life into his subjects can be breathtaking.
This is the first major publication in more than 30 years devoted
to Duveneck, one of the most influential and widely respected
late-nineteenth century American artists. Beloved to his students,
Duveneck was lauded by many Gilded Age luminaries such as James
Abbott McNeill Whistler and Henry James. Yet a century after his
death, he is largely known only for a single, brilliant painting,
The Whistling Boy. By contextualizing his work in the artistic,
cultural and social milieus of the time, this publication offers
diverse perspectives on Duveneck's life, work, subjects and
reputation. The essays span his beginnings as a painter of dark
realism to his later impressionistic work and examine his
significance as a printmaker and draftsman. The lavishly
illustrated volume includes a chronology and selected bibliography.
Explores Jackie Robinson's compelling and complicated legacy Before
the United States Supreme Court ruled against segregation in public
schools, and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat in
Montgomery, Alabama, Jackie Robinson walked onto the diamond on
April 15, 1947, as first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers, making
history as the first African American to integrate Major League
Baseball in the twentieth century. Today a national icon, Robinson
was a complicated man who navigated an even more complicated world
that both celebrated and despised him. Many are familiar with
Robinson as a baseball hero. Few, however, know of the inner
turmoil that came with his historic status. Featuring piercing
essays from a range of distinguished sportswriters, cultural
critics, and scholars, this book explores Robinson's perspectives
and legacies on civil rights, sports, faith, youth, and
nonviolence, while providing rare glimpses into the struggles and
strength of one of the nation's most athletically gifted and
politically significant citizens. Featuring a foreword by
celebrated directors and producers Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and
David McMahon, this volume recasts Jackie Robinson's legacy and
establishes how he set a precedent for future civil rights
activism, from Black Lives Matter to Colin Kaepernick.
Honore Sharrer (1920-2009) was a major art world figure in 1940s
America, celebrated for exquisitely detailed paintings conveying
subtly subversive critiques of the political and artistic climate
of her time. This book offers the first critical reassessment of
the artist: a leftist, female painter committed to figuration in an
era when anti-Communist sentiment and masculine Abstract
Expressionism dominated American culture. Her brightly colored,
humorous, and distinctly feminine paintings combine elements of
social realism and surrealism to seductive and disquieting effect.
This publication is a timely reevaluation of an artist who pushed
the boundaries of figurative painting with playfulness and biting
wit. Distributed for the Columbus Museum of Art Exhibition
Schedule: Columbus Museum of Art (02/10/17-05/21/17) Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (06/30/17-09/03/17) Smith
College Museum of Art, Northamton, MA (09/21/17-01/07/18)
From the simple assertion that 'words matter' in the study of
visual art, this comprehensive but eminently readable volume
gathers an extraordinary selection of words - painters and
sculptors writing in their diaries, critics responding to a
sensational exhibition, groups of artists issuing stylistic
manifestos, and poets reflecting on particular works of art. Along
with a broad array of canonical texts, Sarah Burns and John Davis
have assembled an astonishing variety of unknown, little known, or
undervalued documents to convey the story of American art through
the many voices of its contemporary practitioners, consumers, and
commentators. "American Art to 1900" highlights such critically
important themes as women artists, African American representation
and expression, regional and itinerant artists, Native Americans
and the frontier, popular culture and vernacular imagery,
institutional history, and more. With its hundreds of explanatory
head notes providing essential context and guidance to readers,
this book reveals the documentary riches of American art and its
many intersecting histories in unprecedented breadth, depth, and
detail.
The Constitution of the United States divides war powers between
the executive and legislative branches to guard against ill-advised
or unnecessary military action. This division of powers compels
both branches to hold each other accountable and work in tandem.
And yet, since the Cold War, congressional ambition has waned on
this front. Even when Congress does provide initial authorization
for larger operations, they do not provide strict parameters or
clear end dates. As a result, one president after another has
initiated and carried out poorly developed and poorly executed
military policy. The Politics of War Powers offers a Measured,
deeply informed look at how the American constitutional system
broke down, how it impacts decision-making today, and how we might
find our way out of this unhealthy power division. Sarah Burns
starts with a nuanced account of the theoretical and historical
development of war powers in the United States. Where discussions
of presidential power often lean on the concept of the Lockean
Prerogative, Burns locates a more constructive source in
Montesquieu. Unlike Locke, Montesquieu combines universal normative
prescriptions with an emphasis on tailoring the structure to the
unique needs of a society. In doing so, the separation of powers
can be customized while maintaining the moderation needed to create
a healthy institutional balance. He demonstrates the importance of
forcing the branches into dialogue, putting them, as he says, "in a
position to resist" each other. Burns's conclusion-after tracing
changes through Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration, the
Cold War, and the War on Terror-is that presidents now command a
dangerous degree of unilateral power. Burns's work ranges across
Montesquieu's theory, the debate over the creation of the
Constitution, historical precedent, and the current crisis. Through
her analysis, both a fuller picture of the alterations to the
constitutional system and ideas on how to address the resulting
imbalance of power emerge.
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Whistler and the World (Hardcover)
Justin McCann; Foreword by Sharon Corwin; Text written by Magdalen Abe, Maria Bowe, Sarah Burns, …
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Discovery Miles 12 500
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On April 20th, 1989, two passersby discovered the body of the "Central Park jogger" crumpled in a ravine. She'd been raped and severely beaten. Within days five black and Latino teenagers were apprehended, all five confessing to the crime.
The staggering torrent of media coverage that ensued, coupled with fierce public outcry, exposed the deep-seated race and class divisions in New York City at the time. The minors were tried and convicted as adults despite no evidence linking them to the victim. Over a decade later, when DNA tests connected serial rapist Matias Reyes to the crime, the government, law enforcement, social institutions and media of New York were exposed as having undermined the individuals they were designed to protect. Here, Sarah Burns recounts this historic case for the first time since the young men's convictions were overturned, telling, at last, the full story of one of New York's most legendary crimes.
The events surrounding the Central Park Five are dramatised in the critically-acclaimed When They See Us - a Netflix series directed by Ava Duvernay.
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