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Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1986. Scholarly highly acclaimed text presents a detailed overview of the history of NATO, focusing on the relationship between NATO's strategic doctrine, its military capabilities, and the political relationship between its leading member states. 242 pgs. Publisher's stamp on the front endpaper. Dustjacket in mylar.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾"… Read more about this item

New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1936. Classic text presents a biographical account by ex-Legionnaire James Armstrong depicting the events preceding and following his decision to join the French Foreign Legion in the 1920's. Includes details and personal recollections of the five years he spent with the Legion (under the alias James Smith), his assignment in the 3rd Regiment in Morocco,… Read more about this item

London, U.K.: Davis-Poynter Ltd., 1972. Scholarly text examines the significance of the Australian frontier and the similarity to the American West, and explains the lure Australia seems to have for many American settlers today and how they have reacted to it. The author describes how the colonisation of America, in the first instance by religious non-conformists, and of Australia by… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1994. Scholarly interdisciplinary study explores the culture of a fully industrialized society with a traditional CHinese background, including key cultural influences on Taiwan such as traditional Chinese agrarian society, the legacy of Japanese colonialism, the cosmopolitan West, and unique aspects of the indigenous way of life. Includes detailed and provacative case studies which examine the wide… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1997. Scholarly text presents a compelling history of imperialism in the New World, in which the author explores the role of smuggling in colonial Spanish America. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, he sheds important new light on the depth and intensity of political corruption and commercial illegalities in the Spanish empire. With its… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1992. Providing an account of political repression in Argentina, this scholarly text takes as its theme the intersection of religion, violence and psychosexuality as they relate to the desire for power and to the myths and rituals manifesting that desire. Graziano's inquiry into the source of political violence is culturally grounded, focusing on psychological, historical, anthropological… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1991. Scholarly text presents a detailed study of the cultural aspects of the Soviet city of Odessa in the middle decades of the twentieth century, based on many hours of conversation with hundreds of people- former residents of Odessa who immigrated to the United States in the 1970's. In their own words they describe what it… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1999. Scholarly text examines explanations for child labor in an economic context by presenting a model of the labor market for children using the new economics of the family framework to derive the supply of child labor and the traditional labor theory of marginal productivity to derive the demand for child labor; the model is placed… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1992. Scholarly reference text provides a deeper understanding of national ferment in the USSR, and presents the dilemmas posed by the national question, in the words of the people who will ultimately shape its resolution. The authors juxtapose statements by leading all-union, republican and grass-roots political figures to provide a balanced perspective on such topics as… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1985. Scholarly revised and expanded text presents a detailed study of the Soviet system and its policies, including topics covering the struggle for succession; dictatorship and leadership; the Stalin era; Marxism after 100 years; culture and the Total State; foundations of totalitarianism; the workers and the worker's state; the Soviet electorate; the Kremlin; socialist autocracy; Leninist… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1989. Scholarly text authored by Richard Pipes who is one of the best observers of the Soviet Union. He asserts that not withstanding formal changes in the nature of Russian governments since the Middle Ages there are continuities that defy reform and survive revolution. Pipes explores continuities in the treatment of ethnic minorities, focusing on the… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1990. Scholarly text presents the first study of freed and fugitive slaves in East Africa and the first full account of the struggles of slaves and ex-slaves for freedom during the colonial conquest, the process of the conquest began with the abolition of the East Africa sea-borne slave trade in 1873 and ended with the abolition… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1992. Scholarly study reopens the debate about the size of the Valley Mexico's indigenous population before the Spanish conquest and the scale and rate of its decline thereafter. The author assesses population size, based upon a computer-generated simulation of the response of the indigenous population to a variety of factors that determined its eventual collapse. Factors… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1993. Comprehensive well-researched narrative persuasively attacks both the rationalization for the Argentinian military coup in 1976 and the U.S. influences that supported seven years of societal repression. A staff member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a former reporter for Newsweek and other publications, Andersen draws on more than 1000 interviews as well as… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1989. Scholarly text presents the first study of the rise and decline of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Puebla to appear in English, which portrays the variegated pattern of industrial life that emerged in Puebla de los Angeles- Mexico's second largest city and major manufacturing center until the turn of the 20th century. The author describes how world… Read more about this item

Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Comprehensive scholarly text presents a detailed study by three well-known historians of ideas whom examine the diverse forms taken in nineteenth-century Britain by the aspiration to develop what was then known as a 'science of politics'. This aspiration encompassed a more extensive and ambitious range of concerns than is implied by the modern term… Read more about this item

Philadelphia, PA.: Lea Brothers & Co., 1901. 1901. Lea, an American historian, devoted himself to research, mainly on church history in the later middle ages, and his literary reputation rests on the important books he produced on this subject. In this volume he writes on the history of the mudejar who is a Moslem by religion and subject to Christian… Read more about this item

Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1997. Scholarly text examines the portrayal of the Soviet Union in American film, and shows how these films reflect the attitudes of Americans, as well as how each portrayal changed with the often uneasy relations between the two countries. The authors show how films, as rich repositories of national consciousness, can be analyzed to reveal time-bound… Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. Scholarly text describes the economic, ideological and organizational developments in the capital of Moscow during the Civil War that raged from Poland to the Pacific in 1918-1921. The city was transformed, but the changes were accompanied by constant debates as the Soviet communists in power struggled with the problem of applying socialist measures in… Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. Scholarly text traces the history of the urban wing of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party (PSR) through the revolution of 1905-07 and on to the eve of the First World War. In the process, the validity of a number of assumptions and generalizations about the party is challenged, while support for the PSR is revealed as… Read more about this item