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Across the West, something called multiculturalism is in crisis. Regarded as the failed experiment of liberal elites, commentators and politicians compete to denounce its corrosive legacies; parallel communities threatening social cohesion, enemies within cultivated by irresponsible cultural relativism, mediaeval practices subverting national "ways of life" and universal values. This important new book challenges this familiar narrative of the rise and fall of multiculturalism by challenging the existence of a coherent era of "multiculturalism" in the first place. The authors argue that what we are witnessing is not so much a rejection of multiculturalism as a rejection of lived multiculture. In documenting mainstream racism and the anxieties that inform it, Lentin and Titley argue that the crisis is a projection of neoliberal societies' disjunctures. Combining theory with a reading of contemporary events, it examines the transnational, mediated nature of crisis itself, and argues challenging this notion provides activists with a chance to transcend resurgent racism.

This collection of essays brings together historians examining social and economic crises from the thirteenth century to the twenty-first. Crisis is an almost ubiquitous concept for historians, applicable across (amongst others) the histories of agriculture, disease, finance and trade. Yet there has been little attempt to compare its use as an explanatory tool between these discrete fields of research. This volume breaks down the boundaries between traditional historical time periods and sub-disciplines of history to examine the ways in which past societies have coped with crises, and the role of crisis in generating economic and social change. Should we conceptualise a medieval agrarian or financial crisis differently from their modern counterparts? Were there similarities in how contemporaries responded to famine or outbreaks of disease? How comparable are crises within households, within institutions, or across national and international networks of trade? Contributors examine how crises have shaped economic and social life in a range of studies from the Great Depression in 1930s Latin America to the outbreak of plague in seventeenth-century central Europe, and from sheep and cattle murrain in fourteenth-century England to the Northern Rock building society collapse of 2007. A. T. BROWN is an Addison Wheeler Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at Durham University. ANDY BURN is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Durham University. ROB DOHERTY is a doctoral candidate in history at Durham University.

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A collection of studies in which Arendt, from the standpoint of a political philosopher, views the crises of the 1960s and early 1970s as challenges to the american form of government. Index.

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A collection of studies in which Arendt, from the standpoint of a political philosopher, views the crises of the 1960s and early 1970s as challenges to the american form of government. Index.

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A quoi bon, pour comprendre l'etat et l'evolution de la philosophie du XIXe siecle apres la mort de Hegel, commencer par dresser la liste des philosophes d'une periode pendant laquelle on annonce partout l'agonie de la philosophie elle-meme? A quoi bon commencer par quantifier l'influence des philosophes et des ecoles philosophiques d'une periode durant laquelle les philosophes confessent ouvertement leur decouragement et esperent la venue d'un grand reformateur qui puisse sortir la philosophie du grand discredit dans lequel elle est tombee? La seconde moitie du XIXe siecle, c'est d'abord cette agonie et cette anarchie, ce decouragement et cette desorientation, la grande crise de la philosophie, une periode de mutation majeure dont les principes commandent jusqu'a nos jours.

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8vo in hardcover with no dust jacket as issued. East European Quarterly, 1976. vi, Table of Contents, 277pp. East European Monographs, No. XXI. Author: Anthony Tihamer Komjathy.

Crises and Commitments is the first volume of the Official History of Australia's involvement in Southeast Asian conflicts from 1948 to 1975. This book covers the domestic and international politics of Australia's involvement in Southeast Asia, through the Malayan Emergency (1948-60) and the critical period of the Indonesian-Malaysian Confrontation (1963-66), up to the crucial commitment of the first battalion of Australian combat troops to the Vietnam, War, announced on 29 April 1965. Like the official historians of the 1914-18, 1939-45 and Korean wars, Peter Edwards has been granted unrestricted access to all relevant Australian Government records and an assurance of uncensored publication. Dr. Edwards tells for the first time the full story of Australian decision-making that led to the costly and controversial commitment to the Vietnam War.Crises and Commitments sets this decision-making in the context of both Australian domestic politics - elections, party splits, anti-war movements and the like - and international politics - the development of the Cold War, the growth of nationalist and communist movements in Southeast Asia and the changing policies of the great powers. The author's unrestricted access to Australian Government records makes Crises and Commitments the authoritative account of the period. The book also draws extensively on material from the archives of Australia's four principal allies - the United Kingdom, the United States, France and New Zealand. To supplement the documentary record, Dr. Edwards has interviewed politicians, officials and private citizens who were involved in the critical events of these years.

The world created by the legacies of empire and colonialism now confronts some deep crises of civility, precipitated by globalization and climate change. In this volume, Dipesh Chakrabarty examines these distinct---but interrelated---issues side by side.Varied ideas of civilization and humanism have shaped notions of a global humanity in the lingering twilight of the European empires. Detailing these ideas, in the section titled `Global Worlds', Chakrabarty outlines the conflicts and connections that arise from global encounters in our postcolonial age. The second section, `The Planetary Human', on the other hand, explores the significance of planetary climate change for humanistic and postcolonial thought. Chakrabarty argues that such change demands not only critiques of capitalism and inequality, but also new thinking about the human species as a whole---our patterns of justice, writing of history, and relationship with nature in the age of the Anthropocene.The global is human-centric in construction; the planetary involves many other actors and thus includes the thorny question of how we go beyond the anthropocentric to discuss and conceptualize the agency of the non-human.`The Crises of Civilization is a marvelous feast ... Challenging, moving, wise, and witty, this work by one of our leading historians is a major event.'Martha C. Nussbaum, The University of Chicago, USA`The first serious effort to push the subaltern school of history ... beyond its familiar world of global theoretical and empirical concerns, to open a conversation with planetary history... A call for the emancipation of the discipline of history in India.'Ashis Nandy, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, IndiaCover visual: The natural and the human intertwine in a south-to-north perspective on a world that has been labelled north-to-south.Courtesy: Anna Madeleine. `Get your world out of my head'.Pigment ink and acrylic on inverted map. 2009.Oxford University Press

Today, when it seems like everything has been privatized, when austerity is too often seen as an economic or political problem that can be solved through better policy, and when the idea of moral values has been commandeered by the right, how can we re-imagine the forces used as weapons against community, solidarity, ecology and life itself?In this stirring call to arms, Max Haiven argues that capitalism has colonized how we all imagine and express what is valuable. Looking at the decline of the public sphere, the corporatization of education, the privatization of creativity, and the power of finance capital in opposition to the power of the imagination and the growth of contemporary social movements, Haiven provides a powerful argument for creating an anti-capitalist commons. Not only is capitalism crisis itself, but moving beyond it is the only key to survival. Crucial reading for all those questioning the imposition of austerity and hoping for a fairer future beyond it.

This work addresses the main strategic issues in today's Persian Gulf, a region that could easily produce a crisis that would encourage international political and economic involvement. Topics discussed include: strategic balances, modernization, internal stability, and weapons of mass destruction.

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Crises and Commitments is the first volume of the Official History of Australia's involvement in Southeast Asian conflicts from 1948 to 1975. This book covers the domestic and international politics of Australia's involvement in Southeast Asia, through the Malayan Emergency (1948-60) and the critical period of the Indonesian-Malaysian Confrontation (1963-66), up to the crucial commitment of the first battalion of Australian combat troops to the Vietnam, War, announced on 29 April 1965. Like the official historians of the 1914-18, 1939-45 and Korean wars, Peter Edwards has been granted unrestricted access to all relevant Australian Government records and an assurance of uncensored publication. Dr. Edwards tells for the first time the full story of Australian decision-making that led to the costly and controversial commitment to the Vietnam War.Crises and Commitments sets this decision-making in the context of both Australian domestic politics - elections, party splits, anti-war movements and the like - and international politics - the development of the Cold War, the growth of nationalist and communist movements in Southeast Asia and the changing policies of the great powers. The author's unrestricted access to Australian Government records makes Crises and Commitments the authoritative account of the period. The book also draws extensively on material from the archives of Australia's four principal allies - the United Kingdom, the United States, France and New Zealand. To supplement the documentary record, Dr. Edwards has interviewed politicians, officials and private citizens who were involved in the critical events of these years.

This work addresses the main strategic issues in today's Persian Gulf, a region that could easily produce a crisis that would encourage international political and economic involvement. Topics discussed include: strategic balances, modernization, internal stability, and weapons of mass destruction.

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Repeatedly in the twentieth century, the United States has been involved in confrontations with other countries, each with the potential for widespread international and domestic upheaval, even disaster. In this book Michael Hunt focuses on seven such crises, presenting for each an illuminating introduction and a rich collection of original documents. His epilogue considers the nature of international crises and the U.S. record in dealing with them.The case studies include: ·the American entry into World War I the Japanese-American rivalry that led to Pearl Harbor ·the origins of the U.S.-Soviet Cold War ·the collision between China and the United States during the Korean War·the confrontation over Soviet missiles in Cuba ·Lyndon Johnson`s commitment to war in Vietnam ·and the American entanglement in the Iranian revolutionThe studies allow the reader to see U.S. foreign policymaking firsthand and to understand it as something that is shaped by interactions with other nations and leaders as well as by American values, attitudes, and needs. To provide an international perspective, both the narrative and the documents give as much attention to foreign policymakers as to their American counterparts, emphasizing the invariably dynamic, often confused, and sometimes chaotic interaction between the two sides.

Paris 2006. 1 Volume/1. -- Comme Neuf -- Broché cousu , couverture rempliée illustrée. Format in-8°( 24 x 15,8 cm )( 1175 gr ). ------ 715 pages avec quelques cartes et tableaux. ************* "" Comme le montrent la mosaïque et la monnaie figurant sur la couverture, la croyance en l'Éternité de Rome et en l'Éternité cyclique de l'Univers demeurait vive chez les habitants polythéistes des provinces romaines, du règne de Marc Aurèle à celui de Constantin, 161-337 après J. C. Durant ces presque deux siècles, de nombreux changements se firent jour. Ils concernent l'évolution tant du régime que de l'idéologie et du contenu du culte impérial ; ils concernent aussi les vertus attendues des empereurs comme de leurs représentants : sagesse, courage, valeur militaire, compassion aux difficultés des populations. Des documents peu exploités - lettre privée aux empereurs, revers monétaires, bornes milliaires, actes de Conseil Municipal sur papyrus - illustrent l'évolution des rapports entre les souverains et les cités. Invitent d'autre part à la réflexion, les transformations de la vie sociale autant que celles des imaginaires, souvent perceptibles dans l'architecture des maisons ou les choix des décors domestiques, qui permettent de mesurer l'écart séparant de plus en plus les riches élites citadines de leurs clients et dépendants. Temps de crises, de guerres extérieures et civiles, de désastres militaires comme le montre une inscription trilingue extérieure à l'Empire, et de persécutions occasionnelles des chrétiens, mais aussi temps de quêtes philosophiques et religieuses, temps de foi en l'homme, en Rome et dans le Monde, que l'on définirait volontiers aujourd'hui comme un " âge de spiritualité ", plutôt que comme un " âge d'angoisse ". Le présent livre réunit des études élaborées dans le cadre d'un programme de recherche du Centre Gustave Glotz (UMR 8585)."" ***************** Ref 446