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    In this work, Jane Mansbridge's fresh insights uncover a significant democratic irony - the development of self-defeating, contradictory forces within a democratic movement in the course of its struggle to promote its version of the common good. Mansbridge's book is absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in democratic theory and practice. ... Read more

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  • Unequally Divided

    Impossible decisions during the Vietnam era overshadowed difficult choices between love and life's destiny

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    Unequally Divided takes place during the late 1960s when the nation is split over the Vietnam War, civil rights issues, and political turmoil. Jorden Marshall, a young school teacher, from Columbus, Georgia is fighting to define her own beliefs. She and Lt. Alex Whelan, her future husband, present a united front not to be broken by the terrible war he is fighting in. Certainly, not by the ... Read more

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  • Oscar Micheaux and His Circle

    African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era

    Oscar Micheaux—the most prolific African American filmmaker to date and a filmmaking giant of the silent period—has finally found his rightful place in film history. Both artist and showman, Micheaux stirred controversy in his time as he confronted issues such as lynching, miscegenation, peonage and white supremacy, passing, and corruption among black clergymen. In this important collection, ... Read more

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  • The Entrepreneurial State in China

    Real Estate and Commerce Departments in Reform Era Tianjin

    by Jane Duckett ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on China in Transition
    Jane Duckett describes in detail new state business activities in China and explains why they have appeared. Using research on the northern city of Tianjin during the 1990s, she argues that individual departments, within the Chinese state, are involved in the market economy through the establishment of their own businesses. The book demonstrates that many of these businesses are genuinely ... Read more

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  • Social Aspects of Health, Medicine and Disease in the Colonial and Post-colonial Era

    From the 1600s, enslaved people, and after abolition of slavery, indentured labourers were transported to work on plantations in distant European colonies. Inhuman conditions and new pathogens often resulted in disease and death. Central to this book is the encounter between introduced and local understanding of disease and the therapeutic responses in the Caribbean, Indian and Pacific contexts ... Read more

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  • Gender in an Era of Post-truth Populism

    Pedagogies, Challenges and Strategies

    Series series Bloomsbury Gender and Education
    What does it mean to be pedagogical in a post-truth landscape? How might feminist thought and action work to intervene in this environment?Gender in an Era of Post-truth Populism draws together leading feminist scholars of gender and education to explore the current significance of the rise of populist policies and discourses and the challenges it poses to the hard-won battles regarding the rights ... Read more

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  • The Hidden Passion of Regency Era – 40 Romance Novels

    A Classic Romance Anthology of Courtship, Gothic Desire, Social Manners, and Moral Rebellion

    The Hidden Passion of Regency Era – 40 Romance Novels gathers courtship plots, clandestine attachments, seductions, marriages of convenience, and moral reckonings into a capacious panorama of European romantic fiction. Its range extends from epistolary intrigue and Gothic intensity to social comedy, historical romance, domestic realism, and psychologically searching narrative. Alongside the ... Read more

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  • Education in an Era of Schooling

    Critical perspectives of Educational Practice and Action Research. A Festschrift for Stephen Kemmis

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    This book is a Festschrift for Emeritus Professor Stephen Kemmis, who has a long and eminent career as an educational researcher and academic spanning over 40 years. His work in curriculum, evaluation, critical practice, action research and practice theory has been influential across all continents of the world.The book examines critical perspectives on educational practice and the participatory ... Read more

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  • Women Writing Latin

    Women Writing Latin in Roman Antiquity, Late Antiquity, and the Early Christian Era

    Series series Women Writers of the World
    This book is part of a 3-volume anthology of women's writing in Latin from antiquity to the early modern era. Each volume provides texts, contexts, and translations of a wide variety of works produced by women, including dramatic, poetic, and devotional writing. Volume One covers the age of Roman Antiquity and early Christianity. ... Read more

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    IT Corporations, the State, and e-Government

    Government information systems are big business (costing over 1 per cent of GDP a year). They are critical to all aspects of public policy and governmental operations. Governments spend billions on them - for instance, the UK alone commits £14 billion a year to public sector IT operations. Yet governments do not generally develop or run their own systems, instead relying on private sector ... Read more

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  • Transatlantic Obligations

    Creating the Bonds of Family in Conquest-Era Peru and Spain

    The sixteenth-century changes wrought by expansion of Spanish empire into Peru shaped the ways of being a family in colonial Peru. Even as migration, race mixture, and transculturation took place, family members fulfilled obligations to one another by adapting custom to a changing world. Family began to shift when, from the moment of their arrival in 1532, Spaniards were joined with elite ... Read more

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