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  • Post-Colonial National Identity in the Philippines

    Celebrating the Centennial of Independence

    by Greg Bankoff, Kathleen Weekley ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2002.Presenting a fresh understanding of the construction of Post-Colonial national identity in the new context of globalization, this text looks at the dilemmas of the requirement to compete in the global economy and the political demands of human rights and cultural differences. The authors are concerned with the ways in which a modern state attempts to mould ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

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  • Populism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Cas Mudde, Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Populism is a central concept in the current media debates about politics and elections. However, like most political buzzwords, the term often floats from one meaning to another, and both social scientists and journalists use it to denote diverse phenomena. What is populism really? Who are the populist leaders? And what is the relationship between populism and democracy? This book answers these ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • Activists beyond Borders

    Advocacy Networks in International Politics

    by Margaret E. Keck, Kathryn A. Sikkink ...
    Valuable reading for anyone concerned with contemporary dynamics of social change. â• International AffairsMargaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists that coalesce and operate across national frontiers. Their targets may be international organizations or the policies of particular states. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Canada and the Third World

    Overlapping Histories

    Edited by Karen Dubinsky, Sean Mills, Scott Rutherford ...
    Even though they are aware of the Third World in relation to their daily lives, most Canadians know little about the historical foundations and complex nature of their country's entanglements with non-Western societies.Canada and the Third World provides a long overdue introduction to Canada's historical relationship with the Third World. The book critically explores this relationship by asking ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • State and Society in the Philippines

    by Donna J. Amoroso, Patricio N. Abinales ...
    Series series State & Society in East Asia
    This clear and nuanced introduction explores the Philippines’ ongoing and deeply charged dilemma of state-society relations through a historical treatment of state formation and the corresponding conflicts and collaboration between government leaders and social forces. Patricio N. Abinales and Donna J. Amoroso examine the long history of institutional weakness in the Philippines and the varied ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • American Empire

    A Global History

    by A. G. Hopkins ...
    Series series America in the World
    A new history of the United States that turns American exceptionalism on its headAmerican Empire is a panoramic work of scholarship that presents a bold new global perspective on the history of the United States. Drawing on his expertise in economic history and the imperial histories of Britain and Europe, A. G. Hopkins takes readers from the colonial era to today to show how, far from diverging, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Global Multiculturalism

    Comparative Perspectives on Ethnicity, Race, and Nation

    by Grant H. Cornwell, Eve Walsh Stoddard, Henley Adams, Patricia Alden, Anne Csete, Judith De Groat, Edimilson de Almeida Pereira, Louis Dupont, Kirk Fuoss, Randall T. H. Hill, William Hunt, Joseph Kling, Nathalie LeMarchand, John Makumbe, Celia Nyamweru, Laura Nuzzi O’Shaughnessy, Ansil Ramsay, Steven F. White ...
    Global Multiculturalism offers a rich collection of case studies on ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity drawn from thirteen countries-each unique in the way it understands, negotiates, and represents its diversity. A multi-disciplinary group of authors shows how, in different nations, identity groups are included, or made invisible by forced assimilation, or reviled even to the point of ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Africa's Contemporary Challenges

    The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral

    Edited by Carlos Lopes ...
    This book reviews Cabral’s intellectual contribution to current debates on race, identity, nation building, democracy, leadership and ethics. The key leader of the national liberation movements of former Portuguese African colonies is considered to be one of their foremost intellectuals the continent has produced. This rare combination of freedom fighter, operational campaigner and astute ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • The Promise and Perils of Populism

    Global Perspectives

    Edited by Carlos de la Torre ...
    From the protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square to the Tea Party in the United States to the campaign to elect indigenous leader Evo Morales in Bolivia, modern populist movements command international attention and compel political and social change. When citizens demand "power to the people," they evoke corrupt politicians, imperialists, or oligarchies that have appropriated power from its ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Indigenous Peoples and Colonialism

    Global Perspectives

    by Colin Samson, Carlos Gigoux ...
    Indigenous peoples have gained increasing international visibility in their fight against longstanding colonial occupation by nation-states. Although living in different locations around the world and practising highly varied ways of life, indigenous peoples nonetheless are affected by similar patterns of colonial dispossession and violence. In defending their collective rights to self ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Democracy

    by Charles Tilly ...
    Democracy identifies the general processes causing democratization and de-democratization at a national level across the world over the last few hundred years. It singles out integration of trust networks into public politics, insulation of public politics from categorical inequality, and suppression of autonomous coercive power centres as crucial processes. Through analytic narratives and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Union by Law

    Filipino American Labor Activists, Rights Radicalism, and Racial Capitalism

    by Michael W. McCann, George I. Lovell ...
    Series series Chicago Series in Law and Society
    "A pioneering subaltern history of immigrant workers and their relationship to law and legal institutions in the 20th century." — The Law & Society ReviewStarting in the early 1900s, many thousands of native Filipinos were conscripted as laborers in American West Coast agricultural fields and Alaska salmon canneries. There, they found themselves confined to exploitative low-wage jobs in racially ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus