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Red Flags: Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy by George Magnus
epub |eng | 2018-09-11 | Author:George Magnus [Magnus, George]

China’s demographic dividend is banked In 2012, China’s WAP fell for the first time, by 3.45 million people, and the rate of decline is going to accelerate significantly after 2020, ...
( Category: Diplomacy January 19,2020 )
Scots and Catalans: Union and Disunion by J. H. Elliott
epub |eng | 2018-08-21 | Author:J. H. Elliott [Elliott, J. H.]

CHAPTER 5 The Call for Home Rule 1860–1975 Grievance and Redress A sense of grievance can easily become all-consuming. Grievance was no stranger to nineteenth-century Scots and Catalans as they ...
( Category: Comparative Politics January 19,2020 )
The Pitcher and the Dictator by Averell "Ace" Smith
epub |eng | 2018-02-06 | Author:Averell "Ace" Smith [Smith, Averell Ace]

Dr. Aybar took out his folded speech, which had been sitting in his pocket for nearly two weeks, and read it aloud: “We have gone to the Honorable President Trujillo ...
( Category: African-American Studies January 19,2020 )
Eric Hobsbawm by Evans Richard J.;
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Evans, Richard J.;

III While Eric was away touring Latin America in 1962–3, Marlene had moved into Eric’s flat in Gordon Mansions in Huntley Street, around the corner from Birkbeck. On his return, ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
Freedom's Laboratory by Audra J. Wolfe
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Audra J. Wolfe [Wolfe, Audra J.]

Unbeknownst to the reporters, the question of what the president knew and when he knew it would drive both Soviet propaganda and histories of the CIA’s covert activities for years ...
( Category: History & Philosophy January 19,2020 )
The Crime of Nationalism: Britain, Palestine, and Nation-Building on the Fringe of Empire by Matthew Kraig Kelly
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-10-03 | Author:Matthew Kraig Kelly [Kelly, Matthew Kraig]

WIGS, WARDERS, AND WITNESSES: REBEL INSTITUTION-BUILDING AND THE BRITISH AND ZIONIST RESPONSE In May 1938, the high commissioner sent word to the colonial secretary that in the area of the ...
( Category: Europe January 19,2020 )
Future Politics by Jamie Susskind
epub |eng | 2018-06-07 | Author:Jamie Susskind

Algorithmic Distribution What is the future of distributive justice? I suggest that, in a substantial departure from the past, algorithms will play four vital roles. But we should recap briefly ...
( Category: Democracy January 19,2020 )
What Is China?: Territory, Ethnicity, Culture, and History by Ge Zhaoguang
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2018-03-26 | Author:Ge Zhaoguang

The Mixed, Multilayered State of Chinese Culture: The Song-Dynasty Transition I have previously written about the emergence of a “China sensibility” in the Song dynasty and argued that the open ...
( Category: Human Geography January 19,2020 )
Impeachment by Charles L. Jr. Black
epub |eng | 1974-01-15 | Author:Charles L., Jr. Black [Black, Jr., Charles L. Black,]

CHAPTER 7 Seven Fallacies Though much has changed in the practices of the US government and in the expectations of the public since 1974, much abides. From the very beginning ...
( Category: Legislative Branch January 19,2020 )
Ojibwe Stories of the Upper Berens River by Jennifer S. H. Brown
epub |eng | 2017-10-25 | Author:Jennifer S. H. Brown [Brown, Jennifer S. H.]

The following paragraphs draw in part on a paper that Maureen Matthews and I presented to the American Society for Ethnohistory in November 1995, building on our Berens River researches ...
( Category: Americas January 19,2020 )
Chinese Working-Class Lives by Hill Gates
epub |eng | 2017-09-19 | Author:Hill Gates

Zhang Zhengming: Air Force Loyalist Zhang Zhengming, Zhang Xiuzhen’s husband, is a retired air force mechanic from south China. Now in his late sixties, he has served the Nationalist military ...
( Category: China January 19,2020 )
A World Ablaze: The Rise of Martin Luther and the Birth of the Reformation by Craig Harline
epub |eng | 2017-09-05 | Author:Craig Harline [Harline, Craig]

THE POPE’S NEW GERMAN MAN In a meeting of the cardinals in Rome on January 9, 1520, an Italian churchman stood up and repeated what Johann Eck had been saying ...
( Category: Lutheran January 19,2020 )
Dust Bowls of Empire: Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of Green Capitalism by Hannah Holleman
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-11-20 | Author:Hannah Holleman [Holleman, Hannah]

Prior to the war, Hugh Hammond Bennett—student of the global history of soil conservation, father of soil conservation in the United States, first head of the Soil Conservation Service, and ...
( Category: Economic History January 19,2020 )
Women in the American Revolution by Barbara B. Oberg
epub |eng | 2019-02-19 | Author:Barbara B. Oberg [Oberg, Barbara B.]

[S]ome days we have a number of cannon and shells from Boston and Bunkers Hill, but it does not seem to surprise any one but me; I confess I shudder ...
( Category: Women in History January 19,2020 )
Race for Profit by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

THE MILWAUKEE WAY While HUD-FHA offices in Detroit were being applauded for their heavy use of low-income homeownership programs, Lawrence Katz, who had directed the FHA in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for ...
( Category: Ethnic & National January 19,2020 )

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