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  • Reagan and Pinochet

    The Struggle over US Policy toward Chile

    This book is the first comprehensive study of the Reagan administration's policy toward the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Based on new primary and archival materials, as well as on original interviews with former US and Chilean officials, it traces the evolution of Reagan policy from an initial 'close embrace' of the junta to a re-evaluation of whether Pinochet was a ... Read more

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  • Latin America in the Time of Cholera

    Electoral Politics, Market Economics, and Permanent Crisis

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1992, Latin America in the Time of Cholera questions many ideas regarding the advent of a new era of democracy, peace, and north-south cooperation for development in the post-Cold War period by challenging several myths that shape United States policy toward Latin America. James Petras and Morris Morley trenchantly argue that electoral regimes and free markets in the hemisphere ... Read more

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  • Empire or Republic?

    American Global Power and Domestic Decay

    Empire or Republic? makes the necessary, but much overlooked, link between our nation's international policies and the domestic situation. The authors contend that the Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations have all focused on global leadership to the detriment of pressing social, economic and political problems at home. ... Read more

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  • Edith Morley Before and After

    Reminiscences of a Working Life

    by Edith Morley ...
    Edith Morley (1875-1964) was a scholar and the main 20th century editor of the works of Henry Crabb Robinson. She was the first woman appointed to a chair at an English university-level institution. Born into a middle-class Victorian family, she hated being a girl, but a forward-thinking home life and a good education enabled her to overcome prejudices and become Professor of English Language at ... Read more

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    Democratization in the Late 20th Century

    Series series The Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series
    Between 1974 and 1990 more than thirty countries in southern Europe, Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe shifted from authoritarian to democratic systems of government. This global democratic revolution is probably the most important political trend in the late twentieth century. In The Third Wave, Samuel P. Huntington analyzes the causes and nature of these democratic transitions, ... Read more

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  • Dead Aid

    Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa

    by Dambisa Moyo ...
    In the past fifty years, more than $1 trillion in development-related aid has been transferred from rich countries to Africa. Has this assistance improved the lives of Africans? No. In fact, across the continent, the recipients of this aid are not better off as a result of it, but worse—much worse.In Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa today and ... Read more

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  • Dominion

    The History of England from the Battle of Waterloo to Victoria's Diamond Jubilee

    by Peter Ackroyd ...
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  • Capitalism

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    In the wake of the global financial crisis, and ongoing savage government cuts across the world, Garry Leech addresses a pressing and necessary topic: the nature of contemporary capitalism, and how it inherently generates inequality and structural violence.Drawing on a number of fascinating case studies from across the world - including the forced displacement of farmers in Mexico, farmer suicides ... Read more

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  • The Victorians

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    People, not abstract ideas, make history, and nowhere is this more revealed than in A. N. Wilson's superb portrait of the Victorians, in which hundreds of different lives have been pieced together to tell a story - one which is still unfinished in our own day. The 'global village' is a Victorian village and many of the ideas we take for granted, for good or ill, originated with these extraordinary ... Read more

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  • The Political Economy of Brazilian Foreign Policy

    Nuclear Energy, Trade and Itaipu

    Series series Coleção Política Externa Brasileira
    This publication fills the increasing demand for analyses about the Brazilian diplomacy, from the best comprehension of theBrazilian positioning in non-proliferation treaties to the Additional Protocol of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), or the Brazilian attitude toward themes of the Doha Round, and the difficulties that occasionally rise with Paraguay regarding Itaipu. The author ... Read more

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  • The Bottom Billion : Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

    Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

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    Global poverty Paul Collier points out is actually falling quite rapidly for about eighty percent of the world. The real crisis lies in a group of about 50 failing states the bottom billion whose problems defy traditional approaches to alleviating poverty. In The Bottom Billion Collier contends that these fifty failed states pose the central challenge of the developing world in the twenty-first ... Read more

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  • The Age of Decadence

    Britain 1880 to 1914

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