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  • The Rift Between America and Old Europe

    The Distracted Eagle

    by Peter Merkl ...
    Series series Contemporary Security Studies
    This new book explains the recent rift between America and some of her oldest European allies, especially with Germany and France.Particular attention is devoted to the several competing interpretations of the Euro-American rift, for example, that Europeans were taken aback when American neo-conservative leaders scornfully rejected their well-meant offers of post-9/11 assistance with expressions ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • Small Town and Village in Bavaria

    The Passing of a Way of Life

    by Peter H. Merkl ...
    At the center of this investigation is the great modernization effort of a West German state, Bavaria, in the 1970s and 1980s, by means of a reform of the smaller units of local government. The reforms were meant to abolish all autonomous local governments serving populations of fewer than 3,000, thereby reducing the number of local governments in Bavaria from more than 7,000 to less than 2,000. ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Encounters with the Contemporary Radical Right

    Edited by Peter H. Merkl ...
    The cold war may be over, but there is no shortage of enemies in a world beset by resurgent nationalism, ethnic conflict, and economic rivalry. Right-wing extremists from David Duke to Jean-Marie Le Pen know how to exploit the pressure points of race, religion, and culture in a bid to keep the national and international conflict industry cooking. Encounters with the Contemporary Radical Right ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • The Revival of Right Wing Extremism in the Nineties

    Edited by Peter H. Merkl, Leonard Weinberg ...
    Most studies of the radical right concentrate on movements in a single country, neglecting to some extent the international dimensions of right-wing extremism. Here, Merkl and Weinberg adopt a comparative perspective, concentrating on the revival of the right across a variety of countries. ... Read more

    $75.57 CAD

  • Right-wing Extremism in the Twenty-first Century

    Edited by Peter Merkl, Weinberg LEONARD ...
    Revising the 1997 first edition, this study covers events that occurred in Oldham and Bradford after the year 2000. The rise of right-wing extremist groups is put under scrutiny in a number of states including Britain, Germany, Austria, Russia and France. ... Read more

    $116.99 CAD

  • Seeing Judaism Anew

    Christianity's Sacred Obligation

    by Norman Beck, Rosann Catalano, The Christian Scholars Group on Christian-Jewish Relations, Celia Deutsch, Alice Eckardt, Eugene J. Fisher, Eva Fleischner, Deirdre Good, Michael Mcgarry, John Merkle, John T. Pawlikowski, Peter Pettit, Peter Phan, Jean-Pierre Ruiz, Franklin Sherman, Joann Spillman, John Townsend, Joseph B.Tyson, Clark M. Williamson, Philip A. Cunningham, Walter Harrelson, Ruth Langer ...
    In September 2002, twenty-one prominent Catholic and Protestant scholars released the groundbreaking document 'A Sacred Obligation,' which includes ten statements about Jewish-Christian dialogue focused around a guiding claim: 'Revising Christian teaching about Judaism and the Jewish people is a central and indispensable obligation of theology in our time.' Following the worldwide reception of ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

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  • Aftershocks

    Great Powers and Domestic Reforms in the Twentieth Century

    by Seva Gunitsky ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    Over the past century, democracy spread around the world in turbulent bursts of change, sweeping across national borders in dramatic cascades of revolution and reform. Aftershocks offers a new global-oriented explanation for this wavelike spread and retreat—not only of democracy but also of its twentieth-century rivals, fascism and communism.Seva Gunitsky argues that waves of regime change are ... Read more

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  • In War's Wake

    Europe's Displaced Persons in the Postwar Order

    by Gerard Daniel Cohen ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in International History
    After WWII, Europe was awash in refugees. Never in modern times had so many been so destitute and displaced. No longer subjects of a single nation-state, this motley group of enemies and victims consisted of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, ex-Soviet POWs, ex-forced laborers in the Third Reich, legions of people who fled the advancing Red Army, and many thousands uprooted by the sheer violence ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Cold War

    Edited by Richard H. Immerman, Petra Goedde ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of the Cold War offers a broad reassessment of the period war based on new conceptual frameworks developed in the field of international history. Nearing the 25th anniversary of its end, the cold war now emerges as a distinct period in twentieth-century history, yet one which should be evaluated within the broader context of global political, economic, social, and cultural ... Read more

    $49.59 CAD

  • Final Solutions

    Mass Killing and Genocide in the 20th Century

    by Benjamin A. Valentino ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    Benjamin A. Valentino finds that ethnic hatreds or discrimination, undemocratic systems of government, and dysfunctions in society play a much smaller role in mass killing and genocide than is commonly assumed. He shows that the impetus for mass killing usually originates from a relatively small group of powerful leaders and is often carried out without the active support of broader society. Mass ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Radical Right

    Edited by Jens Rydgren ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The resurgence of strong radical right-wing parties and movements constitutes one of the most significant political changes in democratic states during the past several decades, particularly in Europe. The radical right's comeback has notably attracted interest from political scientists, sociologists, and historians, although the majority of past research focuses on party and electoral politics. ... Read more

    $158.39 CAD

  • The Extreme Right

    Freedom And Security At Risk

    by Aurel Braun, Stephen Scheinberg ...
    This book, offering a historical-sociological account of right-wing extremist movements in American history, seeks to identify threats to freedom and security, assess the responses to such threats, and suggest some means of dealing with the potential dangers. ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD