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Author: Jona Michael Rosenfeld
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761816669
Size: 43.97 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Book Description: Is extreme poverty inevitable in our affluent societies? The twelve case studies in Artisans of Democracy show how very poor people, ordinary citizens, and institutions (schools, the government, the news media, the courts, churches, universities, public utilities, unions, and small businesses) succeeded in creating alliances. They became partners in order to overcome social exclusion and radically change the inhuman conditions in which very poor people lived, as well as the practice and policies that lead to these conditions. The book then discusses implications for research, democratic theory and public policies and draws lessons for action that would enlighten any academician, professional, activist, practitioner, or citizen concerned by the persistence of extreme poverty. Tardieu and Rosenfeld present new ways to think and act toward overcoming poverty at the private or public local, national, or international levels.

Author: United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces. General Staff, G-2
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 15.96 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces. General Staff, G-2
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 28.57 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Aristotle
Publisher:
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Size: 28.52 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Aristotle
Publisher: Ayer Company Pub
ISBN:
Size: 32.55 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux
Publisher:
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Size: 59.94 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Alexis De Tocqueville
Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
ISBN:
Size: 77.78 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Fiction
Languages : ru
Pages :
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Book Description: “Democracy in America” (1835) was one of the most influential books of the 19th century. Tocqueville believed that equality was the great political and social idea of his era, and he thought that the United States offered the most advanced example of equality in action. In the book, Tocqueville examines the democratic revolution that he believed had been occurring over the previous several hundred years. Tocqueville speculates on the future of democracy in the United States, discussing possible threats to democracy and possible dangers of democracy. These include his belief that democracy has a tendency to degenerate into "soft despotism" as well as the risk of developing a tyranny of the majority. Tocqueville was impressed by much of what he saw in American life, admiring the stability of its economy and wondering at the popularity of its churches. He also noted the irony of the freedom-loving nation’s mistreatment of Native Americans and its embrace of slavery.

Author: John Alfred LANGFORD
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 50.22 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Size: 32.37 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Tracy E. Ore
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN:
Size: 41.29 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 651
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Book Description: This anthology examines the social construction of race, class, gender, and sexuality and the institutional bases for these relations. While other texts discuss various forms of stratification and the impact of these on members of marginalized groups, Ore provides a thorough discussion of how such systems of stratification are formed and perpetuated and how forms of stratification are interconnected. The anthology supplies sufficient pedagogical tools to aid the student in understanding how the material relates to her/his own life and how her/his own attitudes, actions, and perspectives may serve to perpetuate a stratified system.

Author: Theodore F. Cohen
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN:
Size: 41.79 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 439
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Book Description: Illustrating how men's experiences are shaped by cultural notions of masculinity and structural realities of gender, this text includes articles from academic journals, books, interviews and personal narratives.

Author: John Paul Himka
Publisher: Harvard Ukrainian
ISBN:
Size: 19.30 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Book Description: The linkages between nationalism and socialism and the nature of peasant and artisan politics in East Europe are the fundamental problems engaged by this study of socialism in nineteenth-century Galicia. Here, in imperial Austria's largest and easternmost crown land, Polish and Ukrainian socialists organized journeyman artisans and recently emancipated peasants into potent political forces. The origins of the socialist movements lay in democratic national movements formed in response to the introduction of the Austrian constitution. The movements crystallized into socialist political parties against the background of strained relations between the nationalities and the opening of Galicia's undeveloped economy to the industrial West.