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Fang, Qiang. The Communist Judicial System in China, 1927-1976. Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463729451.
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Drawing on hundreds of newly released judicial archives and court cases, this book analyzes the communist judicial system in China from its founding period to the death of Mao Zedong. It argues that the communist judicial system was built when the CCP was engaged in a life-or-death struggle with the GMD, meaning that the overriding aim of the judicial system was, from the outset, to safeguard the Party against both internal and external adversaries. This fundamental insecurity and perennial fear of loss of power obsessed the Party throughout the era of Mao and beyond, prompting it to launch numerous political campaigns, which forced communist judicial cadres to choose between upholding basic legal norms and maintaining Party order. In doing all of this, The Communist Judicial System in China, 1927-1976: Building on Fear fills a major lacuna in our understanding of communist-era China.
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Wuellner, Flora Slosson. Prayer, fear, and our powers: Finding our healing, release, and growth in Christ. Upper Room Books, 1989.
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Eijken, A. W. M. Criminaliteitsbeeld van Nederland: Aard, omvang, preventie, bestraffing en zorg voor slachtoffers van criminaliteit in de periode 1980-1993. Stafafdeling Informatievoorziening, Directie Criminaliteitspreventie, Ministerie van Justitie, 1994.
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Sterrett, Dave. Why trust Jesus?: An honest look at doubts, plans, hurts, desires, fears, questions, and pleasures. Moody Publishers, 2010.
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Porter, Edgar, and Ran Ying Porter. Japanese Reflections on World War II and the American Occupation. Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462989733.
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This book presents an unforgettable up-close account of the effects of World War II and the subsequent American occupation on Oita prefecture, through firsthand accounts from more than forty Japanese men and women who lived there. The interviewees include students, housewives, nurses, midwives, teachers, journalists, soldiers, sailors, Kamikaze pilots, and munitions factory workers. Their stories range from early, spirited support for the war through the devastating losses of friends and family members to air raids and into periods of hunger and fear of the American occupiers. The personal accounts are buttressed by archival materials; the result is an unprecedented picture of the war as experienced in a single region of Japan.
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Lambert, Véronique. The Adornes Domain and the Jerusalem Chapel in Bruges. Translated by Ian Connerty. Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462989924.
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Bruges, middle of the 15th century. Anselm Adornes, scion of a rich patrician family, creates a magnificent domain in the heart of the city : an elegant mansion, beautiful gardens, several charitable almshouses and the spectacular Chapel of Jerusalem. It is a place that every right-minded resident of Bruges and every tourist must see. The history of the Adornes domain is truly remarkable, remaining in the unbroken possession of the same family for six centuries. It has survived storms and setbacks, the secularism of the French Revolution, the fury of two world wars and inevitable periods of disinterest. 'In this book Véronique Lambert allows us to share in the hopes and fears, joys and sorrows, trials and tribulations that mark the milestones in the Adornes family saga. Within the boundaries of historical interpretation and based on extensive research, she unfolds a fascinating tale of ambitious adventurers, charismatic personalities, flamboyant lords and ordinary mortals, but each imbued with the family's traditional willpower and energy'. Let yourself be enchanted by this fascinating piece of our cultural heritage, which deserves to be more widely known.
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Bhushan, Nalini, and Jay L. Garfield. Minds Without Fear. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190457594.001.0001.
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This is an intellectual and cultural history of India during the period of British occupation. It demonstrates that this was a period of renaissance in India in which philosophy—both in the public sphere and in the Indian universities—played a central role in the emergence of a distinctively Indian modernity. This is also a history of Indian philosophy. It demonstrates how the development of a secular philosophical voice facilitated the construction of modern Indian society and the consolidation of the nationalist movement. We explore the complex role of the English language in philosophical and nationalist discourse, demonstrating both the anxieties that surrounded English, and the processes that normalized it as an Indian vernacular and academic language. We attend both to Hindu and Muslim philosophers, to public and academic intellectuals, to artists and art critics, and to national identity and nation-builidng. We also explore the complex interactions between Indian and European thought during this period, including the role of missionary teachers and study at foreign universities in the evolution of Indian philosophy. We show that this pattern of interaction, although often disparaged as “inauthentic” is continuous with the cosmopolitanism that has always characterized the intellectual life of India, and that the philosophy articulated during this period is a worthy continuation of the Indian philosophical tradition.
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Meltzer, Fran. For Fear of the Fire: Joan of Arc and the Limits of Subjectivity. University of Chicago Press, 2014.
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Meltzer, Françoise. For Fear of the Fire: Joan of Arc and the Limits of Subjectivity. University of Chicago Press, 2010.
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Bright, Simon. Social, political and economic themes of the English people in the period 1871-1901 as shown in science fiction, with special emphasis on social Darwinism, imperialism and fear of invasion. 1985.
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Nelson, Chad E. Revolutionary Contagion and International Politics. Oxford University PressNew York, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197601921.001.0001.
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Abstract When do leaders fear that a revolution elsewhere will spread to their own polities, and what are the international effects of this fear? This book develops and tests the domestic contagion effects theory. According to the theory, fear of contagion is driven more by the characteristics of the host rather than by the activities of the infecting agents. In other words, leaders will fear revolutionary contagion when they have significant revolutionary opposition movements that share the same ideological affinity of the revolution. Whether the revolutionary state merely serves as a model for revolution or whether it also acts as a platform, attempting to spread revolution abroad, is not the crucial distinction. When leaders have a fear of contagion, it will have a profound effect on international politics, prompting hostility toward the revolutionary state and cooperation with states that have similar fears, sometimes in contrast to geopolitical pressures. Cases spanning the reaction to the democratic American Revolution and the Dutch Patriot Revolt, the wave of liberal revolutions in Europe in 1820–21, the Russian communist and Italian fascist revolutions, and the Iranian Islamist revolution in the Middle East largely, though not uniformly, support the theory. This book advances our understanding of when, why, and how much states with different domestic ideologies affect international relations. In certain periods in international relations, one simply cannot make sense of international politics—patterns of alliances and wars—without considering the fear of contagion.
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ter Haar, Barend J. Demon and Monastic Protector. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803645.003.0002.
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The worship of Guan Yu started where he had been executed in late 219 or early 220, in the Jing region just north of the Yangzi River in modern Hubei. Sometime during the Tang dynasty, the cult of Lord Guan was appropriated by the increasingly well-known Buddhist Jade Spring Monastery in the nearby hills. Throughout this period, Lord Guan continued to be seen as a violent demonic figure, awe- and fear-inspiring, but also potentially helpful. Most of the extant sources used in this chapter reflect collective memories as they have crystallized after long periods of oral transmission. This chapter also shows that the Buddhist origin of the cult was certainly significant in the early centuries, but actually does not explain many foundations of the cult outside of the Jing region.
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Daddis, Gregory A. Faith and Fear. Oxford University PressNew York, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197804223.001.0001.
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Abstract How have Americans conceptualized and understood the “promise and peril” of war since 1945? And how have their ideas and attitudes led to the ever-increasing militarization of US foreign policy since the end of World War II? In a groundbreaking reassessment of the long Cold War era, historian Gregory A. Daddis argues that ever since the Second World War’s fateful conclusion, faith in and fear of war became central to Americans’ thinking about the world around them. With war pervading nearly all aspects of American society, an interplay between blind faith and existential fear framed US policymaking and grand strategy, often with tragic results. These inherent tensions—an unwavering trust and confidence in war coupled with a fear that nearly all national security threats, foreign or domestic, are existential ones—have shaped Americans’ relationship with war in a way that persists to the current day. A sweeping history, Faith and Fear makes a forceful argument by examining the tensions between Americans’ overreaching faith in war as a foreign-policy tool and their overwhelming fear of war as a destructive force.
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Feinberg, Melissa. The Power of the Powerless. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190644611.003.0006.
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This chapter considers the fear of shortage or scarcity. The Stalinist period was a time of scarcity in Eastern Europe. Shortages of even basic goods were common; accordingly, the West defined Communist regimes as places of extreme deprivation. But when confronted with the spectacle of scarce goods, refugees were anything but powerless. Asked about the material situation at home, they emphasized their cleverness, guile, and ability to work the system in order to acquire whatever they needed. Many told stories of buying and selling on the black market or even denouncing others to improve their daily existence. But although many refugees emphasized how they defied the system, broke the law, and even bribed the police, these tales did not prompt Western analysts to revise their picture of Eastern Europe’s Communist regimes as totalitarian dystopias where the population was held powerless under the shadow of paralyzing fear.
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Wada-Marciano, Mitsuyo. Japanese Filmmakers in the Wake of Fukushima. Amsterdam University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463728287.
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n the ongoing aftermath of the nuclear accident in 2011, filmmakers have continued to issue warnings about the state of Japanese society and politics, which remain mired in refusal to change. Nearly a decade in the making, Japanese Filmmakers in the Wake of Fukushima is based on in-person interviews with countless filmmakers, as well as continuous dialogue with them and their work. Author Wada-Marciano has expanded these dialogues to include students, audiences at screenings, critics, and researchers, and her observations are based on down-to-earth-exchange of ideas engaged in over a long period of time. Filmmakers and artists are in the vanguard of those who grapple with what should be done regarding the struggle against fear of the invisible blight—radiation exposure. Rather than blindly following the mass media and public opinion, they have chosen to think and act independently. While repeatedly viewing and reviewing the film works from the post-Fukushima period, Wada-Marciano felt the unwavering message that emanates from them: “There must be no more nuclear weapons.” “There must be no more nuclear power generation.” The book is dedicated to convincing readers of the clarity of their message.
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Hagerman, Nancy S., and Anna M. Varughese. Preoperative Anxiety Management. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199764495.003.0001.
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Up to 65% of pediatric patients experience anxiety and fear in the preoperative period, especially during anesthesia induction. Reasons for this anxiety include the child's perception of the threat of pain, being separated from parents, a strange environment, and losing control. Anxiety and poor behavioral compliance associated with inhalation inductions have been related to adverse outcomes including emergence delirium and maladaptive postoperative behaviors such as general and separation anxiety, eating difficulties, and sleep disturbances. Fortunately, there are behavioral and pharmacological interventions that anesthesiologists can use to improve compliance during induction.
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Davidson, Jane P. Early Modern Supernatural. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400643026.
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Devils, ghosts, poltergeists, werewolves, and witches are all covered in this book about the "dark side" of supernatural beliefs in early modern Europe, tapping period literature, folklore, art, and scholarly writings in its investigation. The dark side of early modern European culture could be deemed equal in historical significance to Christianity based on the hundreds of books that were printed about the topic between 1400 and 1700. Famous writers and artists like William Shakespeare and Albrecht Dürer depicted the dark side in their work, and some of the first printed books in Europe were about witches. The pervasive representation of these monsters and apparitions in period literature, folklore, and art clearly reflects their power to inspire fear and superstition, but also demonstrates how integral they were to early modern European culture. This unique book addresses topics of the supernatural within the context of the early modern period in Europe, covering "mythical" entities such as devils, witches, ghosts, poltergeists, and werewolves in detail and examining how they fit in with the emerging new scientific method of the time. This unique combination of cultural studies for the period is ideal for undergraduate students and general readers.
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Wayne, Santos Michael. United States Foreign Policy 1945-1968. by Lexington Books, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978738386.
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Between 1945 and 1968, the possibility of Mutual Assured Destruction led to a host of odd realities, including the creation of an affable cartoon turtle named Bert who taught millions of school children that nuclear war was survivable if they simply learned how to “duck and cover.” Meanwhile, fear of Communism played out against the backdrop of potential Armageddon to provide justification for a variety of covert operations involving regime change, political assassination, and sometimes bizarre plot twists. United States Foreign Policy 1945-1968: The Bomb, Spies, Stories, and Lies takes a fresh look at this complex, often confusing, and frequently farcical period in American and world history.
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Waldman, Simon A., and Emre Caliskan. Breaking the News. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190668372.003.0005.
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This chapter explains the severe and systemic restrictions of the press during the period of military tutelage. However, despite the armed forces being removed from political life, press censorship intensified during the AKP period. Under military tutelage, the press was severely curtailed, even compromised. While the erosion of the military’s power is good for democracy, freedom of expression did not improve. Instead of allowing the media to flourish, the government has manipulated it, co-opted it or attacked it fervently and furiously. The lack of a free and fair press in Turkey represents a significant democratic deficit. Not only does it avoid government accountability and erode a check on the power of the government, but it also highlights severe restrictions on freedom of expression. The fear and self-censorship of the media diminishes the internal debate on Turkish politics and the direction of the country, and it is a reflection of the state of affairs in Turkey as a whole.
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Caps, John. Stolen Moments. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036736.003.0015.
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This chapter details Mancini's career in the late 1980s. The 1980s was another transitional period in the whole field of film scoring. The intrepid John Williams still ruled with one prestigious assignment after another, prodded by but not dependent on his associations with directors Spielberg and Lucas. Other veterans enjoyed renewed success during these years: John Barry's Oscar win for Dances with Wolves and Dave Grusin's scores for The Fabulous Baker Boys and The Firm. The new breed was beginning to take over, though; James Horner wrote blandly but appropriately for Field of Dreams, Hans Zimmer similarly for Rain Man. Meanwhile, Mancini was scoring three limited-release films: Physical Evidence, Fear, and Welcome Home.
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Reagan, Leslie J. Monstrous Births, Birth Defects, Unusual Anatomy, and Disability in Europe and North America. Edited by Michael Rembis, Catherine Kudlick, and Kim E. Nielsen. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190234959.013.23.
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“Monstrous births,” anomalous newborn bodies, or stillbirths, have produced public and scientific reactions of fear and excited voyeuristic interest from the early modern period to the present in Europe and North America. During this time, the category of “monstrous births” expanded even if the term itself was replaced over time with “defectives,” “congenital malformations,” “birth defects,” and “disabilities.” Particular attention is given here to medicine, mothers of “monstrous births,” twentieth-century moments that brought birth defects to international attention (German measles and thalidomide), and gender. In addition, attention is given to the perspective of contemporary people whose sixteenth- and seventeenth-century predecessors (conjoined twins) were considered “monstrous births” and whose bodies are still preserved in museums.
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Harunoğlu,, Nur Çetinoğlu, Ayşegül Sever,, and Emre Erşen. Turkey between the United States and Russia. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978737846.
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Current debates on Turkish foreign policy flamed by Turkey’s purchase of S-400 air defense systems from Russia throws into question Turkey-US relations and poses a challenge to Turkey’s membership in NATO, which has been regarded as the most important symbol of Turkey’s alliance with the West. However, Turkey’s maneuvers between the US and Russia are not unique to the present era as they can be traced back to the Cold War period. In fact, Turkey’s alliance with the West did not prevent Turkey from establishing special relations with the Soviet Union. This book, which is spurred by Glenn Snyder’s theory on alliance politics, indicates that Turkey’s foreign policy moves shaped in accordance with the fear of abandonment and the fear of entrapment with regards to its relations with the US, did not only stay within the boundaries of the Cold War, but further moved beyond that era. The authors argue that Turkey’s maneuvers to balance the US with Russia in the historical context constitute a strong element of continuity and a significant pattern in Turkish foreign policy. Yet, the authors underline that the motives behind this legacy have changed in the 2010s due to the transformations occurred within global, regional as well as domestic contexts.
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Wuellner, Flora Slosson. Prayer, Fear, and Our Powers: Finding Our Healing, Release, and Growth in Christ. Upper Room, 1990.
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Wuellner, Flora Slosson. Prayer, Fear, and Our Powers: Finding Our Healing, Release, and Growth in Christ. Upper Room Books, 1990.
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Cefalu, Paul. Spiritual Comfort and Assurance. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808718.003.0004.
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The third chapter focuses on the Johannine Spirit-Paraclete of the Fourth Gospel and First Epistle. In the Johannine confessions, unlike in the Synoptic Gospels, Jesus promises the arrival of the Paraclete who will provide not simply testimony and advocacy of Jesus’ ministry once he has departed but also spiritual comfort and assurance to the brethren. As the agent of spiritual comfort, the Paraclete serves during the post-Reformed period in England to offset the fear and trembling often associated with experimental Puritanism. After a discussion of the ways in which the Johannine conception of the Spirit departs from the Synoptic presentation of the Spirit, the chapter looks closely at the reception of the Spirit-Paraclete in the sermons and Holy Sonnets of John Donne as well as in John Milton’s Paradise Lost.
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Campney, Brent M. S. “Kansas Has an Ample Supply of Darkies”. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039508.003.0004.
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This chapter surveys white response to the Kansas Exodus. In 1879 a group that came to be called the Exodusters began their much-publicized mass migration from Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. Although some relocated to Indiana as well, many acquired “Kansas fever.” They were on their way by February and arrived in “avalanchelike proportions” between March and May. Although the rate of arrivals later slowed, they continued their trek to Kansas until mid-1881. Moreover, unlike the more prosperous blacks who had settled the colonies during the late 1870s, the Exodusters were largely destitute. Because they arrived over such a short period, involved such large numbers, and required so much public assistance, they provoked widespread attention and instilled in white Kansans the fear that they would “certainly be swamped.”
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Zellen, Barry Scott. The Realist Tradition in International Relations. Praeger, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216984030.
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This comprehensive foundation for the study of realism will introduce students in disciplines as varied as philosophy, international relations, and strategic studies to the majestic breadth of the realist tradition that unifies them all. The Realist Tradition in International Relations: The Foundations of Western Orderintroduces the principal theorists who have shaped and defined the realist tradition. This once-dominant theory of international politics has reemerged to provide a shared foundation for understanding political theory, international relations theory, and strategic studies. The work is comprised of four volumes, each focusing upon a distinct period and the pivotal contributors writing in that era. Volume 1,State of Hope, looks at the classical era when chaos reigned supreme. Volume 2,State of Fear, goes through the early-modern period and the emergence of the modern state. Volume 3,State of Awe, explores the age of total war with its unprecedented dangers. Volume 4,State of Siege, examines the present era of insurgency and asymmetrical conflict. A truly monumental work, this sweeping study will surely foster a new appreciation of the rich tapestry of realist thought and its continuing relevance to the study of world politics.
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Zellen, Barry Scott. The Realist Tradition in International Relations. Praeger, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216984054.
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This comprehensive foundation for the study of realism will introduce students in disciplines as varied as philosophy, international relations, and strategic studies to the majestic breadth of the realist tradition that unifies them all. The Realist Tradition in International Relations: The Foundations of Western Orderintroduces the principal theorists who have shaped and defined the realist tradition. This once-dominant theory of international politics has reemerged to provide a shared foundation for understanding political theory, international relations theory, and strategic studies. The work is comprised of four volumes, each focusing upon a distinct period and the pivotal contributors writing in that era. Volume 1,State of Hope, looks at the classical era when chaos reigned supreme. Volume 2,State of Fear, goes through the early-modern period and the emergence of the modern state. Volume 3,State of Awe, explores the age of total war with its unprecedented dangers. Volume 4,State of Siege, examines the present era of insurgency and asymmetrical conflict. A truly monumental work, this sweeping study will surely foster a new appreciation of the rich tapestry of realist thought and its continuing relevance to the study of world politics.
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Zellen, Barry. Realist Tradition in International Relations. Praeger, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216984061.
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This comprehensive foundation for the study of realism will introduce students in disciplines as varied as philosophy, international relations, and strategic studies to the majestic breadth of the realist tradition that unifies them all. The Realist Tradition in International Relations: The Foundations of Western Orderintroduces the principal theorists who have shaped and defined the realist tradition. This once-dominant theory of international politics has reemerged to provide a shared foundation for understanding political theory, international relations theory, and strategic studies. The work is comprised of four volumes, each focusing upon a distinct period and the pivotal contributors writing in that era. Volume 1,State of Hope, looks at the classical era when chaos reigned supreme. Volume 2,State of Fear, goes through the early-modern period and the emergence of the modern state. Volume 3,State of Awe, explores the age of total war with its unprecedented dangers. Volume 4,State of Siege, examines the present era of insurgency and asymmetrical conflict. A truly monumental work, this sweeping study will surely foster a new appreciation of the rich tapestry of realist thought and its continuing relevance to the study of world politics.
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Zellen, Barry Scott. Realist Tradition in International Relations. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216984047.
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This comprehensive foundation for the study of realism will introduce students in disciplines as varied as philosophy, international relations, and strategic studies to the majestic breadth of the realist tradition that unifies them all. The Realist Tradition in International Relations: The Foundations of Western Orderintroduces the principal theorists who have shaped and defined the realist tradition. This once-dominant theory of international politics has reemerged to provide a shared foundation for understanding political theory, international relations theory, and strategic studies. The work is comprised of four volumes, each focusing upon a distinct period and the pivotal contributors writing in that era. Volume 1,State of Hope, looks at the classical era when chaos reigned supreme. Volume 2,State of Fear, goes through the early-modern period and the emergence of the modern state. Volume 3,State of Awe, explores the age of total war with its unprecedented dangers. Volume 4,State of Siege, examines the present era of insurgency and asymmetrical conflict. A truly monumental work, this sweeping study will surely foster a new appreciation of the rich tapestry of realist thought and its continuing relevance to the study of world politics.
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Pennington, Myles. Railways And Other Ways: Being Reminiscences Of Canal And Railway Life During A Period Of Sixty-Seven Years. Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007.
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Kelanic, Rosemary A. Black Gold and Blackmail. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501748295.001.0001.
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This book seeks to explain why great powers adopt such different strategies to protect their oil access from politically motivated disruptions. In extreme cases, such as Imperial Japan in 1941, great powers fought wars to grab oil territory in anticipation of a potential embargo by the Allies; in other instances, such as Germany in the early Nazi period, states chose relatively subdued measures like, oil alliances or domestic policies, to conserve oil. What accounts for this variation? Fundamentally, it is puzzling that great powers fear oil coercion at all because the global market makes oil sanctions very difficult to enforce. This book argues that two variables determine what strategy a great power will adopt: the petroleum deficit, which measures how much oil the state produces domestically compared to what it needs for its strategic objectives; and disruptibility, which estimates the susceptibility of a state's oil imports to military interdiction—that is, blockade. Because global markets undercut the effectiveness of oil sanctions, blockade is in practice the only true threat to great power oil access. That, combined with the devastating consequences of oil deprivation to a state's military power, explains why states fear oil coercion deeply despite the adaptive functions of the market. Together, these two variables predict a state's coercive vulnerability, which determines how willing the state will be to accept the costs and risks attendant on various potential strategies. Only those great powers with large deficits and highly disruptible imports will adopt the most extreme strategy: direct control of oil through territorial conquest.
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Phillips, J. R. S. The Epilogue to Pembroke’s Career Civil War and After, 1321 to 1324. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198223597.003.0008.
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This chapter focuses on the years 1321–1324, a period that forms merely an epilogue to Aymer de Valence's life. In August 1321, when the full force of the Marchers was at his back, the Earl of Pembroke was no longer in a position to persuade or cajole Edward II. Once the Despensers were in exile, it would take more ability and force than Pembroke could command to stop the King from recalling them. The chapter examines Pembroke's role in the campaign that finally destroyed the Marchers and Thomas, Earl of Lancaster in 1321 and 1322 and that resulted in total victory for the King, the rise of the Despensers, a massacre of the magnates, and the creation in England of a regime supported only on fear and military force. It also considers Pembroke's activities in the area of royal diplomacy and concludes with a reflection on his death.
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Knepper, Paul. Dreams and Nightmares. Edited by Paul Knepper and Anja Johansen. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199352333.013.42.
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Between the 1890s and the 1950s, drug smuggling became a global problem. The League of Nations played a pivotal role during the interwar period in promoting perceptions of “drug trafficking” and fashioning an international response. Drawing on archives in Geneva, London, and New York, as well as fiction, this essay examines the “dreamscape” of drug trafficking: the nightmare of the foreign trafficker and the dream of a worldwide scheme for drug control. It explores the fear of “reverse colonization” in relation to the drug trade and the British Empire before the First World War, explains the vision of police cooperation that shaped the League’s response to drug trafficking, and examines the concept of “organized crime” in relation to the League’s response. The discussion includes a look at the emergence of the role of the United States in the United Nations antidrug campaign after the Second World War.
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Griffiths, Paul. Criminal London. Edited by Malcolm Smuts. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199660841.013.33.
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This chapter is divided into two sections: the first tries to trace Shakespeare’s steps and what we know about where he lived to describe and discuss the experience of criminality with its associated dangers and troubles that he might have faced each day of his London life; the second reconstructs the nature of crime more generally at this time to more deeply explore fear and danger in Shakespeare’s city. In doing so the chapter also contrasts sensationalist depictions of a criminal underworld of cut-throats, thieves and prostitutes, with organized gangs and a distinctive cant speech, depicted in some literary works of the period with the more prosaic picture of criminal activity driven mainly by poverty and social dislocation revealed by modern historical scholarship. Stories of crimes culled from London court records do, however, provide a wealth of colourful information about the seamier side of life in the metropolis.
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Volo, James M. Blue Water Patriots. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400620164.
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In 1775, it seemed inconceivable that the American colonists could overcome the overwhelming military superiority of Great Britain. Yet the belligerent colonists were certain they could defeat the British army they so despised. On the other hand, their one great fear was that they would not be able to overcome the presence of the Royal Navy. Somehow though, the colonists were able to resist the British at sea, attract capable allies, and successfully conclude their quest for independence. The primary focus of this work is the period prior to 1779 before the French had come to the aid of the fledgling American nation—when the Blue Water Patriots confronted the Royal Navy alone, relying on little more than ingenuity and courage. In 1775, it was inconceivable that the American colonists could have overcome the overwhelming military superiority of Great Britain. Yet the belligerent colonists seemed certain that they could defeat the British army they so despised. On the other hand, the one great fear shared by all colonists was that they would not be able to overcome the presence of the Royal Navy. Yet, somehow, the colonists were able to resist the British at sea, attract capable allies to aid them, and successfully conclude their quest for independence. The American Revolution can safely be viewed as part of a prolonged worldwide naval conflict between France and Britain beginning with the Glorious Revolution in 1688 and ending with the British victory at Trafalgar in 1805 during the Napoleonic Wars. This was a period in which the armed merchantmen of the age of trade were replaced by genuine warships whose task was to control the sea lanes. The American Revolution was a watershed in this regard with improved warship designs, new technologies, improved gunpowder and communications, and innovative tactics. Although French participation in the war for independence was crucial, the primary focus of this work is the period before 1779, when the colonists confronted the Royal Navy alone with only their ingenuity and courage to defend them. Every school child knows that the American Revolution began on Lexington Green in April, 1775, but how many are aware that in 1764 a Royal Navy cutter, St. John, engaged in the suppression of smuggling, was fired upon by Rhode Islanders; that in 1769, the revenue sloop Liberty was seized and burned by the people of Newport; or that in 1772, the navy cutter Gaspee was burned in the night by armed patriots attacking from small boats. These Blue Water Patriots fought the first battles on the road to American independence. This is their story.
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Fischer, Nick. Here Come the Bolsheviks! University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040023.003.0003.
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This chapter examines how the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia contributed to the rise of the Red Scare. On November 7, 1917, revolutionaries from the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party seized power in Petrograd and proclaimed the world's first socialist government. The Bolsheviks endorsed violent, class-based insurrection and policies of land and resource nationalization. News of the Bolshevik uprising intensified the wartime atmosphere in the United States, in which fear of treachery was rampant. This chapter first considers American intervention in Russia during the period 1917–1920 before discussing the emergence of the Red Scare in 1919–1920 and of anticommunism in the labor movement. It also looks at the strikes, bombings, and deportations in 1919 that offset whatever prestige the American Federation of Labor (AFL) accrued during the First World War. Finally, it describes the end of the Red Scare following US attorney general A. Mitchell Palmer's fall and the release of the National Popular Government League report.
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Richards, Jennifer, and Richard Wistreich. The Anatomy of the Renaissance Voice. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474400046.003.0015.
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Dissection Might Be Thought Of As A Self-Explanatory Term.’ So Begins Jonathan Sawday’s The Body Emblazoned: Dissection And The Human Body In Renaissance Culture (1995), One Of The Earliest Cultural Histories To Contribute To The Burgeoning Field Of Medical Humanities In The 1990s. ‘In Its Medical Sense’, He Explains, ‘A Dissection Suggests The Methodical Division Of An Animal Body For The Purposes Of “Critical Examination”.’ But The Term Can Be Used In A ‘Metaphoric Sense’ Too, And When It Is We Are Led ‘To An Historical Field Rich In Cognate Meanings’ In A Period When A ‘ “Science” Of The Body Had Not Yet Emerged’. These Rich Meanings Are The Focus Of His Study, Which Aims To Recover The ‘Violent, Darker Side Of Dissection And Anatomization’ Before Its Meaning Became Fixed As ‘A Seemingly Discrete Way Of Ordering The Observation Of The Natural World’. This Darker Side Includes The Partitioning Of Knowledge, Surveillance Of The Body, Eroticism And A Deep-Rooted Fear Of Interiority. Rereading Sawday’s Pioneering
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Mickolus, Edward F. Terrorism, 2005–2007. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216024446.
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Following previous trends of suicide bombings and violence against Western and local hostages, the 2005-2007 period saw a continuing tide of terrorism. Mickolus catalogues these recent insurgencies and technique, including airplane hijackings, letter bombs, food tampering, and major assassinations. An extension of his other other works, including terrorism dating back to 1980, this comprehensive chronology also provides follow-up material to prior incidents and enumerates their effects on current airport security measures around the world. This volume expertly details key players in each event, ranging from the terrorist whose violence created an atmosphere of fear and anxiety, to their unknowing victims. This work is divided into three sections: incidents, updates, and bibliography. In the first two segments, both domestic and international terrorist attacks are examined within security and political contexts to shed light on how the events unfolded. The extensive bibliographic data is also an invaluable resource for scholars, international organizations, and students.
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Wilson, Walter T. The Wisdom of Sirach. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/bci-0k2h.
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A deuterocanonical collection of proverbs from the intertestamental period, the Book of Sirach has been treated by many Protestants as a bit of Catholic trivia. Yet careful study of Sirach reveals fascinating insights into Jewish thought two centuries before Jesus. Walter T. Wilson invites scholars and nonspecialists alike to discover the wisdom of this important yet under-studied text. A temple scribe writing in the second century BCE, Ben Sira aimed to instill fear of the Lord and discipline in his community. Interweaving practical advice and theoretical wisdom, his book instructs readers—then and now—in the principles of wisdom so that they may apply them to right action and lead the good life. Based on the New Revised Standard Version, Wilson’s commentary explicates the translated English text with careful attention to its historical and religious contexts, formal qualities, prevailing themes, and place in the canon (or lack thereof). The volume includes a helpful bibliography and notes.
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Dooley, Patricia L. The Early Republic. Greenwood, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400643064.
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In the first two decades of the 19th century, the early American Republic emerged from under the shadow of the internal and external threats that had formerly plagued its progression towards independence, and with increased confidence in its capacity as a political institution and as a military power, began to consider the policies that would determine the country's course in the future. In determining these policies, whether military, economic, or political, no single institution was more instrumental than the press—the engine of the national consciousness, in the words of Thomas Jefferson. With this unique collection of primary documents, students, scholars, and other interested readers will be able to debate the issues central to this period. Beginning with an extensive overview of the period, this book focuses on 26 pressing issues of the early republic. Each issue is presented with an introductory essay and multiple primary documents from the newspapers of the day, illustrating both sides of the debate. Some of the issues thus discussed include: the nation's first regime change (as the Federalists lost control of the White House to the Republicans); the Louisiana Purchase; the War of 1812; slave revolts; the fear of immigrants; disunion; and the wars against the Indians. This is a perfect resource for students interested in the early republic and the actual opinions and words of those involved
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Why Trust Jesus?: An Honest Look at Doubts, Plans, Hurts, Desires, Fears, Questions, and Pleasures. Moody Publishers, 2010.
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Why trust Jesus?: An honest look at doubts, plans, hurts, desires, fears, questions, and pleasures. Moody Publishers, 2010.
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Dominy, Graham. Pageantry, Pioneers, Panics and Punitive Expeditions. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040047.003.0005.
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This chapter examines the role of the garrison in the British Empire's establishment of a colonial state in Natal during the period 1840s–1860s. It first explains how the garrison transformed Pietermaritzburg from a Trekker settlement to a Victorian colonial capital before considering the ways in which the British Crown used pageantry and propaganda to reinforce the prestige of the colonial state while masking the military weakness of the garrison in relation to the colony's potential enemies. It then discusses the garrison's “punitive expeditions”—almost as an extension of the parading on the barrack square of Fort Napier—in response to panic and rumors of invasions. Ironically, those raids provoked “panics” among the African population; such panics fed the almost pathological fear that the settlers had of a “native” rising or “combination.” The chapter also looks at the appointment of British military officers in various civil posts in the colony and concludes with an assessment of the Zulu invasion scare of 1861 and the question that it raised regarding payment for the garrison.
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Bogue, Brad, and Robert L. Trestman. From the inside out. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199360574.003.0005.
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Incarceration is, by design, a stressful and dehumanizing process. Those who become incarcerated are shaped and changed by the experience in many ways. For those of us who work with people who are inmates, it can be difficult to appreciate the range and intensity of their experiences. This chapter gives voice to some of those experiences. Ten individuals currently or recently incarcerated in the Colorado prison system were interviewed. The autobiographical interviews were transcribed and core elements and themes in their own words are presented; their names and some details are changed to protect their identities. Every individual who becomes incarcerated experiences imprisonment through the lens of personal experience. There is fear and humiliation, hope and frustration, isolation and friendship. Some people persist in illegal behavior; others turn their lives around. The opportunity and challenge of correctional psychiatry is to engage people during this vulnerable period: to understand patients as people, to treat illness, reduce suffering, and help them recover their lives. We believe they speak eloquently of human struggle, coping, failure, regret, and hope.
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Furtak, Rick Anthony. Knowing Emotions. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190492045.001.0001.
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Emotions are not merely physiological disturbances: they are experiences through which we apprehend truths about ourselves and the world. Emotions embody an understanding that is accessible to us only by means of affective experience. Only through emotions can we perceive meaning in life, and only by feeling emotions are we capable of recognizing the value or significance of anything whatsoever. Our affective responses and dispositions therefore play a critical role in our apprehension of meaningful truth—furthermore, their felt quality is intimately related to the awareness that they provide. Truthfulness is at issue in episodes of such emotions as anger, fear, and grief. Even apparently irrational emotions can show us what distinguishes emotion from other modes of cognitive activity: the turbulent feeling of being afraid is our way of recognizing a potential threat as such. What is disclosed to us when we experience fear can be either a misconstrual of something harmless as a danger or an axiologically salient fact about the world. Yet only a being able to perceive itself as threatened is susceptible to becoming afraid. So the later chapters of Knowing Emotions turn to the background conditions of affective experience: for instance, why it is only if we care about the life and well-being of a person that we are disposed to react with fear when that person is threatened? Our emotional dispositions of love, care, and concern serve as conditions of possibility for the discovery of significance or value, enabling us to perceive what is meaningful.
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Cordova, Jacqueline M., and Lynea Bowdish. Los Truenos No Me Asustan: Thunder Doesn't Scare Me (Rookie Espanol). Children's Press (CT), 2001.
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Park, Yoosun. Facilitating Injustice. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199765058.001.0001.
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Social workers were involved in all aspects of the removal, incarceration, and resettlement of the Nikkei, a history that has been forgotten by social work. This study is an effort to address this lacuna. Social work equivocated. While it did not fully endorse mass removal and incarceration, neither did it protest, oppose, or explicitly critique government actions. The past should not be judged by today’s standards; the actions and motivations described here occurred in a period rife with fear and propaganda. Undergoing a major shift from its private charity roots into its public sector future, social work bounded with the rest of society into “a patriotic fervor.” While policies of a government at war, intractable bureaucratic structures, tangled political alliances, and complex professional obligations all may have mandated compliance, it is, nevertheless, difficult to deny that social work and social workers were also willing participants in the events, informed about and aware of the implications of that compliance. In social work’s unwillingness to take a resolute stand against removal and incarceration, the well-intentioned profession, doing its conscious best to do good, enforced the existing social order and did its level best to keep the Nikkei from disrupting it.
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Marsh, John. The Emotional Life of the Great Depression. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198847731.001.0001.
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The Emotional Life of the Great Depression documents how Americans responded emotionally to the crisis of the Great Depression. Unlike most books about the 1930s, which focus almost exclusively on the despair of the American people during the decade, The Emotional Life of the Great Depression explores the 1930s through other, equally essential emotions: righteousness, panic, fear, awe, love, and hope. In expanding the canon of Great Depression emotions, the book draws on an eclectic archive of sources, including the ravings of a would-be presidential assassin, stock market investment handbooks, a Cleveland serial murder case, Jesse Owens’s record-setting long jump at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, King Edward VIII’s abdication from his throne to marry a twice-divorced American woman, and the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous. In concert with these, it offers new readings of the imaginative literature of the period, from obscure Christian apocalyptic novels and H.P. Lovecraft short stories to classics such as John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and Richard Wright’s Native Son. The upshot is a new take on the Great Depression, one that emphasizes its major events (the stock market crash, unemployment, the passage of the Social Security Act) but also, and perhaps even more so, its sensibilities, its structures of feeling.