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US Military Strategy and the Cold War Endgame - Stephen J. Cimbala - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=iC2aAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA44
At the end of the Cold War security concerns are more about regional and civil conflicts than nuclear or Eurasian global wars. Stephen Cimbala argues that deterrence characteristics of the pre-Cold War period will in the 21st century again become…
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Art and Disability: The Social and Political Struggles Facing Education - A. Wexler - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=ofzGAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA21#v=onepage
Wexler argues that the arts are most effective when they are in service of social growth, critical to identity formation. This book balances theory with practical knowledge and offers critical research that challenges the biases regarding the nature of art…
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Game, Set, Match: Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women's Sports - Susan Ware - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=Q_YWq1qr28AC
When Billie Jean King trounced Bobby Riggs in tennis's Battle of the Sexes in 1973, she placed sports squarely at the center of a national debate about gender equity. In this winning combination of biography and history, Susan Ware argues that King's chal
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New Men, New Cities, New South: Atlanta, Nashville, Charleston, Mobile, 1860 ... - Don Harrison Doyle - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=mXkgB--FujIC&pg=PA324#v=onepage&q&f=false
Cities were the core of a changing economy and culture that penetrated the rural hinterland and remade the South in the decades following the Civil War. In New Men, New Cities, New South, Don Doyle argues that if the plantation was the world the sl
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The Arab League and the Conflict in Syria: The Unexpected Renaissance of the Arab League - Qantara.de
http://de.qantara.de/Unerwartete-Renaissance/17825c18440i0p405/index.html
The Arab League is taking a remarkably firm line towards the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, which is setting its face against reform. Loay Mudhoon argues that this is a reaction to the revolutionary events and the regional shifts in power in the Arab…
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John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel - Abraham Ben-Zvi - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=fF1uqQVwwu4C&pg=PR48&dq=%22Armin+H.+Meyer%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FADEU4KqEKmC4gSjloH4DQ&redir_esc=y#v=
This volume seeks to reconstruct the process by which the Kennedy administration decided to sell to Israel Hawk surface-to-air missiles. It argues that both domestic considerations and political calculations were part of a highly complex decision made by…
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TechnoFeminism - Judy Wajcman - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=I63wvqQyHQcC&pg=PA89&dq=haraway+oncomousetm+trademark&hl=de&sa=X&ei=Ls1PT9bTEcLysgbtoYyADA&ved=0
This timely and engaging book argues that technoscientific advances are radically transforming the woman-machine relationship. However, it is feminist politics rather than the technologies themselves that make the difference. TechnoFeminism fuses the…
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Male Homosexuality in West Germany: Between Persecution and Freedom, 1945-69 - Clayton J. Whisnant - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=vGIOL02R8G4C&pg=PA82
Whisnant argues that the period after Nazism was more important for the history of homosexuality in Germany than is generally recognized. Gay scenes resurfaced; a more masculine view of homosexuality also became prominent. Above all, a public debate about…
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Private Lives and Public Affairs: The Causes Célèbres of Prerevolutionary France - Sarah Maza - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=-0RRcl0ElXQC&pg=PA207
From 1770 to 1789 a succession of highly publicized cases riveted the attention of the French public. Maza argues that the reporting of these private scandals had a decisive effect on the way in which the French public came to understand public issues in…
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Private Lives and Public Affairs: The Causes Célèbres of Prerevolutionary France - Sarah Maza - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=-0RRcl0ElXQC&pg=PA156
From 1770 to 1789 a succession of highly publicized cases riveted the attention of the French public. Maza argues that the reporting of these private scandals had a decisive effect on the way in which the French public came to understand public issues in…