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Sport Under Communism: Behind the East German 'Miracle' - Mike Dennis, Jonathan Grix - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=wXct8KkXxeQC&pg=PA122
Based on original Stasi and Communist Party archival sources, this book uncovers why East Germany was for two decades running one of the most successful nations in the Summer and Winter Olympics, exploring how the central elite sports system was beset by…
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East Timor: The Price of Liberty - D. Kingsbury - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=ubPFAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA106&lpg=PA106&dq=%22Madalena+Boavida%22+Timor&source=bl&ots=vxV_IVvmrF&sig=Y_
This book traces the themes within the East Timor independence movement and notes how these have contibuted to post-independence issues, in particular the political tensions that almost saw East Timor collapse as a viable state in 2006. It concludes with…
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Africa in the United Nations System - Wellington Winter Nyangoni - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=DH5IUM3E0S0C&pg=PA100&lpg=PA100&dq=%22Cunene+project%22&source=bl&ots=0q9PGC2wxX&sig=NcXkmPl-b4j
This book analyzes the increasingly important role played by the African countries in the United Nations as they have become the largest regional bloc in the organization. Their participation in the New Economic Order, the United Nations Conference on…
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Historism and Cultural Identity in the Rhine-Meuse Region: Tensions Between ... - Wolfgang Cortjaens, Tom Verschaffel - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=yWCYkrgALhgC&pg=PA381&lpg=PA381&dq=jules+helbig+1821+1906&source=bl&ots=Kfg49NLe0f&sig=cjum8XEy
KADOC Artes 10Based on the cultural insight that "historism"—understood as the projection of the past into the present by artistic means, or the "invention of tradition"—always occurs in close connection with the emergence of nation-states, this volume…
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Persephone Rises, 1860-1927: Mythography, Gender, and the Creation of a New ... - Margot Kathleen Louis - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=zjd4OJP_RJgC&pg=PA195#v=onepage
A survey of the Persephone myth in the literature of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It explores the transformation of the goddess to provide not only a basis for understanding how the study of ancient history informed the creation of a new…
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Persephone Rises, 1860-1927: Mythography, Gender, and the Creation of a New ... - Margot Kathleen Louis - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=zjd4OJP_RJgC&pg=PA119#v=onepage
A survey of the Persephone myth in the literature of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It explores the transformation of the goddess to provide not only a basis for understanding how the study of ancient history informed the creation of a new…
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Inside Terrorist Organizations - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=FnvCEOZLf8YC&pg=PA139&dq=Gerassim+Romanenko#v=onepage
These original essays describe the internal life of terrorist organizations in fascinating detail. They show how no description of terrorist behaviour is adequate without a grasp of the deep tensions that often characterize such groups, and an appreciation…
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Tensions of Empire: Japan and Southeast Asia in the Colonial and ... - Kenʼichi Gotō, Paul H. Kratoska - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=iTmUB82c7i0C&pg=PA57#v=onepage
Beginning with the closing decade of European colonial rule in Southeast Asia and covering the wartime Japanese empire and its postwar disintegration, Tensions of Empire focuses on the Japanese in Southeast Asia, Indonesians in Japan, and the legacy of the…
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Ethnicity & Democracy in Africa - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=CZiTRkbEGn0C&pg=PA171&lpg=PA171&dq=Elijah+Mwangale%2BMinister&source=bl&ots=3Rv6yWPu85&sig=YbCWl
The politics of identity and ethnicity are resurgent. Civil society, whose revival was much vaunted, was riven by communal tensions particularly of ethnicity and religion. The contributors address questions such as: Why is ethnicity a political problem?…
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Faith and Order: The Reconciliation of Law and Religion - Harold J. Berman - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=j1208xA7F_0C&pg=PA388#v=onepage
This book argues that despite the tensions existing in all societies between religious faith and legal order, they inevitably interact. In the course of his discussion Berman traces the history of Western law, exposes the fallacies of law theories that…