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Sovereignty, Democracy, and Global Civil Society

State-Society Relations at UN World Conferences

By: Elisabeth Jay Friedman,Kathryn Hochstetler,Ann Marie Clark

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Sovereignty, Democracy, and Global Civil Society

State-Society Relations at UN World Conferences

By: Elisabeth Jay Friedman,Kathryn Hochstetler,Ann Marie Clark

Sovereignty, Democracy, and Global Civil Society explores the growing power of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) by analyzing a microcosm of contemporary global state-society relations at UN World Conferences. The intense interactions between states and NGOs at conferences on the environment, human rights, women's issues, and other topics confirm the emergence of a new transnational democratic sphere of activity. Employing both regional and global case studies, the book charts noticeable growth in the ability of NGOs to build networks among themselves and effect change within UN processes. Using a multidimensional understanding of state sovereignty, the authors find that states use sovereignty to shelter not only material interests but also cultural identity in the face of external pressure. This book is unique in its analysis of NGO activities at the international level as well as the complexity of nation-states' responses to their new companions in global governance.

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State University of New York Press

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0791483843

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9780791483848

Unfinished Transitions

Women and the Gendered Development of Democracy in Venezuela, 1936-1996

By: Elisabeth J. Friedman

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Unfinished Transitions

Women and the Gendered Development of Democracy in Venezuela, 1936-1996

By: Elisabeth J. Friedman

This analysis of Venezuelan women's organizing traces a sixty-year struggle to democratize political practice and represent women's interests. It also helps to explain some of the "unfinished business" of Latin American democratization: why women have had difficulty participating in regimes they fought to restore, and how they seek inclusion. Friedman's innovative theoretical approach uses gender analysis to explain the impact of the "political opportunity structure"--the institutions, actors, and discourses--of democratization on women's participation.

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348

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Penn State Press

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0271042591

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9780271042596

Rescue and Flight

American Relief Workers Who Defied the Nazis

By: Susan Elisabeth Subak

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Rescue and Flight

American Relief Workers Who Defied the Nazis

By: Susan Elisabeth Subak

When Susan Elisabeth Subak discovered that members of the Unitarian Church had helped her Jewish father immigrate to the United States, she was unaware of the impact the organization had made during World War II. After years of research, Subak uncovers the little-known story of the Unitarian Service Committee, which rescued European refugees during World War II, and the remarkable individuals who made it happen. The Unitarian Service Committee was among the few American organizations committed to helping refugees during World War II. The staff who ran the committee assisted those endangered by the Nazi regime, from famous writers and artists to the average citizen. Part of a larger network of American relief workers, the Unitarian Committee helped refugees negotiate the official and legal channels of escape and, when those methods failed, the more complex underground channels. From their offices in Portugal and southern France they created escape routes through Europe to the United States, South America, and England, and rescued thousands, often at great personal risk.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803230176

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9780803230170

Civic Gifts

Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State

By: Elisabeth S. Clemens

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Civic Gifts

Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State

By: Elisabeth S. Clemens

In Civic Gifts, Elisabeth S. Clemens takes a singular approach to probing the puzzle that is the United States. How, she asks, did a powerful state develop within an anti-statist political culture? How did a sense of shared nationhood develop despite the linguistic, religious, and ethnic differences among settlers and, eventually, citizens? Clemens reveals that an important piece of the answer to these questions can be found in the unexpected political uses of benevolence and philanthropy, practices of gift-giving and reciprocity that coexisted uneasily with the self-sufficient independence expected of liberal citizens Civic Gifts focuses on the power of gifts not only to mobilize communities throughout US history, but also to create new forms of solidarity among strangers. Clemens makes clear how, from the early Republic through the Second World War, reciprocity was an important tool for eliciting both the commitments and the capacities needed to face natural disasters, economic crises, and unprecedented national challenges. Encompassing a range of endeavors from the mobilized voluntarism of the Civil War, through Community Chests and the Red Cross to the FDR-driven rise of the March of Dimes, Clemens shows how voluntary efforts were repeatedly articulated with government projects. The legacy of these efforts is a state co-constituted with, as much as constrained by, civil society.

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437

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University of Chicago Press

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022667097X

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9780226670973

My Secret is Mine

Studies on Religion and Eros in the German Middle Ages

By: Hildegard Elisabeth Keller

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My Secret is Mine

Studies on Religion and Eros in the German Middle Ages

By: Hildegard Elisabeth Keller

Erotic, sexual and marital images belong to the fundamental stock of human symbols for commitment and union as well as for the endangering of such a union. Their inexhaustible potential has shaped religious and cultural history, giving rise to rich artistic creations during the Christian Middle Ages. Such pictorial and textual sources - here drawn mainly from German secular and religious literature between the 12th and the 17th centuries - form a veritable archive of gender history. What from a Christian point of view had been presented as a principal purpose of human existence - being 'God's free daughter, His Son's bride' - took on an increasingly sexual character and became the particular domain of religious women. Beginning with this eroticized concept of God, this book examines its multiple implications: for the texts themselves as well as their authors and readers, for the relationship with a transcendent partner, and for the secular experience of marriage. After the initial theoretical groundwork, a general survey exemplifying brides of God precedes a detailed study of prominent individuals. My Secret is Mine thus invites very diverse literary brides and their beloveds to shed some light on their experience of that inexpressible, and yet immensely productive, promise of union with love itself.

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330

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Peeters Publishers

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9042908718

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9789042908710

Individualization

Institutionalized Individualism and Its Social and Political Consequences

By: Ulrich Beck (socioloog),Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim

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Individualization

Institutionalized Individualism and Its Social and Political Consequences

By: Ulrich Beck (socioloog),Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim

The authors perceive that we humans are in the midst of a fundamental change in the nature of society and politics. This change hinges on the two processes of globalisation and individualisation.

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252

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SAGE

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0761961127

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9780761961123

From Cotton Mill to Business Empire

The Emergence of Regional Enterprises in Modern China

By: Elisabeth Köll

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From Cotton Mill to Business Empire

The Emergence of Regional Enterprises in Modern China

By: Elisabeth Köll

The demise of state-owned enterprises, the transformation of collectives into shareholding cooperatives, and the creation of investment opportunities through stock markets indicate China’s movement from a socialist, state-controlled economy toward a socialist market economy. Yet, contrary to high expectations that China’s new enterprises will become like corporations in capitalist countries, management often remains under the control of the onetime bureaucrats who ran the socialist enterprises.The concepts, definitions, and interpretations of property rights, corporate structures, and business practices in contemporary China have historical, institutional, and cultural roots. In tracing the development under founder Zhang Jian (1853–1926) and his successors of the Dasheng Cotton Mill in Nantong into a business group encompassing, among other concerns, cotton, flour, and oil mills, land development companies, and shipping firms, the author documents the growth of regional enterprises as local business empires from the 1890s until the foundation of the People’s Republic in 1949. She focuses on the legal and managerial evolution of limited-liability firms in China, particularly issues of control and accountability; the introduction and management of industrial work in the countryside; and the integration and interdependency of local, national, and international markets in Republican China.

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450

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BRILL

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1684173914

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9781684173914

Physical Properties (Continued)

By: Elisabeth Koch-Bienemann,Liselotte Berg,Gerhard Czack

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Physical Properties (Continued)

By: Elisabeth Koch-Bienemann,Liselotte Berg,Gerhard Czack

The present volume continues the edition of a number of supplement volumes dealing with the elements tungsten and molybdenum. Technology and metallurgy of molybdenum and tungsten have been described in the respective volumes A 1. Tungsten Supplement Volume A 2 has been published and comprises the nuclear and atomic properties, sections on the clusters and the vapor, the electronic structure, the lattice dynamics, and the basic crystallographic properties. The present volume A/3 deals with the relationships between lattice defects and mechanical properties. Each of the subsequent chapters, concerning the thermal, electrical, magnetic, and optical properties, has a somewhat larger scope than the corresponding chapter in the Molybdenum Supplement Volumes. Within these chapters, some noteworthy facts are the following: the melting point of tungsten is the highest of all metals, i.e., 3695 K, the behavior of the current carriers has been studied in great detail by numerous methods, and the emissivity characteristics have received much attention above all because of the high melting point. Another special feature is the very intense study of all surface properties and the phenomena, which will be described in a forthcoming volume.

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296

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Springer

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3540935940

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9783540935940

Poetry Criticism

By: Elisabeth Gellert

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Poetry Criticism

By: Elisabeth Gellert

Annotation Each volume provides substantive critical essays and biographical information on four to eight major poets from all eras. A cumulative title index to the entire series is published separately (included in subscription).

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Poetry Criticism

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0787652210

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Book's by Elisabeth Jay Friedman

Sovereignty, Democracy, and Global Civil Society

Sovereignty, Democracy, and Global Civil Society

Unfinished Transitions

Unfinished Transitions

Rescue and Flight

Rescue and Flight

Civic Gifts

Civic Gifts

My Secret is Mine

My Secret is Mine

Individualization

Individualization

From Cotton Mill to Business Empire

From Cotton Mill to Business Empire

Physical Properties (Continued)

Physical Properties (Continued)

Poetry Criticism

Poetry Criticism

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