A Nation In Turmoil

Author : Peter Calvert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429725357

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Guatemala by Peter Calvert Pdf

Guatemala has long been a field for struggle between other powers, and today, racked by civil war, it avoids the full glare of international attention only because most of the Central American region is beset by similar problems. Despite a continued belief in the reconstitution of a unified Central American state arid a long-running claim to Belize, Guatemala has played a passive rather than an active role in international politics. The influence of international economic interests explains to a large degree why Guatemala has not been more active in the international arena. In this book, Professor Calvert examines Guatemala's history and the principal aspects of the country's faction-tom society and seeks to explain the problems—and their consistently violent manifestations—that have attended the course of the country's social, economic, and political development.

Author : Herman van der Wee,Monique Verbreyt
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN : 9789058677594

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A Small Nation in the Turmoil of the Second World War by Herman van der Wee,Monique Verbreyt Pdf

This monograph presents an in-depth analysis of Belgium's monetary and financial history during the Second World War. Exploring Belgium's financial and business links with Germany, France, The Netherlands, Great Britain, the United States, and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the study focuses on the roles played by the Central Bank and private bankers in Brussels, by the Belgian government in exile in London, and by the Belgian minister plenipotentiary in New York. Among the subjects arising are: German attempts to plunder Belgium and Belgian resistance strategies; the peripeteia of the Belgian gold reserve; the role of the Belgian Congo; Belgium's participation in the discussions leading up to the Bretton Woods conference; and the negotiations for creating a Customs Union, blueprint for the 1958 Treaty of Rome. The final part of the book analyzes the famous monetary reform devised by Belgian Minister of Finance Camille Gutt at the liberation of the country in September 1944.

Author : Peter Calvert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367169665

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Guatemala by Peter Calvert Pdf

This book examines Guatemala's history and the principal aspects of the country's faction-tom society. It explains the problems--and their consistently violent manifestations--that have attended the course of the country's social, economic, and political development.

Author : John Jeffrey Stanton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798619455953

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America 2020 by John Jeffrey Stanton Pdf

America 2020-A Nation in Turmoil- is a collection of observations on the US State of the Union in 2020. As I have written elsewhere, there is a critical need for the American people to interact with each other in a civil and civic fashion. There simply must be a return to the ideals embodied in the US Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights. As Norbert Wiener once remarked, "In a very real sense, we are shipwrecked passengers on a doomed planet. Yet, even in a shipwreck, human decencies and human values do not necessarily vanish, and we must make the most of them. We shall go down, but let it be in a manner to which we may look forward as worthy of our dignity."

Author : Yunas Samad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Ethnicity
ISBN : 8170364426

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A Nation in Turmoil by Yunas Samad Pdf

Author : Carole Keller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1940725925

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Calling a Nation in Turmoil Back to God by Carole Keller Pdf

Author : Bryant Wright
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780849949388

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Seeds of Turmoil by Bryant Wright Pdf

Dive into the biblical history that provides a clear, in-depth explanation of the origin, history, and significance of the Middle East conflict. Starting with Abraham, learn how he became the father of 3 religions, how his sons’ rivalry planted the roots for turmoil, and how the nations of Israel and Palestine continue this stalemate in current affairs. The current conflict in the Middle East began long before the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. It originated when Abraham sinned, distorting God's promise that he and his heirs would make a great nation and inherit the land now called The Holy Land. A historical and political account,?Seeds of Turmoil?clearly explains the biblical story of Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar and the ensuing sibling rivalry between Jacob and Esau, whose choices formed the world's three most influential religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. This fascinating insight into the beginnings of the conflict also explains what about the land is so important today. In addition, Wright sheds light on the conflicting Jewish, Christian, and Islamic perspectives and answers the question, Does God play favorites? A faith-based view on Middle Eastern relations, Seeds of Turmoil?provide the historical context for a modern understanding of how and why these current events take place.

Author : Martin Holbraad,Bruce Kapferer,Julia F. Sauma
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787356184

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Ruptures by Martin Holbraad,Bruce Kapferer,Julia F. Sauma Pdf

Ruptures brings together leading and emerging international anthropologists to explore the concept of ‘rupture’. Understood as radical and often forceful forms of discontinuity, rupture is the active ingredient of the current sense of a world in turmoil, lying at the heart of some of the most defining experiences of our time: the rise of populist politics, the corollary impulse towards protest and even revolutionary change, as well as moves towards violence and terror, and the responses these moves elicit. Rupture is addressed in selected ethnographic and historical contexts: images of the guillotine in the French revolution; reactions to Trump’s election in the USA; the motivations of young Danes who join ISIS in Syria; ‘butterfly effect’ activism among environmental anarchists in northern Europe; the experiences of political trauma and its ‘repair’ through privately sponsored museums of Mao’s revolution in China; people’s experience of the devastating 2001 earthquake in Gujarat; the ‘inner’ rupture of Protestant faith among Danish nationalist theologians; and the attempt to invent ex nihilo an alphabet for use in Christian prophetic movements in Congo and Angola. Ruptures takes in new directions broader intellectual debates about continuity and change. In particular, by thematising rupture as a radical, sometimes violent, and even brutal form of discontinuity, it adds a sharper critical edge to contemporary discourses, both in social theory and public debate and policy.

Author : Mary Ann Glendon
Publisher : Sapientia Press Ave Maria Univ
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1932589244

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Traditions in Turmoil by Mary Ann Glendon Pdf

That ours is a time of intellectual, cultural, moral, and religious turmoil does not need to be argued. What does need to be argued, and what Glendon argues with force and freshness, is that our response to turmoil requires a greater honesty in coming to terms with tradition, and with traditions in conflict. That is little understood by many on both the political left and right. Quoting one of her favorite thinkers, theologian Bernard Lonergan, she urges us to be "big enough to be at home in the both and old and new; and painstaking enough to work out one at a time the transitions to be made." Working within the capacious structure of the Christian intellectual tradition, most reflectively and generously articulated in Catholic teaching, Glendon constructively engages alternative ways of thinking about what it means to be human and what is required to nurture a society worthy of human beings. As the reader will see, her work ranges far and wide, and it goes deep. There is hardly a subject she addresses that does not change the way we think about it. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mary Ann Glendon is Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. She teaches and writes on international human rights, comparative law; and constitutional law issues. She is the author of many books including Rights Talk, A Nation Under Lawyers, and most recently A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Author : David Goldfield
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781608193745

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America Aflame by David Goldfield Pdf

In this spellbinding new history, David Goldfield offers the first major new interpretation of the Civil War era since James M. McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom. Where past scholars have limned the war as a triumph of freedom, Goldfield sees it as America's greatest failure: the result of a breakdown caused by the infusion of evangelical religion into the public sphere. As the Second GreatAwakening surged through America, political questions became matters of good and evil to be fought to the death. The price of that failure was horrific, but the carnage accomplished what statesmen could not: It made the United States one nation and eliminated slavery as a divisive force in the Union. The victorious North became synonymous with America as a land of innovation and industrialization, whose teeming cities offered squalor and opportunity in equal measure. Religion was supplanted by science and a gospel of progress, and the South was left behind. Goldfield's panoramic narrative, sweeping from the 1840s to the end of Reconstruction, is studded with memorable details and luminaries such as HarrietBeecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, and Walt Whitman. There are lesser known yet equally compelling characters, too, including Carl Schurz-a German immigrant, warhero, and postwar reformer-and Alexander Stephens, the urbane and intellectual vice president of the Confederacy. America Aflame is a vivid portrait of the "fiery trial"that transformed the country we live in.

Author : Konstanze N'Guessan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004426337

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Histories of Independence in Côte d’Ivoire by Konstanze N'Guessan Pdf

In Histories of Independence in Côte d’Ivoire: an Ethnography of the Past, Konstanze N’Guessan deals with memory work in Côte d’Ivoire and bridges an ethnographic approach with the insights of newer theoretical approaches in historiography. Adopting a long-term perspective from the late 1950s to the present, she attempts to disentangle the condensation of meanings of the lieu de mémoire “Ivorian independence” and explores how different practices of recalling the past complement and/or contradict each other. Histories of independence in Côte d’Ivoire looks at national-day celebrations, academic historiography, oral tradition and memory politics in order to understand how (political) actors mobilize the past in order to produce pleasant presents and futures.

Author : George P. Shultz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781451623116

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Turmoil and Triumph by George P. Shultz Pdf

Turmoil and Triumph isn’t just a memoir—though it is that, too—it’s a thrilling retrospective on the eight tumultuous years that Schultz worked as secretary of state under President Ronald Reagan. Under Schultz’s strong leadership, America braved a nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union, increasingly damaging waves of terrorism abroad, scandals such as the Iran-Contra crisis, and eventually the end of the decades-long Cold War. With the strong convictions and startling candor for which Schultz is known, this personal account takes readers into the heart of the Reagan administration, revealing the behind-the-scenes talks and churning tensions that informed a transitional decade that many Americans now look back on as one of the country’s most exalted.

Author : Richard A. Cloward,Frances Fox Piven
Publisher : Vintage Books USA
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015030870730

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The Politics of Turmoil by Richard A. Cloward,Frances Fox Piven Pdf

Author : Brij V. Lal
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781920942755

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Islands of Turmoil by Brij V. Lal Pdf

By rights, the island nation of Fiji should be thriving. It is easily the most developed country in the South Pacific; it is a hub for regional transportation and communication links, the home of international diplomatic, educational and aid organisations, with a talented multiethnic population. Yet, since its independence it has suffered two military coups in 1987 and an attempted putsch in 2000, resulting in strained institutions, and disrupted improvements to essential infrastructure, and to educational, social and medical services.

Author : Elliot Brooks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-18
Category : Imaginary places
ISBN : 1733664300

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Peace and Turmoil by Elliot Brooks Pdf

Peace and Turmoil is the first installment in an epic fantasy series following heirs from across the land of Abra'am as they try to navigate magic, politics, and fiends.