Beyond Consolidation

Author : Ferdinand Kühnel,Nedžad Kuč,Marija Wakounig
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643912237

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Framing History in East-Central Europe and Beyond by Ferdinand Kühnel,Nedžad Kuč,Marija Wakounig Pdf

During the 1970s todays Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung, BMBWF) supported the founding of the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and the Austrian Chair at Stanford University in California. These foundings were the initial incentives for the worldwide `spreading' of similar institutions; currently, nine Centers for Austrian and Central European Studies exist in seven countries on three continents. The funding of the Ministry enables to connect senior scholars with young scholars, to help young PhD students, to participate in and to benefit from the scientific connection of experienced researchers, and to get in touch with the national scientific community by `sniffing scientific air', as the Austrians like to say. Furthermore, it aims to avoid prejudices, and to spread a better understanding and knowledge about Austria and Central Europe by promoting scientific exchange.

Author : Peter J. Clark
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015019591968

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Beyond the Deal by Peter J. Clark Pdf

Author : Lamin Sanneh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199351626

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Beyond Jihad by Lamin Sanneh Pdf

Over the course of the last 1400 years, Islam has grown from a small band of followers on the Arabian peninsula into a global religion of over a billion believers. How did this happen? The usual answer is that Islam spread by the sword-believers waged jihad against rival tribes and kingdoms and forced them to convert. Lamin Sanneh argues that this is far from the whole story. Beyond Jihad examines the origin and evolution of the African pacifist tradition in Islam, beginning with an inquiry into the faith's origins and expansion in North Africa and its transmission across trans-Saharan trade routes to West Africa. The book focuses on the ways in which, without jihad, the religion spread and took hold, and what that tells us about the nature of religious and social change. At the heart of this process were clerics who used religious and legal scholarship to promote Islam. Once this clerical class emerged, it offered continuity and stability in the midst of political changes and cultural shifts, helping to inhibit the spread of radicalism, and subduing the urge to wage jihad. With its policy of religious and inter-ethnic accommodation, this pacifist tradition took Islam beyond traditional trade routes and kingdoms into remote districts of the Mali Empire, instilling a patient, Sufi-inspired, and jihad-negating impulse into religious life and practice. Islam was successful in Africa, Sanneh argues, not because of military might but because it was made African by Africans who adapted it to a variety of contexts.

Author : R. D. Lock
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1462016626

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Beyond the Bridge: by R. D. Lock Pdf

Seeking a job as a first-year teacher, Robin Robertson heads for an interview at the Westminster Rural Agricultural Schools in the spring of 1956. Here, Robin could teach and also coach varsity basketball and counsel students. Amid the pressures of beginning a new career, he starts to wonder whether a big-city person like himself can adapt adequately to the lifestyle of small-town, rural America. This story pictures a way of life that has vanished in all too many places. Many readers will relate to the challenges, conflicts, and rewards between students and an untried but idealistic teacher. Others will recall athletic contests won and lost and perhaps will remember counseling that went way beyond arranging school schedules. The author draws upon forty-three years of educational experience in high school and community college -- focusing on that memorable first year in front of a classroom, being in charge of the community's "Winter Entertainment Committee" (basketball games), and creating a newly mandated school guidance program.

Author : Leonardo Morlino
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998-07-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191521201

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Democracy Between Consolidation and Crisis by Leonardo Morlino Pdf

The second half of the twentieth century has witnessed several waves of democratization in Europe, the Americas, and in other regions of the world, such as South East Asia. Although for the most part these democratic regimes are no longer haunted by the prospect of a return to authoritarianism, severe economic and social problems have posed serious challenges, creating a situation where change is often achieved through alternating periods of consolidation and crisis. Drawing on a systematic, empirical analysis of four key Southern European countries, Portugal, Spain, Greece, and Italy, Morlino identifies several key aspects of democratic consolidation: consensus and legitimation, party system and party organization, and the ways in which organized and non-organized interests are related to parties and the institutions of state. The resulting models of consolidation are analysed and the mechanisms and patterns of their unfolding crises identified, taking care to disentangle the pragmatic reactions against the regime, often related to corruption, from more ideological ones grounded in differences in values. Finally, the author addresses the question of the `quality' of democracy, examining how this is related to the outcome of processes of consolidation and crisis. This insightful study offers the first extensive, comparative analysis of consolidation and crisis in these countries, and features a wealth of up-to-date information on party organizations, interest associations, the media, and public opinion. Although clearly focusing on Southern Europe, the author's findings are extremely relevant for understanding the politics of several other regions, including Eastern Europe, Latin America, and South East Asia.

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230344150

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Beyond the Military Revolution by Jeremy Black Pdf

The seventeenth century has long been seen as a period of 'crisis' or transition from the pre-modern to the modern world. This book offers a chance to explore this crisis from the perspective of war and military institutions in a way that should appeal to those doing global history. By placing 17th century warfare in a global context, Black challenges conventional chronologies and permits a reappraisal of the debate over what has been seen as the Military Revolution of the early-modern period. The book discusses war with regard to strategic cultures, assesses military capability in terms of tasks and challenges faced and attaches styles of warfare to their social and political contexts. Genuinely global in range, this up-to-date and wide-ranging account provides fresh historiographical insights into this crucial period in world history.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Interstate commerce
ISBN : LOC:00088728932

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Railroad Consolidation by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045427924

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Railroad Consolidation, Hearings Before ... , 69-1, May 24, 1926 - June 4, 1926 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045427916

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Railroad Consolidation, Hearings Before ... , 69-1, May 24, 25, 26, 27; June 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 17, and 18, 1926 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce Pdf

Author : John F. Peters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Centrifuges
ISBN : UOM:39015086519843

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Centrifugal Consolidation Testing of Soils for Classification Purposes by John F. Peters Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on rules and administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119597784

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Consolidation Appropriation Bill by United States. Congress. House. Committee on rules and administration Pdf

Author : J.B. Carr,Richard C. Feiock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317474463

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City-County Consolidation and Its Alternatives: Reshaping the Local Government Landscape by J.B. Carr,Richard C. Feiock Pdf

City-country consolidation builds upon the Progressive tradition of favoring structural reform of local governments. This volume looks at some important issues confronting contemporary efforts to consolidate governments and develops a theoretical approach to understanding both the motivations for pursuing consolidation and the way the rules guiding the process shape the outcome. Individual chapters consider the push for city-county consolidation and the current context in which such decisions are debated, along with several alternatives to city-county consolidation. The transaction costs of city-county consolidation are compared against the costs of municipal annexation, inter-local agreements, and the use of special district governments to achieve the desired consolidation of services. The final chapters compare competing perspectives for and against consolidation and put together some of the pieces of an explanatory theory of local government consolidation.

Author : Yaprak Gursoy
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472130429

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Between Military Rule and Democracy by Yaprak Gursoy Pdf

Examines military interventions in Greece, Turkey, Thailand, and Egypt, and the military's role in authoritarian and democratic regimes

Author : United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Railroads
ISBN : HARVARD:32044031897697

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Consolidation of Railroads by United States. Interstate Commerce Commission Pdf

Author : Jonathan Bell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812251852

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Beyond the Politics of the Closet by Jonathan Bell Pdf

"This collection of essays seeks to explore the impact that gay rights politics and activism have had on the wider American political landscape since the rights revolutions of the 1960s"--