No Middle Ground

Author : Seth Masket
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0472116894

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“This is a fascinating book. It is one of the best studies of the ways that parties and politics get conducted in any American state. Masket shows that legislators can be perfectly content without parties that control agendas and does a terrific job of explaining the transition from free-wheeling legislators to rigidly partisan voting blocs.” —Sam Popkin, University of California at San Diego “No Middle Ground makes a significant contribution to the study of American parties and legislative politics.” —Matthew Green, Catholic University of America Despite concerns about the debilitating effects of partisanship on democratic government, in recent years political parties have gained strength in state governments as well as in Washington. In many cases these parties function as machines. Unlike machines of the past that manipulated votes, however, today’s machines determine which candidates can credibly compete in a primary. Focusing on the history and politics of California, Seth E. Masket reveals how these machines evolved and how they stay in power by directing money, endorsements, and expertise to favored candidates, who often tend toward the ideological extreme. In a provocative conclusion, Masket argues that politicians are not inherently partisan. Instead, partisanship is thrust upon them by actors outside the government with the power to manipulate primary elections.

Author : Kathleen M. Blee
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814712795

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Assembles a variety of studies on women's role in modern US radical and non-mainstream political movements, including labor, environmental, and racial. Some are first-person accounts reflecting on the personal dimensions of political commitment; other are scholarly examinations based on interviews and document analysis. Many focus on a particular incident or time period. Six of the 15 essays have been previously published. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Sanjeev Shetty
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781781312698

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2014 marked the 25th anniversary of the first bout in the epic battle between Nigel Benn, Michael Watson and Chris Eubank to contest the WBO Middleweight Championship that would keep us entertained for five manic, magnificent and ultimately tragic years, marking the start of an epic saga in British Boxing. The fight took place a month after the Hillsborough disaster and was screened live on TV, in a slot now dominated by talent contests. It was a time when kids could stay up late to watch 12 rounds of madness. It was also the last Golden Era of British Boxing. While for us these greats of British boxing provided entertainment away from the hooliganism of football, for them it was much more personal. Rivalries exist in every sport, but their loathing was real and in the ring it nearly became deadly. But this is what the swaggering early-90's Britain tuned in for. These three fighters were Britain's alpha-ego. They made the country proud. No Middle Ground takes us back to the years when these boxers pounded the heavy bags and tells their story as well as that of Britain's love affair with the sport, and how these fight came to define them and us. In tracing the boxers' journeys to centre-stage Sanjeev Shetty reveals the story of the dark side of Thatcher's nation - the blood, the sweat, the dangerous hatred that fuelled these men, and the ultimate price they would pay for their moment in the sun.

Author : Erin L. Murphy
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498582674

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In No Middle Ground: Anti-Imperialists and Ethical Witnessing During the Philippine-American War, Erin L. Murphy argues that activists in the Anti-Imperialist movement against the Philippine-American War, led by the Anti-Imperialist League, followed an evolving path of ethical witnessing where leaders empathically considered the experience of imperialist violence as it was expressed by marginalized anti-imperialists. Murphy explores how the perspectives of marginalized anti-imperialists like white women, black women and men, and Filipino/as, led Anti-Imperialist League leaders, who were predominantly white men of some prominence, to evolve their activism from focusing on defending the U.S. Constitution through electoral politics and the legality of U.S. Empire to exposing the imperialist violence committed by the U. S. military as crimes against fundamental human rights. Activists believed that advocating for human rights held true to the principles in the U.S. Constitution while U.S. Empire only dismembered it. Murphy further analyzes the ways in which Anti-Imperialist League leaders and supporters began forming other organizations based on the principles of advocating for human rights and liberty, such as the National Association for Colored People, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, National Consumers League, American Civil Liberties Union, and the Ethical Society.

Author : Seth Masket
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472034673

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The new political machines fuel partisanship by supporting only candidates who follow the party's agenda

Author : Jack Slater
Publisher : J.R.Slatcher
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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No Middle Ground (DS Pete Gayle thrillers, Book 5) by Jack Slater Pdf

A missing father. A desperate daughter. A terrible discovery. A new case is the last thing DS Pete Gayle needs right now, but when it falls right into his lap, he has no choice. Justice is crying out to be served. With a career-making trial about to begin and his son in imminent danger from a pair of psychopathic brothers, Pete goes on the hunt in what could turn out to be the biggest case of his life..

Author : Olubusayo Aina
Publisher : Olubusayo Aina
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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No middle ground!: You are either for us, or against us. by Olubusayo Aina Pdf

‘Thy will be done on Earth, as it is in Heaven.’ Jesus, whilst teaching us how to pray, subtly revealed the Father’s desire to have His ‘will’ prevail on our terrestrial plane, as is the status quo in the celestial realms. Christ also – in the prayer, hinted that we should align ourselves to this Heavenly objective; as this is embedded in our prayer – to God. As it says: “After this manner therefore pray ye; Our Father, who art in Heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done on Earth, as it is in Heaven” (Matthew 6:9-10) After the important step of starting our prayers with praises and thanksgiving to God; the next on our agenda, should be to show our solidarity to this divine course. That His ‘will’ – must of necessity, prevail on Earth. In this, is our allegiance to Him confirmed. As much as we might try to play ignorance, one fact remains absolutely clear: Anyone born into this World, automatically gets thrown into an ongoing battle between good and evil. And to this War, there is no parley! Our very actions or inactions, take sides with one of these two opposing powers. Since the days of Joshua, God has read the riot act to all men; “Choose you this day, whom you will serve!” (Joshua 24:15) All who choose God’s Son, Jesus, choose life. Those who rebel against Him however, have aligned themselves with those condemned to the lake of fire. Whether you know it or not – currently, by your way of life, actions, beliefs, acceptance or rejection of the Christ; you have aligned yourself with a side. For there is NO MIDDLE GROUND!

Author : Uzo E. Odunukwe
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1490820701

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There Is No Middle Ground - In God's Kingdom by Uzo E. Odunukwe Pdf

This is a multi-pronged book, aimed at moderating, redirecting, aligning, and perfecting Christian believers to run the race according to God's standards. There is no compromise with God's standard, nor alliance between God's kingdom and the world. In the things of this world, it is always ?a little to the left and a little to the right, ? which is a strategy in man's craftiness not to be caught on the wrong side. It has always been said that in politics, ? there are no permanent friends and no permanent enemies. It is a marriage of convenience. However, this is contrary the Word of God. You are either on the right or on the left, either hot or cold; there is no middle ground. Thus, you need to know who you are as a believer, using the Word of God as a mirror, in order to enable you know your state and make an informed decision of which side you will choose to be. There are several areas of life in the kingdom, like marriage, our ultimate destination, commitment to God, our character manifestation and our lifestyle. I believe this book will bring some new dimensions that we may not have contemplated before now.

Author : Richard White
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139495684

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The Middle Ground by Richard White Pdf

An acclaimed book and widely acknowledged classic, The Middle Ground steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations - stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans and Indians met, regarding each other as alien, as other, as virtually nonhuman, and how between 1650 and 1815 they constructed a common, mutually comprehensible world in the region around the Great Lakes that the French called pays d'en haut. Here the older worlds of the Algonquians and of various Europeans overlapped, and their mixture created new systems of meaning and of exchange. Finally, the book tells of the breakdown of accommodation and common meanings and the re-creation of the Indians as alien and exotic. First published in 1991, the 20th anniversary edition includes a new preface by the author examining the impact and legacy of this study.

Author : Eric L. Goldstein,Deborah R. Weiner
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421424521

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On Middle Ground by Eric L. Goldstein,Deborah R. Weiner Pdf

A model of Jewish community history that will enlighten anyone interested in Baltimore and its past. Winner of the Southern Jewish Historical Society Book Prize by the Southern Jewish Historical Society; Finalist of the American Jewish Studies Book Award by the Jewish Book Council National Jewish Book Awards In 1938, Gustav Brunn and his family fled Nazi Germany and settled in Baltimore. Brunn found a job at McCormick’s Spice Company but was fired after three days when, according to family legend, the manager discovered he was Jewish. He started his own successful business using a spice mill he brought over from Germany and developed a blend especially for the seafood purveyors across the street. Before long, his Old Bay spice blend would grace kitchen cabinets in virtually every home in Maryland. The Brunns sold the business in 1986. Four years later, Old Bay was again sold—to McCormick. In On Middle Ground, the first truly comprehensive history of Baltimore’s Jewish community, Eric L. Goldstein and Deborah R. Weiner describe not only the formal institutions of Jewish life but also the everyday experiences of families like the Brunns and of a diverse Jewish population that included immigrants and natives, factory workers and department store owners, traditionalists and reformers. The story of Baltimore Jews—full of absorbing characters and marked by dramas of immigration, acculturation, and assimilation—is the story of American Jews in microcosm. But its contours also reflect the city’s unique culture. Goldstein and Weiner argue that Baltimore’s distinctive setting as both a border city and an immigrant port offered opportunities for advancement that made it a magnet for successive waves of Jewish settlers. The authors detail how the city began to attract enterprising merchants during the American Revolution, when it thrived as one of the few ports remaining free of British blockade. They trace Baltimore’s meteoric rise as a commercial center, which drew Jewish newcomers who helped the upstart town surpass Philadelphia as the second-largest American city. They explore the important role of Jewish entrepreneurs as Baltimore became a commercial gateway to the South and later developed a thriving industrial scene. Readers learn how, in the twentieth century, the growth of suburbia and the redevelopment of downtown offered scope to civic leaders, business owners, and real estate developers. From symphony benefactor Joseph Meyerhoff to Governor Marvin Mandel and trailblazing state senator Rosalie Abrams, Jews joined the ranks of Baltimore’s most influential cultural, philanthropic, and political leaders while working on the grassroots level to reshape a metro area confronted with the challenges of modern urban life. Accessibly written and enriched by more than 130 illustrations, On Middle Ground reveals that local Jewish life was profoundly shaped by Baltimore’s “middleness”—its hybrid identity as a meeting point between North and South, a major industrial center with a legacy of slavery, and a large city with a small-town feel.

Author : Barbara Jeanne Fields
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300040326

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Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground by Barbara Jeanne Fields Pdf

Examines the history of slavery in Maryland and discusses the conditions of life of Maryland's slaves and free Blacks.

Author : Kathleen DuVal
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812201826

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The Native Ground by Kathleen DuVal Pdf

In The Native Ground, Kathleen DuVal argues that it was Indians rather than European would-be colonizers who were more often able to determine the form and content of the relations between the two groups. Along the banks of the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers, far from Paris, Madrid, and London, European colonialism met neither accommodation nor resistance but incorporation. Rather than being colonized, Indians drew European empires into local patterns of land and resource allocation, sustenance, goods exchange, gender relations, diplomacy, and warfare. Placing Indians at the center of the story, DuVal shows both their diversity and our contemporary tendency to exaggerate the influence of Europeans in places far from their centers of power. Europeans were often more dependent on Indians than Indians were on them. Now the states of Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Colorado, this native ground was originally populated by indigenous peoples, became part of the French and Spanish empires, and in 1803 was bought by the United States in the Louisiana Purchase. Drawing on archaeology and oral history, as well as documents in English, French, and Spanish, DuVal chronicles the successive migrations of Indians and Europeans to the area from precolonial times through the 1820s. These myriad native groups—Mississippians, Quapaws, Osages, Chickasaws, Caddos, and Cherokees—and the waves of Europeans all competed with one another for control of the region. Only in the nineteenth century did outsiders initiate a future in which one people would claim exclusive ownership of the mid-continent. After the War of 1812, these settlers came in numbers large enough to overwhelm the region's inhabitants and reject the early patterns of cross-cultural interdependence. As citizens of the United States, they persuaded the federal government to muster its resources on behalf of their dreams of landholding and citizenship. With keen insight and broad vision, Kathleen DuVal retells the story of Indian and European contact in a more complex and, ultimately, more satisfactory way.

Author : J. L. Rehman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0970331665

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No Middle Ground by J. L. Rehman Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Laird
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781608465835

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A Little Piece of Ground by Elizabeth Laird Pdf

A Little Piece Of Ground will help young readers understand more about one of the worst conflicts afflicting our world today. Written by Elizabeth Laird, one of Great Britain’s best-known young adult authors, A Little Piece Of Ground explores the human cost of the occupation of Palestinian lands through the eyes of a young boy. Twelve-year-old Karim Aboudi and his family are trapped in their Ramallah home by a strict curfew. In response to a Palestinian suicide bombing, the Israeli military subjects the West Bank town to a virtual siege. Meanwhile, Karim, trapped at home with his teenage brother and fearful parents, longs to play football with his friends. When the curfew ends, he and his friend discover an unused patch of ground that’s the perfect site for a football pitch. Nearby, an old car hidden intact under bulldozed building makes a brilliant den. But in this city there’s constant danger, even for schoolboys. And when Israeli soldiers find Karim outside during the next curfew, it seems impossible that he will survive. This powerful book fills a substantial gap in existing young adult literature on the Middle East. With 23,000 copies already sold in the United Kingdom and Canada, this book is sure to find a wide audience among young adult readers in the United States.

Author : F.R. Scott
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781554583782

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Leaving the Shade of the Middle Ground by F.R. Scott Pdf

Leaving the Shade of the Middle Ground contains thirty-five of F.R. Scott’s poems from across the five decades of his career. Scott’s artistic responses to a litany of social problems, as well as his emphasis on nature and landscapes, remain remarkably relevant. Scott weighed in on many issues important to Canadians today, using different terms, perhaps, but with no less urgency than we feel now: biopolitics, neoliberalism, environmental concerns, genetic modification, freedom of speech, civil rights, human rights, and immigration. Scott is best remembered for “The Canadian Authors Meet,” “W.L.M.K,” and “Laurentian Shield,” but his poetic oeuvre includes significant occasional poems, elegies, found poems, and pointed satires. This selection of poems showcases the politics, the humour, and the beauty of this central modernist figure. The introduction by Laura Moss and the afterword by George Elliott Clarke provide two distinct approaches to reading Scott’s work: in the contexts of Canadian modernism and of contemporary literary history, respectively.