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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - [APPROVED]SERIES EDITOR: JENNY WORMALDA flagship series for Edinburgh University Press for many years, The New History of Scotland books have become classic texts. Written by authors at the forefront of their discipline, titles in this series provide an ideal introduction to Scottish history for students and for general readers. This popular and enduring series is now being updated with thoroughly revised editions both by original and by new authors.[Neal Ascherson endorsement to follow]Praise for previous editions:'Harvie has achieved a masterly synthesis of the most important political, economic, social and cultural developments in Scotland's recent past, written too with great wit and style . fully deserves the gratitude of students and scholars for making Scottish history so accessible and stimulating.'English Historical Review'Indispensable to anyone seeking to understand modern Scotland.'The Herald'. a bold and original book shot through with novel ideas.'Scottish Historical ReviewFully revised and updated edition of this classic text on the history of Scotland since World War IEpitomised by political, social and technological change this history appraises a fast-evolving century, from the outbreak of World War I up to the present and the politics of devolution and the age of the internet. The book begins with the devastating impact of World War I and Scotland's critical role in its conduct, then continues to explore Scots institutional life, from 1922 to 1964, governed by the problems of economy, society, politics and culture embedded in a mature industrialised state with economic problems and governmental deficits. Two further chapters cover the period from 1964 to 1999, including the challenge of new industries, oil discoveries, and the rise of devolutionary and nationalist politics. A new section for this edition covers the course of devolved politics, from the Scottish parliament of 1999 to the financial collapse of 2008 and the constitutional upheavals of 2014-15, rounding off this unique interpretation of a century of Scottish life from a cherished and multi-faceted historian.CHRISTOPHER HARVIE, Professor of British and Irish Studies at the University of Tübingen, has written extensively on UK and Scottish history. A founder-historian at the Open University, 1969¿80, he is the author of over 16 books, including The Lights of Liberalism (1976), Scotland and Nationalism (1977), The Rise of Regional Europe (1994), A Floating Commonwealth (2008), Scotland: A Short History (2014) and the historical novel Dalriada (2015). He was a Member of the Scottish Parliament, 2007¿11.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'In an age when capital wins time and again and everyone from politicians to academics insist that we must all bow down in the name of security, this book challenges the power of both. The outcome is a radical deployment of the concept of pacification which will transform our understanding of the wars carried out in the name of security/capital.'Mark Neocleous, Professor of the Critique of Political Economy, Brunel University'In this powerful interrogation, Rigakos clarifies and extends pacification theory by showing the intimate connection between capitalism and (in)security, historically and here today. His passionate message is that no vision of a post-capitalist future can afford not to take security seriously.'Georgios Papanicolaou, Reader in Criminology, Teesside UniversityA radical social theory of the security-industrial complexHow has security become the pre-eminent organizing principle of modern life It is now inextricably bound up with capital accumulation and Empire. Mass demonstrations against the ceremonial gathering of corporate and state elites during meetings of the WTO, APEC or the G20 have cast in stark relief the politics of the 99% with that of the 1%, have drawn visible, geographic boundaries around the permissibility of dissent and have facilitated the occupation and colonization of urban space for the purpose of 'extending the scope of productive labour' and the circuit of capital accumulation.The resilience and growth of the security-industrial complex is rooted not only in its capacity to reproduce the current global economic system ideologically and coercively through pacification - to make workers more productive - but also that security itself is economically productive even when it fails. This book is the first comprehensive sociological treatise on the security-industrial complex, offering a general theory of security based on a critical engagement with the works of Marx and Foucault.George S. Rigakos is Professor of the Political Economy of Policing at Carleton University. He is the Editor of Red Quill Books and is one of the founding members of the Antisecurity Studies Group.Cover image: Soldiers advancing on abandoned train tracks Chris Coir/Getty Images.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Provides a comprehensive criticism of Hardy's entire output of short stories.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - author approved Endorsement to follow A critical assessment of the return of religion in contemporary philosophy Gregg Lambert examines the internal relationship between the return of overtly religious themes in contemporary philosophy over the past decade and another sense of the 'post-secular' turn that has been taking place globally following the events of 9/11. He asks how these two 'returns to religion' can be taking place simultaneously without appearing as the same horizon of the West viewed from opposing perspectives of the globe Through a series of reflections on the 'return statements' performed by contemporary philosophers including Alain Badiou, John D. Caputo, Jacques Derrida, and Jean-Luc Nancy, Lambert discovers the unique sense of the term 'religion' that belongs exclusively to our contemporary perspective - a sense whose bio-political meaning is both unprecedented and foreboding. Gregg Lambert is Dean's Professor of the Humanities at Syracuse University and is the Founding Director of The Syracuse University Humanities Centre.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Each time a border is crossed there are cultural, political and social issues to be considered. Applying the metaphor of the 'border crossing' from one temporal or spatial territory into another, Border Crossing: Russian Literature into Film examines the way classic Russian texts have been altered to suit new cinematic environments.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A comparative study of Scotland's global military diaspora, focusing on the impact of the Great War Between the 1820s and 1914 over two million people emigrated from Scotland, settling primarily in North America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. One of the most distinctive ways in which the influence of the Scottish diaspora overseas expressed itself was the formation of military units which identified with Scotland. This volume provides a comparative overview of the nineteenth century emergence of military Scottishness and explores how the construction and performance of Scottish military identity has evolved in different Commonwealth countries over the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In particular, it looks at the ways in which Scottish volunteer regiments variously sought to draw upon, align themselves with or, at certain key moments, redefine the assertions of martial identity which Highland regiments represented. Wendy Ugolini is a lecturer in British History at the University of Edinburgh. She specialises in the role of war in identity formation and has published on ethnicities in Second World War Britain and diasporic military Scottishness. She is author of Experiencing War as the 'Enemy Other': Italian Scottish Experience in World War II (2011) and the co-editor of Fighting for Britain Negotiating Identities in Britain During the Second World War (2015). David Forsyth is a Principal Curator in the Scottish History & Archaeology Department, at National Museums Scotland. Along with Wendy Ugolini he has acted as Principal Investigator on the Royal Society of Edinburgh/Scottish Government Research Workshop. In 2014 he co-curated the exhibition Common Cause: Commonwealth Scots and the Great War at the National Museum of Scotland, also co-authoring the book of the same name. Cover image: Scottish Royal Standard, headquarters flag of D Company, 23rd Battalion New Zealand Expeditionary Force, flown during the Battle of Crete, 1941. This unit recruited from Otago, a region of New Zealand settled by Scots. The standard had been preserved by partisans throughout the German occupation. (c) National Museums Scotland.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - During the Second World War hundreds of Hollywood filmmakers under the command of the legendary director John Ford enlisted in the OSS to produce training, reconnaissance and propaganda films. This wartime bond continued into the post-war period, when a number of studios produced films advocating the creation of a permanent peacetime successor to the OSS: what became the Central Intelligence Agency. By the 1960s however, Hollywood's increasingly irreverent attitude towards the CIA reflected a growing public anxiety about excessive US government secrecy.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Add endorsement Author approved The first critical appraisal of Jean-Luc Nancy's immense contribution to contemporary visual culture Jean-Luc Nancy is one of the most original and compelling of those contemporary political and ethical philosophers who, like Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou, have turned in recent works towards aesthetics and visual art. Nancy's challenging and inspiring writings on painting, film, photography, video and contemporary visual art have informed the work of scholars of visual culture and aesthetic theory as well as artists, filmmakers and curators. In an exciting range of original responses to Nancy's work, this collection reanimates the dialogue between interdisciplinary scholars and practicing artists that originally gave birth to visual culture as a field of study. A new translation of Nancy's essay, The Image: Mimesis and Methexis, reveals how Nancy's work informs, challenges and inspires our encounters with visual culture. Carrie Giunta is a Visiting Research Fellow at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London. Adrienne Janus is lecturer in English, Comparative Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'In an age when capital wins time and again and everyone from politicians to academics insist that we must all bow down in the name of security, this book challenges the power of both. The outcome is a radical deployment of the concept of pacification which will transform our understanding of the wars carried out in the name of security/capital.'Mark Neocleous, Professor of the Critique of Political Economy, Brunel University'In this powerful interrogation, Rigakos clarifies and extends pacification theory by showing the intimate connection between capitalism and (in)security, historically and here today. His passionate message is that no vision of a post-capitalist future can afford not to take security seriously.'Georgios Papanicolaou, Reader in Criminology, Teesside UniversityA radical social theory of the security-industrial complexHow has security become the pre-eminent organizing principle of modern life It is now inextricably bound up with capital accumulation and Empire. Mass demonstrations against the ceremonial gathering of corporate and state elites during meetings of the WTO, APEC or the G20 have cast in stark relief the politics of the 99% with that of the 1%, have drawn visible, geographic boundaries around the permissibility of dissent and have facilitated the occupation and colonization of urban space for the purpose of 'extending the scope of productive labour' and the circuit of capital accumulation.The resilience and growth of the security-industrial complex is rooted not only in its capacity to reproduce the current global economic system ideologically and coercively through pacification - to make workers more productive - but also that security itself is economically productive even when it fails. This book is the first comprehensive sociological treatise on the security-industrial complex, offering a general theory of security based on a critical engagement with the works of Marx and Foucault.George S. Rigakos is Professor of the Political Economy of Policing at Carleton University. He is the Editor of Red Quill Books and is one of the founding members of the Antisecurity Studies Group.Cover image: Soldiers advancing on abandoned train tracks Chris Coir/Getty Images.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A textual and contextual study of an early Arabic mirror for princes Mirrors for princes form a substantial and important genre in many pre-modern literatures. Their ostensible purpose is to advise the king; at the same time they assert that the king, if he is truly virtuous, will appreciate being reminded of the contingency of his power. The unknown author of the Counsel for Kings studied in this book wrote in a distinctive early tenth-century Iranian environment. He deploys an abundant set of cultural materials representing 'perennial wisdom' of mixed provenances, which he reinvigorates by applying them to the circumstances of his own time and place. The first volume situates Counsel for Kings in its historical context. The second volume gives direct access to a substantial portion of the text through translation and commentary. Key Features - Integrates the evidence of Counsel for Kings with established materials for the study of Samanid history - Demonstrates the interplay of mirrors for princes with other forms of literary expression, such as anthologies of adab, historiographical, theological, philosophical and homiletic writings, encyclopaedic works and poetry Louise Marlow is Professor of Religion and Program Director for Middle Eastern Studies at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, USA.

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