Author: Rajend Mesthrie File Type: pdf The most comprehensive overview available, this handbook is an essential guide to sociolinguistics today. Reflecting the breadth of research in the field, it surveys a range of topics and approaches in the study of language variation and use in society. As well as linguistic perspectives, the handbook includes insights from anthropology, social psychology, the study of discourse and power, conversation analysis, theories of style and styling, language contact and applied sociolinguistics. Language practices seem to have reached new levels since the communications revolution of the late twentieth century. At the same time face-to-face communication is still the main force of language identity, even if social and peer networks of the traditional face-to-face nature are facing stiff competition of the Facebook-to-Facebook sort. The most authoritative guide to the state of the field, this handbook shows that sociolinguistics provides us with the best tools for understanding our unfolding evolution as social beings.ReviewOffers breadth, depth and up-to-date insight. David Britain, University of Bern Book DescriptionThe most comprehensive overview available, this handbook is an essential guide to sociolinguistics today. Reflecting the breadth of research in the field, it surveys a range of topics and approaches in the study of language variation and use in society.
Author: David Heffernan
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Ireland was conquered and gradually colonized by the Tudors during the sixteenth century. This much is clear but whether or not this was the actual goal of English policy in Ireland at that time has long been debated by historians. Debating Tudor policy in sixteenth-century Ireland examines a set of sources which provide a unique insight into English rule in Tudor Ireland. These are policy papers or treatises written at the time on how to reform Ireland and bring it under greater crown control. The study constitutes the first systematic study of the approximately six-hundred such treatises to have survived. In doing so it sheds light on how the Tudors arrived at the policies they decided to implement in Ireland and examines how English officials and other parties within Ireland viewed the Irish and the country at that time. **
Author: Patrick Healy
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This book is a detailed study of Hugh of Flavigny and his chronicle, which is widely recognised as one of the most important narratives of a crucial period of European history, that is, the Investiture Contest. Hughs Chronicon is significant in a number of ways as a unique source-book for some of the most important primary documents (especially papal letters) generated by the Investiture Contest as a rare autograph manuscript which gives an important insight into contemporary modes of composition and compilation as an important history of the local effects of the Investiture Contest in the dioceses of Verdun and Autun and as a striking autobiography of the author, Hugh of Flavigny. All these aspects are covered in this study by Patrick Healy. Other chapters investigate the context of the work in terms of ecclesiastical politics and use an analysis of the political and theological sources to illustrate the intellectual make-up of a contemporary monk, publicist - and polemicist.About the AuthorDr Patrick Healy is Post-Doctoral Fellow for Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Author: Thomas Nail
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An account of the concept of revolution in the work of Deleuze and Guattari We are witnessing the return of political revolution. However, this is not a return to the classical forms of revolution the capture of the state, the political representation of the party, the centrality of the proletariat or the leadership of the vanguard. After the failure of such tactics over the last century, revolutionary strategy is now headed in an entirely new direction. This book argues that Deleuze, Guattari and the Zapatistas are at the theoretical and practical heart of this new direction. Returning to Revolution is the first full-length book devoted to Deleuze and Guattaris concept of revolution and to their connection with Zapatismo. **
Author: Timothy Garton Ash
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Eloquent, aware and scrupulous . . . a rich and instructive examination of the Cold War past. --The New York TimesIn 1978 a romantic young Englishman took up residence in Berlin to see what that divided city could teach him about tyranny and freedom. Fifteen years later Timothy Garton Ash--who was by then famous for his reportage of the downfall of communism in Central Europe--returned. This time he had come to look at a file that bore the code-name Romeo. The file had been compiled by the Stasi, the East German secret police, with the assistance of dozens of informers. And it contained a meticulous record of Garton Ashs earlier life in Berlin. In this memoir, Garton Ash describes what it was like to rediscover his younger self through the eyes of the Stasi, and then to go on to confront those who actually informed against him to the secret police. Moving from document to remembrance, from the offices of British intelligence to the living rooms of retired Stasi officers, The File is a personal narrative as gripping, as disquieting, and as morally provocative as any fiction by George Orwell or Graham Greene. And it is all true.In this painstaking, powerful unmasking of evil, the wretched face of tyranny is revealed. --Philadelphia InquirerFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
Author: David Pietrusza
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A colorfully written account of a crime genius. Rothstein follows the life and career of Arnold Rothstein, the man who fixed the 1919 World Series. The book follows his tempestuous career throughout, as an underworld figure, and introduces readers to thegrimy world that clung to the glittering Jazz Age of New York City like a barnacle. The model for The Great Gatsbys Meyer Wolfsheim and Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls, Arnold Rothstein was much more than a fixer of baseball games. He was everything that made 1920s Manhattan roar. Transporting readers onto Jazz Age Broadway with its thugs, bookies, denizens of the racetracks, showgirls, political movers and shakers, and sports stars, here is the biography of the devilishly beloved gangland dandy who reigned supreme when the fast buck ruled and violence stalked the streets of Gotham. David Pietrusza unearths the canny way Rothstein fixed the 1919 World Series, playing all sides off one another so that he alone could not lose, and unravels the mystery ofhis November 1928 murder in a Times Square hotel room. A masterful portrait of a Roaring 20s legend filled with fascinating photographs, Pietruszas award-nominated Rothstein cements the place of The Big Bankroll as the godfather of organized crime inAmerica.
Author: Jessa Crispin
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Are you a feminist? Do you believe women are human beings and that they deserve all the same rights as men? If so, then you are a feminist . . .Or are you? Is it really that simple? Outspoken cultural critic Jessa Crispin says somewhere along the way, the movement for female liberation sacrificed meaning for acceptance, and left us with a banal, polite, ineffectual pose that barely challenges the status quo.In this bracing, fiercely intelligent manifesto, she demands more nothing less than the total dismantling of the system of oppressionand of what people currently think of as feminism.The authors ferocious critique effectively reframes the terms of any serious discussion of feminism. Youll never trust a you-go-girl just-lean-in bromide again. Forget busting glass ceilings. Crispin has taken a wrecking ball to the whole structure. Kirkus starred reviewFeminists have, in fact, become polite insiders, and Crispin is here to show them how to punch their way out. A rallying manifesto start swinging. Library JournalRabble-rousing, impolitic, and eloquent, Why I Am Not a Feminist models the latitudes and freedoms it wants us allus women, us feminists, us humansto embody. Enough with the safety-mongering, says Crispin Lets break stuff! Lets get messy! Lets make feminism radical again. Laura Kipnis, Men Notes from an Ongoing InvestigationCrispin is telling us that we have to imagine something better in order to build it. Feminism as self-absorption, as an add-on label to a new lifestyle, has got us where exactly? Where we are now. Stalled. Look how quickly we can go backwards. When did feminism get so small? When it became polite, unthreatening and marketable. Crispin blasts through all this by asking us to think big, properly scarily big. Suzanne Moore, GuardianThe point of Why I Am Not a Feminist isnt really that Crispin is not a feminist its that she has no interest in being a part of a club that has opened its doors and lost sight of its politicsa club that would, if she werent so busy disavowing it, invite Kellyanne Conway in.Crispins argument is bracing, and a rare counterbalance where feminism is concerned, broad acceptability is almost always framed as an unquestioned good. Jia Tolentino, New Yorker
Author: Sherifa Zuhur
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Never before have Americans paid so much attention to Islam and Muslim ideology. Although efforts have been made to separate mainstream views from extremist principles, Muslims feel that many of their basic beliefs are under attack in the ongoing war of ideas. The author explores why, surveying a broad swath of accusations and efforts to change Muslim and Islamist ideas and institutions.
Author: David J. Bailey
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How successful are social movements and left parties at achieving social and political change? How, if at all, can movements and parties work together to challenge existing hierarchies? Is the political left witnessing a revival in contemporary politics? This book highlights some of the key achievements of left parties and protest movements in their goal of challenging different types of inequality and considers the ways in which their challenge to authority and power could be intensified. It combines new theoretical ideas with rich empirical detail on the debates and concrete activities undertaken by left parties and protest movements over a broad historical period, from the early European labour movement to the recent anti-austerity global protests. The book will offer unique insight into the broad history and theory of emancipatory politics as well as making an important contribution to ongoing debates between left-leaning academics, researchers and activists. **Review This rich introductory book takes us through key moments of resistance by protest movements and parties of the left. From the Russian Revolution to the Arab Spring, each of the stories of disruption discussed in the book are proven to be both historically significant and presently relevant. The book is a must for students of political sociology and radical politics. (Ana C. Dinerstein, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Bath. Author of The Politics of Autonomy in Latin America) Bailey provides an impressive tour de force through the history of radical protest movements, their intellectual underpinnings, tactics and interlinkages with the statist Left. Written with such clarity and striking a perfect balance between a historical overview and refreshing new insights, the book is essential not only for students but also our collective memory of past and contemporary social struggles. (Angela Wigger, Associate Professor of Global Political Economy, Radboud University) With the recent return of the left to the political stage, Protest Movements and Parties of the Left offers a timely and detailed account of the various modes of protest and struggle adopted by the left in its historical quest to disrupt anti-democratic domination, in all its forms. Notable especially in its refusal of pessimism, David Baileys book surveys the greatest moments of the lefts historical struggle, striving to catch the spark of revolutionary potential in each, where the impossible was somehow, suddenly, made possible. Adopting something of a toolbox approach, students and advanced scholars alike will appreciate Baileys open-minded stance on left strategy, finding those sparks everywhere, from the early days of 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, to the anarchist movements of the Spanish Civil War, to the more recent Occupy movement, and the Left Populist struggles in Latin America and Europe. (Nicholas Kiersey, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Ohio University Chillicothe) About the Author David J. Bailey is lecturer in political science at the University of Birmingham. His first book, The Political Economy of European Social Democracy a critical realist approach, was published in 2009. Since then he has published two co-edited books, European Social Democracy During the Global Economic Crisis Renovation or Resignation? (2014) and The European Union and Global Governance A Handbook (2011). He has also published articles in New Political Economy, Socio-Economic Review, Journal of Common Market Studies, Comparative European Politics, British Politics, Journal of European Social Policy, and the Journal of European Public Policy. He is the reviews editor of Comparative European Politics and of Capital and Class.
Author: Charles Jones
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This book raises questions about the just war tradition through a critical examination of its revival and by juxtaposing it with a literary phenomenology of war. Recent public debate about war has leaned heavily on a just-war tradition dating back many centuries. This book examines the recent revival of that tradition in the United States and Britain, arguing that it is less coherent and comprehensive as an approach to the ethical issues arising from war than is generally supposed, and that it is inconsistent in important ways with the theology on which it was originally based. A second line of criticism is mounted through close readings of modern texts in English - from Britain, Australia and the USA that together constitute a more subjective, bottom-up understanding of the moral dilemmas of military life. In this second tradition the task of representing war is seen as more problematic, and its rationality more questionable, than in just war discourse. Works by William Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott, James Fennimore Cooper, Stephen Crane, John Buchan, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, Tim OBrien and Kurt Vonnegut are featured. The book will be of great interest to students and scholars of security studies, military studies, theologyand international relations.