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Foretelling the End of Capitalism : Intellectual Misadventures since Karl Marx
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ISBN: 0674246721 0674246748 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press,

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Intellectuals since the Industrial Revolution have been obsessed with whether, when, and why capitalism will collapse. This riveting account of two centuries of failed forecasts of doom reveals the key to capitalism’s durability. Prophecies about the end of capitalism are as old as capitalism itself. None have come true. Yet, whether out of hope or fear, we keep looking for harbingers of doom. In Foretelling the End of Capitalism, Francesco Boldizzoni gets to the root of the human need to imagine a different and better world and offers a compelling solution to the puzzle of why capitalism has been able to survive so many shocks and setbacks. Capitalism entered the twenty-first century triumphant, its communist rival consigned to the past. But the Great Recession and worsening inequality have undermined faith in its stability and revived questions about its long-term prospects. Is capitalism on its way out? If so, what might replace it? And if it does endure, how will it cope with future social and environmental crises and the inevitable costs of creative destruction? Boldizzoni shows that these and other questions have stood at the heart of much analysis and speculation from the early socialists and Karl Marx to the Occupy Movement. Capitalism has survived predictions of its demise not, as many think, because of its economic efficiency or any intrinsic virtues of markets but because it is ingrained in the hierarchical and individualistic structure of modern Western societies. Foretelling the End of Capitalism takes us on a fascinating journey through two centuries of unfulfilled prophecies. An intellectual tour de force and a plea for political action, it will change our understanding of the economic system that determines the fabric of our lives.


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Jewish New York : The Remarkable Story of a City and a People
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ISBN: 1479809063 1479850381 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press,

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The definitive history of Jews in New York and how they transformed the cityJewish New York reveals the multifaceted world of one of the city’s most important ethnic and religious groups. Jewish immigrants changed New York. They built its clothing industry and constructed huge swaths of apartment buildings. New York Jews helped to make the city the center of the nation’s publishing industry and shaped popular culture in music, theater, and the arts. With a strong sense of social justice, a dedication to civil rights and civil liberties, and a belief in the duty of government to provide social welfare for all its citizens, New York Jews influenced the city, state, and nation with a new wave of social activism.In turn, New York transformed Judaism and stimulated religious pluralism, Jewish denominationalism, and contemporary feminism. The city’s neighborhoods hosted unbelievably diverse types of Jews, from Communists to Hasidim. Jewish New York not only describes Jews’ many positive influences on New York, but also exposes their struggles with poverty and anti-Semitism. These injustices reinforced an exemplary commitment to remaking New York into a model multiethnic, multiracial, and multireligious world city. Based on the acclaimed multi-volume set City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York winner of the National Jewish Book Council 2012 Everett Family Foundation Jewish Book of the Year Award, Jewish New York spans three centuries, tracing the earliest arrival of Jews in New Amsterdam to the recent immigration of Jews from the former Soviet Union.


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From fascism to populism in history
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ISBN: 0520974301 9780520974302 9780520968042 0520968042 9780520309357 0520309359 9780520295193 0520295196 Year: 2019 Publisher: Oakland, California

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What is fascism and what is populism? What are their connections in history and theory, and how should we address their significant differences? What does it mean when pundits call Donald Trump a fascist, or label as populist politicians who span left and right such as Hugo Chávez, Juan Perón, Rodrigo Duterte, and Marine Le Pen? Federico Finchelstein, one of the leading scholars of fascist and populist ideologies, synthesizes their history in order to answer these questions and offer a thoughtful perspective on how we might apply the concepts today. While they belong to the same history and are often conflated, fascism and populism actually represent distinct political trajectories. Drawing on an expansive record of transnational fascism and postwar populist movements, Finchelstein gives us insightful new ways to think about the state of democracy and political culture on a global scale. This new edition includes an updated preface that brings the book up to date, midway through the Trump presidency and the election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil.


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This land is our land : the struggle for a new commonwealth
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ISBN: 0691216800 Year: 2021 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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From one of our finest writers and leading environmental thinkers, a powerful book about how the land we share divides us—and how it could unite usToday, we are at a turning point as we face ecological and political crises that are rooted in conflicts over the land itself. But these problems can be solved if we draw on elements of our tradition that move us toward a new commonwealth—a community founded on the well-being of all people and the natural world. In this brief, powerful, timely, and hopeful book, Jedediah Purdy explores how we might begin to heal our fractured and contentious relationship with the land and with each other.

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Political science. --- Accounting. --- Activism. --- American exceptionalism. --- Americans. --- Ammon Bundy. --- Barbarian. --- Bernie Sanders. --- By-product. --- Capitalism. --- Civil disobedience. --- Clean Water Act. --- Climate change. --- Coal mining. --- Coal. --- Colonization. --- Denialism. --- Die-in. --- Disaster. --- Disenchantment. --- Disgust. --- Dissident. --- Drinking water. --- Duke University. --- Ecological crisis. --- Employment. --- Energy development. --- Engineering. --- Environmental Defense Fund. --- Environmental issue. --- Environmental justice. --- Environmental law. --- Environmental movement. --- Environmental politics. --- Environmental stewardship. --- Environmentalism. --- Environmentalist. --- Exhaustion. --- Exit poll. --- Exoskeleton. --- Faculty of Law. --- Fuel. --- Future generation. --- Gilded Age. --- Global catastrophic risk. --- Green New Deal. --- Harvard University. --- Henry David Thoreau. --- Household. --- Human power. --- Indigenous peoples. --- Infrastructure. --- Institution. --- Interdependence. --- Labour movement. --- Lecture. --- Legislation. --- Legislator. --- Martin Luther King, Jr. --- Meriwether Lewis. --- Military occupation. --- Mining. --- Moral Mondays. --- Narrative. --- Natural disaster. --- Our Choice. --- Overburden. --- Pasture. --- Pauli Murray. --- Politics. --- Pollutant. --- Pollution. --- Princeton University Press. --- Priscilla Wald. --- Proclamation. --- Racism. --- Romanticism. --- Ruler. --- Sanctuary movement. --- Sasson. --- Slavery. --- Soil. --- Sorkin. --- Sovereignty. --- Statute. --- Surface runoff. --- Symptom. --- Ta-Nehisi Coates. --- Tax. --- Tehila. --- Theory of value (economics). --- Thomas Hobbes. --- University of Cambridge. --- Utopia. --- Value of life. --- Vulnerability. --- Wage. --- War on coal. --- Wealth. --- White supremacy. --- World government.


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The presidency of Donald J. Trump : a first historical assessment
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ISBN: 0691228957 Year: 2022 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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"Donald Trump took office in 2017 amid an increasingly polarized political field. He quickly carved out a loyal base among the radical wing of the Republican party, dominated the news cycle with an endless stream of controversies, and, with the support of his voting base and party, presided over one of the most publicized, dramatic, and contentious one-term presidencies in American history. In The Presidency of Donald J. Trump, Julian Zelizer gathers leading American historians to put President Trump and his administration into political and historical context. These scholars offer strikingly original assessments of the central issues that shaped the Trump years, including the #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter movements, Trump's crusade against media he dubbed "fake news ," the border wall and immigration more broadly, the rapid rise of open white supremacy, the national COVID-19 response, the calls to "defund the police," the efforts to contest the outcome of the election, and the January 6th insurrection, among others. Together, these essays argue that the Trump presidency was not unprecedented, but it represented and emerged from the long-term development of the Republican Party and American polarization more broadly"--

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Political culture. --- Political culture --- History --- Trump, Donald, --- United States --- Politics and government --- 2016 Republican National Convention. --- Activism. --- Adviser. --- Al Gore. --- American Capitalism. --- Americans for Prosperity. --- Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories. --- Barack Obama. --- Bernie Sanders. --- Big government. --- Bill Clinton. --- Bill Cosby. --- Billionaire. --- Boris Johnson. --- Brand New Congress. --- Chris Christie. --- Clinton Cash. --- Clinton Foundation. --- David Axelrod. --- Dean Rusk. --- Director of National Intelligence. --- Donald Trump Jr. --- Donald Trump. --- Electoral College (United States). --- Erik Prince. --- Executive privilege. --- Federation for American Immigration Reform. --- Financial crisis of 2007–08. --- Foreign policy. --- Franklin Pierce. --- Fred Trump. --- George W. Bush. --- Gerald Ford. --- Harry S. Truman. --- Hillary Clinton. --- Hubert Humphrey. --- Immigration law. --- Immigration policy. --- Immigration. --- Impeachment. --- Infrastructure. --- Ivanka Trump. --- James Comey. --- Joe Biden. --- John McCain. --- Ku Klux Klan. --- Landslide victory. --- Liberal elite. --- Lyndon B. Johnson. --- Mitt Romney. --- National security. --- Nativism (politics). --- New Federalism. --- Newt Gingrich. --- Nobel Prize. --- Norman Ornstein. --- Occupy Wall Street. --- On China. --- Pat Buchanan. --- Political positions of Donald Trump. --- Politician. --- Politics. --- Postmodernism (international relations). --- Presidency of Barack Obama. --- Presidency of Bill Clinton. --- Presidency of Donald Trump. --- Presidency of George W. Bush. --- Presidency of Ronald Reagan. --- President Elect (video game). --- President of the United States. --- Presidential nominee. --- Protest. --- Racism. --- Reagan Era. --- Republican National Committee. --- Republican National Convention. --- Republican Party presidential primaries, 2016. --- Richard Nixon. --- Ronald Reagan. --- Saddam Hussein. --- Sean Hannity. --- Stop Trump movement. --- Tax cut. --- The New York Times. --- The Trump Organization. --- Trump Steaks. --- Trump effect. --- U.S. presidential impeachment. --- United States Department of Homeland Security. --- United States Department of State. --- United States presidential election, 2016. --- United States presidential election, 2020. --- United States presidential inauguration. --- Vice President of the United States. --- Vladimir Putin. --- Voting. --- White nationalism. --- White supremacy. --- William F. Buckley Jr. --- Woodrow Wilson.


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America the Fair : Using Brain Science to Create a More Just Nation
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ISBN: 1501735489 1501735497 1501735470 9781501735486 9781501735493 9781501735479 Year: 2019 Publisher: Ithaca : Baltimore, Md. : Cornell University Press, Project MUSE,

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"This book is about the increasing polarity of American politics written by a cognitive scientist whose work investigates the situations that cause people to feel as if they have been treated unfairly. Why have conservatives and liberals been unable to find any common ground on problems relating to economic well-being and inequality? Liberals look with envy at other nations whose citizens enjoy as rights what many Americans view as privileges: health care, maternity leave, a robust unemployment insurance plan, and postsecondary education. It's been assumed that America is exceptional in this regard because it has a culture of selfishness while other nations have cultures of selflessness, in which middle-class citizens are happy to subsidize those earning less. This book suggests instead that these nations thrive because the middle class selfishly enjoys the same benefits as everyone else. One is less likely to worry about being on the short end of redistribution when one has a low-risk standard of living. The American Left has lost sight of the possibility that the middle class can be sold on the personal benefits of an increased role for government in protecting its citizens"--

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Social conflict. --- Polarization (Social sciences) --- POLITICAL SCIENCE --- Social conflict --- Fairness --- Commentary & Opinion. --- Reference. --- Government --- National. --- General. --- Essays. --- History. --- Political aspects --- Social aspects --- United States. --- redistribution, inequity, entitlements, welfare, liberal, conservative, progressive, Democrat, Republican, Donald Trump, Trump, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, middle class, socialism, social safety net, psychology, politics, change, insurance, healthcare, zero-sum thinking, third way. --- Impartiality --- Conduct of life --- Justice --- Political science --- Social groups --- Social influence --- Class conflict --- Class struggle --- Conflict, Social --- Social tensions --- Interpersonal conflict --- Social psychology --- Sociology --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- ABŞ --- ABSh --- Ameerika Ühendriigid --- America (Republic) --- Amerika Birlăshmish Shtatlary --- Amerika Birlăşmi Ştatları --- Amerika Birlăşmiş Ştatları --- Amerika ka Kelenyalen Jamanaw --- Amerika Qūrama Shtattary --- Amerika Qŭshma Shtatlari --- Amerika Qushma Shtattary --- Amerika (Republic) --- Amerikai Egyesült Államok --- Amerikanʹ Veĭtʹsėndi︠a︡vks Shtattnė --- Amerikări Pĕrleshu̇llĕ Shtatsem --- Amerikas Forenede Stater --- Amerikayi Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Ameriketako Estatu Batuak --- Amirika Carékat --- AQSh --- Ar. ha-B. --- Arhab --- Artsot ha-Berit --- Artzois Ha'bris --- Bí-kok --- Ē.P.A. --- EE.UU. --- Egyesült Államok --- ĒPA --- Estados Unidos --- Estados Unidos da América do Norte --- Estados Unidos de América --- Estaos Xuníos --- Estaos Xuníos d'América --- Estatos Unitos --- Estatos Unitos d'America --- Estats Units d'Amèrica --- Ètats-Unis d'Amèrica --- États-Unis d'Amérique --- Fareyniḳṭe Shṭaṭn --- Feriene Steaten --- Feriene Steaten fan Amearika --- Forente stater --- FS --- Hēnomenai Politeiai Amerikēs --- Hēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- Hiwsisayin Amerikayi Miatsʻeal Tērutʻiwnkʻ --- Istadus Unidus --- Jungtinės Amerikos valstybės --- Mei guo --- Mei-kuo --- Meiguo --- Mî-koet --- Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Miguk --- Na Stàitean Aonaichte --- NSA --- S.U.A. --- SAD --- Saharat ʻAmērikā --- SASht --- Severo-Amerikanskie Shtaty --- Severo-Amerikanskie Soedinennye Shtaty --- Si︠e︡vero-Amerikanskīe Soedinennye Shtaty --- Sjedinjene Američke Države --- Soedinennye Shtaty Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Severnoĭ Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Si︠e︡vernoĭ Ameriki --- Spojené obce severoamerické --- Spojené staty americké --- SShA --- Stadoù-Unanet Amerika --- Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá --- Stany Zjednoczone --- Stati Uniti --- Stati Uniti d'America --- Stâts Unîts --- Stâts Unîts di Americhe --- Steatyn Unnaneysit --- Steatyn Unnaneysit America --- SUA (Stati Uniti d'America) --- Sŭedineni amerikanski shtati --- Sŭedinenite shtati --- Tetã peteĩ reko Amérikagua --- U.S. --- U.S.A. --- United States of America --- Unol Daleithiau --- Unol Daleithiau America --- Unuiĝintaj Ŝtatoj de Ameriko --- US --- USA --- Usono --- Vaeinigte Staatn --- Vaeinigte Staatn vo Amerika --- Vereinigte Staaten --- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika --- Verenigde State van Amerika --- Verenigde Staten --- VS --- VSA --- Wááshindoon Bikéyah Ałhidadiidzooígíí --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amirīkīyah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amrīkīyah --- Yhdysvallat --- Yunaeted Stet --- Yunaeted Stet blong Amerika --- ZDA --- Združene države Amerike --- Zʹi︠e︡dnani Derz︠h︡avy Ameryky --- Zjadnośone staty Ameriki --- Zluchanyi︠a︡ Shtaty Ameryki --- Zlucheni Derz︠h︡avy --- ZSA --- Η.Π.Α. --- Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες της Αμερικής --- Америка (Republic) --- Американь Вейтьсэндявкс Штаттнэ --- Америкӑри Пӗрлешӳллӗ Штатсем --- САЩ --- Съединените щати --- Злучаныя Штаты Амерыкі --- ولايات المتحدة --- ولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة --- ولايات المتحدة الامريكية --- 미국 --- États-Unis --- É.-U. --- ÉU

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