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Author : Mara R. Wade
Release : 2005
Genre : German literature
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Book Rating : 866/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Foreign encounters by : Mara R. Wade
Download or read book Foreign encounters written by Mara R. Wade. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Helmut Philipp Aust
Release : 2021-06-03
Genre : Law
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Book Rating : 743/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Encounters between Foreign Relations Law and International Law by : Helmut Philipp Aust
Download or read book Encounters between Foreign Relations Law and International Law written by Helmut Philipp Aust. This book was released on 2021-06-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh look at the bridges and boundaries between foreign relations law and public international law.
Author : Melani McAlister
Release : 2005-07-05
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 013/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Epic Encounters by : Melani McAlister
Download or read book Epic Encounters written by Melani McAlister. This book was released on 2005-07-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epic Encounters examines how popular culture has shaped the ways Americans define their "interests" in the Middle East. In this innovative book—now brought up-to-date to include 9/11 and the Iraq war—Melani McAlister argues that U.S. foreign policy, while grounded in material and military realities, is also developed in a cultural context. American understandings of the region are framed by narratives that draw on religious belief, news media accounts, and popular culture. This remarkable and pathbreaking book skillfully weaves lively and accessible readings of film, media, and music with a rigorous analysis of U.S. foreign policy, race politics, and religious history. The new chapter, titled "9/11 and After: Snapshots on the Road to Empire," considers and brilliantly analyzes five images that have become iconic: (1) New York City firemen raising the American flag out of the rubble of the World Trade Center, (2) the televised image of Osama bin-Laden, (3) Afghani women in burqas, (4) the statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled in Baghdad, and (5) the hooded and wired prisoner in Abu Ghraib. McAlister's singular achievement is to illuminate the contexts of these five images both at the time they were taken and as they relate to current events, an accomplishment all the more remarkable since—to paraphrase her new preface—we are today struggling to look backward at something that is still rushing ahead.
Author : Matthew Frye Jacobson
Release : 2001-04-16
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 281/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Barbarian Virtues by : Matthew Frye Jacobson
Download or read book Barbarian Virtues written by Matthew Frye Jacobson. This book was released on 2001-04-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an examination of national identity in a crucial period. The United States first announced its power on the international scene at the Centennial Exhibition in 1876 and first demonstrated that power during World War I. The years in between were a period of dramatic change, when the dynamics of industrialization rapidly accelerated the rate at which Americans were coming in contact with foreign peoples, both at home and abroad. In this work, the author shows how American conceptions of peoplehood, citizenship, and national identity were transformed in these crucial years by escalating economic and military involvements abroad and by the massive influx of immigrants at home. Drawing upon a diverse range of sources, not only traditional political documents, but also novels, travelogues, academic treatises, and art, he demonstrates the close relationship between immigration and expansionism. By bridging these two areas, so often left separate, he rethinks the texture of American political life in a keenly argued and persuasive history. This book shows how these years set the stage for today's attitudes and ideas about "Americanism" and about immigrants and foreign policy, from Border Watch to the Gulf War.
Author : Writers Abroad
Release : 2013-08-05
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Book Rating : 072/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Foreign Encounters by : Writers Abroad
Download or read book Foreign Encounters written by Writers Abroad. This book was released on 2013-08-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: n encounter can be a chance meeting, a planned get-together or even a confrontation. This collection of stories, non-fiction and poems features a variety of foreign encounters: with family, friends, lovers, animals, cultures, or just with one`s own prejudices and preconceptions. All proceeds from the sale of Foreign Encounters will be donated to Books Abroad.
