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From schools advertizing McDonald's, Nike, and Shell oil to students suspended for wearing Pepsi t-shirts on Coke day, this book sifts through a range of incidents to reveal how the rising corporatization of public schools needs to be understood as part of a broader attack on the public sector.

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This work analyzes Paz's political thought, arguing that it is rooted in two separate and often antagonistic traditions, Liberalism and Romanticism. This work also provides a discussion of the political culture and democratization of Mexico.

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The contributors to this volume focus on adverse social conditions that confront young people in postmodernity, such as the relentless pressure to consume, social dis-investment in education, harsh responses to youth crime, and the continuing climate of intolerance.

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Challenges to the study of history have been raised by globalization and by new transformations linked to postmodernism and postcolonialism. This book puts forward new approaches in historical research that emphasize the dual processes of integration and fragmentation in a globalized world.