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This book examines music as a means of making peace. It is a multidisciplinary study, grounded in peace studies and musicology that reflects on whether the creative arts can promote healing and reconciliation, within communities, in pedagogy and in national - and international - popular culture.

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This book examines music as a means of making peace. It is a multidisciplinary study, grounded in peace studies and musicology that reflects on whether the creative arts can promote healing and reconciliation, within communities, in pedagogy and in national - and international - popular culture.

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Explores how musicking, politics, resistance, and activism are being restructured and reimagined in the postcolonial era in Africa

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This study outlines the main features of the theory and practice of political power in Muslim polities in the Middle Ages against the background of Near Eastern traditions of kingship, particularly Hellenistic, Persian and Byzantine.

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Explores how the politics of Islam play out in the lives of Muslims throughout the world. This book discusses how the events such as September 11 and the 2003 war in Iraq have contributed to reshaping the political and religious landscape of Muslim-majority countries and Muslim communities elsewhere.

Why have modern Muslim intellectuals turned against the ideals of Kemalism on which the modern Turkish nation-state is founded

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Mussolini, in the thousand guises he projected and the press picked up, fascinated Americans in the 1920s and the early '30s. John Diggins' analysis of America's reaction to an ideological phenomenon abroad reveals, he proposes, the darker side of American political values and assumptions. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Librar

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In October 1922 Mussolini became the constitutional head of the Italian government; by late 1926 he had imposed a Fascist dictatorship on Italy. Professor Cassels, who argues that Mussolini's policies in the 1930s, the era of the Rome- Berlin axis, were foreshadowed by those of the 1920s, traces the stages by which Mussolini took control of Italy's

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As each power vies for its national interests on the world stage, how do its own citizens' democratic interests fare at home Alan Gilbert speaks to an issue at the heart of current international-relations debate.

Who was Monte Melkonian Europe denounced him as a terrorist. His adopted homeland of Armenia decorated him as a national hero who led a force of 4000 men to victory in the Armenian enclave of Mountainous Karabagh in Azerbaijan. This book tells the story of what happens when one man decides that terrible actions speak louder than words.

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What kind of people are suicide bombers How do they justify their actions In this book, the author argues that popular views of these young men and women - as crazed fanatics or brainwashed automatons - fall short of the mark. He tells a story of the modern globalization of suicide bombing.

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Burma had the brightest prospects of any Southeast Asian nation after World War II. In the years since, however, it has dropped to the bottom of the world's socioeconomic ladder.

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A comprehensive examination of the origins and outcome of the "Cold War," showing how Marxist-Leninist ideology made the war inevitable.

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This book examines the early history of the Irish nationalist youth organisation Na Fianna Eireann and its notable contribution to the Irish Revolution in the period 1909-23. -- .

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This book examines the early history of the Irish nationalist youth organisation Na Fianna Eireann and its notable contribution to the Irish Revolution in the period 1909-23. -- .

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Based on the voices of Mayan women, this book re-considers the connections between security and political identity and critically challenges stereotypical views of what might constitute 'security' in modern global politics. -- .

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A biography of Napoleon, concentrating on his private life.

The contributors set out to examine the ways in which such conflicts in Palestine and Lebanon have been and are narrated, imagined and remembered in diverse spaces, including that of the media.

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This book introduces a sociological perspective on European integration by looking at different accounts of Europeanization as society building.

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Offers useful theory building process tracing the narrative turn to strategic choice both methodological and theoretical innovations.

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The book focuses on four societies: India, Japan, Britain, and the Netherlands. It shows that religion and nationalism in these societies combined to produce such notions as the nation being chosen for a historical task (imperialism, for example), the possibility of national revival, and political leadership as a form of salvation.