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Rival Conceptions of Freedom in Modern Iran An Intellectual History of the Constitutional Revolution

Rival Conceptions of Freedom in Modern Iran An Intellectual History of the Constitutional Revolution

Rival Conceptions of Freedom in Modern Iran is an original historiographic examination of the idea of freedom in early modern Iran within a larger context of the formation of modern Muslim thought. The study develops an appropriate method for the historiography of ideas by taking into consideration cultural linguistic and socio-political limitations and obstacles to free thinking in closed societies. The research shows how most locutions about freedom uttered during early modern Iran were formed within the horizon of the question of Iran’s decline and were somehow related to remedying such situations. It challenges previous studies which employed Isaiah Berlin’s distinction between positive and negative freedom as two fundamentally different concepts of freedom. It replaces Berlin’s dichotomy of positive and negative liberties with MacCallum’s triadic concept of freedom and argues that thinkers in early modern Iran could noticeably present rival interpretations of three variables of the concept of freedom namely the agent the constraint and the purpose of freedom. Rival Conceptions of Freedom in Modern Iran is a unique contribution to the histories of the 1905-11 Constitutional Revolution in Iran and comparative political thinking between Iran and Europe. It is an essential resource for scholars interested in Constitutionalism History Political Theory and Sociology within Middle Eastern Studies. | Rival Conceptions of Freedom in Modern Iran An Intellectual History of the Constitutional Revolution

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The Second Partition of Palestine Hamas–Fatah Struggle for Power

The Second Partition of Palestine Hamas–Fatah Struggle for Power

This book examines the factors and issues responsible for the intra-Palestinian conflict that has undermined the strength and vitality of the struggle for liberation against the state of Israel. It explores how the ideological incompatibility and competition for political primacy account for the Hamas–Fatah conflict entailing the risk of partition of Palestine even before it takes shape as an independent sovereign entity. It analyzes the developments since the signing of the September 1993 Oslo Accord and discusses themes such as the background of Palestinian politics; the role of Fatah; the rise of Hamas as Fatah’s political rival; the Hamas–Fatah struggle for power; and the role played by the international community including by the US and the European Union. The study deals with the various facets of territorial and political challenges faced by the rival Palestinian actions; the failure of the reconciliation efforts by Egypt and Yemen; the stalled peace process in the West Bank and Gaza Strip; the emergence of the Islamic resistance movement and secular nationalist party; and the political and ideological shifts in Palestinian politics. Comprehensive and topical this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of West Asian studies peace and conflict studies politics and international relations foreign policy political studies area studies and strategic and defence studies. | The Second Partition of Palestine Hamas–Fatah Struggle for Power

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The Struggle for Asia 1828–1914 A Study in British and Russian Imperialism

The Struggle for Asia 1828–1914 A Study in British and Russian Imperialism

The Struggle for Asia 1828–1914 (1977) studies a classic case of rival imperialisms. British leaders tended to believe that Russian expansion threatened India; Russian leaders came to believe in a British threat to their empire. Each sought security by trying to control the policies of weaker states which lay between their imperial frontiers and on whose alignment depended the balance of power. By 1914 when both felt even more threatened by Germany than by one another Russia seemed to have gained the upper hand in a struggle for hegemony in Asia which had been crucial for the course of world politics. This book examines the intellectual origins of the ‘Great Game’. | The Struggle for Asia 1828–1914 A Study in British and Russian Imperialism

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The New Testament in Muslim Eyes Paul's Letter to the Galatians

The New Testament in Muslim Eyes Paul's Letter to the Galatians

This book explores Christian origins by examining a key New Testament epistle Paul’s letter to the Galatian churches seen by Christians as the charter of Christian liberty from the inherited Jewish law. The New Testament in Muslim Eyes provides a close textual commentary on perhaps the earliest declaration of Paul’s apostleship and of his undying commitment to the risen Christ. It notes the subtleties of the Greek original against the backdrop of an exciting glimpse of Quranic Arabic parallels and differences. It asks: Does Paul qualify as a prophet of Allah (God)? The thoughts of Paul are assessed by examining his claims against the background of Islam’s rival views of Abraham and his legacy. The Arabic Quran framed and inspired the life of the Arab Apostle Muhammad who was sent according to Islam to all humanity Jewish and Gentile alike. Pauline themes are set in dialectical tension with the claims of the Quran. Akhtar compares and contrasts the two rival faiths with regard to: the resources of human nature the salvation of the sinner and the status of the works of the law. Both Christians and Muslims concur on the need for God’s grace an essential condition of success in the life of faith. The core Pauline Christian doctrine of justification by faith alone is scrutinised and assessed from a variety of non-Christian especially Islamic stances. Providing an Islamic view of Christian origins this book helps to build bridges between the two religions. It will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Biblical Studies Islamic Studies and the Philosophy of Religion. | The New Testament in Muslim Eyes Paul's Letter to the Galatians

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The Jamaat Question in Bangladesh Islam Politics and Society in a Post-Democratic Nation

The Jamaat Question in Bangladesh Islam Politics and Society in a Post-Democratic Nation

The Jamaat Question in Bangladesh addresses the complex intersection of global politics and local dynamics in Bangladesh particularly in relation to Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami (Jamaat). With multidisciplinary insights and perspectives the contributors to this volume provide an objective socio-historical analysis of Islam politics and society in Bangladesh. Separating fact from fiction they attempt to uncover the truth about Jamaat the largest Islam-based political party in the country. Suppressed and marginalized by the BAL regime Jamaat remains active in the social landscape of Bangladesh. What makes Jamaat so resilient against all odds? Can it peacefully coexist with rival political parties in a polarized nation such as Bangladesh? This book seeks to answer these crucial questions. An essential read for those interested in Bangladeshi politics and political Islam. | The Jamaat Question in Bangladesh Islam Politics and Society in a Post-Democratic Nation

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Metaethical Subjectivism

Metaethical Subjectivism

Metaethical subjectivism the idea that the truth or falsity of moral statements is contingent upon the attitudes or conventions of observers is often regarded as a lurid philosophical doctrine which generates much psychological resistance to its acceptance. In this accessible book Richard Double presents a vigorous defense of metaethical subjectivism arguing that the acceptance of this doctrine need have no deleterious effects upon theorizing either in normative ethics or in moral practice. Proceeding from a 'worldview' methodology Double criticizes the rival doctrine of metaethical objectivism for lacking both 'completeness' and 'soundness' argues that a defense of metaethical subjectivism requires no special semantic analysis of moral language and defends the plausibility of metaethical subjectivism as explaining key intractable disagreements in moral philosophy. Double concludes by suggesting that the acceptance of metaethical subjectivism is better for constructing theories of normative ethics and moral practice than is metaethical objectivism.

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Schizophrenia and Parenting

Schizophrenia and Parenting

First published in 1999 this volume examines the history of psychiatry and pathogenic parenting models over the past two centuries and contains the results of a study carried out by the author on the experiences of the parents of patients with Schizophrenia drawn from a sample of parents of patients in a forensic and a community setting. Michael Ferriter draws out the themes of the rival claims of organic and non-organic explanations of disorder therapeutic optimism and therapeutic pessimism and rivalry between the medical professions and the non-medical for supremacy in the treatment of the mentally disordered. Ferriter further explores the issues of blame and guilt the quality of interaction between mental health professionals and parents and the relevance of attribution theory as an explanation of why parents might still experience self-blame even when they have nothing to blame themselves for. | Schizophrenia and Parenting

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Psychological Criminology An Integrative Approach

Psychological Criminology An Integrative Approach

Psychological Criminology explores what is it about individuals and their experiences that causes them to commit crime and/or to become criminal. Fully updated to include the latest theories and research this new edition provides comprehensive coverage of psychological theories of crime and criminality. It arranges theories in temporal sequence from distal to proximal causes of crime and is organised under three key headings: theories that focus on factors present at birth (human nature heredity); theories that focus on factors that influence the offender over the lifespan (learning and development); theories that focus on factors present at the crime scene. The book emphasises the connections among the different approaches and demonstrates how taken together rather than as rival explanations they provide a more complete picture of crime and criminality. Psychological Criminology highlights the contributions that psychological theory can make to the broader field of criminology. It is essential reading for students academics researchers and practitioners in both criminology and forensic psychology. | Psychological Criminology An Integrative Approach

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Towards Korean Reconciliation Socio-Cultural Exchanges and Cooperation

Towards Korean Reconciliation Socio-Cultural Exchanges and Cooperation

Despite historic summits and spectacular acts of reconciliation between the rival neighbours promises of improved cross-border relations between North and South Korea have been slow to materialize. In this insightful book Gabriel Jonsson examines the impact that increased levels of socio-cultural contact has had on inter-Korean relations the concrete results that have been achieved and how such contact has contributed to closer relations and offers the prospect of reconciliation. With reference to lessons from the German and Yemeni unification the book examines the development of inter-Korean relations and presents a fascinating view of South Korean perceptions of their neighbours. The book also details the wider political sphere of influence with an analysis of the positions of the United States Japan China and Russia on Korean unity. Based primarily on Korean language sources this volume provides completely unique perspectives on Korean unity. | Towards Korean Reconciliation Socio-Cultural Exchanges and Cooperation

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Trump and the Protestant Reaction to Make America Great Again

Trump and the Protestant Reaction to Make America Great Again

This book explores how polarised interpretations of America’s past influence the present and vice versa. A focus on competing Protestant reactions to President Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ slogan evidences a fundamental divide over how America should remember historical racism sexism and exploitation. Additionally these Protestants disagree over how the past influences present injustice and equality. The 2020 killing of George Floyd forced these rival histories into the open. Rowley proposes that recovering a complex view of the past confessing the bad and embracing the good might help Americans have a shared memory that can bridge polarisation and work to secure justice and equality. An accessible and timely book this is essential reading for those concerned with the vexed relationship of religion and politics in the United States including students and scholars in the fields of Protestantism history political science religious studies and sociology. | Trump and the Protestant Reaction to Make America Great Again

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Quest for the Unity of Knowledge

Quest for the Unity of Knowledge

Is unity of knowledge possible? Is it desirable? Two rival visions clash. One seeks a single way of explaining everything known and knowable about ourselves and the universe. The other champions diverse modes of understanding served by disparate kinds of evidence. Contrary views pit science against the arts and humanities. Scientists generally laud and seek convergence. Artists and humanists deplore amalgamation as a threat to humane values. These opposing perspectives flamed into hostility in the 1950s Two Cultures clash. They culminate today in new efforts to conjoin insights into physical nature and human culture and new fears lest such syntheses submerge what the arts and humanities most value. This book stemming from David Lowenthal’s inaugural Stockholm Archipelago Lectures explores the Two Cultures quarrel’s underlying ideologies. Lowenthal shows how ingrained bias toward unity or diversity shapes major issues in education religion genetics race relations heritage governance and environmental policy. Aimed at a general academic audience Quest for the Unity of Knowledge especially targets those in conservation ecology history of ideas museology and heritage studies.

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The Politics of Korean Language Textbooks in the Two Koreas Nationalism Ideologies and Education

The Politics of Korean Language Textbooks in the Two Koreas Nationalism Ideologies and Education

This book investigates the politics embedded in the Korean-language textbooks utilised between 1895 and 2019 within the context of one Korea (pre-colonial and colonial eras) the divided Koreas and an ethnic Korean group residing in Japan (Chongryon). By analysing the inclusions and omissions from Korean-language the author successfully highlights the impact of Korean politics making clear how rulers have attempted to control their citizens and legitimize their rule by using primary school Korean-language textbooks as a medium for political education and inculcation. It succinctly displays how different visions of ‘ideal citizenship’ have been presented in Korea and traces the resulting shift in views towards neighbouring nations as a result identifying how different rival countries were demonized at different times. This chapter also shows some consistent omissions such as the lower classes and marginalized individuals within their respective nations. Presenting recommendations for potential improvements of the content of future textbooks this study will be of interest to students of Asian Studies Post-colonial Studies Critical Curriculum Studies Critical Discourse Studies and Korean Studies. | The Politics of Korean Language Textbooks in the Two Koreas Nationalism Ideologies and Education

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Santería Enthroned Art Ritual and Innovation in an Afro-Cuban Religion

Santería Enthroned Art Ritual and Innovation in an Afro-Cuban Religion

Ever since its emergence in colonial-era Cuba Afro-Cuban Santería (or Lucumí) has displayed a complex dynamic of continuity and change in its institutions rituals and iconography. Originally published in 2003 Santería Enthroned combines art history cultural anthropology and ethnohistory to show how Africans and their descendants have developed novel forms of religious practice in the face of relentless oppression. Focusing on the royal throne as a potent metaphor in Santería belief and practice it shows how negotiations among ideologically competing interests have shaped the religion’s symbols rituals and institutions from the nineteenth century to the present. Rich case studies of change in Cuba and the United States including a New Jersey temple and South Carolina’s Oyotunji Village reveal patterns of innovation similar to those found among rival Yoruba kingdoms in Nigeria. Throughout the book argues for a theoretical perspective on culture as a field of potential strategies and usuable pasts that actors draw upon to craft new forms and identities – a perspective that will be invaluable to all students of the African Diaspora. | Santería Enthroned Art Ritual and Innovation in an Afro-Cuban Religion

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The Miners: One Union One Industry A History of the National Union of Mineworkers 1939-46

The Miners: One Union One Industry A History of the National Union of Mineworkers 1939-46

First published in 1979 The Miners: A History of the National Union of Mineworkers 1939-46 describes the events and factors that led to the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1946. The World War had a creative as well as a destructive effect on the industry; it compressed fundamental changes into seven short years. By the end of the war the federated trade unions had succeeded in bringing about the unification of their industry; and the various county district and craft associations were themselves also unified in one single national body. Two rival plans emerged during 1945: a coal-owners’ plan in conjunction with an ‘experts’ report’ approved by Churchill and his Caretaker Cabinet and Labour’s ‘plan for the coal industry’ which came into force in 1946 as the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act. Anew epoch in management had begun with a National Coal Board new industrial relations and a new National Union of Mineworkers. This book will be of interest to students of history sociology economics and political science. | The Miners: One Union One Industry A History of the National Union of Mineworkers 1939-46

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Spaces in Late Antiquity Cultural Theological and Archaeological Perspectives

Spaces in Late Antiquity Cultural Theological and Archaeological Perspectives

Places and spaces are key factors in how individuals and groups construct their identities. Identity theories have emphasised that the construction of an identity does not follow abstract and universal processes but is also deeply rooted in specific historical cultural social and material environments. The essays in this volume explore how various groups in Late Antiquity rooted their identity in special places that were imbued with meanings derived from history and tradition. In Part I essays explore the tension between the Classical heritage in public especially urban spaces in the form of ancient artwork and civic celebrations and the Church's appropriation of that space through doctrinal disputes and rival public performances. Parts II and III investigate how particular locations expressed and formed the theological and social identities of Christian and Jewish groups by bringing together fresh insights from the archaeological and textual evidence. Together the essays here demonstrate how the use and interpretation of shared spaces contributed to the self-identity of specific groups in Late Antiquity and in so doing issued challenges and caused conflict with other social and religious groups. | Spaces in Late Antiquity Cultural Theological and Archaeological Perspectives

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China's African Challenges

China's African Challenges

China‘s relations with African nations have changed dramatically over the past decade. African oil now accounts for more than 30% of China‘s oil imports and China is Africa‘s second-largest single-country trading partner as well as a leading lender and infrastructure investor on the continent. Yet these developments are bringing challenges not only for Africa and the West but for China as well. This book examines these challenges considering Africa as a testing ground both for Chinese companiesgoing global and for a Chinese government that is increasingly having to deal with issues beyond its shores and immediate control. What does China need to do to protect and develop its African engagements against a backdrop of mounting African expectations concerns from Western actors in Africa and the rival presence of other emerging actors? How sustainable is the momentum that China has established in its African ventures? China‘s adaptations to the challenges it is facing in Africa are examined and assessed as are the implications of these changes for China Africa and the West. China‘s African engagements are certainly changing Africa but could they also be changing China? | China's African Challenges

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The Turing Test Argument

The Turing Test Argument

This book departs from existing accounts of Alan Turing's imitation game and test by placing Turing's proposal in its historical social and cultural context. It reconstructs a controversy in England 1946–1952 over the intellectual capabilities of digital computers which led Turing to propose his test. It argues that the Turing test is best understood not as a practical experiment but as a thought experiment in the modern scientific tradition of Galileo Galilei. The logic of the Turing test argument is reconstructed from the rhetoric of Turing’s irony and wit. Turing believed that learning machines should be understood as a new kind of species and their thinking as different from human thinking and yet capable of imitating it. He thought that the possibilities of the machines he envisioned were not utopian dreams. And yet he hoped that they would rival and surpass chauvinists and intellectuals who sacrifice independent thinking to maintain their power. These would be transformed into ordinary people as work once considered 'intellectual' would be transformed into non-intellectual 'mechanical' work. The Turing Test Argument will appeal to scholars and students in the sciences and humanities and all those interested in Turing's vision of the future of intelligent machines in society and nature.

GBP 130.00
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Media and Science-Religion Conflict Mass Persuasion in the Evolution Wars

Media and Science-Religion Conflict Mass Persuasion in the Evolution Wars

This book examines why the religion-science skirmishes known as the Evolution Wars have persisted into the 21st century. It does so by considering the influences of mass media in relation to decision-making research and the Elaboration Likelihood Model one of the most authoritative persuasion theories. The book’s analysis concentrates on the expression of cues or cognitive mental shortcuts in Darwin-sceptic and counter-creationist broadcasts. A multiyear collection of media generated by the most prominent Darwin-sceptic organizations is surveyed along with rival publications from supporters of evolutionary theory described as the pro-evolutionists. The analysed materials include works produced by Young Earth Creationist and Intelligent Design media makers New Atheist pacesetters as well as both agnostic and religious supporters of evolution. These cues are shown to function as subtle but effective means of shaping public opinion including appeals to expertise claims that ideas are being censored and the tactical use of statistics and technical jargon. Contending that persuasive mass media is a decisive component of science-religion controversies this book will be of keen interest to scholars of Religion Science and Religion interactions as well as researchers of Media and Communication Studies more generally. *Winner ISSR 2021 Book Prize* | Media and Science-Religion Conflict Mass Persuasion in the Evolution Wars

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Civil Society in Liberal Democracy

Civil Society in Liberal Democracy

In this contribution to contemporary political philosophy Jensen aims to develop a model of civil society for deliberative democracy. In the course of developing the model he also provides a thorough account of the meaning and use of civil society in contemporary scholarship as well as a critical review of rival models including those found in the work of scholars such as John Rawls Jurgen Habermas Michael Walzer Benjamin Barber and Nancy Rosenblum. Jensen's own ideal treats civil society as both the context in which citizens live out their comprehensive views of the good life as well as the context in which citizens learn to be good deliberative democrats. According to his idealization groups of citizens in civil society are actively engaged in a grand conversation about the nature of the good life. Their commitment to this conversation grounds dispositions of epistemic humility tolerance curiosity and moderation. Moreover their regard for the grand conversation explains their interest in deliberative democracy and their regard for democratic virtues principles and practices. Jensen is not a naive utopian however; he argues that this ideal must be realized in stages that it faces a variety of barriers and that it cannot be realized without luck. | Civil Society in Liberal Democracy

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Never Again Rock Against Racism and the Anti-Nazi League 1976-1982

Never Again Rock Against Racism and the Anti-Nazi League 1976-1982

By 1976 the National Front had become the fourth largest party in Britain. In a context of national decline racism and fears that the country was collapsing into social unrest the Front won 19 per cent of the vote in elections in Leicester and 100 000 votes in London. In response an anti-fascist campaign was born which combined mass action to deprive the Front of public platforms with a mass cultural movement. Rock Against Racism brought punk and reggae bands together as a weapon against the right. At Lewisham in August 1977 fighting between the far right and its opponents saw two hundred people arrested and fifty policemen injured. The press urged the state to ban two rival sets of dangerous extremists. But as the papers took sides so did many others who determined to oppose the Front. Through the Anti-Nazi League hundreds of thousands of people painted out racist graffiti distributed leaflets and persuaded those around them to vote against the right. This combined movement was one of the biggest mass campaigns that Britain has ever seen. This book tells the story of the National Front and the campaign which stopped it. | Never Again Rock Against Racism and the Anti-Nazi League 1976-1982

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The Shanghai Cooperation Organization Exploring New Horizons

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization Exploring New Horizons

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is one of the most rapidly developing centres of the multipolar world covering an enormous landmass including China India Russia and its southern Eurasian neighbours. With both its eight member states and a growing group of observer states the SCO’s activities have expanded beyond its initial focus on security and stability to broader cooperation with the UN and other groupings such as the G20 BRICS NATO and ASEAN. Bringing together large and disparate nation-states with often rival geostrategic agendas means that it not only faces substantial structural challenges but also has great potential. The contributors to this volume representing a range of the states within the SCO evaluate the possibilities for the Organization and the challenges it faces in achieving them through a prism of legal regulation. They evaluate the bloc’s prospects for economic humanitarian legal trade labour migration and environmental cooperation as well as its more traditional concerns with security and defence. The authors analyzing the quality of cooperation between states within the SCO note the controversial character of this process: it demonstrates both efficiency and declarative and decorative nature of the SCO. A valuable read for scholars and policy-makers with a focus on Eurasian cooperation and processes of regionalism and universalism in international relationships. | The Shanghai Cooperation Organization Exploring New Horizons

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Cultural Analysis Volume 1 Politics Public Law and Administration

Cultural Analysis Volume 1 Politics Public Law and Administration

As a result of a lifetime of incomparably wide-ranging investigations Aaron Wildavsky concluded that politics in the United States and elsewhere was a patterned activity exhibiting recurring regularities. Political values beliefs and institutions were neither endlessly varied nor haphazardly organized. They tended to exhibit a limited range of variation and were organized in discoverable predictable ways. In Cultural Analysis the fourth collection of his essays posthumously published by Transaction Wildavsky argues that American politics public law and public administration are the contested terrain of rival inescapable political cultures. Analysts of American politics distinguish liberals from conservatives and Democrats from Republicans but do not explain how these categories of political allegiance develop maintain themselves or change. Wildavsky offers a cultural-functional explanation for ideological and partisan coherence and realignment. Wildavsky also felt that these dualisms did not adequately capture the ideological and partisan variation he observed on the political landscape. Like others he detected another recurring strain of political allegiance: that of classical liberalism or libertarianism. People of this political stripe valued freedom more than equality (the primary political value of contemporary liberals) and also more than order the primary political value of conservatives. The value of Wildavsky's reconceptualization of the ideological and social foundations of political conflict compromise and coalition is assessed here by Wildavsky's former colleagues and students at the University of California Berkeley: Dennis Coyle Richard Ellis Robert Kagan Austin Ranney and Brendon Swedlow. | Cultural Analysis Volume 1 Politics Public Law and Administration

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Rivals in the Gulf Yusuf al-Qaradawi Abdullah Bin Bayyah and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis

Rivals in the Gulf Yusuf al-Qaradawi Abdullah Bin Bayyah and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis

Rivals in the Gulf: Yusuf al-Qaradawi Abdullah Bin Bayyah and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis details the relationships between the Egyptian Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi and the Al Thani royal family in Qatar and between the Mauritanian Shaykh Abdullah Bin Bayyah and the Al Nahyans the rulers of Abu Dhabi and senior royal family in the United Arab Emirates. These relationships stretch back decades to the early 1960s and 1970s respectively. Using this history as a foundation the book examines the connections between Qaradawi’s and Bin Bayyah’s rival projects and the development of Qatar’s and the UAE’s competing state-brands and foreign policies. It raises questions about how to theorize the relationships between the Muslim scholarly-elite (the ulama) and the nation-state. Over the course of the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis Qaradawi and Bin Bayyah shaped the Al Thani’s and Al Nahyan’s competing ideologies in important ways. Offering new ways for academics to think about Doha and Abu Dhabi as hegemonic centers of Islamic scholarly authority alongside historical centers of learning such as Cairo Medina or Qom this book will appeal to those with an interest in modern Islamic authority the ulama Gulf politics as well as the Arab Spring and its aftermath. | Rivals in the Gulf Yusuf al-Qaradawi Abdullah Bin Bayyah and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis

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Michael Costa: England's First Conductor The Revolution in Musical Performance in England 1830-1880

Michael Costa: England's First Conductor The Revolution in Musical Performance in England 1830-1880

Among the major changes that swept through the music industry during the mid-nineteenth century one that has received little attention is how musical performances were managed and directed. Yet this was arguably the most radical change of all: from a loose control shared between the violin-leader musical director and maestro al cembalo to a system of tight and unified control under a professional conductor-manager. This process brought with it not only baton conducting in its modern form but also higher standards of training and discipline a new orchestral lay-out and a more focused rehearsal regime. The resulting rise in standards of performance was arguably the greatest achievement of English music in the otherwise rather barren mid-Victorian period. The key figure in this process was Michael Costa who built for himself unprecedented contractual powers and used his awesome personal authority to impose reform on the three main institutions of mid-Victorian music: the opera houses the Philharmonic and the Sacred Harmonic Society. He was a central figure in the battles between the two rival opera houses between the Philharmonic and the New Philharmonic and between the venerable Ancient Concerts and the mass festival events of the Sacred Harmonic Society. Costa’s uniquely powerful position in the operatic symphonic and choral world and the rapidity with which he was forgotten after his death provide a fascinating insight into the politics and changing aesthetics of the Victorian musical world. | Michael Costa: England's First Conductor The Revolution in Musical Performance in England 1830-1880

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