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Abraham Lincoln looms large in American memory. He is admired for his many accomplishments, including his skills as an orator and writer, his Emancipation Proclamation, and his unswerving leadership during the strife-ridden years of the Civil War. Now, Michael S. Green unveils another side to the sixteenth president of the United States: that of the astute political operator. Lincoln and the Election of 1860 examines how, through a combination of political intrigue and deep commitment to the principle of freedom, Lincoln journeyed from Republican underdog to an improbable vic.

Since the early 1980s, the World Bank, backed by aid donor countries, has been involved in a determined effort to stimulate capitalist growth in Africa by prescribing a set of orthodox, neoliberal economic policies. Using Ghana as a case study, this book considers why this is the case.

This is a major work of history and political theory that traces radical democratic thought in America across the twentieth century, seeking to recover ideas that could reenergize democratic activism today. The question of how citizens should behave as they struggle to create a more democratic society has haunted the United States throughout its history. Should citizens restrict themselves to patient persuasion or take to the streets and seek to impose change?

God in the Corridors of Power: Christian Conservatives, the Media, and Politics in America is a comprehensive study of Christian conservative power in America's political culture--how it was achieved, how it is maintained, and where it is going. It came about in part because of an enduring influence in the school room, the seminary and in the pulpit, and in part because conservatives are so skilled at using commercial and non-commercial media, including religious media, to disseminate their views to broader audiences. Though their power has waxed and waned, they continue to be a potent force in.

Intro -- In the Name of Terrorism -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. What's in a Name? -- PRESIDENTIAL DISCOURSE AND TERRORISM -- TERRORISM AND IDEOLOGY -- 2. The Vietnam War and the Communist Terrorists -- LABELING THE THREAT -- THE TERRORIST NARRATIVE IN THE VIETNAM WAR -- TERRORISM AND IDEOLOGY -- 3. The Iranian Hostage Crisis: An American Tragedy -- LABELING THE CAPTORS -- THE NARRATIVE OF THE IRANIAN HOSTAGE CRISIS -- IDEOLOGY AND THE IRANIAN HOSTAGE CRISIS -- 4. Origins of Terrorism as an American Ideograph: The Reagan Era -- LABELING THE THREAT -- THE TERRORIST NARRATIVE IN THE REAGAN ERA -- TERRORISM AND IDEOLOGY -- 5. The Persian Gulf Conflict of 1991: The Cold War Narrative in the Post-Cold War Era -- LABELING THE CRISIS -- THE NARRATIVE OF THE 1991 PERSIAN GULF CRISIS -- IDEOLOGY AND PERSIAN GULF TERRORISM -- 6. Terrorism and the Clinton Era: A Prophetic Moment -- LABELING THE THREAT -- CLINTON'S TERRORIST NARRATIVE -- TERRORISM AND IDEOLOGY -- 7. America under Attack: George W. Bush and Noncitizen Actors -- LABELING THE CRISIS -- THE TERRORIST NARRATIVE -- TERRORISM AND IDEOLOGY -- 8. Terrorism and American Culture -- Notes -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- CHAPTER 7 -- CHAPTER 8 -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Fascism has traditionally been characterized as irrational and anti-intellectual, finding expression exclusively as a cluster of myths, emotions, instincts, and hatreds. This intellectual history of Italian Fascism--the product of four decades of work by one of the leading experts on the subject in the English-speaking world--provides an alternative account. A. James Gregor argues that Italian Fascism may have been a flawed system of belief, but it was neither more nor less irrational than other revolutionary ideologies of the twentieth century. Gregor makes this case by presenting for the fir.

This book demonstrates that the crises of the Horn states stem from their political behaviour and structural forces.

Over the years, California has had more than its share of political turmoil. But for pure melodrama, nothing matches the 2003 campaign to recall the state's sitting governor, Gray Davis. "Recall!" relates the latest and most dramatic chapter in the political history of the Golden State.

This critical introduction to the main debates, historical context and issues surrounding contemporary South Africa includes topics such as the role of colonialism, capitalism and modernity in the formation of the racial order and democracy.