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This work examines the electoral successes of anti-system forces in the rich democracies. It explains the rise of anti-system politicians and parties in terms of two separate but closely related developments: the rise of economic inequality and insecurity over the last four decades, and the failure of technocratic elites to address them.

Peter Trubowitz and Brian Burgoon provide a powerful new explanation of why the Western liberal international order - which dominated for a half century after World War II - has buckled under the pressures of anti-globalist political forces in recent times. They trace the anti-globalist backlash to foreign policy decisions made by Western leaders in the decade after the Cold War's end. These decisions sought to globalise markets and pool national sovereignty at the supranational level while undercutting social protections at home - a combination of policies that succeeded in expanding the Western liberal order, but at the cost of mounting public discontent and political fragmentation.

Annotation, This volume is the first to analyse the eroticism of the esoteric on the basis of expert scholarship and attention to textual and historical detail. While there are few domains in which the imagination can so easily run wild, the various contributions seek to distinguish fact from fiction

1. Mobile urbanism : tent cities in medieval travel writing / Mohammad Gharipour and Manu P. Sobti -- 2. Understanding the city through travellers' tales : Cairo as seen and experienced by two fourteenth-century Italians / Felicity Ratte -- 3. Where is the "greatest city in the East"? The Mughal city of Lahore in European travel accounts (1556-1648) / Mehreen Chida-Razvi -- 4. The image of the city : public baths and urban space in Western travellers' descriptions of Ottoman Sofia / Stefan Peychev -- 5. Cultural encounters between Europeans and Arabs : Carsten Niebuhr's reflections on cities of the Islamic world (1761-67) / Jørgen Mikkelsen -- 6. Western eyes on Jannina : foreign narratives of a city recorded in texts and images (1788-1822) / Renia Paxinou -- 7. Single p(a)lace, multiple narratives : the Topkapi Palace in Western travel accounts from the eighteenth to the twentieth century / Nilay Ozlu -- 8. Tensions and interactions : Muslim, Christian and Jewish towns in Palestine through European travellers' accounts (eighteenth-twentieth century) / Valerie Geonet -- 9. In and out of the frame : Finnish painters discovering Tunisia / Marie-Sofie Lundstrom -- 10. "The Orient veneered in the occident" : Naserid Tehran in the eyes of European travellers / M. Reza Shirazi -- 11. No place for a tourist : imagining Fez in the Burton Holmes travelogue / Michelle H. Craig -- 12. A challenge to the West : British views of republican Ankara / Davide Deriu.

Helping God along : speech suppression in the ancient world -- The fire cure : censorship from late antiquity to Gutenberg -- The printquakes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- Revolution and control in the eighteenth century -- Class warfare in the nineteenth century -- Trouble in mind : the early twentieth century -- Screaming at the crowd in the contemporary era.