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Frontmatter --Contents --Preface /Brown, Michael E. --Abbreviations --A Note on Sources --1. Introduction --2. Historical, Organizational, and Doctrinal Setting --3. Building a jet Bomber: The B-45, B-46, B-47, and B-48 --4. The First Intercontinental Bombers: The B-35, B-36, B-49, B-52, and B-60 --5. The Push to Develop Supersonic Capabilities: The B-58 --6. The Nuclear-Powered Bomber and the B-70 --7. Low-Altitude Penetration: The B-1 --8. The Politics of Stealth: The B-1B and B-2 --9. The Origins and Outcomes of Weapon Acquisition Programs --Appendix: Evolution of U.S. Air Force Weapon Acquisition Organizations --Index

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- 1. Causes and Implications of Ethnic Conflict -- 2. The Ethnic Sources of Nationalism -- 3. Domestic Politics and Ethnic Conflict -- 4. Democratization and Ethnic Conflict -- 5. Nationalism and the Crisis of the Post-Soviet State -- 6. The Security Dilemma and Ethnic Conflict -- 7. Beyond Nationalism and Internationalism: Ethnicity and World Order -- 8. Ethnic Conflict and Refugees -- 9. International Mediation of Ethnic Conflicts -- 10. Outside Intervention in Ethnic Conflicts -- 11. The United Nations and International Security -- 12. Managing the Politics of Parochialism -- Bibliography -- Index

In this book, Michael Brown provides original and critical analysis of the state of the social sciences and the humanities. He examines the different disciplines that address human affairs--from sociology, philosophy, political science, and anthropology to the humanities in general--to understand their common ground. He probes the ways in which we investigate the meaning of individuality in a society for which individuals are not the agents of the activities in which they participate, and he develops a critical method for studying the relations among activities, objects, and situations

In this book, Michael Brown provides original and critical analysis of the state of the social sciences and the humanities. He examines the different disciplines that address human affairs--from sociology, philosophy, political science, and anthropology to the humanities in general--to understand their common ground. He probes the ways in which we investigate the meaning of individuality in a society for which individuals are not the agents of the activities in which they participate, and he develops a critical method for studying the relations among activities, objects, and situations.

Introduction: Communism, society, and history -- History and history's problem -- Issues in the historiography of communism, part one : identifying the problem -- Issues in the historiography of communism, part two : some principles of critical analysis -- Ideology and the metaphysics of content -- "Society against the state" : the fullness of the primitive -- Left futures (with Randy Martin) -- Rethinking the crisis of socialism (with Randy Martin)

In this fresh appraisal of communism and anti-communism, with an emphasis on the American case, respected scholar Michael E. Brown examines the methods, controversies and difficulties involved in writing the history of communism. Arguing that one important way of understanding communism-other than as a concrete political or ideological force-is as an expression of an essentially reflexive aspect of society that typically manifests itself in social movements. In this regard, Brown understands the history of communism as part of the history of society. Examining works by E.P. Thompson, Kar.