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The Longue Durée and World-Systems Analysis -- The Longue Durée and World-Systems Analysis -- Contents -- Introduction: Fernand Braudel, the Longue Durée, and World-Systems Analysis -- The Order of Historical Time: The Longue Durée and Micro-History -- History and Geography: Braudel's "Extreme Longue Durée" as Generics? -- Dutch Capitalism and Europe's Great Frontier: The Baltic in the Ecological Revolution of the Long Seventeenth Century -- The Semiproletarian Household over the Longue Durée of the Modern World-System -- In the Short Run Are We All Dead? A Political Ecology of the Development Climate -- The Longue Durée and the Status of "Superstructures" -- Nomads and Kings: State Formation in Asia over the Longue Durée, 1250-1700 -- Long-Term Problems for the Longue Durée in the Social Sciences -- Journalism, History, and Eurocentrism: Longue Durée and the Immediate in Braudel and Wallerstein -- Appendix: History and the Social Sciences: The Longue Durée -- Index

An unvarnished portrait of gentrification in an underprivileged, majority-minority small cityNewburgh is a small postindustrial city of some twenty-eight thousand people located sixty miles north of New York City in the Hudson River Valley. Like many other similarly sized cities across America, it has been beset with poverty and crime after decades of decline, with few opportunities for its predominantly minority residents. Sixty Miles Upriver tells the story of how Newburgh started gentrifying, describing what happens when White creative professionals seek out racially diverse and working-class communities and revealing how gentrification is increasingly happening outside large city centers in places where it unfolds in new ways.As New York City's housing market becomes too expensive for even the middle class, many urbanites are bypassing the suburbs and moving to smaller cities like Newburgh, where housing is affordable and historic. Richard Ocejo takes readers into the lives of these newcomers, examining the different ways they navigate racial difference and inequality among Newburgh's much less privileged local residents, and showing how stakeholders in the city's revitalization reframe themselves and gentrification to cast the displacement they cause to minority groups in a positive light.An intimate exploration of the moral dilemma at the heart of gentrification, Sixty Miles Upriver explains how progressive White gentrifiers justify controversial urban changes as morally good, and how their actions carry profound and lasting consequences for vulnerable residents of color

A Transnational Jewish Question: Exploring Antisemitism in the United States and Germany Through the Lens of Global History, 1880- -- 'No Jews, Dogs, or Consumptives': Comparing Anti-Jewish Discrimination in Late-Nineteenth-Century Germany and the United States -- An Exceptional Hatred? Re-Examining Antisemitism in Germany and the United States in a Time of War and Upheaval, 1914- -- The Paranoid Style in Antisemitic Journalism: Comparing Coverage of the 'World Jewish Conspiracy' in the Völkischer Beobachter and the Dearborn Independent, 1920- -- One Crisis Behind? Rethinking Antisemitic Exceptionalism in the United States and Germany -- Klansmen in the Fatherland: A Transnational Episode in the History of Weimar Germany's Right-Wing Political Culture.

"This book examines the history of antisemitism in the United States and Germany in a novel way by placing the two countries side by side for a sustained comparison of the anti-Jewish environments in both countries from the 1880s to the end of the Second World War. Author Richard Frankel shatters the widely-held notion of exceptionalism in Germany and America: the belief that antisemitism in Germany was uniquely murderous and led inevitably to the Holocaust and that antisemitism in the United States was uniquely benign, making an American Holocaust all but unthinkable. In a series of new and previously published essays that have been revised, updated, and expanded, the book relates antisemitism to issues including Jewish and Chinese immigration, discrimination and exclusion, the First World War and its aftermath, Hitler and Henry Ford, Nazis, the American Right, and the Roosevelt Administration, and a German Ku Klux Klan. Taken together, these essays reveal that antisemitism in Germany was less aberrant than commonly believed and that American antisemitism was indeed dangerous and more similar to what existed in Germany during the same period. Antisemitism Before the Holocaust is an essential volume for students and scholars alike interested in European and American history, the history of the holocaust and the First World War"--

"Taking an innovative look at the origins of economics, this forward-thinking book relocates economics from a materialistic general theory of rational action into an idealistic theory of social organization and individual action. Adding new insightful analytical methods such as complexity theory, graph theory and computational modelling to the original insights of the Scottish Enlightenment, Richard Wagner explores economics in an ever-changing society, looking at the key civilizing processes and the important social questions. Rethinking Economics as Social Theory moves away from the traditional review of analytical exercises and associated data and illustrates an enlightening scheme of thought where human societies are heterogeneous and not homogeneous and where change is continually in motion. Furthermore, Wagner theorises that economizing is a universal form of human action that plays out in numerous substantive directions and shows cooperation and conflict to have a yin-and-yang relationship. This illuminating book will prove an excellent resource for economists interested in working outside of comparative statics as well as social scientists looking for a broader vision of economics. Philosophers and those working in the field of biological sciences will also find this an informative read"--

Innovative in its approach, Rethinking Public Choice reviews the concept of public choice since the 1950s post-war period and the application of economics to political practices and institutions, as well as its evolution in recent years attracting contributions from political science and philosophy.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. From Intermittence To Permanence -- 3. The FBI in Cold War and Social Turbulence -- 4. Other Domestic Intelligence Operations -- 5. Covert Techniques -- 6. Is Domestic Intelligence Unconstitutional? -- 7. The Dangers and the Needs: Weights in the Balance -- 8. Further Reform? -- Notes -- Index