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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Taking into account the dramatic changes the country has seen in the past two years–including the establishment of a human rights commission, the release of political prisoners, and reforms in health and education–David I. Steinberg offers an updated second edition of Burma/Myanmar: What Everyone Needs to Know. More than ever, the history, culture, and internal politics of this country are crucial to understanding the breaking headlines emerging from it today and placing them in a broader context. Geographically strategic, Burma/Myanmar lies between the growing powers of China and India, and has a thousand-year history as an important realm in the region–yet it is mostly unknown to Westerners. Burma/Myanmar is a place of contradictions: a picturesque land with mountain jungles and monsoon plains, it is one of the world’s largest producers of heroin. Though it has extensive natural resources including oil, gas, teak, metals, and minerals, it is one of the poorest countries in the world. And despite a half-century of military-dominated rule, change is beginning to work its way through the beleaguered nation, as it moves to a more pluralistic administrative system reflecting its pluralistic cultural, multi-ethnic base –Provided by publisher.

Subjects:

• Public administration — Burma.
• Burma — Politics and government.
• Burma — Colonial influence.

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Part of the series Reconsiderations in southern African history;Reconsiderations in southern African history.
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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction: a tragic dilemma — An extraordinary country — An extraordinary professor and the ‘Cape Nats’ — The most terrific clash of interests imaginable’: Hendrik Verwoerd’s response — Denying Black South Africans citizenship: John Vorster’s empire — Moving out into Africa: John Vorster’s foreign schemes — PW Botha and ‘power sharing without losing control’ — A crossing suspended: PW Botha’s Rubicon — Van Zyl Slabbert: the golden boy and the black prince — ‘The risk of not taking risks’: ending empire — Time for a ‘quantum leap’: FW de Klerk’s venture — ‘Paddling into dangerous rapids’: drafting a new constitution — A record of understanding — A wary military — Negotiating the NP out of power.

Subjects:

• National Party (South Africa) — History — 20th century.
• Politicians — South Africa — 20th century.
• Apartheid — South Africa — 20th century.
• Power (Social sciences) — South Africa.
• South Africa — Politics and government — 1948-1994.
• South Africa — Race relations — 20th century — Political aspects — History.
• 1900 – 1999 fast

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• Translated from the Bengali.
• Originally published in Bengali as Swadhinata Sangrame Bharater Jatiya Congress (1885-1947) in 1990.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 587-599) and index.
• The first phase (1885–1907): from the founding of the Congress to the extremist-moderate split — The second phase (1907–1930): from the Morley-Minto reforms to the Salt March — The third phase (1930–1943): from the Round Table conferences to the `Quit India’ Movement — The fourth phase (1943–1947): from Wavell to Mountbatten—the road to Independence and Partition.
• This volume presents an analytical history of India’s struggle for freedom and the role played in it by the Indian National Congress. Drawing on statistical analysis and exhaustive research, it provides a comprehensive account of the Independence movement, encompassing events such as the extremist-moderate split in the Congress, Morley-Minto reforms, Round Table Conferences, the Quit India Movement, and the Partition.

Subjects:

• Indian National Congress — History.
• Nationalism — India — History.
• India — Politics and government — 1765-1947.
• Indian National Congress.

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Part of the series International studies intensives;International studies intensives.
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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-216) and index.

Subjects:

• Arab Spring, 2010-
• Political participation — Middle East.
• Youth — Political activity — Middle East.
• Youth — Middle East — Social conditions.
• Social media — Middle East.
• United States — Relations — Middle East.
• Middle East — Relations — United States.

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• A book that has shocked all Chinese around the world. A book that is disintegrating the Communist Party –Cover.
• Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-338) and index.
• Commentary One: On what the Communist Party is — Commentary Two: On the beginnings of the Chinese Communist Party — Commentary Three: On the tyranny of the Chinese Communist Party — Commentary Four: On how the Communist Party is an anti-universe force — Commentary Five: On the collusion of Jiang Zemin and the Communist Party to persecute Falun-Gong — Commentary Six: On how the Chinese Communist Party destroyed traditional culture — Commentary Seven: On the Chinese Communist Party’s history of killing — Commentary Eight: On how the Chinese Communist Party is an evil cult — Commentary Nine: On the uscrupulous nature of the Chinese Communist Party.

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• Zhongguo gong chan dang.
• China — Politics and government — 1949-

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Part of the series Princeton studies in Muslim politics;Princeton studies in Muslim politics.
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• Originally published: 2007.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Origins and prehistory of Hezbollah. The rise of Shiʻi politics from the mid-twentieth century to the Lebanese Civil War The role of Musa al-Sadr The resurgence of Amal — The founding of Hezbollah. The Iraq connection The 1982 Israeli invasion Hezbollah emerges The Hezbollah worldview Implementing the design — Being a Shiʻi Muslim in the twenty-first century. Ritual and identity The intersection of ritual and politics — Resistance, terrorism, and violence in Lebanon. Hezbollah and terrorism Occupation in Southern Lebanon The rules of the game The 2000 Israeli withdrawal — Playing politics. Hezbollah’s decision to participate Municipal elections The revolt of the hungry The rich texture of Shiʻi institutions — From celebration to war. The changing social tapestry in post-civil war Lebanon Lebanon’s love-hate relationship with Rafiq al-Hariri, and his assassination Setting the stage for war The start of hostilities, July 2006 Prosecuting the war — Conclusion. Hezbollah in a fractured postwar Lebanon What next? — Afterword to the paperback edition — Glossary.
• With unmatched clarity and authority, the author tells how Hezbollah developed, how it has evolved, and what direction it might take in the future.

Subjects:

• Hizballah (Lebanon)
• Lebanon — Politics and government — 1975-1990.
• Lebanon — Politics and government — 1990-
• Shiites — Lebanon — Politics and government.
• Islam and politics — Lebanon.
• Geopolitics — Middle East.
• Geopolitics Middle East
• Hizballah Lebanon
• Islam and politics Lebanon
• Lebanon Politics and government 1975-1990
• Shiites Lebanon Politics and government

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction: Revolutionizing the Middle East / Paul Amar and Vijay Prashad — Tunisia / Nouri Gana — Egypt / Paul Amar — Bahrain / Adam Hanieh — Saudi Arabia / Tony C. Jones — Yemen / Sheila Carapico — Algeria / Susan Slyomovics — Morocco / Merouan Mekouar — Libya / Anjali Kamat and Ahmad Shokr — Syria / Paulo Gabriel Hilu Pinto — Jordan / Jillian Schwedler — Lebanon / Maya Mikdashi — Palestine / Toufic Haddad — Iraq / Haifa Zangana — Sudan / Khalid Mustafa Medani.
• The Arab Spring unleashed forces of liberation and social justice that swept across North Africa and the Middle East with unprecedented speed, ferocity, and excitement. Although the future of the democratic uprisings against oppressive authoritarian regimes remains uncertain in many places, the revolutionary wave that started in Tunisia in December 2010 has transformed how the world sees Arab peoples and politics. Bringing together the knowledge of activists, scholars, journalists, and policy experts uniquely attuned to the pulse of the region, Dispatches from the Arab Spring offers an urgent and engaged analysis of a remarkable ongoing world-historical event that is widely misinterpreted in the West. Tracing the flows of protest, resistance, and counterrevolution in every one of the countries affected by this epochal change–from Morocco to Iraq and Syria to Sudan–the contributors provide ground-level reports and new ways of teaching about and understanding the Middle East in general, and contextualizing the social upheavals and political transitions that defined the Arab Spring in particular. Rejecting outdated and invalid (yet highly influential) paradigms to analyze the region–from depictions of the Arab street as a mindless, reactive mob to the belief that Arab culture was unfit for democratic politics–this book offers fresh insights into the region’s dynamics, drawing from social history, political geography, cultural creativity, and global power politics. Dispatches from the Arab Spring is an unparalleled introduction to the changing Middle East and offers the most comprehensive and accurate account to date of the uprisings that profoundly reshaped North Africa and the Middle East. Contributors: Sheila Carapico, U of Richmond Nouri Gana, UCLA Toufic Haddad Adam Hanieh, SOAS/U of London Toby C. Jones, Rutgers U Anjali Kamat Khalid Medani, McGill U Merouan Mekouar Maya Mikdashi, NYU Paulo Gabriel Hilu Pinto, U Federal Fluminense, Brazil Jillian Schwedler, Hunter College, CUNY Ahmad Shokr

Subjects:

• Arab Spring, 2010-
• Arab countries — Politics and government — 21st century.
• Middle East — Politics and government — 21st century.
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. bisacsh

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