2011, ISBN: 9781844572786

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Chiang Mai.: Silkworm Books.. 2009.. vii + 247pp, slightly worn cover, a good paperback copy. 21.5 x 14cm. The coup leader who believed he was the reincarnation of an eighteenth-century k… More...

Chiang Mai.: Silkworm Books.. 2009.. vii + 247pp, slightly worn cover, a good paperback copy. 21.5 x 14cm. The coup leader who believed he was the reincarnation of an eighteenth-century king. The godfather slashed to death by a machete on the orders of his son. The party boss who taught his followers how to negotiate corruption with hand signals. The general whose political career charts the destruction of Burmese forests. Thai politics often seem wild. For a dozen years, Chang Noi (the pseudonym means Little Elephant) has been stomping around this jungle, kicking up leaves, overturning rotten wood, and trumpeting in distress. This selection from the widely read column in The Nation newspaper provides lively, readable commentary on twelve years of change in Thailand’s politics, society, culture, and environment. The sixty-four articles delve into the crisis over naked nipples, fascination with rape in TV dramas, moral panic over teenage clothing, police involvement in casinos, wrangles over damned dams, varieties of corruption, fantasies of culture bureaucrats, and fifty years of scandal behind Bangkok’s new airport. This collection is a rich and fascinating kaleidoscope of the political and social jungle that is Thailand. ., Silkworm Books., 2009., 0, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 8vo. xi, 241 pp, preface, introduction, I. THE HISTORICAL TRADITIONS OF THE MAGHRIBI STATE: 1. The State: Medieval and Patrimonial, 2. Diversity of National Formation. II. COLONIAL DOMINATION: SOCIAL CHANGE AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT: 3. Political Domination, 4. Economic Domination.. III. THE EMERGING LEADERSHIPS: 5. Morocco: Marginal Political Elites, 6. Tunisia: The Cohesion of a Ruling Elite, 7. Algeria: Dissensus and Interelite Conflicts, 8. The Coherence of the National Elite. IV. ELITES, INSTITUTIONS, AND DEVELOPMENT: 9. Institutions and Institutional Competence, 10. Policies of Economic Development, 11. Conclusion: Contrasting Strategies. Epilogue, Selected Bibliography, Index. The author presents a paradigm for the study of the formation and transformation of national societies; he devotes particular attention to the leadership that shapes the processes of social transformation. The basic problems -- national integration, institutional competence, economic development, and distributive justice -- pose formidable dilemmas for the leadership; any genuine analysis must come to grips with these contradictory exigencies. The construction of new routes of national development depend as much upon the historical specificity of a given country and the determination of its leaders as upon the global re-ordering of national powers and established privilege. Price clipped. 1 1/2" to bottom edge rear panel dj with two small closed tears to same. Lightly bumped top fore-edge tips with only the faintest edgewear, else, Pristine Interior. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Tan cloth with gilt lettering.., University of California Press, 1972, 3.5, Berg, 1987. . Hardcover. Fine in dj. The first assessment of the structural changes that have begun to emerge from the rise of Solidarity, offered by expert observers from inside Poland. Examines Solidarity & its psycho-social impact, the links between economic reformism & politics, the legitimation of the existing order etc. 184pp. ., Berg, 1987., 0, New Haven : Yale University Press, 1991. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xiv, 298 pages : illustrations, maps. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-289) and indexes. Contents: 1. Introduction -- PART 1. GAYO HISTORY AND ITS REPRESENTATIONS: 2. Gayo society and culture ; 3. Political structure and historical narratives in 1900 ; 4. The creation of colonial hierarchies ; 5. Competing transcendencies: Islam and the Indonesian nation-state ; 6. Politics and culture in the new order -- PART 2. POETICS AND ITS HISTORY: 7. Authoritative maxims and ritual speaking ; 8. Poetry and contest, 1900-1945 ; 9. The poetic mediation of political change, 1945-1989 ; 10. Narrative strategies in the history of Linge ; 11. Islamic reformulations of the past ; 12. Conclusions -- Appendix 1. Analytical glossary of Gayo terms -- Appendix 2. Gayo population data. Subjects: Gayo (Indonesian people) History; Gayo (Indonesian people) Rites and ceremonies; Gayo (Indonesian people) Politics and government; Folklore Performance Indonesia Sumatra; Folklore Performance; Social conditions; Gayos (Indonesian people) History; Folklore Indonesia Sumatra; Culture Sumatra (Indonesia)., New Haven : Yale University Press, 1991, 0, London: Routledge, 1989. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 210 pages, b&w illustrations. Beard examines the English country house life, its gentry, and the changes they undertook through the century in order to survive. The author shows how after World War Two, their political power had eroded and they began to run their estates as businesses, instead of paternalistic rural communities. Clean copy. Record # 379720, Routledge, 1989, 3, Croom Helm, London, 1985. First English Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition. Annotation: This book treats such topics as the structure of archaic Roman society; social changes from the beginning of Roman expansion to the Second Punic War; slave uprisings and other conflicts in the society of the Late Republic; the social system of the early Empire; the crisis of the Roman Empire; and late Roman society to the fall of the Empire. Review Quotes: "Excellent discussions of the plebians and their struggle for political recoginiton, the nature of the aristrocracy, the nobles, the economy, the senatorial and equestrian orders with their ladders of promotion, the municipal aristocracy... [An] excellent introduction to the subject by a historian of international reputation." --Classical World There are small marks on the front pastedown and first endpaper. Size: 180mm - 250mm. 251 pages. Dust Jacket has some shelf-wear as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Italy; Politics & Government. ISBN: 070990553X. ISBN/EAN: 9780709905530. Inventory No: 19486. . 9780709905530, Croom Helm, 1985, 2.5, British Film Institute, 2011. Trade Paperback. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Upon its release in 1956, Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers was widely perceived as another 'B' movie thriller in the cycle of science fiction and horror films that proliferated in the 1950s. Yet the film addresses numerous issues brewing in post-war US society, including the Cold War, McCarthyism and the changing dynamics of gender relations. In the fifty years since the film's release, its reputation has grown from cult status to become an acknowledged classic of American cinema. With its narrative of emotionless alien duplicates replacing average folk, Invasion of the Body Snatchers was the first post-war horror film to locate the monstrous in the everyday, thus marking it as a pivotal moment in American horror film history four years before Psycho. In this first comprehensive critical study of the film, Barry Keith Grant traces Invasion's historical and generic contexts to explore the importance of Communism and conformity, post-war modernity and gender politics in order to understand the film's cultural significance and metaphorical weight. He also provides an account of the film's fraught production history and offers an extended discussion of the distinctive contributions of the production personnel. Concluding with a consideration of the three remakes it has inspired, Grant illustrates how Invasion of the Body Snatchers' enduring popularity derives from its central metaphor for the monstrous, which has proven as flexible as that of the vampire and the zombie., British Film Institute, 2011, 0<