... Class The Veblen Veblen Thorstein class conflict antagonism Clay Henry Lincoln Abraham American imperialism imperialism American imperialism Native Americans women Adams Roosevelt’s view of Spencer Herbert Sumner William Graham Turner Frederick Jackson America’s Economic Supremacy Adams...

... revolution Japan England class conflict imperial china has long been portrayed in Eurocentric historiography as a plainly agrarian and inward-looking empire in contrast to the commercially dynamic and maritime-oriented Europe. Mark Elvin and others reject this image, arguing that China...

... on the “whitest and cleanest beach on the Pacific Ocean”—undisturbed for the most part by the conflict going on around them. And although its inhabitants were conscious of the ongoing conflict, they remained distant to it, if they didn't outright weather through it like they did the yearly typhoons that were...

... Independence movement Khampas Religion Secession Tourism Ethnic conflict Regional identity Economic factors Ethnic assimilation Ethnic expression and identity People’s Armed Police Cultural Revolution Ganden Sumtseling Monasteries Monks Returnees Migrants Violence Exile community Self...

...This chapter focuses on the city of Nazareth in order to illustrate the theoretical and practical implications of ethnoreligious conflict among Arab Palestinian citizens in Israel that arises out of competing claims over the nature, essence, and representation of a holy place. It argues...

... to emphasize social conflict in present-day China. This can be attributed to the fact that most of them are influenced by the model of the class struggle that accompanied the industrial revolution in nineteenth-century Europe: no capitalist triumph without a social catastrophe. And some find it provocative...

...This essay relates Taylor’s thesis to arguments in Indian history over the relationship of religious diversity to conflict and strategies of accommodation in premodern and modern times. science Secular Age A Taylor social science Taylor Charles absolutism democracy Latin Christendom...

...” and “maximalists.” While minimalists agree with the non-participation of aid agencies in any activities that hint of political agenda, such as educational support in conflict-affected countries; maximalists endorse the participation of aid agencies even in the presence of conflict dynamics, in order to satisfy...

...Despite their often quite central role in contributing to tensions, religious beliefs and practices are potentially a resource for work toward conflict resolution. Carnegie Andrew Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs Church Peace Union Niebuhr Reinhold religion s religion...

...This chapter considers a manifesto, anchored on binationalism, as a solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. After 100 years of conflict, there is no end in sight to the war between Israel and Palestine; the only visible change in the Middle East is deterioration. The small piece of land...

...This chapter examines Udi Aloni's film Local Angel and its focus on the construction of a new place in the context of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Local Angel addresses the question of the Palestinian plight as well as larger questions of war, violence...

... of the world. But it is also Israel that prevents Palestine from becoming the incarnation of Arab universality in the eyes of the world. Aloni does not inscribe his film into a prefabricated or abstract vision of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The question of war or of the sharing of territory is not his...

... Butler, before turning to the issue of feminism by focusing on Butler's book Gender Trouble. They also discuss cultural boycott, the conflict between Israel and Palestine, the questions of Jewishness and Zionism, the relationship between Diaspora and emancipation, binationalism as a one...

...This chapter discusses how China's support for the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, and its preventive action over disputed islands in the South China Sea further aggravated the Sino-Vietnamese conflict. The Soviet-Vietnamese cooperation led Beijing to hedge against the prospect of a unified Vietnam...

... gluttony greed wealth sexuality competition conflict territoriality This chapter continues our disturbing journey into our dark side. Envy, greed, and power are linked because they all revolve around the acquisition of resources. Resources can include money, possessions, positions, or people...

...This chapter summarizes findings from an analysis of financial ties of FDA advisory committee members during the 15-year period covering 1997-2011. Focusing on a facet of conflicts of interest that has not been empirically well-studied--exclusive financial ties versus multiple financial ties...

..., the international experts in this volume create an invaluable record of the conflicts and protests as they have unfolded—the most extensive chronicle of events to date. The authors examine the factors driving the unrest in Tibet and Xinjiang and the political strategies used to suppress them. They also explain why...

... by terrorists to further their goals and confronts the difficulty democracies face in fighting terrorism, especially when international humanitarian law does not account for nonstate actors in armed conflict. The text especially focuses on the “hybrid terrorist organization” model, which calls for a new...

...Foreign-backed funding for education does not always stabilize a country and enhance its state-building efforts. This book shows how aid to education in Afghanistan bolstered conflict both deliberately in the 1980s through violence-infused, anti-Soviet curricula and inadvertently in the 2000s...

... conflict Kunming Railway Station Lhasa People’s Republic of China PRC Riots Separatists Social stability and harmony Unrest causes of Urumqi Violence Ethnic relations marginalization Ma Rong Mass incidents Security domestic Unrest response to Ethnic protest Beijing Censorship Deaths Hu...