... irrigation kinship Turko Persia water Zagros Mountains Afshar Nadir Shah Afsharids Ahmad Shah Durrani cavalry geographical features military natural resources Omar Mullah Safavid dynasty steppes Musahiban dynasty education opium anthropological approach Afghanistan Afghans political power...

... applicability to understanding the political homogeneity of localized racial groupings. If the foundational mechanism of political power through unity is that identified by the framework—coracial social ties—then desegregation and the loss of black institutions are a fundamental challenge to the doing of black...

... the excesses of corrosive skepticism and dogmatic fanaticism, which lead to either political acquiescence or irresolvable conflict. Locke changes the way political power is assessed by replacing deteriorating vocabularies of legitimacy with a new language of justification informed by a conception...

... orchestrated the divorce between Communism and atheism, and between the party's Communist ideology and political power. Baptism of Rus’ Gorbachev Mikhail Gorbachev Raisa Gromyko Andrei Kharchev Konstantin Medvedev Vadim millennium of Christianity in Rus’ perestroika Pimen I Patriarch Izvekov Russian...

... the increasing political power of Phoenix's boosters and others like them across the West within the postwar American political economy. Jacobs John Phoenix Arizona Sperry Rand Sperry Phoenix Staggs Ralph Halbert Percy Self Robert Arizona Highways Ganz Sylvain Garrett Walter Hunt George Shadegg Stephen...

... provides an unprecedented look at how this controversial organization built its political power and deploys it on behalf of its pro-gun agenda. Taking readers from the 1930s to the age of Donald Trump, the book traces how the NRA's immense influence on national politics arises from its ability to shape...

... of the tensions between political power and the liberty of both the individual citizen and the community at large. Alongside the conflict between law and the liberty of the republican citizen, the chapter turns to another key point in Machiavelli's arguments about liberty—the contradictions between liberty...

..., reinserting him into the democratic political culture of the fifth century B.C. It examines the bases of Pericles' political power, his role in the development of Athenian imperialism, and his attitude toward the city gods. It also considers the emergence of the figure of an idealized Pericles in the writings...

...This chapter examines another base of Pericles' political power: as orator. In Athens, a city rapidly moving toward democratization, persuasive oratory played a key role. Pericles was a master not only of public speaking but also of the art of remaining silent or, to be more precise, of getting his...

... out the book's purpose, which is to present Adams as a student and critic of the political power of elites. It suggests that Adams has much to teach us about teach us about wealth and power in our own times. Specifically, he can help us as we attempt to comprehend and respond to one of today's most...

... the psychological bases of social and political power. The fruit of his efforts was the series of essays entitled Discourses on Davila, a work that Adams would describe as the fourth and final volume of his Defence. The chapter draws from Discourses on Davila...

...This chapter details how Muslims dealt with being a religious minority. Political power over a variety of religious groups may have influenced how some people viewed the truth of the Prophet's message, but they did not free his followers from the very real task of figuring out how their religious...

.... The task of merging two entirely different parts of a country into a single, homogeneous nation soon revealed the limits of what political power could accomplish. East Prussia ethnic homogenization policy of German Polish border Oder Neisse Line Lower Silesia Masuria Pomerania Pomorze Zachodnie...

... for economists since the seventeenth century. It is linked, however, not just to the concept of the self, but to the idea of political power itself. Through this lecture, Hirschman attempts to show that personal welfare and statecraft were intertwined from the start. The effort to narrow the definition had...

...This chapter deals with some neglected implications of viewing political power in terms of coordination, focusing on how essential it is, on a coordination view, to regard governmental authority and citizen allegiance not as two different things but as two different ways of viewing the same thing...

... Sunna sharīʿa South Sudan Interim Constitution of Sudan 2005 United Nations UN Islam Sudan Islamization political power Islamic state Late one night, during the height of the economically lean years of the Revolution of National Salvation in the early to mid-1990s, a small group of pilgrims...

... not only that they are capable of making crucial determinations concerning the limits of political power, but also that they are obligated to do so. His account of the state of nature is not simply a heuristic device illustrating an abstract theory of government, but an attempt to provide tangible support...

... of both a gun owner social identity and a broader political ideology. The chapter then looks into greater detail about each of these central ideas: the ideational resources of identity and ideology, and the party–group alignment that has been so central to the NRA's more recent political power...

... over political power, in which Machiavelli embraces conflict as the effective cause of free government and strives to empower and channel emancipatory, plebeian energies through the constitutional order. It also focuses on Machiavelli's most important contribution to materialist constitutionalism...

...The ʻAlawis, or Alawites, are a prominent religious minority in northern Syria, Lebanon, and southern Turkey, best known today for enjoying disproportionate political power in war-torn Syria. This book offers a complete history of the community, from the birth of the ʻAlawi (Nusayri) sect...