In this wide-ranging account, Ivan Berend traces the post-war fortunes of the countries lying between Germany and the former Soviet Union. Professor Berend draws both on his academic expertise and ...personal involvement in many of the events which he describes to produce a synthesis of a huge array of materials. His study stretches beyond the confines of economic history to provide insights into the complex interplay of ideological, social and political forces in the 'Eastern Bloc' countries over the last fifty years of revolutionary change. In particular Berend's analysis of totalitarianism, the development of nationalism, and the personalities at the centre of political life in eastern Europe offers an alternative perspective on the economies of the state-socialist regimes at the periphery of the western industrialised world.
Postmodernism and the Environmental Crisis is the only book to combine cultural theory and environmental philosophy. In it, Arran Gare analyses the conjunction between the environmental crisis, the ...globalisation of capitalism and the disintegration of the culture of modernity. It explains the paradox of growing concern for the environment and the paltry achievements of environmental movements. Through a critique of the philosophies underlying approaches to the environmental crisis, Arran Gare puts forward his own, controversial theory of a new postmodern world view. This would be the foundation for the environmental movement to succeed. Arran Gare's work will be a vital reading for advanced students of environmental studies, as well as for environmental philosophers and cultural theorists.
"Kevin Boyle has done a masterful job of identifying the unique contribution of the UAW, not only to American Liberalism, but also to the nation and to all people. As contemporary labor and society ...at large search for new directions, this book should be required reading."-Victor G. Reuther
Der Band beinhaltet die schriftliche Ausarbeitung der Referate zweier Tagungen des wirtschaftshistorischen Ausschusses des Vereins für Socialpolitik in den Jahren 1993 und 1994. Es wird in ...exemplarischer Weise das Phänomen der Kommunalisierung von Leistungen und Institutionen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert in Deutschland und in der Schweiz dargestellt und diskutiert. In einer generellen Perspektive wird Kommunalisierung dabei als wesentlicher Faktor des langfristigen wechselwirksamen Prozesses von Regulierung und Deregulierung wirtschaftlicher und sozialer Verhältnisse gesehen und interpretiert. In umfassender und differenzierter Weise wird im Beitrag von Alfons Labisch und Reinhard Spree die Kommunalisierung des Krankenhauswesens in Deutschland als Ablösung der traditionalen, mittelalterlich-frühneuzeitlichen Spitäler und hinsichtlich der weiteren Entwicklung im Zuge der Industrialisierung untersucht. Horst A. Wessel bietet einen informationsreichen Überblick über die Entwicklung der kommunalen Wasser-, Gas- und Elektrizitätsversorgung in Deutschland in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Margrit Grabas analysiert die Kommunalisierungsprozesse einerseits als Element des wirtschaftspolitischen Systems und andererseits als Faktor des Wachstums- und Konjunkturgeschehens im Wilhelminischen Kaiserreich. Die Entfaltung der politischen Willensbildung unter Einbeziehung der "öffentlichen Meinung" zur Kommunalisierung der städtischen Elektrizitätsversorgung sowie zu deren Einbindung in die städtische Infrastrukturpolitik um die Jahrhundertwende in der Schweiz ist der thematische Schwerpunkt des Beitrages von David Gugerli. Explizit im Mittelpunkt des Interesses steht die Frage von Regulierung und Deregulierung, in Verknüpfung mit der Diskussion des Begriffes der "Privatisierung", in dem stark theoretisch orientierten und zeitlich auf das ausgehende 19. Jahrhundert und die erste Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts konzentrierten Beitrag von Gerold Ambrosius. Das Verhältnis vo
Subculture Hebdige, Dick
1979, 20121112, 2012, 1981, 2012-11-12
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'Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style is so important: complex and remarkably lucid, it's the first book dealing with punk to offer intellectual content. Hebdige ... is concerned with the UK's ...postwar, music-centred, white working-class subcultures, from teddy boys to mods and rockers to skinheads and punks.' - Rolling Stone With enviable precision and wit Hebdige has addressed himself to a complex topic - the meanings behind the fashionable exteriors of working-class youth subcultures - approaching them with a sophisticated theoretical apparatus that combines semiotics, the sociology of devience and Marxism and come up with a very stimulating short book - Time Out This book is an attempt to subject the various youth-protest movements of Britain in the last 15 years to the sort of Marxist, structuralist, semiotic analytical techniques propagated by, above all, Roland Barthes. The book is recommended whole-heartedly to anyone who would like fresh ideas about some of the most stimulating music of the rock era - The New York Times
The phenomenal success of the East Asian Newly Industrializing Economies (NIEs) of Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore is now well-known and documented. Their success has been discussed to such ...an extent that it has become entrenched as part of the folklore of development economics. The Newly Industrializing Economies of East Asia takes a fresh look at the relevant literature and sifts the rhetoric from the reality. In the course of surveying the vast range of writing two competing paradigms become clear: the neo-classical approach which interprets the East Asian economic miracle as the predictable outcome of `good' policies; and the statist perspective which draws attention to the central role of the government in guiding East Asian economic development. Throughout the book the authors mix country-specific experiences with broader trends.
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