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Author: John W. Dower Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393061507 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 596
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian presents a comparative analysis of September 11 and the subsequent War on Terror with Pearl Harbor and World War II, addressing institutional failures of intelligence and imagination and the driving forces behind Pan-Asian and Pan-Islam movements
Author: John W. Dower Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393061507 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 596
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian presents a comparative analysis of September 11 and the subsequent War on Terror with Pearl Harbor and World War II, addressing institutional failures of intelligence and imagination and the driving forces behind Pan-Asian and Pan-Islam movements
Author: Adam K. Webb Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135442525 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 296
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Presenting a cross-cultural critique of global liberalism, this book argues for a broad-based challenge that can meet it on its own scale. It probes many of the key challenges we face in the new millennium, and is a useful read for students of politics and globalization.
Author: Peter Kreeft Publisher: InterVarsity Press ISBN: 0830875638 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 120
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Peter Kreeft examines the true nature of the "culture war" today, identifies the real enemies facing the church and maps out a strategy for battle.
Author: Michael J. Shapiro Publisher: U of Minnesota Press ISBN: 1452902461 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 241
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An innovative critique of the way historians and political scientists study war. How can we resist a nation-state vision of the globe? What is needed to "unmap" the familiar world? In Violent Cartographies, Michael J. Shapiro considers these questions, exploring the significance of war in contemporary society and its connections to the geographical imaginary. Employing an ethnographic perspective, Shapiro uses whiplash reversals and bizarre juxtapositions to jolt readers out of conventional thinking about international relations and security studies. Considering the ideas of thinkers ranging from yon Clausewitz to Virilio, from Derrida to DeLillo, Shapiro distances readers from familiar political and strategic accounts of war and its causes. Shapiro uses literary and film analyses to elucidate his themes. For example, he considers such cultural artifacts as U.S. Marine recruiting television commercials, American war movies, and General Schwarzkopf's autobiography, elaborating how a certain image of American masculinity is played out in the military imaginary and in the media. Other topics are Melville's The Confidence Man, Bunuel's film That Obscure Object of Desire, and a comparison of the U.S. invasion of Grenada to an Aztec "flower war". Throughout, Shapiro draws attention to the violence of the colonial encounters through which many modern nation-states were formed, and ultimately suggests possible directions for an ethics of minimal violence in the encounter with others. The overall effect is of a complex, cumulative, and layered analysis of the historical and moral conditions of the current use of violence in the conduct of international relations. A fascinating andchallenging work, Violent Cartographies will interest anyone concerned with the connections between war and culture.
Author: Tony Day Publisher: SEAP Publications ISBN: 0877277818 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 287
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"These innovative essays compel us to reevaluate our understanding of the Cold War as a predominantly political and military event. Their consideration of a broad range of cultural forms---from literature and film to glossy magazines and body-building---reminds us that the Cold War's influence on culture and its producers was as varied and complex as the Southeast Asian countries it touched. Lively and insightful, this rich collection is a valuable contribution to both Cold War studies and the modern histories of Southeast Asia."---Richard A. Ruth, Ph.D., Department of History, U.S. Naval Academy; and author of In Buddha's Company: Thai Soldiers in the Vietnam War Cultures at War examines how the cultures of postcolonial Southeast Asia responded to the Cold War. Based on fieldwork throughout the diverse region, these essays analyze the ways in which art, literature, theater, film, physical fitness programs, and the popular press reflected complex Southeast Asian reactions to the ideological conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, and, to a degree, China. Determined to remain "nonaligned," artists synthesized traditional and modern, local and international sources to produce a vibrant constellation of work. For each of the national cultures discussed here, any Cold War tendency toward anxiety and conformity was challenged by creative pluralism and individual expression
Author: Telly Davidson Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476625700 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 352
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What didn’t you like about the 1990s—the peace or the prosperity? Setting aside nostalgia for the end of the 20th century, this book takes a candid look at the decade after the Cold War and before 9/11, when America’s culture war began with the election of a media-savvy, Baby Boomer president (and his liberal feminist wife). Bill Clinton’s postmodern administration betokened gay equality, an education-based labor force and a race and gender-diverse workplace and government, panicking conservatives and sparking the 1994 Republican Revolution. Meanwhile, with the advent of the 24-hour cable news cycle and the Internet, a media “punditocracy” arose. Parsing every event from the O.J. Simpson trial to the Monica Lewinsky scandal, commentators and talk show hosts spun news, politics and pop culture until they became one thing. Beginning with the “Red and Blue” partitioning of America that would nurture the Tea Party, and ending with the 9/11 attacks, this examination of the 1990s demonstrates how the decade shaped the world we live in today.
Author: United Church of God Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc ISBN: 0359327753 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages :
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Beyond Today Magazine -- January/February 2019 -- The news headlines show the United States not to be united, but to be deeply divided over the nation’s past, present and future. A major reason for this is that, as the nation has drifted far from God, many have forgotten (or never knew) what the Bible says about many major cultural and societal issues. America stands at a crucial crossroads, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. You need to understand what the Bible says about the culture war transforming America and Western civilization! Inside this issue -- Can a Nation Commit Suicide? -- What’s Behind the Growing Culture War? -- The Illegal Immigration Crisis—No End in Sight -- Why the Growing Popularity of Socialism? -- The Battle Over What You Think -- Thinking of Getting an Abortion? Don’t Do It! -- Follow Me: Get a Spiritual Grip -- Ten Biblical Purposes for the Sabbath Many people view the biblical -- Current Events and Trends -- Letters From Our Readers
Author: Theodore Pappas Publisher: Hallberg Publishing Corporation ISBN: Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 232
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"Reviews the general problem of fraud and plagiarism today and highlights as a case study how the academy and the media covered up and whitewashed the scandal of Martin Luther King's, Jr.'s plagiarisms."--Page 1.
Author: Richard F. Von Dohlen Publisher: University Press of Amer ISBN: Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 276
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This book introduces major philosophical theories and issues in the context of the contemporary debate about the so-called culture wars in American society. It is designed to make these theories come alive as they are related to these vital contemporary concerns and to provide a framework within which to assess the ongoing debate about the future direction of Western culture. As a book in ethical theory, it is designed to provide the framework for clear and comprehensive thinking about our cultural development. Classical ethical positions like cultural relativism, emotivism, egoism, hedonism, utilitarianism and theorists like Kant are introduced and assessed. The contemporary theorists John Rawls and Alasdair MacIntyre are given extensive treatment and made accessible to the introductory student in philosophy. Culture War and Ethical Theory exhibits a non-ptolemical tone as it relates these theories, for heuristic purposes, to the contrasting perspective of fundamentalism and secular humanism. These two viewpoints are treated fairly without pretense of thorough exposition. They were chosen because they set the contemporary debate in stark relief. Thus, they assist the reader in understanding the relationship of philosophical reflection to commonly held perspectives.
Author: John W. Dower
Author: John W. Dower
Author: Adam K. Webb
Author: Peter Kreeft
Author: Adrian R. Lewis
Author: Michael J. Shapiro
Author: Tony Day
Author: Telly Davidson
Author: United Church of God
Author: Theodore Pappas
Author: Richard F. Von Dohlen