John Ralston Saul:The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World
- Taschenbuch 2009, ISBN: 9780670063673
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West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1557530874 . Only light wear to dustjacket ; Dust jacket i… Mehr…
West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1557530874 . Only light wear to dustjacket ; Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 9.36 X 6.54 X 1.20 inches; 386 pages; "The development of Austrian society in the nineteenth century was beset by enormous difficulties, including sharp social-class differences, an economic base that was developing all too slowly, and, distinct from most of Western and Central Europe, a multiplicity of competing ethnic and religious groups. Against this backdrop, Cohen examines Austria's educational system, which he characterizes as one of the major accomplishments of government and civil society under the Habsburg Monarchy in its last decades. By 1910 Austria's secondary schools, technical colleges, and universities, pushed by a growing popular demand and pressures from local governments and interest groups, enrolled percentages of the school-aged population that roughly equaled, and sometimes exceeded, those in Germany. The rising social and political competition of Austria's ethnic and religious groups encouraged the expansion of education, and Czech and Polish national groups and the Jewish and Protestant religious minorities benefited particularly from the growing enrollments. These widening opportunities enabled lower-middle-class and even some working-class youth to join the modern educated middle classes. Only in fight of the developments examined here can one understand the recruitment and formation of the bureaucrats and professionals who led the Austrian Republic and the neighboring states of East-Central Europe in the decades after 1918. This study, the first English-language book on advanced education in the Austrian lands during the nineteenth century, is recommended for scholars and students in the history of education, modern social history, and the history of the Habsburg Monarchy." ., Purdue University Press, 1996, 4, BRAND NEWNew York Times Bestseller Notable Book of the Year Editors' Choice Selection One of Bill Gates' "Amazing Books" of the Year One of Publishers Weekly's 10 Best Books of the Year Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction An NPR Best Book of the Year Winner of the Hillman Prize for Nonfiction Gold Winner California Book Award (Nonfiction) Finalist Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) Finalist Brooklyn Public Library Literary PrizeThis "powerful and disturbing history" exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide (New York Times Book Review). Widely heralded as a "masterful" (Washington Post) and "essential" (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein's The Color of Lawoffers "the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation" (William Julius Wilson). Exploding the myth of de facto segregation arising from private prejudice or the unintended consequences of economic forces, Rothstein describes how the American government systematically imposed residential segregation: with undisguised racial zoning; public housing that purposefully segregated previously mixed communities; subsidies for builders to create whites-only suburbs; tax exemptions for institutions that enforced segregation; and support for violent resistance to African Americans in white neighborhoods. A groundbreaking, "virtually indispensable" study that has already transformed our understanding of twentieth-century urban history (Chicago Daily Observer), The Color of Law forces us to face the obligation to remedy our unconstitutional past. 13 illustrations, Liveright; Reprint edition (, 0, Markham Publishing Company, 1970. Soft Cover. Very Good., Markham Publishing Company, 1970, 3, 515 pages with photographs, maps, tables, bibliography and index. Octavo (9" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition limited to 500 copies. The author studies these Hispanic immigrants who arrived in Veracruz mainly between 1780 and 1820 in search of investment opportunities and social promotion. For this he analyzed the types of migration, economic activities, family ties, peasantry, and compadrazgos that allowed them to insert themselves into society xalapeña and consolidate as part of the local elite. However, as well the author shows, this group of Spaniards was not homogeneous because the destiny of each one of its members was marked by its economic capacity and by the social relationships that he managed to establish with the local power groups from the moment of their arrival. Is ability to integrate into society, and to establish links and networks social issues, was also decisive when the laws of expulsion of Spaniards of 1827 and 1829. So that the best positioned companies were able to be part of the exceptions provided- by the federal and state governments. Spaniards in Xalapa responds to a concern of its author for the lack of work that deepens the role of immigrants Hispanics in the integration and definition of the regions. Because of the little that its integration and consolidation has been as a power group in the societies of the end of the colonial period. So, this book is enriching the Mexican bibliography Condition: Light edge wear else a near fine copy., El Colegio de Michoacán, 2009, 4, New York: Franklin Watts, 1973. Durable hardcover library edition with illustrated covers, later undated printing, 88 pages including black-and-white illustrations; very gently used ex-school library copy, tight in binding, only tiny traces of shelf wear to cover corners and spine ends, covers clean except for tiny spine label, rubber stamp on free front endpaper and in the outer margin of one page, residue of card pocket on free back endpaper, flaps of now removed clear mylar protector secured inside both covers, otherwise every page very clean and unmarked, fresh and white. PLEASE NOTE: the Stock Image provided by next to my listing is of another printing/edition of this book and bears little resemblance to my copy which is predominantly in white, purple and black. For similar from Franklin Watts, see also our listings for Leonard Everett Fisher's The Silversmiths (Colonial American Craftsmen), and for James Barry's The Battle of Lake Erie, September 10, 1813: The Naval Battle that Decided a Northern U. S. [Canadian] Boundary (buy two or more and save on postage!), or for something more substantial, Phyllis R. Fenner's extremely scarce Two-volume Set: Indians, Indians, Indians : Stories of Tepees and Tomahawks, Wampum Belts and War Bonnets, Peace Pipes and Papooses, PLUS Cowboys, Cowboys, Cowboys: Stories of Roundups & Rodeos, Branding & Bronco-Busting. . . Hard Cover. Very Good -., Franklin Watts, 1973, 3, Powder Springs, GA, 2009. Paperback. New. Powder Springs, GA, 2009 Paperback New 347 pgs In 1866, Frances Butler Leigh returned to Georgia to help her father reclaim his family plantations on the Georgia coast, and she continued to manage them for ten years--a woman struggling to survive in a man's world Mrs Leigh viewed her former slaves with mingled affection and exasperation and believed they were inferior as well as unprepared for full citizenship--opinions doubly interesting for having been written by a Yankee The sadness of defeat, resentment toward military occupation and uncertain adjustment to a new economic, political and social system are all seen in this passionate description of Reconstruction Georgia EXCERPT: THE year after the war between the North and the South, I went to the South with my father to look after our property in Georgia and see what could be done with it The whole country had of course undergone a complete revolution The changes that a four years' war must bring about in any country would alone have been enough to give a different aspect to everything; but at the South, besides the changes brought about by the war, our slaves had been freed; the white population was conquered, ruined, and disheartened, unable for the moment to see anything but ruin before as well as behind, too wedded to the fancied prosperity of the old system to believe in any possible success under the new And even had the people desired to begin at once to rebuild their fortunes, it would have been in most cases impossible, for in many families the young men had perished in the war, and the old men, if not too old for the labour and effort it required to set the machinery of peace going again, were beggared, and had not even money enough to buy food for themselves and their families, let alone their negroes, to whom they now had to pay wages as well as feed them Besides this, the South was still treated as a conquered country The white people were disfranchised, the local government in the hands of either military men or Northern adventurers, the latter of whom, with no desire to promote either the good of the country or people, but only to advance their own private ends, encouraged the negroes in all their foolish and extravagant ideas of freedom, set them against their old masters, filled their minds with false hopes, and pandered to their worst passions, in order to secure for themselves some political office which they hoped to obtain through the negro vote Into this state of things we came from the North, and I was often asked at the time, and have been since, to write some account of my own personal experience of the condition of the South immediately after the war, and during the following five years But I never felt inclined to do so until now, when, in reading over a quantity of old letters written at the time, I find so much in them that is interesting, illustrative of the times and people, that I have determined to copy some of my accounts and descriptions, which may interest some persons now, and my children hereafter Soon everything will be so changed, and the old traits of the negro slave have so entirely vanished, as to make stories about them sound like tales of a lost race; and also because even now, so little is really known of the state of things politically at the South The accounts which have been written from time to time have been written either by travellers, who with every desire to get at the truth, could but see things superficially, or by persons whose feelings were too strong either on one side or the other to be perfectly just in their representations I copy my impressions of things as they struck me then, although in many cases later events proved how false these impressions were, and how often mistaken I was in the opinions I formed Indeed, we very often found ourselves taking entirely opposite views of things from day to day, which will explain apparent inconsistencies and contradictions in my statements; but the new and unsettled condition of everything could not fail to produce this result, as well as the excited state we were all in, 2009, 6, Tight, clean and unmarked-" Globalization, like many great geopolitical ideologies before it, is now officially dead. Despite the near-religious conviction with which it was originally conceived, a growing vagueness now surrounds its original promise that nation states were heading toward irrelevance, to be replaced by the power of global markets; that economics, not politics or arms, would determine the course of human events; that growth in international trade would foster prosperous markets that would, in turn, abolish poverty and change dictatorships into democracies.-Yet, contends Saul, little has transpired as predicted. The collapse of Globalism has left us struggling in a paradox ? a chaotic vacuum. Instead of surrendering or sharing sovereignty, governments and citizens are reasserting their national interests. The United States appears determined to ignore its international critics. Europe is faced with problems of immigration, racism, terrorism and renewed internal nationalism. Many of these issues call for uniquely European solutions born out of local experiences and needs. Elsewhere, the world looks for answers to African debt, the AIDS epidemic, the return of fundamentalism and terrorism, all of which perversely refuse to disappear despite the theoretical rise in global prosperity.-In addition to the negative aspects of Globalism, Saul also objectively analyzes its successes, such as the astonishing growth in world trade and the unexpected rise of India and China, which seem slated to become twenty-first-century superpowers.-Insightful and prophetic, The Collapse of Globalism is destined to take its place as one of the seminal books of our time.", The Overlook Press/Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc., 2005, 5<
