One of the few genuinely important American books of the post-World War II period. The Great Ascent is radical in the best sense of the word. He goes at a key problem, treats it w/o preconceptions …
With as many as twenty African states (over half the continent) under military rule, the importance of understanding the role of the military in Africa is unquestioned. Samuel Decalo sets about in …
Donald Horowitz presents a case study of an attempted military coup in Sri Lanka. On the basis of interviews with twenty-three participants in this attempted coup--a mine of information rarely avai…
The Frankfurt school social philosopher attacks the positivistic aspects of Marx's philosophy as well as providing a critique of bourgeois science and philosophy.
The Marxian Legacy was and remains distinct in its view of Marxian theory as 'critique, ' aware of its own origins and limitations and self-conscious about its own historical rootedness in changing…
Marx?s written output was massive. Much of it remained unpublished in his own lifetime and there is still no complete edition of the extant works, although most have been published in one form or a…
In the early 1990s, the World Bank labelled seven East Asian economies -- among them, four in Southeast Asia -- as "miracle economies", which had achieved extraordinarily high rates of economic gro…
A pioneer in the field, Christian Metz applies insights of structural linguistics to the language of film. "The semiology of film . . . can be held to date from the publication in 1964 of the fa…