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Women and the Cuban Insurrection - Lorraine Bayard De Volo - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Women and the Cuban Insurrection - Lorraine Bayard De Volo - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Using gender analysis and focusing on previously unexamined testimonies of women rebels, political scientist Lorraine Bayard de Volo shatters the prevailing masculine narrative of the Cuban Revolution. Contrary to the Cuban War story''s mythology of an insurrection single-handedly won by bearded guerrillas, Bayard de Volo shows that revolutions are not won and lost only by bullets and battlefield heroics. Focusing on women''s multiple forms of participation in the insurrection, especially those that occurred off the battlefield, such as smuggling messages, hiding weapons, and distributing propaganda, Bayard de Volo explores how gender - both masculinity and femininity - were deployed as tactics in the important though largely unexamined battle for the ''hearts and minds'' of the Cuban people. Drawing on extensive, rarely-examined archives including interviews and oral histories, this author offers an entirely new interpretation of one of the Cold War''s most significant events.

DKK 552.00
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Women and the Cuban Insurrection - Lorraine Bayard De (university Of Colorado Boulder) Volo - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Women and the Cuban Insurrection - Lorraine Bayard De (university Of Colorado Boulder) Volo - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Using gender analysis and focusing on previously unexamined testimonies of women rebels, political scientist Lorraine Bayard de Volo shatters the prevailing masculine narrative of the Cuban Revolution. Contrary to the Cuban War story''s mythology of an insurrection single-handedly won by bearded guerrillas, Bayard de Volo shows that revolutions are not won and lost only by bullets and battlefield heroics. Focusing on women''s multiple forms of participation in the insurrection, especially those that occurred off the battlefield, such as smuggling messages, hiding weapons, and distributing propaganda, Bayard de Volo explores how gender - both masculinity and femininity - were deployed as tactics in the important though largely unexamined battle for the ''hearts and minds'' of the Cuban people. Drawing on extensive, rarely-examined archives including interviews and oral histories, this author offers an entirely new interpretation of one of the Cold War''s most significant events.

DKK 269.00
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Al-Tabari: Volume 2, The Son and Grandsons of al-Mansur: The Reigns of al-Mahdi, al-Hadi and Harun al-Rashid - Al Tabari - Bog - Cambridge University

Al-Tabari: Volume 2, The Son and Grandsons of al-Mansur: The Reigns of al-Mahdi, al-Hadi and Harun al-Rashid - Al Tabari - Bog - Cambridge University

This 1989 second volume of Professor Williams' translation of al-Tabari's vivid account of the early 'Abbasi empire focuses on its 'Golden Prime': the reigns of the son - al-Mahdi - and grandsons - al-Hadi and Harun al-Rashid - of Caliph al-Mansur, the subject of the first volume. The translator has a rare knowledge of Islamic culture and literature.

DKK 401.00
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Al-Qaida in Afghanistan - Anne Stenersen - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Al-Qaida in Afghanistan - Anne Stenersen - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Since 9/11, al-Qaida has become one of the most infamous and widely discussed terrorist organizations in the world, with affiliates spread across the globe. However, little-known are the group''s activities within Afghanistan itself, something which Anne Stenersen examines in this book. Using an array of unique primary sources, she presents an alternative narrative of al-Qaida''s goals and strategies prior to 9/11. She argues that al-Qaida''s actions were not just an ideological expression of religious fanaticism and violent anti-Americanism, but that they were actually far more practical and organised, with a more revolutionary and Middle Eastern-focused agenda than previously thought. Through Stenersen''s analysis, we see how al-Qaida employed a dual strategy: with a small section focused on staging international terrorist attacks, but at the same time a larger part dedicated to building a resilient and cohesive organization that would ultimately serve as a vanguard for future Islamist revolutions.

DKK 307.00
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Changing Lanes in China - Eric Thun - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Changing Lanes in China - Eric Thun - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book addresses two of the most important trends in political economy during the last two decades - globalization and decentralization - in the context of the world''s most rapidly growing economic power, China. The intent is to provide a better understanding of how local political and economic institutions shape the ability of Chinese state-owned firms to utilize foreign direct investment (FDI) to remake themselves in the transition from inefficient and technologically backward firms into powerful national champions. In a global economy, the author argues, local governments are increasingly the agents of industrial transformation at the level of the firm. Local institutions are durable over time, and they have important economic consequences. Through an analysis of five Chinese regions, the treatment seeks to specify the opportunities and constraints that alternative institutional structures create, how they change over time, and ultimately, how they prepare Chinese firms for the challenge of global competition.

DKK 467.00
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Hasan al-Turabi - W. J. Berridge - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Hasan al-Turabi - W. J. Berridge - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Hasan al-Turabi (1932–2016) was seen as one of the most influential figures in modern Sudanese history and politics. This book, based on extensive research and a thorough analysis of al-Turabi''s own writings, provides a comprehensive study of the upbringing, ideas and political career of the Islamist intellectual and political leader. Balancing hostile and favourable accounts of al-Turabi, it challenges assumptions of the ''Marxist'' or ''Fascist'' dynamics underpinning Islamism, arguing that its colonial and post-colonial origins define the nature of Islamism''s message. By encouraging readers to move away from generic models and limited readings of Islamism, Willow Berridge opens new and vital research for the understanding of Islamic politics across the Middle East and Africa. It makes for an ideal read for both undergraduate and postgraduate students focusing on the modern Sudanese state, and those challenging core debates on democracy, the Islamic State and Jihad.

DKK 684.00
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Hasan al-Turabi - W. J. Berridge - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Hasan al-Turabi - W. J. Berridge - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Hasan al-Turabi (1932–2016) was seen as one of the most influential figures in modern Sudanese history and politics. This book, based on extensive research and a thorough analysis of al-Turabi''s own writings, provides a comprehensive study of the upbringing, ideas and political career of the Islamist intellectual and political leader. Balancing hostile and favourable accounts of al-Turabi, it challenges assumptions of the ''Marxist'' or ''Fascist'' dynamics underpinning Islamism, arguing that its colonial and post-colonial origins define the nature of Islamism''s message. By encouraging readers to move away from generic models and limited readings of Islamism, Willow Berridge opens new and vital research for the understanding of Islamic politics across the Middle East and Africa. It makes for an ideal read for both undergraduate and postgraduate students focusing on the modern Sudanese state, and those challenging core debates on democracy, the Islamic State and Jihad.

DKK 401.00
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Inside Tunisia's al-Nahda - Rory Mccarthy - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Inside Tunisia's al-Nahda - Rory Mccarthy - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

In the wake of the Arab uprisings, al-Nahda voted to transform itself into a political party that would for the first time withdraw from a preaching project built around religious, social, and cultural activism. This turn to the political was not a Tunisian exception but reflects an urgent debate within Islamist movements as they struggle to adjust to a rapidly changing political environment. This book re-orientates how we think about Islamist movements. Drawing on extensive fieldwork with grassroots activists of Tunisia''s al-Nahda, Rory McCarthy focuses on the lived experience of activism to offer a challenging new perspective on one of the Middle East''s most successful Islamist projects. Original evidence explains how al-Nahda survived two decades of brutal repression in prison and in social exclusion, and reveals what price the movement paid for a new strategy of pragmatism and reform during the Tunisian transition away from authoritarianism.

DKK 759.00
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Inside Tunisia's al-Nahda - Rory (university Of Oxford) Mccarthy - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Inside Tunisia's al-Nahda - Rory (university Of Oxford) Mccarthy - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

In the wake of the Arab uprisings, al-Nahda voted to transform itself into a political party that would for the first time withdraw from a preaching project built around religious, social, and cultural activism. This turn to the political was not a Tunisian exception but reflects an urgent debate within Islamist movements as they struggle to adjust to a rapidly changing political environment. This book re-orientates how we think about Islamist movements. Drawing on extensive fieldwork with grassroots activists of Tunisia''s al-Nahda, Rory McCarthy focuses on the lived experience of activism to offer a challenging new perspective on one of the Middle East''s most successful Islamist projects. Original evidence explains how al-Nahda survived two decades of brutal repression in prison and in social exclusion, and reveals what price the movement paid for a new strategy of pragmatism and reform during the Tunisian transition away from authoritarianism.

DKK 278.00
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The Making of Islamic Economic Thought - Sami Al Daghistani - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Making of Islamic Economic Thought - Sami Al Daghistani - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Interrogating the development and conceptual framework of economic thought in the Islamic tradition pertaining to ethical, philosophical, and theological ideas, this book provides a critique of modern Islamic economics as a hybrid economic system. From the outset, Sami Al-Daghistani is concerned with the polyvalent methodology of studying the phenomenon of Islamic economic thought as a human science in that it nurtures a complex plentitude of meanings and interpretations associated with the moral self. By studying legal scholars, theologians, and Sufis in the classical period, Al-Daghistani looks at economic thought in the context of Sharī''a''s moral law. Alongside critiquing modern developments of Islamic economics, he puts forward an idea for a plural epistemology of Islam''s moral economy, which advocates for a multifaceted hermeneutical reading of the subject in light of a moral law, embedded in a particular cosmology of human relationality, metaphysical intelligibility, and economic subjectivity.

DKK 948.00
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