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I want to buy the book whých name is The American Party System and The People

This book is amazing. The reason why I am now a political science major. It is the book that my government teacher assigned in high school, and has thus shaped my opinions towards the constitution and our political system today. It offers a great dichotomy between classic works (such as the federalist papers) and contemporary classics (such as Robert Putnam's 'Bowling Alone'). I would recommend this book to anyone interested in politics or looking to be....

"The American Revolution" is the 11th book in the "American Adventure" series. So far, my nine year-old son and I have taken turns reading aloud the first 14 books in the series. Although the books are aimed at 8-12 year-olds, I have thoroughly enjoyed reading and listening to the engaging stories. "The American Adventure" series is historical fiction at its finest! This is definitely NOT the dry, boring, dumbed-down stuff of my school years...

Readers will "experience" history as seen through the eyes of girls and boys their own age. Combining "The American Adventure" books - numbers 6 thru 12 cover the American Revolution --with a couple of non-fiction books, such as the excellent "Brown Paper School USKids History: Book of the American Revolution" (ISBN 0-316-96922-2), your reader will have a very comprehensive knowledge of this period in our country's history.

From the back cover of "The American Revolution" -

"Stephen Lankford and his cousin, Anna Allerton, are shocked when they see a group of men dump a shipment of tea into the Boston Harbor. Then they overhear a British admiral threaten revenge as a result of this "Tea Party." Soon all of Boston is suffering.

Stephen's parents and older brother are Patriots, willing to risk everything to gain independence from England. Anna's parents are Loyalists, who feel honor-bound to support the king. When Stephen's older brother, Will, asks him to spy for the Patriots right in Uncle Cuyler's shop, Stephen is torn.

Then Anna discovers what Stephen is doing. Will she report his actions to the British soldiers? And will the approaching war destroy Anna and Stephen's families?

The American Socialist Movement 1897-1912 scrutinizes the rise and decline of the American Socialist Party, which at its height had more than a hundred and fifty thousand members and almost a million votes for its presidential candidate. A classic history first written in the mid-twentieth century, The American Socialist Movement 1987-1912 discusses socialist ideology in the early 1900's, party propaganda, the influences of Christianity and immigration, attacks on constructive socialism, the repercussions of factionalism, the recall of Bill Haywood and much more. An extensively researched and documented account ideal for scholarly study and reference, and a welcome addition to college library and reference shelves.

This is a great record of some of the speeches by one of the best orators of this time.

The book collects Roemer's early papers about Marxian Economic Theory. Roemer presents and extends the famous results by Morishima and Okishio, and adds his own insights on the theory of class and exploitation. Following Steedman, Roemer discredits the labor theory of value as unnecessary to account for exploitation.
The analytical rigor in treating the subject is among the things that make the book worth buying for anyone interested in mathematical economics: sitting down with paper and pencil for a couple of months in reading the book will be a beautiful intellectual experience, and it will add a whole set of "weapons" to the neoclassically trained economist.
There is maybe too much emphasis on the equilibrium method. One might also want to know that there are several solutions to the transformation problem, not all reaching such destructive conclusions. To have a full analytical preparation on Marx, Roemer's book is best bought together with the books by Foley Understanding Capital: Marx's Economic Theory (much less challenging mathematically)
Money, Accumulation and Crisis (Fundamentals of Pure and Applied Economics, Vol 2) (hard going).

Whether you are a long-time activist looking to deepen your knowledge of anarchist theory and history or someone merely wanting to better understand the ideological undercurrents behind the mass mobilizations in Seattle, Genoa, Buenos Aires, and Athens, you will much appreciate this ENORMOUS, well-written, and highly informative book. Debunking the myth of anarcho-capitalism, Ian McKay explains how the right-wing Libertarian Party has nothing whatsoever to do with libertarian socialism, as anarchism implies the absolute rejection of both the nation-state AND the free market economy. As such, anarcho-capitalism is an obvious oxymoron. Covering many topics like the Spanish Civil War, anarcho-syndicalism, ecology, anarcha-feminism, and anarcho-primitivism, as well as the ideas of leading left libertarian theorists like Noam Chomsky, Emma Goldman, Murray Bookchin, Peter Kropotkin, Voltairine de Cleyre, Alexander Berkman, and others, this is an extremely thorough and fascinating exploration of anarchist politics and movement history. Furthermore, when you consider the size and quality of the book, it is really very affordable. Hey, AK Press, when is volume II coming out???

Written for various periodicals over the course of about thirty years, eighteen richly informative articles are brought together in this volume on Modern Greek history, all by the famous and highly respected historian-scholar Richard Clogg. The articles try with great success to throw some much needed light on what was going on in the "greater" Greek world of the 18th and19th centuries to the east of the tiny but later enlarged Greek state that came into being in 1830 after the Greek War of Independence.
The first chapter, written, unlike the others, specifically for this volume, lays out all the themes and issues to be cover in the rest of the book. It starts by examining the very Greek and historically realistic notion of "our East" that later developed (once the Greek state was firmly established) into the notion and political goal of the "Megali Idea" as first coined and elaborated by the wheeler dealer manipulator Ioannis Kolettis, Ali Pasha's onetime personal physician, in 1844. Both notions came to an inglorious end in 1922 with the ignominious defeat of the Greek military by the Turks and the sad exchange of populations that followed.

Chapter II traces the history of the Greek millet in the Ottoman Empire, which was actually a grouping for administrative and fiscal purposes of all Orthodox Christians under the Patriarch of Constantinople without much regard for national or ethnic origins. Within the Greek millet one "party," including church hierarchs, lay bureaucrats, and wealthy merchants were unalterably in favor of maintaining the status quo, while another group, the protagonists of Hellenism, composed mainly of intellectuals, lower clergy and Diaspora folk, promoted the idea of armed of armed rebellion to gain independence immediately. A. Korais was in favor of raising arms should it become necessary but he insisted that the Greeks, whom he considered mostly ignorant savages, should prepare and educate themselves to fight and then to govern themselves. The sole objective the two "parties" had in common was their desire to instill a sense of "Greekness" into those members of the Greek millet who considered themselves primarily Christian and Greek only as a kind of afterthought if at all. In this chapter Clogg deals with the question of Greek schools and teachers, most of whom were trained at the University of Athens and despite whose best efforts many Greek-speaking villages became entirely Turkophone in the course of the 19th Century. The millet ceased to exist in 1919 and it is pointed out that what is surprising is that it should have lasted (as it did) for nearly a century after the establishment of an independent Greek state.

Chapter III begins by analyzing one of the major problems at the talks (Britain, Greece, and Turkey) that culminated in the tragic exchange of populations following the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923. This relates to the large number of Turkophone (ethnic) Greeks in the Ottoman Empire who wanted (and should have been allowed to) stay put but were eventually shipped off to Greece (large numbers of Greek speaking Turks were also uprooted from their homes in Greece and shipped eastward). A major difficulty here for the historian resides in determining how the "karamanlides" (monolingual Turkish speaking Greeks who wrote Turkish in Greek characters) actually identified themselves, with the plot being thickened by Fallmerayer's claim about the non-Greekness of most Greeks, which Clogg reminds us is futile and beside the point. These people, he points out, adopted Turkish as their only vernacular language, surprisingly, as early as the fifteenth century.

Chapter IV is titled "The Byzantine legacy ..." but it is actually a brilliant analysis and description with possibly universal application of how myth, image and symbol can be manipulated and instrumentalized to bring about desired political goals, in this case the Megali Idea, the dominant (some would say only) ideology of the young Greek State. Here Clogg discusses in detail the contributions of Ioannis Kolettis (Hellenized Vlach and onetime personal physician to Ali Pasha), Neophytos Doukas and Rigas Velistinlis (for obvious reasons Korais does not figure in this essay), but the author concentrates on perceptions of the Megali Idea at a more popular level among the unlettered mass of Greeks under Turkish domination and later on, so he explores several of the "prophecies" about the imminent end of the Ottoman Empire that made life bearable for the lower classes and furthered the expansionist interests of Greek politicians. Interestingly, the klephtic warrior Theodore Kolokotronis admitted to having been reared on such prophecies. (This essay should be read in conjunction with Chapter XI).

In Chapter V we are given a valuable introduction to the "Fatherly Instruction" of 1798, and then the Dhidhaskalia itself, integral, in English. The sixth chapter is an exploration of the Greek Enlightenment that preceded the War of Independence in relation to Greek cultural life under the Turks. The contributions of the wonderful Korais are examined in this and later chapters (VII, VIII, XVI).

Chapter VIII deals with 18th and 19th century anticlericalism in the Greek world. The author shows that it was widespread at the popular level but the factors causing it (priestly ineptitude, ecclesiastical corruption) had been effectively eliminated by 1830. The next essay connects a certain attitude of "envy" on the part of Greek merchants with regard to Western Europe (and to the Smyrna rebellion of 1797). What awakened their envy was, of course, the conditions of endemic disorder and institutionalized rapacity under which they themselves were forced to operate within the Empire.

The remaining essays in this volume, while interesting and well written, are mostly of specialist interest. Richard clog has been the preeminent scholar-historian of Modern Greece for several decades and frequently manages to write with what I would consider brilliance. It is hard to imagine that anyone with a serious interest in modern history (not just Greek or Turkish history) would be without this volume.

my daughter loves angelina!! great to have books to read to her and for her to go thrue til she can read!!

My 5-year-old daughter just loves these books. Thank you, Cynthia, for making a girl equivalent to Henry and Mudge.