The Official Concept of the Nation in the Former GDR: Theory, Pragmatism and the Search for Legitimacy 0429806000, 9780429806001

Narrating India: The Novel In Search Of The Nation 8126020725

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Heritage and the Making of Political Legitimacy in Laos: The Past and Present of the Lao Nation 9789048550715

The Lao People’s Democratic Republic is nearly fifty years old, and one of the few surviving one-party socialist states.

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Environmental Courts and Tribunals: Powers, Integrity and the Search for Legitimacy 9781509940066, 9781509940097, 9781509940080

The global phenomenon of specialist environmental courts is showing no sign of abating. This book provides much-needed a

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At the Edge of the Nation: The Southern Kurils and the Search for Russia’s National Identity 9780824875473

Debates over the remote and beguiling Southern Kuril Islands have revealed a kaleidoscope of divergent and contradictory

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In Search of Legitimacy: How Outsiders Become Part of the Afro-Brazilian Capoeira Tradition 9781785330643

Every year, countless young adults from affluent, Western nations travel to Brazil to train in capoeira, the dance/marti

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Taste of the Nation: The New Deal Search for America's Food 0252081706, 9780252081705

During the Depression, the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) dispatched scribes to sample the fare at group eating eve

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Pragmatism in the Americas 9780823292424

In the last ten years, investigators worldwide have focused on the connections between the philosophy of classical figur

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The Historiographical Concept 'System of Philosophy': Its Origin, Nature, Influence and Legitimacy 9004166483, 9789004166486

Jacob Brucker (1696-1770) established the history of philosophy as a philosophical discipline in the 1740s. In order to

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The Concept of Constituency: Political Representation, Democratic Legitimacy, and Institutional Design 0521849845, 9780521849845

In virtually every democratic nation in the world, political representation is defined by where citizens live. In the Un

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Search for the Unknown: Canada’s UFO Files and the Rise of Conspiracy Theory 9780228012290

A history of UFO sightings, conspiracy theories, and mistrust between Canadian citizens and the state. Beginning in th

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