Jeffries, Joyce
Summary: "The concept of nationalism is often in the news, and it can be challenging to understand why it often leads to heated debates. However, it's important for people to think critically about nationalism and its effects. Readers are encouraged to do this as they explore historical and up-to-date examples of nationalism through accessible text and detailed fact boxes"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: KidHaven Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 320.54 JEFSummary: Nationalism is not compatible with the progress of history, says Eric Hobsbawm. In this program, the renowned Marxist historian travels 35 miles on the Pressburg Railway to prove his point-a brief trip from Vienna to Bratislava in 1996 and a century-long journey through a landscape that has seen some of Europe's most turbulent political changes. Using the excursion as a paradigm for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Stewart, Katherine
Summary: For too long the Religious Right has masqueraded as a social movement preoccupied with a number of cultural issues, such as abortion and same-sex marriage. In her deeply reported investigation, Katherine Stewart reveals a disturbing truth: this is a political movement that seeks to gain power and to impose its vision on all of society. America's religious nationalists aren't just fighting a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019
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Summary: "The first major history of Germany in a generation, a work that presents a five-hundred-year narrative that challenges our traditional perceptions of Germany's conflicted past. An epic in the tradition of Jonathan Spence's The Search for Modern China andJill Lepore's These Truths, Helmut Walser Smith's sterling work promises to redefine our perception of German history. For nearly a century,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943 SMISummary: "Provides consumer health information about the causes and management of various types of acute and chronic pain, along with prevention strategies and coping tips. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Omnigraphics, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616 PAIPawel, Rebecca
Summary: Rising to the position of sergeant in the Guardia Civil, young law student Tejada works to impose order in the ruins of Madrid when his best friend is found murdered, and in the wake of unlikely suspects, he finds himself seeking justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAWKrohn, Katherine E
Summary: "In graphic novel format, describes eyewitness encounters with creatures many believe to be big foots"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2015
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Summary: "This is a woman's answer to Augustine's Confessions. The narrator gives birth to her daughter and finds she has given birth to a new self. But this conversion to the new life of motherhood demands other conversions, further births, newer selves. As she struggles with the thorny issues of modern parenthood-raising a white child in a world of racism, a daughter in a world of patriarchy, and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Christ CarnesCommager, Henry Steele
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. Braziller 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 COMWalia, Harsha
Summary: In Border and Rule, one of North America's foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delivers an unflinching examination of migration as a pillar of global governance and gendered racial class formation. Harsha Walia disrupts easy explanations for the migrant and refugee crises, instead showing them to be the inevitable outcomes of the conquest, capitalist globalization, and climate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A neo-Nazi skinhead thinks democracy is unnatural; a typical liberal prefers to be a citizen of the world; a far-right office holder fantasizes about his hard-working, disciplined, Aryan fatherland. This program looks at Germany reunified: while there was an East/West, communist/capitalist split, Germans could forget about nationalism, which is now back with a vengeance. The liberals, we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: They might be described as a throwback to the Middle Ages, but this current crop of warlords constitute the big figures of the new world order. This program examines these people, whose power derives from the barrel of a gun, and the rhetoric with which they justify themselves and motivate one another: the rhetoric of nationalism. The story of Yugoslavia is the story of the country's first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program focuses on the Loyalists of Northern Ireland: Protestant, anti-Catholic, anti-European, anti-Irish, monarchist, they clearly belong to a nation-state-the United Kingdom-but feel abandoned by the British people, who no longer share their devotion to traditional values. They are, of course, at home in the northern part of Ireland; but they seem most at home when invoking the past to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Until I knew I was a Kurd, I didn't know who I was. Now I know who I am and I am willing to die for it.-the words, not of a battle-hardened guerrilla, but of a teenage girl from Australia. This program shows little children singing that the Kurds will live forever as jets roar overhead; it introduces us to warlords and guerrilla camps; and it demonstrates how people who are threatened by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Determined to achieve Basque independence, the group known as Euskadi Ta Askatasuna or ETA has battled Spain's security forces for decades. This program provides a historical overview of ETA's origins and activities. Using rarely seen archival clips and images, the film covers Spanish Civil War events that helped give birth to ETA, the group's official formation in 1959, its assassination and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Wallis, Jim
Summary: ""Everyone who claims to be 'Christian' or else claims to be upset by 'Christianity' needs to read this book, especially politicians using people's supposed faith for their own ends."--Margaret E. Atwood. A major new work by the New York Times bestselling author, arguing that the answer to bad religion is true faith that will help re-found democracy It is time says Jim Wallis, to call out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Essentials 2024
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Summary: Charts Stephen Miller's rise to power in the Trump administration, drawing from more than one hundred interviews with his family, friends, adversaries, and government officials, as well as years of reporting from the U.S. border.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 GUEGlenny, Misha.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.6 GLESummary: This program focuses the spotlight on a region that crackles with both aboriginal and linguistic nationalism. The politics of language is at the heart of the battle for a unilingual French-speaking society; at the same time, a different yet similar battle is going on in the icy north, where the Cree people are fighting the Quebec government over territory the Cree claim-an example of an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The starting point of this program is the concept that your nation is where your graves are. Michael Ignatieff, the series presenter, stands by his great-grandfather's grave, whose marble top still bears marks from when it was used as a butcher's block in Stalin's time. This program examines the emotional effects of the establishment-or re-establishment-of an independent Ukraine: the looming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Darby, Seyward
Summary: Presents a revelatory portrait of white nationalism that traces the lives of three women supporters whose respective experiences with the far right shaped their radicalization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 DARSeidel, Andrew L
Summary: In today’s contentious political climate, understanding religion’s role in American government is more important than ever. Christian nationalists assert that our nation was founded on Judeo-Christian principles, and advocate an agenda based on this popular historical claim. But is this belief true? The Founding Myth answers the question once and for all. Andrew L. Seidel, a constitutional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2019