With 18 million members and with power and influence that penetrate industry, the financial centers, community life, and even foreign trade, trade unionism in America has come of age.
Esta obra forma parte de la serie Garantías judiciales de la Constitución, que busca contribuir al estudio y examen crítico del régimen procesal de los mecanismos judiciales de protección de derechos fundamentales en Colombia.
Esta obra forma parte de la serie Garantías judiciales de la Constitución del Departamento de Derecho Constitucional de la Universidad Externado de Colombia y ofrece un estudio exhaustivo sobre la acción popular.
Der Klimawandel und die Wohnungsnot prägen die Stadtentwicklungspolitik auf internationaler, europäischer, nationaler und kommunaler Ebene wie kaum ein anderes Themenpaar.
In this investigation of the German foreign office from 1871 to 1914, Lamar Cecil focuses on the people who conceived and executed German diplomacy rather than on diplomatic policies and stratagems.
En contextos atravesados por la persistencia de la violencia, la construccion de paz exige algo mas que acuerdos: demanda instituciones capaces de prevenir, anticipar y transformar los riesgos que amenazan la vida, la libertad y la integridad de las comunidades.
The nature of the military institution in Brazil, its relations with civilian governments up to 1964, and its use of power since the coup of that year are examined by Alfred Stepan.
Esta obra forma parte de la serie Garantías judiciales de la Constitución, que examina críticamente los mecanismos judiciales de protección de derechos fundamentales en Colombia.
According to the Marxist interpretation still dominant in Japanese studies, the last century and a half of the Tokugawa period was a time of economic and demographic stagnation.
As economic adviser and manager of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru, Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski observed at first hand the crisis that preceded the overthrow of the Belaunde administration on October 3, 1968.
This book provides the first thorough examination of the peace movement in pre-World War I Germany, concentrating on the factors in German politics and society that account for the movement's weakness.
Why did nuclear energy policies in France, Sweden, and the United States, very similar at the time of the oil crisis of 1973 and 1974, diverge so greatly in the following years?
In this collection of excerpts from the essential works of Hendrik de Man (1885-1953), Peter Dodge reinstates in historical consciousness this pioneer sociologist of the European socialist movement and of labor in industrial society.
This memoir of Woodrow Wilson is a long-neglected treasure, full of the candid and perceptive observations of Wilson's brother-in-law and close friend, Stockton Axson.
The 1954 settlement of the territorial dispute over Trieste is remarkable when viewed in the perspective of twenty years, and especially so for the light it sheds on the principles of successful negotiation.
"Creíamos que sabíamos ya todo, pero faltaba mucho más sobre las golferías del rey eméritoDurante casi medio siglo, un aluvión de libros, documentales y horas de tertulias y programas de radio y televisión nos han intentado convencer de que Juan Carlos I fue ejemplo de patriotismo y rectitud.
Antimodernism, a popular movement growing out of fear and hostility toward an emerging new world, became a central ideological trend in late nineteenth-century Europe.
The threat to the survival of humankind posed by nuclear weapons has been a frightening and essential focus of public debate for the last four decades and must continue to be so if we are to avoid destroying ourselves and the natural world around us.
Marshalling historical materials to make a descriptive argument in social theory, this wide-ranging book compares the liberal revolution in France to the liberal revolutions in England and America and argues that the causes and outcomes of these upheavals were decisive in shaping later patterns of politics.
In a work with significant implications for present-day economic reform in the Soviet Union, Paul Gregory examines Russian and Soviet economic history prior to the installation of the administrative command system.
A wide-ranging account of American and French understandings of merit, talent, and intelligence over the past two centuriesHow have modern democracies squared their commitment to equality with their fear that disparities in talent and intelligence might be natural, persistent, and consequential?
In the 1980s some developing countries adopted orthodox market-oriented policies in response to international economic crises, others experimented with alternative programs, and still others failed to develop coherent adjustment strategies of any sort.
