Debating The Past

Essential reading for anyone interested in the cutting edge debates in contemporary international political economy (IPE), this book features contributions from the most influential scholars in the field from North America, Canada and the UK who debate the most important issues in IPE.

This book is the first in-depth study of the way in which historians have dealt with the coming of the American Revolution and the formation of the US Constitution. The approach is thematic, examining how historians in different periods interpreted these events and their causes and, more contentiously, their meaning. Making accessible to modern readers the work of often-neglected early historians, this book examines how the emergence of history as a professional discipline led to new and competing versions of the history of the Revolution. It spans the entire period from the first generation of writers, whose ideas about history were shaped by the Enlightenment, to those of the twenty-first century who drew on the rich legacy provided by black studies, gender and women’s studies, cultural studies and ethnohistory. This book will be an invaluable resource for all students and scholars of the American Revolution.

This volume describes a modern regional culture as it struggles to build a distinct cultural identity through the diversity of musical styles. This book will be invaluable to ethnomusicologists and anthropologists interested in Latin America."--BOOK JACKET.

The book is comprised of the four major debates on modern Bulgarian history from Independence in 1878 to the fall of communism in 1989. The debates are on the Bulgarian–Russian/Soviet relations, on the relations between Agrarians and Communists, on Bulgarian Fascism, and on Communism. They are associated with the rule of key political personalities in Bulgarian history: Stambolov (1887–1894), Stamboliiski (1919–1923), Tsar Boris III (1918–1943), and the communist leaders Georgi Dimitrov and Todor Zhivkov (1956–1989). The debates are traced through their various articulations and dramatic turns from their beginnings to the present day.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Stambolov, the Russophiles, and the Russophobes in Bulgaria -- Initial Interpretations of the Stambolov Era -- The Marxist Historians on Stambolov's Regime -- Towards Stambolov's Rehabilitation -- After the Fall of the Communist Regime -- CITED LITERATURE -- CHAPTER 2 The Rule of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union and the "Worker-Peasant Alliance"--The Road to Power -- Agrarian Rule: Ideology and Reforms -- Interpretation and Assessments -- Aleksandŭr Stamboliiski -- The Agrarian Union and the "Unity of Action" with the Bulgarian Communist Party -- CITED LITERATURE -- CHAPTER 3 The Debate on Fascism and the Anti-fascist Struggles -- The Long Fascism and the Breaches in It -- "Monarcho-Fascism" -- Bulgaria and Hitler's Germany -- Anti-Fascism and the Struggle against Fascism -- After Communism -- CITED LITERATURE -- CHAPTER 4 September Ninth, "People's Democracy" and Socialism -- September Ninth -- "People's Democracy" (1944-1948) -- Socialism in Progress -- After Socialism, about Socialism: September Ninth Revisited -- The People's-Democratic Transition -- Georgi Dimitrov -- The Macedonian Question -- The Repressions -- Bulgarian Totalitarianism -- The Zhivkov Era and Descriptions of the System -- Socialist Modernization -- Aspects of the System -- CITED LITERATURE -- CONCLUSION The Truth and Objectivity Question in Bulgarian Historical Scholarship -- CITED LITERATURE -- Transliteration.

Explains why Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and shows his Machiavellian role in masterminding it. This book documents the Hobbesian state that ensued. Power struggles raged among Lin Biao, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and Jiang Qing - Mao's wife and leader of the Gang of Four - while Mao often played one against the other.

The book gathers together a set of lively, provocative essays by leading voices in International Political Economy to debate the evolution of the field, its current state and its future directions. Prompted by recent commentaries on the existence of a ‘transatlantic divide’ in IPE between an ‘American school’ and a ‘British school’, the essays provide a wide-ranging discussion of whether it is useful to think of the field in these terms, what the ‘American’ and ‘British’ schools look like, what their achievements and shortcomings are, and what are the desirable future directions for IPE scholarship. The diverse responses to these questions reflect the ongoing vibrancy and diversity of the field of IPE, and open up an imaginative and engaging discussion about where we need to go from here. Featuring contributions from the most influential scholars in the field from North America, Canada and the UK, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the cutting edge debates in contemporary international political economy.

Examines the debates surrounding the end of the Cold War