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The Politics of Tragedy and Democratic Citizenship
Robert Pirro, Georgia Southern University
3-31-2011
This study of the political significance of theories of tragedy and ordinary language uses of "tragedy" offers a fresh perspective on democracy in contemporary times.
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The Next Phase of Latin American Development: Business and Society
Jose de Arimateia da Cruz, Georgia Southern University; Eduardo R. Gomes; and Laura K. Stephens
2008
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This Georgia rising : education, civil rights, and the politics of change in Georgia in the 1940s
Patrick Novotny, Georgia Southern University
1-2-2007
This Georgia Rising is a study of Georgia's political changes during the Second World War and in the postwar era, with a particular emphasis on Georgia's higher educational system as well as early struggles for civil rights and social change in the 1940s.
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Free Agency and Competitive Balance in Baseball
Ronald W. Cox, Florida International University and Daniel Skidmore-Hess, Georgia Southern University
2006
As early as the 1880s, baseball owners and sportswriters were decrying the greediness of players as the leading threat to the national pastime. Nearly a century later in 1976, the Player’s Association was able to finally tear down baseball’s permanent reserve clause—the contract language that essentially bound a player to a single team until he was released or traded—and owners and sportswriters again insisted that the competitive balance of the game was threatened by player greed. The rhetoric from the baseball establishment did not match the on-field reality. From 1981 to 1993, the first significant era of free agency in ... Read more
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Latin America in the New International System: Challenges and Opportunities
Jose de Arimateia da Cruz, Georgia Southern University and Eduardo R. Gomes
2005
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Judge Faye Sanders Martin: Head Full Of Sense, Heart Full Of Gold
Rebecca Davis, Georgia Southern University and Sandra Peacock, Georgia Southern University
11-1-2004
On a cold winter day in the midst of the Depression, the hardworking wife of a farmer and Primitive Baptist preacher in South Georgia gave birth to her 11th child, a daughter named Faye. Money was scarce, times were hard, and from the moment she could walk, Faye worked, doing whatever it took to keep the ninety-acre farm going. No one could have predicted that this little girl would grow up to be the first woman attorney in the country, the first woman appointed to the Georgia Superior Court bench, and the first woman chief superior court judge in Georgia. ... Read more
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American Politics: Transformation and Change
Jose de Arimateia da Cruz, Georgia Southern University; Becky Kohler da Cruz; and Andre J. Dowdle
2004
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Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Tragedy
Robert Pirro, Georgia Southern University
2001
A German Jewish refugee suffering tremendous personal and political upheaval during the years of Nazi conquest, Hannah Arendt turned to classical literature and drama as she struggled to make sense of the terrible events of her time. Studying fiction, plays, and poetry, she found a way to meld theoretical political philosophy and concrete personal commitment to action. Among her literary resources, the epics and plays of ancient Greece provided the ideal balance of politics and culture.
In Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Tragedy, Pirro focuses especially on the influence of Greek tragedy on Arendt's political writings. Pirro casts Arendt's ... Read more -
Where We Live, Work and Play: The Environmental Justice Movement and the Struggle for a New Environmentalism
Patrick Novotny, Georgia Southern University
1-1-2000
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U.S. Politics and the Global Economy: Corporate Power, Conservative Shift
Ronald W. Cox, Florida International University and Daniel Skidmore-Hess, Georgia Southern University
1999
This thoughtful, highly original book investigates the influence of globalization on ideology and politics in the United States.
Cox and Skidmore-Hess argue that U.S. policy increasingly has been motivated less by anxiety about the independence and stability of the domestic economy and more by worry about factors that might limit the participation of U.S. corporations in international markets. Connecting trends in domestic and foreign policy with the changing needs of industry, they associate increased globalization with the the breakup of the liberal, New Deal coalition; the collapse of the Bretton Woods Agreement in the 1970s; the neoconservative, antiregulatory movements of ... Read more
