Make us homepage
Add to Favorites
FAIL (the browser should render some flash content, not this).

Main page » Tag Geopolitics

Sort by: date | rating | most visited | comments | alphabetically


The Kowoj: Identity, Migration, and Geopolitics in Late Postclassic Peten, Guatemala (Mesoamerican Worlds: from the Olmecs to the Danzantes)
3
 
 

The Kowoj: Identity, Migration, and Geopolitics in Late Postclassic Peten, Guatemala (Mesoamerican Worlds: from the Olmecs to the Danzantes)The Kowoj: Identity, Migration, and Geopolitics in Late Postclassic Peten, Guatemala (Mesoamerican Worlds: from the Olmecs to the Danzantes)

Neighbors of the better-known Itza in the central Petén lakes region of Guatemala, the Kowoj Maya have been studied for little more than a decade. The Kowoj: Identity, Migration, and Geopolitics in Late Postclassic Petén, Guatemala summarizes the results of recent research into this ethno-political group conducted by Prudence Rice, Don Rice, and their colleagues.

 
  More..
Tags: Guatemala, Kowoj, Identity, Migration, Geopolitics, Kowoj, Guatemala, Postclassic
A Normal Totalitarian Society: How the Soviet Union Functioned and How It Collapsed
17
 
 
A Normal Totalitarian Society: How the Soviet Union Functioned and How It Collapsed
Shlapentokh undertakes a dispassionate analysis of the ordinary functioning of the Soviet system from Stalin's death through the Soviet collapse and Russia's first post-communist decade. Without overlooking its repressive character, he treats the USSR as a "normal" system that employed both socialist and nationalist ideologies for the purposes of technological and military modernization, preservation of empire, and expansion of its geopolitical power. Foregoing the projection of Western norms and assumptions, he seeks to achieve a clearer understanding of a civilization that has perplexed its critics and its champions alike.
 
  More..
Tags: totalitarian, totalitarism, society, empire, Soviet Union, Russia, USSR, communism, socialism, geopolitics, ideology, Soviet, system, norms, Western, assumptions, Soviet