books by Andrei S. Markovits

books by Andrei S. Markovits

books:

Andrei S. Markovits

Offside: Soccer and American Exceptionalism.

Andrei S. Markovits, Steven L. Hellerman

Princeton University Press, 2001

Its less boring to read about it than to watch it
This is a sociological study aimed to explain why ' soccer'( To the rest of the world 'football') has not become one of the major American sports. The authors speak about American exceptionalism what differentiates its culture from Europe. Among the elements are ...

Nationbuilding and the Politics of Nationalism: Essays on Austrian Galicia (Harvard Series in Ukrainian ...

Harvard University Press, 1982

The province of Galicia was the easternmost land of the old Habsburg Empire. Throughout the nineteenth century it was noted for political conflicts and the cultural vibrancy of its three major national groups: Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews. This volume brings together for the first time eleven essays on various aspects of the last seventy-five ...

The German Left: Red, Green and Beyond (Europe & the International Order)

Andrei S. Markovits, Philip S. Gorski

Polity Press, 1993

GREAT AUTHOR/HISTORIAN
i only read a few chapters of this book, those which were assigned by prof. markovits, but it was an excelent look at the new german left. he is an excelent historian, author, and teacher! i'm buying this book for a leftie friend so he can see the origins of the ...

Uncouth Nation: Why Europe Dislikes America (The Public Square)

Andrei S. Markovits

Princeton University Press, 2007

Superb Stab at Undead Anti-Americanism & Anti-Semitism!
If you read one book on today's anti-Americanism (its present realities and pre-Bush history) I'd say make it this one. Surveying a burgeoning literature, I have found nothing better on the topic than this wonderful, brilliantly insightful new volume. Lucidly and ...

The Politics of Scandal: Power and Process in Liberal Democracies
Andrei S. Markovits, Mark Silverstein

Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1989

Featuring through analytical discussions of such events as Watergate and Britain's Profumo affair, this book demonstrates that such political scandals are neither idiosyncratic to democratic regimes nor unique to the United States (or, for that matter, unique to world-weary Europeans). Nor are they, as some political scientists claimed some years ...

Advances in the Social Sciences 1900-1980
Karl Wolfgang Deutsch, Andrei S. Markovits

University Press of America, 1986

This collection of essays is the result of a conference of renowned social scientists at the International Institute for Comparative Social Research of the Science Center, Berlin. The volume assesses an earlier research project by the editors entitled, "Conditions Favoring Major Advances in Social Science," examines these early research findings, ...

The German Predicament: Memory and Power in the New Europe

Andrei S. Markovits, Simon Reich

Cornell University Press, 1997

right on the spot
This well-written book deals with the largest and most economically powerful EU Member State in Europe, Germany. The focus of the study is Germany's relationships with the other European neighbours. But is does so in an unusual and interesting way, and I think the ...

The Politics of the West German Trade Unions: Strategies of Class and Interest Representation in Growth and ...
Andrei S. Markovits

Cambridge University Press, 1986

This book assesses the politics of the West German trade unions in the context of their larger role as major actors in the polity of a democratic Federal Republic of Germany. By focusing on the historical realities of the labour movement, the study concentrates on explaining to what extent organised labour helped solidify, yet at the same time ...