In this paper I conduct a historical analysis of the emergence of ALBA in Nicaragua prior to Daniel Ortega's return to the presidency and the country's official membership in the initiative from January 2007 on. I argue that ALBA is a rival structure that evolved from the contradictions inherent in hegemonic globalisation. Within the framework of…

The Han sphere, including Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and China, adopted Han characters and classical Han writing as the official written language before the 20th century. However, great changes came with the advent of the 20th century. After World War II, Han characters in Vietnam and Korea were officially replaced by the romanised "Chu…

Amos Kendall's place in journalism history rests largely on his service as a journalist turned government official in the two administrations of President Andrew Jackson. Historians have claimed that Kendall was an influential journalist of the "partisan press" era, but they have provided little documentation. That documentation has been…

Examination of its historical development indicates that while Congressional Black Caucus legislative priorities have become more focused, on the other hand these priorities are not the result of a careful analysis of what is or is not a black issue but rather of the economic climate which led to concentration on economic issues. (Author/AM)

Concludes that as black unemployment rates stay well above the national average, black power's potential for precipitating change has diminished because its internal weaknesses have enabled it to be transformed into reinforcement for conventional American political and economic ideology. (Author/AM)

The commitment on the part of the national government to provide some assistance to the elderly began in the 1930s, but in the last decade or so, this commitment has substantially increased. (Author/AM)

This 1982 yearbook reviews developments in areas of concern to Jews around the world. The volume features an essay that provides a comprehensive chronicle of American Jews from the perspectives of both Jewish history and American history. Developments in the United States are examined in articles that discuss civil and political issues that affect…

This study presents a theoretical approach to the study of the emergence of movements for political change. It was postulated that changes outside the university role set --industrial systems development, political, military, scientific competition between the United States and Soviet Union-- brought about the following structural changes within…

To aid in understanding how the process of ethnic succession has worked in America, both a conceptual overview and an indepth analysis of a particular situation that occurred over the past four decades in the Philadelphia school system are presented. Resulting from this historical investigation are a series of highly useful guidelines. The first…