What do governments do when much of their population simply gets up and walks away? In Mexico and other migrant-sending countries, mass emigration prompts governments to negotiate a new social contract with their citizens abroad. After decades of failed efforts to control outflow, the Mexican state now emphasizes voluntary ties, dual nationality, and rights over obligations. In this groundbreaking book, David Fitzgerald examines a region of Mexico whose citizens have been migrating to the United States for more than a century. He finds that emigrant citizenship does not signal the decline of the nation-state but does lead to a new form of citizenship, and that bureaucratic efforts to manage emigration and its effects are based on the membership model of the Catholic Church.

A Nation of Emigrants: How Mexico Manages Its Migration

Politics & Social Sciences

FitzGerald, David

Social Sciences

University of California Press

What do governments do when much of their population simply gets up and walks away? In Mexico and other migrant-sending countries, mass emigration prompts governments to negotiate a new social contract with their citizens abroad. After decades of failed efforts to control outflow, the Mexican state now emphasizes voluntary ties, dual nationality, and rights over obligations. In this groundbreaking book, David Fitzgerald examines a region of Mexico whose citizens have been migrating to the United States for more than a century. He finds that emigrant citizenship does not signal the decline of the nation-state but does lead to a new form of citizenship, and that bureaucratic efforts to manage emigration and its effects are based on the membership model of the Catholic Church.

Nation of Emigrants: How Mexico Manages Its Migration

History

Americas

Why would anyone think Jesus never existed? Isn't it perfectly reasonable to accept that he was a real first century figure? As it turns out, no. NAILED sheds light on ten beloved Christian myths, and, with evidence gathered from historians across the theological spectrum, shows how they point to a Jesus Christ created solely through allegorical alchemy of hope and imagination; a messiah transformed from a purely literary, theological construct into the familiar figure of Jesus - in short, a purely mythic Christ.

Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at All

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

lulu.com

Culling the Masses questions the widely held view that in the long run democracy and racism cannot coexist. David Scott FitzGerald and David Cook-Martín show that democracies were the first countries in the Americas to select immigrants by race, and undemocratic states the first to outlaw discrimination. Through analysis of legal records from twenty-two countries between 1790 and 2010, the authors present a history of the rise and fall of racial selection in the Western Hemisphere. The United States led the way in using legal means to exclude "inferior" ethnic groups. Starting in 1790, Congress began passing nationality and immigration laws that prevented Africans and Asians from becoming citizens, on the grounds that they were inherently incapable of self-government. Similar policies were soon adopted by the self-governing colonies and dominions of the British Empire, eventually spreading across Latin America as well. Undemocratic regimes in Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Cuba reversed their discriminatory laws in the 1930s and 1940s, decades ahead of the United States and Canada. The conventional claim that racism and democracy are antithetical―because democracy depends on ideals of equality and fairness, which are incompatible with the notion of racial inferiority―cannot explain why liberal democracies were leaders in promoting racist policies and laggards in eliminating them. Ultimately, the authors argue, the changed racial geopolitics of World War II and the Cold War was necessary to convince North American countries to reform their immigration and citizenship laws.

Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas

Cook-Martín, David

Harvard University Press

Learning to Forget: US Army Counterinsurgency Doctrine and Practice from Vietnam to Iraq

Learning to Forget analyzes the evolution of US counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine over the last five decades. Beginning with an extensive section on the lessons of Vietnam, it traces the decline of COIN in the 1970s, then the rebirth of low intensity conflict through the Reagan years, in the conflict in Bosnia, and finally in the campaigns of Iraq and Afghanistan. Ultimately it closes the loop by explaining how, by confronting the lessons of Vietnam, the US Army found a way out of those most recent wars. In the process it provides an illustration of how military leaders make use of history and demonstrates the difficulties of drawing lessons from the past that can usefully be applied to contemporary circumstances. The book outlines how the construction of lessons is tied to the construction of historical memory and demonstrates how histories are constructed to serve the needs of the present. In so doing, it creates a new theory of doctrinal development.

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Stanford Security Studies

Stanford University Press

From the rugged Black Mesa area in Oklahoma's panhandle to the southeastern corner of the state, a rich kaleidoscope of landscapes from the country's heartland unfolds.

Oklahoma

Arts & Photography

Nigh, George

Photography & Video

Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company

From the front flap: The Ozarks is a region that conjures up images of special beauty - a hazy afternoon sun playing across endless ridge tops, isolated valleys, cool hollows, splashing creeks and waterfalls, dogwood blooming in the spring, and hardwood forests putting on a "Flaming Fall Revue." Geographically a part of four states - Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas - the region is set apart by the steep eroded valleys of the Ozark Plateau and blessed with an abundance of springs, caves, and sinkholes. This book includes the scenic splendor of places such as the Buffalo River from Goat Trail, Big Spring discharging 276 million gallons daily, and wondrous Johnson Shut-ins.

Ozarks

Travel

United States

Graphic Arts Center Pub. Co.

Uncertain Warriors: The United States Army between the Cold War and the War on Terror (Military, War, and Society in Modern American History)

Cambridge University Press

Index of Publications, Articles and Maps Relating to Mexico, in the War Department Library

Military

BiblioLife

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