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CIA Vs. KGB in the Cold War
Two veteran intelligence agents, one from the CIA and the other from the KGB, join together in an unprecedented collaboration to trace the activities ...
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The consumer electronics industry is entering an era of extraordinary growth. The industryโs best companies will ride that wave to unprecedented suc...
Explains the structure of the feudal society, describes the rise of economic life and tells of the impact of Commodore Perry's arrival in 1853. Biblio...
1334-1615
In the village of Bisipara in eastern India, an anthropologist is witness to a drama when a young girl takes a fever and quickly dies. The villagers f...
A Short Cultural History
1615-1867
A Social Anthropology of Politics
"F.G. Bailey's classic political-anthropology text is reissued here with a Postscript that comments critically on the book's scope, its reception, and...
With a Memoir of the Author by Harold Parlett
A Bestiary of Political Forms
Amid the escalating hostilities of today's world, F. G. Bailey returns to the state of Orissa in the eastern India of the 1950s to consider what held ...
A Village in Highland Orissa
Les Savage returns along with his exemplary qualities as a hard fighting American Man. Qualities that canโt be freed from his personal fixations and...
On Domesticating Ethnicity
In The Civility Of Indifference, Bailey documents a case of ethnic strife that threatened the village forty years ago but did not consume it in bloods...
Gandhi, Hitler, and the Religious Right
When reason fails to guide us in our everyday lives, we turn to faith, to religion; we close our minds; we reject austere reasoning. This rejection, w...
The Art of Leadership
Must all leaders have dirty hands? Must they all defy the moral and intellectual conventions of their own societies? Building on his earlier books, F....
An engaging look at the deeds and words of politicians in the US, in India, and elsewhere. Bailey (anthropology, U. of California, San Diego) demonstr...
Before the American Forestry Congress, St. Paul, Minnesota, August 8, 1883
A Study of Political Activity and Political Change in Highland Orissa
The Folklore of Academic Politics
Bi-centennial Oration of Hon. George B. Loring, September 17, 1873 : 1673-1873