1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451766503321

Autore

Becker Jasper

Titolo

Rogue regime [[electronic resource] ] : Kim Jong Il and the looming threat of North Korea / / Jasper Becker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-19-973723-1

1-280-84366-7

0-19-803810-0

9786610843664

1-4237-5823-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 p.)

Disciplina

951.9304/3

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Korea (North) History

Korea (North) Politics and government

Korea (North) Foreign relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2005.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface: Rogue State; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Famine and Flight; CHAPTER 2 The Kim Dynasty; CHAPTER 3 The Making of a God King; CHAPTER 4 Slave State; CHAPTER 5 North Korea's Economic Collapse; CHAPTER 6 Kim Jong Il's Court; CHAPTER 7 Kim Jong Il-The Terrorist Master; CHAPTER 8 Nuclear Warlord; CHAPTER 9 Kim Jong Il-The Reformer; CHAPTER 10 The United Nations and Genocide; CHAPTER 11 Kim Dae Jung and the South Korean Way; CHAPTER 12 Grappling with a Rogue State; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index

Sommario/riassunto

North Korea's leader Kim Jong-II is closer than ever to developing an inter-continental ballistic missile and an armoury of nuclear weapons. This work focuses on North Korea's continuing survival and lays out the rationale behind the policies pursued by North and South - and their larger neighbours.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785964403321

Autore

Rash F

Titolo

German Images of the Self and the Other [[electronic resource] ] : Nationalist, Colonialist and Anti-Semitic Discourse 1871-1918 / / by F. Rash

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012

ISBN

9781137030214

1-283-73814-7

1-137-03021-6

1-349-32854-5

0-230-28265-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2012.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 pages)

Disciplina

401.410943

430.141

Soggetti

Comparative linguistics

Europe—History

Ethnology

Historical linguistics

Comparative Linguistics

European History

Cultural Anthropology

Historical Linguistics

Germany In mass media

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword -- Methodological Framework -- Self-identity, Otherness and Nationalism -- Racism in Discourse -- Anti-Semitism in Discourse -- Colonialism in Discourse -- Discourse in War-Time -- Conclusion -- Notes to Chapters --  Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a detailed linguistic analysis of the nationalist discourses of the German Second Reich, which most effectively demonstrate the contrasting images of the German Self and its various



Others, such as Jews, native Africans, gypsies and the enemy Other during the First World War.