Author: Robert Balmain Mowat
Publisher: London : E. Arnold
Published: 1925
Total Pages: 388
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Grant Barrett
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006-06-08
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780195304473
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Here is a wonderful Baedeker to down-and-dirty politics--more than six hundred slang terms straight from the smoke-filled rooms of American political speech. Hatchet Jobs and Hardball: The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang illuminates a rich and colorful segment of our language. Readers will find informative entries on slang terms such as Beltway bandit and boondoggle, angry white male and leg treasurer, juice bill and Joe Citizen, banana superpower and the Big Fix. We find not only the meaning and history of familiar terms such as gerrymander, but also of lesser-known terms such as cracking (splitting a bloc of like-minded voters by redistricting) and fair-fight district (which refers to areas redistricted to favor no political party). Each entry includes the definition of the word, its historical background, and illuminating citations, some going back more than 200 years. (We learn, for instance, that a term as seemingly current as political football actually dates back to before the Civil War.) Selected entries will have extended encyclopedic notes. The book also features sidebar essays on topics such as political words in Blogistan; a short history of "big cheese"; all about chads and the 2000 election; the suffix "-gate" and all the related Watergate terms; and the naming of legislation. Political junkies, policy wonks, journalists, and word lovers will find this book addictive reading as well as a reliable guide to one of the more colorful corners of American English.
Author: William Safire
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 887
ISBN-13: 0195340612
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Featuring more than one thousand new, rewritten, and updated entries, this reference on American politics explains current terms in politics, economics, and diplomacy.
Author: Canadian Club of Toronto
Publisher:
Published: 1915
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: New England Society of Pennsylvania
Publisher:
Published: 1917
Total Pages: 134
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Charles Howard Ellis
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 526
ISBN-13: 1584773200
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Howard-Ellis, C. The Origin, Structure & Working of the League of Nations. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. 528 pp. Reprinted 2003 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 2002041362. ISBN 1-58477-320-0. Cloth. $95. * Surveys the League's components and the role of its chief associated bodies, the International Court of Justice and the International Labor Organization. Other sections consider its approach to open and secret diplomacy, the ratification of conventions and the function of related technical organizations. The author, though enthusiastic about the League, appreciates the weaknesses in its charter and organization. He argues that these flaws are not inherent but are a consequence of the League's reliance on prior international law, which is plagued by weakness and ambiguity.
Author: Academie De Droit International De La Ha
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Published: 1968-12-01
Total Pages: 746
ISBN-13: 9789028612822
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