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A dictionary of politics
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ISBN: 0140510109 9780140510102 Year: 1975 Publisher: Harmondsworth Penguin Books


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Pax Britannica : the climax of an empire
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ISBN: 0571107338 0571085350 Year: 1975 Publisher: London Faber and Faber


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Sixguns and Society : A Structural Study of the Western
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ISBN: 0520340787 Year: 1975 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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From the Preface: The purpose of this book is to explain the Western's popularity. While the Western itself may seem simple (it isn't quite), an explanation of its popularity cannot be; for the Western, like any myth, stands between individual human consciousness and society. If a myth is popular, it must somehow appeal to or reinforce the individuals who view it by communicating a symbolic meaning to them. This meaning must, in turn, reflect the particular social institutions and attitudes that have created and continue to nourish the myth. Thus, a myth must tell its viewers about themselves and their society. This study, which takes up the question of the Western as an American myth, will lead us into abstract structural theory as well as economic and political history. Mostly, however, it will take us into the movies, the spectacular and not-so-spectacular sagebrush of the cinema. Unlike most works of social science, the data on which my analysis is based is available to all of my readers, either at the local theater or, more likely, on the late, late show. I hope you will take the opportunity, whenever it is offered, to check my findings and test my interpretations; the effort is small and the rewards are many. And if your wife, husband, mother, or child asks you why you are wasting your time staring at Westerns on TV in the middle of the night, tell them firmly--as I often did--that you are doing research in social science.


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The new sovereigns : multinational corporations as world powers
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ISBN: 0136157998 9780136157991 Year: 1975 Publisher: Englewood Cliffs (N.J.) Prentice Hall


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The Indian Ocean and the threat to the west : four studies in global strategy
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ISBN: 0950330442 0950330434 9780950330440 9780950330433 Year: 1975 Publisher: London : Stacey International,

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