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Only Super Power

Only Super Power

Only Superpower

Paul Hollander

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Bloomsbury Publishing plc
Año de edición:
2008
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Cultura popular
ISBN:
9780739125434

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The essays in The Only Super Power deal with present day American Society-its problems, critiques, and perceptions at home and abroad-with special reference to mass culture, multiculturalism, and radical Islam. Other items examine the aftermath of and continued responses to the fall of Soviet communism and the remaining communist systems.

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