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#THE HIDDEN FACE OF GLOBALIZATION PROFESSIONAL#
The story is straight feel-good – progress in the personal and professional lives of three women: Katherine Goble, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson. Henderson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monae breathe life into three characters that had been pretty much forgotten by history. They can’t use the same bathroom, or even drink from the same coffee pot as their colleagues, yet through their talent and determination, they manage to break down racial barriers and their work plays a big role in the Space Race. Three African-American ‘computers’ – as in, people who do math by hand, not the machines – work for the NASA space program when racial segregation in the American South is still common. But it’s so much more than just a feel-good history film. The film takes us back to the 1960s and the birth of NASA. Harold James provides a global history of terms-thus making a vital contribution to intellectual self-reflection.Big hair, big personalities, and big ideas - Hidden Figures is out in the US and it’s made a splash. “Globalization calls for understanding! Communication across cultural boundaries can only be successful if we develop a shared understanding of key terms. It is provoking and enlightening, and tells the history of modern times."-Emma Rothschild, author of An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries "Words have histories, and The War of Words is essential reading for anyone tempted to say anything about technocracy, or Weltpolitik, or globalization, or neoliberalism. This is a master class in the history of economic ideas."-Niall Ferguson, author of Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe I warmly recommend The War of Words to anyone who wants to clarify in their own mind what we mean by terms such as capitalism, socialism, populism and globalization. "Harold James never ceases to demonstrate the power of applying history to contemporary problems. It is hard to disagree with his conclusion that political language needs major intellectual decluttering."-Diane Coyle, University of Cambridge "Political debate was once regarded as a noble competition among ideas, but, as Harold James shows in this wonderful book, it has become a brutal clash of ‘isms’ with a profusion of different interpretations.
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"James delves into the often-surprising intellectual origins of key concepts in the arguments about globalisation - and illuminates the debate in the process.”-Gideon Rachman, Financial Times 'Best Books of 2021: Politics' Noting that similar linguistic misunderstandings accompany such newer ideas as geopolitics, neoliberalism, technocracy, and globalism, James argues that a rich historical knowledge of the vocabulary surrounding globalization, politics, and economics-particularly the meaning and the usefulness that drove the original conceptions of the terms-is needed to negotiate the gaps between different understandings and make fruitful political debate once again possible. In this insightful book, Harold James uncovers the origins of these concepts and examines how the problematic definition and meaning of each term has become an obstacle to respectful communication. Since these concepts hark back to the nineteenth century, much of their nuanced meaning has been lost, and the words are most often used as epithets that short-circuit productive discussion. Nationalism, conservatism, liberalism, socialism, and capitalism are among the most fiercely debated ideas in contemporary politics. “James delves into the often-surprising intellectual origins of key concepts in the arguments about globalisation-and illuminates the debate in the process.”-Gideon Rachman, Financial Times, "Best Books of 2021: Politics" fascinating discussions of the origins and meanings of the words.”-G. James cuts through the tangled terminological and conceptual jungle of modern globalist discourse.
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A timely call for recovering the true meanings of the nineteenth‑century terms that are hobbling current political debates