Nature of the Nonprofit Sector or Cycles of Conflict Centuries of Change

Nature of the Nonprofit Sector: An Overview

Author: J Steven Ott

The Non-Profit Sector: An Overview is a collection of the most insightful and accessible writings about the nonprofit sector in the U.S. and its organizations. The book discusses everything from Andrew Carnegie's turn-of-the-century philosophy of philanthropy, to the most recent writings by current scholars and practitioners. Accordingly, the book contains previously published articles, chapters, and encyclopedia entries that present the most influential theories, concepts, and issues associated with the nonprofit sector.Furthermore, each chapter opens with a framing essay that identifies the central themes and issues presented within the chapter and provides an overview of sometimes competing points of view. Each framing essay also briefly summarizes the significance of the contribution of each writing to the development of knowledge in the field.

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This collection of writings about the American nonprofit sector and its organizations discusses the history of philanthropy and current scholarship and practices. It contains previously published articles, chapters, and encyclopedia entries describing the most influential theories, concepts, and issues associated with the nonprofit sector. Topics include values and contributions to society, historical evolution, tax exemption, economic and political theories, social and community theories, organizational theories, giving theories, the blending of the sectors, and challenges facing the nonprofit sector. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Interesting book: Anatomy of Motive or Lion of Jordan

Cycles of Conflict, Centuries of Change: Crisis, Reform, and Revolution in Mexico

Author: Elisa Servin

This important collection explores how Mexico's tumultuous past informs its uncertain present and future. Cycles of crisis and reform, of conflict and change, have marked Mexico's modern history. The final decades of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries each brought efforts to integrate Mexico into globalizing economies, pressures on the country's diverse peoples, and attempts at reform. The crises of the late eighteenth century and the late nineteenth led to revolutionary mobilizations and violent regime changes. The wars for independence that began in 1810 triggered conflicts that endured for decades; the national revolution that began in 1910 shaped Mexico for most of the twentieth century. In 2000, the PRI, which had ruled for more than seventy years, was defeated in an election some hailed as "revolution by ballot." Mexico now struggles with the legacies of a late-twentieth-century crisis defined by accelerating globalization and the breakdown of an authoritarian regime that was increasingly unresponsive to historic mandates and popular demands.

Leading Mexicanists-historians and social scientists from Mexico, the United States, and Europe-examine the three fin-de-siecle eras of crisis. They focus on the role of the country's communities in advocating change from the eighteenth century to the present. They compare Mexico's revolutions of 1810 and 1910 and consider whether there might be a twenty-first-century recurrence or whether a globalizing, urbanizing, and democratizing world has so changed Mexico that revolution is improbable. Reflecting on the political changes and social challenges of the late twentieth century, the contributors ask if a democratictransition is possible and, if so, whether it is sufficient to address twenty-first-century demands for participation and justice.

Table of Contents:

Preface: Debating History to Face the Present and Imagine the Future     vii
Acknowledgments     xi
Abbreviations of Mexican Political Organizations     xiii
Introduction: Crises, Reforms, and Revolutions in Mexico, Past and Present     1
Communities
Of Tempests and Teapots: Imperial Crisis and Local Conflict in Mexico at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century     23
The Two-Faced Janus: The Pueblos and the Origins of Mexican Liberalism     60
Local Elections and Regime Crises: The Political Culture of Indigenous Peoples     91
Revolutions
Mexico from Independence to Revolution: The Mutations of Liberalism     129
Mexico's Three Fin de Siecle Crises     153
International Wars, Mexico, and U.S. Hegemony     184
The Revolutionary Capacity of Rural Communities: Ecological Autonomy and Its Demise     211
Contemporary Crisis
The Second Coming of Mexican Liberalism: A Comparative Perspective     271
Civil Society and Popular Resistance: Mexico at the End of the Twentieth Century     305
The Left in the Neoliberal Era     346
Another Turn of the Screw: Toward a New Political Order     363
Contributors     393
Index     395