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Cambridge University Press The Secularisation of the Confessional State The Political Thought of Christian Thomasius 87 Ideas in Context Series Number 87
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Cambridge University Press The Strange Survival of Liberal England
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Cambridge University Press Emerson
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Cambridge University Press Algernon Sidney and the Restoration Crisis 1677 1683
Book SynopsisThis is the second and final part of an intellectual biography of the English republican, Algernon Sidney, which was begun in 1988 with Algernon Sidney and the English Republic 16231677. It is also a detailed examination and reinterpretation of the major political crisis of Charles II's reign.Trade Review"...a stunning achievement. Scott delivers an almost tangible Sidney, and he creates a dramatic sense of immediacy about the personal and political crises of Sidney's turbulent life. Scott's Sidney is more of a philosopher, but no less a man of action--even violent action....Scott's work--poignant and epigrammatic--promises to become authoritative." American Historical Review"...the virtues of Scott's study must be insisted upon. He has, more than anyone else, restored a major figure to our attention, sympathetically recounting his life, closely analyzing his work, and placing him in broad context." History"This is intellectual biography of a high order; the result is a good read for both specialist and generalist." Thomas Rumsey, Religious Studies Review"...a masterful study, written with pace, verve, and immense wit. The reader's interest is sustained throughout, despite the complex nature of the argument in places, and Sidney comes alive for us from the pages of this book--warts and all--which I found literally impossible to put down." Tim Harris, Journal of Modern History"This excellent book takes us back to the foundation of historical research, the primary sources upon which Scott based his conclusions." Marcella Biro Barton, Church HistoryTable of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgments; Part I. The Restoration Crisis: 1. The shape of the future; 2. The shadow of the past; 3. The crisis of parliaments; 4. Retrospect; Part II. The Shadow Of The Past: 5. Family politics 1677–83; 6. European politics 1678–80; 7. Domestic politics 1678–9; 8. The mutinous city 1679–81; 9. The Vindication of parliaments 1681–3; Part III. The Old Cause: 10. Discourses (1) first principles; 11. Discourses (2) rebellion, tumult and war; 12. The self-defence of protestants; 13. The tower; 14. The reckoning; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press James Madison and the Spirit of Republican SelfGovernment
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Cambridge University Press Constitutionalism and a Right to Effective Government
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Cambridge University Press Stockholm and the Rise of Global Environmental Governance
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Cambridge University Press Hybrid Sovereignty in World Politics
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Cambridge University Press Under the Gun
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Cambridge University Press One Health Environmentalism
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Cambridge University Press A Green and Just Recovery from COVID19
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Cambridge University Press Political Ecospatiality
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Cambridge University Press The Behavioral Economics and Politics of Global Warming
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Cambridge University Press U.S. Innovation Inequality and Trumpism
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Cambridge University Press A Green and Just Recovery from COVID19
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Cambridge University Press Who Tells Your Story
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Cambridge University Press The Rise of the Russian Hawks
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Cambridge University Press The Rise of the Russian Hawks
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Cambridge University Press One Health Environmentalism
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Cambridge University Press Crisis Policymaking in the EU
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Cambridge University Press The Rise and Fall of Turkeys Democrat Party
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Cambridge University Press The Earth Intoxicated on Imagination
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Cambridge University Press Machiavelli The Prince
Book SynopsisThis new edition of the acclaimed translation of Niccolò Machiavelli''s The Prince - revised for the first time after thirty years - includes a rewritten and extended introduction by Quentin Skinner. Niccolò Machiavelli is arguably the most famous and controversial figure in the history of political thought. The Prince remains his best-known work, and throws down a challenge that subsequent writers on statecraft and political morality have found impossible to ignore. Quentin Skinner''s introduction offers a lucid analysis of Machiavelli''s text both as a response to the world of Florentine politics and as a critical engagement with the classical and Renaissance genre of advice-books for princes. This new edition also features an improved timeline of key events in Machiavelli''s life, helping the reader place the work in the context of its time, in addition to an enlarged and fully updated bibliography.Table of ContentsEditorial note; Introduction; Principal events in Machiavelli's life; Bibliographical note; Translator's note; Map: northern and central Italy, c.1500; Dedicatory letter: Niccolò Machiavelli to His Magnificence Lorenzo de' Medici; 1. How many kinds of principality there are, and by what means they are acquired; 2. Hereditary principalities; 3. Mixed principalities; 4. Why the Kingdom of Darius, which Alexander occupied, did not rebel against his successors after Alexander's death; 5. By what means cities or provinces that lived under their own laws before they were occupied ought to be administered; 6. New principalities acquired by one's own arms and ability; 7. New principalities acquired through the arms and fortune of others; 8. Those who become rulers through crime; 9. The civil principality; 10. In what ways the strengths of all principalities should be measured; 11. Ecclesiastical principalities; 12. How many kinds of soldiers there are, and mercenary troops; 13. Auxiliaries, mixed troops and one's own troops; 14. How a ruler should act concerning military matters; 15. The things for which men, and especially rulers, are praised or blamed; 16. Liberality and parsimony; 17. Cruelty and mercifulness; and whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the contrary; 18. In what way rulers should keep their promises; 19. How contempt and hatred should be avoided; 20. Whether building fortresses, and many other things that rulers frequently do, are useful or useless; 21. What a ruler should do in order to be thought outstanding; 22. On those whom rulers employ in secret matters; 23. How flatterers should be shunned; 24. Why the rulers of Italy have lost their states; 25. How much control fortune has over human affairs, and by what means she can be resisted; 26. An exhortation to seize possession of Italy and assert her liberty from the barbarians; Appendix A. Letters relevant to The Prince; Appendix B. Notes on the vocabulary of The Prince; Biographical notes; Index of subjects; Index of proper names.
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Cambridge University Press Solutions to Political Polarization in America
Book SynopsisPolitical polarization dominates discussions of contemporary American politics. Despite widespread agreement that the dysfunction in the political system can be attributed to political polarization, commentators cannot come to a consensus on what that means. The coarseness of our political discourse, the ideological distance between opposing partisans, and, most of all, an inability to pass much-needed and widely supported policies all stem from the polarization in our politics. This volume assembles several top analysts of American politics to focus on solutions to polarization. The proposals range from constitutional change to good-government reforms to measures to strengthen political parties. Each tackles one or more aspects of America's polarization problem. This book begins a serious dialogue about reform proposals to address the obstacles that polarization poses for contemporary governance.Table of Contents1. Introduction Nathaniel Persily; 2. Causes and consequences of polarization Michael Barber and Nolan McCarty; 3. Confronting asymmetric polarization Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson; Part I. Reforming the Electoral System: 4. Polarization and democratization Arend Lijphart; 5. Eroding the electoral foundations of partisan polarization Gary C. Jacobson; 6. Solutions to polarization Elaine C. Kamarck; 7. Geography and gridlock in the United States Jonathan Rodden; Part II. Strengthening Parties: 8. Parties as the solution to polarization Nathaniel Persily; 9. Reducing polarization by making parties stronger Nolan McCarty; 10. Focus on political fragmentation, not polarization: re-empower party leadership Richard H. Pildes; 11. Two approaches to lessening the effects of partisanship Bruce Cain; Part III. Empowering and Informing Moderate Voters: 12. Data science for the people Adam Bonica; 13. Using mobilization, media, and motivation to curb political polarization Markus Prior and Natalie Jomini Stroud; Part IV. Lowering Barriers to Policy Making: 14. Beyond confrontation and gridlock: making democracy work for the American people Alan I. Abramowitz; 15. American political parties: exceptional no more David Karol; 16. Partisan polarization and the Senate syndrome Steven S. Smith; 17. Finding the center Russell Muirhead; Part V. Fostering Negotiation: 18. Making deals in Congress Sarah A. Binder and Frances E. Lee; 19. Helping Congress negotiate Jane Mansbridge; 20. Staying private George C. Edwards, III.
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Cambridge University Press West African Countries and Peoples British and Native
Book SynopsisIn West African Countries and Peoples, published in 1868, Sierra Leone-born doctor James Africanus Beale Horton (18351883) refutes derogatory Victorian racial ideas about Africans. He was also considered an early proponent of African independence because he examines the potential of self-government almost 100 years before decolonisation.Table of ContentsPart I. West African Countries and Peoples, and the Negro's Place in Nature: 1. Description of the original and uncivilized state of the native tribes; 2. The origin, dangers, and progressive development of the Liberian Republic; 3. Exposition of erroneous views respecting the African; 4. False theories of modern anthropologists; 5. Some anatomical accounts of Negro physique; 6. The progressive advancement of the Negro race under civilizing influence; Part II. African Nationality: 7. General observations: self-government of the Gambia; 8. Self-government of Sierra Leone: Kingdom of Sierra Leone; 9. Self-government of the Gold Coast; 10. Self-government of the Gold Coast: Kingdom of Fantee; 11. Self-government of the Gold Coast: Republic of Accra; 12. Self-government of Lagos and its interior countries: Kingdom of the Akus; 13. Empire of the Eboes; Part III. Requirements of the Various Colonies and Settlements: 14. Requirements of Sierra Leone; 15. Requirements of the Gambia; 16. Requirements of the Gold Coast; 17. Requirements of Lagos; Some remarks on the Republic of Liberia; 18. Concluding remarks; advice to the rising generation in West Africa; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Empire Race and Global Justice
The status of boundaries and borders, questions of global poverty and inequality, criteria for the legitimate uses of force, the value of international law, human rights, nationality, sovereignty, migration, territory, and citizenship: debates over these critical issues are central to contemporary understandings of world politics. Bringing together an interdisciplinary range of contributors, including historians, political theorists, lawyers, and international relations scholars, this is the first volume of its kind to explore the racial and imperial dimensions of normative debates over global justice.
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HarperCollins Pinheads and Patriots UNA LowPrice CD
Book SynopsisTelevision host, razor sharp political pundit, and #1 bestselling author Bill O’Reilly focuses in on where we all stand in the Age of Obama in Pinheads and Patriots. In this brave, hard-hitting, provocative volume, the author of Culture Warrior and A Bold, Fresh Piece of Humanity guides Americans through the extensive transformations sweeping their country and explains exactly what these profound changes mean for every one of us.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Thats Not Fair Progressivism and the Politics of
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc 1968
Book SynopsisNow in paperback, a major history of one of the seminal years in the postwar world, when rebellion and disaffection broke out on an extraordinary scale.The year 1968 saw an extraordinary range of protests across much of the western world. Some of these were genuinely revolutionary—around ten million French workers went on strike and the whole state teetered on the brink of collapse. Others were more easily contained, but had profound longer-term implications—terrorist groups, feminist collectives, gay rights activists could all trace important roots to 1968.1968 is a striking and original attempt half a century later to show how these events, which in some ways still seem so current, stemmed from histories and societies which are in practice now extraordinarily remote from our own time. 1968 pursues the story into the 1970s to show both the ever more violent forms of radicalization that stemmed from 1968 and the brutal reaction that brough
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HarperCollins Koresh
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Penguin Books Canada Ltd Party of One
Book SynopsisIn time for the federal election that promises to be a referendum on Stephen Harper's tenure, Party of One is a scathing look at the majority government of a prime minister determined to remake Canada. In Party of One, investigative journalist Michael Harris closely examines the majority government of a prime minister essentially unchecked by the opposition and empowered by the general election victory of May 2011. Harris looks at Stephen Harper's policies, instincts, and the often breathtaking gap between his stated political principles and his practices. He argues that Harper is more than a master of controlling information; he is a profoundly anti-democratic figure. In the F-35 debacle, the government's sin wasn't only in keeping the facts from Canadians, it was in inventing them. He illustrates how Harper has made war on every independent source of information in Canada since coming to power. H
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Oxford University Press Tribes and Politics in Yemen
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The University of Chicago Press The Common Cause
Book SynopsisIlluminates an ethic of moral imperfectionism, a set of anticolonial, antifascist practices devoted to ordinariness and abnegation that ranged from doomed mutinies in the Indian military to Mahatma Gandhi's spiritual discipline.Trade Review"Drawing on an unusual mix of archives, and moving fluidly between dynamic analysis and vivid historical narrative, this study is a major contribution to current debates on the relation of ethics to politics. An important and original book." (Amanda Anderson, Brown University)"
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The University of Chicago Press Beyond Ideology
Book SynopsisThe congressional agenda includes many issues about which liberals and conservatives generally agree. Even over these matters, though, Democratic and Republican senators tend to fight with each other. This book argues that many partisan battles are rooted in competition for power rather than disagreement over the rightful role of government.Trade Review"Innovative, interesting, and important, Beyond Ideology gives us rich new insights on an institution about which we still know relatively little compared with the House. It is a substantial contribution that sheds new light on complex relationships and offers engaging illustrations drawn from political interactions on legislation." - David W. Rohde, Duke University"
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The University of Chicago Press Sovereign of the Market
Book SynopsisWhat should serve as money, who should control its creation and circulation, and according to what rules? For more than two hundred years, the money question shaped American social thought, becoming a central subject of political debate and class conflict. Sovereign of the Market reveals how and why this happened. Jeffrey Sklansky's wide-ranging study comprises three chronological parts devoted to major episodes in the career of the money question. First, the fight over the innovation of paper money in colonial New England. Second, the battle over the development of commercial banking in the new United States. And third, the struggle over the national banking system and the international gold standard in the late nineteenth century. Each section explores a broader problem of power that framed each conflict in successive phases of capitalist development: circulation, representation, and association. The three parts also encompass intellectual biographies of opposing reformers for each p
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University of Chicago Press Direct Action Radical Pacifism from the Union
Book SynopsisThis text tells the story of how a small group of "radical pacifists" - nonviolent activists such as David Dellinger, Staughton Lynd, A.J. Muste, and Bayard Rustin played a major role in the rebirth of American radicalism and social protest in the 1950s and 1960s.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1: The Journey to War Resistance 2: Forging a New Radicalism: Conscientious Objectors during World War II 3: Rebels without a Revolution, 1945-1952 4: Slumber and Awakening, 1952-1957 5: Direct Action, 1957-1963 6: The Vietnam Era Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Direct Action Radical Pacifism from the Union
Book SynopsisThis text tells the story of how a small group of radical pacifists - nonviolent activists such as David Dellinger, Staughton Lynd, A.J. Muste, and Bayard Rustin played a major role in the rebirth of American radicalism and social protest in the 1950s and 1960s.
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The University of Chicago Press Nationalists Cosmopolitans Popular Music in
Book SynopsisThis work focuses on the development of a unique style of music - combining the electric guitar with indigenous Shona music - that emerged in Zimbabwe during the 1980s. Turino examines this emergence of cosmopolitan culture among the black middle classes, and how it influenced politics.
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The University of Chicago Press Why the American Century
Book SynopsisExploring the struggles of the American elites as they tried to maintain a democratic, modern mass society, this text reveals the limits of a system ultimately benefiting an abstract average consumer. It exposes the internal contradictions that would undermine Americans' belief in their ideology.Table of ContentsPreface: "The New Colossus" Pt. 1: Making the Century American Ch. 1: Producers, Brokers, and Users of Knowledge Ch. 2: Defining Tools of Social Intelligence Ch. 3: Inventing the Average American Pt. 2: The Social Contract of the Market Ch. 4: Turning out Consumers Ch. 5: Deradicalizing Class Pt. 3: Embattled Identities Ch. 6: From Voluntarism to Pluralism Ch. 7: Enlarging the Polity Pt. 4: Exporting American Principles Ch. 8: Individualism and Modernization Ch. 9: The Power of Uncertainty Acknowledgments Notes Index
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University of Illinois Press Free Spirits
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Calling on an impressive range of sources including weekly journals, essays, letters, and various organizational reports, Lause clearly demonstrates the wealth of evidence supporting the influence of spiritualists… Recommended."--Choice "Opens a door between works that consider spiritualism as a purely religious phenomenon and works that deal with the history of the reform movements of the time in purely political or economic terms. By developing this thesis, Lause shows how limited previous treatments of progressive reform have been."--John B. Buescher, author of The Remarkable Life of John Murray Spear: Agitator for the Spirit Land "Historians of religion, culture, and politics will all learn something new. . . . Free Spirits is filled with fascinating material."--The Journal of Southern History "There is virtually no scholarship on the influence and counter-influence of spiritualism and politics. The fresh insights on Lincoln, who is generally protected from any real alliance with spiritualism by virtue of his 'difficult' wife, is a great contribution, as are the messages from the southern dead."--Cathy Gutierrez, author of Plato's Ghost: Spiritualism in the American Renaissance"Opens a door between works that consider spiritualism as a purely religious phenomenon and works that deal with the history of the reform movements of the time in purely political or economic terms. By developing this thesis, Lause shows how limited previous treatments of progressive reform have been."--John B. Buescher, author of The Remarkable Life of John Murray Spear: Agitator for the Spirit Land
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Three Rivers Press The Audacity of Hope Thoughts on Reclaiming the
Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Barack Obama’s lucid vision of America’s place in the world and call for a new kind of politics that builds upon our shared understandings as Americans, based on his years in the Senate “In our lowdown, dispiriting era, Obama’s talent for proposing humane, sensible solutions with uplifting, elegant prose does fill one with hope.”—Michael Kazin, The Washington Post In July 2004, four years before his presidency, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. One phrase in particular anchored itself in listeners’ minds, a reminder that for all the discord and struggle to be found in our history as a nation, we have always been guided by a dogged optimism in the future, or what Obama called “the audacity of hope.&rdq
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Random House USA Inc Revolution 1989
Book SynopsisRevolution 1989 is the first in-depth, authoritative account of a few months that changed the world.At the start of 1989, six European nations were Soviet vassal states. By year's end, they had all declared national independence and embarked on the road to democracy. How did it happen so quickly? Victor Sebestyen, who was on the scene as a reporter, draws on his firsthand knowledge of the events, on scores of interviews with witnesses and participants, and on newly uncovered archival material. He tells the story through the eyes of ordinary men and women as well as through the strategic moves of world leaders. He shows how the KGB helped bring down former allies; how the United States tried to slow the process; and why the collapse of the Iron Curtain was the catalyst for the fall of the entire Soviet empire.
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Random House USA Inc Muzzled
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WW Norton & Co Public Citizens
Book SynopsisThe story of the dramatic postwar struggle over the proper role of citizens and government in American society.Trade Review"Elegantly argued and meticulously documented…Sabin makes his case intelligently and forcefully." -- Timothy Noah, New York Times Book Review"Crisp, clear, eloquent, and carefully focused on the political changes of the 1970s." -- Kim Phillips-Fein, The New Republic"Carefully researched and patiently argued." -- Louis Menand, New Yorker"There is a stereotype of the cleavage in American politics, which is that Democrats want to use the government to do big things, and Republicans don’t, and that is the fight. But if you look more deeply…there’s a bit of a divided Democratic soul here…There’s a great new book on this called Public Citizens by Paul Sabin." -- Ezra Klein on The Ezra Klein Show"[Sabin's] cogent history is timely and likely to be enduring. An insightful and squirm-inducing account of how the good guys won and then lost." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred)"Sabin crafts a coherent historical narrative out of the alphabet soup of government agencies and public interest groups, and sheds light on major developments in American politics. This deep dive delivers plenty of rewards." -- Publishers Weekly"This book could not be more timely. Paul Sabin powerfully demonstrates that the liberal postwar order was not only undercut by the rise of the right, but also by an activist left that for good reason decried government’s deafness to citizens’ needs and participation. How best to serve the public interest is the greatest challenge of our time, and we could have no better guide through the historical thicket than Sabin." -- Lizabeth Cohen, author of Saving America's Cities"Paul Sabin’s history of America’s 1960s and ’70s is directly relevant to the country’s civic, political, and ethical choices in the decades ahead. This is a surprising, insightful, and lastingly useful book." -- James Fallows, author of Our Towns"Astute and nuanced, Paul Sabin uses Ralph Nader and the public interest movement he helped spawn to tell a fascinating story of American governance and the limits of markets, regulation, and citizen action." -- Richard White, author of Railroaded"Paul Sabin has written a fascinating account of the forgotten history of public interest liberalism. Looking back at Ralph Nader and allied good government warriors, Sabin offers a powerful reminder that the attack on big government didn’t just come from the right but the left as well." -- Julian Zelizer, author of Burning Down the House"Long before 'the Reagan Revolution,' an army of citizen activists launched a searing attack on liberalism, big government, and the administrative state—and helped pave the way for market-oriented conservatism. Paul Sabin’s timely, provocative, and deeply ironic account should be required reading for everyone interested in environmentalism, consumerism, political economy, and the 1970s." -- Laura Kalman, author of The Long Reach of the Sixties
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Basic Books Adam Smith
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The University of Michigan Press Visualizing Secularism and Religion
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The University of Michigan Press The Evolution of Agrarian Institutions
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The University of Michigan Press Partisan Gerrymandering and the Construction of
Book SynopsisErik J. Engstrom offers a historical perspective on the effects of gerrymandering on elections and party control of the US national legislature. Engstrom evaluates the abundant cross-sectional and temporal variation in redistricting plans and their electoral results from all the states, from 1789 through the 1960s, to identify the causes and consequences of partisan redistricting.
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