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W. W. Norton & Company Inventing the People The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America
Book Synopsis"The best explanation that I have seen for our distinctive combination of faith, hope and naiveté concerning the governmental process." —Michael Kamman, Washington PostTrade Review"[A] provocative new study. . . . In a series of brilliant chapters, [Morgan] probes the myths that sustained eighteenth-century American notions of liberty." -- Keith Thomas - New York Review of Books"Edmund S. Morgan . . . [is] a man with a rare gift for telling the story of the past simply and elegantly without sacrificing its abundant complexity. . . . The story he tells is of enormous interest and importance." -- Pauline Meier - New York Times Book Review
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WW Norton & Co Militant Islam Reaches America
Book SynopsisOne of the most far-reaching examinations of militant Islam written to date.Trade Review"A singular and alarming insight into ideological Islam and the nurturing—at home—of the extremist and terrorist threat." -- National Post"An extraordinarily useful compendium of basic information and analysis...easily readable by the nonspecialist, yet engaging for scholars as well." -- National Review"Blunt and passionate." -- Judith Miller - New York Times"[Pipes is] an authoritative commentator on the Middle East." -- Wall Street Journal"Unlike other Middle East experts, Daniel Pipes did not need to reinvent himself or revise his opinions after September 11th." -- Robert Kaplan, author of Warrior Politics and Balkan Ghosts"Brilliantly demonstrates how Pipes knows his subject." -- Steven Emerson, author of American Jihad
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Distributional Justice Theory and Measurement
Book SynopsisIntroducing the main theories of distributional justice the book covers utilitarianism and welfare economics, moving on to Rawls''s social contract and the Sen/Nussbaum capability approach with a refreshingly readable style. There is a chapter covering the position of mothers and children in theories of justice. The book then studies empirical methods used in analysing the distribution of economic goods, covering Lorenz curves and inequality measures. The concepts of income, wealth and economic goods are comprehensively discussed, with a particular view to their role in theories of justice. This book is an important read for economists and other social scientists, as well as philosophers who want to quantify social and economic justice.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. About distibutional justice 3. Deserts and fruits of our labour 4. Welfarism: utilitarianism and welfare economics 5. John Rawls's theory of justice: the social contract 6. Equality of what? Resources and capabilities 7. Libertarianism and Marxism 8. Children and their mothers 9. Income and wealth 10. Household income 11. What we should measure? 12. Lorenz curves and inequality measures 13. Social evaluation of inequality 14. Some inequality measures 15. Poverty 16. Decomposition of inequality measures
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iUniverse Good Nazis In Office Good Niggers In Jail
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iUniverse The War For America Morality Ideology and the Big Lies of American Politics
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iUniverse Disarming the Culture War How the Silent Majority Can Break the Stalemate
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iUniverse The War For America Morality Ideology and the Big Lies of American Politics
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The American Dream In History Politics and Fiction
Book SynopsisThe decline of social mobility and the rise of income inequality - to say nothing of the extraordinary social, political, and economic developments of the Bush and Obama presidencies - have convinced many that the American Dream is no more. This is the concern that Cal Jillson addresses in The American Dream: In History, Politics, and Fiction.
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University Press of Kansas The American Counterculture A History of Hippies
Book SynopsisRestricted to the shorthand of ‘sex, drugs, and rock’n' roll’, the counterculture would seem to be a brief, vibrant stretch of the 1960s. But the American counterculture, as this book clearly demonstrates, was far more than a historical blip and its impact continues to resonate.Trade ReviewWith great clarity, precision, and impeccable documentation, Damon R. Bach has crafted an important corrective to the myths, stereotypes, and long-held misconceptions about the sixties counterculture. Impressive in its scope and depth, The American Counterculture offers a highly accessible account of a movement that encompassed both hippies and allied cultural dissidents, interacted with other social movements of the period, extended from the coasts to the heartland, inhabited both rural and urban spaces, and shifted its orientation from cultural change to engagement with a wide range of political concerns. Moving beyond monolithic, static accounts of 'hippies,' the book brings to life a movement that was continually evolving in response to other social and political currents, lasted well beyond the sixties, and left an indelible imprint on American society. Compelling and original, this book will no doubt attract the interest of scholars and students as well as the general public." —Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo, author of Daughters of Aquarius: Women of the Sixties Counterculture"The American Counterculture offers a sweeping synthesis of an important national story. With brisk pacing and a wide geographical reach, Damon Bach's book is especially valuable for its analysis of the relationship between cultural hippies and the New Left activists and the incontrovertible evidence it provides that the counterculture was not simply a bicoastal movement; it truly spread across the entire nation and made a lasting impact on American culture and politics. This is 'a trip' worth taking." —Sherry L. Smith, author of Hippies, Indians and the Fight for Red Power"The American Counterculture is like a wild road trip around the United States of the Long Sixties, with stops at familiar haunts like Haight-Ashbury and the Lower East Side as well as hidden hideaways like Portland’s Lair Hill Park, Lawrence’s Strawberry Fields head shop, and the offices of Atlanta’s Great Speckled Bird. Bach reminds us of how pervasive the counterculture became over its brief, brilliant run, and he brings a motley array of voices and sources to the project. This is an essential book for anyone wanting to understand the full scope of sixties-era youth culture." —Blake Slonecker, author of A New Dawn for the New Left: Liberation News Service, Montague Farm, and the Long Sixties"In 2017, at a conference on the 1967 Summer of Love, historians of the 1960s revisited San Francisco and lamented that no one had written the ‘big book’ on the counterculture, a book that takes readers beyond the clichÉs of sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll and examines the rise, development, demise, and legacies of the hippies. They wanted a book based on hippie documents that investigates the counterculture's relations with other movements of the 1960s, from the New Left to the antiwar movement to ecology to women’s liberation. Good news readers—this is it! Damon Bach’s American Counterculture: A History of Hippies and Cultural Dissidents is a tour de force that will become the go-to book that examines—and explains—the hippies." —Terry H. Anderson, author of The Movement and the Sixties: Protest in America from Greensboro to Wounded Knee
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Xlibris Corporation It Can Happen Here A Fascist Christian America Volume I 1
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Rlpg/Galleys Dragon in Ambush
Book SynopsisDragon in Ambush by Jeremy Ingalls is a critique and new translation of the first twenty poems of Mao Zedong's published poetry. This seminal work stands out from previous translations of Mao's poems in seeing them as an expression of his core political beliefs, rather than for their poetic effect. Instead, Dr. Ingalls shows in consummate detail that Mao was careful and deliberate in employing imagery in his poetry to lay out procedures for political supremacy in which the central drive was his will to psychological domination. That is, domination of the minds of others is the unifying theme of Mao's verse-sequence. The crux of Prof. Ingalls' work lies in her focus on the symbolism in the poems. The poems are, in Mao's use of them as a means of communication, meaningless on their surface. No image, however seemingly commonplace, is ever employed for merely lyrical or aesthetic description. Every image functions as a factor in an entirely political calculus. According to Dr. Ingalls, Trade ReviewCarefully translating and analyzing Mao's first 20 published poems for their political expression, the late Ingalls (poet, scholar, editor, and translator) presents Mao's poetry as an extension of his political thought rather than simply a leisure activity. After all, within China, poems had a long history of playing a role as political gauges. Part 1 establishes the historical and literary background needed to understand Mao's poems and his desire to become China's next emperor. Part 2 provides a more detailed literary, ideological, and textural analysis of each poem through Ingalls's examination of the ideas and words that explain the 'paradox that [Mao] understands but which ... he does not expect all of his readers to perceive.' This is an exceptionally well-written text, with extensive analytical notes, a bibliography, and a glossary of characters used. Readers do not have to be familiar with Mao's poems, but to fully benefit from this work, readers must be familiar with Mao's other writings and the writings of his contemporaries, with Chinese literary tradition, and with Chinese history from ancient times through the 20th century. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. * CHOICE *Dragon in Ambush is immensely detailed. . . .[The author's] emphasis is a much-needed corrective to the work of the many earlier translators and compilers, Chinese and foreign, who have been far too reverential toward Mao. Ingalls surpasses her predecessors in the detail and erudition of her work, and in the end conveys a sense of the inner Mao that is more credible than theirs. * The New York Review Of Books *Ingalls provides a seminal translation of twenty of Mao’s poems, which will be of interest to many scholars across multiple fields. Her assertion that Mao intended to deliver a series of military and political messages for potential successors, which combine to endorse a strategy of ruthless psychological domination, represents a thought-provoking proposition, albeit one which may have been formed using subjective interpretations and a teleological approach. The work has considerable merit. * E-International Relations *Jeremy Ingalls’s translations and analysis may be. . . .informative and educative to government policy makers and researchers, scholars, and students seeking to understand the impact of Mao Zedong on his country. It would also provide readers with the fundamentals in discovering why the People’s Republic of China in the twentieth-first century has advanced to the level of a colossal global power. * Asian Affairs *Jeremy Ingalls’ translation and explication of Mao Zedong’s poems is an extraordinary work, so full of information that it seems bursting at its roughly 500-page seams. . . .Ingalls book is a rich source of information about Mao’s poetic work, and in some respects his personal and political philosophy. * Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *Table of ContentsPreface Part 1: Recognizing the Terrain Chapter 1: Methods of Approach Chapter 2: A Rationale for Ruthlessness Part 2: Mao’s Poems 1 – 20 Section A: A Dragon Bides His Time, 1925-1929 Poem 1 Changsha Poem 2 Yellow Crane Tower Poem 3 Jingangshan Poem 4 Chiang’s War Section B: Hidden Dragon, 1929-1934 Poem 5: Double Yang Poem 6: New Year’s Day Poem 7: On the Road to Guangchang Poem 8: From Tingzhou toward Changsha Poem 9: Eluding the First Major Encirclement Poem 10: Eluding the Second Major Encirclement Poem 11: Dabodi Poem 12: Huichang Section C: Dragon in the Field, 1935-1949 Poem 13: Loushan Barrier Gate Poems 14, 15, 16: Mountain Poems Poem 17: The Long March Poem 18: Kunlun Poem 19: Six Turns’ Mountain Poem 20: Snow
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Dismantling Tyranny
Book SynopsisWhen a totalitarian group seizes power, one of the first institutions it creates is a secret political police. Since the birth of modern totalitarianism, in country after country, secret political police have been the predominant instruments of power, used to consolidate power, neutralize the opposition, and erect a one-party state. Yet, when these same totalitarian regimes have liberalized or collapsed, the secret political police have often managed to survive and even remain relevant. Dismantling Tyranny: Transitioning Beyond Totalitarian Regimes provides a groundbreaking exploration of this survival tendency in seven formerly communist regimes in the former Soviet Union and Latin America - and the lessons these transformations hold for future democratic revolutions. But Dismantling Tyranny is also much more: it is a guidebook designed to empower, inform, and guide future transitions toward democracy for those political leaders with the initiative, and courage, to embark upon such Trade Review... a most interesting book. -- Georgie Anne GeyerTable of ContentsPart 1 Preface Part 2 Introduction: The Centrality of the Secret Police Chapter 3 Russia: Death and Resurrection of the KGB Chapter 4 Czech Republic: Cui Bono, Cui Podest? Chapter 5 East Germany: The Stasi and De-Stasification Chapter 6 Estonia: Toward Post-Communist Reconstruction Chapter 7 Lithuania: A Problem of Disclosure Chapter 8 Nicaragua: Tropical Chekists Chapter 9 Poland: Continuity and Change Chapter 10 Conclusion: Past as Prologue
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Pluto Press Ideology and Superstructure in Historical
Book SynopsisA pioneering account demystifying Marxist dialectics and critiquing key materialist thinkers.Table of Contentsintroduction by Frank Furedi Franz Jakubowski: an introductory note CONSCIOUSNESS AND BEING I The Critique of Hegelian Idealism The Critique of Feuerbach's Materialism II The Marxian problematic of base and superstructure Base Superstructure The Dialectical Relationship III Distortion and renewal by Marx's followers The Distortion of the Question by the Epigones The Beginnings of Renewal FALSE AND CORRECT CONSCIOUSNESS IV Alienation and reification The Self-alienation of Man and Commodity Fetishism Reification in Base and Superstructure V Ideology Ideology and the Concept of the Concrete Totality Ideology and the Classes of Bourgeois Society VI Proletarian Class consciousness The Proletariat as Subject-Object in Capitalism Class Ideology and Class Consciousness Marxism as Ideology and as Humanism Notes Index
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Pluto Press Félix Guattari
Book SynopsisAn accessible introduction to the methods, theory and ideas of the radical French thinkerTrade Review'A brilliant, long overdue book. It shows once and for all that Guattari was not merely one half of one of the twentieth century's greatest intellectual collaborations, but also a powerful thinker in his own right' -- Ian Buchanan, Professor of Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University, founding editor of the Deleuze Studies Journal'Provides valuable insight into the ideas that animated Guattari's thought as well as his life. It is a superb introduction to key concepts such as schizoanalysis, transversality, a-signifying semiotics and various kinds of machine' -- Professor Paul Patton, University of New South Wales'Offers us so effective a critical introduction to the work of Guattari that it leads its reader to think that the century of crisis in which we are currently immersed could well be Guattarian' -- Professor Eric Alliez, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University. Author of The Signature of the World: What is Deleuze and Guattari's Philosophy? (2004) and Capital Times (1994)Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Formation of a Young Militant 2. Transversality and Politics 3. Subjectivity, Art, and Ecosophy 4. A-signifying Semiotics 5: Informatic Striation 6. Minor Cinema 7. Affect and Epilepsy Conclusion References Index
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Pluto Press Marx
Book SynopsisAn accessible and comprehensive overview of the ideas of Karl Marx that elucidates his theories and suggests crucial alternatives to capitalismTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Rebel with a Cause 2. A for Profit Society 3. Alienation 4. Social Class 5. Gender and Race 6. How We are Kept in Line 7. Historical Materialism 8. Crash: How the System Implodes 9. Utopia or Revolution 10. After the Revolution 11. The Economics of Socialism 12. Into the Beyond Notes Guide to Further Reading Select Bibliography Index
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Pluto Press Constructing China
Book SynopsisHow media and government across the globe manipulate our understanding of ChinaTrade Review'Mobo Gao is one of the most creative and stimulating thinkers on contemporary Chinese issues today. This splendid book on fundamental questions about what China is maintains his ability to target key questions which might often be asked, but seldom treated in such elegantly provocative fashion' -- Kerry Brown, Professor of Chinese Studies and Director, Lau China Institute'Mobo Gao intervenes in the increasingly tense ideological exchange that has accompanied China's challenge to the global hegemony of the West. Intimately familiar with the intellectual terrain in both worlds, Gao offers unique insights, at once indignant and introspective' -- Joel Andreas, John Hopkins University, author of Rise of the Red Engineers: The Cultural Revolution and the Origins of China's New Class'A bold, revisionist account citing much historical evidence and presenting interpretations that challenge mainstream views of China ...Gao makes a provocative case that will spark vigourous debate about the country and its leaders' motives' -- Dorothy J. Solinger, Professor Emerita, University of California, Irvine'This book engages a fundamental question in politics and history concerning discursive power. It is forcefully argued and highly stimulating. The compelling case Mobo Gao makes deserves broad attention for its significance and urgency in debating the hegemonic ascendance of revisionist historiography' -- Lin Chun, author of China and Global Capitalism: Reflections on Marxism, History and Contemporary Politics (2013)Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Scholarship, National Interest and Conceptual Paradigm 2. China, What China? 3. Chinese? Who are the Chinese? 4. Intellectual Poverty of the Chinese Neo-Enlightenment 5. The Coordinated Efforts in Constructing China 6. Why is the Cultural Revolution Cultural? 7. Why is the Cultural Revolution Revolutionary? The Legacies 8. Clashing Views of the Great Leap Forward 9. National Interest and Transnational Interest: The Political and Intellectual Elite in the West 10. Geopolitics and National Interest I: China’s Foreign Policy and Domestic Politics 11. Geopolitics and National Interest II: The South China Sea Disputes Bibliography Index
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Polity Press The Analysis of Ideology
Book Synopsis1. The book challenges the ways in which ideology-critique has ascribed 'irrational' grounds to why people often believe false or debatable theories 2. Boudon offers a comprehensive overview of theories of ideology and formulates a controversial framework for the analysis of ideology 3.Table of ContentsForeword. Prologue. 1. A Question (among others) on Ideology. Part I 2. What is Ideology? 3. Is Homo Ideologicus (always) Irrational? 4. Journey Round a Table. Part II 5. Outline of a Restricted Theory of Ideology. 6. Ideology, Social Position and Dispositions. 7. Ideology and Communication. 8. Science and Ideology. Part III 9. Two Case Studies. 10. Against Scepticism. Notes. Index.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The PostSoviet Politics of Utopia
Book SynopsisPer-Arne Bodin is Professor of Slavic Languages at Stockholm University. Mikhail Suslov is Assistant Professor of Russian History and Politics at University of Copenhagen.Trade ReviewSuslov and Bodin have assembled a comprehensive guide to some very strange (but very fascinating) worlds. Some of them are frightening to visit, but the book’s readers could not be in better hands. * Eliot Borenstein, Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, New York University, USA *Speculative fiction does not just imagine the future of Putin’s Russia – one of its primary tasks is to process the traumatic legacy of the Soviet Union’s collapse. Thus it is not a coincidence, or a trick of marketing, that makes speculative fiction of all sorts (utopian, dystopian, science fiction, fantasy, alt-history, horror) the most widely read literature in Russia today. This volume is a much-needed guide to key authors and trends in post-Soviet utopian writing. * Yvonne H. Howell, Professor of Russian and International Studies, University of Richmond, USA *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: Per-Arne Bodin and Mikhail Suslov PART 1 Chapter 1: Alternative Russian Revolution: Viacheslav Rybakov and Kir Bulychev, Go Koshino Chaper 2: Ressentiment and post-traumatic syndrome in Russian post-Soviet speculative fiction: Two trends, Maria Galina Chapter 3: Telluro-Cosmic Imperial Utopia and Contemporary Russian Art, Maria Engström Chapter 4: Lazarus on the Ark: Heterotopias in the Novels of Vladimir Sharov and Evgenii Vodolazkin, Muireann Maguire PART 2 Chapter 5: Conservative science fiction in contemporary Russian literature and politics, Mikhail Suslov Chapter 6: Othering Russia: Eduard Limonov’s Retrofuturistic (Anti-) Utopia, Andrei Rogatchevski Chapter 7: Religio-political utopia by Iana Zavatskaia, Anastasia V. Mitrofanova Chapter 8: “Respectable Xenophobia:”Science Fiction, Utopia and Conspiracy, Viktor Shnirel’man PART 3 Chapter 9: Church Slavonic in Russian dystopias and utopias, Per-Arne Bodin Chapter 10: Contested Utopias: Language Ideologies in Valerii Votrin’s Logoped, Ingunn Lunde Chapter 11: ‘Londongrad’ as a Linguistic Imaginary: Russophone migrants in the UK in the work of Michael Idov and Andrei Ostalsky, Lara Ryazanova-Clarke PART 4 Chapter 12: ‘Provinces, Piety, and Promotional Putinism: Mapping Aleksandr Prokhanov’s Counter-Utopian Russia’, Edith W. Clowes Chapter 13: Parameters of Space-Time and Degrees of (Un)-Freedom: Dmitry Bykov’s ZhD, Sofya Khagi Chapter 14: The new “norma”: Vladimir Sorokin’s Telluria and post-utopian science fiction, Mark Lipovetsky AFTERWARD: Back to the Future, Forward to the Past? An Afterword on Explorations in Russian Science Fiction and Fantasy, Kåre Johan Mjør, Sanna Turoma SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) In Search of Greater Syria
Book SynopsisChristopher Solomon is an analyst specializing in Middle East history and politics, and works for a US defense consultancy in Washington, D.C., USA.Trade ReviewA needed analysis of a dynamic group pursuing political change ... This book should be required for advanced students navigating the modern history of the Levant. * Choice *Provides the reader with an accessible and comprehensive overview of the [SSNP's] history. * The Middle East Journal *Chris Solomon provides an insightful and invaluable account into one of the oldest political movements in the Levant. Abundant with assassinations, betrayals and military coups, there is no dull moment in the history of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party which continues to be very relevant today as Solomon demonstrates in this book. It is a vital resource for anyone aiming to understand Levantine politics and modern history. -- Rim Turkmani, London School of Economics and Political Science, UKIn Search of Greater Syria is interesting, bright, eloquent and readable, presenting the reader with the first comprehensive picture of the history of the SSNP. This is therefore a must-read book for anyone seeking to learn the history of the party but also the turbulent history of Syria and Lebanon. * Eyal Zisser, Tel Aviv University, Israel *In Search of Greater Syria is the most detailed account ever written on the fascinating political movement of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party.Christopher Solomon analyses with great skill how this relatively small anti-sectarian and secular party, which eschewed ethnicity and language in favor of history and territory, has been attractive for people from minorities in both Syria and Lebanon. He shows eloquently how the SSNP developed from a fierce competitor of the Ba’th Party in Syria during the 1950s, into being its ally during the Syrian civil war (which started in 2011). While the SNNP over the decades pragmatically scaled down its original ideal of a wider Fertile Crescent unity (including Iraq) in favor of a more restricted unity of a Greater Syria (including Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine), the pan-Arab ideals of the Ba’th regime in Syria likewise faded down in favor of a kind of pan-Syrianism, as a result of which both parties, ideologically speaking, came closer to one another. This study shows convincingly that the SSNP will be an essential factor to watch in the future, as long as this party does not overplay its hand, as a result of which it would risk renewed persecution. -- Nikolaos van Dam, former Dutch ambassador and author of Destroying a Nation: The Civil War in Syria.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction and why the SSNP matters Chapter 2: The Party of the Martyr Chapter 3: The SSNP’s Ideology Chapter 4: The SSNP’s beginnings in Syria Chapter 5: Under the shadow of Nasser Chapter 6: The Lebanese Civil War Chapter 7: From guerillas to politicians, the SSNP in Lebanese politics Chapter 8: The SSNP in the Syrian Civil War Chapter 9: Women, youth, and social media Chapter 10: The SSNP’s future in Syria Key figures and factions A list of SSNP presidents A timeline of the SSNP's factions and historic splits
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AuthorHouse The Ultimate Revolution
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University of Ottawa Press Driving the Fake Out of Public Administration
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Johns Hopkins University Press Problems of Democratic Transition and
Book SynopsisProblems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation contains the first systematic comparative analysis of the process of democratic consolidation in southern Europe and the southern cone of South America, and it is the first book to ground post-Communist Europe within the literature of comparative politics and democratic theory.Trade ReviewAn absolutely major work that represents probably the most significant contribution to the burgeoning literature on democratization over the past decade and the most ambitious effort to move the debate beyond the seminal work on transition, Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Prospects for Democracy by Guillermo O'Donnell, Philippe Schmitter, and Laurence Whitehead (1986), by considering the problem of democratization in light of the dramatic regime changes in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. -- Gerardo L. Munck Slavic ReviewTable of ContentsList of Figures, Tables, and ExhibitsPreface and AcknowledgmentsPart I: Theoretical OverviewChapter 1. Democracy and its ArenasChapter 2. "Stateness," Nationalism, and Democratization Chapter 3. Modern Nondemocratic RegimesChapter 4. The Implications of Prior Regime Type for Transition Paths and Consolidation TasksChapter 5. Actors and ContextsPart II: Southern Europe: Completed ConsolidationsChapter 6. The Paradigmatic Case of Reforma Pactada–Ruptura Pactada: SpainChapter 7. From Interim Government to Simultaneous Transition and Consolidation: Portugal Chapter 8. Crisis of a Nonhierarchical Military Regime: GreeceChapter 9. Southern Europe: Concluding ReflectionsPart III: South America: Constrained TransitionsChapter 10. A Risk-Prone Consolidated Democracy: UruguayChapter 11. Crises of Efficacy, Legitimacy, and Democratic State "Presence": Brazil Chapter 12. From an Impossible to a Possible Democratic Game: ArgentinaChapter 13. Incomplete Transition/Near Consolidation? ChileChapter 14. South America: Concluding ReflectionsPart IV: Post-Communist Europe: The Most Complex Paths and TasksChapter 15. Post-Communism's PrehistoriesChapter 16. Authoritarian Communism, Ethical Civil Society, and Ambivalent Political Society: PolandChapter 17. Varieties of Post-Totalitarian Regimes: Hungary, Czechoslovakia, BulgariaChapter 18. The Effects of Totalitarianism-cum-Sultanism on Democratic Transition: RomaniaChapter 19. The Problems of "Stateness" and Transitions: The USSR and RussiaChapter 20. When Democracy and the Nation-State Are Conflicting Logics: Estonia and LatviaChapter 21. Post-Communist Europe: Concluding Comparative ReflectionsIndex
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina A Shattered Nation The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy 18611868
Book SynopsisPresents an argument that white Southerners did not begin to formulate a national identity until it became evident that the Confederacy was destined to fight a lengthy war against the Union. This book also demonstrates that an attachment to a symbolic or sentimental Confederacy existed independent of the political Confederacy.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux All in the Family The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s
Book SynopsisArgues that the separate threads of that realignment - from civil rights to women's rights, from the antiwar movement to Nixon's "silent majority," from the abortion wars to gay marriage, from the welfare state to neoliberal economic policies - all ran through the politicized American family.
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Random House USA Inc The Rise of Rome The Making of the Worlds
Book SynopsisNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE KANSAS CITY STARFrom Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian, comes a riveting, magisterial account of Rome and its remarkable ascent from an obscure agrarian backwater to the greatest empire the world has ever known. Emerging as a market town from a cluster of hill villages in the eighth and seventh centuries B.C., Rome grew to become the ancient world’s preeminent power. Everitt fashions the story of Rome’s rise to glory into an erudite page-turner filled with lasting lessons for our time. He chronicles the clash between patricians and plebeians that defined the politics of the Republic. He shows how Rome’s shrewd strategy of offering citizenship to her defeated subjects was instrumental in expanding the reach of her burgeoning empire. And he outlines the corrosion of constitutional norms that accompanied Rome&rsq
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Fixing the System A History of Populism Ancient and Modern
Book SynopsisPopulism is distinguished from other political movements by its insistence on two things conspicuously missing from modern systems of political economy: genuine democracy based on local citizen assemblies, and the widespread distribution among the population of privately-owned economic capital. This book offers an historical account of populism.Trade Review"Fixing the System is, as it were, a rare new book, one in which a serious political theorist does startlingly original and important thinking about populism, democracy, and our present American society. Tracing the history of populism through two and a half centuries, Kuzminski eviscerates the allegedly democratic American system as collective authoritarianism and presents populism rooted in decentralized economic justice as an approximately egalitarian democratic alternative. Expect, if you read Kuzminski, to be shaken up where it most matters: in your mind."- Ronnie Dugger, founding editor of The Texas Observer and co-founder of the Alliance for Democracy."Kuzminski (philosophy, Hartwick College) laments the substitution of representative democracy and capitalist economics, amounting to plutocracy, for a genuinely democratic system of direct popular rule by citizens who "do not differ significantly in wealth and power."...Kuzminski's rhetoric is shrill, his political and economic judgments unsupported by factual evidence, and his prose repetitive and filled with typos. Summing Up: Not recommended." - D. Schaefer, CHOICE, January 2009 -- Negative"This gracefully written, broadly researched study is a work of many aspects. It is part history and part philosophy and also has a psychological dimension....More important: Fixing the System is sound intellectual history, a serious contribution to the study of American economic and political thought. Kuzminski is an intellectual, a thinker, and all the populist writers, from Phaleas via Aristotle through Harrington, Jefferson, Kellogg et al., have been intellectuals, thinkers. They presented their ideas in books and essays and in letters. They did not institute their ideas or make notable efforts to institute them. Kuzminski's notable contribution is not in the presentation of practical measure to achieve political and economic equality but to present an ideal system for that achievement...This is a serious study by a deeply thoughtful observer of present-day politics and economics and a student of the complexities of these activities through the centuries...It should be read by anyone interested in the human past and the human present." -New York History, Spring 2008"Focusing primarily on populism in the West, Kuzminski traces populism's origins back to the days of Greek city states such as Athens. He also offers a withering critique of the state of most Western democracies, which he views as corporate oligarchies that perpetuate themselves by means of plebiscites that only provide passive popular acquiescence to the chosen policies of an elite. And he writes that no system can be called democratic unless citizens are owners of property and have a direct, active involvement in the formation of the policies of their government. Populists claim that ‘property for all' means the widespread personal ownership of private capital sufficient to establish the relative economic independence of citizens. When none are rich enough to dominate others, and none are poor enough to be dominated, the public rather than the private interest is likely to be served."David Isenberg, The Journal of Peace ResearchTable of ContentsChapter One: The Insight of Phaleas; Chapter Two: Kinship Precedents; Chapter Three: European Populism; Chapter Four: American Populism; Appendix: Jefferson's Ward Republics; Bibliography.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) ARENDT A GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED BY FRY KARIN AAUTHORPAPERBACK
Book SynopsisHannah Arendt is considered to be one of the influential political thinkers of the twentieth century. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Arendt's key ideas and texts. It examines some of the important themes of Hannah Arendt's work, as well as the controversies surrounding it.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Totalitarianism and the Banality of Evil; 3. Philosophical Thought and the Human Condition; 4. Freedom and Practical Politics; 5. Life of the Mind and Political Judgment; 6. Arendt's Critics; Bibliography; Index.
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Vanderbilt University Press To Give Their Gifts
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Vanderbilt University Press To Give Their Gifts
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Vanderbilt University Press The Political Centrist
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. Introduction to Socialism
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O'Brien Press Ltd Sinn Féin
Book SynopsisThe fascinating story of one of the oldest and most controversial parties in Irish politics over the last hundred years.Trade Review'Already confirmed as an astute observer of the political landscape here, Brian Feeney is well placed to document and analyse the progress of Sinn Fein ... He is also adept at covering the genesis and early development of a movement which, more than any other, shaped the destiny of this country over the past 100 years.' -- Fermanagh Herald'(T)he first comprehensive account ever written on the history of the party. Feeney has managed to do that with an account that is well-written and always easy to read ... With contributions from Danny Morrison, Tom Hartley, Jim Gibney and Ruairi Ó Brádaigh and drawing on the writings of Gerry Adams, Feeney's latest book ... will become a reference point for every student of Irish history.' -- North Belfast News'For anyone wishing to understand the changing fortunes of Sinn Féin, Brian Feeney's book will be essential, indeed vital reading ... He manages at the same time to be judicious, well informed and un-academic.' -- Irish Catholic * The Irish Catholic *'Fascinating and engrossing ... This excellent book will to appeal those interested in Irish history and Irish political history in particular.' -- Bray People * Bray People *'Should be required reading for all those who believe that Sinn Fein is incapable of being anything other than what they insist it has always been. Certainly it will be the starting point definitive text on the subject of political republicanism, standing alongside the histories of the IRA written by Tim Pat Coogan and J. Bowyer-Bell.' -- Ulster Herald'Timely reading for those who wish to gain a balanced perspective of a movement which claims to be the dynamo of change in both the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland.' -- Evening Herald * Evening Herald *'Feeney's books serves as useful overview and is to be welcomed' -- Irish Democrat'This is an easy read, a popular history which glitters with insight and valuably illuminates the present ... the elegant way he has laid out a mass of fact, quote, reminiscence and deft observation in a work which, among its other qualities, includes the best and most level-headed account of the Provos in the Peace Process yet to emerge.' -- Eamonn McCann - The Sunday Tribune * The Sunday Tribune *'An analytical and narrative masterpiece ... Brian Feeney has managed to recount the roller-coaster history of Sinn Féin in a balanced and extremely vivid manner.' -- Professor Declan Kiberd'Historian and political journalist Feeney is well qualified to make this a definitive text on the vast list of figures and their advances as well as setbacks in this phoenix of a party.' -- Books Ireland * Books Ireland *'Feeney's book represents the first attempt to outline the long-term historical development of Sinn Féin both as a party and as a movement ... Feeney's analysis of the early years of Sinn Féin in Northern Ireland, and its more recent history as part of the burgeoning peace process, is masterful, fast-moving and well-argued.' -- Derry People Donegal News * Derry People & Donegal News *'Brian Feeney's history of the party is obviously timely. It is also impressive. Feeney ... diligently traces the party through its various incarnations from the loose grouping launched by Arthur Griffith in 1905 to the slick machine of today. Feeney's work is clear, thorough and fluently written.' -- Sunday Business Post * Sunday Business Post *'Already confirmed as an astute observer of the political landscape here, 'Brian Feeney is well placed to document and analyse the progress of Sinn Fein ... He is also adept at covering the genesis and early development of a movement which, more than any other, shaped the destiny of this country over the past 100 years.' -- Fermanagh Herald'(T)he first comprehensive account ever written on the history of the party. Feeney has managed to do that with an account that is well-written and always easy to read ... With contributions from Danny Morrison, Tom Hartley, Jim Gibney and Ruairi Ó Brádaigh and drawing on the writings of Gerry Adams, Feeney's latest book ... will become a reference point for every student of Irish history.' -- North Belfast News'For anyone wishing to understand the changing fortunes of Sinn Féin, Brian Feeney's book will be essential, indeed vital reading ... He manages at the same time to be judicious, well informed and un-academic.' -- Irish Catholic * The Irish Catholic *'Fascinating and engrossing ... This excellent book will to appeal those interested in Irish history and Irish political history in particular.' -- Bray People * Bray People *'Should be required reading for all those who believe that Sinn Fein is incapable of being anything other than what they insist it has always been. Certainly it will be the starting point definitive text on the subject of political republicanism, standing alongside the histories of the IRA written by Tim Pat Coogan and J. Bowyer-Bell.' -- Ulster Herald'Timely reading for those who wish to gain a balanced perspective of a movement which claims to be the dynamo of change in both the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland.' -- Evening Herald * Evening Herald *'This is an easy read, a popular history which glitters with insight and valuably illuminates the present ... the elegant way he has laid out a mass of fact, quote, reminiscence and deft observation in a work which, among its other qualities, includes the best and most level-headed account of the Provos in the Peace Process yet to emerge.' -- Eamonn McCann - The Sunday Tribune * The Sunday Tribune *'An analytical and narrative masterpiece ... Brian Feeney has managed to recount the roller-coaster history of Sinn Féin in a balanced and extremely vivid manner.' -- Professor Declan Kiberd'Historian and political journalist Feeney is well qualified to make this a definitive text on the vast list of figures and their advances as well as setbacks in this phoenix of a party.' -- Books Ireland * Books Ireland *'Feeney's book represents the first attempt to outline the long-term historical development of Sinn Féin both as a party and as a movement ... Feeney's analysis of the early years of Sinn Féin in Northern Ireland, and its more recent history as part of the burgeoning peace process, is masterful, fast-moving and well-argued.' -- Derry People Donegal News * Derry People & Donegal News *'Brian Feeney's history of the party is obviously timely. It is also impressive. Feeney ... diligently traces the party through its various incarnations from the loose grouping launched by Arthur Griffith in 1905 to the slick machine of today. Feeney's work is clear, thorough and fluently written.' -- Sunday Business Post * Sunday Business Post *
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