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New York University Press The Sex Obsession
Book SynopsisFinalist, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ StudiesOffers a way to undo the inextricable American knot of sex, politics, religion, and powerAmerican politics are obsessed with sex. Before the first televised presidential debate, John F. Kennedy trailed Richard Nixon in the polls. As Americans tuned in, however, they found Kennedy a younger, more vivacious, and more attractive choice than Nixon. Sexier. The political significance of Kennedy's telegenic sex appeal is now widely accepted but taking sexual politics seriously is not. Janet R. Jakobsen examines how, for the last several decades, gender and sexuality have reappeared time and again at the center of political life, marked by a series of widely recognized issues and movements women's liberation and gay liberation in the 1960s and '70s, the AIDS crisis and ACT UP in the 80s and '90s, welfare and immigration reform in the 90s, wars claiming to save women in the 2000s, and battles overTrade ReviewIt has become common sense that U.S. politics around issues of sex, race, and gender are an intransigent political struggle between Christian conservatives and secular libertines. Yet how true is this narrative—and whom does it serve? Jakobsen argues this simplistic dichotomy of religious traditionalists vs. secular progressives shores up, rather than dismantles, persistent inequalities ... Highly recommended for those seeking greater clarity about how sex, race, and gender are mobilized in American political life. * STARRED Library Journal *Janet Jakobsen’s The Sex Obsession is a tremendous book; it makes a major contribution to our understanding of US culture. In four crisp chapters, Jakobsen convincingly demonstrates that many of our most strongly held assumptions about politics and sex are false—and also dangerous. She skillfully highlights the ways in which narratives of ‘progress’ produce skewed understandings of US culture and politics. Jakobsen’s analysis of the complicated relationships between secular ideologies and religious ones is especially compelling. The Sex Obsession is both timely and brilliant.” -- David Harrington Watt, author of Antifundamentalism in Modern AmericaJakobsen presents an interesting, loosely structured series of cases to support the thesis that American politics is characterized by a tension between a white, Protestant, and evangelical conception of the family animating conservatives and a secular mimicry of that ideal animating Liberals. * Choice *An essential companion to this moment and all that troubles it, The Sex Obsession begins with the beguiling question, why is sex everywhere in US policy debates? It then refutes the commonsensical answer: because of religion. By showing how the secular/religious binary clouds an understanding of the dense intersections between myriad social forces, Janet Jakobsen offers a brilliant, riveting, and incisive study full of transformative conceptions of the possible and previously hidden passages to social change. Read this book to imagine life differently.” -- Mary Pat Brady, author of Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies: Chicana Literature and the Urgency of SpaceShreds our common-sense narratives about sexual politics in the United States. The author dismantles the misleading opposition between religious regulation and secular freedom and leads us through a dynamic intersectional analysis to a provocatively thrilling call for theoretical promiscuity and relational perversity in the service of an expansive practice of social justice. This meticulously argued, groundbreaking book is a must-read for all of us engaged in building another world from the ground up. -- Lisa Duggan, author of Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of GreedThis original and deeply learned book provides a compelling examination of sexual politics over the past five decades in relation to religious intolerance as well as the possibilities for an expansive ethics of care. Jakobsen brings together queer, feminist, critical race, postcolonial, disability, and religious studies to analyze how and why sex has come to overshadow other progressive values for evaluating moral wellbeing, such as economic equality, racial justice, opposition to war, and environmental health. Jakobsen’s argument is irrefutable: until we recognize the complex relations among the sexual, the economic, and the political, we undermine the prospects for alliance building and social justice. -- David L. Eng, author of The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Radicalization of IntimacyIn The Sex Obsession, Janet R. Jakobsen offers a masterful analysis of a question that has drawn the attention of many commentators on US religions: “Why sex?” ... Should become required reading for scholars. * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Feminist and queer scholarship in religious studies will undoubtedly benefit immensely from Jakobsen’s kaleidoscopic approach to what sex and religion have to contribute to the project of imagining and materializing alternative worlds. * Reading Religion *
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New York University Press The Utopia Reader Second Edition
Book SynopsisThe Utopia Reader compiles primary texts from a variety of authors and movements in the history of theorizing utopias. Utopianism is defined as the various ways of imagining, creating, or analyzing the ways and means of creating an ideal or alternative society. Prominent writers and scholars across history have long explored how or why to envision different ways of life. The volume includes texts from classical Greek literature, the Old Testament, and Plato's Republic, to Sir Thomas More's Utopia, to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and beyond. By balancing well-known and obscure examples, the text provides a comprehensive and definitive collection of the various ways Utopias have been conceived throughout history and how Utopian ideals have served as criticisms of existing sociocultural conditions. This new edition includes many historically well-known works, little known but influential texts, and contemporary writings, providing an even more expansive coverage of the varietiTrade Review"The Utopia Reader is the place to start a literary voyage into new futures, possible futures, and dangerous alternative futures. These well-selected readings let the reader know that there is neither a shared perfect future nor a shared perfect interpretation. Accessible and provocative." -- Jean Pfaelzer,author of The Utopian Novel in America: the Politics of a Literary Form"How utopianto see something that was very good get better. This second edition includes an expanded introduction that addresses the complexities of defining utopia, significant additions to several sections, and an entirely new section on the 21st century that includes young adult dystopias and non-print utopias." -- Kenneth Roemer,author of Utopian Audiences
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New York University Press Federalism and Subsidiarity
Book SynopsisWhat are the best justifications for and conceptions of federalism? What are the most useful criteria for deciding what powers should be allocated to national governments and what powers reserved to state or provincial governments? What are the implications of the principle of subsidiarity for such questions? This book deals with these questions.Trade ReviewThe essays in this volume represent interesting and thoughtful contributions toward a full theorization of the relationship between subsidiarity and federalism within the domestic political paradigm. * Publius *Table of ContentsPreface James E. Fleming and Jacob T. LevyContributors PART I. FEDERALISM, POSITIVE BENEFITS, AND NEGATIVE LIBERTIES 1. Defending Dual Federalism: A Self-Defeating Act Sotirios A. Barber 2. Defending Dual Federalism: A Bad Idea, but Not Self-Defeating Michael Blake 3. The Puzzling Persistence of Dual Federalism Ernest A. Young 4. Foot Voting, Federalism, and Political Freedom Ilya SominPART II. CONSTITUTIONS, FEDERALISM, AND SUBSIDIARITY 5. Federalism and Subsidiarity: Perspectives from U.S. Constitutional Law Steven G. Calabresi and Lucy D. Bickford 6. Subsidiarity, the Judicial Role, and the Warren Court's Contribution to the Revival of State Government Vicki C. Jackson 7. Competing Conceptions of Subsidiarity Andreas Follesdal 8. Subsidiarity and Robustness: Building the Adaptive Ef?ciency of Federal Systems Jenna BednarPART III. THE ENTRENCHMENT OF LOCAL AND PROVINCIAL AUTONOMY, INTEGRITY,AND PARTICIPATION 9. Cities and Federalism Daniel Weinstock 10. Cities, Subsidiarity, and Federalism Loren King 11. The Constitutional Entrenchment of Federalism Jacob T. LevyPART IV. REMAPPING FEDERALISM(S) 12. Federalism(s)' Forms and Norms: Contesting Rights, De-essentializing Jurisdictional Divides, and Temporizing Accommodations Judith ResnikIndex
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New York University Press Feminist Manifestos
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFeminist Manifestos provides an impressive and unprecedented archive of feminist activism. This rich compendium includes feminist petitions, manifestos, resolutions, charters and declarations from fifty countries, starting in 1642 and ending in 2017. Each selection is accompanied by informative introductions. Ive been waiting for a book like this and cant wait to assign it in my courses -- Amrita Basu,Author of Violent Conjunctures in Democratic IndiaThis inspiring collection is breathtaking in its originality and daring in its premise. Reading the words collectively authored when feminists come together in struggle conveys the passion that inspires activism. Feminists thinking together in these manifestos provide hopeful and energizing answers to the question of what feminism is, challenging the categories and waves into which such variety is often awkwardly packaged. -- Myra Marx Ferree,Author of Varieties of Feminism: German Gender Politics In Global PerspectiveThis extensive, rich, and diverse anthology of collective feminist declarations is a vital source for understanding the long, global history of feminism. -- Estelle B. Freedman,Author of No Turning Back and The Essential Feminist Reader
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New York University Press Drawdown
Book SynopsisAnalyzes the cultural attitudes, political decisions, and institutions surrounding the maintenance of armed forces throughout American history While traditionally, Americans view expensive military structure as a poor investment and a threat to liberty, they also require a guarantee of that very freedom, necessitating the employment of armed forces. Beginning with the seventeenth-century wars of the English colonies, Americans typically increased their military capabilities at the beginning of conflicts only to decrease them at the apparent conclusion of hostilities. In Drawdown: The American Way of Postwar, a stellar team of military historians argue that the United States sometimes managed effective drawdowns, sowing the seeds of future victory that Americans eventually reaped. Yet at other times, the drawing down of military capabilities undermined our readiness and flexibility, leading to more costly wars and perhaps defeat. The political choice to reduce military capabilities is iTrade ReviewIn Drawdown, the contributors explain how and why America, despite repeated lessons, failed to sustain ready military forces in sufficient scale to secure the nation. Jason Warren has pulled together well-researched and accessible essays that shed light and understanding on the cultural, political, strategic, and financial causes of unpreparedness. Breaking the cycle of unpreparedness in an era of increasing security risk requires historical understanding. Making the most out of the resources available to secure our nation and vital interests requires imaginative military and civilian leadership. Drawdowndelivers the former and helps cultivate the latter. -- General H.R. McMaster,author of Dereliction of DutyPositioned to provoke thought on the present U.S. military force reductions. . . . Coming on the heels of the so-called conclusion of the United States wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this work will, I hope, provoke serious thought, discussion, and a greater maturity in considering the current environment. -- Ricardo Herrera,author of For Liberty and the Republic: The American Citizen as Soldier, 1775-1861Overall, the editor did a fine job of compiling the essays presented in this book. All are well-written, provide much to think about, and are supported by excellent documentation. This book should be read by all those interested in the management of the U.S. Army. * The Journal of America’s Military Past *
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New York University Press Political Legitimacy
Book SynopsisEssays on the political, legal, and philosophical dimensions of political legitimacyScholars, journalists, and politicians today worry that the world's democracies are facing a crisis of legitimacy. Although there are key challenges facing democracyincluding concerns about electoral interference, adherence to the rule of law, and the freedom of the pressit is not clear that these difficulties threaten political legitimacy. Such ambiguity derives in part from the contested nature of the concept of legitimacy, and from disagreements over how to measure it. This volume reflects the cutting edge of responses to these perennial questions, drawing, in the distinctive NOMOS fashion, from political science, philosophy, and law. Contributors address fundamental philosophical questions such as the nature of public reasons of authority, as well as urgent concerns about contemporary democracy, including whether animus matters for the legitimacy of President Trump's travel ban
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New York University Press Civil Society Second Edition
Book SynopsisA comprehensive discussion and analysis of two and a half millennia of Western political theoryIn the absence of noble public goals, admired leaders, and compelling issues, many warn of a dangerous erosion of civil society, which includes families, religious organizations, and all other NGOs. Are they right? What are the roots and implications of their insistent alarm? How can public life be enriched in a period marked by fraying communities, widespread apathy, and unprecedented levels of contempt for politics? How should we be thinking about civil society? In Civil Society: The Critical History of an Idea, John Ehrenberg analyzes both the usefulness and the limitations of civil society and maps the political and theoretical evolution of the concept and its employment in academic and public discourse. From Aristotle and the Enlightenment philosophers to Black Lives Matter and the Occupy movement, Ehrenberg provides an indispensable analysis of the possibilities of what this increasinglTrade Review"Civil society around the world is in turmoil, making democracy more vulnerable to illiberal forces. How can one enhance the synergy between civil society, democracy and social justice? John Ehrenbergs Civil Society brings historical insight to this challenge, critically examining the evolving concept as understood in Western political theory over two and one half millennia. This book is theoretically elegant, erudite, and conveyed in crisp prose. It is a must read for all those interested in the advance of civil society." -- Micheline Ishay,author of The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era"The concept of civil society is often discussed but rarely dissected. In Civil Society, John Ehrenberg provides a history and analysis of the term, its use and mis-use. Ehrenberg traces the development of the idea of civil society from the classical era to the present, showing how the term has changed as societies, and politics, have evolved. He then explores what civil society means today, both within countries and globally. Ehrenbergs lucid and insightful analysis of the role of civil society in contemporary discourse and practice is relevant both to todays politics, and to enduring issues in political theory and political analysis." -- Jeffry Frieden,author of Currency Politics: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy
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New York University Press The Political Thought of Americas Founding
Book SynopsisRecovering the powerful and influential contributions of women from the nation's formative yearsThe Political Thought of America's Founding Feminists traces the significance of Frances Wright, Harriet Martineau, Angelina and Sarah Grimké, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sojourner Truth in shaping American political thinking. These women understood the relationship between sexism, racism, and economic inequality; yet, they are virtually unknown in American political thought because they are considered activists, not theorists. Their efforts to expand the reach of America's founding ideals laid the groundwork not only for women's suffrage and the abolition of slavery, but for the broader expansion of civil, political, and human rights that would characterize much of the twentieth century and continues to unfold today. Drawing on a careful reading of speeches, letters and other archival sources, Lisa Pace Vetter shows the ways in which the early women's rights movement and abolTrade ReviewThe Political Thought of Americas Founding Feminists is both wide-ranging and deep. It tells us about early women's rights advocates, but it does far more than that. Lisa Pace Vetter's book bears not merely on our understanding of particular moments or issues in American political history but on our understanding of American political history itself. -- Susan McWilliams, author of Traveling Back: Toward a Global Political TheoryIn this innovative book, Vetter expands the contours of U.S. political theory. The Political Thought of Americas Founding Feminists compellingly demonstrates how feminist and critical race theory enrich the conceptualization of liberty, equality, citizenship, self-ownership, and democracy. -- Mary Hawkesworth, author of Embodied Power: Demystifying Disembodied PoliticsVetter's chapters are gems. Any of them could be assigned in a course on American political thought, and perhaps that is part of Vetter's objective of transforming the canon. * American Historical Review *Vetter looks beyond formal conventional modes of theorizing to consider womens activism, as well as their speeches, letters, and the writings of their contemporaries. She includes nontraditional perspectives, such as the religious underpinnings of their activism and philosophies. The influence of these nontraditional perspectives illustrates her point that American political theory emerged from unexpected venues and diverse voices. * Hypatia Reviews Online *The result is a well-researched and beautifully written book that weaves together discussion of the contributions of several early feminists with several long-standing theoretical debates, in a compelling and fruitful way. The book should be of serious interest to scholars of feminist theory and history, * The Review of Politics *
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New York University Press Civil Society Second Edition
Book SynopsisA comprehensive discussion and analysis of two and a half millennia of Western political theoryIn the absence of noble public goals, admired leaders, and compelling issues, many warn of a dangerous erosion of civil society, which includes families, religious organizations, and all other NGOs. Are they right? What are the roots and implications of their insistent alarm? How can public life be enriched in a period marked by fraying communities, widespread apathy, and unprecedented levels of contempt for politics? How should we be thinking about civil society? In Civil Society: The Critical History of an Idea, John Ehrenberg analyzes both the usefulness and the limitations of civil society and maps the political and theoretical evolution of the concept and its employment in academic and public discourse. From Aristotle and the Enlightenment philosophers to Black Lives Matter and the Occupy movement, Ehrenberg provides an indispensable analysis of the possibilities of what this increasinglTrade ReviewCivil society around the world is in turmoil, making democracy more vulnerable to illiberal forces. How can one enhance the synergy between civil society, democracy and social justice? John Ehrenbergs Civil Society brings historical insight to this challenge, critically examining the evolving concept as understood in Western political theory over two and one half millennia. This book is theoretically elegant, erudite, and conveyed in crisp prose. It is a must read for all those interested in the advance of civil society. -- Micheline Ishay,author of The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization EraThe concept of civil society is often discussed but rarely dissected. In Civil Society, John Ehrenberg provides a history and analysis of the term, its use and mis-use. Ehrenberg traces the development of the idea of civil society from the classical era to the present, showing how the term has changed as societies, and politics, have evolved. He then explores what civil society means today, both within countries and globally. Ehrenbergs lucid and insightful analysis of the role of civil society in contemporary discourse and practice is relevant both to todays politics, and to enduring issues in political theory and political analysis. -- Jeffry Frieden,author of Currency Politics: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy
£73.80
University of Toronto Press Road to Redemption
Book SynopsisRoad to Redemption is an insider's account of the Liberal Party's struggles to rebuild and rebrand the party after the unexpected loss of power in 2006 and devastating defeat in 2011.Trade Review"Jeffrey’s Road to Redemption documents the Liberals’ fall and rise from 2006 when the Party stumbled to third-party status in the Commons. Professor Jeffrey is a longtime Liberal insider, former director of the caucus research bureau, and feeds the mythology of Liberal insiders as a kind of master race of wily political operatives. Professor Jeffrey knows where all the bodies are buried, and is an enthusiastic gravedigger." -- Holly Doan * Blacklock’s Reporter *"A combination of insider account and academic treatment, Road to Redemption will be interesting to political junkies and important for historians." * The Interim *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. A Party on the Brink 2. Unintended Consequences: The 2006 Leadership Race 3. The Dion Era: Disappointment and Disarray 4. The Green Shift and the 2008 Election Debacle 5. Third Try: The Ignatieff Solution 6. The Near-Death Experience: The 2011 Election 7. Rebuilding and Renewal: Trudeau and the Liberal Way 8. Redemption: The 2015 Election 9. Trudeau Takes Charge: Creating a New Liberal Dynasty? 10. Second Chance: The 2019 Election Appendix A: Federal Election Results 2006-2019 Appendix B: Liberal Party Office Holders Appendix C: List of Interviews Notes Index
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University of Toronto Press My Final Territory
Book SynopsisThis volume presents, for the first time in English, fourteen essays by Yuri Andrukhovych, making a well-known Ukrainian voice accessible to the English-speaking world.Trade Review"We should feel grateful to the translators for making Andrukhovych’s incisive essays available, for the first time and in one place, to English-speaking audiences." -- Alexander Burak, University of Florida * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsA Biographical Preface and A Note on Yuri Andrukhovych's Most Personal Essay Michael M. Naydan En Route Endeavors Mark Andryczyk Author's Introduction Yuri Andrukhovych AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAY The Central-Eastern Revision (Expanded version 2005) CULTUROLOGICAL AND POLITICAL ESSAYS Erz-Herz-Perz (1994) The City-Ship (1994) Carpathologia Comosphilica (1996) Time and Place, or My Last Territory (1999) A Little Bit of Urban Studies (1999) What Language are You From: A Ukrainian Writer among the Temptations of Temporariness (2002) Meeting Place Germaschka (2002) Four Million for Our Agents (2003) Land of Dreams (2004) The Star Absinthe: Notes on a Bitter Anniversary (2011) Love and Hatred in Kiev (January 2014) Seven Hundred Fierce Days, or the Role of a Contrabass in the Revolution (March 2014) Notes
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University of Toronto Press Roads to Confederation
Book SynopsisRoads to Confederation: The Making of Canada, 1867 Volume 2 includes material that demonstrates the varied perspectives from the provinces and regions of Canada and the viewpoints of officials in Great Britain and the United States and significant works by scholars that question whether Confederation was truly a formative event.Trade Review"The wide range of perspectives will be valuable to students and scholars, particularly in examining the centrality of the Confederation moment and tensions informing Canadian nationalism, or even geopolitical interest that shaped Canada in North America." -- Charles Dumais, University of Toronto * Canadian Journal of Political Science, vol 52 no 1, March 2019 *"For those of us who teach Confederation, and who often wish we could renovate our classes to better capture the multiplicity of scholarly takes, this distillation of so many important approaches to the topic will be a blessing; Donald Creighton’s road to Confederation must now be seen as just one route among many." -- Bradley Miller, University of British Columbia * Canadian Historical Review *Table of ContentsV From Canada East to Quebec The French Canadians and the Birth of Confederation Jean-Charles Bonenfant French Canadians and the Founding of Confederation Lionel Groulx The Negation of a Nation: The Quebec Cultural Identity and Canadian Federalism Eugénie Brouillet Canada and Its Aims, According to Macdonald, Laurier, Mackenzie King and Trudeau Stéphane Kelly The French-Canadian Idea of Confederation, 1864-1900 A.I. Silver The East, Ontario and the West The Life and Times of Confederation, 1864-1867 P.B. Waite New Brunswick’s Entrance into Confederation George E. Wilson The Maritimes and Confederation: A Reassessment Phillip Buckner The Maritimes and Confederation P.B. Waite George Brown J.M.S. Careless The West and Confederation W. L. Morton Promise of Eden: The Canadian Expansionist Movement and the Idea of the West, 1856-1900 Doug Owram The Geopolitics of Confederation Confederation; or, The Political and Parliamentary History of Canada from the Conference at Quebec, in October, 1864, to the Admission of British Columbia, in July, 1871 John Hamilton Gray British Policy in Canadian Confederation Chester Martin Britain’s Withdrawal from North America, 1864–1871 C.P. Stacey The United States and Confederation Yves Roby Seward’s Attempt to Annex British Columbia, 1865-1869 David E. Shi 1867: A Formative Event? Unequal Union: Roots of Crisis in the Canadas, 1815-1873 Stanley B. Ryerson On the Edge of Empire: Gender, Race and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871 Adele Perry The Origins of Quebec Society Fernand Dumont The Liberal Order Framework: A Prospectus for a Reconnaissance of Canadian History Ian McKay Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation and the Loss of Aboriginal Life James W. Daschuk
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University of Toronto Press Political Economy in the Modern State
Book SynopsisPolitical Economy in the Modern State is Harold Innis’s transitional and, in some respects, his most transformative book. Completed in 1946, it is a collection of fifteen chapters plus a remarkable Preface selected and crafted to address four main themes: the problem of power and peace in the post-War era; the ascent of specialized and mechanized forms of knowledge involving, most particularly, the media, the state, and the academy; the crisis facing civilization and, more generally, the modern penchant for unreflexive short-term thinking in the face of mounting contradictions; and Innis’s growing focus on what would be called media bias.In this new edition, editors Robert E. Babe and Edward A. Comor provide not only a general introduction to Innis’s largely forgotten book but also dedicated introductions to each of its fifteen chapters and a comprehensive index. Together, Babe and Comor demonstrate how Innis’s volume reflects a shift in Innis&Table of ContentsEditors’ Introduction PREFACE Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 1 1. THE NEWSPAPER IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 2 2. AN ECONOMIC APPROACH TO ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 3 3. THE PROBLEMS OF REHABILITATION Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 4 4. A PLEA FOR THE UNIVERSITY TRADITION Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 5 5. THE UNIVERSITY IN THE MODERN CRISIS Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 6 6. ON THE ECONOMIC SIGNIFICANCE OF CULTURAL FACTORS Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 7 7. POLITICAL ECONOMY IN THE MODERN STATE Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 8 8. THE PENETRATIVE POWERS OF THE PRICE SYSTEM Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 9 9. LIQUIDITY PREFERENCE AS A FACTOR IN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 10 10. UNUSED CAPACITY AS A FACTOR IN CANADIAN ECONOMIC HISTORY Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 11 11. THE POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF UNUSED CAPACITY Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 12 12. IMPERFECT REGIONAL COMPETITION AND POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS ON THE NORTH ATLANTIC SEABOARD Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 13 13. DECENTRALIZATION AND DEMOCRACY Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 14 14. TRANSPORTATION AND THE TARIFF Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 15 15. REFLECTIONS ON RUSSIA Index
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University of Toronto Press Patriots Royalists and Terrorists in the West
Book SynopsisThis book provides a history of the French Revolution in Martinique and Guadeloupe from 1789 to 1802. Examining political conflict between white factions, as well as economic, social, and racial tensions, it argues that metropolitan news, ideas, language, and political culture played a key role in shaping the colonial revolution.Trade Review"Cormack’s book sheds important light on the revolutionary era in the Windward Islands and serves as a foundation for future studies examining the complicated, shifting alliances that transcended race, class, and even legal status during this tumultuous period." -- Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss * New West Indian Guide *"Among the many strengths of Patriots, Royalists, and Terrorists in the West Indies is Cormack’s detailed account of how the revolutionary script from France was reinterpreted by various factions in the Windward Islands as they claimed national legitimacy and struggled for political power. This approach brings into focus the myriad and often contradicting ways in which Martinique and Guadeloupe absorbed and remade revolutionary political culture." -- Deirdre T. Lyons, University of Chicago * Histoire sociale / Social History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Maps Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Windward Islands on the Eve of Revolution 2. Rumours of Revolution: The Impact of 1789 in Martinique and Guadeloupe 3. Patriots versus Aristocrats: The Coming of Civil War, 1789–1790 4. "The Nation, the Law, the King": The Liberal Revolution’s Failure in the Windward Islands, 1791 5. Counter-Revolution: The Revolt of Martinique and Guadeloupe, 1792–1793 6. The Slave-Holding Republic in the Windward Islands, 1793–1794 7. Reign of Terror: Victor Hugues’s Regime in Guadeloupe, 1794–1798 8. Return of the Old Regime: Martinique under British Occupation, 1794–1802 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Toronto Press Benedetto Croce and the Birth of the Italian Republic 19431952
Book SynopsisAs president of the Italian Liberal Party, Benedetto Croce was one of the most influential intellectuals involved in Italian public affairs after the fall of Mussolini. Placing Croce at the centre of historical events between 1943 and 1952, this book details his participation in Italy’s political life, and his major contributions to the rebirth of Italian democracy. Drawing on a great amount of primary material, including Croce’s political speeches, correspondences, diaries, and official documents from post-war Italy, this book illuminates the dynamic and progressive nature of Croce’s liberalism and the shortcomings of the old Liberal leaders. Providing a year-by-year account of Croce’s initiatives, author Fabio Fernando Rizi fills the gap in Croce’s biography, covering aspects of his public life often neglected, misinterpreted, or altogether ignored, and restores his standing among the founding fathers of modern Italy.Trade Review"[This book fills] a gap in the historical literature, which rightly or wrongly has given little attention to the Liberal leader’s political endeavors in the pivotal years that witnessed the end of the Fascist regime and the birth of the Italian Republic." -- Anthony L. Cardoza * Journal of Modern History, Vol. 92, No. 3 *Table of Contents1. Croce and Italy in 1943 2. Waging War 3. The Matter of the King 4. The Congress of Bari 5. De Nicola’s Negotiations 6. A Democratic Compromise 7. A Government of National Unity 8. Rome’s Liberation 9. From Bonomi to Bonomi 10. The Northern Wind 11. The Advent of De Gasperi 12. Election and Referendum 13. The Constituent Assembly 14. The Peace Treaty of 1947 15. A New Course 16. The Election of 1948
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University of Toronto Press Distributed Democracy
Book SynopsisThis is the first book-length work to analyse Ontario's Local Health Integration NetworksTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Acronyms 1. Introduction 2. The Democratic Arenas Framework 3. The Evolution of Health Care Governance in Ontario 4. Procedural Decision-Making Bodies that Enable and Constrain LHINs 5. LHINs as Mandated Decision-Making Sites 6. LHIN Advisory Committees and Public Engagement 7. A Democratic Arenas Analysis of LHINs References End Notes
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University of Toronto Press Rough Work
Book SynopsisThe labourers at the heart of this study built the canals and railways undertaken as public works by the colonial governments of British North America and the federal government of Canada between 1841 and 1882. Ruth Bleasdale’s fascinating journey into the little-known lives of these labourers and their families reveals how capital, labour and the state came together to build the transportation infrastructure that linked colonies and united an emerging nation. Combining census and community records, government documents, and newspaper archives Bleasdale elucidates the ways in which successive governments and branches of the state intervened between labour and capital and in labourers’ lives. Case studies capture the remarkable diversity across regions and time in a labour force drawn from local and international labour markets. The stories here illuminate the ways in which men and women experienced the emergence of industrial capitalism and the complex ties whiTrade Review"Rough Work is an exhaustive social history of public works projects, the men who labored on them, and the men who tried to keep these laborer’s in line. Bleasdale has made a vital contribution by diligently documenting this time and place." -- Dan Horner, Ryerson University * University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018 *Table of ContentsTables Maps and Illustrations Introduction Chapter One: Contracting on Public Works, 1841-1882 Chapter Two: The Labour Force Chapter Three: The Work Chapter Four: The Living Chapter Five: Boundaries of Belonging, 1840s and 1850s Chapter Six: Redefining the Boundaries of Belonging through the 1870s Chapter Seven: Defining a Community of Interests, 1840s and 1850s Chapter Eight: Labour Unity and Militance on Public Works through the 1870s Conclusion Appendix A: Location of Contracts on the Intercolonial Railway and Third Welland Canal Appendix B: Work and Wages (Tables 1-5) Appendix C: Strikes on Public Works (Tables 5-7 ) Select Bibliography
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University of Toronto Press Political Economy in the Modern State
Book SynopsisPolitical Economy in the Modern State is Harold Innis’s transitional and, in some respects, his most transformative book. Completed in 1946, it is a collection of fifteen chapters plus a remarkable Preface selected and crafted to address four main themes: the problem of power and peace in the post-War era; the ascent of specialized and mechanized forms of knowledge involving, most particularly, the media, the state, and the academy; the crisis facing civilization and, more generally, the modern penchant for unreflexive short-term thinking in the face of mounting contradictions; and Innis’s growing focus on what would be called media bias.In this new edition, editors Robert E. Babe and Edward A. Comor provide not only a general introduction to Innis’s largely forgotten book but also dedicated introductions to each of its fifteen chapters and a comprehensive index. Together, Babe and Comor demonstrate how Innis’s volume reflects a shift in Innis&Table of ContentsEditors’ Introduction PREFACE Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 1 1. THE NEWSPAPER IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 2 2. AN ECONOMIC APPROACH TO ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 3 3. THE PROBLEMS OF REHABILITATION Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 4 4. A PLEA FOR THE UNIVERSITY TRADITION Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 5 5. THE UNIVERSITY IN THE MODERN CRISIS Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 6 6. ON THE ECONOMIC SIGNIFICANCE OF CULTURAL FACTORS Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 7 7. POLITICAL ECONOMY IN THE MODERN STATE Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 8 8. THE PENETRATIVE POWERS OF THE PRICE SYSTEM Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 9 9. LIQUIDITY PREFERENCE AS A FACTOR IN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 10 10. UNUSED CAPACITY AS A FACTOR IN CANADIAN ECONOMIC HISTORY Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 11 11. THE POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF UNUSED CAPACITY Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 12 12. IMPERFECT REGIONAL COMPETITION AND POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS ON THE NORTH ATLANTIC SEABOARD Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 13 13. DECENTRALIZATION AND DEMOCRACY Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 14 14. TRANSPORTATION AND THE TARIFF Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 15 15. REFLECTIONS ON RUSSIA Index
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University of Toronto Press Law Debt and Merchant Power
Book SynopsisIn the early history of Halifax (1749-1766), debt litigation was extremely common. People from all classes frequently used litigation and its use in private matters was higher than almost all places in the British Empire in the 18th century. In Law, Debt, and Merchant Power, James Muir offers an extensive analysis of the civil cases of the time as well as the reasons behind their frequency. Muir’s lively and detailed account of the individuals involved in litigation reveals a paradoxical society where debtors were also debt-collectors. Law, Debt, and Merchant Power demonstrates how important the law was for people in their business affairs and how they shaped it for their own ends. Trade Review‘At the higher methodological level, the work both fascinates and provokes… Muir’s book is an interesting, original, and important work, part of the new wave of regional scholarship that integrates greater Nova Scotia into the history of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic.’ -- Barry Cahill * Acadiensis February 2017 *‘James Muir presents an articulate, nuanced approach to the development of civil procedure in Canada… He has collected an impressive amount of historical data in order to reconstruct patterns of litigation in eighteenth-century Halifax.’ -- Ashton Butler * Saskatchewan Law Review vol 80:2017 *"This is the 103rd book published by the Osgoode Society for Legal History since 1981, part of a sustained effort to understand the law, the courts, and practitioners over the whole of Canadian history from many perspectives." -- Douglas McCalla, University of Guelph * Canadian Business History Association Newlsetter, July 2018 *Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Halifax, a community of litigants Chapter 3: Initiating Actions Chapter 4: Avoiding Trial Chapter 5: Going to Trial Chapter 6: Ending the Action Chapter 7: Appeals and Other Courts Chapter 8: Conclusion Appendix 1: Sources and Methods Appendix 2: Interpreting Occupational and Status Data Bibliography
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University of Toronto Press Policy Transformation in Canada
Book SynopsisScrutinizing various public policy issues through the prism of Canada's sesquicentennial, contributors consider the transformation of policy and present an accessible portrait of how the Canadian view of policymaking has been reshaped, and where it may be heading in the next fifty years.Table of ContentsPreface 1. Downstream from the Centennial: Navigating Fifty Years of Policy Change Sophie Borwein and Carolyn Hughes Tuohy Part I: Generational Prospects, Then and Now 2. Dreams along a Journey Michael Valpy 3. Discounting Now and Then Joseph Heath 4. Postponed Adulthood, the Inequality Surge, and the Millennial Burden John Myles 5. Half a Century of Pension Reform in Canada Daniel Béland Part II: The Economy, the Environment, and the Federation 6. The Economy: From Innovation to Policy Michelle Alexopoulos and Jon Cohen 7. Natural Resources, Federalism, and the Canadian Economy Kathryn Harrison 8. Environmental Policy Transformations and Canada at 150 Jennifer Winter 9. The Environment as an Urban Policy Issue in Canada Matti Siemiatycki 10. Canada’s Radical Fiscal Federation: The Next Fifty Years Kevin Milligan Part III: Rethinking Sovereignty, Allegiance, and Rights 11. Reasonable Accommodation, Diversity, and the Supreme Court of Canada Emmett Macfarlane 12. Invisibility, Wilful Blindness, Impending Doom: The Future (if Any) of Canadian Federalism Jean Leclair 13. Canadian Federalism, Canadian Allegiance, and Economic Inequality Jeremy Webber 14. Indigenous-Canadian Relations at the Sesquicentennial: An Opportunity for Real and Lasting Transformation Sheryl Lightfoot 15. Reconciliation with a Question Mark: Three Moments Christa Scholtz 16. Reconciliation, Colonization, and Climate Futures Deborah McGregor Part IV: Canada’s Borders and Beyond 17. Fifty Years of Canadian Immigration Policy Antje Ellermann 18. From Gérin-Lajoie to USMCA: The Role of the Canadian Provinces in Trade Negotiation Stéphane Paquin 19. Canada and the World: Managing Insecurity in a Changing Global Order Aisha Ahmad 20. Has Canada Reached Policy Gridlock? Peter Loewen and Andrew Potter Contributors
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University of Toronto Press Resurgence and Reconciliation
Book SynopsisResurgence and Reconciliation is a multi-disciplinary, critical, and constructive analysis of the two major schools of thought in Indigenous-Settler relationships today: the reformist narrative of reconciliation and the more revolutionary resurgence school.Trade Review"Resurgence and Reconciliation: Indigenous-Settler Relations and Earth Teachings makes a sustained contribution to ongoing reconciliatory efforts through the exemplary work of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars alike." -- Tyson Stewart, Nipissing University * Native American and Indigenous Studies *Table of ContentsPart One 1. Back to the Future: Confederation Treaties and Reconciliation Michael Asch 2. Earth-Bound: Indigenous Law & Environmental Reconciliation John Borrows 3. Reconciliation Here on Earth James Tully Part Two 4. Rooted Constitutionalism: Growing Political Community Aaron Mills 5. Toward a Relational Paradigm- Four Points for Consideration: Knowledge, Gender, Land and Modernity Gina Starblanket and Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark 6. Reconciliation and Resurgence: Reflections on the TRC Final Report Paulette Regan 7. Reconciliation, Resurgence and Revitalization: Collaborative Research Protocols with Contemporary First Nations Communities Regna Darnell 8. Proceed With Caution: Reflections on Resurgence and Reconciliation Kiera Ladner 9. Learning from the Earth, Learning from Each Other: Ethnoecology, Responsibility and Reciprocity Nancy Turner and Pamela Spalding 10. Indigenous and Crown Sovereignty in Canada Kent McNeil 11. Treaty-Ecologies: With Persons, Peoples, Animals & the Land Brian Noble
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University of Toronto Press Winning and Keeping Power in Canadian Politics
Book SynopsisIn this work, the authors employ a series of experiments to assess the strategies used to win elections and stay in power once elected.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables List of Appendices Preface Acknowledgments 1. An Overview of Winning and Keeping Power in Canadian Politics Part One: Winning Power – Election Campaigns 2. Going Negative in Canadian Federal Elections 3. Political Scandals 4. Candidate Endorsements 5. The Quality of Local Candidates Part Two: Keeping Power – Public Opinion and Incumbency 6. Parliamentary Configurations and Assigning Political Responsibility 7. Election Timing 8. The Supreme Court of Canada, Parliament, and the Role of Experts 9. Framing Public Budgeting 10. Political Apologies 11. Reflections, Recommendations, and Future Research
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University of Toronto Press Canadas Deep Crown
Book SynopsisThe Crown in Canada has had a profound influence in shaping a country and a constitution that embraces the promotion of political moderation, societal accommodation, adaptable constitutional structures, and pluralistic governing practices. While none of these features themselves originated through legislative or constitutional action, David E. Smith, Christopher McCreery, and Jonathan Shanks propose that all reflect the presence and actions of the Crown. Examining how a constitutional monarchy functions, Canada’s Deep Crown discusses how the legal and institutional abstractions of the Crown vary depending on the circumstances and the context in which it is found. The Crown presents differently depending on who is observing it, who is representing it, and what role it is performing. With a focus on the changes that have taken place over the last fifty years, this book addresses the role of the Crown in dispersing power throughout Canada’s system of Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgement Preface Introduction 1. The Crown and Metaphor 2. A Realm of Opposites 3. The Dispersal of Power 4. Beyond All that Glitters: Reassessing Bagehot and the Efficient and Dignified Crown 5. The Vice-Regal Family: Canadian Surrogates of the Sovereign 6. Yet Symbols Still Matter 7. A Moment in Transition Postscript Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Toronto Press European Union Governance and PolicyMaking Second
Book SynopsisThis textbook introduces students to the politics of the European Union (EU) and discusses the most important challenges the EU is facing.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Tables, Boxes, Figures, and Maps List of Abbreviations List of Contributors 1. Introduction Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, Achim Hurrelmann, and Amy Verdun The Purpose of This Book The EU as a Peace Project: One Overarching Insight and Three Themes of Debate Theme 1: Economic Cooperation in a Mixed Economy Theme 2: More Than an International Organization, Less Than a State Theme 3: From Economic to Democratic Legitimation? Structure of the Book Part One: Integration and Governance 2. A Short History of the European Union Constantin Chira-Pascanut European Integration: A Historical Overview The First Moves: The European Coal and Steel Community (1951), the European Economic Community (1957), and the European Atomic Energy Community (1957) The 1960s: A Decade of Mixed Results The 1970s: Facing Economic and Financial Crisis The 1980s and the 1990s: European Integration Relaunched The EU at the Beginning of the New Century The EU after 2010 – Coping with Crisis Why/How Does a Historical Analysis Matter for Understanding the EU Today? 3. The Political Institutions of the European Union Finn Laursen, Achim Hurrelmann, and Amy Verdun The European Council The European Commission The Council of the EU The European Parliament The Interplay of Institutions in EU Policy-Making Debate: Efficiency, Solidarity, and Leadership 4. Legal Integration and the Court of Justice of the European Union Martha O’Brien and Eszter Bodnár Primary Law: The Treaties Secondary Law: Acts of the EU Institutions Fundamental Principles of the EU Law The Court of Justice of the European Union: Overview The CJEU as a Constitutional Court for the European Union Enforcing EU Law in the Member States Reviewing EU Secondary Legislation Protecting Fundamental Rights Debate: Incremental Legal Integration, Direct Effect and Supremacy 5. Policy Making and Governance in the European Union’s Multilevel System Ingeborg Tömmel The Fundamental Constraints on EU Policy-Making The Evolution of EU Policy-Making and Governance Consolidating EU Multilevel Governance Debate: Is EU Governance Effective? 6. Theories of European Integration and Governance Amy Verdun Federalism, Neofunctionalism, and Intergovernmentalism Federalism Neofunctionalism Intergovernmentalism Multilevel Governance, Governance, Europeanization, and Institutionalism Theories of Democracy, Legitimacy, and the EU as a Global Player Debate: Why Use Theories in European Integration Studies? Part Two: Policies 7. Economic and Monetary integration: Single Market and EMU Paul Schure and Amy Verdun From the Common Market to the Single Market Creating Europe’s Single Currency The First Ten Years of EMU From Financial Crisis to Sovereign Debt Crisis Crises Responses: New Institutions for the Single Currency Banking Union and Capital Markets Union Debate: Fiscal Federalism, Vicious Circle, and Current Challenges 8. Migration, Citizenship, and Security Oliver Schmidtke Justice, Freedom, and Security: From Humble Beginnings to a Key EU Policy Field Migration and Asylum Justice, Fundamental Rights, and Citizenship Borders and Security Debate: Governing Migration and Borders: The Refugee Crisis and its Impact on the EU 9. Foreign, Security, and Defence Policies Frédéric Mérand and Antoine Rayroux A Short History of EU Foreign Policy A Hybrid Foreign Policy System Debates in EU Foreign Policy 10. Common Agricultural Policy Crina Viju-Miljusevic Common Agricultural Policy: History, Instruments, and Reforms History CAP Instruments and Their Outcomes CAP Reforms Debates: Distributing the Budget, Farm Support, and Decentralization 11. Regional Policy Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly The Origins and Development of the EU’s Regional Policy From Six to Twelve: The European Regional Development Fund (1967–1988) The Institutionalization of Cohesion Policy (1988–1993) From 12 to 15: The Maastricht Treaty (1993–1999) From 15 to 25: Making Enlargement a Success (2000–2006) At 27 members: The World’s Largest Development Program (2007–2013) The Way Forward: Cohesion policy in an EU of 28 Member States (2014–2020) The 2021–2027 Cohesion or Investment Policy? Debate: Does the Cohesion Policy Work and What is the Role of Governance in its Success? 12. European External Trade Policy Valerie J. D’Erman The Evolution of EU Trade Policy EC Common Commercial Policy Trade Policy and the Single Market The Lisbon Treaty and Europe 2020 From Negotiation to Ratification The EU and the World Debate: Issues with EU Trade Policies 13. Enlargement Charles C. Pentland The First Three Enlargements The UK, Ireland, and Denmark The Southern Enlargement The EFTA Enlargement The EU Looks Eastward Managing Enlargement: From Improvisation to Governance Intergovernmental Institutions and Actors Supranational Institutions and Actors Debates: Assessing Enlargement The 1970s to 1990s The “Big Bang” and After Türkiye The Western Balkans, Moldova, and Ukraine 14. European Neighbourhood Policy Assem Dandashly and Gabriela Chira History and Origins of ENP The Development of ENP since 2004 The Eastern and the Southern Neighbourhood (until 2010) Post-2010 Developments in ENP Types of Agreements and Associations Debate: How Successful has the ENP Been? Part Three: Challenges 15. Democracy in the European Union Achim Hurrelmann Democratic Life in the EU European Parliament National Democratic Processes Procedures for Civil Society Participation EU Democracy and the Citizens Debate: Is There a “Democratic Deficit” in EU Politics? 16. Unity in Diversity: Combating Inequalities in the European Union Heather MacRae The Evolution of Equality and Non-discrimination Measures The Limitations to the EU’s Approach Current Controversies and Debates Financial Crisis and Austerity The Rule of Law The Global Pandemic: COVID-19 The EU’s Responses 17. European Green Deal and Energy Security Michèle Knodt, Julia Jänisch, and G. Cornelis van Kooten History of EU Climate and Energy Policy EU Energy Policy An Integrated EU Climate Change Policy EU Climate Policy Debate: (Un)Fit for 55? The EU’s Challenging 2030 and 2050 Targets in Times of War 18. Geopolitics of the European Union Joan Debardeleben The EU: An “Accidental” Geopolitical Actor? Regional Geopolitical Challenges: The EU’s Eastern and Southern Neighbourhood Conflict and Instability in Eastern Europe The Middle East and the Arab Spring Global Geopolitical Challenges: The EU’s Geopolitical Role Outside of Europe The EU’s Strategic Partnerships International Terrorism and Cybersecurity Debate: Relations with Russia and the Ukraine Crisis 19. Conclusion Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, Achim Hurrelmann, and Amy Verdun Theme 1: Is the EU Still Committed to its Original Ambition of Building a Mixed Economic System That Is Neither State-Controlled nor Left to an Unconstrained Market? Theme 2: Does the EU Remain a Political System That Is Neither an International Organization, nor a Fully-Fledged Federal State? Theme 3: How Can the EU Build Its Legitimacy in the European Population? Chronology Glossary Appendix: Research Resources Index
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University of Toronto Press European Union Governance and PolicyMaking Second
Book SynopsisEuropean Union Governance and Policy-Making introduces the politics of the European Union (EU) to a student audience. The book is explicitly written for students enrolled in universities in Canada, or other non-EU countries, and builds on their academic background. Chapters cover the political and legal system of the EU, theories of European integration, core EU policies such as the Single Market, its single currency, migration policy, EU enlargement, as well as pressing issues facing the further development of European integration. This second edition has been comprehensively revised and updated to include a discussion of Brexit, the European Green Deal, COVID-19, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Written by leading Canadian scholars in the field of European integration, as well as international experts with teaching experience in Canadian universities, this textbook leverages the comparison to Canada and its federal system to help students understand what is uniTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Tables, Boxes, Figures, and Maps List of Abbreviations List of Contributors 1. Introduction Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, Achim Hurrelmann, and Amy Verdun The Purpose of This Book The EU as a Peace Project: One Overarching Insight and Three Themes of Debate Theme 1: Economic Cooperation in a Mixed Economy Theme 2: More Than an International Organization, Less Than a State Theme 3: From Economic to Democratic Legitimation? Structure of the Book Part One: Integration and Governance 2. A Short History of the European Union Constantin Chira-Pascanut European Integration: A Historical Overview The First Moves: The European Coal and Steel Community (1951), the European Economic Community (1957), and the European Atomic Energy Community (1957) The 1960s: A Decade of Mixed Results The 1970s: Facing Economic and Financial Crisis The 1980s and the 1990s: European Integration Relaunched The EU at the Beginning of the New Century The EU after 2010 – Coping with Crisis Why/How Does a Historical Analysis Matter for Understanding the EU Today? 3. The Political Institutions of the European Union Finn Laursen, Achim Hurrelmann, and Amy Verdun The European Council The European Commission The Council of the EU The European Parliament The Interplay of Institutions in EU Policy-Making Debate: Efficiency, Solidarity, and Leadership 4. Legal Integration and the Court of Justice of the European Union Martha O’Brien and Eszter Bodnár Primary Law: The Treaties Secondary Law: Acts of the EU Institutions Fundamental Principles of the EU Law The Court of Justice of the European Union: Overview The CJEU as a Constitutional Court for the European Union Enforcing EU Law in the Member States Reviewing EU Secondary Legislation Protecting Fundamental Rights Debate: Incremental Legal Integration, Direct Effect and Supremacy 5. Policy Making and Governance in the European Union’s Multilevel System Ingeborg Tömmel The Fundamental Constraints on EU Policy-Making The Evolution of EU Policy-Making and Governance Consolidating EU Multilevel Governance Debate: Is EU Governance Effective? 6. Theories of European Integration and Governance Amy Verdun Federalism, Neofunctionalism, and Intergovernmentalism Federalism Neofunctionalism Intergovernmentalism Multilevel Governance, Governance, Europeanization, and Institutionalism Theories of Democracy, Legitimacy, and the EU as a Global Player Debate: Why Use Theories in European Integration Studies? Part Two: Policies 7. Economic and Monetary integration: Single Market and EMU Paul Schure and Amy Verdun From the Common Market to the Single Market Creating Europe’s Single Currency The First Ten Years of EMU From Financial Crisis to Sovereign Debt Crisis Crises Responses: New Institutions for the Single Currency Banking Union and Capital Markets Union Debate: Fiscal Federalism, Vicious Circle, and Current Challenges 8. Migration, Citizenship, and Security Oliver Schmidtke Justice, Freedom, and Security: From Humble Beginnings to a Key EU Policy Field Migration and Asylum Justice, Fundamental Rights, and Citizenship Borders and Security Debate: Governing Migration and Borders: The Refugee Crisis and its Impact on the EU 9. Foreign, Security, and Defence Policies Frédéric Mérand and Antoine Rayroux A Short History of EU Foreign Policy A Hybrid Foreign Policy System Debates in EU Foreign Policy 10. Common Agricultural Policy Crina Viju-Miljusevic Common Agricultural Policy: History, Instruments, and Reforms History CAP Instruments and Their Outcomes CAP Reforms Debates: Distributing the Budget, Farm Support, and Decentralization 11. Regional Policy Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly The Origins and Development of the EU’s Regional Policy From Six to Twelve: The European Regional Development Fund (1967–1988) The Institutionalization of Cohesion Policy (1988–1993) From 12 to 15: The Maastricht Treaty (1993–1999) From 15 to 25: Making Enlargement a Success (2000–2006) At 27 members: The World’s Largest Development Program (2007–2013) The Way Forward: Cohesion policy in an EU of 28 Member States (2014–2020) The 2021–2027 Cohesion or Investment Policy? Debate: Does the Cohesion Policy Work and What is the Role of Governance in its Success? 12. European External Trade Policy Valerie J. D’Erman The Evolution of EU Trade Policy EC Common Commercial Policy Trade Policy and the Single Market The Lisbon Treaty and Europe 2020 From Negotiation to Ratification The EU and the World Debate: Issues with EU Trade Policies 13. Enlargement Charles C. Pentland The First Three Enlargements The UK, Ireland, and Denmark The Southern Enlargement The EFTA Enlargement The EU Looks Eastward Managing Enlargement: From Improvisation to Governance Intergovernmental Institutions and Actors Supranational Institutions and Actors Debates: Assessing Enlargement The 1970s to 1990s The “Big Bang” and After Türkiye The Western Balkans, Moldova, and Ukraine 14. European Neighbourhood Policy Assem Dandashly and Gabriela Chira History and Origins of ENP The Development of ENP since 2004 The Eastern and the Southern Neighbourhood (until 2010) Post-2010 Developments in ENP Types of Agreements and Associations Debate: How Successful has the ENP Been? Part Three: Challenges 15. Democracy in the European Union Achim Hurrelmann Democratic Life in the EU European Parliament National Democratic Processes Procedures for Civil Society Participation EU Democracy and the Citizens Debate: Is There a “Democratic Deficit” in EU Politics? 16. Unity in Diversity: Combating Inequalities in the European Union Heather MacRae The Evolution of Equality and Non-discrimination Measures The Limitations to the EU’s Approach Current Controversies and Debates Financial Crisis and Austerity The Rule of Law The Global Pandemic: COVID-19 The EU’s Responses 17. European Green Deal and Energy Security Michèle Knodt, Julia Jänisch, and G. Cornelis van Kooten History of EU Climate and Energy Policy EU Energy Policy An Integrated EU Climate Change Policy EU Climate Policy Debate: (Un)Fit for 55? The EU’s Challenging 2030 and 2050 Targets in Times of War 18. Geopolitics of the European Union Joan Debardeleben The EU: An “Accidental” Geopolitical Actor? Regional Geopolitical Challenges: The EU’s Eastern and Southern Neighbourhood Conflict and Instability in Eastern Europe The Middle East and the Arab Spring Global Geopolitical Challenges: The EU’s Geopolitical Role Outside of Europe The EU’s Strategic Partnerships International Terrorism and Cybersecurity Debate: Relations with Russia and the Ukraine Crisis 19. Conclusion Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, Achim Hurrelmann, and Amy Verdun Theme 1: Is the EU Still Committed to its Original Ambition of Building a Mixed Economic System That Is Neither State-Controlled nor Left to an Unconstrained Market? Theme 2: Does the EU Remain a Political System That Is Neither an International Organization, nor a Fully-Fledged Federal State? Theme 3: How Can the EU Build Its Legitimacy in the European Population? Chronology Glossary Appendix: Research Resources Index
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MY - University of Toronto Press Wittgenstein and the Study of Politics
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University of Toronto Press Inside the Atlantic Triangle
Book SynopsisThis book examines the evolution of Canadian policy towards Newfoundland during the decade leading up to Confederation in 1949. The outbreak of war in 1939 produced relatively few changes in Canadian- Newfoundland relations but, in 1940, with the Allied collapse in Europe and the base-destroyer deal which introduced an American presence in Newfoundland, the Canadian government was forced to take a more active interest in that country's welfare. Over the course of the war the Canadians increasingly provided for the defence of Newfoundland, and a vigorous effort was made to preserve and enhance Canada's influence there.
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University of Toronto Press A Kind of Life Imposed on Man
Book SynopsisVocation, or calling – the idea that everyday work is the locus of Christian obedience – is, at first glance, peculiarly a theological notion. But doctrines of vocation formed the core of much of the economic and social theory of Protestantism at a time when such theory was culturally and politically influential. Hence it has also attracted attention from, and caused controversy among, sociologist, economic historians, and political theorists. Max Weber made vocation one of the foci of his celebrated studies of the ‘Protestant ethic’ and the ‘spirit of capitalism.’ In this book, Paul Marshall offers the first systematic study of the development of the idea of vocation in England from 1500 to 1700. Vocational theory illuminates four themes that are examined in this work: the relationship between Renaissance and Reformation social thought; the nature of the competing political forces in mid-seventeenth century England, particularly as they re
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University of Toronto Press Judicial Review in the Englishspeaking World
Book SynopsisThis is the third edition of a comparative analysis of the constitution of the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth, and the United States, giving particular attention to the effect of judicial interpretation of legislation in each of these countries. Professor McWhinney has added a new Preface and a new final chapter on “Judicial Policymaking in an Era of Revolution.” To his task Professor McWhinney brings a wide experience as teacher, lawyer, and consultant in some of these countries, and further experience in teacher and research supervisor for a number of years to students from all the countries covered by the survey.There are of course, many works that deal with judicial review in Canada, Australia, and the United States. Professor McWhinney’s distinctive contribution lies in his application of the comparative method to all the Commonwealth constitutions, and his extensive use of analogies and comparisons with the experience of the United States. He explor
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University of Toronto Press The Diplomacy of Constraint
Book SynopsisThrough informed and skilful interviewing of the participants, Denis Stairs has reconstructed the background to Canadian policy during the Korean War. Ottawa officials, led by External Affairs Minister Lester B. Pearson, viewed the war as an exercise in collective security, in which it was essential to constrain the course of American decisions. As a result Canadian initiatives were taken on a multilateral basis through the United Nations with a view to moderating the exercise of US power; this is the theme which gives the book its title.The story begins with a discussion of an American-inspired United Nations attempt, in which Canada was closely involved, to secure an early resolution of the Korean question in 1947-8 and concludes with the Canadian role in the Geneva conference in 1954. A final chapter analyzes the personalities, the policy decisions, and the role of the military and of public opinion as a case-study of Canadian foreign policy and diplomacy.Professor
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University of Toronto Press The Politics of Passion
Book SynopsisThe Politics of Passion is the first comprehensive collection of the writing and art of Dr Norman Bethune. A Canadian medical pioneer and a communist, Bethune gained fame during the 1930s while serving in the Spanish Civil War and participating in China's struggle against Japanese invasion.This book sheds light on the man, the artist, and the revolutionary. It uncovers new historical material relating to several controversies surrounding Bethune. A remarkable document obtained from the Communist International Archives in Moscow, for instance, discusses why Bethune was sent home in disgrace from the Spanish Civil War. It refers to a mysterious Swedish woman, Kajsa von Rothman, who was Bethune's lover and who was believed by left-wing Spanish authorities to be politically suspect.This collection of Bethune's writings and art reveals that politics preoccupied him only during the last four years of his life. Earlier, his passionate nature found expression in m
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University of Toronto Press Free Trade and Frustration
Book SynopsisThree treaties were signed between Britain and Austria in the decade of the 1860s, as British businessmen and diplomats tried to spread to gospel of Free Trade amid the protectionist gloom. Britain's patient endeavours to convert other nations to the policy of Free Trade were made in the hopes of advancing economic liberalism and furthering the trend towards free exchanges and international divisions of labour, a development which, it was hoped, would prove conducive to worldwide economic growth and amity among nations. But all of Britain's efforts were met with dogged resistance.This work is a model monograph, derived largely from hitherto untapped primary sources (the Austrian State archives and the Public Record Office in London). In narrating the history of these parleys and negotiations it sheds light on European commercial diplomacy a century ago, when the British system began to be rebuffed by other European nations; it also reveals the personal influences underlying s
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University of Toronto Press Essays on England Ireland and Empire
Book SynopsisJohn Stuart Mill's political essays are a blend of the practical and the theoretical. In this volume are gathered together those in which the practical emphasis is more marked; those in which theory is predominant are found in Essays on Politics and Society, Vols XVIII and XIX of the Collected Works. The Essays on England, Ireland, and the Empire are mainly from Mill's early career as a propagandist for the Philosophic Radicals (a term he himself coined). They provide a contemporary running account of British political issues at home and abroad, with a vigorous and sometimes acerbic commentary. Historians as well as political scientists will find interesting details of the view from the radical side, and all students of Mill will welcome the further elucidation of his development. Of special interest are his precocious if tendentious attack on Hume's History of England, and his reactions to Canadian and Irish issues, the latter being the subject o
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University of Toronto Press Resolutions and Decisions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Volume 2
Book SynopsisThis set of four volumes is an indispensable reference work for the study of modern Russia in general and Soviet Communism in particular. Ever since its foundation on the eve of the twentieth century, the organization now called the Communist Party of the Soviet Union has been embodying its major policies in documents called 'resolutions and decisions.' These form a much more continuous and extensive record of the evolution of Soviet Communism than the writings of any single leader, and the standard Soviet anthology of these materials has gone through eight editions over a fifty-year period. Yet most of this essential material has been available only in Russian, and even in that language the standard editions have been marred by selectivity and editorial comment that is often politically motivated.At last students of modern Russian studies have access to a multi-volume work that not only presents the most important Communist Party resolutions and decisions in English, but als
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University of Toronto Press The League for Social Reconstruction
Book SynopsisIn 1931-2 the first organization of Canadian left-wing intellectuals was founded. Led by historian Frank Underhill of the University of Toronto and law professor and poet Frank Scott of McGill University, the League for Social Reconstruction was critical of industrial capitalism and called for basic social and economic change through educational activity and parliamentary and constitutional channels. In the first history of this unique organization Michiel Horn outlines the League's aims and accomplishments and its ideological influence on the CCF and the NDP. Initially, the LSR avoided the term 'socialism' and remained uncommitted to any political part, although its choice of J.S. Woodsworth as honorary president made its sympathies clear. When, not long after the LSR's establishment, the CCF was founded, many League members joined it. An attempt to link the LSR openly with the CCF failed, but the League soon became known as the CCF's 'brain trust,' and the manifesto and pro
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University of Toronto Press Saints in Politics
Book SynopsisThis book gives a picture of an important religious reform group in action during the period of the French Revolution, Napoleon, and the Industrial Revolution. In this period of injustice and misery the British ruling classes, frightened by the excesses of the French Revolution, determined, at a time when economic life was changing at a rate unequalled for centuries, that existing laws and institutions should not change.And yet from this time came the moral, philanthropic, and religious ideas which transformed later England and resulted in the abolition of the slave trade, educational reforms in India, emancipation of Negroes in the British possessions, popular education and the growth of Sunday schools in England, reform of the whole penal and judicial system, industrial and parliamentary reform, and a new spirit of religious tolerance and philanthropy.The moving force in human progress at this epoch was a "brotherhood of Christian politicians" lampooned in Parliament
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University of Toronto Press Essays in Political Economy
Book SynopsisThis volume of essays in Political Science is a tribute to the character and work of Professor Edward Johns Urwick who in June, 1937, retired under the age limit from the chair of Political Economy in the University of Toronto. It is the first volume of a series in Political Economy to be published by the Maurice Cody Foundation and the University of Toronto Press. It includes articles written by colleagues of Professor Urwick in the Department of Political Economy on subjects in which they had special interest, and articles which are summaries of work done by holders of the Maurice Cody Fellowship since its establishment in 1928. By a happy coincidence, this volume is issued fifty years after the chair in Political Economy was founded.
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University of Toronto Press British Colonial Theories 15701850
Book SynopsisThe purpose of this study is to present and examine significant British colonial theories on the advantages and disadvantages resulting to the mother country from the establishment and maintenance of overseas colonies. For what reasons was the building and preservation of Empire thought profitable or unprofitable to the British nation? Professor Knorr has performed a major service in providing a selection of representative statements in the course of a discussion which proceeds by chronological periods and also by important topics from contemporary events. The original printing of this work, published in 1944, was received with enthusiastic reviews and went out of print in a few years. An equally warm welcome can be predicted now.
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University of Toronto Press Powers Possessions and Freedom
Book SynopsisCrawford Brough Macpherson has been teaching at the University of Toronto for some forty years, building an international reputation through his identification and critique of possessive individualism as a core concept in Western liberal democratic theory. The essays brought together here from eminent scholars all over the English-speaking world are independent statements on the issues that preoccupy Macpherson - powers, possessions, and freedom, the central problems in political theory. They are arranged in a historical sequence, touching on the thought of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx, and Macpherson himself, and facing with vigour and originality the dilemmas of liberal-democratic and Marxian theory of social and political life. It concludes with an explication by the editor of the inner parable of Durrenmatt's play, The Visit, as a profound critique of capitalism, and with a bibliography of Macpherson's published work.
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University of Toronto Press The Modern Senate of Canada 19251963
Book SynopsisThe role of the senate has changed much in recent years and—judging by the amount of recent public discussion on its role—might change even more in the future. This new study, the theoretical framework and theoretical discussion of which lift it out of the merely descriptive, contains a great deal of well-marshalled new material, from manuscript and ephemeral sources as well as from the printed Senate Debates Journals, and Reports of Committees. Little is generally known about the Senate, and of what little, much is erroneous. Professor Kunz's mass of detail and factual data, along with his evaluation of second chambers and of the performance of the Canadian Senate in particular, will do much to remedy this situation.
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University of Toronto Press Collected Works of George Grant
Book SynopsisMore than a decade after his death, George Grant continues to stimulate, challenge, and inspire. During his lifetime he influenced a broad cross-section of Canadians, urging them to think more deeply about matters of social justice and individual responsibility. He wrote on subjects as diverse as technology, abortion, Canadian politics and nationalism, and the war in Vietnam, and was claimed equally by rightist and leftist causes.Grant's legacy includes six books and more than two hundred articles, as well as numerous broadcast transcripts, extensive correspondence, and a wealth of unpublished lectures, essays, and notes. In this projected eight-volume series, Grant's published and unpublished writings, including his complete correspondence, will be brought together for the first time. The texts are annotated, and each volume includes an introduction to the period that it covers. The series will not only make it possible to see the whole pattern of Grant's thought, but will a
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University of Toronto Press Constitutional Amendment in Canada
Book SynopsisOn one of the most important and controversial matters in Canada—the drafting of an amending clause to the British North America Act. A forceful, lucid discussion of past amendments, conflicting views, and a possible solution. This book won the Grand Prize of the Province of Quebec for Moral and Political Science in 1950. Canadian Government Series.
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University of Toronto Press Thomas Hill Green and the Development of
Book SynopsisThomas Hill Green (1836-1882) was a leading British philosopher and political figure and founder of the school of British Idealism, which displaced the philosophy of Bentham and John Stuart Mill as the dominant tradition in British universities from 1880 into the twentieth century.Greengarten presents a detailed analysis of Green's thought, including his theories of political obligation, property, self-realization, and human nature, and developed the necessary tools for an analysis of Green's work and the tradition of liberal-democratic thought.He finds in Green a view of human nature and human potentialities which is in striking contract to the views of earlier liberal thinkers, and remarkably similar to that of Marx - despite Green's clear and often passionate defence of capitalism and market freedom. His concept of human nature is of a divided, self-contradictory nature; his theory of the true good is of a good that is to be shared, a common good that is not attaina
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University of Nebraska Press The Great Oklahoma Swindle
Book SynopsisRussell Cobb's The Great Oklahoma Swindle is a rousing and incisive examination of the regional culture and history of Flyover Country that demystifies the political conditions of the American Heartland.Trade Review“The Great Oklahoma Swindle is that rarest thing: a treasure well gotten. Cobb has all the gifts of a storyteller, a journalist, an ethicist, and an anthropologist. The substance of the book is modern tragedy, but the sense of the book is the joy of heartfelt inquiry and analysis.”—Rivka Galchen, author of Little Labors“Russell Cobb has done for his hometown of Tulsa and state of Oklahoma what James Joyce did for his Dublin and Ireland in Ulysses, populated with unforgettable characters. Cobb accomplishes this through storytelling, every page glowing with truth and compassion.”—Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie"This unflinching look at Oklahoma’s singular past helpfully fills in lesser-known aspects of the historical record."—Publishers Weekly"The Great Oklahoma Swindle shows that Oklahoma's story is all-American in a compressed timeline. That Cobb stands toe to toe with his state and never blinks makes this project a compelling read."—Matt Sutherland, Foreword Reviews"The Great Oklahoma Swindle is a selective window to the historical and cultural geographies of the wider American South and southern Plains. . . . For the geographer and layperson alike, it is an outstanding, timely, and accessible primer for better understanding how much the U.S. is shaped by the converging legacies of neoliberal governance, settler colonialism, and systemic racism. Loving a place is not always easy, but Russell Cobb’s The Great Oklahoma Swindle sets an exemplary and thought-provoking model for other writers to follow in the twenty-first century American scene."—Robert Briwa, Journal of Geography"The Great Oklahoma Swindle unwraps the states racism, stereotypes, and fraud to add to the moderate amount of Oklahoma historical literature in a much-needed progressive review and liberal discussion of Oklahoma in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries."—Lydia A. Perez, Chronicles of Oklahoma"A native of Oklahoma, Russell Cobb's research reveals his love of the state with a critical analysis."—Vernon Schmid, Roundup MagazineThe Great Oklahoma Swindle should be required reading for every citizen of the state, especially schoolchildren. As a human geographer and writer of history, I am truly impressed by how Cobb has unwrapped the exaggerations, stereotypes, and hidden history of Oklahoma to present a refreshingly accurate account of this puzzling place that I love, warts and all.”—Michael Wallis, best-selling author of The Best Land under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny“A swindle is a fraudulent scheme or action taken by those with the intention of using deception to deprive someone of money or possessions, sometimes just dignity. Russell Cobb has penned one of the most direct, frank, rough, rustic, reasoned, and realistic approaches to a deep dark side of what was intended to be deep dark secrets at the core of Oklahoma’s red soil, red soul, and redneck essence with regard to its grit, greed, grandeur, and contrived gravitas, based in faith, farce, and fraud. I found it profoundly and profanely revealing and educational. It should be required reading for every serious student of history or those who love the truth regardless of how painful or pitiful the honest truth can be.”—Rev. Carlton Pearson, progressive spiritual teacher and author of The Gospel of Inclusion, the subject of the Netflix film Come SundayTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue 1. Voyage to Dementiatown 2. You’re Not Doing Fine, Oklahoma 3. The Road to Hell in Indian Territory 4. Where the Hell Is Oklahoma Anyway? 5. The Long Goodbye to Oklahoma’s Small-Town Jews 6. Okies in the Promised Land 7. Among the Tribe of the Wannabes 8. Backward, Christian Soldier 9. Keeping Oklahoma Weird 10. Cursed? 11. The Fire That Time 12. Uncommon Commons Epilogue Notes Index
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University of Nebraska Press National Races
Book Synopsis National Races explores how politics interacted with transnational science in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This interaction produced powerful, racialized national identity discourses whose influence continues to resonate in today’s culture and politics. Ethnologists, anthropologists, and raciologists compared modern physical types with ancient skeletal finds to unearth the deep prehistoric past and true nature of nations. These scientists understood certain physical types to be what Richard McMahon calls “national races,” or the ageless biological essences of nations. Contributors to this volume address a central tension in anthropological race classification. On one hand, classifiers were nationalists who explicitly or implicitly used race narratives to promote political agendas. Their accounts of prehistoric geopolitics treated “national races” as the proxies of nations in order to legitimize present-day geopolitiTrade Review"This major scholarly collection explores the history of physical anthropology from intentionally unusual angles that challenge intuitive assumptions. It also charts engagements and altercations with humanistic ethnological scholarship, including folklore, amid a host of revealingly varied nationalist aspirations."—Michael Herzfeld, Journal of Folklore Research"A rich collection about the rise of physical anthropology, ethnology, and race science in the 19th century, National Races emphasizes the importance of placing these disciplines in a transnational, national, and imperial context. By highlighting forgotten mid-19th-century debates about mono- and polygenism, and employing case studies focused on Italy, Greece, Poland, Russia, Korea, and Yugoslavia to decenter the Western European core-focused narratives of these disciplines’ emergence, the volume recovers a rich set of liberal, transnational, and local ideas in their development, thus challenging teleological narratives of a straight road from turn-of-the-century craniometry and serology to the eugenic practices and exclusionary biological racism of interwar fascist regimes."—A. Vari, Choice“In important ways, both implicitly and explicitly, Richard McMahon demonstrates that the fear of immigration and anti-immigration policies in Europe and the United States are tied to previous fears and anxiety about the construction of national races. McMahon provides an extensive overview and impeccable research to describe the transnational science of racial classification during a pivotal century in the modern era.”—Lee Baker, Mrs. Alexander Hehmeyer Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University“National Races is innovative and promising—and fills a significant gap in the international literature. It builds on studies of physical anthropology, nationalism (or national identity politics), imperialism, modernity, and warfare and attempts to bring these into connection. There is every reason to believe that the book will be a standard work in an interdisciplinary and transnational field of studies that has hardly been circumscribed and never been covered in any detail.”—Han F. Vermeulen, Max Planck Institute for Social AnthropologyTable of ContentsList of Figures Series Editors’ Introduction Introduction: Political Identities and Transnational Science Richard McMahon 1. Transnational Network, Transnational Narratives: Scientific Race Classifications and National Identities Richard McMahon 2. The Destiny of Races “Not Yet Called to Civilization”: Giustiniano Nicolucci’s Critique of American Polygenism and Defense of Liberal Racism Maria Sophia Quine 3. A Matter of Place, Space, and People: Cracow Anthropology, 1870–1920 Maria Rhode 4. Yet Another Greek Tragedy? Physical Anthropology and the Construction of National Identity in the Late Nineteenth Century Ageliki Lefkaditou 5. Jews between Volk and Rasse Amos Morris-Reich 6. Classifying Hybridity in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Russian Imperial Anthropology Marina Mogilner 7. Physical Anthropology in Colonial Korea: Science and Colonial Order, 1916–1940 Arnaud Nanta 8. Racial Anthropology on the Eastern Front, 1912 to the Mid-1920s Maciej Górny 9. Racial Politics as a Multiethnic Pavilion: Yugoslavs, Dinarics, and the Search for a Synthetic Identity in the 1920s and 1930s Rory Yeomans Conclusion: From National Races to National Genomes Catherine Nash Contributors Index
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University Press of Mississippi Lynching
Book SynopsisWhile victims of antebellum lynchings were typically white men, postbellum lynchings became more frequent and more intense, with the victims more often black. After Reconstruction, lynchings exhibited and embodied links between violent collective action, American civic identity, and the making of the nation.Ersula J. Ore investigates lynching as a racialized practice of civic engagement, in effect an argument against black inclusion within the changing nation. Ore scrutinizes the civic roots of lynching, the relationship between lynching and white constitutionalism, and contemporary manifestations of lynching discourse and logic today. From the 1880s onward, lynchings, she finds, manifested a violent form of symbolic action that called a national public into existence, denoted citizenship, and upheld political community.Grounded in Ida B. Wells's summation of lynching as a social contract among whites to maintain a racial order, at its core, Ore's book speaks t
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Cornell University Press Priests of Prosperity
Book SynopsisPriests of Prosperity explores the unsung revolutionary campaign to transform postcommunist central banks from command-economy cash cows into Western-style monetary guardians. Juliet Johnson conducted more than 160 interviews in seventeen countries with central bankers, international assistance providers, policymakers, and private-sector finance professionals over the course of fifteen years. She argues that a powerful transnational central banking community concentrated in Western Europe and North America integrated postcommunist central bankers into its network, shaped their ideas about the role of central banks, and helped them develop modern tools of central banking. Johnson's detailed comparative studies of central bank development in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia, and Kyrgyzstan take readers from the birth of the campaign in the late 1980s to the challenges faced by central bankers after the global financial crisis. As the comfortable certainties Trade ReviewThe United States is not the only country in which the consensus on central-bank independence is in trouble: central bankers across the former communist world are facing sustained political challenge as well. The difference in the latter is that central-bank norms, practices and policies never sat that well within regimes in transition, and the consensus spread only weakly beyond the central banks themselves. This is the argument Juliet Johnson makes in her brilliant book on the role that central bankers played in the transformation of the post-communist world. * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy *Investigates how the transnational central banking community actively guided the transformation of postcommunist central banks through transplantation and its stages of choice, transformation, and internalization. Discusses why and how central bankers in advanced industrial democracies formed a cohesive community championing price stability and political independence in the 1900s. * JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE *This book provides insight into an important element of the transition of postcommunist economies. * Choice *How timely is Juliet Johnson's Priests of Prosperity, which highlights not only the intricacies of central bank development and practice but also the role of an international community of banks in shaping this development. The book provides an illuminating comparison of central bank evolution and transformation across a number of postcommunist countries, including Hungary, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia. * Business History Review *Provides a unique theoretical framework for institutional emulation and a well-developed analysis of the diffusion of central bank independence throughout the postcommunist countries. It will be read and valued by experts and anyone working on the political economy of transition, central bank independence, or institutional emulation worldwide. * Slavic Review *A substantively significant and exciting contribution to the field of comparative political economy and to the understanding of postcommunist societies' transformation. The book is clear and persuasive because of a combination of a carefully developed theory, a deep understanding of postcommunist countries, and a combination of qualitative and quantitative evidence. * Perspectives on Politics *Priests of Prosperity is Juliet Johnson's exhaustively researched account of the adoption of politically independent, inflation-targeting central banking in the post-communist world. * Economic and Political Weekly *Table of ContentsPreface Notes on Nomenclature 1. E Pluribus Unum 2. Transplantation 3. Choosing Independence 4. The Transformation Campaign 5. The Politics of European Integration 6. The Trials of Post-Soviet Central Bankers 7. Paradise Lost
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Cornell University Press The Image before the Weapon
Book SynopsisSince at least the Middle Ages, the laws of war have distinguished between combatants and civilians under an injunction now formally known as the principle of distinction. The principle of distinction is invoked in contemporary conflicts as if there were an unmistakable and sure distinction to be made between combatant and civilian. As is so brutally evident in armed conflicts, it is precisely the distinction between civilian and combatant, upon which the protection of civilians is founded, cannot be taken as self-evident or stable. Helen M. Kinsella documents that the history of international humanitarian law itself admits the difficulty of such a distinction. In The Image before the Weapon, Kinsella explores the evolution of the concept of the civilian and how it has been applied in warfare. A series of discoursesincluding gender, innocence, and civilizationhave shaped the legal, military, and historical understandings of the civilian and she documents how these discTrade ReviewThe Image before the Weapon is an authoritative critical history of the 'principle of distinction' that deeply informs our current political condition. Helen M. Kinsella’s tour de force transcends disciplinary divisions and speaks to some of the thorniest ethical issues in contemporary warfare. What is a civilian? What is a combatant? Who is to judge and on what grounds? Epic in its ambition and scope yet tightly focused and accessibly argued, The Image before the Weapon is a significant achievement in critical theorizing that speaks as much to contemporary debates about counterinsurgency strategy and the political dynamics of civil wars as it does to current interpretations of medieval philosophy. * Contemporary Political Theory *For centuries, philosophers and publicists have sought to formalize the distinction between combatants and civilians under what is known as the principle of distinction. Although this principle has long been viewed as stable and relatively straightforward, Helen M. Kinsella demonstrates in The Image before the Weapon that it is anything but. * International Studies Review *Table of Contents1. Gender, Innocence, and Civilization 2. Martial Piety in the Medieval and Chivalric Codes of War 3. Civilization and Empire: Francisco de Vitoria and Hugo Grotius 4. General Orders 100, Union General Sherman's March to Atlanta, and the Sand Creek Massacre 5. The 1899 Martens Clause and the 1949 IV Geneva Convention 6. The Algerian Civil War and the 1977 Protocols Additional 7. The Civil Wars of Guatemala and El Salvador 8. ResponsibilityNotes Index
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