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Book SynopsisTo what degree can anarchism be an effective organized movement? Is it realistic to think of anarchist ideas ever forming the basis for social life itself? These questions are widely being asked again today in response to the forces of economic globalization. The framework for such discussions was perhaps given its most memorable shape, however, in George Woodcock's classic study of anarchism-now widely recognized as the most significant twentieth-century overview of the subject. Woodcock surveys all of the major figures that shaped anarchist thought, from Godwin and Proudhon to Bakunin, Goldman, and Kropotkin, and looks as well at the long-term prospects for anarchism and anarchist thought. In Woodcock's view "pure" anarchism-characterized by "the loose and flexible affinity group which needs no formal organization"-was incompatible with mass movements that require stable organizations, that are forced to make compromises in the face of changing circumstances, and that need to maintain the allegiance of a wide range of supporters. Yet Woodcock continued to cherish anarchist ideals; as he said in a 1990 interview, "I think anarchism and its teachings of decentralization, of the coordination of rural and industrial societies, and of mutual aid as the foundation of any viable society, have lessons that in the present are especially applicable to industrial societies." This classic work of intellectual history and political theory (first published in the 1960s, revised in 1986) is now available exclusively from UTP Higher Education.Table of ContentsPreface to the 1986 edition 1. Prologue Part One: The Idea 2. The Family Tree 3. The Man of Reason 4. The Egoist 5. The Man of Paradox 6. The Destructive Urge 7. The Explorer 8. The Prophet Part Two: The Movement 9. International Endeavours 10. Anarchism in France 11. Anarchism in Italy 12. Anarchism in Spain 13. Anarchism in Russia 14. Various Traditions: Anarchism in Latin America, Northern Europe, Britain, and the United States 15. Epilogue Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume features a careful selection of major works in political and social philosophy from ancient times through to the present. Every reading has been painstakingly annotated, and each figure is given a substantial introduction highlighting his or her major contribution to the tradition. The anthology offers both depth and breadth in its selection of material by central figures, while also representing other currents of political thought. Thirty-two authors are represented, including fourteen from the 20th century. The editors have made every effort to include translations that are both readable and reliable.In order to ensure the highest standards of accuracy and accessibility, the editors have consulted dozens of leading academics during the course of the volume’s development (many of whom have contributed introductory material as well as advice). The result is an anthology with unparalleled pedagogical benefits; The Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought sets the new standard for social and political philosophy instruction.Trade Review“This is a wonderful collection, with great introductory essays. … We should all be grateful to the editors for selecting and contextualizing so rich a body of materials.” — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York University“The selections are broader than in other works I have seen. … The annotation is, as advertised, fuller than is usual in such works, and consistently helpful. … All in all, this is an impressive work—by far the best political anthology I have seen.” — George Klosko, Henry L. and Grace Doherty Professor, University of Virginia“Quite simply, this is a fantastic anthology. It includes not just the standard readings from the western canon but also important ones left out of most anthologies, including several by women. The anthology includes concise, accurate, and extremely helpful introductions, which include, uniquely, a discussion of ‘common misperceptions’ of each work. These introductions are perfectly pitched for an undergraduate audience.” — Darren Walhof, Grand Valley State UniversityTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsThucydides History of the Peloponnesian War, 2.40: Pericles’ Funeral OrationPlato Apology Crito The Republic Book 1Book 2from Book 3from Book 4from Book 5from Book 7Book 8from Book 9 Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics from Book 1from Book 2 Politics Book 1Book 2Book 3Book 4from Book 5from Book 7 Niccolò Machiavelli The Prince (written 1513, published 1532) DedicationChapter 5: Concerning the way to govern cities or principalities which lived under their own laws before they were annexedChapter 6: Concerning new principalities which are acquired through one’s own arms and abilityChapter 7: Concerning new principalities which are acquired either through the arms of others or by good fortuneChapter 8: Concerning those who have obtained a principality through wickednessChapter 9: Concerning a civil principalityChapter 10: Concerning the way in which the strength of all principalities ought to be measuredChapter 11: Concerning ecclesiastical principalitiesChapter 12: Of the different types of troops and mercenariesChapter 13: Concerning auxiliary, mixed, and citizen soldiersChapter 15: Concerning things for which men, and especially princes, are praised or blamedChapter 16: Concerning generosity and miserlinessChapter 17: Concerning cruelty and mercy, and whether it is better to be loved than fearedChapter 18: Concerning the way in which princes should keep their wordChapter 19: That one should avoid being despised and hatedChapter 21: How a prince should act in order to gain esteemChapter 22: Concerning princes’ advisorsChapter 23: How to avoid flatterersChapter 24: Why the princes of Italy have lost their statesChapter 25: Of fortune’s power in human affairs, and how to deal with herChapter 26: An exhortation to liberate Italy from the barbarians Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livius (1512-17) Niccolò Machiavelli to Zanobi Buondelmonte and Cosima Rucellai from First Book IntroductionChapter 1: Of the Beginning of Cities in General, and Especially that of the Cityof RomeChapter 2: Of the Different Kinds of Republics, and of What Kind the Roman Republic Was from Second BookIntroductionChapter 2: What Nations the Romans Had to Contend against and with What Obstinacy They Defended Their LibertyChapter 20: Of the Dangers to Which Princes and Republic Are Exposed that EmployAuxiliary or Mercenary TroopsChapter 29: Fortune Blinds the Minds of Men When She Does Not Wish Them toOppose Her Designs from Third BookChapter 9: Whoever Desires Constant Success Must Change His Conduct with the Times Thomas Hobbes Leviathan (1660) The Introduction Part 1: Of Man Chapter 10: Of Power, Worth, Dignity, Honor, and WorthinessChapter 11: Of the Difference of MannersChapter 13: Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning Their Felicity and MiseryChapter 14: Of the First and Second Natural Laws, and of ContractsChapter 15: Of Other Laws of NatureChapter 16: Of Persons, Authors, and Things Personated Part 2: Of Commonwealth Chapter 17: Of the Causes, Generation, and Definition of a CommonwealthChapter 18: Of the Rights of Sovereigns by InstitutionChapter 19: Of the Several Kinds of Commonwealth by Institution and of Successionto the Sovereign PowerChapter 20: Of Dominion Paternal and DespoticalChapter 21: Of the Liberty of SubjectsChapter 26: Of Civil LawsChapter 29: Of Those Things that Weaken or Tend to the Dissolution of aCommonwealthChapter 30: Of the Office of the Sovereign Representative John Locke Preface to the Two Treatises of Government The Second Treatise of Civil Government (1690) from A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689) David Hume Of the Original Contract (1748)Jean-Jacques Rousseau Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men (1755) PrefaceDiscourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among MenAppendix 1: Note [On Good and Evil in Human Life]Appendix 2: Note [On Human Variety]Appendix 3: Note [On the Views of John Locke]Appendix 4: Note [On Humans Living in an Intermediate Stage] On the Social Contract or Principles of Political Right (1762) ForewordBook 1Book 2Book 3Book 4 Immanuel Kant To Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch (1795) “To Perpetual Peace”First Section: Which Contains the Preliminary Articles for Perpetual Peace among NationsSecond Section: Which Contains the Definitive Articles for Perpetual Peace among NationsAppendix Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence [as amended and adopted in Congress], July 4, 1776Alexander Hamilton and James Madison The Federalist No. 9 The Federalist No. 10 The Federalist No. 51 The Federalist No. 78 Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792) AdvertisementIntroductionPart 1 from Chapter 1: The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Consideredfrom Chapter 2: The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussedfrom Chapter 3: The Same Subject Continuedfrom Chapter 4: Observations on the State of Degradation to Which Woman Is Reducedby Various Causesfrom Chapter 5: Animadversions on Some of the Writers Who Have Rendered Women Objects of Pity, Bordering on Contemptfrom Chapter 6: The Effect Which an Early Association of Ideas Has Upon the Characterfrom Chapter 9: Of the Pernicious Effects Which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Societyfrom Chapter 12: On National Educationfrom Chapter 13: Some Instances of the Folly Which the Ignorance of Women Generates; with Concluding Reflections on the Moral Improvement that a Revolution in Female Manners Might Naturally Be Expected to Produce Edmund Burke from Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) from On “Geographical Morality” Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy in America, Book Two, Section 2 (1840) Chapter 5: On the Use that Americans Make of Public Associations in Civil LifeChapter 6: Of the Relation between Associations and NewspapersChapter 7: The Relationship between Civil and Political AssociationsChapter 8: How Americans Combat Individualism with the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understood Sojourner Truth Speech Delivered at the Akron, Ohio Convention on Women’s Rights, 1851 As Reported by the Anti-Slavery Bugle, 21 June 1851As Reported by F.D. Gage for the National Anti-Slavery Standard, 2 May 1863 John Stuart Mill On Liberty (1859) from Chapter 1: Introductoryfrom Chapter 2: Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussionfrom Chapter 3: On Individuality, as One of the Elements of Well-Beingfrom Chapter 4: Of the Limits of the Authority of Society over the Individualfrom Chapter 5: Applications Considerations on Representative Government (1861) from Chapter 10: Of the Mode of VotingChapter 16: Of Nationality, as Connected with Representative Government Utilitarianism (1863) from Chapter 2: What Utilitarianism Isfrom Chapter 3: Of the Ultimate Sanction of the Principle of Utilityfrom Chapter 5: On the Connection between Justice and Utility from The Subjection of Women (1869) Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts (1844) Estranged LaborPrivate Property and Communismfrom The German Ideology (1845) Ideology in General, German Ideology in Particular Theses on Feuerbach (1845)The Communist Manifesto (1848) Bourgeois and Proletarians Proletarians and Communists Socialist and Communist LiteraturePosition of the Communists in Relation to the Various Existing Opposition Parties Critique of the Gotha Program (1875) Friedrich Nietzsche On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) from First Essay: Good and Evil, Good and Badfrom Second Essay: Guilt, Bad Conscience and Related Matters V.I. Leninfrom What Is to Be Done? (1902)W.E.B. Du Boisfrom The Souls of Black Folk (1903)Chapter 1: Of Our Spiritual Strivings Simone de Beauvoirfrom The Second Sex (1949)Isaiah Berlin“Two Concepts of Liberty” (1958)Frantz Fanonfrom The Wretched of the Earth (1961)Jürgen Habermas A summary of the 1962 work The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, “The Public Sphere” (1973) from The Inclusion of the Other: Studies in Political Theory, “Three Normative Models of Democracy” (1996) Martin Luther King, Jr.“Letter from Birmingham Jail” (April 16, 1963)John Rawls from A Theory of Justice (originally published 1971, revised edition 1999) 3. The Main Idea of the Theory of Justice4. The Original Position and Justification5. Classical Utilitarianism6. Some Related Contrasts11. Two Principles of Justice13. Democratic Equality and the Difference Principle14. Fair Equality of Opportunity and Pure Procedural Justice15. Primary Social Goods as the Basis of Expectations17. The Tendency to Equality24. The Veil of Ignorance “The Idea of an Overlapping Consensus” (1987) Robert Nozick from Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974) from Chapter 7: Distributive Justice Michel Foucaultfrom Discipline and Punish (1975)Michael J. Sandel“The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self ” (1984)Susan Moller Okin from Justice, Gender, and the Family (1989) Chapter 5: Justice as Fairness: For Whom?Chapter 8: Conclusion: Toward a Humanist Justice Iris Young from Justice and the Politics of Difference (1990) Chapter 1: Displacing the Distributive Paradigm Will Kymlicka from Multicultural Citizenship (1995) Chapter 6: Justice and Minority Rights Permissions AcknowledgmentsIndex of Authors and Titles

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Book SynopsisIn January of 1649, after years of civil war, King Charles I stood trial in a specially convened English court on charges of treason, murder, and other high crimes against his people. Not only did the revolutionary tribunal fi nd him guilty and order his death, but its masters then abolished monarchy itself and embarked on a bold (though short-lived) republican experiment. The event was a landmark in legal history. The trial and execution of King Charles marked a watershed in English politics and political theory, and thus also affected subsequent developments in those parts of the world colonized by the British.This book presents a selection of contemporaries’ accounts of the king’s trial and their reactions to it, as well as a report of the trial of the king’s own judges once the wheel of fortune turned and monarchy was restored. It uses the words of people directly involved to offer insight into the causes and consequences of these momentous events.Trade Review“The trial of Charles I is one of the most important events in British history, and the documentary evidence surrounding it is thrilling and evocative. This wonderful new edition offers not just the colour but also the complexity of the surviving sources; it reveals the contested nature of the events themselves, as well as ongoing debates about their meaning and significance. In addition to the amazing record of the trial itself, we are presented with neglected evidence about how profoundly the king’s death affected even the most radical of contemporary commentators. As such, the book casts new and genuinely thought-provoking light on these momentous events.” — Jason Peacey, University College London“This compendium of primary sources provides an indispensable teaching resource for studying the trial of Charles I. Kesselring’s contextual introduction guides the reader through recent controversies among historians over how to interpret the trial, while providing a list of penetrating questions to stimulate enquiry and debate. The volume’s strength lies in the different perspectives offered by its selected texts; its inclusion of an account of the regicide Thomas Harrison’s trial invites readers to explore further comparative dimensions.” — Andrew Hopper, University of LeicesterTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChronologyQuestions to ConsiderPart 1: Trying the King Title page and Extracts from John Nalson, A True Copy of the Journal of the High Court of Justice for the Tryal of K. Charles I (London, 1684) Lord President Bradshaw’s Speech: Extract from Gilbert Mabbott, A Perfect Narrative of the Whole Proceedings of the High Court of Justice (London, 1649) The Death Warrant of Charles I Part 2: Reactions and Aftermath Acts Establishing a Republic Extracts from “An Act for the abolishing the Kingly Office in England and Ireland, and the Dominions thereunto belonging” (1649) Extracts from “An Act for the Abolishing the House of Peers” (1649) “An Act Declaring and Constituting the People of England to be a Commonwealth and Free State” (1649) A Contemporary Depiction of the King’s Execution A “Martyr” Speaks from the Grave: The King’s Eikon Basilike (London, 1649): Extracts and Frontispiece to the Eikon Basilike A Soldier’s Doubts: Extracts from Francis White, The copies of several letters contrary to the opinion of the present powers (London, 1649) Principles and Pragmatism: Extracts from John Lilburne, The legal fundamental liberties of the people of england revived, asserted, and vindicated (London, 1649) Overthrowing “Kingly Power” as well as Kings: Extracts from Gerrard Winstanley, A New Year’s Gift for the Parliament and Army (London, 1650) Part 3: Trying the King-Killers A Contemporary Depiction of the Executions of the King and of His Judges The Trial of Major General Harrison: Extracts from Heneage Finch, An Exact and most Impartial Accompt of the Indictment, Arraignment, Trial, and Judgment (according to Law) of Twenty Nine Regicides (London, 1660) Glossary of Key Figures and TermsSelect Bibliography

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Book SynopsisNew social movements of the post-war era have brought to prominence the idea that identity can be a crucial focus for political struggle. Linked to an increasing recognition that social theory itself must put the politics of identity on center stage, this volume impels social theorists not only to make sense of the "world out there", but also to make sense of differences within the discourse of theory.Trade Review"This book provides a concise set of perspectives on the status of the politics of identity in contemporary theoretical sociology." Book Review Digest, New York Table of ContentsPreface. 1. Social Theory and the Politics of Identity: Craig Calhoun (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). 2. Reclaiming the Epistemological 'Other': Narrative and the Social Constitution of Identity: Margaret R. Somers and Gloria D. Gibson (University of Michigan). 3. Dark Thoughts about the Self: Charles Lemert (Wesleyan University). 4. The Politics of Identity in American History: Norbert Wiley (University of Illinois). 5. From Universality to Difference: Notes on the Fragmentation of the Idea of the Left: Todd Gitlin (University of California, Berkeley). 6. The Formation of We-Images: A Process Theory: Stephen Mennell (University College, Dublin). 7. Identity Theory, Identity Politics: Psychoanalysis, Marxism, Post-Structuralism: Eli Zaretsky (Newberry Library, Chicago). 8. Malcolm X and the Black Public Sphere: Conversionists vs. Culturalists: Manthia Diawara (New York University). 9. Redrawing the Urban Color Line: The State and Fate of the Ghetto in PostFordist America: Loic Wacquant (Russell Sage Foundation). 10. Emotions and Identity: A Theory of Ethnic Nationalism: Thomas Scheff (University of California, Santa Barbara). 11. Nationalism and Civil Society: Democracy, Diversity and Self-Determination: Craig Calhoun (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).

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Book SynopsisRecounting the actors and events of U.S. foreign policy, Zoellick identifies five traditions that have emerged from America's encounters with the world: the importance of North America; the special roles trading, transnational, and technological relations play in defining ties with others; changing attitudes toward alliances and ways of ordering connections among states; the need for public support, especially through Congress; and the belief that American policy should serve a larger purpose. These traditions frame a closing review of post-Cold War presidencies, which Zoellick foresees serving as guideposts for the future. Both a sweeping work of history and an insightful guide to U.S. diplomacy past and present, AMERICA IN THE WORLD serves as an informative companion and practical adviser to readers seeking to understand the strategic and immediate challenges of U.S. foreign policy during an era of transformation.

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Book SynopsisFully revised and expanded, this stirring account reveals how the U.S. government permitted the illegal entry of Nazis into North America in the years following World War II. This extraordinary investigation exposes the secret section of the State Department that began, starting in 1948 and unbeknownst to Congress and the public until recently, to hire members of the puppet wartime government of Byelorussia—a region of the Soviet Union occupied by Nazi Germany. A former Justice Department investigator uncovered this stunning story in the files of several government agencies, and it is now available with a chapter previously banned from release by authorities and a foreword and afterword with recently declassified materials.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An elegant and penetrating conception of the nature of political philosophy."---Lewis Ross, Journal of Moral Philosophy"A terrific achievement that will be of lasting benefit.—Thom Brooks, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews"

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Book SynopsisThe political ambitions of the movement behind Bernie Sanders have never been limited to winning the White House. Since Bernie first entered the presidential primaries in 2016, his supporters have worked to organize a revolution intended to encourage the active participation of millions of ordinary people in political life. That revolution is already underway, as evidenced by the massive growth of the Democratic Socialists of America, the teachers Bernie motivated to lead strikes across red and blue states, and the rising new generation of radicals in Congress-led by AOC and Ilhan Omar-inspired by his example.In Bigger than Bernie, activist writers Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht give us an intimate map of this emerging movement to remake American politics top to bottom, profiling the grassroots organizers who are building something bigger, and more ambitious, than the career of any one candidate. As participants themselves, Day and Uetricht provide a serious analysis of the prospects for long-term change, offering a strategy for making "political revolution" more than just a campaign slogan. They provide a road map for how to entrench democratic socialism in the halls of power and in our own lives.Bigger than Bernie offers unmatched insights into the people behind the most unique campaign in modern American history and a clear-eyed sense of how the movement can sustain itself for the long haul.Trade ReviewMeagan Day and Micah Uetricht are two of the most brilliant and courageous intellectuals organically grounded in the marvelous militancy of the Sanders Movement. This indispensable book is a powerful, pioneering analysis of these new radical times, and a compelling vision of where it all might be going. -- Cornel West, author of Races MattersHannah Arendt said we should 'think what we are doing.' And that is what Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht have done here. Their book not only examines all that democratic socialists have achieved in the past few years but also gives an exhilarating account of what we'll be doing in the coming years. Anyone who thinks, with dread or relief, that the work comes to an end after Election Day in 2020 will think again. As Day and Uetricht show, the fight for democratic socialism has only just begun, and I'm going to keep coming back to them and their book in order to understand where and how it goes in the future. -- Corey Robin, author of The Enigma of Clarence ThomasBigger Than Bernie is a comprehensive and necessary read for those longing for a more humane country, and as someone who has been up close in many of our current fights for justice, I can attest to the power of its analysis. The authors champion non-reformist reforms that arise from and propoel social movements, and provide an essential roadmap for achieving permanent change. An energizing and instructive account that brings socialism into the present tense. -- RoseAnn DeMoro, former head of National Nurses UnitedPart history lesson, part guide book; this is a love letter to the everyday people and movements who transformed this country and who continue to declare that our lives have meaning, and our future is worth fighting for. Bigger than Bernie, isn't about the man who's spent the majority of his political career on the fringes. It's about fighters. It's about thinkers. It's about love. It's about US. -- Phillip Agnew, Co-founder of the Dream DefendersAn indispensable guide to 21st century socialism from the view of clear eyed, sharp witted, smart, funny authors who lay bare the past failures of angry, narrow sectarianism, and offer a bold, dynamic vision for using the Sanders moment to build a stronger left. These authors, like the magazine they write for, give me hope! -- Jane McAlevey, author of A Collective BargainBigger Than Bernie offers an important contribution to the urgent debates about rebuilding the American Left. Leading members of the Democratic Socialists of America, Megan Day and Micah Uetricht link that process to the improbable emergence of Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign and his insistence on "Not me, Us." Day and Uetricht put flesh on Sanders's call for a "political revolution" which they see as not only critical to the success of Sanders' campaign, but the revitalization of class struggle politics and organizing in the U.S. Buy, read, discuss and debate this book! -- Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

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Book SynopsisThis book is essential reading for those interested in the role of the informal economy in contemporary processes of growth and economic governance in Africa. Why have informal enterprise networks failed to promote economic development in Africa? Although social networks were thought to offer a solution to state incapacity and market failure, the proliferation of socially embedded enterprise networks across Africa has generated disorder and economic decline rather than development. This book challenges the prevailing assumption that the problem of African development lies in bad cultural institutions by showingthat informal economic governance in Nigeria is shaped, not just by culture, but by the disruptive effects of rapid liberalization, state decline and political capture. Identity Economics traces the rise of two dynamic informal enterprise clusters in Nigeria, and explores their slide into trajectories of Pentecostalism, poverty and violent vigilantism. Drawing on over twenty years of empirical research on African informal economies, the author highlights the institutional legacies, networking strategies and globalizing dynamics that shape the regulatory role of social networks in Africa's largest and most turbulent economy. Through an ethnography of informal economicgovernance, this book shows how ties of ethnicity, class, gender and religion are used to restructure enterprise networks in response to contemporary economic challenges. Moving beyond primordialist interpretations of African culture, attention is drawn to the critical role of the state and the macro-economic policy environment in shaping trajectories of informal economic governance. KATE MEAGHER is a former Research Associate at Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford and is currently a Lecturer in the Development Studies Institute at the London School of Economics. Nigeria: HEBNTrade ReviewA contemporary archaeology of real institutions [as] Meagher uncovers the structures and dynamics of a political economy. * JOURNAL OF AFRICA *The depth and scholarly range of the book will certainly stimulate further research on the subject of identity economics. * NEW AGENDA *Informed by theory as well as sustained fieldwork, Meagher's study is a useful antidote to the purveyors of magic-bullet solutions for African development. It should be read by anyone interested in Africa's industrialization. * FOREIGN AFFAIRS *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Social networks & economic ungovernance in Africa Beyond the cultural turn: Rethinking African informality Oracles, secret societies & hometown identities: An institutional history of Igbo economic networks Unleashing popular entrepreneurship: Informal manufacturing & economic restructuring The scramble for weak ties: Restructuring informal enterprise networks Negotiating the web of associational life: Popular associations & networking strategies Collective efficiency or cutthroat cooperation?: Networks of accumulation & networks of survival Informality, cliental networks & vigilantes: Producers' associations & the state Missing link or missed opportunity?: Social networks & economic development in Africa

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Book SynopsisThe Electoral College has always been controversial. A compromise measure from day one, it has been a target of reformers in Congress since the early 1800s. Why has it persisted? Alexander Keyssar catalogs the many serious efforts to change the system, explains why they failed, and surveys the options for achieving a more democratic national vote.Trade ReviewComprehensive and full of historical insight. Even specialists in political and constitutional history will encounter surprises…As another presidential election looms, [it] deserve[s] a wide readership. -- Eric Foner * London Review of Books *America’s greatest historian of democracy now offers an extraordinary history of the most bizarre aspect of our representative democracy—the electoral college. In a clear and complete account of this anomaly’s origins and how it has survived, we can see the outlines for how it might be replaced, or at least improved upon. This is a brilliant contribution to a critical current debate, just in time to help guide effective reform. -- Lawrence Lessig, author of They Don’t Represent UsMonumental…fills in the blind-spot we did not know we had…It is hard to imagine another work significantly improving on this study of the recurrent controversies over the design of the Electoral College…Provides bracing accounts of how far partisans were once willing to go to manipulate the features of the presidential election system to advance their cause. -- Keith E. Whittington * New Rambler *One of the chief virtues of Alexander Keyssar’s remarkable new book Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? is that it conclusively demonstrates the absurdity of preserving an institution that has been so contentious throughout U.S. history and has not infrequently produced results that defied the popular will…A scholarly masterpiece…Keyssar has crafted an absorbing, if dispiriting, narrative about the durable obstacles to structural change in the United States. -- Michael Kazin * The Nation *Rigorous and highly readable…shows how the electoral college has endured despite being reviled by statesmen from James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and Andrew Jackson to Edward Kennedy, Bob Dole, and Gerald Ford. -- Lawrence Douglas * Times Literary Supplement *Keyssar, our great narrator of the American right to vote, is a national treasure who keeps giving us the history we need right when we need it. In this thrilling achievement, he tells the history of the Electoral College—how it has repeatedly eroded democratic values and how we might come to replace it in the twenty-first century. This is a dazzling contribution not just to American history but to the American future. -- Congressman Jamie Raskin (Maryland)A brilliant history, analysis, and critique of one of the most undemocratic elements of our supposed democracy—and another anti-democratic device whose roots were partly racist. -- Robert Kuttner * American Prospect *Perfectly timed…Keyssar tells a riveting and winding tale about attempts to reform the Electoral College and replace it with either a national popular vote or a distribution of electors in proportion to the state’s popular vote…His confrontation with racism in the U.S. as it relates to electoral reform—a topic that isn’t often viewed through this lens—is one of the strengths that make this book well worth the read. -- Kyle Scott * LSE Review of Books *Sets out to explain the persistence of a technique that in public opinion polls has never accumulated support from a majority of Americans…[Keyssar’s] telling, artfully balancing broad themes and specific anecdotes, is both readable and valuable; knowing how we got here is a useful prerequisite to charting how to get where we want to be. -- Daniel B. Moskowitz * Washington Times *This is a powerful work twice over. Its contributions to the debate over the Electoral College’s effects on our politics are profound. No less important, though, are the fascinating accounts of the changing rules governing presidential elections since the nation’s founding, a turbulent and largely unknown history. Keyssar’s lucid scholarship does justice to the past while it forcefully informs the present. -- Sean Wilentz, author of No Property in ManSlavery and the origins of the Electoral College, the electors who actually determine who will be president, are intricately bound…Keyssar recreates the debates at the Constitutional Convention that birthed the body that centuries later gave Trump the presidency in 2016, though he lost the popular vote. Convention participants were torn between the practical challenges of holding a national election and the political balancing act between the needs of states small and large, free and slave. -- Susan Smith Richardson, Center for Public Integrity[A] remarkable book. -- Ariel Dorfman * The Nation *[A] comprehensive new history of the Electoral College. * New York Times *To fully explain how difficult the Electoral College is to dislodge, Keyssar chronicles more than two centuries of near-constant disputation and battle. -- Lee Drutman * Washington Monthly *A masterpiece. Keyssar shows us that America’s Electoral College has ever drifted on turbulent waters, surviving various near-misses at reform both local and national. He leaves readers with the humbling reminder that popular sovereignty can ossify the rules of election, even as he lays bare the political vulnerabilities of the Electoral College and the real possibilities for change. -- Daniel Carpenter, author of Reputation and PowerKeyssar asks a simple question that seems to have an equally simple answer—the small states would never allow it, so why even think about it? Being the careful historian he is, he offers a complex analysis proving that our presidential election system has long been controversial; that serious efforts, now forgotten, were made to alter it; and that the case for its amendment remains as compelling, but also challenging, as ever. At this critical moment in our history, he brilliantly engages one of the most vexing problems in our working Constitution. -- Jack N. Rakove, author of The Annotated U.S. Constitution and Declaration of IndependenceOur foremost historian of voting and elections explains the frustrating experiences the nation has had in attempting to eliminate—or even amend—the antiquated Electoral College. While the procedures of self-government should be rational, or at least ones Americans want, they are anything but, and Keyssar provides a nuanced and eventful narrative as to why. The result is a much-needed book that fills a gap in our national self-understanding, which surely is the first step to making any progress in rectifying the situation. -- Edward B. Foley, author of Presidential Elections and Majority RuleTo thoroughly understand the Electoral College, but also the nature of institutional reform in general and American Constitutional reform in particular, one could hardly do better. -- Adam Gurri * Liberal Currents *A detailed history of the electoral college and the attempts to change it…Enlivened by fascinating episodes in U.S. political history. -- Varun Ghosh * Australian Book Review *A rigorous historian of the institution. -- Steve Coll * New Yorker *Pathbreaking historical analysis. -- Sandy Levinson * Balkinization *Excellent. -- Justin Fox * Bloomberg *I would definitely recommend it to anyone who wanted to properly understand the Electoral College…It’s designed to inform the debate in the US over whether or not it should be reformed, and if so, how that could be achieved…Not only a masterful narrative history, but a powerful political intervention…Deeply rewarding. -- Daniel Sutton * Oxonian Review *[A] definitive study. -- Chris Maisano * Jacobin *Will surely remain one of the most detailed and scholarly investigations into these serial attempts at reform, while also offering a thoughtful analysis of the many different reasons for their failure. -- Tom Mertes * New Left Review *The most thorough study of our Electoral College debates ever written…A magnum opus with many contributions to political understanding. -- Christopher DeMuth * Claremont Review of Books *Provides perhaps the most exhaustive treatment of the oft-maligned body. Despite nearly a thousand attempts to reform or abolish it, the Electoral College has persisted. Keyssar sets out to help readers understand why this is the case. In rich detail, he illustrates how the complex nature of the Electoral College and the difficulties presented by the constitutional amendment process largely explain its resilience…A must read for anyone interested in understanding the Electoral College and its history. * Choice *Without question this is the best book ever written on the electoral college. It destroys any pretense to the wisdom of the framers in crafting the institution, and it points to a history of repeated problems with it…Anyone who cares about American politics, democracy, or the Constitution needs to read Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? It opens up our eyes to how we think about our political process and to whose benefit it serves. -- David Schultz * New York Journal of Books *Comprehensive and full of historical insight. Even specialists in political and constitutional history will encounter surprises…As another presidential election looms, [it] deserve[s] a wide readership. -- Eric Foner * London Review of Books *America’s greatest historian of democracy now offers an extraordinary history of the most bizarre aspect of our representative democracy—the electoral college. In a clear and complete account of this anomaly’s origins and how it has survived, we can see the outlines for how it might be replaced, or at least improved upon. This is a brilliant contribution to a critical current debate, just in time to help guide effective reform. -- Lawrence Lessig, author of They Don’t Represent UsMonumental…fills in the blind-spot we did not know we had…It is hard to imagine another work significantly improving on this study of the recurrent controversies over the design of the Electoral College…Provides bracing accounts of how far partisans were once willing to go to manipulate the features of the presidential election system to advance their cause. -- Keith E. Whittington * New Rambler *One of the chief virtues of Alexander Keyssar’s remarkable new book Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? is that it conclusively demonstrates the absurdity of preserving an institution that has been so contentious throughout U.S. history and has not infrequently produced results that defied the popular will…A scholarly masterpiece…Keyssar has crafted an absorbing, if dispiriting, narrative about the durable obstacles to structural change in the United States. -- Michael Kazin * The Nation *Rigorous and highly readable…shows how the electoral college has endured despite being reviled by statesmen from James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and Andrew Jackson to Edward Kennedy, Bob Dole, and Gerald Ford. -- Lawrence Douglas * Times Literary Supplement *Keyssar, our great narrator of the American right to vote, is a national treasure who keeps giving us the history we need right when we need it. In this thrilling achievement, he tells the history of the Electoral College—how it has repeatedly eroded democratic values and how we might come to replace it in the twenty-first century. This is a dazzling contribution not just to American history but to the American future. -- Congressman Jamie Raskin (Maryland)A brilliant history, analysis, and critique of one of the most undemocratic elements of our supposed democracy—and another anti-democratic device whose roots were partly racist. -- Robert Kuttner * American Prospect *Perfectly timed…Keyssar tells a riveting and winding tale about attempts to reform the Electoral College and replace it with either a national popular vote or a distribution of electors in proportion to the state’s popular vote…His confrontation with racism in the U.S. as it relates to electoral reform—a topic that isn’t often viewed through this lens—is one of the strengths that make this book well worth the read. -- Kyle Scott * LSE Review of Books *Sets out to explain the persistence of a technique that in public opinion polls has never accumulated support from a majority of Americans…[Keyssar’s] telling, artfully balancing broad themes and specific anecdotes, is both readable and valuable; knowing how we got here is a useful prerequisite to charting how to get where we want to be. -- Daniel B. Moskowitz * Washington Times *This is a powerful work twice over. Its contributions to the debate over the Electoral College’s effects on our politics are profound. No less important, though, are the fascinating accounts of the changing rules governing presidential elections since the nation’s founding, a turbulent and largely unknown history. Keyssar’s lucid scholarship does justice to the past while it forcefully informs the present. -- Sean Wilentz, author of No Property in ManSlavery and the origins of the Electoral College, the electors who actually determine who will be president, are intricately bound…Keyssar recreates the debates at the Constitutional Convention that birthed the body that centuries later gave Trump the presidency in 2016, though he lost the popular vote. Convention participants were torn between the practical challenges of holding a national election and the political balancing act between the needs of states small and large, free and slave. -- Susan Smith Richardson, Center for Public Integrity[A] remarkable book. -- Ariel Dorfman * The Nation *[A] comprehensive new history of the Electoral College. * New York Times *To fully explain how difficult the Electoral College is to dislodge, Keyssar chronicles more than two centuries of near-constant disputation and battle. -- Lee Drutman * Washington Monthly *A masterpiece. Keyssar shows us that America’s Electoral College has ever drifted on turbulent waters, surviving various near-misses at reform both local and national. He leaves readers with the humbling reminder that popular sovereignty can ossify the rules of election, even as he lays bare the political vulnerabilities of the Electoral College and the real possibilities for change. -- Daniel Carpenter, author of Reputation and PowerKeyssar asks a simple question that seems to have an equally simple answer—the small states would never allow it, so why even think about it? Being the careful historian he is, he offers a complex analysis proving that our presidential election system has long been controversial; that serious efforts, now forgotten, were made to alter it; and that the case for its amendment remains as compelling, but also challenging, as ever. At this critical moment in our history, he brilliantly engages one of the most vexing problems in our working Constitution. -- Jack N. Rakove, author of The Annotated U.S. Constitution and Declaration of IndependenceOur foremost historian of voting and elections explains the frustrating experiences the nation has had in attempting to eliminate—or even amend—the antiquated Electoral College. While the procedures of self-government should be rational, or at least ones Americans want, they are anything but, and Keyssar provides a nuanced and eventful narrative as to why. The result is a much-needed book that fills a gap in our national self-understanding, which surely is the first step to making any progress in rectifying the situation. -- Edward B. Foley, author of Presidential Elections and Majority RuleTo thoroughly understand the Electoral College, but also the nature of institutional reform in general and American Constitutional reform in particular, one could hardly do better. -- Adam Gurri * Liberal Currents *A detailed history of the electoral college and the attempts to change it…Enlivened by fascinating episodes in U.S. political history. -- Varun Ghosh * Australian Book Review *A rigorous historian of the institution. -- Steve Coll * New Yorker *Pathbreaking historical analysis. -- Sandy Levinson * Balkinization *Excellent. -- Justin Fox * Bloomberg *I would definitely recommend it to anyone who wanted to properly understand the Electoral College…It’s designed to inform the debate in the US over whether or not it should be reformed, and if so, how that could be achieved…Not only a masterful narrative history, but a powerful political intervention…Deeply rewarding. -- Daniel Sutton * Oxonian Review *[A] definitive study. -- Chris Maisano * Jacobin *Will surely remain one of the most detailed and scholarly investigations into these serial attempts at reform, while also offering a thoughtful analysis of the many different reasons for their failure. -- Tom Mertes * New Left Review *The most thorough study of our Electoral College debates ever written…A magnum opus with many contributions to political understanding. -- Christopher DeMuth * Claremont Review of Books *Provides perhaps the most exhaustive treatment of the oft-maligned body. Despite nearly a thousand attempts to reform or abolish it, the Electoral College has persisted. Keyssar sets out to help readers understand why this is the case. In rich detail, he illustrates how the complex nature of the Electoral College and the difficulties presented by the constitutional amendment process largely explain its resilience…A must read for anyone interested in understanding the Electoral College and its history. * Choice *Without question this is the best book ever written on the electoral college. It destroys any pretense to the wisdom of the framers in crafting the institution, and it points to a history of repeated problems with it…Anyone who cares about American politics, democracy, or the Constitution needs to read Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? It opens up our eyes to how we think about our political process and to whose benefit it serves. -- David Schultz * New York Journal of Books *

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Book SynopsisIn Nonhuman Witnessing Michael Richardson argues that a radical rethinking of what counts as witnessing is central to building frameworks for justice in an era of endless war, ecological catastrophe, and technological capture. Dismantling the primacy and notion of traditional human-based forms of witnessing, Richardson shows how ecological, machinic, and algorithmic forms of witnessing can help us better understand contemporary crises. He examines the media-specificity of nonhuman witnessing across an array of sites, from nuclear testing on First Nations land and autonomous drone warfare to deepfakes, artificial intelligence, and algorithmic investigative tools. Throughout, he illuminates the ethical and political implications of witnessing in an age of profound instability. By challenging readers to rethink their understanding of witnessing, testimony, and trauma in the context of interconnected crises, Richardson reveals the complex entanglements between witnessing and violencTrade Review“The work of Michael Richardson is like a four dimensional cartography to navigate the hyperaesthetics of our post-photographic present.” -- Eyal Weizman, coauthor of * Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth *“Foregrounding the ethical dimensions of the convergence between the fields of security and ecology, Michael Richardson explores whether witnessing is taking place beyond the boundaries of the human. By making a fantastic case for the reversal of the humanist concept of witnessing, Richardson impacts what kinds of research questions can be asked across the disciplines.” -- Jairus Victor Grove, author of * Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Nonhuman Witnessing 1 1. Witnessing Violence 37 2. Witnessing Algorithms 80 3. Witnessing Ecologies 112 4. Witnessing Absence 150 Coda. Toward a Politics of Nonhuman Witnessing 174 Notes 185 Bibliography 207 Index 229

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Penprase and Pickus lead us through a cutting-edge exploration of new, innovative global universities, and one that recenters the powerful teaching-learning approach of liberal education as a transformative experience for individuals, but also the regions and nations in which they serve and contribute."---James H. McDonald, New York Journal of Books

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Book SynopsisTim Harper shows on an epic scale how Asia’s anti-imperial movements depended on global revolutionary networks, and he traces the lingering power of internationalist utopian dreams in the postcolonial world.Trade ReviewA clearly written, brilliantly researched examination of the people and movements that shaped Asia’s course in the 20th century and continue to influence the continent today…Helps western and non-specialist readers grasp some key questions and debates on which the course of Asia’s revolutions turned…Provides rich if unsettling insights for American readers trying to understand the role of human rights in Asia today. -- Walter Russell Mead * Wall Street Journal *The first comprehensive look at this dense web of resistance. The Asian underground laid long-burning fuses across great distances—attacking colonial officials, organizing strikes, founding schools, plotting insurrections, and raining down tracts and pamphlets…Provides an unexpected key to understanding contemporary Asian politics. -- Thomas Meaney * New Yorker *Harper’s magnificent, sweeping study of Asian revolutionary movements from 1905 to 1927 is packed with sharp insights and entertaining details. The book argues convincingly that this was the period when anti-colonial activists in China, India, Indonesia and Vietnam fatally undermined European imperialism in Asia. * Financial Times *Superbly original…Breaks new ground by showing how a collective consciousness emerged among revolutionaries. * The Economist *Magisterial…Harper does not simply challenge the conventional view of Vietnam’s history but also other Great Man accounts of liberation struggles in different Asian countries, from Indonesia to India, the Philippines to China. He does this through life stories of intriguing individuals, downplayed or completely ignored in standard histories because their approaches diverged sharply from those of the figures now seen as the key saviors of their countries, or because they moved between and influenced activists in different locales, meaning their actions do not fit in a single national frame. -- Jeffrey Wasserstrom * New Republic *A magisterial history of anti-imperialism in Asia in the first three decades of the twentieth century…The scale and ambition of his work are nothing short of remarkable…Harper’s book arrives at another moment of rebellion across Asia. -- Adom Getachew * Foreign Affairs *A sweeping account…Harper’s broad perspective reveals the interconnectedness of these anti-colonial struggles and their reverberations more than a century later…Asia scholars and students of international affairs will find this revisionist history to be of exceptional value. * Publishers Weekly *It is breathtaking in its sweep, matchless in its command of diverse sources spread across different archives, remarkable in its empathy for the lives and emotions of forgotten men and women, and for the clarity of its prose. -- Rudrangshu Mukherjee * The Wire *Tim Harper’s Underground Asia is a marvel of a book. I have never seen anything like it. Harper has the storyteller’s gift. He makes connections across space and time and race and place that most people can’t dream of emulating. No one understands the warp and weft of the absolute powder-keg explosion of the beginnings of nationalism in Asia writ-large better than Tim Harper. -- Eric Tagliacozzo, Cornell UniversityUnderground Asia is a monumental and magnificent study of anti-colonial revolutionaries who forged solidarities across the globe to mount a connected onslaught against the British, French, and Dutch empires. Written with verve and panache, this is riveting narrative history at its very best that would evoke the envy of the finest novelists. -- Sugata Bose, Harvard UniversityUnderground Asia is the most gripping work of history I have ever read. It is a truly profound meditation on the struggles for freedom that shaped modern Asia, it is an astonishing feat of archival detective work, and it is a flat out literary masterpiece. -- Sunil Amrith, author of Unruly WatersTim Harper is a rare historian-storyteller…Interesting anecdotes propel a powerful story that lends credence to the belief that the empires were quite rattled by the audacity of these groups of men and women who could not be repressed into submission…This book has truly brought alive all those characters who were either erased or faded away from memory and paid them a tribute they richly deserved. -- Ajay Singh * Indian Express *A timely book for a moment of re-emerging popular rebellion, from the militant farmer protests in India to the pro-democracy upsurges in Thailand, Burma, and Hong Kong. -- Bill Weinberg * Fifth Estate *Harper succeeds in conveying a genuine sense of this ‘underground’ world, bringing many lesser-known figures to the fore and placing the likes of Sun Yat-sen, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Tan Malaka, and Ho Chi Minh in new contexts…Innovative in its scope…A rich social and cultural history of an era that saw new national identities forged. -- Peter Zarrow * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *

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Book SynopsisThe Indian subcontinent was once known as Hindustan, a multicultural region with a cohesive political identity. Manan Ahmed Asif explores the abandonment of this pluralism under European influence, such that a place once understood as the home of all faiths is now considered—locally and abroad—the land of the Hindus.Trade ReviewAsif surveys the damage inflicted on the Indian subcontinent by British colonial historiography, with its ideas of immutable religious divisions. Must read! -- Amitav Ghosh[A] remarkable book…Asif’s analysis and conclusions are powerful and poignant. His book also raises certain questions and challenges. Some of these actually are products of the real strength of the book which is his detailed reading and interpretation of Firishta’s Tarikh. -- Rudrangshu Mukherjee * The Wire *Dazzlingly erudite…An intellectual tour de force…Exceptionally stimulating…with its meticulous piecing together of the jigsaw that reveals an entire conceptual universe, complete with its own geography, peoples, history, and archives. -- Vivek Menezes * Mint Lounge *By examining Firishta’s understanding of the history of Hindustan, and how the colonial historians re-ordered his work to fit entirely different narratives, [Asif] argues for a re-examining of our understanding of the pre-colonial past and a need for others in his field to acknowledge the influence of colonial knowledge on the practice of writing history. -- Rohan Venkataramakrishnan * Scroll *An ambitious endeavor to trace the genealogy of the concept of Hindustan and to embark on this quest with a decolonial framework of the philosophy of history…An indispensable work in the field of global intellectual history. -- Sabeena Shaikh * Arc *The brilliance of Asif’s book rests in the way he makes readers think about the name ‘Hindustan’ itself and the various connotations it holds…Asif’s focus is Indian history but it is, at the same time, a lens to look at questions far bigger. -- Soni Wadhwa * Asian Review of Books *A tremendous contribution to how we understand an influential premodern Indian historian, Firishta, and the colonial legacy’s implications for how we encounter the past…This is not only a book that you must read, but also one that you must chew over and debate. -- Audrey Truschke * Current History *Through his archaeology of colonialism’s discourses on the Indic past, Asif provokes us to contemplate what fundamentally rethinking our periodization and emplotment of Indian history might look like…A compelling contribution. -- Elaine M. Fisher * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Remarkable…Asif uncovers how the production of India as a modern nationalist spatial category effaces the Hindustan that appears in Persian and Arabic sources, which in turn were misappropriated to serve European interests and still are largely ignored by Hindu nationalists in the story of Hindustan. -- Patrick J. D'Silva * International Journal of Hindu Studies *In this remarkable and pathbreaking book, Manan Ahmed Asif peels back layer after layer of the colonial histories of Hindustan. The result is a radical rethink of colonial historiography and a compelling argument for the reassessment of the historical traditions of Hindustan. -- Mahmood Mamdani, author of Neither Settler nor NativeThe Loss of Hindustan takes us far beyond critiques of majoritarian nationalisms buttressed by colonial epistemology and reintroduces us to alternative histories of India that once circulated globally. Manan Ahmed Asif has given us nothing short of a master class in the ethics of history writing, illuminating the path to a South Asian future free of intercommunal prejudice and the oppression of minorities. -- Cemil Aydin, author of The Idea of the Muslim WorldA sharp, gripping book. Asif eloquently revitalizes Firishta’s Hindustan while also uncovering the colonial epistemologies that sought to efface it. The Loss of Hindustan is at once a reflection on a place imagined, remembered, and forgotten and a powerful affirmation of the historian’s task in our present world. -- Supriya Gandhi, author of The Emperor Who Never WasHow has the great Indo-Islamic tradition of history-writing been used and misused, bowdlerized or simply effaced, in more recent times? Manan Ahmed Asif delves deep into this question by focusing on the legacy of the important Deccani historian Muhammad Qasim Firishta, a contemporary of Akbar and Jahangir. This is a significant contribution to intellectual history, as well as to the long-term political and cultural history of South Asia. -- Sanjay Subrahmanyam, author of Europe’s India

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Book SynopsisAfter years of existential crisis, Europe has found a new raison d’être: the European Green Deal and the energy transition that lies at its core. This green Europe represents a normative vision, an economic growth strategy, as well as a route to a political Union that would enhance EU integration and legitimacy. But it can only be realized if it addresses head-on the social, economic, political and geopolitical ramifications of this epochal change. In A Green and Global Europe, Nathalie Tocci explains how the unprecedented nature of the current energy transition represents both a unique opportunity and a huge challenge to Europe’s future prosperity. The EU, she argues, must not act in isolation or ignore the adverse effects of the transition on Member States and neighbours. It must also address the global cleavages that may arise with China, the transatlantic relationship and the Global South as a result of the EU’s green agenda. By adopting a truly global approach to the energy transition, Europe can deliver on its responsibilities to people and planet alike, and avoid unleashing social, economic and security problems that could come biting back at the Union.Trade Review"The European Union has moved into uncontested global leadership in its ambitious goals to green its economy. No one is better equipped than Nathalie Tocci to analyze in a balanced manner how the actions required will present both opportunities and challenges, a reality that is admirably assessed in this highly informative book."Robert N. Stavins, A. J. Meyer Professor of Energy & Economic Development, Harvard Kennedy School"Nathalie Tocci’s book is an extraordinary journey into the European Union vision and mission to become the global leader of the green agenda. Nathalie explores in a fascinating way the links between the Green Deal, domestic European dynamics, and the regional and worldwide geopolitical implications of today and tomorrow. It couldn’t be more timely, as it analyses the different ways in which the strategic autonomy of the European Union is intertwined with its green agenda and its energy transition. A precious contribution to the definition of a new horizon for our continent’s mission!"Federica Mogherini, Rector of the College of Europe and Former High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy"Nathalie Tocci unpacks the complex policy dilemmas facing Europe in its quest for climate leadership. Her invaluable guide to the democratic, foreign policy and geo-political challenges of the energy transition shows the all-of-government approach that the EU needs to take to succeed in its great leap forward in integration through the European Green Deal."Heather Grabbe, Director, Open Society Policy Institute"A Green and Global Europe offers a concise, up-to-date, authoritative and clearly written account of the trajectory of Europe’s energy and climate policies, also shedding light on the social, economic and political prerequisites for their sustainability and success. Importantly, it also provides a compelling analysis of the multiple ways in which these policies will reverberate across Europe’s troubled neighbourhood. General readers will obtain from this book a great overview of the European energy and climate policy architecture, while energy and climate specialists will gain new insights on the crucial, but still underexplored, social and political dimensions of this historical transformation."Simone Tagliapietra, Bruegel, the Catholic University of Milan, and the Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe"The ecological challenge will be one of the most enduring and defining issues of the 21st century. In this timely book, Nathalie Tocci makes a compelling case for the EU to be decidedly green and global in confronting this challenge."Alexandros Yannis, senior official, European External Action Service (EEAS)"Nathalie Tocci’s deeply informed and compelling book makes an eloquent argument that for the EU’s ‘green’ policies to succeed they must also be incorporated and mainstreamed into its external relations. It’s a must read for all."Karen Smith, LSE"This is a powerful book from one of Europe’s most experienced analysts, rich with practical insights and a call to arms for the EU’s future development. An essential read for those looking to map out how the EU can engage with both its internal and external challenges."Simon Usherwood, The Open University"Nathalie Tocci fully understands that climate, geopolitics and social equity must be one conversation, not siloed. In A Green and Global Europe, she advances that vision as key to a rejuvenated and successful 'European project.'"Ernest Moniz, 13th United States Secretary of Energy“Amidst an unprecedented energy crisis and the need to address the existential challenge of climate change, Nathalie Tocci’s A Green an Global Europe charts a way for the EU to navigate these structural transformations. Worth reading.”Arancha Gonzales, Dean of PSIA at Sciences Po and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of SpainTable of ContentsAbbreviations Preface Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 A Green and Political Europe Chapter 3 A Green Europe and the Future of Liberal Democracy Chapter 4 A Green Europe in a Troubled Neighbourhood Chapter 5 A Green Europe Amidst Global Rivalry Chapter 6 Conclusion Bibliography Notes

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Book SynopsisPopulism has become a global movement associated with nationalism and strong-man politicians, but its root causes remain elusive. Mud, Blood, and Ghosts exposes one deep root in the soil of the American Great Plains. Julie Carr traces her own family’s history through archival documents to draw connections between U.S. agrarian populism, spiritualism, and eugenics, helping readers to understand populism’s tendency toward racism and exclusion. Carr follows the story of her great-grandfather Omer Madison Kem, three-term Populist representative from Nebraska, avid spiritualist, and committed eugenicist, to explore persistent themes in U.S. history: property, personhood, exclusion, and belonging. While recent books have taken seriously the experiences of poor whites in rural America, they haven’t traced the story to its origins. Carr connects Kem’s journey with that of America’s white establishment and its fury of nativism in the 1920s. PreseTrade Review"This is an important and moving analysis of the development of a formal Populism movement in the United States."—Library Journal"Through Carr's introspective lens, the book challenges readers to confront the uncomfortable truth that individuals, even those we hold dear, can be both sources of inspiration and instruments of oppression. This duality, and Carr's courageous engagement with it, renders her work deeply resonant and universally relevant. It is a call to action for all of us to consider challenging the eugenic business of power."—Gabriela Corona Valencia, Genetics and Society"A compelling narrative—describing ordinary people encountering often extraordinary circumstances—not usually found in other works of Western History."—Abraham Hoffman, Roundup Magazine“An exquisite mosaic of the cruel and haunting complexities of family, race, property, and political power in the American West. Carefully researched, Mud, Blood, and Ghosts is a brave and moving book.”—Avery F. Gordon, author of Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination“An outstanding, genre-bending family memoir. . . . Written with the prowess of a scholar and full of the insightfulness and precision of a poet, Mud, Blood, and Ghosts takes us simultaneously back to the nineteenth-century family origins of this story and into our turbulent present, where the urgent beating of land taken reverberates aloud, reminding us of the structural inequality of this country. Carr visits with ghosts and delivers their truth: the past is never the past. The future, if there is one, is up to us. Frankly: a must-read.”—Cristina Rivera Garza, distinguished professor of Hispanic studies and creative writing at the University of Houston“Julie Carr, in her panoramic exhumation and exposé of the ties—the roots—that bind, precariously and profoundly, the present to the past, is, as it turns out, the ghost jumping on her great-grandfather’s bed, rustling his blankets, keeping his life—and history, for the future—unquiet, unable to rest. Mud, Blood, and Ghosts—transdisciplinary biography as reappropriation—is not only the title of this book, but precisely what it is made of.”—Brandon Shimoda, author of The Grave on the Wall“Julie Carr brings alive the disquieting and kaleidoscope history of her great-grandfather, a radical Populist who homesteaded in the U.S. West at the turn of the century. She unflinchingly shows how his struggle for survival was characterized by an unruly combination of hardscrabble determination, spiritual longings, eugenic beliefs, and white supremacy. As she poignantly reconstructs an intensely personal past, Carr grapples with the ghosts of violence, silence, and memory in the politically volatile present.”—Alexandra Minna Stern, author of Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America“Why should readers care about Omer Kem? Because he stands in for a kind of everyman—his hopes, fears, and prejudices represent the legacies that white Americans carry into the present. Mud, Blood, and Ghosts powerfully captures what it means to be an American in the twenty-first century, sticky with the residue of history. It is beautiful, evocative, and difficult. This is the right book at the right time.”—Katrine Barber, author of In Defense of Wyam: Native-White Alliances and the Struggle for Celilo VillageTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Ownership and Thievery 1. Mud 2. Sod 3. Law and Order 4. Ghosts 5. Water in Relation Interlude: “A Real Everyday Feeling,” Portland, February 2020 6. Daughters 7. Blood 8. Power Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe conflict in Ukraine has deep domestic roots. A third of the population, primarily in the East and South, regards its own Russian cultural identity as entirely compatible with a Ukrainian civic identity. The state’s reluctance to recognize this ethnos as a legitimate part of the modern Ukrainian nation, has created a tragic cycle that entangles Ukrainian politics. The Tragedy of Ukraine argues that in order to untangle the conflict within the Ukraine, it must be addressed on an emotional, as well as institutional level. It draws on Richard Ned Lebow’s ‘tragic vision of politics’ and on classical Greek tragedy to assist in understanding the persistence of this conflict. Classical Greek tragedy once served as a mechanism in Athenian society to heal deep social trauma and create more just institutions. The Tragedy of Ukraine reflects on the ways in which ancient Greek tragedy can help us rethink civic conflict and polarization, as well as model ways of healing deep social divisions. Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisAre theories of governance useful for helping policymakers and citizens meet and tackle contemporary challenges? This insightful book reflects on how a theory becomes useful and evaluates a range of theories according to whether they are warranted, diagnostic, and dialogical.By arguing that useful theory tells us what to ask, not what to do, Christopher Ansell investigates what it means for a theory to be useful. Analysing how governance theories address a variety of specific challenges, chapters examine intractable public problems, weak government accountability, violent conflict, global gridlock, poverty and the unsustainable exploitation of our natural resources. Finding significant tensions between state- and society-centric perspectives on governance, the book concludes with a suggestion that we refocus our theories of governance on possibilities for state-society synergy. Governance theories of the future, Ansell argues, should also strive for a more fruitful dialogue between instrumental, critical and explanatory perspectives.Examining both the conceptual and empirical basis of theories of governance, this comprehensive book will be an invigorating read for scholars and students in the fields of public administration, public policy and planning, development studies, political science and urban, environmental and global governance. By linking theories of governance to concrete societal challenges, it will also be of use to policymakers and practitioners concerned with these fields.Trade Review‘Governance is now the mainstream of public administration and political science, and Chris Ansell's book combines theoretical insights and empirical findings to eloquently show why, what it is and what we have found so far in research about its effectiveness.’ -- Erik Hans Klijn, Erasmus University, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1 Do governance theories rise to the challenge? 2 Addressing challenging public problems 3 Effective and accountable agencies: political conditions 4 Effective and accountable agencies: administrative conditions 5 Building effective and accountable governance 6 Enhancing democratic legitimacy and managing political conflict 7 Improving global cooperation and coordination 8 Reducing poverty and inequality 9 Managing the commons and transitioning to sustainability 10 Rethinking theories of governance References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A thorough summary of the Western thinkers who most influenced today's understanding of capitalism." * Library Journal *"Provocative. . . . [Capitalism] will provoke much discussion in the fields of modern intellectual thought, political economy and various stripes of global history."---Tom F. Wright, Times Literary Supplement"Sonenscher astutely calls our attention to the original meaning of capitaliste and its implications."---Martyn Ross, Applied Political Theory"This page-turner book, which is well written and accessible even to a nonspecialist audience, can certainly help to define the capitalist system more clearly through a refined critical approach."---Giampaolo Conte, Journal of European Economic History"Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word, offers a much-needed historical account of the contentious concept and encourages a reframing of current political discussion. The book provides a fascinating backstory by revisiting little-known nineteenth- century debates about commercial society and the division of labour, terms which—though distinct at their conception—were gradually subsumed under the broader ‘problem of capitalism’."---Joel Byman, Politics and Poetics"This page-turner book, which is well written and accessible even to a nonspecialist audience, can certainly help to define the capitalist system more clearly through a refined critical approach."---Giampaolo Conte, The Journal of European Economic History

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Book SynopsisThrough several historical case studies from the last 300 years, Luis de Miranda shows how the phrase 'esprit de corps' acts as a combat concept with a clear societal impact. He also reveals how interconnected, yet distinct, French, English and American modern intellectual and political thought is.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review "Anticolonial Eruptions offers a critical repository of popular power—from the enslaved and the indentured to smugglers, organizers, workers, tricksters, anticolonials, and abolitionists—whose disruptive and eruptive actions shocked the white supremacist, colonial, slavocratic status quo and precipitated movements that reconfigured social relations." * NACLA Report on the Americas *Table of ContentsContents Overview Volcanoes 1. The Cunning of Decolonization 2. The Colonial Blindspot 3. The Second Sight of the Colonized 4. The Decolonial Ambush Moles Acknowledgments Notes Glossary Selected Bibliography

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAt once an incisive critique of new materialisms and a timely extension of Michel Foucault’s analytics of government, Thomas Lemke’s The Government of Things is indispensable for anyone concerned with emerging forms of environmentality and the missing politics of the 'material turn.' By revisiting key terms in Foucault's later writings—dispositive, technology, milieu—and aligning an analytics of government with key insights from feminist and postcolonial science and technology studies, Lemke gives us powerful tools to analyze and historicize the dynamic socio-techno-ecological arrangements that differentially and unequally materialize human and nonhuman life and to imagine how they might be composed otherwise. -- Bruce Braun, co-editor of Political Matter: Technoscience, Democracy, and Public LifeThe Government of Things is an invaluable exploration and appraisal of new materialist approaches, advancing the argument that, while such approaches have much to offer, they also have distinctive weaknesses in handling questions of history and politics. Thomas Lemke proposes to remedy these shortcomings by drawing from Michel Foucault’s 'tool-box,' thus situating the book's analysis at the vital intersection between science and technology studies and the study of governmental rationality. Particularly for those of us who share Lemke’s ambivalence about new materialism, this book is an essential guide to the limits of this approach—and to avenues for productively combining it with other modes of inquiry. -- Stephen J. Collier, co-author of The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security

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Book SynopsisUsing philosophical and scientific work to engage the perennial question of human nature This book takes a look at the formation, and edges, of states: their breakdowns and attempts to repair them, and their encounters with non-state peoples. It draws upon anthropology, political philosophy, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, child developmental psychology, and other fields to look at states as projects of constructing “bodies politic,” where the civic and the somatic intersect. John Protevi asserts that humans are predisposed to “prosociality,” or being emotionally invested in social partners and patterns. With readings from Jean-Jacques Rousseau and James C. Scott; a critique of the assumption of widespread pre-state warfare as a selection pressure for the evolution of human prosociality and altruism; and an examination of the different “economies of violence” of state and non-state societies, Edges of the State sketches a notion of prosocial human nature and its attendant normative maxims. Forerunners: Ideas First Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead

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Book SynopsisA pervasive sense has taken hold that any and all of us are under suspicion and surveillance, walking on a tightrope, a step away from erasure of rights or security. Nothing new for many long-targeted populations, it is now surfacing as a broad social sensibility, ramped up by environmental crisis and pandemic wreckage. We have come to live in proliferating dread, even of dread itself. In this brilliant analysis of the nature, origins, and implications of this gnawing feeling, David Theo Goldberg exposes tracking-capitalism as the operating system at the root of dread. In contrast to surveillance, which requires labor-intensive analysis of people's actions and communications, tracking strips back to the fundamental mapping of our movements, networks, and all traces of our digitally mediated lives. A simultaneous tearing of the social fabric – festering culture wars, the erosion of truth, even "civil war" itself – frays the seams of the sociality and solidarity needed to thwart this transformation of people into harvestable, expendable data. This searing commentary offers a critical apparatus for interrogating the politics of our time, arguing that we need not just a politics of refusal and resistance, but a creative politics to counter the social life of dread.Trade Review“In this compelling new book, Goldberg brilliantly shows that the technologies we now require to live are depriving us of the social lives required for survival. This searing impasse is at once revealed and countered in this incisive book.”Judith Butler, author of The Force of Nonviolence “Incisive, well informed, and theoretically rich, this most illuminating critique of our present enriches, stretches, and challenges our understanding of our potential futures.”Achille Mbembe, author of Necropolitics“Dread is a profoundly insightful book and a fantastic read too.” Sebastian Liao, director of the Institute for Advanced Study at National Taiwan UniversityTable of ContentsPreface 1. A World of Dread2. Sensing Dread3. Dread’s Operating System4. Tracking-Capitalism: The Political Economy of Dread5. Viral Dread6. Ecoforming Dread7. Civil War8. De-DreadingReferences

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Book SynopsisPart of a three-volume set, this text presents selected work of Edmund Burke on English history and political thought. This first volume contains Burke's defence of the American colonists' complaints of British policy and includes "Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents"(1770).

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Book SynopsisThe Renaissance was also the beginning of the Age of Empires, yet the Grand Duchy of Tuscany failed to secure overseas colonies. How did Tuscany retain its place in European affairs and intellectual life? Brian Brege explores the shrewd diplomatic moves and domestic investments that safeguarded the duchy’s wealth and influence amid globalization.Trade ReviewA finely conceived and well written book about how a small but ambitious European state went about looking for strategic and commercial opportunities in a world dominated by Imperial Spain. -- William J. Cornell * Journal of Modern History *Tuscany in the Age of Empire offers a wealth of new archival information that helps illuminate how one smaller political power existed within the empires of others and sought to expand its own influence. -- Brian Jeffrey Maxson * Renaissance and Reformation *Like the Venetians and the Genoese, the Medicis of Tuscany never built a world empire, but they nevertheless engaged with the inter-imperial puzzle of the early modern world on a vast scale. In this ambitious and wide-ranging book, Brege addresses the issue of a ‘global Florence’ by considering the various theaters of Florentine commercial, political, and intellectual involvement across several continents. This is an important book, and one that will be widely cited. -- Sanjay Subrahmanyam, author of Europe’s IndiaThe question of whether Tuscany ever sought to develop an overseas empire has been raised by many scholars obliquely, yet it has never been addressed head on with such a vast range of evidence. The result is a fascinating interrogation of Tuscany’s relationships with the wider world at a time when the Portuguese, Spanish, and Ottoman powers guarded access to the riches of distant lands. Their grip was jealous, but not inexorable, and pockets of opportunity were frequently generated by the disruptive activity of rebels, pirates, merchants, missionaries, and agents. -- Sheila Barker, Director, The Jane Fortune Research Program on Women Artists in the Age of the MediciTuscany in the Age of Empire is the first book-length treatment of Tuscany as a protagonist in the early modern world of empires, rather than as one of Italy’s regional states. It builds on numerous publications that have re-oriented both the historiography of the Republican and Grand Ducal periods to respond to the rising tide of global history in the profession. The book also draws on unpublished archival and rare-book collections in order to offer a wide-ranging discussion of the manifold links between Tuscany, the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, and even, to some extent, to the Indian and Pacific Oceans. -- Francesca Trivellato, author of The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial SocietyDrawing upon an evidentiary treasury amassed from repositories in India, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Brege highlights intersections of diplomacy and science, art and commerce, cartography and material culture in the wildly ambitious projects the Tuscan state envisioned and attempted from the 1560s through the 1620s. In the end, Brege’s riveting, forensic analysis offers readers a history fully in the round and, best of all, reveals how Tuscany managed to reinvent itself as a serious global player even as the Renaissance waned. -- Sarah Gwyneth Ross, author of Everyday RenaissancesBrege’s narrative deftly weaves together archival documents and primary sources from around the world to tell the first complete story of the Medici’s global ambitions in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. This brilliant ‘connected history’ invites the reader to reconsider the very idea of empire in the early modern period. -- Lia Markey, author of Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence

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Book SynopsisTells the story of the Palestinian citrus industry from its inception until 1950, tracing the shifting relationship between Palestinian Arabs and Zionist Jews. Kabha and Karlinsky portray the industry's social fabric, detail its economic history, and analyse the conditions that enabled the formation of a unique binational organisation.

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Book SynopsisExamines the mythology of the peacekeeper and how it functions to sustain militarism in global politics

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