Civics category: 1212 books
Trans.Can.Lit: Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature
Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
The study of Canadian literature—CanLit—has undergone dramatic changes since it became an area of specialization in the 1960s and ’70s. As new global forces in the 1990s undermined its nation-based critical assumptions, its theoretical focus and research methods lost their immediacy. The contributors...
The Strength of a People
The Idea of an Informed Citizenry in America, 1650-1870
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Thomas Jefferson's conviction that the health of the nation's democracy would depend on the existence of an informed citizenry has been a cornerstone of our political culture since the inception of the American republic. Even today's debates over education reform and the need to be competitive in...
by Gaetano Mosca
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 18, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 18, 2015
Gaetano Mosca tratta delle caratteristiche essenziali del fenomeno mafioso, che permea la società siciliana, l'omertà che costruisce un ambiente perfetto in cui le attività della mafia possono facilmente sviluppare, e la capacità delle cosche mafiose di sfruttare il loro potere locale collegato al potere politico e finanziario.
Museum Rhetoric
Building Civic Identity in National Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Set in the French countryside of George Sand’s childhood and narrated in the unique voice of a Berrichon peasant, La Petite Fadette is a beloved 1848 novel about identical twin brothers and Fadette, the mysterious waif with whom they both fall in love. The brothers, Landry and Sylvinet, belong to...
Unsuspecting Souls
The Disappearance of the Human Being
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2010
In Unsuspecting Souls, Barry Sanders examines modern society’s indifference to the individual. Beginning with the Industrial Revolution, when care for human beings began to disappear slowly, and ending with the modern era, when societal events require less person-to-person interaction and introduce...
Honor in the Modern World
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
After a century-long hiatus, honor is back. Academics, pundits, and everyday citizens alike are rediscovering the importance of this ancient and powerful human motive. This volume brings together some of the foremost researchers of honor to debate honor’s meaning and its compatibility with liberalism,...
Strong Democracy in Crisis
Promise or Peril?
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
This is a robust and relevant collection from a truly distinguished group of political theorists actively rethinking the promise and perils of democracy. The book is coherent in its focus on a common theme and aim: to advance and refine the political project of promoting democratic theory and practice....
by Melissa V. Harris-Perry
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Citizens’ Hall
Making Local Democracy Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2001
Based on years of practical experience in small towns, Carrel argues for municipal autonomy—for turning what are now “colonies” of the federal and provincial orders of government into independent, mature, and fully democratic entities. For Carrel, the citizen is the sole legitimate source of...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Can twenty-first century global challenges be met through the limited adaptation of existing political institutions and prevailing systemic norms, or is a more fundamental reconstitution of governing authority unavoidable? Are the stresses evident in domestic social compacts capable of undermining...
Gender in Practice
Culture, Politics and Society in Sierra Leone
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
In Sierra Leone, the dominant epistemological framework of the political and social history of the country and the post-colonial understanding of the place of men and women are based on the inter-subjective discourses of power, place, identity and belongingness. Through a complex web of culturally...
House of Lords Reform: A History
Volume 3. 1960-1969: Reforms Attempted
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Volume 3 of Peter Raina’s magisterial history covers the 1960s and draws on newly released documents. In astonishing detail, it traces new plans drawn up during the Macmillan-Wilson era to reform the House of Lords. ‘Mission impossible,’ a civil servant declared. But when, to remain a Commons...
The Politics of Resentment
A Genealogy
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
In the days and weeks following the tragic 2011 shooting of nineteen Arizonans, including congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, there were a number of public discussions about the role that rhetoric might have played in this horrific event. In question was the use of violent and hateful rhetoric that...
The Paradox of Citizenship in American Politics
Ideals and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
“This remarkable book does the unusual: it embeds its focus in a larger complex operational space. The migrant, the refugee, the citizen, all emerge from that larger context. The focus is not the usual detailed examination of the subject herself, but that larger world of wars, grabs, contestations,...