Civics category: 1212 books
E-Learning and Social Media
Education and Citizenship for the Digital 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The progress of broadband ICT is having a big impact on individual lifestyles and corporate activities. For corporate strategy, broadband use goes beyond improving management efficiency to contributing to enhancing customer services and developing new markets. In addition, the shape of corporate organizations...
Gender and Community Under British Colonialism
Emotion, Struggle and Politics in a Chinese Village
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2006
Gender and Community Under British Colonialism is a study of continuity and change in village communities in the New Territories of Hong Kong, China.
Gender and Citizenship
Promises of Peace in Post-Dayton Bosnia-Herzegovina
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
This book examines the remaking of women’s citizenship in the aftermath of conflict and international intervention. It develops a feminist critique of consociationalism as the dominant model of post-conflict governance by tracking the gendered implications of the Dayton Peace Agreement. It illustrates...
Restore the Future
The Second American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Politically and economically, the future of the United States is at stake. In Restore the Future, author Donald H. Young seeks to galvanize the American people to guarantee a traditional future for our children and grandchildren through participation in a nonviolent Second American Revolution.
This...
The Founders on Citizenship and Immigration
Principles and Challenges in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2007
Working with the underlying premise that America's founding principles continue to be vital in the modern era, Erler, Marini, and West take a conservative look at immigration, one of today's most pressing political issues. Character_the capacity to live a life befitting republican citizens_is, as...
Woodrow Wilson and His New World Order
Presidential Speeches: 1913-1919
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
As a result of the Great War and the utter destruction upon the European continent, a new power arose and took the lead in attempting to bring peace to the nations - the United States. Spearheaded by then President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) in a series of speeches he outlined his ideas and plans...
Understanding Research
Coping with the Quantitative - Qualitative Divide
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Planning, undertaking and completing a research project – from dissertations to presentations - can be a daunting undertaking for any student, involving a number of easily taken mis-steps for those without adequate guidance.
The objective of any research project is to gather data, analyse...
How We Fight White Supremacy
A Field Guide to Black Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
This celebration of Black resistance, from protests to art to sermons to joy, offers a blueprint for the fight for freedom and justice -- and ideas for how each of us can contribute
Many of us are facing unprecedented attacks on our democracy, our privacy, and our hard-won civil rights. If...
Junho de 2013
A sociedade enfrenta o Estado
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Os movimentos de junho de 2013 foram uma das mais importantes manifestações populares da história brasileira. Além disso, apresentaram um caráter absolutamente inédito. Não tiveram uma causa, como nas diretas‑já e no impeachment de Collor. Não foram convocados por instituições representativas...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
Democracy, States, and the Struggle for Social Justice draws on the fields of geography, political theory, and cultural studies to analyze experiments with novel forms of democracy, highlighting the critical issue of the changing nature of the state and citizenship in the contemporary political landscape...
Northern Character
College-Educated New Englanders, Honor, Nationalism, and Leadership in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The elite young men who inhabited northern antebellum states—the New Brahmins—developed their leadership class identity based on the term “character”: an idealized internal standard of behavior consisting most importantly of educated, independent thought and selfless action. With its unique...
Patriotism Is Not Enough
Harry Jaffa, Walter Berns, and the Arguments that Redefined American Conservatism
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
This book is a lively intellectual history of a small circle of thinkers, especially, but not solely, Harry Jaffa and Walter Berns, who challenged the "mainstream" liberal consensus of political science and history about how the American Founding should be understood. Along the way they...
The Militant Song Movement in Latin America
Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The Militant Song Movement in Latin America examines the history of the militant song movement in Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina, considering their different political stances and musical deportments. The book analyzes the complex relationship that the aesthetic of the movement established between...
Law and State
Classical Paradigms and Novel Proposals
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
The fifth volume in the series of the Central and Eastern European Forum for Legal, Political, and Social Theory Yearbook addresses two major topics: law and state. The authors shed new light on some of the classical paradigms in the treatment of these highly prominent topics and offer novel proposals...