Civics category: 1212 books
Constitutive Visions
Indigeneity and Commonplaces of National Identity in Republican Ecuador
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
In Constitutive Visions, Christa Olson presents the rhetorical history of republican Ecuador as punctuated by repeated arguments over national identity. Those arguments—as they advanced theories of citizenship, popular sovereignty, and republican modernity—struggled to reconcile the presence of...
Slaves Tell Tales
And Other Episodes in the Politics of Popular Culture in Ancient Greece
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
Most studies of ancient Greek politics focus on formal institutions such as the political assembly and the law courts, and overlook the role that informal social practices played in the regulation of the political order. Sara Forsdyke argues, by contrast, that various forms of popular culture in ancient...
by Robert Asen
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
The local school board is one of America’s enduring venues of lay democracy at work. In Democracy, Deliberation, and Education, Robert Asen takes the pulse of this democratic exemplar through an in-depth study of three local school boards in Wisconsin. In so doing, Asen identifies the broader democratic...
by Martin Atangana
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
The End of French Rule in Cameroon is a study of the decolonization movement in Cameroon. It analyzes the reforms introduced by France in Cameroon after World War II, the circumstances surrounding the unsuccessful attempt of the UPC to seize independence by force, and the subsequent eradication of...
by Jason Frank
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Jason Frank’s Publius and Political Imagination is the first volume of the Modernity and Political Thought series to take as its focus not a single author, but collaboration between political thinkers, in this very special case the collective known by the pseudonym: Publius. Frank's revisionist...
In Defense of Our America
The Fight for Civil Liberties in the Age of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“A brave, powerful book from one of freedom’s most courageous defenders. These stories remind us how real -- how personal -- the threats to our Constitutional rights really are -- and of the duty that we all have to protect them in times of trouble. Woven through these riveting chapters is a strong...
The Democratic Faith
Essays on Democratic Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Can the citizens of a democracy be trusted to run it properly? Modern political science has concentrated on cataloguing voters’ failings—their lack of knowledge, tolerance, or consistency in political thinking. While it would be a mistake to think this portrait of citizens is simply wrong, it is...
Todos somos autodefensas
El despertar de un pueblo dormido
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 17, 2017
«Mireles no es el caudillo estoico, insensible, inmutable y de mirada fría que presentan los medios de comunicación. Este libro es una ventana al corazón de un hombre que llora, ríe, sufre y disfruta la vida»
Pablo Alarcón-Cháires
En 2004 Michoacán se resquebrajó.
Ese...
by Stuart Christie
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
An anarchist critique of John Rawls' 'A Theory of Justice'. Since its publication in 1971 the political ideas expounded by philosopher John Rawls in A Theory of Justice have provided the justifiers and apologists (i.e., the informers and the regulators who, respectively, mould opinion and behaviour...
by John R. Vile
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
This title is a comprehensive resource for understanding all aspects of the American flag and its relationship to the American people. The encyclopedia provides a thorough historical examination of key developments in the flag's design as well as laws and court decisions related to the flag and the...
by John R. Vile
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
This A-to-Z encyclopedia surveys the history, meaning, and enduring impact of the Declaration of Independence by explaining its contents and concepts, profiling the Founding Fathers, and detailing depictions of the Declaration in art, music, and literature.
• Contains more than 200 encyclopedia...
Ernesto Laclau
Post-Marxism, Populism and Critique
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Ernesto Laclau has blazed a unique trail in political theory and philosophy since the early 1970s. In so doing, he has articulated a range of philosophical and theoretical currents into a coherent alternative to mainstream models and practices of conducting social and political science. The editors...
The Headscarf Debates
Conflicts of National Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
The headscarf is an increasingly contentious symbol in countries across the world. Those who don the headscarf in Germany are referred to as "integration-refusers." In Turkey, support by and for headscarf-wearing women allowed a religious party to gain political power in a strictly secular...
At Home in Two Countries
The Past and Future of Dual Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Read Peter's Op-ed on Trump's Immigration Ban in The New York Times
The rise of dual citizenship could hardly have been imaginable to a time traveler from a hundred or even fifty years ago. Dual nationality was once considered an offense to nature, an abomination on the order of bigamy. It...