History Theory category: 16752 books
Ethical Leadership in Turbulent Times
Modeling the Public Career of George C. Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
In Ethical Leadership in Turbulent Times, leadership and organizational theory are blended with early 20th Century history to model public leadership that is both monumentally effective and classically ethical. What is leadership? What makes leadership good or bad? To answer these questions, Gerald...
by David Goodway
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
This collection discusses both the history and theory of anarchism and in particular examines italian anarchism, the relationship between Marxism and anarchism, the influence of Kropotkin, new social movements and the anarchist theory of history.
Roman Theories of Translation
Surpassing the Source
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
For all that Cicero is often seen as the father of translation theory, his and other Roman comments on translation are often divorced from the complicated environments that produced them. The first book-length study in English of its kind, Roman Theories of Translation: Surpassing the Source explores...
Advances in the History of Rhetoric
The First Six Years
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007
Advances in the History of Rhetoric: The First Six Years is a comprehensive collection of 29 scholarly essays published during the first phase of the journal’s history. Research from prominent and developing scholars that was once difficult to acquire is now offered in a coherent and comprehensive...
The Quilting Points of Musical Modernism
Revolution, Reaction, and William Walton
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Modernism is both a contested aesthetic category and a powerful political statement. Modernist music was condemned as degenerate by the Nazis and forcibly replaced by socialist realism under the Soviets. Sympathetic philosophers and critics have interpreted it as a vital intellectual defence against...
by Riccardo Faucci
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
This book provides the non-Italian scholar with an extensive picture of the development of Italian economics, from the Sixteenth century to the present. The thread of the narrative is the dialectics between economic theory and political action, where the former attempts to enlighten the latter, but...
Rethinking Feminism in Early Modern Studies
Gender, Race, and Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Winner of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women’s Collaborative Book Prize 2017
Rethinking Feminism in Early Modern Studies is a volume of essays by leading scholars in the field of early modern studies on the history, present state, and future possibilities of feminist criticism...
Imagining the American Polity
Political Science and the Discourse of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2004
Americans have long prided themselves on living in a country that serves as a beacon of democracy to the world, but from the time of the founding they have also engaged in debates over what the criteria for democracy are as they seek to validate their faith in the United States as a democratic regime....
MUTUAL AID
A Factor of Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid is usually, and rightly, called his masterpiece. While the high quality of all his work makes it hard to say whether this classic can be considered his best, it is fair to say that it is probably his most famous and one of his most widely read. Suffice to say, that it is rarely...
Politics Reformed
The Anglo-American Legacy of Covenant Theology
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Many studies have considered the Bible’s relationship to politics, but almost all have ignored the heart of its narrative and theology: the covenant. In this book, Glenn Moots explores the political meaning of covenants past and present by focusing on the theory and application of covenantal politics...
Matter and Form
From Natural Science to Political Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Matter and Form explores the relationship that has long existed between natural science and political philosophy. Plato's Socrates articulates the Ideas or Forms as an account of the ultimate source of causality in the cosmos. Aristotle's natural philosophy had a significant impact on his political...
Historical Sociology and World History
Uneven and Combined Development over the Longue Durée
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
The concept of 'uneven and combined development' was originally coined by Leon Trotsky to theorise Tsarist Russia's distinctive experience of modernity and revolution. But it has re-emerged over the last decade or so as a burgeoning research programme within International Relations (IR) and historical...
The Structure of Political Thought
A Study in the History of Political Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Originally published in 1963, this classic book is a rethinking of the history of Western political philosophy. Charles N. R. McCoy contrasts classical-medieval principles against the "hypotheses" at the root of modern liberalism and modern conservativism.In Part I, "The Classical Christian...
Rethinking Liberalism for the 21st Century
The Skeptical Radicalism of Judith Shklar
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Rethinking Liberalism for the 21st Century offers an indispensable reexamination of the life, work, and interventions of a prominent liberal political theorist of the 20th century: Judith Shklar.
Drawing on published and unpublished sources including Shklar’s correspondence, lecture notes,...