History Theory category: 16752 books
Markets, Money and Capital
Hicksian Economics for the Twenty First Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2009
Sir John Hicks (1904–89) was a leading economic theorist of the twentieth century, and along with Kenneth Arrow was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1972. His work addressed central topics in economic theory, such as value, money, capital and growth. An important unifying theme was the attention for economic...
by Taiaike Alfred, Dipesh Chakabarty, Enrique Dussel
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Colonialism and Its Legacy brings together essays by leading scholars in both the fields of political theory and the history of political thought about European colonialism and its legacies, and postcolonial social and political theory. The essays explore the ways in which European colonial projects...
The Time is Always Now
Black Thought and the Transformation of US Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
"Why," asks Nick Bromell, "should the political thought of white Americans remain the only theory to which Americans of all ethnicities turn when constructing and reconstructing their understanding of democracy? Must Americans remain locked in an apartheid of experience and perception...
The Rights of War and Peace
Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2001
The Rights of War and Peace is the first fully historical account of the formative period of modern theories of international law. It sets the scene with an extensive history of the theory of international relations from antiquity down to the seventeenth century. Professor Tuck then examines the arguments...
Black Rights/White Wrongs
The Critique of Racial Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Liberalism is the political philosophy of equal persons - yet liberalism has refused equality to those it saw as sub-persons. Liberalism is the creed of fairness - yet liberalism has been complicit with European imperialism and African slavery. Liberalism is the classic ideology of Enlightenment and...
Before Einstein
The Fourth Dimension in Fin-de-Siècle Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
‘Before Einstein’ brings together previous scholarship in the field of nineteenth-century literature and science and greatly expands upon it, offering the first book-length study of not only the scientific and cultural context of the spatial fourth dimension, but also the literary value of four-dimensional...
Revisiting the Poetic Edda
Essays on Old Norse Heroic Legend
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Bringing alive the dramatic poems of Old Norse heroic legend, this new collection offers accessible, ground-breaking and inspiring essays which introduce and analyse the exciting legends of the two doomed Helgis and their valkyrie lovers; the dragon-slayer Sigurðr; Brynhildr the implacable shield-maiden;...
by Jesus Martin Barbero, Diana Taylor, Néstor Garcia Canclini
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2006
“Cultural agency” refers to a range of creative activities that contribute to society, including pedagogy, research, activism, and the arts. Focusing on the connections between creativity and social change in the Americas, this collection encourages scholars to become cultural agents by reflecting...
Engaging Nature
Environmentalism and the Political Theory Canon
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Essays that put noted political thinkers of the past—including Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Wollstonecraft, Marx, and Confucius—in dialogue with current environmental political theory.
Contemporary environmental political theory considers the implications of the environmental crisis for...
David Hume's Political Theory
Law, Commerce and the Constitution of Government
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007
David Hume (1711-1776) is perhaps best known for his treatises on problems of epistemology, skepticism, and causation. A less familiar side of his intellectual output is his work on legal and political theory. David Hume's Political Theory brings together Hume's diverse writings on law and government,...
by Adam Laats, Harvey Siegel
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
No fight over what gets taught in American classrooms is more heated than the battle over humanity’s origins. For more than a century we have argued about evolutionary theory and creationism (and its successor theory, intelligent design), yet we seem no closer to a resolution than we were in Darwin’s...
by G. Browning
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Global theory represents an influential and popular means of understanding contemporary social and political phenomena. Human identity and social responsibilities are considered in a global context and in the light of a global human condition. A global perspective is assumed to be new and to supersede...
Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences
The state of the art
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
For the past two decades, ‘complexity’ has informed a range of work across the social sciences. There are diverse schools of complexity thinking, and authors have used these ideas in a multiplicity of ways, from health inequalities to the organization of large scale firms. Some understand complexity...
The Way We Argue Now
A Study in the Cultures of Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
How do the ways we argue represent a practical philosophy or a way of life? Are concepts of character and ethos pertinent to our understanding of academic debate? In this book, Amanda Anderson analyzes arguments in literary, cultural, and political theory, with special attention to the ways in which...