History Theory category: 16752 books
Economics and Literature
A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Since the Middle Ages, literature has portrayed the economic world in poetry, drama, stories and novels. The complexity of human realities highlights crucial aspects of the economy. The nexus linking characters to their economic environment is central in a new genre, the "economic novel",...
by Linda M. G. Zerilli
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
In this sweeping look at political and philosophical history, Linda M. G. Zerilli unpacks the tightly woven core of Hannah Arendt’s unfinished work on a tenacious modern problem: how to judge critically in the wake of the collapse of inherited criteria of judgment. Engaging a remarkable breadth...
Aegean Interactions
Delos and its Networks in the Third Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The third century BC was a particularly troubled period of ancient Greek history, when the Aegean sea became the main stage for power struggles between various royal circles and dynasties, including the Antigonids and the Ptolemies. This volume addresses the history of interaction in the Aegean world...
The End of the Democratic State
Nicos Poulantzas, a Marxism for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
This edited volume takes a close look at Nicos Poulantzas’s thought as a means of understanding the dynamics of the capitalist, neoliberal state in the 21st century. Nicos Poulantzas has left us with one of the most sophisticated theories of the state in the second half of the 20th century. Poulantzas’s...
by John T. Bookman
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Locke each sought a new foundation for political order. This book serves as a reader's companion to Machiavelli’s The Prince, Hobbes’s Leviathan, and Locke’s Second Treatise written for graduate students and scholars seeking a fuller understanding of these classic texts....
International Relations Theory and Philosophy
Interpretive dialogues
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
This book discusses the contribution of philosophers and thinkers whose ideas have recently begun to permeate international relations theory. It provides an introduction to the contemporary debates regarding theories and methodologies used to study international relations, particularly the relationships...
by Simon Oerding
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: 1,0, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School (Department of Politics), course: BA Thesis, 59 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Abstract There is...
Political Thought of Hume and his Contemporaries
Enlightenment Projects Vol. 2
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Intended for scholars in the fields of political theory, and the history of political thought, this two-volume examines David Hume's Political Thought (1711-1776) and that of his contemporaries, including Smith, Blackstone, Burke and Robertson. This book is unified by its temporal focus on the middle...
'How Best Do We Survive?'
A Modern Political History of the Tamil Muslims
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book traces the social and political history of the Muslims of south India from the later nineteenth century to Independence in 1947, and the contours that followed. It describes a community in search of political survival amidst an ever-changing climate, and the fluctuating fortunes it had in...
by Frederick G. Whelan
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Democracy in Theory and Practice presents an authoritative overview of democratic theory today. Its distinctive approach links theory to practice, emphasizing the wide variety of institutions and procedures through which core democratic principles are implemented and the normative and practical dimensions...
The Cinematic Eighteenth Century
History, Culture, and Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This collection explores how film and television depict the complex and diverse milieu of the eighteenth century as a literary, historical, and cultural space. Topics range from adaptations of Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (The Martian) to historical fiction on the subjects...
Reframing Yeats
Genre, Allusion and History
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Reframing Yeats, the first critical study of its kind, traces the historical development of W. B. Yeats's writings across the genres, examining his poetry, autobiographical writings, criticism, and drama with the same critical analysis.
While existing studies of Yeats's work choose between...
by Tina Skouen
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
The stigma of haste pervaded early modern English culture, more so than the so-called stigma of print. The period’s writers were perpetually short on time, but what does it mean for authors to present themselves as hasty or slow, or to characterize others similarly? This book argues that such classifications...
Roman Law in the State of Nature
The Classical Foundations of Hugo Grotius' Natural Law
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Roman Law in the State of Nature offers a new interpretation of the foundations of Hugo Grotius' natural law theory. Surveying the significance of texts from classical antiquity, Benjamin Straumann argues that certain classical texts, namely Roman law and a specifically Ciceronian brand of Stoicism,...