History Theory category: 16752 books
The Tyranny of the Majority
History, Concepts, and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Tamás Nyirkos provides a timely and essential reassessment of the concept of the "tyranny of the majority" for the study of democracy today. The analysis is divided into three parts: the first discusses the "prehistory" of majority tyranny; the second reviews the elements of the...
by Irina Wolf
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2009
Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: A, American University of Central Asia, course: Political Thought, language: English, abstract: Jean-Jacque Rousseau and Immanuel Kant are considered to be relatively modern political...
Mr. Mothercountry
The Man Who Made the Rule of Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Today, every continent retains elements of the legal code distributed by the British empire. The British empire created a legal footprint along with political, economic, cultural and racial ones. One of the central problems of political theory is the insurmountable gap between ideas and their realization....
Britannia 1066-1884
From Medieval Absolutism to the Birth of Freedom under Constitutional Monarchy, Limited Suffrage, and the Rule of Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
This book offers an analytic history of Britannia (first England and Wales and then Great Britain) over eight hundred years of political turmoil, intermingled with economic stagnation, followed by the engine of the industrial revolution. The book draws on economics, political science, public choice,...
by Samuel Hollander
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
The renewed interest in the works of the great classical economists reflects in part a recognition that there is still much to be learned from them about the operation of the economy. This volume is the first in a series of four in which Professor Hollander will provide an analytical and critical...
by Janice Carlisle
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
How did Victorians, as creators and viewers of images, visualize the politics of franchise reform? This study of Victorian art and parliamentary politics, specifically in the 1840s and 1860s, answers that question by viewing the First and Second Reform Acts from the perspectives offered by Ruskin's...
Ideogram
History of a Poetic Method
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
The ideogram changed the course of modern American poetry, and Ideogram is the first history of this important poetic tradition. In modern poetry the ideogram is an idea presented to the reader by means of the juxtaposition of concrete particulars, usually without connective words or phrases. The...
by Joseph S. Roucek
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 1963
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 1963
This book, long in preparation, is a survey of both the great and the infamous political ideas of history as reflected in the writings of the world’s foremost political thinkers. The editor has presented selections, each representing the core of the particular individual’s theories, so that the...
Corporate Romanticism
Liberalism, Justice, and the Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Corporate Romanticism offers an alternative history of the connections between modernity, individualism, and the novel. In early nineteenth-century England, two developments—the rise of corporate persons and the expanded scale of industrial action—undermined the basic assumption underpinning both...
by Barrington Moore Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Barrington Moore, Jr., one of the most distinguished thinkers in critical theory and historical sociology, was long concerned with the prospects for freedom and decency in industrial society. The product of decades of reflection on issues of authority, inequality, and injustice, this volume analyzes...
by Steffen Blatt
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2003
Essay from the year 2000 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: 63% (Credit), Monash University Melbourne (School for Social and Political Inquiry), course: Nationalism, 21 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: A couple of months ago,...
Political Science Revitalized
Filling the Jigsaw Puzzle with Metatheory
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Political science has been described as a jigsaw puzzle with many specializations and subfields that do not talk to one another. This book offers a solution that will advance the field from mid-level theory to engage in cross-fertilization through metatheoretical paradigms. The book begins with a...
Improving Democracy Through Constitutional Reform
Some Swedish Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Do constitutions matter? Are constitutions simply symbols of the political times at which they were adopted, or do they systematically affect the course of public policy? Are the policy crises of failing democracies the result of bad luck or of fundamental problems associated with the major and minor...
States of Terror
History, Theory, Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019
How have we come to depend so greatly on the words terror and terrorism to describe broad categories of violence? David Simpson offers here a philology of terror, tracking the concept’s long, complicated history across literature, philosophy, political science, and theology—from Plato to NATO.
Introducing...