History Theory category: 16752 books
Population Wars
A New Perspective on Competition and Coexistence
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
From the very beginning, life on Earth has been defined by war. Today, those first wars continue to be fought around and literally inside us, influencing our individual behavior and that of civilization as a whole. War between populations - whether between different species or between rival groups...
The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations
Philosophy of Science and Its Implications for the Study of World Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations first edition was winner of the ISA-Northeast’s Yale H. Ferguson Award, and the ISA Theory Section’s Best Book of the Year award.
The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations provides an introduction to the philosophy of science issues...
The Jazz Bubble
Neoclassical Jazz in Neoliberal Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Hailed by corporate, philanthropic, and governmental organizations as a metaphor for democratic interaction and business dynamics, contemporary jazz culture has a story to tell about the relationship between political economy and social practice in the era of neoliberal capitalism. The Jazz Bubble...
by Peter Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
World War I in 100 Objects by Peter Doyle is a dynamic social history and perfect gift for history lovers.
General readers and history buffs alike have made bestsellers of books like A History of the World in 100 Objects. In that tradition, this handsome commemorative volume gives a unique...
Foucault and International Relations
New Critical Engagements
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The recent debate about biopolitics in International Relations (IR) theory may well prove to be one of the most provocative and rewarding engagements with the concept of power in the history of the discipline. Building on Foucault's arguments concerning the role played by the concept of security in...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2010
Political representation lies at the core of modern politics. Democracies, with their vast numbers of citizens, could not operate without representative institutions. Yet relations between the democratic ideal and the everyday practice of political representation have never been well defined and remain...
Rumors of War and Infernal Machines
Technomilitary Agenda-setting in American and British Speculative Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2005
This provocative and unique work reveals the remarkably influential role of futuristic literature on contemporary political power in America. Tracing this phenomenon from its roots in Victorian Britain, Rumors of War and Infernal Machines offers a fascinating exploration of how fictional speculations...
Cinepoetry
Imaginary Cinemas in French Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Cinepoetry analyzes how French poets have remapped poetry through the lens of cinema for more than a century. In showing how poets have drawn on mass culture, technology, and material images to incorporate the idea, technique, and experience of cinema into writing, Wall-Romana documents the long history...
The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures
Beyond Postcolonialism
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This book provides a timely intervention in the fields of performance studies and theatre history, and to larger issues of global cultural exchange. The authors offer a provocative argument for rethinking the scholarly assessment of how diverse performative cultures interact, how they are interwoven,...
Flying Tiger
International Relations Theory and the Politics of Advanced Weapons
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
In this book, Ulrich Krotz draws from two theoretical approaches--social constructivism and historical institutionalism--to reframe our understanding of how international relationships evolve. While other scholars have touched on these issues, until now no one has provided a sustained, finely-grained,...
Senses of Style
Poetry before Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
In an age of interpretation, style eludes criticism. Yet it does so much tacit work: telling time, telling us apart, telling us who we are. What does style have to do with form, history, meaning, our moment’s favored categories? What do we miss when we look right through it? Senses of Style essays...
Storming Heaven
Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
'The emergence of a new wave of anti-capitalist activism on the streets of Seattle, Prague and Genoa has been accompanied by a growing interest in "autonomist Marxism." Steve Wright’s study brilliantly illuminates the history, complexity and internal debates of this tradition ... A vital, lucid contribution...
The Global Covenant
Human Conduct in a World of States
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2003
The Global Covernant is a ground-breaking work by one of the leading scholars in international relations that rejuvenates the classical international society approach, and brings it into contact with the new era of world politics. It investigates the most important international issues of our time,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Australian Aboriginal literature, once relegated to the margins of Australian literary studies, now receives both national and international attention. Not only has the number of published texts by contemporary Australian Aboriginals risen sharply, but scholars and publishers have also recently begun...