History Theory category: 16752 books
by Steven Johnstone
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
An enormous amount of literature exists on Greek law, economics, and political philosophy. Yet no one has written a history of trust, one of the most fundamental aspects of social and economic interaction in the ancient world. In this fresh look at antiquity, Steven Johnstone explores the way democracy...
by Johannes Lenhard
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2010
Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: 1.3, Royal Holloway, University of London, language: English, abstract: Globalization alone is not causing the decline of the nation-state - not a single 'trend' is able to reduce the power...
Shakespeare and Genre
From Early Modern Inheritances to Postmodern Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
Provides a comprehensive survey of approaches to genre in Shakespeare's work. Contributors probe deeply into genre theory and genre history by relating Renaissance conceptions. In this sense, the volume proposes to read Shakespeare through genre and, just as importantly, read genre through Shakespeare.
by Dr Gillian Woods
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare's most popular tragedies and has provoked a rich diversity of interpretations. Definitively passionate, it is much more than the archetypal love story: the play tests the limits of tragedy and comedy, challenges gender roles and explores the nature of language.In...
Cuban Revolution in America
Havana and the Making of a United States Left, 1968–1992
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Cuba's grassroots revolution prevailed on America's doorstep in 1959, fueling intense interest within the multiracial American Left even as it provoked a backlash from the U.S. political establishment. In this groundbreaking book, historian Teishan A. Latner contends that in the era of decolonization,...
We Can't Go Home Again
An Argument About Afrocentrism
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2001
Afrocentrism has been a controversial but popular movement in schools and universities across America, as well as in black communities. But in We Can't Go Home Again, historian Clarence E. Walker puts Afrocentrism to the acid test, in a thoughtful, passionate, and often blisteringly funny analysis...
by John Adams
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Available for the first time in a modern and readable edition!
Preceding The Federalist by several years, this first volume of John Adams' A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America is a profound work of political and governmental theory.
What prompted...
Same Difference
Exploring the Divide between Critical and Conventional Constructivism
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2010
Scientific Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: 77%, Dublin City University, course: International Relations, language: English, abstract: Same Difference: Exploring the Divide between Critical and Conventional Constructivism...
Hobbes and America
Exploring the Constitutional Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1977
This path-breaking study seriously shakes the credibility of the prevalent interpretations of American government and politics. It exposes the real American constitutional morality, one embodied in a code adhered to by those in political life.
Frank Coleman makes a persuasive case that the...
'Betwixt Jest and Earnest'
Marprelate, Milton, Marvell, Swift & the Decorum of Religious Ridicule
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1979
Marprelate, Milton, Marvell, and Swift are among the best prose satirists in a remarkably rich literary era. Focusing on these key figures, ‘Betwixt Jest and Earnest’ examines the theory and practice of religious prose in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Recognizing the difficulties inherent...
The Shadow of the Parthenon
Studies in Ancient History and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
A lively combination of scholarship and unorthodoxy makes these studies in ancient history and literature unusually rewarding. Few of the objects of conventional admiration gain much support from Peter Green (Pericles and the "democracy" of fifth-century Athens are treated to a very cool...
The Ideal of Public Service
Reflections on the Higher Civil Service in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
A close examination of the ethics of higher civil servants in Britain and how they have been undermined by recent developments in public administration.
Barry O'Toole tackles key questions such as:
how should public servants behave?
how should they be encouraged to think ethically?
how...
by Ethan Putterman
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
Together with Plato's Republic, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Social Contract is regarded as one of the most original examples of utopian political engineering in the history of ideas. Similar to the Republic, Rousseau's masterwork is better known today for its author's idiosyncratic view of political justice...
by Stefanie Groll
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2006
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: 1,7, University of Leipzig, 7 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In the May issue of the Cicero magazine Eva Herman puts up a provocative question: 'Die Emanzipation...