History Theory category: 16752 books
Faith in Nation
Exclusionary Origins of Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
Common wisdom has long held that the ascent of the modern nation coincided with the flowering of Enlightenment democracy and the decline of religion, ringing in an age of tolerant, inclusive, liberal states. Not so, demonstrates Anthony W. Marx in this landmark work of revisionist political history...
Globalizing Lynching History
Vigilantism and Extralegal Punishment from an International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
The study of lynching in US history has become a well-developed area of scholarship. However, scholars have rarely included comparative or transnational perspectives when studying the American case, although lynching and communal punishment have occurred in most societies throughout history.
Seven Stories of Threatening Speech
Women's Suffrage Meets Machine Code
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Ruth A. Miller demonstrates the potential of taking nonhuman linguistic activity—such as the running of machine code—as an analytical model. Via a lively discussion of 19th-century pro- and antisuffragists, Miller tells a new computational story in which language becomes a thing that executes...
Antebellum Posthuman
Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
From the eighteenth-century abolitionist motto “Am I Not a Man and a Brother?” to the Civil Rights-era declaration “I AM a Man,” antiracism has engaged in a struggle for the recognition of black humanity. It has done so, however, even as the very definition of the human has been called into...
The Botanic Garden by Erasmus Darwin
Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
The career of Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) affords an extraordinary glimpse into the intellectual ferment of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain. As a popular poet, practicing physician, inventor of speaking machines and mechanical birds, essayer of natural history from geology to...
The Social after Gabriel Tarde
Debates and Assessments
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Gabriel Tarde was a highly influential figure in 19th century French sociology: a prolific and evocative writer whose understanding of the social differed radically from that of his younger opponent Emile Durkheim. Whereas Durkheimian sociology went on to become the core of the social scientific canon...
by Colm Gillis
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
In 2016, Donald Trump was elected US President. Many across the globe are concerned he plans to institute a dictatorship, which is supposedly contrary to liberal–democratic values. Yet, despite current public opinion, republics like the US regularly resort to dictatorship, while a need for dictatorship...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2006
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: good (B), Maastricht University (University College), course: Writing Political Philosophy in Practice, 12 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Although there are...
by Linda Vuskane
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: 72%, Liverpool John Moores University, language: English, abstract: Following a short overview of Plato's life and the political situation of his time, this paper describes and analyses Plato's...
Shakespeare’s Foreign Queens
Drama, Politics, and the Enemy Within
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
This book examines Shakespeare’s depiction of foreign queens as he uses them to reveal and embody tensions within early modern English politics. Linking early modern and contemporary political theory and concerns through the concepts of fragmented identity, hospitality, citizenship, and banishment,...
by Carl Schmitt
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
A pioneer in legal and political theory, Schmitt traces the prehistory of political romanticism by examining its relationship to revolutionary and reactionary tendencies in modern European history. Both the partisans of the French Revolution and its most embittered enemies were numbered among the...
Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740–1840
‘Electrick Communication Every Where’
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
This book investigates the science of electricity in the long eighteenth century and its textual life in literary and political writings. Electricity was celebrated as a symbol of enlightened progress, but its operation and its utility were unsettlingly obscure. As a result, debates about the nature...
Subversive Itinerary
The Thought of Gad Horowitz
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Subversive Itinerary investigates the theoretical evolution of the influential political theorist Gad Horowitz, as well as the historical impact of his ideas on Canadian life and letters. Bringing together dynamic new works by both established and emerging scholars, along with three new articles by...
'Terror at Midday' - The Cosa Nostra as a terrorist organisation
The Cosa Nostra as a terrorist organisation
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2007
Seminar paper from the year 1999 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: 98, erg International School - Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (Department for Political Science), course: Seminar 'Terrorism', 23 entries in the bibliography, language: English,...