History Theory category: 16752 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
From All Quiet on the Western Front and Gone with the Wind to No Country for Old Men and Slumdog Millionaire, many of the most memorable films have been adapted from other sources. And while courses on film studies are taught throughout the world, The Pedagogy of Adaptation makes a strong case for...
The Pride of Havana
A History of Cuban Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2001
From the first amateur leagues of the 1860s to the exploits of Livan and Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez, here is the definitive history of baseball in Cuba. Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria expertly traces the arc of the game, intertwining its heroes and their stories with the politics, music, dance, and...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
If you open this book, you will discover how living in the Ancient Roman times and today are worlds apart. Everything is very different, including the way people dress, talk and even entertain themselves. Societies were different as well as governments. Looking back into the past will lead to a deeper appreciation of the present and that’s why history matters. Grab this book today!
New Critical Legal Thinking
Law and the Political
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
New Critical Legal Thinking articulates the emergence of a stream of critical legal theory which is directly concerned with the relation between law and the political. The early critical legal studies claim that all law is politics is displaced with a different and more nuanced theoretical arsenal....
The Common Growl
Toward a Poetics of Precarious Community
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
No longer able to read community in terms colored by a romantic nostalgia for homogeneity, closeness and sameness, or the myth of rational choice, we nevertheless face an imperative to think the common. The prominent scholars assembled here come together to articulate community while thinking seriously...
Google Me
One-Click Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
“Google is a champion of cultural democracy, but without culture and without democracy.” In this witty and polemical critique the philosopher Barbara Cassin takes aim at Google and our culture of big data. Enlisting her formidable knowledge of the rhetorical tradition, Cassin demolishes the Google...
Unexceptional Politics
On Obstruction, Impasse, and the Impolitic
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
A new vision of politics “below the radar”
One way to grasp the nature of politics is to understand the key terms in which it is discussed. Unexceptional Politics develops a political vocabulary drawn from a wide range of media (political fiction, art, film, and TV), highlighting the scams,...
New Materialisms
Ontology, Agency, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
New Materialisms brings into focus and explains the significance of the innovative materialist critiques that are emerging across the social sciences and humanities. By gathering essays that exemplify the new thinking about matter and processes of materialization, this important collection shows how...
by Robert J. C. Young
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2003
This innovative and lively book is quite unlike any other introduction to postcolonialism. Robert Young examines the political, social, and cultural after-effects of decolonization by presenting situations, experiences, and testimony rather than going through the theory at an abstract level. He situates...
Edward Said
A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
Edward W. Said (1935–2003) ranks as one of the most preeminent public intellectuals of our time. Through his literary criticism, his advocacy for the Palestinian cause, and his groundbreaking book Orientalism, Said elegantly enriched public discourse by unsettling the status quo. This indispensable...
Tough Choices
Structured Paternalism and the Landscape of Choice
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
To what extent should government be permitted to intervene in personal choices? In grappling with this question, liberal theory seeks to balance individual liberty with the advancement of collective goals such as equality. Too often, however, society's obligation to provide meaningful opportunities...
Mirror of Minds
Psychological Beliefs in English Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
The aim of the author, who has long been interested in the history of ideas, has been to give some illustrations of the ways in which at various periods English poetry has reflected current views of the human mind, with special reference to such topics as its place in the cosmos, its relations with...
The Hobbit and History
Companion to The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Movie tie-in: The book will release in time for the last Hobbit movie installation, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (December 17, 2014). Popularity: J.R.R. Tolkien and The Hobbit are virtually household names; the bestselling book is a classic, and this book will become an essential companion...
Principles and Political Order
The Challenge of Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
An ideal new multi-disciplinary volume for students and scholars of philosophy, contemporary political theory, and international relations.
This volume offers key insights into the work of the chief figures in the contemporary debate surrounding thin universalism and presents a usefully themed...