Political category: 85882 books
by Neelam Pandey
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Political theory is the categorization of social thought by a group or by the persuasion or beliefs of a geo-political mass. Many political theories are founded as critiques toward existing political, economic and social conditions of the theorist’s time. Political theory can also be considered...
by Sadhana Thakur
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Ideologies are the sets of basic beliefs about the political, economic, social and cultural affairs held by the majority of people within as society. Nearly every opinion on the appropriateness or inappropriateness of government policy, ranging from welfare to gun control, is a reflection of a person’s...
Political Order and Political Decay
From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state
Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition." In The New York Times Book...
Basic Brown
My Life and Our Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
**To The Washington Post, he's "The Last Political Showman of the 20th Century."
Bill Clinton has called him "the real Slick Willie."
Ronald Reagan's secretary of state George Shultz called this famously liberal politician "a man of his word" and endorsed his successful candidacy for...
The Birth of Politics
Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
In The Birth of Politics, Melissa Lane introduces the reader to the foundations of Western political thought, from the Greeks, who invented democracy, to the Romans, who created a republic and then transformed it into an empire. Tracing the origins of our political concepts from Socrates to Plutarch...
The Political Traditions of Mohammed
The Hadith for the Unbelievers
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Mohammed is the perfect pattern of an Islamic sacred life. So Mohammed's political life is the perfect model of Islamic politics. Everything that Islam does or says about the non-Muslim is political. It cannot be religious since the Koran forbids religious activity with the nonbeliever. Over half...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
The works of Walt Whitman have been described as masculine, feminine, postcolonial, homoerotic, urban, organic, unique, and democratic, yet arguments about the extent to which Whitman could or should be considered a political poet have yet to be fully confronted. Some scholars disregard Whitman's...
by Heinrich Meier
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2006
This book, by one of the most prominent interpreters of Leo Strauss's thought, was the first to address the problem that Leo Strauss himself said was the theme of his studies: the theologico-political problem or the confrontation with the theological and the political alternative to philosophy as...
Encyclopedic Liberty
Political Articles in the Dictionary of Diderot and D’Alembert
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Often described as the culmination of the French Enlightenment, the Encyclopédie was collected not only to serve as a comprehensive reference work, but to “change the way men think” about every aspect of the human and natural worlds. In his celebrated “Preliminary Discourse” to the compilation,...
The Limits of Political Theory
Oakeshott's Philosophy of Civil Association
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
This book examines Oakeshott’s political philosophy within the context of his more general conception of philosophical understanding. The book stresses the underlying continuity of his major writings on the subject and takes seriously the implications of understanding the world in terms of modality....
Socrates and Alcibiades
Plato's Drama of Political Ambition and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
In the classical world, political ambition posed an intractable problem. Ancient Greek democracies fostered in their most promising youths a tension-ridden combination of the desire for personal glory and deep-seated public-spiritedness in hopes of producing brilliant and capable statesmen. But as...
by Adedara S. Oduguwa
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Chief Obafemi Awolowo: The Political Moses is a story of a man who dedicated the entirety of his life to serve humanity and the development of mankind. The Author makes use of the noun Moses to depict the tiresome journey of an activist who fought rigorously alongside others to gain independence for...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Published since 1928, the Political Handbook of the World provides timely, thorough, and accurate political information with
more in-depth coverage of current political controversies and political parties than any other reference guide. The updated 2016–2017 Edition continues this legacy as the...
by O. T. Sylvester
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
A timely analysis of political parties in the United States from 1787 to the present. It is little known that political parties were seen in the United States as deleterious to civil society by the founding fathers. This book revisits the viewpoints expressed by the founding fathers about political parties....