Political Science category: 78432 books
by Uwa Erhabor
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Kalakuta Diaries is a personal Narrative of events and characters that propelled and defined an African Social-political setting in the heart of Lagos Nigeria. Kalakuta was a creation of an Iconic rare-breed par excellence, whose enduring legacies has left an indelible Footprint in the sands of Africa...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
This book explores the evolutionary context of terrorism and political violence.
While evolutionary thinking has come to permeate both biological and social-science theorising, it has not yet been applied systematically to the areas of terrorism and political violence. This volume seeks to...
Indigenous Mestizos
The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919–1991
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2000
In the early twentieth century, Peruvian intellectuals, unlike their European counterparts, rejected biological categories of race as a basis for discrimination. But this did not eliminate social hierarchies; instead, it redefined racial categories as cultural differences, such as differences in education...
Rethinking Uncle Tom
The Political Thought of Harriet Beecher Stowe
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Generally critics and interpreters of Uncle Tom have constructed a one-way view of Uncle Tom, albeit offering a few kind words for Uncle Tom along the way. Recovering Uncle Tom requires re-telling his story. This book delivers on that mission, while accomplishing something no other work on Harriet...
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...
Government by Dissent
Protest, Resistance, and Radical Democratic Thought in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
"The most thorough examination we have of how early Americans wrestled with what types of political dissent should be permitted, even promoted, in the new republic they were forming. Martin shows the modern relevance of their debates in ways that all will find valuable—even those who dissent...
The World's First Anti-Dam Movement
The Mulshi Satyagraha 1920-1924
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
During the time of contemporary India’s most famous anti-dam movement, the Narmada Bachao Andolan, a professor of politics in Pune, Rajendra Vora, wrote a study in Marathi of that movement’s forgotten predecessor. Back in the 1920s, the peasants of Mulshi Peta, near Pune, had protested against the...
by Mykola Riabchuk
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Mykola Riabchuk, a renowned Ukrainian public intellectual and political analyst, has been closely following and commenting on political developments in Ukraine since the early years of its independence. His best essays, collected within this book, focus primarily on the years of the presidency of...
by Max Boot
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Warning that the Trump presidency presages America’s decline, the political commentator recounts his extraordinary journey from lifelong Republican to vehement Trump opponent.
As nativism, xenophobia, vile racism, and assaults on the rule of law threaten the very fabric of our nation, The...
French Political Travel Writing in the Interwar Years
Radical Departures
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
This book studies travel writing produced by French authors between the two World Wars following visits to authoritarian regimes in Europe and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). It sheds new light on the phenomenon of French political travel in this period by considering the well-documented...
Political Uses of Utopia
New Marxist, Anarchist, and Radical Democratic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Utopia has long been banished from political theory, framed as an impossible—and possibly dangerous—political ideal, a flawed social blueprint, or a thought experiment without any practical import. Even the "realistic utopias" of liberal theory strike many as wishful thinking. Can politics...
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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...
Political Evil
What It Is and How to Combat It
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
A timely, eye-opening examination of political evil, a concept widely misunderstood and desperately in need of clarification in our ever more chaotic world.
In an age of genocide, terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and torture, evil threatens us in ways radically different from tsunamis and financial...
Intimate Politics
Publicity, Privacy and the Personal Lives of Politicians in Media Saturated Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
It is often remarked that politicians’ private lives are becoming a feature of political communication in many advanced industrial democracies. However, there have so far been no genuinely comparative studies examining the personalized nature of political communication. Intimate Politics provides...