Politics category: 19839 books
by Peter Brooke
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
This book throws new light on the impact of informal ‘old boy’ networks on British decolonisation. Duncan Sandys was one of the leading Conservative politicians of the middle decades of twentieth-century Britain. He was also a key figure in the Harold Macmillan’s ‘Winds of Change’ policy...
Politics and Theatre in Twentieth-Century Europe
Imagination and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
This book explores the connection between politics and theatre by looking at the works and lives of Shaw, Brecht, Sartre, and Ionesco, providing a cultural history detailing the changing role of political theatre in twentieth-century Europe.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
African political writing of the mid-20th century seeks to critically engage with questions of identity, history, and the state for the purpose of national and human liberation.
This volume collects an array of essays that reflect on anticolonialism in Africa, broadly defined. Each contribution...
by Brian A. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer, Brian A. Smith makes the case that we should understand Percy’s novels and essays together as a guide to living in a complex world.
Percy cultivated a philosophical and literary approach that revealed the fault lines in the modern mind. He portrayed...
by Michael Dillon
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Michael Dillon is internationally regarded for his contributions by political philosophers, international relations scholars and security studies experts, as well as by philosophers more broadly. It is difficult to overrate his importance to the development of critical deconstructive approaches not...
by R.E. Lowe-Walker
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Achieving socio-political cohesion in a community with significant ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity is a difficult challenge in contemporary liberal democracies. In the quest for neutrality, public policies and institutions shaped by the needs of the majority can inadvertently marginalize...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Although the art of rhetoric is central to the practice of politics it also plays an important role in civic and private life. Using Aristotelian notions of ethos, pathos and logos, this collection offers engaging discussions on everything from Prime Minister's Questions and Welsh devolution to political satire and the rhetoric of cultural racism.
Perversion and the Art of Persecution
Esotericism and Fear in the Political Philosophy of Leo Strauss
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
In this critical work on the political thought of Leo Strauss, Sean Noah Walsh addresses Leo Strauss’s claims about esotericism in the philosophic texts of Plato. He challenges Strauss’s understanding of esoteric writing as an attempt by Plato to secretly encode the highest truths “exclusively...
When Nationalism Began to Hate
Imagining Modern Politics in Nineteenth-Century Poland
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2000
In When Nationalism Began to Hate, Brian Porter offers a challenging new explanation for the emergence of xenophobic, authoritarian nationalism in Europe. He begins by examining the common assumption that nationalist movements by nature draw lines of inclusion and exclusion around social groups, establishing...
Postmodern Theory and Progressive Politics
Toward a New Humanism
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
This book explores the origins of the academic culture wars of the late 20th century and examines their lasting influence on the humanities and progressive politics. It puts us in a position to ask this question: what to make now of those furious debates over postmodernism, multiculturalism, relativism,...
Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective
Minority Presidents in Multiparty Systems
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
This book provides the first cross-regional study of an increasingly important form of politics: coalitional presidentialism. Drawing on original research of minority presidents in the democratising and hybrid regimes of Armenia, Benin, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Kenya, Malawi, Russia, and Ukraine, it...
Partners in Conflict
The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950–1973
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2002
Partners in Conflict examines the importance of sexuality and gender to rural labor and agrarian politics during the last days of Chile’s latifundia system of traditional landed estates and throughout the governments of Eduardo Frei and Salvador Allende. Heidi Tinsman analyzes differences between...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
This collection elucidates the complexity of living politics in the 21st century, considering how self-help groups draw on shared regional traditions, and how they adapt their actions to the diverse formal political environments in which they operate. It considers the nexus between ideas and action...
Telling Political Lives
The Rhetorical Autobiographies of Women Leaders in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
This book investigates the autobiographical writings of Barbara Jordan, Patricia Schroeder, Geraldine Ferraro, Elizabeth Dole, Wilma Mankiller, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Madeleine Albright, and Christine Todd Whitman. These eight women represent the diversity that permeates the cultural backgrounds,...