History Theory category: 16752 books
Rethinking the Enlightenment
Between History, Philosophy, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
One of the most persistent, troubling, and divisive of the ideological divisions within modernity is the struggle over the Enlightenment and its legacy. Much of the difficulty is owed to a general failure among scholars to consider how history, philosophy, and politics work together. Rethinking the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
The book trade historically tended to operate in a spirit of co-operation as well as competition. Networks between printers, publishers, booksellers and related trades existed at local, regional, national and international levels and were a vital part of the business of books for several centuries....
The Power of International Theory
Reforging the Link to Foreign Policy-Making through Scientific Enquiry
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This new study challenges how we think about international relations, presenting an analysis of current trends and insights into new directions.
It shows how the discipline of international relations was created with a purpose of helping policy-makers to build a more peaceful and just world....
Understanding Rawls
A Reconstruction and Critique of A Theory of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Since its publication in 1971, John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice has been the subject of a lively debate among philosophers, economists, and political scientists. In this book, Robert Paul Wolff provides an interpretation and critique of Rawls’ theory that both clarifies it and reveals its basic...
Kant and International Relations Theory
Cosmopolitan Community-building
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
This book challenges popular international relations theories that claim to be based on the political writings of Immanuel Kant, and sheds new light on the philosopher's perspective on peace.
Through an analysis of Kant's philosophical work and political traditions of his time, as well as of...
Securitizing Balance of Power Theory
A Polymorphic Reconceptualization
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Securitizing Balance of Power Theory: A Polymorphic Reconceptualization by Ilai Z. Saltzman examines different reactions to changes in the balance of power and the way different states formulate their grand strategies in order to engage these changes. Saltzman offers a neoclassical realist interpretation...
Indigeneity and Political Theory
Sovereignty and the Limits of the Political
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2008
Indigeneity and Political Theory engages some of the profound challenges to
traditions of modern political theory that have been posed over the past two
decades. Karena Shaw is especially concerned with practices of sovereignty
as they are embedded in and shape Indigenous politics,...
Social Contract Theory in American Jurisprudence
Too Much Liberty and Too Much Authority
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Despite decades of attempts and the best intentions of its members, the United States Supreme Court has failed to develop a coherent jurisprudence regarding the state’s proper relationship to the individual. Without some objective standard upon which to ground jurisprudence, decisions have moved...
by Ranabir Samaddar
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
This book is on the political subject, the conditions of its emergence, and the theoretical implications of this emergence, particularly those for our history. It seeks to change the way in which we understand our modern political history and the way inquiries are conducted into political life, truth...
by Rachel Ahern Knudsen
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Traditionally, Homer's epics have been the domain of scholars and students interested in ancient Greek poetry, and Aristotle's rhetorical theory has been the domain of those interested in ancient rhetoric. Rachel Ahern Knudsen believes that this academic distinction between poetry and rhetoric should...
The Third Wave
Democratization in the Late 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Between 1974 and 1990 more than thirty countries in southern Europe, Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe shifted from authoritarian to democratic systems of government. This global democratic revolution is probably the most important political trend in the late twentieth century. In The Third...
Haunted historiographies
The rhetoric of ideology in postcolonial Irish fiction
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The spectres of history haunt Irish fiction. In this compelling study, Matthew Schultz maps these rhetorical hauntings across a wide range of postcolonial Irish novels, and defines the spectre as a non-present presence that simultaneously symbolises and analyses an overlapping of Irish myth and Irish...
by Harry Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
An internationally acknowledged authority on all aspects of the theory of international trade and payments, this book collects Harry Johnson’s contributions to the study of international trade, including a critique of the theory of effective protection. The book discusses:
the integration of...
Role Theory and the Cognitive Architecture of British Appeasement Decisions
Symbolic and Strategic Interaction in World Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Appeasement is a controversial strategy of conflict management and resolution in world politics. Its reputation is sullied by foreign policy failures ending in war or defeat in which the appeasing state suffers diplomatic and military losses by making costly concessions to other states. Britain’s...