History Theory category: 16752 books
by Andrea Becker, Maren Reyelt
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2004
Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: 1 - (A-), University of Wyoming (Department of Political Science), course: Recent Political Thought, language: English, abstract: 'Man is born free and, and everywhere he is in chains....
Electoral Realignments
A Critique of an American Genre
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
The study of electoral realignments is one of the most influential and intellectually stimulating enterprises undertaken by American political scientists. Realignment theory has been seen as a science able to predict changes, and generations of students, journalists, pundits, and political scientists...
Why History Matters
Life and Thought
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 1998
"All human beings are practicing historians," writes Gerda Lerner. "We live our lives; we tell our stories. It is as natural as breathing." It is as important as breathing, too. History shapes our self-definition and our relationship to community; it locates us in time and place and helps to give...
Scope and Theory of Public Administration
The Shaping Influences of Interdisciplinary Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
The scope and theory of American public administration have expanded outward over time through the process of interdisciplinary discourse. Interdisciplinary approaches are rooted in ancient times, but it is in modern applications that the process has become most noticeable as a substantive influence...
A Political Theory of Identity in European Integration
Memory and policies
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book provides a theoretical and historical examination of the speech and deeds of European founders.
Using a fresh and innovative approach, this monograph connects political theory with concrete political practices based on empirical evidence, and theorizes the internal process of European...
by Alexander Dugin
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
All the political systems of the modern age have been the products of three distinct ideologies: the first, and oldest, is liberal democracy; the second is Marxism; and the third is fascism. The latter two have long since failed and passed out of the pages of history, and the first no longer operates...
African American Environmental Thought
Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Choice Outstanding Book
African American intellectual thought has long provided a touchstone for national politics and civil rights, but, as Kimberly Smith reveals, it also has much to say about our relationship to nature. In this first single-authored book to link African American and environmental...
The Emergence of Modern Aesthetic Theory
Religion and Morality in Enlightenment Germany and Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Broad in its geographic scope and yet grounded in original archival research, this book situates the inception of modern aesthetic theory – the philosophical analysis of art and beauty - in theological contexts that are crucial to explaining why it arose. Simon Grote presents seminal aesthetic theories...
Austrian Economics
The Next Generation
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
Austrian Economics: The Next Generation brings together emerging and established scholars to explore the insights that can be gleaned from applying Austrian economics to a range of different topics. Spanning a variety of related disciplines, from history to politics to public policy, this collection...
The Myth of the Rational Market
A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
“Do we really need yet another book about the financial crisis? Yes, we do—because this one is different….A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the mess we’re in.”
—Paul Krugman, New York Times Book Review
“Fox makes business history thrilling.”
—St. Louis...
The Fourth Turning
What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
This astonishing book will change the way you see the world -- and your place in it.
With startling originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy about a new American era that...
Schubert's Late Music
History, Theory, Style
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Schubert's late music has proved pivotal for the development of diverse fields of musical scholarship, from biography and music history to the theory of harmony. This collection addresses current issues in Schubert studies including compositional technique, the topical issue of 'late' style, tonal...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
This innovative volume challenges the ways we look at both cinema and cultural history by shifting the focus from the centrality of the visual and the literary toward the recognition of acoustic culture as formative of the Soviet and post-Soviet experience. Leading experts and emerging scholars from...
by Andrew Kahn, Mark Lipovetsky, Irina Reyfman
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Russia possesses one of the richest and most admired literatures of Europe, reaching back to the eleventh century. A History of Russian Literature provides a comprehensive account of Russian writing from its earliest origins in the monastic works of Kiev up to the present day, still rife with the...