History Theory category: 16752 books
The Tragedy of Human Development
A Genealogy of Capital as Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
How might an objective observer conceive of what humans have accomplished as a species over its brief history? Benjamin argues that history can be judged as one giant catastrophe. Liberals suggest that this is to sombre an assessment and that human history can be read as a story of greater and greater...
by Tejvan Pettinger
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Crack the world of money and understand the economic theory that has shaped nations and influenced the way you live now.
From Keynesian models to how inflation affects interest rates, Cracking Economics will make the seemingly complex world of global finance easily understood.
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Original Zinn
Conversations on History and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Historian, activist, and bestselling author Howard Zinn has been interviewed by David Barsamian for public radio numerous times over the past decade. Original Zinn is a collection of their conversations, showcasing the acclaimed author of A People's History of the United States at his most engaging...
Capitalism
A Modern Economic History
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Capitalism is a word that many use but seldom define. This book introduces students to capitalism and other important concepts of economic history. It uses clear, simple language to guide the reader from the ancient pre-capitalist world to the origins of capitalism in medieval western Europe and its...
by Joseph Vogl
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
In his brilliant interdisciplinary analysis of the global financial crisis, Joseph Vogl aims to demystify finance capitalism—with its bewildering array of new instruments—by tracing the historical stages through which the financial market achieved its current autonomy. Classical and neoclassical...
New Public Management
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
New public management is a topical phrase to describe how management techniques from the private sector are now being applied to public services. This book provides a completely up-to-date overview of the main theoretical models of public sector management, and examines the key changes that have occurred...
Political Sociology
Oppression, Resistance, and the State
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Designed to help students analyze and understand political developments in the world around them, this unique text covers a wide array of political sociology concepts and theoretical perspectives. The book's multidimensional view emphasizes the interplay between power, inequality, multiple oppressions,...
by Mathias Risse
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2012
Debates about global justice have traditionally fallen into two camps. Statists believe that principles of justice can only be held among those who share a state. Those who fall outside this realm are merely owed charity. Cosmopolitans, on the other hand, believe that justice applies equally among...
American Democracy
Selected Essays on Theory, Practice, and Critique
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
The book examines the problems that plague contemporary American democracy. Written from the standpoint of democratic theory, and from a progressive point of view, the book explores different facets of American democratic culture and its various deficits – deficits that can lead to the crippling of democratic politics.
Social Acceleration
A New Theory of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Hartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of critical theory. He identifies three categories of change in the tempo of modern social life: technological acceleration, evident in transportation, communication, and production; the acceleration of social...
Climate Leviathan
A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
How climate change will affect our political theory—for better and worse
Despite the science and the summits, leading capitalist states have not achieved anything close to an adequate level of carbon mitigation. There is now simply no way to prevent the planet breaching the threshold of two...
From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics
The Shifting Boundaries between Economics and other Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
Is or has economics ever been the imperial social science? Could or should it ever be so? These are the central concerns of this book. It involves a critical reflection on the process of how economics became the way it is, in terms of a narrow and intolerant orthodoxy, that has, nonetheless, increasingly...
Power Games
A Political History of the Olympics
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
A timely, no-holds barred, critical political history of the modern Olympic Games
The Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political history. Jules Boykoff, a former US Olympic team member, takes readers from the event’s nineteenth-century origins, through the Games’ flirtation...
by Rod Island
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2014
This is a unique volume because it was set to examine the calendar date 8/16 of 2014 for the singer Madonna. It was set with religious themes. This is also a unique volume that looks at why the Psychic Field is useful in Criminal proceedings and where Psychic Forensics can be used to extract number...