Political category: 85882 books
Colonial exchanges
Political theory and the agency of the colonized
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
When European nations colonized the globe, they not only imposed their power, they also spread ideas. Those living within colonized societies did not receive these ideas passively – instead, they sought to reshape and repurpose them, often in surprising or ambiguous ways. Recent scholarship in political...
Virtuous Imbalance
Political Philosophy between Desirability and Feasibility
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Which kind of methodology should political philosophy endorse to jointly meet its theoretical and practical commitments? Virtuous Imbalance: Political Philosophy between Desirability and Feasibility assesses three paradigmatic cases to explore and explain political philosophy's attempts to answer...
Damn Great Empires!
William James and the Politics of Pragmatism
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Damn Great Empires! offers a new perspective on the works of William James by placing his encounter with American imperialism at the center of his philosophical vision. This book reconstructs James's overlooked political thought by treating his anti-imperialist Nachlass -- his speeches, essays, notes,...
Southern Political Party Activists
Patterns of Conflict and Change, 1991-2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2004
" The South continues to be the most distinctive region in American politics. Over the last half century, Democratic dominance in the South has given way to the emergence of a truly competitive two-party system that leans Republican in presidential elections. In some ways, the region is increasingly...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Is European party politics hovering above society? Why do voters pick one party over others? Is it a question of class? Of religion? Of attitudes about taxes or immigration or global warming? Or is it something else entirely? The Structure of Political Competition in Western Europe takes a detailed...
Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism, 1830-1914
An Intellectual History
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Between 1830 and 1914 in Britain a dramatic modification of the reputation of Edmund Burke (1730-1797) occurred. Burke, an Irishman and Whig politician, is now most commonly known as the 'founder of modern conservatism' - an intellectual tradition which is also deeply connected to the identity of...
Political Magic
British Fictions of Savagery and Sovereignty, 1650-1750
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Political Magic examines early modern British fictions of exploration and colonialism, arguing that narratives of intercultural contact reimagine ideas of sovereignty and popular power. These fictions reveal aspects of political thought in this period that official discourse typically shunted aside,...
Political Recruitment across Two Centuries
Mexico, 1884-1991
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
During more than twenty years of field research, Roderic Ai Camp built a monumental database of biographical information on more than 3,000 leading national figures in Mexico. In this major contribution to Mexican political history, he draws on that database to present a definitive account of the paths...
Democracy In Poland
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Ever-changing election rules, a highly fluid party system, a constitution considered illegitimate by more than one major political actor, polarized political elites, and a system of corruption that has grown up together with the young democracy itself -these characterize contemporary Polish politics....
Political Ideologies
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
The 6th edition of Andrew Heywood’s best-selling undergraduate textbook provides a clear and accessible introduction to the political creeds and doctrines that have dominated and shaped politics around the world. The author offers a clear exposition both of the historical development of each ideology...
by Sreechinth C
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Niccolo Machiavelli was one among the most renowned Italian personality of the Renaissance period. For his contributions towards the field of politics he is considered as the father of modern political science. Besides politics, he was also active as an Italian diplomat, philosopher and humanist....
Lacan, Deleuze and World Politics
Rethinking the Ontology of the Political Subject
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
This book aims to re-think the way in which the subject is inscribed in the modern political, and does so by exploring the potentiality of Lacano-Deleuzian theoretical framework. It concerns a different ontology and a non-dualist understanding of political and legal existence, by focusing on questions...
The Psychological Assessment of Political Leaders
With Profiles of Saddam Hussein and Bill Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
In an age when world affairs are powerfully driven by personality, politics require an understanding of what motivates political leaders such as Hussein, Bush, Blair, and bin Laden. Through exacting case studies and the careful sifting of evidence, Jerrold Post and his team of contributors lay out...
by Douglas I. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
At the heart of Montaigne's Essais lies a political conception of religious tolerance that we have largely forgotten today. In contemporary popular and academic discourse, tolerance of religious and other differences most often appears as an individual ethical disposition or a moral principle of public...