Lexington Books: 3858 books
Between Eternities
On the Tradition of Political Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Between Eternities reflects on the possibility of political philosophy as an ongoing, architectonic activity that is necessarily linked to both the past and future. Almost all contemporary work in political philosophy either studies the subject with an eye to past tradition—choosing a winner from...
A Path for Chinese Civil Society
A Case Study on Industrial Associations in Wenzhou, China
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2012
This book combines empirical research and theoretical discussions to demonstrate that the civil society paradigm as a western concept could be applicable to the study of state-society relations in contemporary China. However, the growth of Chinese civil society does not necessarily present an adversarial...
by Mark D. Brewer, Richard Powell, Chad Kinsella
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
The 2016 presidential election was unconventional in many ways. The election of President Donald Trump caught many by surprise, with a true outsider — a candidate with no previous governmental experience and mixed support from his own party — won the election by winning in traditionally Democratic...
International Governance, Regimes, and Globalization
Case Studies from Beijing and Taipei
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
In the this collection, International Governance, Regimes, and Globalization, the writers explore international relations and globalization by using specific examples from Beijing and Taipei. In December 1949, when China was politically divided the People's Republic of China (PRC) central government...
by Peter Bergerson, Margaret Banyan, William K. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
The 2012 congressional elections played an equally vital role in determining the future course of America as the presidential race that topped the electoral ticket. Readers of this book will gain insights about the formative aspects of the 2012 campaign season as well as in depth coverage of key races...
Freedom and Order
How Democratic Governments Restrict Civil Liberties after Terrorist Attacks_and Why Sometimes They Don't
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
The book examines how governments and publics react to terrorist attacks in the United States, the United Kingdom and Israel. It focuses specifically on why civil liberties are abridged in some cases and not in others. The chapters cover the topic by looking at it through a number of different lenses,...
Creative Capitalism, Multitudinous Creativity
Radicalities and Alterities
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
The book aims to counter the normative functioning of creativity in contemporary capitalism with a plethora of alternatives to radical creative practices. In the first part, titled “Creative Capitalism”, five authors analyze the forms of contemporary capitalism: on the one hand, there are new...
The Syrian Refugee Crisis in Lebanon
The Double Tragedy of Refugees and Impacted Host Communities
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
This book examines the unfolding of the Syrian refugee crisis in relation to the spillover of the Syrian civil war in Lebanon and against the background of Lebanon–Syria relations and Lebanon’s socio-political, cultural, legal, and economic conditions. It surveys Lebanon’s response plans to...
The Mind and Art of Abraham Lincoln, Philosopher Statesman
Texts and Interpretations of Twenty Great Speeches
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
By analyzing many of Lincoln's most important speeches, The Mind and Art of Abraham Lincoln, Philosopher Statesman shows him to be a profound and systematic thinker who tries to get at the root of issues, not all of them strictly political. Lowenthal emphasizes Lincoln's manner of writing, which enables...
Sons of the Fathers
The Virginia Slavery Debates of 1831-1832
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Erik Root's book, Sons of the Fathers explores the Virginia Slavery Debate of 1831D1832, conducted in the House of Delegates. This is possibly the greatest debate to have occurred in any southern state before the Civil War. The speeches in this book provide, for the first time ever, an unedited version...
Chinese Cyber Nationalism
Evolution, Characteristics, and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2007
Chinese Cyber Nationalism offers the first comprehensive examination of the social and ideological movement that mixes Confucian cultural traditions and advanced media technology. Over the past decade, the Internet has increasingly become a communication center, organizational platform, and channel...
Woodrow Wilson
The Essential Political Writings
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2005
Woodrow Wilson's contribution to American foreign policy is well known, but his role in the development of American political thought and institutions is less recognized. In this volume, Wilson scholar Ronald J. Pestritto presents and introduces the statesman and president's seminal essays on such...
Herbert Hoover and the Commodification of Middle-Class America
An American Promise
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Herbert Hoover rose from a rudimentary background to establish himself as a self-made millionaire and leading progressive reformer. Until the disaster that hit the nation in 1929, Hoover was known globally as the “Great Humanitarian” who had saved the lives of scores of millions of Europeans and...
Ethnicity, Class, and Nationalism
Caribbean and Extra-Caribbean Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2005
Celebrants of an ever-emerging 'globalization' fly the banner of free trade, the mass marketization of once faltering economies, and rising economic and social standards for all. Many opponents to globalization rightfully point out that borders still exist largely for the purposes of keeping one 'commodity'...