Politics

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532650383Author Joshua HrenFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm)...

The rapid global spread of populism has become an arresting and often disturbing phenomenon in the opening decades of the twenty-first century. This collection of essays explores the complex histories and diverse geographies of populist activity,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668050736Author Carlos LozadaFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

First published in 1987. This study is an attempt to distinguish the problem of political obligation as it was formulated in the ancient world from the problem as it has presented itself in the modern world, and assesses the idealist achievement in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940177816Author Karl MarxFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint PSIPublisher PSIWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm

The more the global north has learned about the existential threat of climate change, the faster it has emitted greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. In Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change, Lee Zimmerman thinks about why this is by examining how...

From the trauma of September 11th, through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to the aftermath of the Arab Spring and the environmental warning signs of climate change, this book reflects on the crises and terrifying events of the early 21st century...

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This book argues that sovereignty is the first-order question of political order, and that seventeenth-century England provides an important case study in the roots of its modern iterations. It offers fresh readings of Thomas Hobbes, John Milton, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999609439Author Horst SchlachterFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Garry KolafaPublisher Garry KolafaWeight(grams) 435g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524529840Author Philip RaffertyFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 82g

In Austrian economic thought, "human action" guides all social and cultural experience. For both the real world and for fictional texts, this starting point can illuminate literature in new ways and offer valuable insight for literary critics who have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944440022Author Karen Sloan-BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Brown ReflectionsPublisher Brown ReflectionsWeight(grams) 363g

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Spatial Resistance: Literary and Digital Challenges to Neoliberalism utilizes various literary and digital artifacts to show the potential and possibility of changing the ways we consider the spaces we inhabit. As many spaces become increasingly...

The Words of Winston Churchill, a study that ranges over the course of a rich, controversial and remarkable career, is about the power and art of his language as a writer and speaker. Churchill used words as the greatest of poets and orators do, and did...

Popular perceptions of American writers as either godless radicals or God-fearing reactionaries overlook a vital tradition of Christian leftist thought and creative work. In Communion of Radicals, Jonathan McGregor offers the first literary history of...

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This wide-ranging collection brings together an eclectic group of scholars to reflect upon the transnational configurations of the field of American studies and how these have affected its localizations, epistemological perspectives, ecological...

The study of nineteenth-century American literature has long been tied up with the study of American democracy. Just as some regions in the United States are elevated to stand in for the whole nation—New England is a good example—D. Berton Emerson...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996136525Author Highton JakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint World Vision Publishing, LLCPublisher World Vision Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 290g

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The Political Fiction of Ward Just: Imagining a Ruling Elite, Class, and Theories of Representation uses three theoretical frameworks of representation—literary, political, and diplomatic—to demonstrate how the upper-class status of the ruling elites in...

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On June 23, 1985, the bombing of Air India Flight 182 killed 329 people, most of them Canadians. Today this pivotal event in Canada's history is hazily remembered, yet certain interests have shaped how the tragedy is woven into public memory, and even...

An incisive critique that examines the origins of contemporary American ideas about surveillance, terrorism, and white supremacyFor more than three centuries, Americans have pursued strategies of security that routinely make them feel vulnerable, unsafe,...

An incisive critique that examines the origins of contemporary American ideas about surveillance, terrorism, and white supremacyFor more than three centuries, Americans have pursued strategies of security that routinely make them feel vulnerable, unsafe,...

An argument that humanists have the tools—and the responsibility—to mobilize political power to tackle climate changeAs climate catastrophes intensify, why do literary and cultural studies scholars so often remain committed to the separation of aesthetic...

A wide-ranging reevaluation of utopian literature and philosophy, from Plato to Chang-Rae LeeExamining literary and philosophical writing about ideal societies from Greek antiquity to the present, Inventions of Nemesis offers a striking new take on...

This collection of imaginative essays traces notions of hospitality across a sequence of theoretical permutations, not only as an urgent challenge for our conflicted present, but also as foundational for ethics and resonant within the play of language...

The more the global north has learned about the existential threat of climate change, the faster it has emitted greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. In Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change, Lee Zimmerman thinks about why this is by examining how...

This book’s premise is not only the commonly accepted cultural relativity of economic concepts, but also the observation that the current shift in the meaning of concepts like “market,” “currency,” “exchange,” and “money” suggests that culture is...

This book challenges the assumption that self-interest is the basis of our actions. It does so through examining two Platonic characters, Thrasymachus in Plato's Republic and Callicles in Plato's Gorgias, both of whom attack justice and champion...

This book is about the story of James T. Farrell's role in the debate over the relationship between literature and politics during the 1930s. It is useful for American literary and intellectual history, American Left, and rhetoric and communication...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399514484Author Meral Uğur-ÇınarFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

(In)digestion in Literature and Film: A Transcultural Approach is a collection of essays spanning diverse geographic areas such as Brazil, Eastern Europe, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States. Despite this...

(In)digestion in Literature and Film: A Transcultural Approach is a collection of essays spanning diverse geographic areas such as Brazil, Eastern Europe, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States. Despite this...