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In this book, Anthony Williams investigates the history of Christian Socialist thought in Britain from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. Through analysis of the writings of ten key Christian Socialists from the period, Williams reframes the...

South Africa has entered a new era, with the country's recently elected president, Cyril Ramaphosa, promising a 'new dawn'. But will President Ramaphosa and his administration, together with business and labour, be able to turn the economy around and at...

Americans often use the wordsprogressive,liberal, andradicalmore or less interchangeably without understanding their place in American history. Kevin Slack describes the distinct aims of the movements they represent and weighs their consequences for the...

This volume makes a compelling case for the continued relevance and significance of Herbert Spencer (1820-1904), one of the foremost intellectuals of the Victorian era whose work now tends to be regarded as being of purely historical interest. One of the...

If we want to understand the vicissitudes of modern democracy then, argues the author, we need to analyse the ideas upon which representative government is based rather than compare contemporary conditions with the Greek ideal. These principal ideas have...

Nancy Love s concise yet complete volume aims to inform students of their choices among political values. By exploring the assumptions of various ideologies and comparing their positions, students begin to understand political alternatives to be able to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639187830Author Iuliia ShulgaFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639298376Author Joanna KujawaFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 367g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783738607840Author Heinz DuthelFormat PaperbackPage Count 506Imprint Books on DemandPublisher Books on DemandWeight(grams) 599g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788129145246Author Kingshuk NagFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt. LtdPublisher Rupa Publications India Pvt...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789491775420Author Christophe MeierhansFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint MER Paper KunsthallePublisher MER Paper Kunsthalle

Clare Saunders' book is an important contribution to the literature on social movements and environmentalism. Using the concept of 'environmental networks', it explores the extent to which social movement theory helps us understand how a broad range of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781777611224Author B R EdmundsFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Library and Archives CanadaPublisher Library and Archives CanadaWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915755940Author Daria Platonova DuginaFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Arktos MediaPublisher Arktos MediaWeight(grams) 386g

This book explores in a comparative perspective two fundamentalist waves that have rolled over the Middle East during the last two decades. Jewish and Muslim extremism have had a profound impact on the culture and politics of this important region. One...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809501335Author George, Allan EnglandFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 330gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143114178Author Matt BaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 312g

This book presents an analysis of classical Russian Populism, shown as an ideological structure within which many positions were possible. Walicki studies the confrontation of Populism and Marxism: changing attitudes toward Marxism in the Populist milieu...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470395110Author Michael LuxFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint John Wiley & Sons LtdPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm)...

This book moves the story of Pennsylvania's pivotal role in the American Revolution beyond familiar Philadelphia into the rural areas to the north and west. It covers not only the city’s surrounding counties of Bucks and Chester but also the interior...

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Alway identifies and assesses new models of emancipatory politics in the Frankfurt Schools Critical Theory. She outlines the complexities of Critical Theory, and clarifies the logical connections between assumptions that inform the critical theorists'...

Growing interest in the ideas of the German legal and political theorist Carl Schmitt have sparked an interest in the thinkers and ideas that influenced him. Chief among those influences stands the 19th-century Spanish and conservative thinker Juan...

American political theory needs to be rescued from the undeserved status of a subordinate subfield of political theory, contends Donald Lutz. And so in ""A Preface to American Political Theory"" he sets out to emancipate American political theorists from...

Wily Odysseus. Bold Achilles. Brave Hektor. Beautiful Helen of Troy. For centuries, people around the world have been fascinated by these figures and their tragic war as recounted in Homer's Iliad, long admired and studied as one of the foremost epic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313220722Format HardbackPage Count 378Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 737g

This book is the fourth in a projected eight-volume series that addresses the origins and development of the idea of legislative sovereignty and the legislative state. A. London Fell's study, which traces ideas and contributions from the Renaissance...

Pluralist democratic systems, according to Philipe Braud, do not do what they claim to do, but rather, serve to channel, diffuse, or reconcile society's conflicts. As one reviewer of the original French edition notes, the book can be seen as part of a...

In this groundbreaking study, Janusz Bugajski evaluates the impact of Sandinista political, economic, and social programs. The book focuses on the confrontations between the regime and Nicaragua's rural population, particularly the Ladino peasantry and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999297612Author Jack MeachamFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Quaerere PressPublisher Quaerere PressWeight(grams) 367g

This incisive volume examines the rise to power of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party and the dilemmas it faced once in power. Unlike any other work in print, it deals with the Spanish Socialist Party exclusively and focuses on some of the problems...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988616158Author Zoltan IstvanFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Rudi Ventures LLCPublisher Rudi Ventures LLCWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The first truly empirical examination of American conservatism, this book provides an important counterweight in a debate which has been, until now, heavily dominated by ideological conservatives. Arguing that many of the social, political, and economic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313200267Author Robert Booth FowlerFormat HardbackPage Count 317Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Miller shows how government institutions changed the meaning of American citizenship during the World War II era. He considers the state's role in creating concepts of citizenship and subjectivity by analyzing the application within military and...

Jacques-Pierre Brissot was among the major architects of the French Revolution, yet history has vilified and then dismissed him. His early intellectual development was strongly influenced by Enlightenment ideas and aspirations. However, his own...

Use of military force without a declaration of war has been a weapon in the arsenal of U.S. presidents for the last 200 years. Force has become an increasingly more (relevant) foreign policy action in the post-Cold War world. This comprehensive resource...

Sicker asserts that the Mosaic canon, the Pentateuch, is first and foremost a library of essentially political teachings and documents, and that the first eleven chapters of the book of Genesis set forth in essence a general Mosaic political philosophy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837193397Author Stuart Gerry BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Sharpe examines Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem as a case study of Arendt's theoretical work on judgment. In addition, he seeks to illustrate two dimensions of judgment: modesty-who am I to judge? and arrogance-how dare you judge me? He...