Author: Clive Gifford
Publisher: Quick Histories
ISBN: 071126032X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
A Quick History of Politics takes us from pharaohs to fair votes, packed with facts and jokes about the many faces of politics through time.
A Quick History of Politics
Author: Clive Gifford
Publisher: Quick Histories
ISBN: 071126032X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
A Quick History of Politics takes us from pharaohs to fair votes, packed with facts and jokes about the many faces of politics through time.
Publisher: Quick Histories
ISBN: 071126032X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
A Quick History of Politics takes us from pharaohs to fair votes, packed with facts and jokes about the many faces of politics through time.
History and Illusion in Politics
Author: Raymond Geuss
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521000437
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The distinguished political philosopher Raymond Geuss examines critically the central topics in Western political thought. In a series of analytic chapters he discusses the state, authority, violence and coercion, the concept of legitmacy, liberalism, toleration, freedom, democracy, and human rights. He argues that the liberal democratic state committed to the defense of human rights is in fact a confused conjunction of disparate elements. This is a profound and concise essay on the basic structure of contemporary politics, written throughout in voice that is skeptical, engaged, and clear.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521000437
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The distinguished political philosopher Raymond Geuss examines critically the central topics in Western political thought. In a series of analytic chapters he discusses the state, authority, violence and coercion, the concept of legitmacy, liberalism, toleration, freedom, democracy, and human rights. He argues that the liberal democratic state committed to the defense of human rights is in fact a confused conjunction of disparate elements. This is a profound and concise essay on the basic structure of contemporary politics, written throughout in voice that is skeptical, engaged, and clear.
Politics Out of History
Author: Wendy Brown
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069118805X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069118805X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Playing Politics with History
Author: Andrew Beattie
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781845455330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The ensuing debates and disagreements over the recent past, examined by the author, open up a window into the wider development of German memory, identity, and politics after the end of the Cold War."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781845455330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The ensuing debates and disagreements over the recent past, examined by the author, open up a window into the wider development of German memory, identity, and politics after the end of the Cold War."--BOOK JACKET.
The Convolutions of Historical Politics
Author: Alekse? I. Miller
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 615522515X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Thirteen essays by scholars from seven countries discuss the political use and abuse of history in the recent decades with particular focus on Central and Eastern Europe (Hungary, Poland, Estonia, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia as case studies), but also includes articles on Germany, Japan and Turkey, which provide a much needed comparative dimension. The main focus is on new conditions of political utilization of history in post-communist context, which is characterized by lack of censorship and political pluralism. The phenomenon of history politics became extremely visible in Central and Eastern Europe in the past decade, and remains central for political agenda in many countries of the regions. Each essay is a case study contributing to the knowledge about collective memory and political use of history, offering a new theoretical twist. The studies look at actors (from political parties to individual historians), institutions (museums, Institutes of National remembrance, special political commissions), methods, political rationale and motivations behind this phenomenon.
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 615522515X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Thirteen essays by scholars from seven countries discuss the political use and abuse of history in the recent decades with particular focus on Central and Eastern Europe (Hungary, Poland, Estonia, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia as case studies), but also includes articles on Germany, Japan and Turkey, which provide a much needed comparative dimension. The main focus is on new conditions of political utilization of history in post-communist context, which is characterized by lack of censorship and political pluralism. The phenomenon of history politics became extremely visible in Central and Eastern Europe in the past decade, and remains central for political agenda in many countries of the regions. Each essay is a case study contributing to the knowledge about collective memory and political use of history, offering a new theoretical twist. The studies look at actors (from political parties to individual historians), institutions (museums, Institutes of National remembrance, special political commissions), methods, political rationale and motivations behind this phenomenon.
Gender and the Politics of History
Author: Joan Wallach Scott
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231118576
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
An interrogation of the uses of gender as a tool for cultural and historical analysis. The revised edition reassesses the book's fundamental topic: the category of gender. In arguing that gender no longer serves to destabilize our understanding of sexual difference, the new preface and new chapter open a critical dialogue with the original book. From publisher description.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231118576
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
An interrogation of the uses of gender as a tool for cultural and historical analysis. The revised edition reassesses the book's fundamental topic: the category of gender. In arguing that gender no longer serves to destabilize our understanding of sexual difference, the new preface and new chapter open a critical dialogue with the original book. From publisher description.
On Politics
Author: Alan Ryan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0871404656
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 1147
Book Description
Looks at the history of politics from Hobbes to the twenty-first century.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0871404656
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 1147
Book Description
Looks at the history of politics from Hobbes to the twenty-first century.
History, Politics, Law
Author: Annabel Brett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108842461
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
Juxtaposes standpoints from which disciplines of history, political thought and law conceive and generate political order beyond the state.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108842461
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
Juxtaposes standpoints from which disciplines of history, political thought and law conceive and generate political order beyond the state.
Radical History and the Politics of Art
Author: Gabriel Rockhill
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231527780
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Gabriel Rockhill opens new space for rethinking the relationship between art and politics. Rather than understanding the two spheres as separated by an insurmountable divide or linked by a privileged bridge, Rockhill demonstrates that art and politics are not fixed entities with a singular relation but rather dynamically negotiated, sociohistorical practices with shifting and imprecise borders. Radical History and the Politics of Art proposes a significant departure from extant debates on what is commonly called "art" and "politics," and the result is an impressive foray into the force field of history, in which cultural practices are meticulously analyzed in their social and temporal dynamism without assuming a conceptual unity behind them. Rockhill thereby develops an alternative logic of history and historical change, as well as a novel account of social practices and a multidimensional theory of agency. Engaging with a diverse array of intellectual, artistic, and political constellations, this tour de force diligently maps the various interactions between different dimensions of aesthetic and political practices as they intertwine and sometimes merge in precise fields of struggle.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231527780
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Gabriel Rockhill opens new space for rethinking the relationship between art and politics. Rather than understanding the two spheres as separated by an insurmountable divide or linked by a privileged bridge, Rockhill demonstrates that art and politics are not fixed entities with a singular relation but rather dynamically negotiated, sociohistorical practices with shifting and imprecise borders. Radical History and the Politics of Art proposes a significant departure from extant debates on what is commonly called "art" and "politics," and the result is an impressive foray into the force field of history, in which cultural practices are meticulously analyzed in their social and temporal dynamism without assuming a conceptual unity behind them. Rockhill thereby develops an alternative logic of history and historical change, as well as a novel account of social practices and a multidimensional theory of agency. Engaging with a diverse array of intellectual, artistic, and political constellations, this tour de force diligently maps the various interactions between different dimensions of aesthetic and political practices as they intertwine and sometimes merge in precise fields of struggle.
International Law and the Politics of History
Author: Anne Orford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108480942
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Explores the ideological, political, and economic stakes of struggles over international law's history and its relation to empire and capitalism.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108480942
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Explores the ideological, political, and economic stakes of struggles over international law's history and its relation to empire and capitalism.