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Italian Critics of Capitalism

by Lorella Cedroni

The writings collected in this volume present leading statements of theories of democracy and capitalism in twentieth century Italy starting from Vilfredo Pareto. The book is the first (and the unique) collection...


Printing Class: 'Isa al-'Isa, Filastin, and the Textual Construction of National Identity, 1911-1931

by R. Michael Bracy

This book explores the manners and challenges in which alternating constructions of national identity were articulated in the writings of 'Isa al-'Isa and his newspaper Filastin. The time period under consideration...


The Politics of Affective Relations: East Asia and Beyond

by Daniel Bell & Hahm Chiahark

In The Politics of Affective Relations, editors Daniel Bell and Hahm Chaihark refine our understanding of the East Asian conception of the self by examining how that conception was formulated, reproduced, and...


Character in Chief: Personality and Character of Current and Past Presidents

by John M Berecz

Author Berecz explores the relationship between personality and character and how the various men, including Bush, who have held the office of the president balance the two.


Dred Scott and the Dangers of a Political Court

by Ethan Greenberg

Dred Scott exemplies neither originalism nor aspirationalism gone wrong, as many modern critics now argue. Rather, the Dred Scott Court erred chiefly because the majority gave in to the still-relevant temptation...


Where Do We Go from Here?: American Democracy and the Renewal of the Radical Imagination

by Mark Major

Dealing with pressing issues of the day including health care, race, immigration, liberalism, religion, foreign policy, unions, feminism, education, and the media, this edited volume looks at the prospects for...


The Naked Constitution

by Adam Freedman

In the spirit of Glenn Beck’s Original Argument comes a lively manifesto on the need to recover the original meaning of the Constitution.

From law school classrooms to the halls of Congress, America’s elites...


The Revolution of Everyday Life

by Raoul Vaneigem & Donald Nicholson-Smith

One of the most important exponents of Situationist ideas, this treatise presents an impassioned critique of modern capitalism and serves as a cornerstone of modern radical thought. Originally published in early...


Doing the Continental: A New Canadian-American Relationship

by David Dyment & Bob Rae

Canada's relations with the USA are broad and deep. With Obama in his second term in office, the two countries have entered what could be considered a new era of hope and renewal. Analysis of the past, present,...


Bourdieu in International Relations: Rethinking Key Concepts in IR

by Rebecca Adler-Nissen

This book rethinks the key concepts of International Relations by drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu.

The last few years have seen a genuine wave of publications promoting sociology in international relations....


Searching for Security in a New Europe: The Diplomatic Career of Sir George Russell Clerk

by Gerald J. Protheroe

Drawing on an array of archival material, this study sheds light on Sir George Russell Clerk, an important, yet forgotten figure in British and European diplomatic history.

During the First World War, Clerk...


Complexity and Public Policy: A New Approach to 21st Century Politics, Policy And Society

by Robert Geyer & Samir Rihani

This book provides a clear, concise and readable introduction to complexity thinking, its application to the social sciences and public policy, and the relevance of some of its various tools to those fields...


The Modern State

by Christopher Pierson

The modern state is hugely important in our everyday lives. It takes nearly half our income in taxes. It registers our births, marriages and deaths. It educates our children and pays our pensions. It has a unique...


The Political Economy of a Plural World: Critical reflections on Power, Morals and Civilisation

by Robert Cox & Michael G. Schechter

Building on his seminal contributions to the field, Robert W. Cox engages with the major themes that have characterized his work over the past three decades, and the main topics which affect the globalized world...


The Routledge Guide to European Political Archives: Sources since 1945

by Chris Cook

This new publication, a sister volume to the highly-acclaimed Routledge Guide to British Political Archives, provides a wide-ranging survey of the non-governmental archive sources for historians of post-war...


The Challenge of Liberty: Classical Liberalism Today

by Robert Higgs & Carl P. Close

The quest for freedom has always been as much a battle of ideas as it is a popular struggle. Classical liberal pioneers such as John Locke and Adam Smith stressed the inherent worth of the individual, inalienable...


Taiwan's Democracy on Trial: Political Change During the Chen Shui-bian Era and Beyond

by John F. Copper

This book assesses the process of democratization in Taiwan during the Chen Shui-bian Era and after. He shows that in several respects, press freedom, human rights, ethnic relations, political reform, constitutionalism,...


Quebra-Quilos and Peasant Resistance: Peasants, Religion, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

by Kim Richardson

This book explores the complicated, multi-faceted uprising by analyzing its underlying causes: increased taxes, rising costs of foodstuffs, the forced implementation of this new metric system, fear of being...


Solidarity with Solidarity: Western European Trade Unions and the Polish Crisis, 1980-1982

by Idesbald Goddeeris, Stefan Berger & Nino De Amicis

The Polish crisis in the early 1980s provoked a great deal of reaction in the West. Not only governments, but social movements were also touched by the changes. This book analyzes Western European social reaction...


Intermedialities: Philosophy, Arts, Politics

by Henk Oosterling & Ewa Plonowska Ziarek

As an alternative to universalism and particularism, Intermedialities: Philosophy, Arts, Politics proposes 'intermedialities' as a new model of social relations and intercultural dialogue. The concept of 'intermedialities'...