Legal History category: 1513 books
A Constitutional Democracy
Voices and Votes
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Consent to be governed includes rights and responsibilities of the citizenry to ensure that freedom, justice, and equality prevail over narrowed special interests. It can be challenging for citizens to grasp the consequences of their disengagement without knowledge of fundamental democratic principles,...
Remembering Defeat
Civil War and Civic Memory in Ancient Athens
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In 404 b.c. the Peloponnesian War finally came to an end, when the Athenians, starved into submission, were forced to accept Sparta's terms of surrender. Shortly afterwards a group of thirty conspirators, with Spartan backing ("the Thirty"), overthrew the democracy and established a narrow...
Smoldering Ashes
Cuzco and the Creation of Republican Peru, 1780-1840
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 1999
In Smoldering Ashes Charles F. Walker interprets the end of Spanish domination in Peru and that country’s shaky transition to an autonomous republican state. Placing the indigenous population at the center of his analysis, Walker shows how the Indian peasants played a crucial and previously unacknowledged...
Divergent Modernities
Culture and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2001
With a Foreword by José David Saldívar
Since its first publication in Spanish nearly a decade ago, Julio Ramos’s Desenucuentros de la modernidad en America Latina por el siglo XIX has been recognized as one of the most important studies of modernity in the western hemisphere. Available...
No Dogs in China
A Report on China Today
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1957
In 1949 the bamboo curtain clattered down over one-fifth of the people of the world. In one sudden twist of history, a vast community that had been militarily and politically allied with the West was transmuted into the ideological foe of everything the free world stands for. With the surprise intervention...
Good Government
Democracy beyond Elections
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Few would disagree that Western democracies are experiencing a crisis of representation. In the United States, gerrymandering and concentrated political geographies have placed the Congress and state legislatures in a stranglehold that is often at odds with public opinion. Campaign financing ensures...
Political Science Revitalized
Filling the Jigsaw Puzzle with Metatheory
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Political science has been described as a jigsaw puzzle with many specializations and subfields that do not talk to one another. This book offers a solution that will advance the field from mid-level theory to engage in cross-fertilization through metatheoretical paradigms. The book begins with a...
The Government of No One
The Theory and Practice of Anarchism
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2019
A magisterial study of the history and theory of one of the most controversial political movements
Anarchism routinely gets a bad press. It's usually seen as meaning chaos and disorder -- or even nothing at all. And yet, from Occupy Wall Street to Pussy Riot, Noam Chomsky to David Graeber,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian Politics offers a comprehensive analysis of Nigeria's very rich history and ever changing politics to its readers. It provides a deep understanding of Nigeria's socio-political evolution and experience by covering broad range of political issues and historical eras....
Decentering the Regime
Ethnicity, Radicalism, and Democracy in Juchitán, Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 1997
Since 1989 an indigenous political movement—the Coalition of Workers, Peasants, and Students of the Isthmus (COCEI)—has governed the southern Mexican city of Juchitán. In Decentering the Regime, Jeffrey W. Rubin examines this Zapotec Indian movement and shows how COCEI forged an unprecedented...
A Converging Post-War European Discourse
War Experience, Changing Security Concepts, and Research and Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
This book explores the most important components and contributing factors to the European integration process during the 1950s. It seeks to combine comparative politics and political history to examine core themes such as war experience, national security, military security, economic security, societal...
by Edward Luce
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
One of the Washington Post’s 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2017. An Amazon Top 100 book of the year. A Financial Times and Economist best book of the year. Selected for a Kindle Daily Deal in January 2018.
In the run-up to hardcover publication, Luce published an op-ed on the British...
by DK
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
The Politics Book clearly and simply explains more than one hundred groundbreaking ideas in the history of political thought.
Using easy-to-follow graphics and artworks, succinct quotations, and thoroughly accessible text, The Politics Book elucidates the theoretical foundations-as well as...
The Battle for Saudi Arabia
Royalty, Fundamentalism, and Global Power
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In The Battle for Saudi Arabia: Royalty, Fundamentalism, and Global Power , Professor As`ad AbuKhalil confronts the contradictory nature of Saudi Arabia—questions that both the Saudi government, long shrouded in mystery, and the United States government, ever protective of its own interests, seem...