History Theory category: 16752 books
Background Noise, Second Edition
Perspectives on Sound Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Background Noise follows the development of sound as an artistic medium and illustrates how sound is put to use within modes of composition, installation, and performance. While chronological in its structure, Brandon LaBelle's book is informed by spatial thinking - weaving architecture, environments,...
Cults and Conspiracies
A Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Human beings have believed in conspiracies presumably as long as there have been groups of at least three people in which one was convinced that the other two were plotting against him or her. In that sense one might look back as far as Eve and the serpent to find the world’s first conspiracy. Whereas...
The United States of Paranoia
A Conspiracy Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Jesse Walker’s The United States of Paranoia presents a comprehensive history of conspiracy theories in American culture and politics, from the colonial era to the War on Terror.
The fear of intrigue and subversion doesn’t exist only on the fringes of society, but has always been part of...
Migration Theory
Talking across Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
During the last decade the issue of migration has increased in global prominence and has caused controversy among host countries around the world. To remedy the tendency of scholars to speak only to and from their own disciplinary perspective, this book brings together in a single volume essays dealing...
The Closed Commercial State
Perpetual Peace and Commercial Society from Rousseau to Fichte
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
This book presents an important new account of Johann Gottlieb Fichte's Closed Commercial State, a major early nineteenth-century development of Rousseau and Kant's political thought. Isaac Nakhimovsky shows how Fichte reformulated Rousseau's constitutional politics and radicalized the economic implications...
Parliament and Parliamentarism
A Comparative History of a European Concept
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Parliamentary theory, practices, discourses, and institutions constitute a distinctively European contribution to modern politics. Taking a broad historical perspective, this cross-disciplinary, innovative, and rigorous collection locates the essence of parliamentarism in four key aspects—deliberation,...
by K. Sabeel Rahman
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
In 2008, the collapse of the US financial system plunged the economy into the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. In its aftermath, the financial crisis pushed to the forefront fundamental moral and institutional questions about how we govern the modern economy. What are the values...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
The Cambridge Companion to The Communist Manifesto covers the historical and biographical contexts and major contemporary interpretations of this classic text for understanding Marx and Engels, and for grasping Marxist political theory. The editors and contributors offer innovative accounts of the...
In the Shadow of the Great Charter
Common Law Constitutionalism and the Magna Carta
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2015
In the Supreme Court's 2008 ruling on whether Guantanamo detainees could be barred from U.S. courts, Justice Anthony Kennedy cited the U.S. Constitution, of course. But he also linked the decision to the Magna Carta. Why would a twenty-first century judge,even under the extraordinary circumstances...
Considerations on Green Political Thought - A new, ecological ideology?
A new, ecological ideology?
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2006
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2005 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: First (80% - very good), Aston University, 38 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The idea of a Green political ideology is a relative newcomer to political...
Discourses of Empire
Counter-Epic Literature in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2003
The counter-epic is a literary style that developed in reaction to imperialist epic conventions as a means of scrutinizing the consequences of foreign conquest of dominated peoples. It also functioned as a transitional literary form, a bridge between epic narratives of military heroics and novelistic...
by Claire Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
In this new monograph, Claire Hansen demonstrates how Shakespeare can be understood as a complex system, and how complexity theory can provide compelling and original readings of Shakespeare’s plays. The book utilises complexity theory to illuminate early modern theatrical practice, Shakespeare...
Voice in Motion
Staging Gender, Shaping Sound in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Voice in Motion explores the human voice as a literary, historical, and performative motif in early modern English drama and culture, where the voice was frequently represented as struggling, even failing, to work. In a compelling and original argument, Gina Bloom demonstrates that early modern ideas...
Regimes of Historicity
Presentism and Experiences of Time
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
François Hartog explores crucial moments of change in society's "regimes of historicity," or its ways of relating to the past, present, and future. Inspired by Hannah Arendt, Reinhart Koselleck, and Paul Ricoeur, Hartog analyzes a broad range of texts, positioning The Odyssey as a work...