History Theory category: 16752 books
Making Political Science Matter
Debating Knowledge, Research, and Method
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2006
Making Political Science Matter brings together a number of prominent scholars to discuss the state of the field of Political Science. In particular, these scholars are interested in ways to reinvigorate the discipline by connecting it to present day political struggles. Uniformly well-written and...
Decolonizing Time
Work, Leisure, and Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Decolonizing Time: Work, Leisure, and Freedom demonstrates the importance of time as a central category for political theory, providing not only a history of the fight for time through political, feminist, and critical theory, but also assessing this tradition in the context of the United States.
The Origins of Neoliberalism
Insights from economics and philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Neoliberalism is a doctrine that adopts a free market policy in a deregulated political framework. In recent years, neoliberalism has become increasingly prominent as a doctrine in Western society, and has been heavily discussed in both academia and the media.
In The Origins of Neoliberalism,...
The Right to Justification
Elements of a Constructivist Theory of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
Contemporary philosophical pluralism recognizes the inevitability and legitimacy of multiple ethical perspectives and values, making it difficult to isolate the higher-order principles on which to base a theory of justice. Rising up to meet this challenge, Rainer Forst, a leading member of the Frankfurt...
Political Thought and International Relations
Variations on a Realist Theme
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
Political realism dominated the field of International Relations during the Cold War. Since then, however, its fortunes have been mixed: pushed onto the backfoot during 1990s, it has in recent years retuned to the centre of scholarly debate. Despite its prominence in International Relations, however,...
Demanding Democracy
American Radicals in Search of a New Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
This is a major work of history and political theory that traces radical democratic thought in America across the twentieth century, seeking to recover ideas that could reenergize democratic activism today. The question of how citizens should behave as they struggle to create a more democratic society...
International Relations Theory
Competing Empirical Paradigms
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
While many texts on international relations deal only with ideologies, this book goes beyond discussion of ideology to provide an understanding of how global economics, politics, and society operate. The book begins with a history of the International Studies Association, which was founded to develop...
Atmospheric Justice
A Political Theory of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2008
When the policies and activities of one country or generation harm both other nations and later generations, they constitute serious injustices. Recognizing the broad threat posed by anthropogenic climate change, advocates for an international climate policy development process have expressly aimed...
Liberal Internationalism
Theory, History, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
This study provides an original conception of liberalism that accounts for its internal contradictions and explains the current crisis of liberal internationalism. Examining the disjuncture between liberal theory and practice, it offers a firmer grasp on the historical role of liberalism in world politics.
Black Marxism
The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate. Marxist analyses tend to presuppose European models of history and experience that...
Australian Literature in the German Democratic Republic
Reading through the Iron Curtain
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2016
Exploring the imaginative construction of the post-colonial South by the communist East, this is a multi-faceted, collaborative study of the reception of Australian literature in the German Democratic Republic. An account of fraught and complex cross-cultural literary exchange between two highly distinct,...
Music as Message
An Introduction to Musical Semantics
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Music is often defined as art for the ear, as the language of feeling, of the heart, as sound play, or as the science of composition. But music also conveys intellectual and emotional experiences, literary, religious, philosophical, social and political ideas. Countless composers encrypt contents...
by Suzannah Clark
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
When Schubert's contemporary reviewers first heard his modulations, they famously claimed that they were excessive, odd and unplanned. This book argues that these claims have haunted the analysis of Schubert's harmony ever since, outlining why Schubert's music occupies a curiously marginal position...
The Rise of New Media 1750–1850
Transatlantic Discourse and American Memory
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
This monograph explores transatlantic literary culture by tracing the proliferation of ‘new media,’ such as the anthology, the literary history and the magazine, in the period between 1750 and 1850. The fast-paced media landscape out of which these publishing genres developed produced the need...