Political science and theory Books

Nel corso della storia, è stato spesso sottolineato che l'uomo medio, nella maggior parte dei Paesi, ha poco o nessun tempo da dedicare a qualcosa che non sia guadagnarsi da vivere, allevare la propria famiglia e avere un lavoro che gli permetta di...

La storia della creazione delle Nazioni Unite è un classico caso di diplomazia dell'inganno. Le Nazioni Unite succedettero alla defunta Società delle Nazioni, il primo tentativo di istituire un unico governo mondiale sulla scia della Conferenza di pace...

Au cours de l'histoire, on a souvent fait remarquer que, dans la plupart des pays, l'homme moyen n'a que peu ou pas de temps à consacrer à autre chose qu'à gagner sa vie, élever sa famille et occuper un emploi qui lui permette d'atteindre ces objectifs...

Are humans violent or peaceful by nature? We are both.In this ambitious and wide-ranging book, Agner Fog presents a ground-breaking new argument that explains the existence of differently organised societies using evolutionary theory. It combines natural...

 In the last 6 years have you:-      Been to an Indian Smart City-      Received Rs 15 lacs of seized black money in your account-      Had your cancer cured...

César Chávez's relentless campaign for social justice for farm workers and laborers in the United States marked a milestone in U.S. history. Through his powerful rhetoric and impassioned calls to action, Chávez transformed as...

An Important Early Contribution to the Field of Political ScienceThis work received high praise from Chancellor Kent, Henry Clay, Rufus Choate, Joseph Story and others. At the time of publication, there was a great deal of debate about the interpretation...

Prohibition, with all its crime, corruption, and cultural upheaval, ran its course after thirteen years in most of the rest of the country--but not in Memphis, where it lasted thirty years. Patrick O'Daniel takes a fresh look at those responsible for the...

Empirical Studies in Comparative Politics presents a collection of papers analyzing the political systems of ten nations. It intends to provoke a conscious effort to compare, and investigate, the public choice of comparative...

Explores the political and theoretical significance of the use of salvaging discarded materials by social movements during their protest activities.

Beginning with an overview of the Framers' debates over the construction and duties of the office, the work explores the three primary charges of the office (administrator, military commander, diplomat), the legal and constitutional perimeters of the...

What kind of city was the Fascist 'third Rome'? Imagined and real, rooted in the past and announcing a new, 'revolutionary' future, Fascist Rome was imagined both as the ideal city and as the sacred centre of a universal political religion. Kallis...

""Der Alte Staat und die Revolution"" ist ein Buch des franz������sischen Politikwissenschaftlers und Historikers Alexis de Tocqueville, das erstmals 1867 ver������ffentlicht wurde. In dem Buch untersucht de Tocqueville die politischen und sozialen...

""Delle Presenti Condizioni D'Italia: E Del Suo Riordinamento Civile"" ����� un libro scritto da Enrico Cenni nel 1862. Il libro esamina la situazione politica, economica e sociale dell'Italia dell'epoca, in particolare dopo l'unificazione del paese...

""Delle Tirannie Borboniche Nelle Due Sicilie, 1734-1861: Sommario (1861)"" di Orlandi, C. ����� un libro che esplora il periodo di governo dei Borboni nella regione delle Due Sicilie, dall'anno 1734 fino al 1861. Il libro fornisce un sommario degli...

""Delle Negative Date Dal Conte Solaro Della Margherita: Ad Alcuni Fatti Narrati Nelle Memorie Storiche Die Rivolgimenti Italiani (1852)"" di Gualterio, F. A. ����� un saggio storico che si concentra sulle negative date dal conte Solaro della Margherita...

""Della Forza Nella Cose Politiche V2: Ragionamenti Quattro"" ����� un saggio scritto dall'autore italiano Luigi Angeloni nel 1826. Il libro tratta della forza e del potere nella politica, esplorando il ruolo che la forza gioca nella creazione e nel...

Il libro ""Del Potere Temporale Dei Papi"" ����� stato scritto nel 1859 da Gustave De La Tour. In questo testo, l'autore esamina la storia del potere temporale dei papi, ovvero il loro ruolo come sovrani di uno stato. De La Tour analizza la nascita e lo...

Dei Criteri E Dei Modi Di Governo Nel Regno D'Italia (1876) di Luigi Zini ����� un libro che analizza la situazione politica dell'Italia del 1876 e propone dei criteri e dei modi di governo per migliorare il paese. L'autore esamina le varie forme di...

""De Tre Nordiske Rigers Historie: Under Hans, Christiern Den Anden, Frederik Den Forste, Gustav Vasa, Grevefeiden, 1497-1536"" er en historisk bog skrevet af Carl Ferd Allen og udgivet i 1867. Bogen beskriver historien om de tre nordiske lande Danmark,...

""Del Diritto Di Propriet������ Qual Diritto Di Cittadino Di Citt������ Romana: Studi Storico-Politici Sull' Italia"" ����� un libro scritto da Eugenio De Riso nel 1862. Il testo si concentra sul diritto di propriet������ dei cittadini romani e sulla sua...

""Defensa de los Pueblos contra la Tirania de los Reyes"" es un libro escrito por Girolamo Spanzotti en 1827. En esta obra, el autor defiende el derecho de los pueblos a rebelarse contra la tiran������a de los reyes y a luchar por su libertad y sus...

De Tribunicia Potestate A L. Sulla Imminuta Quaestiones est liber auctore Johanne Magno Sunden editus anno MDCCCXCVII. In hoc libro, Sunden disserit de tribunicia potestate, quae a Lucio Sulla, dictatoris temporibus, minuta est. Auctor quaestionibus...

Le livre ""De La Condition Des Femmes V1: Chez Les Differens Peuples Tant Anciens Que Modernes (1852)"" de Van Kessenich, Jean A. H. Michiels est une �����tude approfondie de la condition des femmes dans diff�����rentes cultures et �����poques, ������ la...

Liber ""De Forma Et Conditione Siciliae Provinciae Romanae"" a Dareste, Rodolphe editus est, qui anno MDCCCL publicatus est. In hoc libro, auctor Siciliae provinciae Romanorum formam et conditionem describit. Dareste, qui erat historiae professor, multas...

Liber ""De Henrico VI Romanorum Imperatore: Normannorum Regnum Sibi Vindicante"" auctore Toeche, Theodorus anno MDCCCLX editus est. In hoc libro, auctor historiam Henrici VI, Romanorum Imperatoris, et Normannorum Regni, quod sibi vindicavit, describit...

In this book, Jeffrey Bercuson presents the immense, and yet for the most part unrecognized, influences of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on John Rawls, the most important political philosopher of the 20th century. While the...

The concept of "authenticity" enters multicultural politics in three distinct but interrelated senses: as an ideal of individual and group identity that commands recognition by others; as a condition of individuals' autonomy that bestows legitimacy on...

This book examines India's Northeast borderland - strategically positioned at the confluence of South Asia, East and Southeast Asia - from the perspective of international relations. The volume interrogates the geopolitics of region-making...

Voting hides a familiar puzzle. Many people take the trouble to vote even though each voter's prospect of deciding the election is nearly nil. Russians vote even when pervasive electoral fraud virtually eliminates even that slim chance. The right to vote...

This book is the first to establish the nature and causes of violence as key features in the political economy of Australia as an advanced capitalist society.  Australia's neoliberal corporate security state in seen to represent the emergence of a...

In recent decades, what is known as 'the subject' has been problematized by various old and new materialisms and today appears as decentered in and by language, split by the unconscious, deformed by social forces, governed by ideology and is either seen...

This book follows the story of the Second French Republic from its idealistic beginnings in February 1848 to its formal replacement in December 1852 by the Second Empire. Based on original archival research, The Second French Republic gives a detailed...

This book explores the complex ways in which people lived and worked within the confines of Benito Mussolini's regime in Italy, variously embracing, appropriating, accommodating and avoiding the regime's incursions into everyday life. The...

Craig Berry assesses UK economic policy in the wake of the financialcrisis through the lens of the austerity agenda, focusing on monetary policy,economic rebalancing, industrial and regional policy, the labour market,welfare reform and budgetary...

This book presents a posthumous collection of previously uncollected works of political theory written by Whittle Johnston. Johnston believed that both the liberal tradition of political thought and the realist tradition of international thought had...

This book investigates the role of society groups in the making of the Arab Spring and under which conditions they attained their goals. Democracy and recognition of human rights and fundamental freedoms seem to be the main drives of the people...

This book makes a timely contribution to our understanding of the dramatic political changes that have recently affected Scotland and thrown into doubt the country's future position within the United Kingdom. Its focus is on the Labour Party and the loss...

What are the theoretical parameters that produce the category public intellectual? By pondering the conceptual elements that inform the term, this book offers not just a political critique, but a sense of the new challenges its meanings present. This...

This collection examines the relationships between a globalising neoliberal capitalism, a post-GFC environment of recession and austerity, and the moral economies of young people's health and well-being. Contributors explore how in the second decade ...

This book is a study of overlooked themes in Iran's contemporary political and intellectual history. It investigates the way Iranian Muslim intellectuals have discussed politics and democracy. As a history of Iranian Islamism and its transformation to...

This ground-breaking book provides a compelling account of the social sciences in post-war Central and Eastern Europe. The first English-language monograph to analyse the history of sociology in Poland up to the present day, it maps transformations in...

This book aims to restore Marx's original emancipatory idea of socialism, conceived as an association of free individuals centered on working people's self- emancipation after the demise of capitalism. Marxist scholar Paresh Chattopadhyay argues that,...

This book reconstructs the intellectual and social context of several influential proponents of European unity before and after the First World War. Through the lives and works of the well-known promoter of Pan-Europe, Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, and...

Named moral father of the Internet by Wired Magazine and quoted by President Barack Obama in his historic first inaugural address, Thomas Paine is an American revolutionary figure who continues to intrigue and infuriate. New Directions in Thomas Paine...

This book examines the ways in which studies of science intertwined with Cold War politics, in both familiar and less familiar "battlefields" of the Cold War. Taken together, the essays highlight two primary roles for science studies as a new field of...