Political Science - General

Drawing on themes from John MacKenzie's Empires of Nature and the Nature of Empires (1997), this book explores, from Indigenous or Indigenous-influenced perspectives, the power of nature and the attempts by empires (United States, Canada, and Britain) to control it. It also examines contemporary...

History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution is a fabulous history of the Revolution, written in the early 19th century.Author: Mercy Otis WarrenISBN-10: 1533136300ISBN-13: 9781533136305Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/07/2016Pages: 552Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.61lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.12d

The word 'fascism' sometimes appears to have become a catch-all term of abuse, applicable to anyone on the political right, from Hitler to Donald Trump and from Putin to Thatcher. While some argue that it lacks any distinctive conceptual meaning at all, others have...

This book examines mentoring in the communications discipline and using critical communication for effective relationships with students and junior faculty in higher education. Via qualitative and narrative-based research and critical and cultural perspectives, it aims to generate best practices in mentoring as a form...

The Fall of Western Man explains the working of the mind and how once the mind is reduced in its capacity to reason and the hardened mental fortitude of a people is broken, those people can be convinced of anything. The enemies of the...

Marxism and Decolonization in the 21st Century is a ground-breaking work that highlights the resurgence and insurgence of Marxism and decolonization, and the ways in which decolonization and decoloniality are grounded in the contributions of Black Marxism, the Radical Black tradition, and anti-colonial liberation...

Despite growing skepticism about the value of international law and its compatibility with state sovereignty, states should improve and strengthen international law because it makes a critical contribution to an international order characterized by peace and justice. In recent years, international agreements and institutions...

This unique textbook provides an introduction to statistical inference with network data. The authors present a self-contained derivation and mathematical formulation of methods, review examples, and real-world applications, as well as provide data and code in the R environment that can be customised. Inferential...

Organised crowds have always played an important part in the life of peoples, but this part has never been of such moment as at present. The substitution of the unconscious action of crowds for the conscious activity of individuals is one of the principal...

In this short, powerful, and thoroughly documented book, Kirkpatrick Sale, who has been on the cutting edge of American social commentary for fifty years, makes a compelling case for the dangers that this world faces now and the real possibility of the imminent collapse...

Rebel radio: the story of El Salvador's Radio Venceremos describes the courage and sacrifices of the young men and women responsible for running the guerrillas' radio station during the ten-year-long civil war in El SalvadorAuthor: José Ignacio López VigilISBN-10: 0906156882ISBN-13: 9780906156889Publisher: Latin America Bureau...

"Originally published in Social and Economic Studies 43:3 (1994)"--Title page verso.Author: Rupert C. LewisISBN-10: 9768125535ISBN-13: 9789768125538Publisher: University of the West Indies PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/05/2000Pages: 56Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.12d

Auftragstaktik grants commanders at all levels a maximum of freedom of action. The other services also command and control on this bases. In the armed forces of Germany s allies, the beginnings of Auftragstaktik are recognizable. Many allied armed forces have tried to introduce...

Larry Elder believes in the American people's power to overcome almost any circumstance -- if only government would stop telling them that they can't.In this collection of columns, Elder takes on a range of controversial issues -- from the minimum wage to Confederate monuments,...

In the early 1960s, American conservatives seemed to have fallen on hard times. McCarthyism was on the run, and movements on the political left were grabbing headlines. The media lampooned John Birchers's accusations that Dwight Eisenhower was a communist puppet. Mainstream America snickered at...

A dramatic shift in British and French ideas about empire unfolded in the sixty years straddling the turn of the nineteenth century. As Jennifer Pitts shows in A Turn to Empire, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, and Jeremy Bentham were among many at the start...

Mark Blyth argues that economic ideas are powerful political tools as used by domestic groups in order to effect change since whoever defines what the economy is, what is wrong with it, and what would improve it, has a profound political resource in their...

Being concerned with representation, this book is about an idea, a concept, a word. It is primarily a conceptual analysis, not a historical study of the way in which representative government has evolved, nor yet an empirical investigation of the behavior of contemporary representatives...

This work traces the historical processes in thought by which American political leaders slowly edged away from their complete philosophical rejection of a party and hesitantly began to embrace a party system. In the author's words, "The emergence of legitimate party opposition and of...

The key to human nature that Marx found in wealth and Freud in sex, Bertrand Russell finds in power. Power, he argues, is man's ultimate goal, and is, in its many guises, the single most important element in the development of any society. Writting...

The definitive account of Watergate. St. Louis Post-DispatchAuthor: Stanley I. KutlerISBN-10: 0393308278ISBN-13: 9780393308273Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1992Pages: 776Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.96lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.55w x 1.69d

From an award-winning McCarthy scholar comes the first post-Cold War exploration of the anticommunist witch-hunt and its devastating impact. Tracing the way that a network of dedicated anticommunists created blacklists and destroyed organizations, this broadbased inquiry reveals the connections between McCarthyism's disparate elements in...

Gandhi was the creator of a radical style of politics that has proved effective in fighting insidious social divisions within India and elsewhere in the world. How did this new form of politics come about? David Hardiman shows that it was based on a...

Competition in Order and Progress examines the competition in statemaking between criminal enterprises (gangs, militias, and criminal armed groups) and the state. The title builds from Brazil's motto Ordem e Progresso to capture the dynamics of state transition in Brazil's favelas, prisons, and beyond.Author:...

The Collapsing American Family: From Bonding to Bondage exposes the sinister attack on the nuclear family as the primary strategy in globalism's asymmetric warfare on America. The family must be destroyed in order to collapse America from within and impose the Great Reset of...

♥♥♥This book will blow away your preconceptions of the almighty American Empire and its Enterprises. I guarantee it!♥♥♥This book takes its title from the 1980 comedy film "The Gods Must Be Crazy," in which an empty Coca-Cola bottle is dropped from a plane onto...

From Marcus Garvey and Rastafarianism to today's ubiquitous dancehall riddims, a comprehensive and impassioned exploration of reggae. Positive Vibrations tells of how reggae was shaped by, and in turn helped to shape, the politics of Jamaica and beyond, from the rudies of Kingston to...

Devils Walking stands as an important milestone in the ongoing struggle to create justice from truth, and perhaps even reconciliation in a nation that must collectively move in this direction or face an uncertain future."--David Ridgen, Canadian filmmaker and director of award-winning documentary Mississippi...

Sovereignty is the vital organizing principle of modern international law. This book examines the origins of that principle in the legal and political thought of its most influential theorist, Jean Bodin (1529/30-1596). As the author argues in this study, Bodin's most lasting theoretical contribution...

The first political treatise written by a woman. Christine de Pizan's The Book of the Body Politic is the first political treatise written by a woman. It not only advises the prince, but nobles, knights, and common people as well. It promotes the ideals...

John Dewey (October 20, 1859 - June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century....

Perspective and Guidance for a Time of Deep Discord confronts the very real dangers that come with today's extreme social and political polarization. And it examines what will be needed to effectively address what we see. From the book's back cover: "Social and political...

How Compassion can Transform our Politics, Economy, and Society draws together experts across disciplines - ranging from psychology to climate science, philosophy to economics, history to business - to explore the power of compassion to transform politics, our society, and our economy. The book...

A study of issues of race in 19th century America.Author: George M. FredricksonISBN-10: 159740554XISBN-13: 9781597405546Publisher: ACLS History E-Book ProjectLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/07/2008Pages: 360Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

Christopher Hitchens, provocateur and contrarian on the Left, makes the news as often as he reports it, and writes about the most controversial news and current events. Christopher Caldwell is a fresh and objective columnist in the opposite camp. Together, they present the best...

Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education is a 1916 book by John Dewey. Dewey sought to at once synthesize, criticize, and expand upon the democratic (or proto-democratic) educational philosophies of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Plato. He saw Rousseau's philosophy as overemphasizing...

Paine's immensely popular and influential pamphlet Common Sense helped inspire the American colonists. Of Paine John Adams said, "Without the pen of the author of Common Sense, the sword of Washington would have been raised in vain." The Rights of Man" was in part...

There is extensive discussion in current Just War literature about the normative principles which should govern the initiation of war (jus ad bellum) and also the conduct of war (jus in bello), but this is the first book to treat the important and difficult...

In this new edition of Evolution of the Social Contract, Brian Skyrms uses evolutionary game theory to analyze the genesis of social contracts and investigates social phenomena including justice, communication, altruism, and bargaining. Featuring new material on evolution and information transfer, and including recent...

Impossible John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. November 22, 2013 marked the fiftieth anniversary of that assassination. And, in that five-decade period, a controversy raged: did Oswald kill Kennedy? And if so, did he act alone? But there's actually no controversy:...

In June 1990, Indigenous peoples shocked Ecuadorian elites with a powerful uprising that paralyzed the country for a week. Militants insisted that the government address Indigenous demands for land ownership, education, and economic development. This uprising was a milestone in the history of Ecuador's...

Revised to include important new scholarship, James Brewer Stewart's eloquent survey of the abolitionist movement is also a superb analysis of how the antislavery movement reinforced and transformed the dominant features of pre-Civil War America. Revealing the wisdom and na vet of the crusaders'...

Author: Thomas FergusonISBN-10: 0809001705ISBN-13: 9780809001705Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/1987Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65d

"Vine Deloria gathers 11 essays on a variety of topics germane to the present and the future of American Indian policy. The editor's own piece is perhaps the broadest in range, discussing the evolution of federal policy-making. Other contributors deal with such subjects as...

In this major new work, Pierre Bourdieu examines the distinctive forms of power--political, intellectual, bureaucratic, and economic--by means of which contemporary societies are governed. What kinds of competence are claimed by the bureaucrats and technocrats who govern us? And how do those who govern...

Former Nixon and Reagan cabinet member George Shultz offers his views on how to govern more effectively, get our economy back on track, take advantage of new opportunities in the energy field, combat the use of addictive drugs, apply a strategic overview to diplomacy,...

The facts can no longer be ignored. High Treason challenges everything we have been told about the motives behind President Kennedy's murder. There is now convincing evidence that, from the fateful day in Dallas through four decades of speculation, a massive conspiracy ordered JFK's...

This manual outlines practical answers, insights and tips for winning political campaigns.Author: Attorney Charles Jerome WareISBN-10: 1953584659ISBN-13: 9781953584656Publisher: Lime Press LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/29/2020Pages: 98Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.20d

"Machiavelli taught Europe the art of war; it had long been practiced, without being known." VoltaireThe Art of War, one of the few major works of Machiavelli published in his lifetime, is an interesting discussion of how armies should be armed and organized.Excerpt: No...

Experimental political science has changed. In two short decades, it evolved from an emergent method to an accepted method to a primary method. The challenge now is to ensure that experimentalists design sound studies and implement them in ways that illuminate cause and effect....