Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 2002 p. Representing perhaps the most celebrated English historian since Gibbon, this collection of a series of F.W. Maitland's (1850-1906) later essays is designed to bring his thought to the attention of political theorists and political scientists, as well as historians. The essays are about the historical origins of the state, and many of...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 2002 p. Representing perhaps the most celebrated English historian since Gibbon, this collection of a series of F.W. Maitland's (1850-1906) later essays is designed to bring his thought to the attention of political theorists and political scientists, as well as historians. The essays are about the historical origins of the state, and many of...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2022. — 347 p. Unsettling the World is the first book-length treatment of Edward Said’s influential cultural criticism from the perspective of a political theorist. Arguing that the generative power of Said’s thought extends well beyond Orientalism, the book explores Said’s writings on the experience of exile, the practice of “contrapuntal”...
Routledge, 2005. — 243 p. — ISBN: 0-203-02104-5. A sweeping intellectual history that will make us rethink postwar politics and culture, When America Was Great profiles the thinkers and writers who crafted a new American liberal tradition in a conservative era — from historians Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and C. Vann Woodward, to economist John Kenneth Galbraith and theologian...
Warszawa: Instytut Historii PAN, Neriton, 2005. — 297 s. Jacques Bainville (1879-1936) wywarł istotny wpływ na część elit rządzących i społeczeństwo francuskie. Jego poglądy były czasami kontrowersyjne, dowodził np. że słabość Francji jest pochodną upadku rządów monarchicznych. Ale za to bezbłędnie ocenił rządy narodowo-socjalistyczne jako bardzo agresywne i przewidział ich...
Routledge, 1997. — 295 p. This edition has been revised and extended to include eleven new entries on Berlin, Chomsky, Derrida, Rorty, and many others. Key features of this unique guide include: 170 entries from 96 contributors, many of whom are leading authorities in their field. Alphabetically arranged entries which include brief biographies, outlines of major ideas, and...
I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd., 2009. — xii, 253 p. — (International Library of Cultural Studies, 4). — ISBN: 9781845118075. Whether as a fighter in the Spanish Civil War, an advocate of patriotic Socialism, or a left-wing opponent of the Soviet Union, George Orwell was the ultimate outsider in politics - insecure, scornful of orthodoxies, and cussedly independent. Best known today as...
London: Routledge, 1999. — 304 p. — ISBN-10 0415189764; ISBN-13 978-0415189767. Frantz Fanon was a fearless critic of colonialism and a key figure in Algeria's struggle for independence. Frantz Fanon: Critical Perspectives addresses Fanon's extraordinary, often controversial writings, and examines how his work can shed light on contemporary issues in cultural politics....
Cahiers d’Etude et de Recherche. — 1990. — № 14. — 46 p. Préface Paul Le Blanc Lénine et R. Luxembug sur l’organisation révolutionnaire Programme, organisation, révolution. Lénine et les bolcheviks (1905–1914)
New York: Berghahn Books, 2018. — 360 p. — ISBN10: 1785338188; ISBN13: 978-1785338182 Bringing together leading scholars from a range of nations, Rethinking Antifascism provides a fascinating exploration of one of the most vibrant sub-disciplines within recent historiography. Through case studies that exemplify the field's breadth and sophistication, it examines antifascism in...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 348 p. Antifascism has received little attention compared to its enemy. No historian or social scientist has previously attempted to define its nature and history - yet antifascism became perhaps the most powerful ideology of the twentieth century. Michael Seidman fills this gap by providing the first comprehensive study of antifascisms in...
Descartes et Cie, 1997. — 96 p. — (Essais). Pourquoi un tel engouement des médias pour le Conseil constitutionnel ? Cette austère juridiction a acquis, pendant les neuf ans de la présidence de Robert Badinter, une solide renommée et une incontestable notoriété. Peut-on de ce fait parler de "Conseil Badinter", comme on évoque la "Cour Marshall" ou la "Cour Warren", aux...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 0300126026; ISBN13: 978-0300126020. In the wake of the monstrous projects of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and others in the twentieth century, the idea of utopia has been discredited. Yet, historian Jay Winter suggests, alongside the “major utopians” who murdered millions in their attempts to transform the world were disparate...
Durham/London: Duke University Press, 1991. — 1125 p. In a work of encyclopedic scope, International Trotskyism, 1929-1985 is sure to become the definitive reference work on a movement that has had a significant impact on the political culture of countries in every part of the world for more than half a century. Renowned scholar Robert J. Alexander has amassed, from disparate...
Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2006. — 1080 p. Herbert Hoover's "magnum opus"—at last published nearly fifty years after its completion — offers a revisionist reexamination of World War II and its cold war aftermath and a sweeping indictment of the "lost statesmanship" of Franklin Roosevelt. Hoover offers his frank evaluation of Roosevelt's foreign policies before Pearl...
Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2006. — 660 p. First published in 1976, and revised in 1996, George H. Nash’s celebrated history of the postwar conservative intellectual movement has become the unquestioned standard in the field. This new edition, published in commemoration of the volume’s thirtieth anniversary, includes a new preface by Nash and will continue to instruct...
Bobbs-Merrill Co, 1970. — 612 p. If America has been an unsympathetic environment for conservatism, conservatism has, nevertheless, demonstrated an extraordinary tenacity in politics, literature, law, religion, economics, and social thought. Conservatism forms a dissent within the liberal tradition, and also deserves a hearing from any serious student of American history....
Regnery Publishing, 1995. — 421 p. Threading its way through some of the most significant events in modern american history and grappling with issues raised by the FDR legacy, William F. Buckley’s first novel without Blackford Oakes is “a moral thriller, a story of human frailty, testing, and redemption of the spirit” (Baltimore Sun) that “aspires to genuine greatness”
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. — 288 p. — (Classical Presences). — ISBN: 0-19-927725-7. Athens in Paris explores the ways in which the writings of the ancient Greeks played a decisive part in shaping the intellectual projects of structuralism and post-structuralism — arguably the most significant currents of thought of the post-war era. Miriam Leonard argues...
The MIT Press. 2007. 416 p. ISBN10: 0262026244 "People are dangerous. If they're able to involve themselves in issues that matter, they may change the distribution of power, to the detriment of those who are rich and privileged." -Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky has been praised by the likes of Bono and Hugo Chávez and attacked by the likes of Tom Wolfe and Alan Dershowitz....
The Chicago School of Political Science, which emerged at the University of Chicago in the 1920s and 1930s, is widely known for its reconception of the study of politics as a scientific endeavor on the model of the natural sciences. Less attention has been devoted to the genesis of the school itself. In this article, we examine the scientific vision, faculty, curriculum, and...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 754 p. This major work of academic reference provides a comprehensive overview of the development of political thought from the late nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century. Written by a distinguished team of international contributors, this Cambridge History covers the rise of the welfare state and subsequent reactions to it, the...