Empire Republic Democracy

Author : The Choices Program - Brown University Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1601231806

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Empire, Republic, Democracy by The Choices Program - Brown University Staff Pdf

Turkey is found at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Its largest city, Istanbul, once known as Constantinople and Byzantium, was previously the capital of the Roman, Byzantine, Latin, and Ottoman Empires. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk¿s efforts to create a modern, unified, and secular state out of the remnants of the Ottoman Empire is one of the most remarkable stories of the twentieth century. While Atatürk¿s legacy still looms large, there are new forces at play today that are shaping Turkey and its relationship to the world.Empire, Republic, Democracy: Turkey¿s Past and Future traces the final years of the Ottoman Empire, the struggle for independence, and Turkish resistance against European imperialism. Students explore the birth of the Turkish Republic, the emergence of a multiparty democracy, the military coups of the twentieth century, and the Kurdish conflict. The readings conclude by examining current issues in Turkey, including economic development, religion and secularism, human rights, authoritarianism, and foreign affairs. Students explore recent developments, such as the Syrian Civil War, the emergence of ISIS, the global refugee crisis, and the attempted military coup of 2016. In a culminating simulation, students grapple with the questions and challenges facing people in Turkey today.This title is one in a continuing series from the Choices Program available at www.choices.edu.

Author : Taner Akçam
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848136779

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From Empire to Republic by Taner Akçam Pdf

Taner Akçam is one of the first Turkish academics to acknowledge and discuss openly the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman-Turkish government in 1915. This book discusses western political policies towards the region generally, and represents the first serious scholarly attempt to understand the Genocide from a perpetrator rather than victim perspective, and to contextualize those events within Turkey's political history. By refusing to acknowledge the fact of genocide, successive Turkish governments not only perpetuate massive historical injustice, but also pose a fundamental obstacle to Turkey's democratization today.

Author : Patrick J. Buchanan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781621571001

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A Republic, Not an Empire by Patrick J. Buchanan Pdf

All but predicting the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center, Buchanan examines and critiques America's recent foreign policy and argues for new policies that consider America's interests first.

Author : Kurt A. Raaflaub,Mark Toher,Glen Warren Bowersock
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520084476

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Between Republic and Empire by Kurt A. Raaflaub,Mark Toher,Glen Warren Bowersock Pdf

Representing five major areas of Augustan scholarship—historiography, poetry, art, religion, and politics—the nineteen contributors to this volume bring us closer to a balanced, up-to-date account of Augustus and his principate.

Author : Dean Hammer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444336016

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A Companion to Greek Democracy and the Roman Republic by Dean Hammer Pdf

A Companion to Greek Democracy and the Roman Republic offers a comparative approach to examining ancient Greek and Roman participatory communities. Explores various aspects of participatory communities through pairs of chapters—one Greek, one Roman—to highlight comparisons between cultures Examines the types of relationships that sustained participatory communities, the challenges they faced, and how they responded Sheds new light on participatory contexts using diverse methodological approaches Brings an international array of scholars into dialogue with each other

Author : Peter Gardella
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190609405

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Innocent Ecstasy by Peter Gardella Pdf

Though they disagree on virtually everything else, evangelicals and gays, Catholics and agnostics all agree that sex should be innocent and ecstatic. For most of Western history people have not had such expectations. Innocent Ecstasy shows how Christianity led Americans to hope for so much from sex. The book explains how the sexual revolution could have occurred in a nation so deeply imbued with Christian ethical values. Tracing our strange journey from the hands of Jonathan Edward's angry Puritan God to the loving embrace of Marabel Morgan's Total Woman, Gardella draws his surprising evidence from widely disparate sources, ranging from Catholic confessionals to methodist revival meetings, from evangelical romances to The Song of Bernadette. He reveals the sexual messages of mainstream Protestant theology and the religious aspirations of medical texts found at the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research. He sheds new light on such well-known figures as Henry Adams, Margaret Sanger, Aimee Semple McPherson, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and introduces us to such fascinating, lesser-known characters as Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and Sylvester Graham, inventors of corn flakes and Graham crackers, who devised their products as anti-aphrodisiacs. While detailing the development of moral obligations to pursue sexual pleasure and to follow certain patterns of sexual practice, Gardella incidentally provides one of the few books to bring together the liberal Protestant, Roman Catholic, and evangelical perspectives on any aspect of American culture. Gardella attributes the American ethic of sexual pleasure to the eagerness of Americans to overcome original sin. This led to a quest for perfection, or complete freedom from guilt, combined with a quest for ecstatic experience. The result, he maintains, is an attitude that looks to sex for what was once expected from religion. In this new edition, a new conclusion explores how popular music, gay liberation, and recovery from sexual abuse have substantially expanded innocent ecstasy during the past thirty years while continuing the Christian themes of redemption and mission. A new afterword deals with contemporary developments in popular culture and offers thoughts about the future

Author : James Petras
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780997287066

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The End of the Republic and the Delusion of Empire by James Petras Pdf

Are we approaching “peak America”, where the Republic has failed, and the Empire which put paid to it cannot be achieved?Seasoned political analyst James Petras addresses in broad brush the four major upheavals that loom:1) For the first time, the goal of socialism has been raised in the presidential primaries, backed by tens of millions of voters. The likely Republican candidate leads a mass right wing revolt which opposes globalization, capital flight and the free entry of immigrant labor. The US presidential elections are everything abnormal, with both major party candidates arousing popular revulsion. Not since the New Deal, nearly a century ago, have class relations come into sharper confrontation.2) Not since World War II have the US and Russia drawn closer to the possibility of mutual annihilation through nuclear war due to US empire building. The Presidency, in pursuit of a global legacy, draws on the support of the extremist mainstream media, prestigious Harvard mandarins of war, and military factions to pursue global hegemony, even as rebellious working peoples resist, and Russian and Chinese adversaries rearm and advance.3) Popular movements in France, Spain, South Africa, Argentina and Brazil, call for popular revolutions. Right wing nationalist parties are rising in Europe. Though the traditional center-left parties have been ousted or co-opted by elites, under the duress of capitalist wars and austerity, mass electoral upheavals, general strikes, and armed resistance openly challenge the empire in all its bastions.4) Who rules America and who sets the military agenda in the most contentious regions of the Middle East is in open dispute. A neoconservative domestic policy elite reflecting Zionist influence has gained ascendancy under dubious claims of meritocratic credentials. Their economic policies have plunged the country into repeated crises, systematic swindles and spiraling inequalities, while their foreign policy has led to prolonged, losing wars resulting in disastrous human and financial losses. The political and economic power of the Zionist configuration in America has severely repressed critical debate and political action seeking to challenge its dominance.

Author : Anatol Lieven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199660254

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America Right Or Wrong by Anatol Lieven Pdf

This examination of the American national character provides a sobering look at the course foreign policy has taken since 9/11, revealing how the combination of two contradictory brands of nationalism have undermined American security and the war against terrorism.--Publisher's description.

Author : Adrian Brisku,Timothy K. Blauvelt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000372687

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The Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic of 1918 by Adrian Brisku,Timothy K. Blauvelt Pdf

The Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic (TDFR) was a unique, bottom-up, and a fleeting display of political unity and federalism among the main Armenian, Azerbaijani and Georgian political factions between 22 April 1918, when it declared its independence, and 26 May 1918, when it was dissolved and replaced by the three nation-states of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Focusing on a crucial but poorly understood moment in the modern history of the Caucasus at the end of the First World War, this book offers a systematic, contextually-rich, and multi-perspectival—Armenian, Azerbaijani, Georgian, Ottoman, German, British, American, Italian, Bolshevik, Ukrainian and North Caucasian—account of the TDFR, drawing on contributions (with the new material from archives in Tbilisi, Grozny, Yerevan, Baku, Istanbul, Berlin, London, Washington D.C.) by a new generation of historians and scholars working on the region. The book argues that despite its month-long existence in this geopolitically volatile region, the TDFR, with and its federative nature and the various discussions about federalism and federation that it provoked, continued to have an appeal for Georgians, Azerbaijanis, Armenians as well as for the Great Powers well beyond its dissolution. Moreover, the experience of the TDFR reifies federalism as a key political concept in the modern history of the Caucasus. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Caucasus Survey.

Author : A. E. Duchesne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCAL:B4499050

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Democracy and Empire by A. E. Duchesne Pdf

Author : Anthony Kaldellis
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674365407

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The Byzantine Republic by Anthony Kaldellis Pdf

Scholars have long claimed that the Eastern Roman Empire, a Christian theocracy, bore little resemblance to ancient Rome. Here, Anthony Kaldellis reconnects Byzantium to its Roman roots, arguing that it was essentially a republic, with power exercised on behalf of, and sometimes by, Greek-speaking citizens who considered themselves fully Roman.

Author : Simon Reid-Henry
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473670587

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Empire of Democracy by Simon Reid-Henry Pdf

'A dense narrative and a wealth of examples' Literary Review 'Reid-Henry narrates this story with elegance and gusto' Washington Post '[Reid-Henry] conveys an important message: Individual political action must become accountable to society's interests' Kirkus 'Reid-Henry's scholarship is impressive, gathering a wide range of historical anecdotes and referencing a diverse set of thinkers' Publishers Weekly The first panoramic history of the Western world from the 1970s to the present day: Empire of Democracy is the story for those asking how we got to where we are. In this epic narrative of the events that have shaped our own times, Simon Reid-Henry shows how liberal democracy, and Western history with it, was profoundly re-imagined when the postwar Golden Age ended. As the institutions of liberal rule were reinvented, a new generation of politicians emerged: Thatcher, Reagan, Mitterrand, Kohl. The late twentieth-century heyday they oversaw carried the Western democracies triumphantly to victory in the C old War and into the economic boom of the 1990s. But equally it led them into the fiasco of Iraq, to the high drama of the financial crisis in 2007/8, and ultimately to the anti-liberal surge of our own times. The present crisis of liberalism enjoins us to revisit these as yet unscripted decades. The era we have all been living through is closing out, democracy is turning on its axis once again. As this panoramic history poignantly reminds us, the choices we make going forward require us first to come to terms with where we have been.

Author : Gerald White Johnson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN : 0871405423

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The Imperial Republic by Gerald White Johnson Pdf

Will the United States of America go the way of Rome, Byzantium, and Egypt--those empires which collapsed and are known to us only through the history books?

Author : Karl Frederick Geiser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Democracy
ISBN : NYPL:33433075929947

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Democracy Versus Autocracy by Karl Frederick Geiser Pdf

Author : A. E. Duchesne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : MINN:31951001872230G

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Democracy and Empire by A. E. Duchesne Pdf