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Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 164 pages
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Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 142237274X
Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 128 pages
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Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422372715
Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 122 pages
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Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422372731
Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 120 pages
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Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422372723
Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 288 pages
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Category : Electronic
ISBN : 142238182X
Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 136 pages
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Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422372820
Author : Benedict Gummer
Publisher : Random House
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781448162697
Nothing experienced in human history, before or since, eclipses the terror, tragedy and scale of the Black Death, the disease which killed millions of people in Medieval Europe. The Scourging Angel tells the story of Britain immediately before, during and after this catastrophe. Against a backdrop of empty homes, half-built cathedrals and pestilence-saturated cities, we see communities gripped by unimaginable fear, shock and paranoia. By the time it completed its pestilential journey through the British Isles in 1350, the Black Death had left half the population dead. Despite the startling toll of life, physical devastation and sheer human chaos it inflicted, Britain showed an impressive resilience. Amid disaster many found opportunity, and the story of the Black Death is ultimately one of survival.
Author : Emily B. Finley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197642313
A unique reinterpretation of democracy that shows how history's most vocal champions of democracy from Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Jefferson to John Rawls have contributed to a pervasive, anti-democratic ideology, effectively redefining democracy to mean "rule by the elites." The rise of global populism reveals a tension in Western thinking about democracy. Warnings about the "populist threat" to democracy and "authoritarian" populism are now commonplace. However, as Emily B. Finley argues in The Ideology of Democratism, dismissing "populism" as anti-democratic is highly problematic. In effect, such arguments essentially reject the actual popular will in favor of a purely theoretical and abstract "will of the people." She contends that the West has conceptualized democracy-not just its populist doppelgänger-as an ideal that has all of the features of a thoroughgoing political ideology which she labels "democratism." As she shows, this understanding of democracy, which constitutes an entire view of life and politics, has been and remains a powerful influence in America and leading Western European nations and their colonial satellites. Through a careful analysis of several of history's most vocal champions of democracy, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Jefferson, Woodrow Wilson, John Rawls, and American neoconservatives and liberal internationalists, Finley identifies an interpretation of democracy that effectively transforms the meaning of "rule by the people" into nearly its opposite. Making use of democratic language and claiming to speak for the people, many politicians, philosophers, academics, and others advocate a more "complete" and "genuine" form of democracy that in practice has little regard for the actual popular will. A heterodox argument that challenges the prevailing consensus of what democracy is and what it is supposed be, The Ideology of Democratism offers a timely and comprehensive assessment of the features and thrust of this powerful new view of democracy that has enchanted the West.
Author : Richard Kluger
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780375712982
Less than 100 years after its creation as a fragile republic, the United States more than quadrupled its size, making it the world's third largest nation. No other country or sovereign power had ever grown so big so fast or become so rich and so powerful. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Richard Kluger chronicles this epic achievement in a compelling narrative, celebrating the energy, daring, and statecraft behind America's insatiable land hunger while exploring the moral lapses that accompanied it. Comprehensive and balanced, Seizing Destiny is a revelatory, often surprising reexamination of the nation's breathless expansion, dwelling on both great accomplishments and the American people's tendency to confuse opportunistic success with heaven-sent entitlement that came to be called manifest destiny.
Author : James Srodes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781596982222
Historian and biographer James Srodes tells Benjamin Franklin's incredible life story, making full use of the previously neglected Franklin papers to provide the most riveting account yet of the journalist, scientist, polilician, and unlikely adventurer. From London, Paris, Philadelphia to his numerous romantic liaisons, Franklin's life becomes a panorama of dramatic history.
Author : Kai Bird,Martin J. Sherwin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307424730
THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER • "A riveting account of one of history’s most essential and paradoxical figures.”—Christopher Nolan #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this magisterial, acclaimed biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer’s life and times, from his early career to his central role in the Cold War. This is biography and history at its finest, riveting and deeply informative. “A masterful account of Oppenheimer’s rise and fall, set in the context of the turbulent decades of America’s own transformation. It is a tour de force.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review “A work of voluminous scholarship and lucid insight, unifying its multifaceted portrait with a keen grasp of Oppenheimer’s essential nature.... It succeeds in deeply fathoming his most damaging, self-contradictory behavior.” —The New York Times
Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422372944
Author : Raminder Kaur
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000084429
Atomic Mumbai offers an insightful historical and ethnographic account of how nuclear issues are represented in popular culture, print media, films, documentaries, advertising and superhero comics, driven by perceptions of those based in the city of Mumbai, a prime site of nuclear establishments in India since the mid-1940s. Based on long-term fieldwork, and including rare photographs, narratives and extensive interviews, the volume documents urban nuclear imaginaries, along with their terrifying association with genetic mutation and death.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422371379
Author : Bård Nikolas Vik Steen,Olav Njølstad
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429649356
This volume, Nuclear Disarmament, provides a comprehensive overview of nuclear disarmament and a critical assessment of the way forward. Comprising essays by leading scholars on nuclear disarmament, the book highlights arguments in favour and against a world without nuclear weapons (global zero). In doing so, it proposes a new baseline from which an everchanging nuclear arms control and disarmament agenda can be assessed. Numerous paths to nuclear disarmament have been proposed and scrutinized, and with an increasing number of countries signing off on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, it is vital to ask which path is the most likely and realistic to succeed. The chapters here also address the rapid pace of technological, political and climatic developments, in relation to nuclear disarmament, and how they add to the complexity of the issue. Taking care to unite the different tribes in the debate, this book provides a community of dissent at a time when academic tribalism all too often prevents genuine debates from taking place. This book will be of interest to students of nuclear proliferation, arms control, security studies and International Relations.
