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Author : April Carter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135027384

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Authority and Democracy by April Carter Pdf

This book debates the nature and functions of authority: it examines how far our inherited images of authority derive from an aristocratic and traditional order and considers which models of authority are still relevant in a democratic and rationalist society. It discusses the characteristics of the authority relationship, whether political authority differs from other kinds of authority, how authority relates to power and whether authority should be distinguished from the concept of legitimate rule. The latter part of the book explores the relevance or irrelevance of authority in contemporary society. In particular it examines recent libertarian arguments for the rejection of all forms of authority and the special problems of creating and maintaining authority after revolution.

Author : Peter Gidal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317917519

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Materialist Film by Peter Gidal Pdf

A polemical introduction to the avant-garde and experimental in film (including making and viewing), Materialist Film is a highly original, thought-provoking book. Thirty-seven short chapters work through a series of concepts which will enable the reader to deal imaginatively with the contradictory issues produced by experimental film. Each concept is explored in conjunction with specific films by Andy Warhol, Malcolm LeGrice, Lis Rhodes, Jean-Luc Goddard, Rose Lowder, Kurt Kren, and others. Peter Gidal draws on important politico-aesthetic writings, and uses some of his own previously published essays from Undercut, Screen, October, and Millennium Film Journal to undertake this concrete process of working through abstract concepts. Originally published in 1989.

Author : Muhammad Al-Qasimi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000156379

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The Myth of Arab Piracy in the Gulf by Muhammad Al-Qasimi Pdf

The British became the dominant power in the Arab Gulf in the late eighteenth century. The conventional view has justified British imperial expansion in the Gulf region because of the need to supress Arab piracy. This book, first published in 1988, challenges the myth of piracy and argues that its threat was created by the East India Company for commercial reasons. The Company was determined to increase its share of Gulf trade with India at the expense of the native Arab traders, especially the Qawasim of the lower Gulf. However, the Company did not possess the necessary warships and needed to persuade the British Government to commit the Royal Navy to achieve this dominance. Accordingly the East India Company orchestrated a campaign to misrepresent the Qawasim as pirates who threatened all maritime activity in the northern Indian Ocean and adjacent waters. Any misfortune that happened to any ship in the area was attributed to the ‘Joasmee pirates’. This campaign was to lead eventually to the storming of Ras al-Khaimah and the destruction of the Qawasim. Based on extensive use of the Bombay Archives, previously unused by researchers, this book provides a thorough reinterpretation of a vital period in Gulf history. It also illuminates the style and method of the East India Company at a critical period in the expansion of the British Empire.

Author : W. H. Williamson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000156324

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Annals of Crime by W. H. Williamson Pdf

This title, first published in 1930, examines the events of eleven female criminals and the conditions that surrounded their crimes. Annals of Crime explores whether the women mentioned would have committed these crimes if their circumstances had been different. This book will be of interest to students of history, criminology and gender studies.

Author : Ralph Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134980581

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The Future of Literary Theory by Ralph Cohen Pdf

In this book, first published in 1989, twenty-give eminent critics and theorists write about different aspects of literary theory. These essays represent leading research in psychoanalytic criticism, new historicism, Continental theory, feminism, Afro-American studies, philosophy, cybernetics, aesthetics, and other theoretical inflections. The result is a collective statement on the course that lies ahead for criticism in the humanities, and will be of interest to students of literary theory.

Author : Andrew Benjamin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134980376

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Post-Structuralist Classics by Andrew Benjamin Pdf

Modern literary theory is increasingly looking to philosophy for its inspiration. After a wave of structural analysis, the growing influence of deconstruction and hermeneutic readings continues to bear witness to this. This exciting and important collection, first published in 1988, reveals the diversity of approaches that mark the post-structuralist endeavour, and provides a challenge to the conventional practice of classical studies and ancient philosophy. This book will be of interest to students of ancient philosophy, classical studies and literary theory.

Author : Elizabeth Wright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134833375

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Postmodern Brecht by Elizabeth Wright Pdf

In this radical and deliberately controversial re-reading of Brecht, first published in 1989, Elizabeth Wright takes a new view of the playwright, giving us a more ‘Brechtian’ reading than so far achieved and making his work historically relevant here and now. The author discusses in detail Brecht’s principle theories and concepts in the light of poststructuralist theory, and reassess the aesthetics and politics with regard to Marxist critics of his own day. Wright includes a re-reading of Brecht’s early works, which presents them in relation to a postmodern theatre, and gives critical analyses of the work of Pina Bausch, Robert Wilson, and Heiner Müller, who use the techniques of performance theatre, showing how they deconstruct Brecht’s distinction between illusion and reality and point to a postmodern understanding of their dialectical relation.

Author : Annika Bautz,James Gregory
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429952395

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Libraries, Books, and Collectors of Texts, 1600-1900 by Annika Bautz,James Gregory Pdf

This book presents the collectors’ roles as prominently as the collections of books and texts which they assembled. Contributors explore the activities and networks shaping a range of continental and transcontinental European public and private collections during the Renaissance, Enlightenment and modern eras. They study the impact of class, geographical location and specific cultural contexts on the gathering and use of printed and handwritten texts and other printed artefacts. The volume explores the social dimension of book collecting, and considers how practices of collecting developed during these periods of profound cultural, social and political change.

Author : A. J. Christopher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351171519

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The British Empire at its Zenith by A. J. Christopher Pdf

This title, originally published in 1988, examines the network of states and the political and economic systems which bound the British Empire together. This book examines each country and how the empire made its mark in the shape of urban form, public buildings and rural land patterns. An overall assessment of the Imperial heritage is attempted as a pointer to the unity which existed between the many diverse lands for a brief period in their history.

Author : Johanna Turner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351806312

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Cognitive Development and Education by Johanna Turner Pdf

Children think in a different way to adults. They also think differently at different ages. This book, originally published in 1984, studies the growth of those processes by means of which thinking evolves from infancy through childhood and adolescence into adulthood. It covers perception, memory, language and, above all, the development of mental ‘programmes’, or strategies, through which people structure and hence comprehend the information coming to them from their environment. The study of cognitive development has obvious educational implications. Development in the pre-school period, the appropriateness of schooling for levels of cognitive competence, and the significance of ageing are just some of the issues considered.

Author : J. Zvi Namenwirth,Robert Philip Weber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315512150

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Dynamics of Culture by J. Zvi Namenwirth,Robert Philip Weber Pdf

This book, first published in 1987, is a landmark contribution to macrosociology that extends the tradition of Sorokin, Durkheim, Marx, Weber and other founders of the discipline in new and exciting directions. Using their innovative content analysis methodology to examine American and British political documents, the authors show that the long-term dynamics of culture are subject to their own laws and are independent of the actions of 'great men' and other individual actors. This comprehensive volume brings together over two decades of the authors' research on culture indicators. Key findings include the identification of two long-term cultural cycles in the United States and Great Britain: one is related to party realignments, the other to long-term economic fluctuations. In addition, the authors demonstrate how culture provides the themes that political parties use to interpret economic conditions in their appeal for votes. Other results show that organizational cultures move in opposite directions from those in the culture of the larger society. The book also includes detailed discussions of both the methodology used to analyse text content and related metatheoretical issues in the study of cultural dynamics.

Author : Harry S. Broudy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781315532431

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The Uses of Schooling by Harry S. Broudy Pdf

The Uses of Schooling, first published in 1988, proposes a radically different approach to the evaluation of education. Professor Broudy shows that the common criteria of school effectiveness – that is the ability to replicate the end-of-course performance on examinations or to apply such results – clearly demonstrates the ‘uselessness’ of much of the investment made in schooling. This is so because, unless constantly reinforced by repetition the ability to replace test performance is rapidly diminished after formal school ends. This study will be of interest to students of education.

Author : Dominic Manganiello
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317288121

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Joyce's Politics by Dominic Manganiello Pdf

The object of this study, first published in 1980, is to dispel the view that James Joyce had no political views. Although not a political novelist like D. H. Lawrence or Joseph Conrad, political issues and discussions are central to Joyce’s major novels. This title links that political content with Joyce’s own views, and examines the evolution of those views and attitudes. A number of unusual and fascinating sources for Joyce’s thought are uncovered. Joyce’s Politics is thus a thorough review of a neglected aspect of Joyce and his writings, and will be of interest to students of literature.

Author : Ian Aitken
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317929185

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Film and Reform by Ian Aitken Pdf

Best known for his documentaries such as Drifters, North Sea, and Housing Problems, John Grierson was the most important figure in the British documentary film movement and one of the most influential of British film theorists. This major assessment of Grierson and the documentary film movement examines the intellectual and aesthetic influences on his work, focusing on the material he produced in the inter-war years and comparing the idealistic strain of Grierson’s social commentary with other social reformists such as the Next Five Years Group and writers like Orwell and Priestley. Underlining the link between film and reform, the book clarifies the meaning and significance of Grierson’s ideas and the historical role of the documentary film movement. Originally published in 1990.

Author : Liam Hudson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351621052

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Contrary Imaginations by Liam Hudson Pdf