When The State Trembled

Author : Reinhold Kramer,Tom Mitchell
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442660229

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When the State Trembled by Reinhold Kramer,Tom Mitchell Pdf

The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, which involved approximately 30,000 workers, is Canada's best-known strike. When the State Trembled recovers the hitherto untold story of the Citizens' Committee of 1000, formed by Winnipeg's business elite in order to crush the revolt and sustain the status quo. This account, by the authors of the award-winning Walk Towards the Gallows, reveals that the Citizens drew upon and extended a wide repertoire of anti-labour tactics to undermine working-class unity, battle for the hearts and minds of the middle class, and stigmatize the general strike as a criminal action. Newly discovered correspondence between leading Citizen lawyer A.J. Andrews and Acting Minister of Justice Arthur Meighen illuminates the strategizing and cooperation that took place between the state and the Citizens. While the strike's break was a crushing defeat for the labour movement, the later prosecution of its leaders on charges of sedition reveals abiding fears of radicalism and continuing struggles between capital and labour on the terrain of politics and law.

Author : Associate Professor of English Reinhold Kramer,Tom Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 1442690399

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When the State Trembled by Associate Professor of English Reinhold Kramer,Tom Mitchell Pdf

When the State Trembled recovers the hitherto untold story of the Citizens' Committee of 1000, formed by Winnipeg's business elite in order to crush the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919.

Author : Alan Bowker
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459722828

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A Time Such as There Never Was Before by Alan Bowker Pdf

Ottawa Book Award 2015 — Shortlisted Between 1918 and 1921 a great storm blew through Canada and raised the expectations of a new world in which all things would be possible.| The years after World War I were among the most tumultuous in Canadian history: a period of unremitting change, drama, and conflict. They were, in the words of Stephen Leacock, “a time such as there never was before.” The war had been a great crusade, promising a world made new. But it had cost Canada sixty thousand dead and many more wounded, and it had widened the many fault lines in a young, diverse country. In a nation struggling to define itself and its place in the world, labour, farmers, businessmen, churches, social reformers, and minorities had extravagant hopes, irrational fears, and contradictory demands. What had this sacrifice achieved? Whose hopes would be realized and whose dreams would end in disillusionment? Which changes would prove permanent and which would be transitory? A Time Such As There Never Was Before describes how this exciting period laid the foundation of the Canada we know today.

Author : Laura Engelstein
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801459450

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Slavophile Empire by Laura Engelstein Pdf

Twentieth-century Russia, in all its political incarnations, lacked the basic features of the Western liberal model: the rule of law, civil society, and an uncensored public sphere. In Slavophile Empire, the leading historian Laura Engelstein pays particular attention to the Slavophiles and their heirs, whose aversion to the secular individualism of the West and embrace of an idealized version of the native past established a pattern of thinking that had an enduring impact on Russian political life. Imperial Russia did not lack for partisans of Western-style liberalism, but they were outnumbered, to the right and to the left, by those who favored illiberal options. In the book's rigorously argued chapters, Engelstein asks how Russia's identity as a cultural nation at the core of an imperial state came to be defined in terms of this antiliberal consensus. She examines debates on religion and secularism, on the role of culture and the law under a traditional regime presiding over a modernizing society, on the status of the empire's ethnic peripheries, and on the spirit needed to mobilize a multinational empire in times of war. These debates, she argues, did not predetermine the kind of system that emerged after 1917, but they foreshadowed elements of a political culture that are still in evidence today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11456150

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The Century Dictionary by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert W. Cox,Michael G. Schechter
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415252904

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The Political Economy of a Plural World by Robert W. Cox,Michael G. Schechter Pdf

This book addresses such core issues as global civil society, power and knowledge, the covert world, multilateralism, and civilizations and world order. It is essential reading for all students and academics in the field.

Author : Carlos Nelson Coutinho
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004228665

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Gramsci's Political Thought by Carlos Nelson Coutinho Pdf

Coutinho offers an analysis of the evolution of the political thought of Antonio Gramsci. Focusing on central concepts of the 'Prison Notebooks' and relating them to the history of modern political ideas, this book also demonstrates that his ideas continue to be relevant resources for understanding the present controversies.

Author : Simone Chambers,Will Kymlicka
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691220130

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Alternative Conceptions of Civil Society by Simone Chambers,Will Kymlicka Pdf

The idea of civil society has long been central to the Western liberal-democratic tradition, where it has been seen as a crucial site for the development and pursuit of basic liberal values such as individual freedom, social pluralism, and democratic citizenship. This book considers how a host of other ethical traditions define civil society. Unlike most studies of the subject, which focus on a particular region or tradition, it considers a range of ethical traditions rarely addressed in one volume: libertarianism, critical theory, feminism, liberal egalitarianism, natural law, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Confucianism. It considers the extent to which these traditions agree or disagree on how to define civil society's limits and how to evaluate its benefits and harms. A variety of distinguished advocates and interpreters of these traditions present in-depth explorations of how these various traditions think of ethical pluralism within societies, asking how a society should respond to diversity among its members. Together they produce a work rich with original insights on a wide range of subjects about which little has been written to date. An excellent starting point for a comparative ethics of civil society, this book concludes that while the concept of civil society originated in the liberal tradition, it is quickly becoming an important focus for a truly cross-cultural dialogue. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Michael Banner, Hasan Hanafi, Loren E. Lomasky, Richard Madsen, Michael A. Mosher, Michael Pakaluk, Anne Philips, Adam B. Seligman, Suzanne Last Stone, and Michael Walzer.

Author : James Stormonth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1314 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BML:37001103888140

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A Dictionary of the English Language Pronouncing, Etymological, and Explanatory ... by James Stormonth Pdf

Author : William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin Eli Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Atlases
ISBN : UOM:39015011269779

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The Century Dictionary: The Century dictionary by William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin Eli Smith Pdf

Author : Philip Cunliffe
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780228002406

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The New Twenty Years' Crisis by Philip Cunliffe Pdf

The liberal order is decaying. Will it survive, and if not, what will replace it? On the eightieth anniversary of the publication of E.H. Carr's The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939, Philip Cunliffe revisits this classic text, juxtaposing its claims with contemporary debates on the rise and fall of the liberal international order. The New Twenty Years' Crisis reveals that the liberal international order experienced a twenty-year cycle of decline from 1999 to 2019. In contrast to claims that the order has been undermined by authoritarian challengers, Cunliffe argues that the primary drivers of the crisis are internal. He shows that the heavily ideological international relations theory that has developed since the end of the Cold War is clouded by utopianism, replacing analysis with aspiration and expressing the interests of power rather than explaining its functioning. As a result, a growing tendency to discount political alternatives has made us less able to adapt to political change. In search of a solution, this book argues that breaking through the current impasse will require not only dissolving the new forms of utopianism, but also pushing past the fear that the twenty-first century will repeat the mistakes of the twentieth. Only then can we finally escape the twenty years' crisis. By reflecting on Carr's foundational work, The New Twenty Years' Crisis offers an opportunity to take stock of the current state of international order and international relations theory.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : NYPL:33433000967574

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The Columbian Cyclopedia by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin Eli Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Atlases
ISBN : UVA:X030732055

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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary by William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin Eli Smith Pdf

Author : Bruce B. Lawrence,Aisha Karim
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822390169

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On Violence by Bruce B. Lawrence,Aisha Karim Pdf

This anthology brings together classic perspectives on violence, putting into productive conversation the thought of well-known theorists and activists, including Hannah Arendt, Karl Marx, G. W. F. Hegel, Osama bin Laden, Sigmund Freud, Frantz Fanon, Thomas Hobbes, and Pierre Bourdieu. The volume proceeds from the editors’ contention that violence is always historically contingent; it must be contextualized to be understood. They argue that violence is a process rather than a discrete product. It is intrinsic to the human condition, an inescapable fact of life that can be channeled and reckoned with but never completely suppressed. Above all, they seek to illuminate the relationship between action and knowledge about violence, and to examine how one might speak about violence without replicating or perpetuating it. On Violence is divided into five sections. Underscoring the connection between violence and economic world orders, the first section explores the dialectical relationship between domination and subordination. The second section brings together pieces by political actors who spoke about the tension between violence and nonviolence—Gandhi, Hitler, and Malcolm X—and by critics who have commented on that tension. The third grouping examines institutional faces of violence—familial, legal, and religious—while the fourth reflects on state violence. With a focus on issues of representation, the final section includes pieces on the relationship between violence and art, stories, and the media. The editors’ introduction to each section highlights the significant theoretical points raised and the interconnections between the essays. Brief introductions to individual selections provide information about the authors and their particular contributions to theories of violence. With selections by: Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Osama bin Laden, Pierre Bourdieu, André Breton, James Cone, Robert M. Cover, Gilles Deleuze, Friedrich Engels, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, Mohandas Gandhi, René Girard, Linda Gordon, Antonio Gramsci, Félix Guattari, G. W. F. Hegel, Adolf Hitler, Thomas Hobbes, Bruce B. Lawrence, Elliott Leyton, Catharine MacKinnon, Malcolm X, Dorothy Martin, Karl Marx, Chandra Muzaffar, James C. Scott, Kristine Stiles, Michael Taussig, Leon Trotsky, Simone Weil, Sharon Welch, Raymond Williams

Author : John Protevi
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0300116055

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A Dictionary of Continental Philosophy by John Protevi Pdf

A comprehensive reference work of notoriously difficult concepts and themes in continental philosophy With over 450 definitions and articles by an international team of specialists, this comprehensive dictionary covers the thinkers, topics, and technical terms associated with the many intersecting fields known as continental philosophy. Special care has been taken to explain complex ideas, methods, and figures. Entries strive for clarity and concision, offering helpful definitions and sober, reliable accounts of key concepts. Professionals, students, and general readers alike will find the dictionary an invaluable reference tool and a treasured addition to the library shelf. Key features include: - in-depth entries on major figures and topics - over 190 shorter articles on other figures and topics - over 250 items on technical terms used by continental thinkers, from "abjection" (Kristeva) to "worldhood" (Heidegger) - coverage of related subjects that use continental terms and methods - extensive cross-referencing, allowing readers to relate and pursue ideas in depth