Modern State, Paperback

"By what cunning perversion of logic and history has the modern capitalist State persuaded us that it is the only possible form of polity? Why do w...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Nada MoumtazIllustration(s): 2 tablesNumber of pages: 304Collection: Islamic HumanitiesPublicat...

Examining the structure, politics and historic development of taxation in several countries, this book compares three quite different political dem...

DescriptionHow did states come to monopolize control over migration? What do the processes that produced this monopoly tell us about the modern sta...

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Illustrates how Oxford scholar Robert Burton used the resources available to a seventeenth century academic: genres and languages, as well as acade...

Reducere. The Awakening of Modern Japanese Fiction is the first book to treat the literary practices of certain major modern Japanese writers as Buddhist pra...

Reducere. Breathing and its rhythms--liminal, syncopal, and usually inconspicuous--have become a core poetic compositional principle in modern literature. Ex...

Reducere. Universally and repeatedly praised ever since it first appeared in 1983, Modern Baptists is the book that launched novelist James Wilcox's career a...

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DescriptionOver fifty years ago sociologist T. H. Marshall first opened the modern debate about the evolution of full citizenship in modern nation-...

The long and spectacular reign of Louis XIV of France is typically described in overwhelmingly visual terms. In this book, Nicholas Hammond takes a...

Publisher: Pennsylvania State University PressNumber of pages: 350Collection: Medieval & Renaissance Literary StudiesPublication date: 2021Dimensio...

Publisher: Ohio State University PressAuthor(s): Gary JohnsonNumber of pages: 252Collection: Theory Interpretation NarrativPublication date: 2020Di...

Examines two anonymous manuscripts of magic produced in Elizabethan England: the Antiphoner Notebook and the Boxgrove Manual. Explores how scribes ...

Explores the life, career, and intellectual debates of art historian Meyer Schapiro, who worked at the nexus of artistic and intellectual practice ...

Previous edition: The Italian Wars, 1494-1559: War, State and Society in Early Modern Europe, by M. Mallett and Christine Shaw.

Lumbering State, Restless Society offers a comprehensive and compelling understanding of modern Egypt. Nathan J. Brown, Shimaa Hatab, and Amr Adly ...

DescriptionIn Secular Translations, the anthropologist Talal Asad reflects on his lifelong engagement with secularism and its contradictions. He dr...

From 1940 to 1970, mid-Michigan had an extensive legacy of modernist architecture. While this book explores buildings by renowned architects such a...

Reducere. DescriptionReviews modern 'synthetic terror' events mainly in Europe and mainly in the 21st century. With color illustrations It argues that Muslim...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 308Collection: Routledge/BIPS Persian Studies SeriesPublication date: 2007Dimensions: 157 x 234 x 2...

Reducere. In Global Origins of the Modern Self, from Montaigne to Suzuki, Avram Alpert contends that scholars have yet to fully grasp the constitutive force ...

This book defends the fundamental place of the marital family in modern liberal societies. While applauding modern sexual freedoms, John Witte, Jr ...

Reducere. Summarizes Grof's experiences and observations from more than forty years of research into non-ordinary states of consciousness. This accessible an...

Presents a detailed, non-partisan account of the demise of the Lamaist state. This book examines what happened and why. It balances the traditional...

Reducere. "This path-breaking book brilliantly explains the explosive growth of Florida from 2.7 million inhabitants in 1950 to 15.9 million in 2000. It focu...

Reducere. Newly updated with chapter on 1918 Spanish flu and 2020 Coronavirus. In today's world conspiracy theories abound. What is the actual history of fal...

Reducere. C. Vann Woodward's The Burden of Southern History remains one of the essential history texts of our time. In it Woodward brilliantly addresses the ...

Philip Thai chronicles the vicissitudes of smuggling in modern China to demonstrate how defiance helped the state redefine its power. China's War o...

Reducere. The nineteenth century saw the emergence both of history as an independent scientific discipline and of national history as a means to legitimize t...

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw many ambitious European rulers develop permanent armies and navies. Jan Glete examines this military ch...