The Moderate Imagination: The Political Thought of John Updike and the Decline of New Deal Liberalism, Hardcover - Yoav Fromer

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These essential texts present the range of ideas developed by the men and women who made the Irish Revolution, as well as those who opposed it. Thi...

The third volume of Library of America's five-volume edition of Updike's novels features the continuation of the renowned Rabbit saga and two wicke...

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Proposes to return with fresh eyes to the beginning of liberalism and the political philosophy of John Locke. Instead of looking at Lockean liberal...

Reducere. The American labor movement isn't dead. It's just moving from the bargaining table to the streets. In A New American Labor Movement, William Scheue...

American political thought has been shaped by those who fought back against social inequality, economic exclusion, the denial of political represen...

These problems-from the abortion debate to the scope of executive power-remain an indelible feature of American politics.Publisher: Johns Hopkins U...

Thomas Hodgskin is sometimes considered a forerunner of Karl Marx. A closer look at his work reveals a committed advocate of laissez-faire economic...

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The dome of thought is an accessible and lively history of the Victorian pseudoscience of phrenology. It makes extensive use of the popular account...

Taking its title from the "Battle Hymn of the Republic", this work traces one family's profound journey through four generations - and across the s...

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The relationship between technology, philosophy, and politics is both contentious and vital to our understanding of human nature and the ways human...

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DescriptionIn 1937 a group of young Capetonians, socialist intellectuals from the Workers' Party of South Africa, embarked on a project they called...

Reducere. As the Albuquerque Journal's editorial cartoonist for nearly fifty years, John Trever provides insights into New Mexico's unique cartooning environ...

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Through a re-examination of the political thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen, this book offers a reflection on the nature of modern...

Modern liberal political philosophy is closely associated with post-1945 secularism. But Eric Nelson contends that the liberal tradition founded by...

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Richard Whatmore examines the diverse, interconnected relationships between political history, theory, and action. Considering the work of Michel F...

Few social historians had examined the popular religious beliefs of the 1500s at the time Thomas published Religion and the Decline of Magic in 197...

In the wake of populism, Timothy Stacey's book critically reflects on what is missing from the liberal project with the aim of saving liberalism. I...

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This unremittingly entertaining collection of John Crace's lifegiving political sketches will get you through the darkest of days - or failing that...

Reducere. In the historical narrative that prevails today, the New Deal years are positioned between two equally despised Gilded Ages--the first in the late ...

This is the second volume of Judith Shklar's work and brings together essays on a number of themes, including the place of the intellect in the mod...

Reducere. As a part of the New Deal that offered hope during the Great Depression, scores of public art projects were commissioned around the country. Now th...

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The Government of Social Life in Colonial India: Liberalism, Religious Law, and Women's Rights - Rachel Sturman

On the Border is the compelling tale of a football club sited in the most volatile place on Earth. The book explores the radicalisation of Beitar J...

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A political philosophy classic from one of the foremost political thinkers of the twentieth centuryAfter Utopia was Judith Shklar's first book, a h...

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