The Politics of Collective Violence, Paperback - Charles Tilly

Reducere. Are there any commonalities between such phenomena as soccer hooliganism, sabotage by peasants of landlords' property, road rage, and even the even...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Winner, 2014 Lambda Literary Award in LGBT StudiesSince the 1970s, a key goal of lesbian and gay activists has been protection against street viole...

DescriptionEvidence of Being opens on a grim scene: Washington DC's gay black community in the 1980s, ravaged by AIDS, the crack epidemic, and a se...

Reducere. Charles Tilly's Democracy identifies the general processes causing democratization and de-democratization at a national level across the world over...

Reducere. DescriptionRevolutions, social movements, religious and ethnic conflict, nationalism and civil rights, and transnational movements: these forms of ...

Britain faces huge challenges: inequality, public services under constant pressure, climate change - and in the long term, the impacts of automatio...

Social Movements 1768-2018 provides the most comprehensive historical account of the birth and spread of social movements. Renowned social scientis...

Reducere. In nineteenth-century England, sodomy was punishable by death; even an accusation could damage a man's reputation for life. The last executions for...

DescriptionCharles Tilly, in this eloquent manifesto, presents a powerful new approach to the study of persistent social inequality. How, he asks, ...

The semiotic systems of wars are central to the discussion of the contributions within this volume, which highlight the interrelationship of semiot...

Reducere. Description: Man's freedom--God's omnipotence: how can they be reconciled? That question is central to this penetrating study of political action a...

An account of the evolution of European states. It shows how interactions between the wielders of power on the one hand and the manipulators of cap...

DescriptionIndividual decision making can often be wrong due to misinformation, impulses, or biases. Collective decision making, on the other hand,...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Adam B. (Permanent Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Politics and International Relations, Permane...

Reducere. Turkey has gone through significant transformations over the last century--from the Ottoman Empire and Young Turk era to the Republic of today--but...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Douglas MullikenIllustration(s): 29 bw illusNumber of pages: 264Collection: World CinemaPublication ...

From the National Book Award finalist and "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune)--a timely and unsettling novel about the people drawn ...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Paige SweetNumber of pages: 340Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 230 x 23Cover type: Pape...

A classic work which surveys the length and breadth of English legal development and shows how punishment and politics have always been intertwined...

A vital collection bringing together Black Lives Matter and COVID-19 from the acclaimed political and literary magazine Boston Review. From the COV...

Written in both autoethnographical and narrative form, The Politics of Exile offers unique insight into the complex encounter of researcher with re...

The Rule of Moderation: Violence, Religion and the Politics of Restraint in Early Modern England - Ethan H. Shagan

Explores the historical, philosophical, and intellectual development of global liberalism since the nineteenth century in the context of the deploy...

Reducere. The Green Revolution has been heralded as a political and technological achievement-unprecedented in human history. Yet in the decades that have fo...

Explores the different facets of how austerity in Britain is a form of institutional violence

Reducere. The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and...

Ball's poems of menace and horror promise to make him the Stephen King of verse.Publisher: Coach House BooksAuthor(s): Jonathan BallNumber of pages...

This political analysis of Harry Potter uses the beloved wizarding world to introduce readers to the equally murky and intimidating world of politi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Hannah ArendtA collection of studies in which Arendt, from the standpoint of a political philosopher, views the crises of t...

Peru is classified as one of the deadliest countries in the world for environmental defenders, where activists face many forms of violence. Through...

Reducere. In February 1971, racial tension surrounding school desegregation in Wilmington, North Carolina, culminated in four days of violence and skirmishes...

Far from creating stability, argues Andrew Whitworth, the regulatory impulse of policy-makers since the financial crisis has inevitably led to grea...

"A landmark study in the struggle to contain climate change, the greatest challenge of our era. I urge everyone to read it." Bill Clinton, 42nd Pre...

Decolonising International Law: Development, Economic Growth and the Politics of Universality - Sundhya Pahuja

This book offers a unique understanding of how researchers' linguistic resources, and the languages they use, are politically and structurally cons...

This book offers a systematic exposition of Aristotle's legal thought. It argues that Aristotle's seemingly dispersed statements on legislation and...

Reducere. In Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human Joseph Pugliese examines the concept of the biopolitical through a nonanthropocentric lens, arguing that more...

Reducere. By analytically decoupling war and violence, this book explores the causes and dynamics of violence in civil war. Against the prevailing view that ...

Publisher: Fernwood Publishing Co LtdNumber of pages: 240Collection: Labour in CanadaPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 228 x 20Cover type: Pa...

We are in the midst of a global crisis of care. How do we get out of it? The Care Manifesto puts care at the heart of the debates of our current cr...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David McGowanThe specter of the marauding serial killer has become a relatively common feature on the American landscape. R...

This collection presents a range of theoretical and disciplinary approaches to the subject of collective violence. The distinguished contributors i...

The institutionalisation of Fatah mirrors the evolution of the PLO and the Palestinian national cause generally. Understanding the factors that hav...

Telling a neglected history of decolonisation and violence in Burundi, Aidan Russell examines the political language of truth that drove extraordin...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: T. R. C. HuttonThe notorious conflict between the Hatfield and the McCoy families of West Virginia and Kentucky is often re...