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From Subject to Citizen - The Second Empire and the Emergence of Modern French Democracy (Paperback): Sudhir Hazareesingh From Subject to Citizen - The Second Empire and the Emergence of Modern French Democracy (Paperback)
Sudhir Hazareesingh
R1,443 Discovery Miles 14 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"From Subject to Citizen" offers an original account of the Second Empire (1852-1870) as a turning point in modern French political culture: a period in which thinkers of all political persuasions combined forces to create the participatory democracy alive in France today. Here Sudhir Hazareesingh probes beyond well-known features of the Second Empire, its centralized government and authoritarianism, and reveals the political, social, and cultural advances that enabled publicists to engage an increasingly educated public on issues of political order and good citizenship. He portrays the 1860s in particular as a remarkably intellectual decade during which Bonapartists, legitimists, liberals, and republicans applied their ideologies to the pressing problem of decentralization. Ideals such as communal freedom and civic cohesion rapidly assumed concrete and lasting meaning for many French people as their country entered the age of nationalism.

With the restoration of universal suffrage for men in 1851, constitutionalist political ideas and values could no longer be expressed within the narrow confines of the Parisian elite. Tracing these ideas through the books, pamphlets, articles, speeches, and memoirs of the period, Hazareesingh examines a discourse that connects the central state and local political life. In a striking reappraisal of the historical roots of current French democracy, he ultimately shows how the French constructed an ideal of citizenship that was "local in form but national in substance."

Originally published in 1998.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Entangled Activist - Learning to recognise the master's tools (Paperback): Anthea Lawson The Entangled Activist - Learning to recognise the master's tools (Paperback)
Anthea Lawson
R374 R351 Discovery Miles 3 510 Save R23 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
News on the Right - Studying Conservative News Cultures (Paperback): Anthony Nadler News on the Right - Studying Conservative News Cultures (Paperback)
Anthony Nadler; Edited by A. J. Bauer
R979 Discovery Miles 9 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From the National Review to Breitbart, from Fox News to Rush Limbaugh, conservative news is an inescapable feature of modern politics. Since the early days of mass communication, right-wing media producers have blended reporting with commentary, narrating the news of the day from a perspective informed by conservative worldviews and partisanship. News on the Right seeks to initiate a new interdisciplinary field of scholarly research focused on the study of right-wing media and conservative news. Editors Anthony Nadler and A.J. Bauer gather a range of voices, presenting an interdisciplinary investigation into the practices and patterns of meaning-making in the production, circulation, and consumption of conservative news. Traversing journalism, media and communication studies, cultural studies, history, political science, and sociology, this volume utilizes a variety of qualitative and quantitative research methods to elucidate case studies of conservative news cultures in the US and UK. Together, these perspectives show that a fuller understanding of right-wing media and its effects can be reached by treating these phenomena as deeply interwoven into many conservatives' lives and political sensibilities.

Bounding Power - Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village (Paperback): Daniel H. Deudney Bounding Power - Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village (Paperback)
Daniel H. Deudney
R1,345 Discovery Miles 13 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Realism, the dominant theory of international relations, particularly regarding security, seems compelling in part because of its claim to embody so much of Western political thought from the ancient Greeks to the present. Its main challenger, liberalism, looks to Kant and nineteenth-century economists. Despite their many insights, neither realism nor liberalism gives us adequate tools to grapple with security globalization, the liberal ascent, and the American role in their development. In reality, both realism and liberalism and their main insights were largely invented by republicans writing about republics.

The main ideas of realism and liberalism are but fragments of republican security theory, whose primary claim is that security entails the simultaneous avoidance of the extremes of anarchy and hierarchy, and that the size of the space within which this is necessary has expanded due to technological change.

In Daniel Deudney's reading, there is one main security tradition and its fragmentary descendants. This theory began in classical antiquity, and its pivotal early modern and Enlightenment culmination was the founding of the United States. Moving into the industrial and nuclear eras, this line of thinking becomes the basis for the claim that mutually restraining world government is now necessary for security and that political liberty cannot survive without new types of global unions.

Unique in scope, depth, and timeliness, "Bounding Power" offers an international political theory for our fractious and perilous global village.

American Carnage - On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump (Paperback): Tim Alberta American Carnage - On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump (Paperback)
Tim Alberta
R510 Discovery Miles 5 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

New York Times' Top Books of 2019 Politico Magazine's chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider's look at the making of the modern Republican Party-how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOP vulnerable to a hostile takeover from the unlikeliest of insurgents: Donald J. Trump. The 2016 election was a watershed for the United States. But, as Tim Alberta explains in American Carnage, to understand Trump's victory is to view him not as the creator of this era of polarization and bruising partisanship, but rather as its most manifest consequence. American Carnage is the story of a president's rise based on a country's evolution and a party's collapse. As George W. Bush left office with record-low approval ratings and Barack Obama led a Democratic takeover of Washington, Republicans faced a moment of reckoning: They had no vision, no generation of new leaders, and no energy in the party's base. Yet Obama's forceful pursuit of his progressive agenda, coupled with the nation's rapidly changing cultural and demographic landscape, lit a fire under the right, returning Republicans to power and inviting a bloody struggle for the party's identity in the post-Bush era. The factions that emerged-one led by absolutists like Jim Jordan and Ted Cruz, the other led by pragmatists like John Boehner and Mitch McConnell-engaged in a series of devastating internecine clashes and attempted coups for control. With the GOP's internal fissures rendering it legislatively impotent, and that impotence fueling a growing resentment toward the political class and its institutions, the stage was set for an outsider to crash the party. When Trump descended a gilded escalator to announce his run in the summer of 2015, the candidate had met the moment. Only by viewing Trump as the culmination of a decade-long civil war inside the Republican Party-and of the parallel sense of cultural, socioeconomic, and technological disruption during that period-can we appreciate how he won the White House and consider the fundamental questions at the center of America's current turmoil. How did a party obsessed with the national debt vote for trillion-dollar deficits and record-setting spending increases? How did the party of compassionate conservatism become the party of Muslim bans and walls? How did the party of family values elect a thrice-divorced philanderer? And, most important, how long can such a party survive? Loaded with exclusive reporting and based off hundreds of interviews-including with key players such as President Trump, Paul Ryan, Ted Cruz, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Jim DeMint, and Reince Priebus, and many others-American Carnage takes us behind the scenes of this tumultuous period as we've never seen it before and establishes Tim Alberta as the premier chronicler of this political era.

Political Correctness - The Munk Debates (Paperback): Michael Eric Dyson, Michelle Goldberg, Stephen Fry, Jordan Peterson Political Correctness - The Munk Debates (Paperback)
Michael Eric Dyson, Michelle Goldberg, Stephen Fry, Jordan Peterson; Edited by Rudyard Griffiths
R358 R332 Discovery Miles 3 320 Save R26 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The twenty-second Munk Debate pits acclaimed journalist, professor, and ordained minister Michael Eric Dyson and New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg against renowned actor and writer Stephen Fry and University of Toronto professor and author Jordan Peterson to debate the implications of political correctness and freedom of speech. Is political correctness an enemy of free speech, open debate, and the free exchange of ideas? Or, by confronting head-on the dominant power relationships and social norms that exclude marginalized groups are we creating a more equitable and just society? For some the argument is clear. Political correctness is stifling the free and open debate that fuels our democracy. It is also needlessly dividing one group from another and promoting social conflict. Others insist that creating public spaces and norms that give voice to previously marginalized groups broadens the scope of free speech. The drive towards inclusion over exclusion is essential to creating healthy, diverse societies in an era of rapid social change.

The Silenced Majority (Paperback): Reed Pryor The Silenced Majority (Paperback)
Reed Pryor
R534 Discovery Miles 5 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wingnuts - A Field Guide to Everyday Extremism in America (Paperback): David Michael Slater Wingnuts - A Field Guide to Everyday Extremism in America (Paperback)
David Michael Slater
R322 R301 Discovery Miles 3 010 Save R21 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Online War Of Politics (Paperback): Brandon Harris The Online War Of Politics (Paperback)
Brandon Harris
R239 Discovery Miles 2 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Dark Posthuman - Dehumanization, Technology, and the Atlantic World (Paperback): Stephanie Polsky The Dark Posthuman - Dehumanization, Technology, and the Atlantic World (Paperback)
Stephanie Polsky
R697 Discovery Miles 6 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Conservative's Guide to American Liberalism - 30 Truths About American Liberals and Their Agenda (Paperback): Gregg J... A Conservative's Guide to American Liberalism - 30 Truths About American Liberals and Their Agenda (Paperback)
Gregg J Cavanagh
R349 Discovery Miles 3 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Confederate Exceptionalism - Civil War Myth and Memory in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback): Nicole Maurantonio Confederate Exceptionalism - Civil War Myth and Memory in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
Nicole Maurantonio
R978 Discovery Miles 9 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Along with Confederate flags, the men and women who recently gathered before the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts carried signs proclaiming "Heritage Not Hate." Theirs, they said, was an "open and visible protest against those who attacked us, ours flags, our ancestors, or our Heritage." How, Nicole Maurantonio wondered, did "not hate" square with a "heritage" grounded in slavery? How do so-called neo-Confederates distance themselves from the actions and beliefs of white supremacists while clinging to the very symbols and narratives that tether the Confederacy to the history of racism and oppression in America? The answer, Maurantonio discovers, is bound up in the myth of Confederate exceptionalism-a myth whose components, proponents, and meaning this timely and provocative book exploresThe narrative of Confederate exceptionalism, in this analysis, updates two uniquely American mythologies-the Lost Cause and American exceptionalism-blending their elements with discourses of racial neoliberalism to create a seeming separation between the Confederacy and racist systems. Incorporating several methods and drawing from a range of sources-including ethnographic observations, interviews, and archival documents-Maurantonio examines the various people, objects, and rituals that contribute to this cultural balancing act. Her investigation takes in "official" modes of remembering the Confederacy, such as the monuments and building names that drive the discussion today, but it also pays attention to the more mundane and often subtle ways in which the Confederacy is recalled. Linking the different modes of commemoration, her work bridges the distance that believers in Confederate exceptionalism maintain; while situated in history from the Civil War through the civil rights era, the book brings much-needed clarity to the constitution, persistence, and significance of this divisive myth in the context of our time.

Darwinian Conservatism (Paperback): Larry Arnhart Darwinian Conservatism (Paperback)
Larry Arnhart
R388 Discovery Miles 3 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Left has traditionally assumed that human nature is so malleable, so perfectible, that it can be shaped in almost any direction. Conservatives object, arguing that social order arises not from rational planning but from the spontaneous order of instincts and habits. Darwinian biology sustains conservative social thought by showing how the human capacity for spontaneous order arises from social instincts and a moral sense shaped by natural selection in human evolutionary history.

The Totalitarian State of America - A Critique of American Government (Paperback): Stratton J Davis The Totalitarian State of America - A Critique of American Government (Paperback)
Stratton J Davis; Germinal G Van
R401 Discovery Miles 4 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
George Orwell. please come home - The Animals have escaped the barnyard (Paperback): James Oshust George Orwell. please come home - The Animals have escaped the barnyard (Paperback)
James Oshust
R442 Discovery Miles 4 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Reason, Tradition, and the Good - MacIntyre's Tradition-Constituted Reason and Frankfurt School Critical Theory... Reason, Tradition, and the Good - MacIntyre's Tradition-Constituted Reason and Frankfurt School Critical Theory (Hardcover)
Jeffery L. Nicholas
R3,973 R2,213 Discovery Miles 22 130 Save R1,760 (44%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In Reason, Tradition, and the Good, Jeffery L. Nicholas addresses the failure of reason in modernity to bring about a just society, a society in which people can attain fulfillment. Developing the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, Nicholas argues that we rely too heavily on a conception of rationality that is divorced from tradition and, therefore, incapable of judging ends. Without the ability to judge ends, we cannot engage in debate about the good life or the proper goods that we as individuals and as a society should pursue. Nicholas claims that the project of enlightenment-defined as the promotion of autonomous reason-failed because it was based on a deformed notion of reason as mere rationality, and that a critical theory of society aimed at human emancipation must turn to substantive reason, a reason constituted by and constitutive of tradition. To find a reason capable of judging ends, Nicholas suggests, we must turn to Alasdair MacIntyre's Thomistic-Aristotelianism. Substantive reason comprises thinking and acting on the set of standards and beliefs within a particular tradition. It is the impossibility of enlightenment rationality to evaluate ends and the possibility of substantive reason to evaluate ends that makes the one unsuitable and the other suitable for a critical theory of society. Nicholas's compelling argument, written in accessible language, remains committed to the promise of reason to help individuals achieve a good and just society and a good life. This requires, however, a complete revolution in the way we approach social life.

The Fortunate - Ten great writers highlight how we created free and affluent societies (Paperback): Peter Fenwick The Fortunate - Ten great writers highlight how we created free and affluent societies (Paperback)
Peter Fenwick
R707 R623 Discovery Miles 6 230 Save R84 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mapping White Identity Terrorism and Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism - A Social Network Analysis of Online... Mapping White Identity Terrorism and Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism - A Social Network Analysis of Online Activity (Paperback)
Heather J Williams, Luke J Matthews, Pauline Moore
R1,339 Discovery Miles 13 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Faking the News - What Rhetoric Can Teach Us About Donald J. Trump (Paperback): Ryan Skinnell Faking the News - What Rhetoric Can Teach Us About Donald J. Trump (Paperback)
Ryan Skinnell
R617 Discovery Miles 6 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Utah's Secret Combinations 2022 Edition (Paperback): Defending Utah Utah's Secret Combinations 2022 Edition (Paperback)
Defending Utah
R438 R408 Discovery Miles 4 080 Save R30 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
To My Inked Wife Once Upon A Time I Became Yours & You Became Mine And We'll Stay Together Through Both The Tears &... To My Inked Wife Once Upon A Time I Became Yours & You Became Mine And We'll Stay Together Through Both The Tears & Laughter - 14th Anniversary Gifts For Her - Hubbie - Purposeful Journal To Write In Notes About Hubby (Paperback)
Scarlette Heart
R377 Discovery Miles 3 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Political Seduction of the Church - How Millions Of American Christians Have Confused Politics with the Gospel (Paperback):... The Political Seduction of the Church - How Millions Of American Christians Have Confused Politics with the Gospel (Paperback)
Michael L Brown
R647 Discovery Miles 6 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Diary of a Secret Tory MP (Hardcover): The Secret Tory Mp The Diary of a Secret Tory MP (Hardcover)
The Secret Tory Mp
R564 Discovery Miles 5 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The long-awaited diary from Whitehall's most scandalous MP... From Brexit to Covid, parties to pig culling, the Conservative government has lurched from crisis to crisis. With a front-row seat on the, erm, backbenches, the Secret Tory MP has picked up on all the petty rivalries, bad decision-making and scandalous affairs that Whitehall has to offer. And he's got no qualms about sharing it. All. Join the mystery MP as he drunk-texts Liz Truss after a crate of WKD, accompanies Jacob Rees-Mogg (and his kids) to picket a foodbank, takes on the French in the 'Trawler Wars', and euthanises Rishi Sunak's dog - and that's just October. The Diary of a Secret Tory MP is an outrageous spoof of the classic political journal that pulls back the Lulu Lytle curtains to expose extraordinary goings-on at Westminster across a tumultuous twelve months.

Either Catholicism or Liberalism - The Pastoral and Circular Letters of St. Ezequiel Moreno y Diaz (Paperback): St Ezequiel... Either Catholicism or Liberalism - The Pastoral and Circular Letters of St. Ezequiel Moreno y Diaz (Paperback)
St Ezequiel Moreno Y Diaz; Translated by Brian Welter
R505 R475 Discovery Miles 4 750 Save R30 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism - A Short History (Paperback): David Farber The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism - A Short History (Paperback)
David Farber
R611 Discovery Miles 6 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism" tells the gripping story of perhaps the most significant political force of our time through the lives and careers of six leading figures at the heart of the movement. David Farber traces the history of modern conservatism from its revolt against New Deal liberalism, to its breathtaking resurgence under Ronald Reagan, to its spectacular defeat with the election of Barack Obama.

Farber paints vivid portraits of Robert Taft, William F. Buckley Jr., Barry Goldwater, Phyllis Schlafly, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush. He shows how these outspoken, charismatic, and frequently controversial conservative leaders were united by a shared insistence on the primacy of social order, national security, and economic liberty. Farber demonstrates how they built a versatile movement capable of gaining and holding power, from Taft's opposition to the New Deal to Buckley's founding of the "National Review" as the intellectual standard-bearer of modern conservatism; from Goldwater's crusade against leftist politics and his failed 1964 bid for the presidency to Schlafly's rejection of feminism in favor of traditional gender roles and family values; and from Reagan's city upon a hill to conservatism's downfall with Bush's ambitious presidency.

"The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism" provides rare insight into how conservatives captured the American political imagination by claiming moral superiority, downplaying economic inequality, relishing bellicosity, and embracing nationalism. This concise and accessible history reveals how these conservative leaders discovered a winning formula that enabled them to forge a powerful and formidable political majority.

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