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Social Justice Goes To Church - The New Left in Modern American Evangelicalism (Hardcover): Jon Harris Social Justice Goes To Church - The New Left in Modern American Evangelicalism (Hardcover)
Jon Harris
R794 Discovery Miles 7 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wellbeing and Devolution (Hardcover): Jennifer Wallace Wellbeing and Devolution (Hardcover)
Jennifer Wallace
R1,463 Discovery Miles 14 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Democratic Theory Naturalized - The Foundations of Distilled Populism (Hardcover): Walter Horn Democratic Theory Naturalized - The Foundations of Distilled Populism (Hardcover)
Walter Horn
R2,726 Discovery Miles 27 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

To some, the word populism suggests the tyranny of the mob; to others, it suggests a xenophobic nativism. It is often even considered conducive to (if not simply identical to) fascism. In Democratic Theory Naturalized: The Foundations of Distilled Populism, Walter Horn uses his theory of "CHOICE Voluntarism" to offer solutions to some of the most perplexing problems in democratic theory and distill populism to its core premise: giving people the power to govern themselves without the constraints imposed by those on the left or the right. Beginning with explanations of what it means to vote and what makes one society better off than another, Horn analyzes what makes for fair aggregation and appropriate, deliberative representation. Through his examination of the American government, Horn suggests solutions to contemporary problems such as gerrymandering, immigration control, and campaign finance, and offers answers to age-old questions like why dissenters should obey the majority and who should have the right to vote in various elections.

Remembering the Great War in the Middle East - From Turkey and Armenia to Australia and New Zealand (Hardcover): Hans-Lukas... Remembering the Great War in the Middle East - From Turkey and Armenia to Australia and New Zealand (Hardcover)
Hans-Lukas Kieser, Thomas Schmutz, Pearl Nunn
R3,454 Discovery Miles 34 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book addresses the conflicts, myths, and memories that grew out of the Great War in Ottoman Turkey, and their legacies in society and politics. It is the third volume in a series dedicated to the combined analysis of the Ottoman Great War and the Armenian Genocide. In Australia and New Zealand, and even more in the post-Ottoman Middle East, the memory of the First World War still has an immediacy that it has long lost in Europe. For the post-Ottoman regions, the first of the two World Wars, which ended Ottoman rule, was the formative experience. This volume analyses this complex configuration: why these entanglements became possible; how shared or even contradictory memories have been constructed over the past hundred years, and how differing historiographies have developed. Remembering the Great War in the Middle East reaches towards a new conceptualization of the “long last Ottoman decade” (1912-22), one that places this era and its actors more firmly at the center, instead of on the periphery, of a history of a Greater Europe, a history comprising – as contemporary maps did – Europe, Russia, and the Ottoman world.

DOOMERISM & Me first Baby Boomers - How one misguided generation destabilized our society's foundation and what We the... DOOMERISM & Me first Baby Boomers - How one misguided generation destabilized our society's foundation and what We the [everyday] People must do about it! (Hardcover)
Jeffersonian Jeff
R1,583 Discovery Miles 15 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Presidents as Military Officers, As Commander-in-Chief with Humor and Anecdotes (Hardcover): Lee R. McDowell Presidents as Military Officers, As Commander-in-Chief with Humor and Anecdotes (Hardcover)
Lee R. McDowell
R790 Discovery Miles 7 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Scales of Memory - Constitutional Justice and Historical Evil (Hardcover): Justin Collings Scales of Memory - Constitutional Justice and Historical Evil (Hardcover)
Justin Collings
R3,602 Discovery Miles 36 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Since the Second World War, constitutional justice has spread through much of the democratic world. Often it has followed in the wake of national calamity and historical evil - whether fascism or communism, colonialism or apartheid. Unsurprisingly, the memory of such evils plays a prominent role in constitutional adjudication. This book explores the relationship between constitutional interpretation and the memory of historical evil. Specifically, it examines how the constitutional courts of the United States, Germany, and South Africa have grappled, respectively, with the legacies of slavery, Nazism, and apartheid. Most courts invoke historical evil through either the parenthetical or the redemptive mode of constitutional memory. The parenthetical framework views the evil era as exceptional - a baleful aberration from an otherwise noble and worthy constitutional tradition. Parenthetical jurisprudence reaches beyond the evil era toward stable and enduring values. It sees the constitutional response to evil as restorative rather than revolutionary - a return to and reaffirmation of older traditions. The redemptive mode, by contrast, is more aggressive. Its aim is not to resume a venerable tradition but to reverse recent ills. Its animating spirit is not restoration, but antithesis. Its aim is not continuity with deeper pasts, but a redemptive future stemming from a stark, complete, and vivid rupture. This book demonstrates how, across the three jurisdictions, the parenthetical mode has often accompanied formalist and originalist approaches to constitutional interpretation, whereas the redemptive mode has accompanied realist and purposive approaches. It also shows how, within the three jurisdictions, the parenthetical mode of memory has consistently predominated in American constitutional jurisprudence; the redemptive mode in South African jurisprudence; and a hybrid, parenthetical-redemptive mode in German constitutional jurisprudence. The real-world consequences of these trends have been stark and dramatic. Memory matters, especially in constitutional interpretation.

Principles of Legislation - From the Ms. of Jeremy Bentham (Hardcover): Etienne 1759-1829 Dumont, John 1793-1876 Neal, J -C -L... Principles of Legislation - From the Ms. of Jeremy Bentham (Hardcover)
Etienne 1759-1829 Dumont, John 1793-1876 Neal, J -C -L Simonde de (Jean-C Sismondi
R956 Discovery Miles 9 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
From Revolution to Revolution - England 1688-1776 (Hardcover): John Carswell From Revolution to Revolution - England 1688-1776 (Hardcover)
John Carswell
R3,173 Discovery Miles 31 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From Revolution to Revolution (1973) examines England, Scotland and Wales from the revolution of 1688 when William became King, to the American Revolution of 1776. In this period lies the roots of modern Britain, as it went from being underdeveloped countries on the fringe of European civilization to a predominating influence in the world. This book examines the union of the island, development of an organized public opinion and national consciousness, as well as Parliament and its factions, the landed and business classes. Views on religion, art, architecture and the changing face of the countryside are also examined, as is the tension between London and the rest of the island. The important issues of colonial expansions in Ireland, America, India and Africa are also analysed.

The Court and the Country - The Beginning of the English Revolution (Hardcover): Perez Zagorin The Court and the Country - The Beginning of the English Revolution (Hardcover)
Perez Zagorin
R3,801 Discovery Miles 38 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Court and the Country (1969) offers a fresh view and synthesis of the English revolution of 1640. It describes the origin and development of the revolution, and gives an account of the various factors - political, social and religious - that produced the revolution and conditioned its course. It explains the revolution primarily as a result of the breakdown of the unity of the governing class around the monarchy into the contending sides of the Court and the Country. A principal theme is the formation within the governing class of an opposition movement to the Crown. The role of Puritanism and of the towns is examined, and the resistance to Charles I is considered in relation to other European revolutions of the period.

A Nation of Change and Novelty - Radical Politics, Religion and Literature in Seventeenth-Century England (Hardcover):... A Nation of Change and Novelty - Radical Politics, Religion and Literature in Seventeenth-Century England (Hardcover)
Christopher Hill
R3,179 Discovery Miles 31 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A Nation of Change and Novelty (1990) ranges broadly over the political and literary terrain of the seventeenth century, examining the importance of the English Revolution as a decisive event in English and European history. It emphasises the historical significance of the English Revolution, exploring not only its causes but also its long term consequences, basing both in a broad social context and viewing it as a necessary condition of England's having nurtured the first Industrial Revolution.

Reflections on the Puritan Revolution (Hardcover): A.L. Rowse Reflections on the Puritan Revolution (Hardcover)
A.L. Rowse
R3,178 Discovery Miles 31 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Reflections on the Puritan Revolution (1986) examines the damage done by the Puritans during the English Civil War, and the enormous artistic losses England suffered from their activities. The Puritans smashed stained glass, monuments, sculpture, brasses in cathedrals and churches; they destroyed organs, dispersed the choirs and the music. They sold the King's art collections, pictures, statues, plate, gems and jewels abroad, and broke up the Coronation regalia. They closed down the theatres and ended Caroline poetry. The greatest composer and most promising scientist of the age were among the many lives lost; and this all besides the ruin of palaces, castles and mansions.

A History of Political Thought in the English Revolution (Hardcover): Perez Zagorin A History of Political Thought in the English Revolution (Hardcover)
Perez Zagorin
R3,172 Discovery Miles 31 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A History of Political Thought in the English Revolution (1954) examines the large range of political doctrines which played their part in the English revolution - a period when modern democratic ideas began. The political literature of the period between 1645, when the Levellers first seized upon the revolution's wider implications, and 1660, when Charles II restored the monarchy to power, is here studied in detail.

Cromwell and Communism - Socialism and Democracy in the Great English Revolution (Hardcover): Eduard Bernstein Cromwell and Communism - Socialism and Democracy in the Great English Revolution (Hardcover)
Eduard Bernstein; Translated by H.J. Stenning
R3,180 Discovery Miles 31 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Cromwell and Communism (1930) examines the English revolution against the absolute monarchy of Charles I. It looks at the economic and social conditions prevailing at the time, the first beginnings of dissent and the religious and political aims of the Parliamentarian side in the revolution and subsequent civil war. The various sects are examined, including the Levellers and their democratic, atheistic and communistic ideals.

Allegiance in Church and State - The Problem of the Nonjurors in the English Revolution (Hardcover): L.M. Hawkins Allegiance in Church and State - The Problem of the Nonjurors in the English Revolution (Hardcover)
L.M. Hawkins
R3,171 Discovery Miles 31 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Allegiance in Church and State (1928) examines the evolution of ideas and ideals, their relation to political and economic events, and their influence on friends and foes in seventeenth-century England - which witnessed the beginning of both the constitutional and the intellectual transition from the old order to the new. It takes a careful look at the religious and particularly political ideas of the Nonjurors, a sect that argued for the moral foundations of a State and the sacredness of moral obligations in public life.

Leveller Manifestoes of the Puritan Revolution (Hardcover): Don M Wolfe Leveller Manifestoes of the Puritan Revolution (Hardcover)
Don M Wolfe
R4,114 Discovery Miles 41 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Leveller Manifestoes (1944) is a collection of primary manifestoes issued by the Levellers, the group which played an active and influential role in the English revolution of 1642-49. This book collects together rare pamphlets and tracts that are seldom available, and certainly not in one place for ease of research.

The Corporate Overlords will be Kind: Campaign Finance, Representation and Corporate-led Democracy (Paperback): Radu George... The Corporate Overlords will be Kind: Campaign Finance, Representation and Corporate-led Democracy (Paperback)
Radu George Dumitrescu
R1,472 Discovery Miles 14 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Political Thought and the Origins of the American Presidency (Hardcover): Ben Lowe Political Thought and the Origins of the American Presidency (Hardcover)
Ben Lowe
R2,547 Discovery Miles 25 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume examines the political ideas behind the construction of the presidency in the U.S. Constitution, as well as how these ideas were implemented by the nation's early presidents. The framers of the Constitution disagreed about the scope of the new executive role they were creating, and this volume reveals the ways the duties and power of the office developed contrary to many expectations.Here, leading scholars of the Early Republic examine principles from European thought and culture that were key to establishing the conceptual language and institutional parameters for the American executive office. Unpacking the debates at the 1787 Constitutional Convention, these essays describe how the Constitution left room for the first presidents to set patterns of behavior and establish a range of duties to make the office functional within a governmental system of checks and balances. Contributors explore how these presidents understood their positions and fleshed out their full responsibilities according to the everyday operations required to succeed. As disputes continue to surround the limits of executive power today, this volume helps identify and explain the circumstances in which limits can be imposed on presidents who seem to dangerously exceed the constitutional parameters of their office. Political Thought and the Origins of the American Presidency demonstrates that this distinctive, time-tested role developed from a fraught, historically contingent, and contested process.

Commentaries On the Constitution of the United States - With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies... Commentaries On the Constitution of the United States - With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution; Volume 2 (Hardcover)
Joseph Story
R1,166 Discovery Miles 11 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Physician on a Mission - Dr. Veltmeyer's Rx to Save America (Hardcover): James Veltmeyer Physician on a Mission - Dr. Veltmeyer's Rx to Save America (Hardcover)
James Veltmeyer
R914 Discovery Miles 9 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
History and Antiquities of Roxburghshire and Adjacent Districts, From the Most Remote Period to the Present Time; 4... History and Antiquities of Roxburghshire and Adjacent Districts, From the Most Remote Period to the Present Time; 4 (Hardcover)
Alexander Jeffrey
R1,097 Discovery Miles 10 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Thomas Jefferson and the Politics of Nature (Hardcover): Thomas Engeman Thomas Jefferson and the Politics of Nature (Hardcover)
Thomas Engeman
R3,032 Discovery Miles 30 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With the equality and liberty of the Declaration of Independence as his fighting words, Thomas Jefferson created American democracy. For the two hundred years since then, he has been studied and debated worldwide, but never more intensely than in recent years. His extensive and influential understanding of democracy's foundation in reason and nature continue to make him one of the most examined American founders. Thomas Jefferson and the Politics of Nature is a collection of the very best current scholarship devoted to Thomas Jefferson as politician, writer, philosopher, Christian, and economist. Lead essayist Michael Zuckert presents his comprehensive interpretation of Jefferson's political thought, which Zuckert considers the best theoretical approach to democracy. While Zuckert moderates Jefferson's natural rights philosophy with a Kantian perspective, Jean Yarbrough responds with the argument that Jefferson incorporates the authors of the Scottish Enlightenment and principles from the Republican tradition to achieve the same moderating effect. Garrett Ward Sheldon looks at the broader cultural influences shaping Jefferson's thought and traces his republicanism to his support of Christian ethics and Aristotle. R. Booth Fowler examines why Jefferson, the leading liberal theorist of the nineteenth century, became the hero of the very different liberalism of the twentieth. Robert Dawidoff considers Jefferson as writer and literary figure instead of political thinker and actor, while Joyce Appleby renews an appreciation of Jefferson's statecraft by a famous reexamination of his commercial agrarian policy. Finally, James Ceaser traces Jefferson's belief in racial inferiority to a speculative new natural science prominent among contemporary European thinkers and argues that Jefferson committed a significant error in reducing politics to such conjectural "facts." This compact text is ideal for professors wishing to offer a one-volume collection of current Jeffersonian scholarship to undergraduate students. Professors and students alike will find that the essays contain prompt, focused, substantive discussions on the key issues facing Jeffersonian scholars. This handy collection will be an invaluable classroom tool for those studying not only Jefferson but also history, political philosophy, and science, as well as the history of ideas.

The new Negro - his political, civil, and mental status; and related essays (Hardcover): William Pickens The new Negro - his political, civil, and mental status; and related essays (Hardcover)
William Pickens
R904 R822 Discovery Miles 8 220 Save R82 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Testimony in the Contested Election Cases, Before the House of Delegates of Maryland.; 1866 (Hardcover): Maryland General... Testimony in the Contested Election Cases, Before the House of Delegates of Maryland.; 1866 (Hardcover)
Maryland General Assembly House of
R1,059 Discovery Miles 10 590 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Use of History in Putin's Russia (Hardcover): James C. Pearce The Use of History in Putin's Russia (Hardcover)
James C. Pearce
R1,951 Discovery Miles 19 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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