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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.
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.
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.
Communication is vital to the prosperity and survival of the
community, with the quality of communication amongst its members
directly improving or worsening the value of the community.
However, with the increase in immigration and relocation of
refugees, the need to accommodate diverse cultural groups becomes
imperative for the viability and survivability of a community while
posing challenges to communication. Intercultural and interfaith
dialogue can be used constructively to cultivate, manage, and
sustain diversity and wellbeing in particularly deeply divided
communities. Intercultural and Interfaith Dialogues for Global
Peacebuilding and Stability is a critical research publication that
explores the importance of conflict resolution strategies among
populations that include a varied amalgamation of cultural and
religious backgrounds. With the increasing emphasis on
intercultural understanding promoted by governments, civil
societies, and international mediators, this book offers relevant
remedies for major afflictions in the world today, such as
exclusion, marginalization, xenophobia, and racism. It is ideal for
government officials, policymakers, activists, diplomats, lawyers,
international trade and commerce agencies, religious institutions,
academicians, researchers, and students working in a variety of
disciplines including political science, international relations,
law, communication, sociology, and cultural studies.
Politics of the Many draws inspiration from Percy Bysshe Shelley's
celebrated call to arms: 'Ye are many - they are few!' This idea of
the Many, as a general form of emancipatory subjectivity that
cannot be erased for the sake of the One, is the philosophical and
political assumption shared by contributors to this book. They
raise questions of collective agency, and its crisis in
contemporary capitalism, via new engagements with Marxist
philosophy, psychoanalysis, theories of social reproduction and
value-form, and post-colonial critiques, and drawing on activist
thought and strategies. This book interrogates both established and
emergent formations of the Many (the people, classes, publics,
crowds, masses, multitudes), tracing their genealogies, their
recent failures and victories, and their potentials to change the
world. The book proposes and explores an intense and provoking
series of new or reinvented concepts, figures, and theoretical
constellations, including dividuality, the centaur, unintentional
vanguard, insomnia at work, always-on capitalism, multitude (from
its 'voiding' to a '(non)emergence'), crowds, necropolitics, and
the link between political subjectivity and value-form. The
contributors to Politics of the Many are both acclaimed and
emergent thinkers including Carina Brand, Rebecca Carson, Luhuna
Carvalho, Lorenzo Chiesa, Jodi Dean, Dario Gentili, Benjamin
Halligan, Marc James Leger, Paul Mazzocchi, Alexei Penzin, Stefano
Pippa, Gerald Raunig, and Stevphen Shukaitis.
Outreach and engagement initiatives are crucial in promoting
community development and social change. This can be achieved
through a number of methods including public policy and urban
development. The Handbook of Research on Civic Engagement and
Social Change in Contemporary Society is a critical scholarly
resource that examines the unexplored field of applying social
change to civic engagement in an effort to enlarge public welfare
activities. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics, such as
civic education, sustainable development, and child labor, this
publication is geared towards academicians, researchers, and
students seeking current research on civic engagement and public
welfare.
Guiding students step-by-step through the research process while
simultaneously introducing a range of debates, challenges and tools
that feminist scholars use, the second edition of this popular
textbook provides a vital resource to those students and
researchers approaching their studies from a feminist perspective.
Interdisciplinary in its approach, the book covers everything from
research design, analysis and presentation, to formulating research
questions, data collection and publishing research. Offering the
most comprehensive and practical guide to the subject available,
the text is now also fully updated to take account of recent
developments in the field, including participatory action research,
new technologies and methods for working with big data and social
media. Doing Feminist Research is required reading for
undergraduate and postgraduate courses taking a feminist approach
to social science methodology, research design and methods. It is
the ideal guide for all students and scholars carrying out feminist
research, whether in the fields of international relations,
political science, interdisciplinary international and global
studies, development studies or gender and women's studies. New to
this Edition: - New discussions of contemporary research methods,
including participatory action research, survey research and
technology, and methods for big data and social media. - Updated to
reflect recent developments in feminist and gender theory, with
references to the latest research examples and new boxes
considering recent shifts in the social and political sciences. -
Brand new boxed examples throughout covering topics including
collaborations, femicide, negotiating changing research
environments and the pros and cons of feminist participatory action
research. - The text is now written in the first (authors) and
second (readers) person making the text clearer, more consistent
and inclusive from the reader point of view. Accompanying online
resources for this title can be found at
bloomsburyonlineresources.com/doing-feminist-research-in-political-and-social-science.
These resources are designed to support teaching and learning when
using this textbook and are available at no extra cost.
Cultural competence in education promotes civic engagement among
students. Providing students with educational opportunities to
understand various cultural and political perspectives allows for
higher cultural competence and a greater understanding of civic
engagement for those students. The Handbook of Research on
Citizenship and Heritage Education is a critical scholarly book
that provides relevant and current research on citizenship and
heritage education aimed at promoting active participation and the
transformation of society. Readers will come to understand the role
of heritage as a symbolic identity source that facilitates the
understanding of the present and the past, highlighting the value
of teaching. Additionally, it offers a source for the design of
didactic proposals that promote active participation and the
critical conservation of heritage. Featuring a range of topics such
as educational policy, curriculum design, and political science,
this book is ideal for educators, academicians, administrators,
political scientists, policymakers, researchers, and students.
The aim of the present volume is to discuss the notion of
constitution from the perspectives of history of political thought.
Its scholarly intention is to go beyond the approach concentrating
on the formal understanding of constitution and bring forward more
complex historical and philosophic-political interpretations. Our
point of departure was the need to revive the somehow neglected
distinction between the idea of constitution as an act of conscious
law-giving activity and the notion of constitution conceived as the
set of fundamental political rules derived from the very nature of
political regime and its historical development.
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.
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 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.
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