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This path-breaking collection analyses the dialectic between legal
and constitutional innovations intended to inscribe corporate power
and market disciplines in world order, and the potential for
challenges and alternative frameworks of governance to emerge. It
provides a comprehensive approach to neo-liberal constitutionalism
and regulation and limits to policy autonomy of states, and how
this disciplines populations according to the intensifying demands
of corporations and market forces in global market civilization.
Contributors examine global and local public policy challenges and
consider if the ongoing crises of capitalism and world order offer
states and societies opportunities to challenge this loss of policy
autonomy and potentially to refashion world order. Integrating
approaches to governance and world order from both leading and
emerging scholars, this is an innovative, indispensable source for
policy-makers, civil society organizations, professionals and
students in law, politics, economics, sociology, philosophy and
international relations.
In this second edition of William Wordsworth: A Life, Stephen Gill
draws on knowledge of the poet's creative practices and his
reputation and influence in his life-time and beyond. Refusing to
treat the poet's later years as of little interest, this biography
presents a narrative of the whole of Wordsworth's long life-1770 to
1850-tracing the development from the adventurous youth who alone
of the great Romantic poets saw life in revolutionary France to the
old man who became Queen Victoria's Poet Laureate. The various
phases of Wordsworth's life are explored with a not uncritical
sympathy; the narrative brings out the courage he and his wife and
family were called upon to show as they crafted the life they
wanted to lead. While the emphasis is on Wordsworth the writer, the
personal relationships that nourished his creativity are fully
treated, as are the historical circumstances that affected the
production of his poetry. Wordsworth, it is widely believed, valued
poetic spontaneity. He did, but he also took pains over every
detail of the process of publication. The foundation of this second
edition of the biography remains, as it was of the first, a
conviction that Wordsworth's poetry, which has given pleasure and
comfort to generations of readers in the past, will continue to do
so in the years to come.
Specially commissioned essays cover the important aspects of Wordsworth's life and work. The volume examines his poetic achievement with chapters on poetic craft, the origin of his poetry and the challenges it presents. The book offers students informative supplementary material on Wordsworth's life and critical reception.
Specially commissioned essays cover the important aspects of Wordsworth's life and work. The volume examines his poetic achievement with chapters on poetic craft, the origin of his poetry and the challenges it presents. The book offers students informative supplementary material on Wordsworth's life and critical reception.
This book explores the nature of, and conditions for, theoretical
innovation in international studies. Highlighting classic and new
research problems, this collection of critically minded, original
essays pushes international relations scholarship in uncharted
directions. Bridging social theory and international relations
theory, it searches for sources of intellectual innovation in the
everyday lives of ordinary people. The seventeen contributors are
drawn from four continents and include such leading scholars as
Richard Falk, James Rosenau, Yoshikazu Sakamoto, and Susan Strange.
Although a diverse group, they find the contemporary world order is
in the throes of a structural transformation, which can be partly
understood in terms of emancipation: the self-actualisation of
human potential and community that looks beyond the current era in
which neo-liberal globalisation is dominant, to a more democratic
and just world order.
This collection of original essays is the first attempt to explore the relationship between theoretical innovation in international studies and historical transformations. Leading scholars reflect on the flux, uncertainty and transformation of world orders, and sketch the contours of the emerging world order. The contributions revolve around four specific themes: the remaking of global theory; structural change in political economy and ecology in an age of globalization; social movements of transformation and emancipation; and reflection on world order in the next century.
The essays collected here relate the writings of Antonio Gramsci and others to the contemporary reconstruction of historical materialist theories of international relations. The contributors analyze the contradiction between globalizing and territorially based social and political forces in the context of past, present, and future world orders, and view the emerging world order as undergoing a structural transformation, a "triple crisis" involving economic, political and "socio-cultural" change. The prevailing trend of the 1980s and early 1990s toward the marketization and commodification of social relations leads the contributors to argue that socialism needs to be redefined away from the totalizing visions associated with Marxism-Leninism, toward the idea of the self defense of society and social choice to counter the disintegrating and atomizing effects of globalizing and unplanned market forces.
American Hegemony and the Trilateral Commission, first published in
1991, makes an original contribution to a subject of great interest
to specialists and students of international relations and
international political economy - the extent and nature of America
as an international power and a hegemonic state up until the end of
the 1980s. In examining the role of the USA in the post-war world
order, Stephen Gill challenges arguments concerning the relative
decline of American hegemony. He maintains that instead of equating
hegemony with the dominance of one state over other states, one
should redefine the question of hegemony in terms of the
relationship between economic, military, cultural and political
forces. Gill also develops a concept of transnational hegemony -
the rise in the power of internationally mobile capital.
An introduction to Wordsworth's greatest poem, its creation, historical context, structure and reception history. Stephen Gill places The Prelude in the context of Wordsworth's life, and discusses the various states in which it survives. He gives an account of each book of the 1805 poem, and provides detailed discussion of its blank verse and of the religious viewpoint of the whole. The final chapter is a survey of the work's scholarly and critical reception.
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Oliver Twist (Paperback)
Charles Dickens; Edited by Kathleen Tillotson; Introduction by Stephen Gill
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Oliver Twist is a classic tale of a boy of unknown parentage born
in a workhouse and brought up under the cruel conditions to which
pauper children were exposed in the Victorian England. With this
novel, Dickens did not merely write a topical satire on the
workhouse system and the role of the 1834 New Poor Law in fostering
criminality. He created a moral fable about the survival of good, a
romance, and a gripping story in which he exploited suspense and
violence more effectively than any of his contemporaries. The new
Oxford World's Classics edition of Oliver Twist is based on the
authoritative Clarendon edition, which uses Dickens's revised text
of 1846. It includes his preface of 1841 in which he defended
himself against hostile criticism, and includes all twenty-four
original illustrations by George Cruikshank. Stephen Gill's
groundbreaking introduction gives a fascinating new account of the
novel. He also provides appendices on Dickens and Cruikshank, on
Dickens's Preface and the Newgate Novel Controversy, on Oliver
Twist and the New Poor Law, and on thieves' slang.
This path-breaking collection analyses the dialectic between legal
and constitutional innovations intended to inscribe corporate power
and market disciplines in world order, and the potential for
challenges and alternative frameworks of governance to emerge. It
provides a comprehensive approach to neo-liberal constitutionalism
and regulation and limits to policy autonomy of states, and how
this disciplines populations according to the intensifying demands
of corporations and market forces in global market civilization.
Contributors examine global and local public policy challenges and
consider if the ongoing crises of capitalism and world order offer
states and societies opportunities to challenge this loss of policy
autonomy and potentially to refashion world order. Integrating
approaches to governance and world order from both leading and
emerging scholars, this is an innovative, indispensable source for
policy-makers, civil society organizations, professionals and
students in law, politics, economics, sociology, philosophy and
international relations.
"This groundbreaking collection on global leadership features
innovative and critical perspectives by scholars from international
relations, political economy, medicine, law and philosophy, from
North and South. The book's novel theorization of global leadership
is situated historically within the classics of modern political
theory and sociology, relating it to the crisis of global
capitalism today. Contributors reflect on the multiple political,
economic, social, ecological and ethical crises that constitute our
current global predicament. The book suggests that there is an
overarching condition of global organic crisis, which shapes the
political and organizational responses of the dominant global
leadership and of various subaltern forces. Contributors argue that
to meaningfully address the challenges of the global crisis will
require far more effective, inclusive and legitimate forms of
global leadership and global governance than have characterized the
neoliberal era"--
This groundbreaking collection on global leadership features
innovative and critical perspectives by scholars from international
relations, political economy, medicine, law and philosophy, from
North and South. The book's novel theorization of global leadership
is situated historically within the classics of modern political
theory and sociology, relating it to the crisis of global
capitalism today. Contributors reflect on the multiple political,
economic, social, ecological and ethical crises that constitute our
current global predicament. The book suggests that there is an
overarching condition of global organic crisis, which shapes the
political and organizational responses of the dominant global
leadership and of various subaltern forces. Contributors argue that
to meaningfully address the challenges of the global crisis will
require far more effective, inclusive and legitimate forms of
global leadership and global governance than have characterized the
neoliberal era.
One of the most enduringly popular of the Romantic poets, William
Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of
the natural world and his belief in the importance of feeling. This
volume brings together a rich selection from the most creative
period of Wordsworth's life? from ?Tintern Abbey, ? an ode on the
restorative powers of nature written during his intense friendship
with Coleridge, to excerpts from his epic autobiographical poem,
"The Prelude." Also included are much-loved short works such as ?I
wandered as lonely as a Cloud, ? ?Composed Upon Westminster Bridge,
? and the poignant ?Lucy Gray.? These poems demonstrate
Wordsworth's astonishing range, power, and inventiveness, and the
sustained and captivating vision that informed his work.
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Selected Poetry (Paperback)
William Wordsworth; Edited by Stephen Gill, Duncan Wu
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Wordsworth (1770-1850) is one of the most important and enduringly
popular of all the English poets. Wordsworth's verse declares a
belief in the power of poetry to teach by appealing to the
imagination and to the `grand elementary principle of pleasure, by
which man knows, and feels, and lives, and moves'. His unique
relationship with the poet and political activist Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, founded in the political and social ferment of 1795,
produced a revolution in literature, resulting in the joint volume,
Lyrical Ballads (1798-1805) - a landmark in the history of English
Romanticism. In this edition the poems are given in the texts in
which they first appeared, and were appreciated by Keats, Shelley,
Hazlitt and other contemporaries. This selection, chosen from the
Oxford Authors critical edition, includes all Wordsworth's finest
lyrics, and a large sample of The Prelude (1805), his extraordinary
autobiographical poem in blank verse and the first truly great
acheivement of a new era in English ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100
years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range
of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume
reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most
accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including
expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to
clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and
much more.
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Hackney Kisses (Hardcover)
Timothy Prus; Edited by Stephen Gill; Produced by Stephen Gill
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British documentary photographer and artist Stephen Gill (born
1971) presents a collection of found photographs from postwar
Hackney, a borough in East London, in the 1950s. Photographer
unknown, these high-quality, medium-format images all depict
couples kissing on their wedding days, surrounded by overexposed
wedding cakes, guests and decadent flower arrangements.
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The Major Works (Paperback)
William Wordsworth; Edited by Stephen Gill
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This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed
Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank
Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Wordsworth's
poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by important
letters, prefaces, and essays - to give the essence of his work and
thinking. William Wordsworth (1770-1850) has long been one of the
best-known and best-loved English poets. The Lyrical Ballads,
written with Coleridge, is a landmark in the history of English
romantic poetry. His celebration of nature and of the beauty and
poetry in the commonplace embody a unified and coherent vision that
was profoundly innovative. This volume presents the poems in their
order of composition and in their earliest completed state,
enabling the reader to trace Wordsworth's poetic development and to
share the experience of his contemporaries. It includes a large
sample of the finest lyrics, and also longer narratives such as The
Ruined Cottage, Home at Grasmere, Peter Bell, and the
autobiographical masterpiece, The Prelude (1805). All the major
examples of Wordsworth's prose on the subject of poetry are also
included. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's
Classics has made available the widest range of literature from
around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's
commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a
wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions
by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text,
up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Bleak House (Paperback)
Charles Dickens; Edited by Stephen Gill
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Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a
complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - -between
the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the
powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his
attack on an uncaring society more imaginatively embodied, but
nowhere either is the mixture of comedy and angry satire more
deftly managed. Bleak House defies a single description. It is a
mystery story, in which Esther Summerson discovers the truth about
her birth and her unknown mother's tragic life. It is a murder
story, which comes to a climax in a thrilling chase, led by one of
the earliest detectives in English fiction, Inspector Bucket. And
it is a fable about redemption, in which a bleak house is
transformed by the resilience of human love. ABOUT THE SERIES: For
over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the
widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable
volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the
most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features,
including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful
notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further
study, and much more.
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The Nether World (Paperback)
George Gissing; Edited by Stephen Gill
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The Nether World (1889) is generally regarded as the finest of
Gissing's early novels. A fast moving story of highly dramatic,
sometimes violent scenes, it depicts life amongst the artisans,
factory-girls, and slum-dwellers of Clerkenwell in the 1870s. But
this is not just a novel of documentary realism. It is one man's
mordant vision - shaped by bitter personal experience of poverty -
of the quality of life endured by a variety of characters in the
nether world. With Zolaesque intensity and relentlessness, Gissing
lays bare the economic forces which determine the aspirations and
expectations of those born to a life of labour. This is a tale of
intrigue, as rapacious schemers try to wrest a fortune out of a
mysterious old man who has returned to their midst, and of thwarted
love. There is no sentimentality. This is a world in which the
strong exercise power against their own kind, scheming and
struggling for survival, a world from which, Gissing bleakly
maintains, there can be no escape. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100
years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range
of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume
reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most
accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including
expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to
clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and
much more.
Globalization involves structural changes in forms of state,
society and culture, ecology and political economy and in ethics
and expectations. In this IPE Classic, globalization and
multilateralism are linked to questions of epistemology, ontology,
and strategy, with a new Foreword and Preface. Epistemology entails
critical questioning of the nature of knowledge and its
foundations. Ontology concerns the significant factors in global
political economy. Strategy involves how to move world affairs from
its present condition towards normative goals enunciated in the
MUNS programme, so as to promote collective ability to channel
structural change in a more democratic direction.
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