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The Long Affair - Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution 1785-1800 (Paperback, Main): Conor Cruise O'Brien The Long Affair - Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution 1785-1800 (Paperback, Main)
Conor Cruise O'Brien; Introduction by Oliver Kamm
R748 Discovery Miles 7 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'A spirited attack on Thomas Jefferson . . . a quietly devastating foray into the scripture of the American Revolution.' Frank Callanan, Irish Times Thomas Jefferson, American Minister to France 1785-9, was an enthusiast for the French Revolution and believed its virtues could be exported back to an America that had waned morally since its own great revolutionary 'moment'. In this conviction Jefferson was both championing a cause and playing good populist politics. But Conor Cruise O'Brien proposes - in this magisterial 1998 work - that Jefferson's own passions waned in the America of the 1790s once French egalitarian ideals ran up against the slave-based Southern economy he supported. 'His thesis will seem like heresy to many people in America . . . but O'Brien makes out a good case.' Sunday Telegraph 'The Long Affair should be read by anyone interested in Jefferson - or in a good fight.' New York Times Book Review

The Great Melody - A Thematic Biography and Commented Anthology of Edmund Burke (Paperback, Main): Oliver Kamm The Great Melody - A Thematic Biography and Commented Anthology of Edmund Burke (Paperback, Main)
Oliver Kamm; Conor Cruise O'Brien
R928 Discovery Miles 9 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Conor Cruise O'Brien's majestic meditation on the life and writings of Burke was originally published in 1992. 'O'Brien [had] been brooding on Edmund Burke for decades. First he worked on a narrative approach and came to a standstill, he knew not why. Then, in the light of much painful observation of the world and its wickedness, he turned to a thematic treatment, inspired by Yeats's elliptic lines: "American colonies, Ireland, France and India / Harried, and Burke's great melody against it." "It", he decided, was the abuse of power.' Paul Johnson, Independent on Sunday 'The best book about Edmund Burke ever written . . . It succeeds in liberating this remarkable, tormented and brilliant man from those confusing and confining details of British high political life . . . O'Brien's version of Burke's career is a self-reflective and immensely personal one, but its authenticity penetrates to the core.' Linda Colley, Observer

Passion and Cunning - and Other Essays (Paperback, Main): Conor Cruise O'Brien Passion and Cunning - and Other Essays (Paperback, Main)
Conor Cruise O'Brien; Introduction by Oliver Kamm
R601 Discovery Miles 6 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Conor Cruise O'Brien's brilliant and hugely controversial 1965 essay on the political convictions of W. B. Yeats is the title-piece for this superb 1988 collection of pieces on politics, religion, nationalism and terrorism. 'O'Brien is a man of strong views, and he writes with verve and wit. Agree with him or not, one reads him with enjoyment.' Foreign Affairs '[Passion and Cunning] displays once again [O'Brien's] wonderful range of talents: a beautiful command of the language, gentle wit and coruscating satire, shrewd political judgment and a raking critical power. O'Brien is, moreover, a critic against all-comers, his spiky guns pointing in all directions: woe betide anyone incautious enough to presume that O'Brien is on their 'side'. . . O'Brien believes in all manner of good causes, but his own independence is finally what he cares about most.' R. W. Johnson, London Review of Books

Herod - Reflections on Political Violence (Paperback, Main): Conor Cruise O'Brien Herod - Reflections on Political Violence (Paperback, Main)
Conor Cruise O'Brien; Introduction by Oliver Kamm
R592 Discovery Miles 5 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In Herod: Reflections on Political Violence (first published in 1978) Conor Cruise O'Brien collects a number of essays alongside three short plays that dramatise political arguments through the infamous figure of the Roman king of Judaea for whom the collection is named. 'A great book. In it, O'Brien not only denounces IRA terrorism, as you would expect from a mainstream politician, but - in a sense quite different from the rationalisations offered by ideological apologists for political violence - seeks to understand it. I mean, really understand it - not extenuate it by equivocation and non sequitur. And his thinking leads him to attack the republican mythology at the heart of the Irish state. Few writers have analysed terrorism so acutely or been as effective in undermining its ideological justifications.' Oliver Kamm, from his preface to this edition

The Suspecting Glance (Paperback, Main): Conor Cruise O'Brien The Suspecting Glance (Paperback, Main)
Conor Cruise O'Brien; Introduction by Oliver Kamm
R507 Discovery Miles 5 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Suspecting Glance (first published in 1972) collects Conor Cruise O'Brien's four T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures as delivered at the University of Kent, Canterbury, in November 1969. The lectures were inspired by O'Brien's experience of holding the Albert Schweitzer Chair in Humanities at New York University from 1965-9, and there teaching students in whom he noted burning radical convictions but also a disconcerting 'lack of suspicion in those bright, young eyes'. Whereas to O'Brien's mind the 'suspecting glance' was a mark of political maturity that had to be first directed at one's own opinions prior to decrying another's. Brien's Eliot lectures were, as his friend Frank Callanan noted, a 'corrective gesture' toward his New York experience. In them he considers four writers - Machiavelli, Burke, Nietzsche, Yeats - whom he reads as being 'profoundly aware of the resource and versatility of violence and deception in man, in society, and in themselves'.

The Siege - The Saga of Israel and Zionism (Paperback, Main): Conor Cruise O'Brien The Siege - The Saga of Israel and Zionism (Paperback, Main)
Conor Cruise O'Brien; Introduction by Oliver Kamm
R931 Discovery Miles 9 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'Highly recommended . . . The title of the book reflects its focus: the international, political, religious, social, and diplomatic forces affecting the history of the Jews who identified with Zionism and later with the state of Israel.' Library Journal 'As Ireland's representative to United Nations discussions of Palestinian refugees, Conor Cruise O'Brien sat between Israel and Iraq . . . O'Brien now suggests that a solution to Middle East anguish may not even be possible. That so bleak a view is the basis for so enlightening a book can be attributed to the author's capabilities as a historian, journalist and political analyst, not to mention storyteller.' Time 'One is hard pressed to recall another [book] which deals in depth with this vast and prickly subject that is as bold or as readable.' Publishers Weekly 'It bears the mark of a restless, original, idiosyncratic mind.' Abba Eban, Los Angeles Times 'A fine work of scholarship whose analysis stands up well in the light of later events.' Oliver Kamm, from his preface to this edition

Writers and Politics - Essays and Criticism (Paperback, Main): Conor Cruise O'Brien Writers and Politics - Essays and Criticism (Paperback, Main)
Conor Cruise O'Brien; Introduction by Oliver Kamm
R596 Discovery Miles 5 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Arguably Conor Cruise O'Brien's most influential and admired book was this brilliant collection of essays - on history, literature and public affairs - first published in 1965. 'I can still remember the excitement with which I discovered a copy of Writers and Politics, in a provincial library in Devonshire thirty years ago. Nobody who tries to write about either of those subjects, or about "the bloody crossroads" where they have so often met, can disown a debt to the Cruiser.' Christopher Hitchens, London Review of Books 'When a liberal can write such pieces as "Mercy and Mercenaries", "Journal de Combat", "Varieties of Anti-Communism", "A New Yorker Critic", and "Generation of Saints", an important voice has returned to our culture.' Raymond Williams, Guardian

Camus (Paperback, Main): Conor Cruise O'Brien Camus (Paperback, Main)
Conor Cruise O'Brien; Introduction by Oliver Kamm
R432 Discovery Miles 4 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Essential reading for old fans and new admirers of Albert Camus' classic quarantine novel THE PLAGUE - a new bestseller amidst the coronavirus pandemic. 'Brilliant.' The Times 'Joyous ... A unique critical talent.' TLS Albert Camus is one of the most famous French writers of the twentieth century, a Nobel Laureate celebrated for his classic existentialist novel The Outsider and urgently relevant allegory of a pandemic, The Plague. But what about his controversial attitudes to race, especially his portrayal of Arabs versus Europeans, and French colonialism in Algeria? As provocative and brilliantly argued as it was in 1970, Conor Cruise O'Brien's Camus is a groundbreaking postcolonial critique which revolutionised how Camus was viewed by a new generation.

States of Ireland (Paperback, Main): Conor Cruise O'Brien States of Ireland (Paperback, Main)
Conor Cruise O'Brien; Introduction by Oliver Kamm
R519 Discovery Miles 5 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Written in 1972 in the wake of Bloody Sunday and direct rule, States of Ireland was Conor Cruise O'Brien's searching analysis of contemporary Irish nationalism: part-memoir, part-history, part-polemic. 'If The Great Melody (1992) is O'Brien's major academic work, States of Ireland is the one that will endure as a vital moment in Irish intellectual and political history.' Roy Foster, Standpoint 'States of Ireland [is] a book which influenced a generation. [O'Brien] saw that partition, while scarcely desirable in itself, recognized the reality of two different communities in the island, and that the Dublin state's formal irredentist claim on Northern Ireland was undemocratic and even imperialistic, as well as insincere. The republican ideology to which most Irish people paid lip service was a shirt of Nessus, he later wrote: "it clings to us and burns".' Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

To Katanga and Back - A UN Case History (Paperback, Main): Conor Cruise O'Brien To Katanga and Back - A UN Case History (Paperback, Main)
Conor Cruise O'Brien; Introduction by Oliver Kamm
R537 Discovery Miles 5 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

July 1960: The newly independent Congo is hit by the secession of its mineral rich-province Katanga, led by Moise Tshombe and backed by Belgium and Britain. June 1961: Dr Conor Cruise O'Brien arrives in Katanga as Special Representative of United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjoeld, his task (under a UN resolution) to arrest and repatriate the mercenaries and foreign interests propping up Tshombe. The consequences of this mission will prove fateful for all parties. This is the story of how a brilliant Irish diplomat found himself in Africa amid one of history's maelstroms. O'Brien reconstructs the complex, tragic, sometimes comic events of a drama in which he found himself controversially at centre stage. The result is history from the inside: a valuable study of 'the game of nations', and of the UN's unique functioning and malfunctioning.

Maria Cross - Imaginative Patterns in a Group of Catholic Writers (Paperback, Main): Conor Cruise O'Brien Maria Cross - Imaginative Patterns in a Group of Catholic Writers (Paperback, Main)
Conor Cruise O'Brien; Introduction by Oliver Kamm
R521 Discovery Miles 5 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The first literary phase in the brilliant and protean career of Conor Cruise O'Brien was his work as critic for Dublin literary magazine The Bell, which begat this collection of essays first published in 1952 (under the pseudonym 'Donat O'Donnell', as O'Brien was then a working civil servant). In it, O'Brien set himself to a study of 'the patterns of several exceptionally vivid imaginations which are permeated by Catholicism' - from Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh to Francois Mauriac and Paul Claudel - and to analyse 'what those patterns might share'. The originality and flair of Maria Cross won O'Brien many vocal admirers, among them Dag Hammarskjoeld, cerebral Secretary-General of the United Nations. 'A most interesting and at times brilliant book, admirably and wittily written.' New Statesman 'One of the most acute and stimulating books of literary criticism to be published for some years.' Spectator

Parnell and His Party, 1880-1890 (Paperback, Main): Conor Cruise O'Brien Parnell and His Party, 1880-1890 (Paperback, Main)
Conor Cruise O'Brien; Foreword by Oliver Kamm
R676 Discovery Miles 6 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Conor Cruise O'Brien's second book, published in 1957, grew out of the doctoral thesis he had submitted at Dublin's Trinity College that, in 1954, duly earned him his PhD. In Parnell and His Party, 1880-1890, O'Brien applied a finessing scholarly eye to the figure of Charles Stewart Parnell, leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party and formidable proponent of Home Rule whose career was abruptly ruined by the 'Mrs O'Shea' divorce scandal of 1890 that split his party and dominated Irish politics for a generation. For O'Brien this schism was of more than academic interest: his maternal grandfather David Sheehy was among the MPs who repudiated Parnell. 'An indispensable classic half a century after its first publication . . . a profound analysis of power and charisma in democratic politics.' Roy Foster, Standpoint 'One of the essential books of modern Irish history, a shrewd and clarifying study.' Thomas Flanagan

God Land (Hardcover, Reprint 2013 ed.): Conor Cruise O'Brien God Land (Hardcover, Reprint 2013 ed.)
Conor Cruise O'Brien
R1,879 Discovery Miles 18 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Saints and Politicians (Paperback): Donal B. Cruise O'Brien Saints and Politicians (Paperback)
Donal B. Cruise O'Brien
R974 Discovery Miles 9 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Political life among the Wolof (the largest and most powerful of Senegal's 'tribal' groups) is the principal theme of this collection of essays. The focus of study is on African political leadership, in towns and villages. Within the constraints of alien control or influence, it is argued, cultural and organisational barriers have consistently allowed a wide range of initiative to African leaders and communities in a creative and flexible adjustment to new and unfamiliar demands. Exploration of this African initiative in various contexts suggests a complex, fascinating pattern of cultural and structural interaction. The multidisciplinary approach to politics in these essays will interest historians and social anthropologists as well as political scientists. These studies are indeed relevant to any student of the problems of 'underdeveloped' societies involved in the modern state. Parts of the essays have been published elsewhere, but all have been extensively revised, updated and integrated to a coherent pattern of analysis.

Contemporary West African States (Paperback, New): Donal Cruise O'Brien, John Dunn, Richard Rathbone Contemporary West African States (Paperback, New)
Donal Cruise O'Brien, John Dunn, Richard Rathbone
R976 Discovery Miles 9 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The West African states have reached maturity. This new volume - appearing a decade after the successful West African States: Failure and Promise - provides up-to-date studies of nine states, including Chad, Burkina Faso and Cameroon, which were neglected in the earlier volume, and introduces contemporary theories of West African politics. The book reflects changes on the ground and also in academic debate, notably the remarkable retreat of dependency theory and Marxian analysis and the rise of free-market theorising by both governments and scholars. The volume also contains important observations on the political importance of religious fundamentalism in the region, and the growth of sub-national forms of political activity. The writers are well-known scholars in the field, and include contributors to the influential journal Politique Africaine. This will be a useful textbook for everyone interested in African politics, but it is also a provocative contribution to the debate on the nature of the state and political processes in Africa.

Trust - Releasing the Energy to Succeed (Hardcover): R Cruise O'Brien Trust - Releasing the Energy to Succeed (Hardcover)
R Cruise O'Brien
R1,434 Discovery Miles 14 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Today more than ever before, trust is a vital asset for gaining competitive advantage. Corporate success has never before been more dependent on first-rate people. The energy, knowledge and creativity of people as a form of capital have never had higher value for business success. Mining the passion of what people have to offer is a new asset in competition.

Written in a clear and practical way, this book considers how to build trust at work and release social capital for improving performance. It explains why loyalty is not enough, and relates trust to learning and the intrinsic motivation that releases the tacit knowledge of people on the front line.

For an organization to become successful and stay successful, there needs to be greater levels of trust. In this new era of business, a leader is no longer an isolated hero commanding from on high. Future client loyalty may have to be based on building more collaborative capital rather than relying on individual personalities.

Leaders of today are shown how to earn authority without controlling and how to develop trust through openness and excellent communication. The benefits of these lessons are considerable.

The Social Contract - AND The First and Second Discourses (Paperback): Jean Jacques Rousseau The Social Contract - AND The First and Second Discourses (Paperback)
Jean Jacques Rousseau; Edited by Susan Dunn; Contributions by Gita May, Robert N. Bellah, David Bromwich, …
R596 Discovery Miles 5 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas about society, culture, and government are pivotal in the history of political thought. His works are as controversial as they are relevant today. This volume brings together three of Rousseau's most important political writings-The Social Contract and The First Discourse (Discourse on the Sciences and Arts) and The Second Discourse (Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality)-and presents essays by major scholars that shed light on the dimensions and implications of these texts. Susan Dunn's introductory essay underlines the unity of Rousseau's political thought and explains why his ideas influenced Jacobin revolutionaries in France but repelled American revolutionaries across the ocean. Gita May's essay discusses Rousseau as cultural critic. Robert N. Bellah explores Rousseau's attempt to resolve the tension between the individual's desire for freedom and the obligations that society imposes. David Bromwich analyzes Rousseau as a psychologist of the human self. And Conor Cruise O'Brien takes on the "noxious," "deranged" Rousseau, excoriated by Edmund Burke but admired by Robespierre and Thomas Jefferson. Written from different, even opposing perspectives, these lucid essays convey a sense of the vital and contentious debate surrounding Rousseau and his legacy. For this edition Susan Dunn has provided a new translation of the Discourse on the Sciences and Arts and has revised a previously published translation of The Social Contract.

The Question of Europe (Paperback): Perry Anderson, Peter Gowan The Question of Europe (Paperback)
Perry Anderson, Peter Gowan; Contributions by Alan S. Milward, Anthony D. Smith, Conor Cruise O'Brien, …
R864 R760 Discovery Miles 7 600 Save R104 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Contemporary European politics seems to be gripped by a stifling conformism, an uninspiring uniformity of outlook which afflicts all the major parties. However, if there is one issue which does divide-though with the fault-lines within just as much as between right and left-it is the question of Europe, the future of the Union. But, for all the heat generated by the debate between Eurosceptics and Europhiles, and the vivid claims and counterclaims about federalism or the fate of national sovereignty, there is widespread public confusion about what is at issue-partly because of the opaque nature of the Community's institutions, and partly because much that is written on the subject is jargon or officalese. The Question of Europe offers an antidote, by collecting some of the liveliest and sharpest commentary on Europe, across the full political spectrum, from leading authorities in the study of history, economics, philosophy, culture and sociology. Eminent German, Italian, French, Swedish and Irish writers are included, as well as key figures from Britain and the US. Looking paranormically at the past, present and future of integration, The Question of Europe brings polemic and scholarship together to offer us a new way of approaching the Union.

The Deaths of Louis XVI - Regicide and the French Political Imagination (Paperback): Susan Dunn The Deaths of Louis XVI - Regicide and the French Political Imagination (Paperback)
Susan Dunn; Foreword by Connor Cruise O'Brien
R1,073 Discovery Miles 10 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The public beheading of Louis XVI was a unique and troubling event that scarred French collective memory for two centuries. To Jacobins, the king's decapitation was the people's coronation. To royalists, it was deicide. Nineteenth-century historians considered it an alarming miscalculation, a symbol of the Terror and the moral bankruptcy of the Revolution. By the twentieth century, Camus judged that the killing stood at the "crux of our contemporary history." In this book, Susan Dunn investigates the regicide's pivotal role in French intellectual history and political mythology. She examines how thinkers on the right and left repudiated regicide and terror, while articulating a compassionate, humanitarian vision, which became the moral basis for the modern French nation.

Their credo of fraternity and unity, however, strangely depoliticized this supremely political act of regicide. Using theoretical insights from Tocqueville, Arendt, Rawls, Walzer, and others, Dunn explores the transformation of violent regicidal politics into an apolitical cult of ethical purity and an antidemocratic nationalist religion. Her book focuses on the fluidity of political myths. The figure of Louis XVI was transmuted into a Joan of Arc and a deified nation, and the notion of his sacrifice contributed to the disquieting myth of a mystical community of self- sacrificing citizens.

Co-operation in Ireland (Hardcover): Lionel Eldred Pottinger Smith-Gordon, Francis Cruise O'Brien Co-operation in Ireland (Hardcover)
Lionel Eldred Pottinger Smith-Gordon, Francis Cruise O'Brien; Created by Co-operative Union Ltd
R829 Discovery Miles 8 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Co-operation in Ireland (Hardcover): Lionel Smith-Gordon, Cruise O'brien Co-operation in Ireland (Hardcover)
Lionel Smith-Gordon, Cruise O'brien
R829 Discovery Miles 8 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Co-operative Mills and Bakeries ... (Paperback): Cruise O'brien Co-operative Mills and Bakeries ... (Paperback)
Cruise O'brien
R420 Discovery Miles 4 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Together - Life in a Dorset Village (Paperback): Rita Cruise O'Brien Together - Life in a Dorset Village (Paperback)
Rita Cruise O'Brien
R311 Discovery Miles 3 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Clerical Influences; an Essay on Irish Sectarianism and English Government. By W.E.H. Lecky. Ed. With an Introduction by W.E.G.... Clerical Influences; an Essay on Irish Sectarianism and English Government. By W.E.H. Lecky. Ed. With an Introduction by W.E.G. Lloyd and F. Cruise O'Brien, M.A (Hardcover)
William Edward Hartpole Lecky, W E G Lloyd, F Cruise O'Brien
R797 Discovery Miles 7 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Co-operative Mills and Bakeries ... (Hardcover): Cruise O'brien Co-operative Mills and Bakeries ... (Hardcover)
Cruise O'brien
R794 Discovery Miles 7 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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