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Why does 1919 deserve further study and debate 100 years later?
What lessons for global history may we learn from the world order
created at the end of the Great War? Drawing insight from the
global turn of the past several decades that has forced us to
reconsider the most important world events and processes since the
French Revolution and especially the growing interest in World War
I as a global conflict that extended far beyond the borders of
Europe, this volume explores the global political ramifications of
the treaties prepared at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 by
focusing on key topics: How the Paris Peace Conference re-shaped
the geo-political configurations of the Middle East, the importance
of transformations in Asia and particularly China in the immediate
post-war period, the shifts in south-eastern Europe, new feminist
movements in Central Europe, and the pre-history of neo-liberalism.
Read together, the papers demonstrate how the peace treaties signed
in 1919 and 1920 marked a profound transformation on local,
national, continental, and global scales.
This book is the product of the good will and hardwork of many
people. The contributors, all recognized experts in their fields,
are thanked for providing thoughtful, informative chapters and for
accommodating editorial suggestions and revisions. Westview Press
is thanked for providing the opportunity to address a serious
omission in the energy literature. The Geography Department at the
University of Maryland made a similarly generous commitment of
secretarial staff and faciltiies. Allen Eney aided in the
construction of computerized maps. Many skilled, conscientious
individuals at state energy offices, public utility commissions,
the U.S. Department of Energy, and other organizations supplied
essential data and produced many of the analytic studies that
underlie the contents of the book. Patti Leedham provided patient
and expert typing through numerous revisions of the chapters and
many tables. Patricia Sawyer provided essential guidance, support,
and proofreading throughout the entire effort.
The work of Pierre Rosanvallon has increasingly found itself at the
center of debates in democratic and political theory - although
only few of his numerous monographs have thus far been translated
from French. This interdisciplinary volume, the first comprehensive
collection on his political thought in English, seeks to lay the
groundwork for the study of this eminent political thinker and
historian. Following a hitherto untranslated opening essay by
Rosanvallon, the chapters - written from a variety of disciplinary
perspectives including political theory, political science,
philosophy, and history - cover a wide range of topics from the
history of democracy to sovereignty, populism, and the function of
the press in liberal democratic regimes.
An exploration of hypothetical turning points in history from
Ancient Greece to September 11 What if history, as we know it, had
run another course? Touching on alternate histories of the future
and the past, or uchronias, A Past of Possibilities encourages
deeper consideration of watershed moments in the course of history.
Wide-ranging in scope, it examines the Boxer Rebellion in China,
the 1848 revolution in France, and the assassination of Archduke
Franz Ferdinand in 1914, and integrates science fiction, history,
historiography, sociology, anthropology, and film. In probing the
genre of literature and history that is fascinated with
hypotheticals surrounding key points in history, Quentin Deluermoz
and Pierre Singaravelou reach beyond a mere reimagining of history,
exploring the limits and potentials of the futures past. From the
most bizarre fiction to serious scientific hypothesis, they provide
a survey of the uses of counterfactual histories, methodological
issues on the possible in social sciences, and practical proposals
for using alternate histories in research and the wider public.
Three years before his death, Michel Foucault delivered a series of
lectures at the Catholic University of Louvain that until recently
remained almost unknown. These lectures--which focus on the role of
avowal, or confession, in the determination of truth and
justice--provide the missing link between Foucault's early work on
madness, delinquency, and sexuality and his later explorations of
subjectivity in Greek and Roman antiquity. Ranging broadly from
Homer to the twentieth century, Foucault traces the early use of
truth-telling in ancient Greece and follows it through to practices
of self-examination in monastic times. By the nineteenth century,
the avowal of wrongdoing was no longer sufficient to satisfy the
call for justice; there remained the question of who the "criminal"
was and what formative factors contributed to his wrong-doing. The
call for psychiatric expertise marked the birth of the discipline
of psychiatry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as well as
its widespread recognition as the foundation of criminology and
modern criminal justice. Published here for the first time, the
1981 lectures have been superbly translated by Stephen W. Sawyer
and expertly edited and extensively annotated by Fabienne Brion and
Bernard E. Harcourt. They are accompanied by two contemporaneous
interviews with Foucault in which he elaborates on a number of the
key themes. An essential companion to Discipline and Punish,
Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling will take its place as one of the most
significant works of Foucault to appear in decades, and will be
necessary reading for all those interested in his thought.
Few philosophers have garnered as much attention globally as Michel
Foucault. But even within this wide reception, the consideration
given to his relationship to neoliberalism has been noteworthy.
However, the debate over this relationship has given rise to a
great deal of polemics and confusion. This volume brings together
leading figures in the field to provide a reliable guide to one of
the most controversial subjects in recent continental thought. It
puts across the case for Foucault's importance for post-colonial,
race, queer and feminist studies, among other areas, and opens up
his relationship to neoliberalism to offer a broader picture of
tensions brewing within the left more generally.
Few philosophers have garnered as much attention globally as Michel
Foucault. But even within this wide reception, the consideration
given to his relationship to neoliberalism has been noteworthy.
However, the debate over this relationship has given rise to a
great deal of polemics and confusion. This volume brings together
leading figures in the field to provide a reliable guide to one of
the most controversial subjects in recent continental thought. It
puts across the case for Foucault's importance for post-colonial,
race, queer and feminist studies, among other areas, and opens up
his relationship to neoliberalism to offer a broader picture of
tensions brewing within the left more generally.
Previous studies have covered in great detail how the modern state
slowly emerged from the early Renaissance through the seventeenth
century, but we know relatively little about the next great act:
the birth and transformation of the modern democratic state. And in
an era where our democratic institutions are rife with conflict,
it’s more important now than ever to understand how our
institutions came into being. Stephen W. Sawyer’s Demos Assembled
provides us with a fresh, transatlantic understanding of that
political order’s genesis. While the French influence on American
political development is well understood, Sawyer sheds new light on
the subsequent reciprocal influence that American thinkers and
politicians had on the establishment of post-revolutionary regimes
in France. He argues that the emergence of the stable Third
Republic (1870–1940), which is typically said to have been driven
by idiosyncratic internal factors, was in fact a deeply
transnational, dynamic phenomenon. Sawyer’s findings reach beyond
their historical moment, speaking broadly to conceptions of state
formation: how contingent claims to authority, whether grounded in
violence or appeals to reason and common cause, take form as
stateness.
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