Comparative History – alle Bücher und CDs, Seite 4

Ewa Atanassow
Tocqueville's Dilemmas, and Ours

How Tocqueville's ideas can help us build resilient liberal democracies in a divided worldHow can today's liberal democracies withstand the illiberal wave sweeping the globe? What can revive our waning fa…

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Christian Joppke
Political Neoliberalism

In Political Neoliberalism, Christian Joppke tackles one of the most disputed concepts in current social thought, arguing that neoliberalism is a useful lens to make sense of a wide range of political phe…

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Iván de la Nuez,
Theory of the Rearguard

"Theory of the Rearguard examines how contemporary art is in tension with survival, rather than in relation to life. In the twentieth century, Peter Bèurger's Theory of the Avant-Garde was a cult boo…

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Matteo Bonotti, Zim Nwokora
Money, Parties, and Democracy

This book evaluates political finance rules and party systems in terms of three distinctive normative dimensions, which capture what parties, at their best, can contribute to democratic politics. Based on…

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Tim Kane
The Immigrant Superpower

In The Immigrant Superpower, Tim Kane argues that immigration has long been a source of American strength and that exceptional immigrants have been crucial to American exceptionalism. Deftly combining sto…

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Ruixue Jia, Hongbin Li, Claire Cousineau
The Highest Exam

The Highest Exam provides a detailed, research-driven survey of the gaokao, China's high-stakes college entrance exam. Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li-past test-takers themselves-show how the exam system shapes…

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Ned Curthoys
The Bildungsroman in a Genocidal Age

Explores influential historical fictions about the Holocaust that deploy narrative strategies of the Bildungsroman in which a perpetrator or complicit protagonist interrogates their own past and questions…

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Helge Kragh
The Names of Science

The history of science is echoed in the development of its language and the names chosen for its technical terms. This book examines in detail how new words entered the scientific vocabulary and how some,…

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Dk
The Politics Book

From ancient and medieval philosophers such as Confucius and Thomas Aquinas, to revolutionary thought leaders such as Thomas Jefferson and Leon Trotsky, to the voices who have shaped modern politics today…

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Dk
The Politics Book

From ancient and medieval philosophers such as Confucius and Thomas Aquinas, to revolutionary thought leaders such as Thomas Jefferson and Leon Trotsky, to the voices who have shaped modern politics today…

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Kitty Millet,
Kabbalah and Literature

Focuses on a range of Jewish and non-Jewish writers in Europe and the Americas to examine the intersection of Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition, and secular Jewish literatures.

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Hana Videen
The Deorhord

An entertaining tour of Old English words for animals, from the author of The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old EnglishMany of the animals we encounter in everyday life, from pets and farm animals to the wild c…

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Dan Slater, Joseph Wong
From Development to Democracy

Why some of Asia's authoritarian regimes have democratized as they have grown richer-and why others haven'tOver the past century, Asia has been transformed by rapid economic growth, industrialization, and…

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Paul A Rahe
Sparta's Third Attic War

When the great war pitting the Athenians against the Peloponnesians first erupted, Pericles told his compatriots that, if they kept up their navy, focused on the conflict at hand, and refrained from wasti…

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Dennis Yi Tenen
Literary Theory for Robots

Literary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking readers on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past Holl…

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William E Connolly
Stormy Weather

This counter-history of western thought explores how a Christian cosmology supported the conquest of paganism in Europe and the Americas, sowed seeds of climate wreckage, complemented capitalist ravages, …

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Kevin D Pham
The Architects of Dignity

The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization is the first book in political theory about Vietnamese political thought. It traces an intergenerational debate among six major political fi…

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Haun Saussy
The Making of Barbarians

A groundbreaking account of translation and identity in the Chinese literary tradition before 1850—with important ramifications for today Debates on the canon, multiculturalism, and world literature ofte…

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William E Connolly
Stormy Weather

"Stormy Weather maps the connections between the civilizational project and its spectacular failure for life on earth. Connolly examines the cosmological origins of this fateful existential blockage …

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Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way
Revolution and Dictatorship

Why the world’s most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolution Revolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social revolution—such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the So…

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