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  • The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race

    A Political History of Racial Identity

    by Bruce Baum ...
    "Add[s] a needed dimension to the study of race in political science that scholars beyond the field of theory will take to heart." — Perspectives on PoliticsThe term "Caucasian" is a curious invention of the modern age. Originating in 1795, the word identifies both the peoples of the Caucasus Mountains region as well as those thought to be Caucasian. Bruce Baum explores the history of the term and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Isaiah Berlin and the Politics of Freedom

    ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’ 50 Years Later

    Edited by Bruce Baum, Robert Nichols ...
    Series series Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
    Since his death in 1997, Isaiah Berlin’s writings have generated continual interest among scholars and educated readers, especially in regard to his ideas about liberalism, value pluralism, and "positive" and "negative" liberty. Most books on Berlin have examined his general political theory, but this volume uses a contemporary perspective to focus specifically on his ideas about freedom and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Behavior, Health, and Aging

    Edited by Stephen B. Manuck, Richard Jennings, Bruce Rabin, Andrew S. Baum ...
    Series series Perspectives on Behavioral Medicine Series
    A dramatic shift in the average age of the U.S. population and the increasing number of elderly Americans has introduced new and challenging healthcare dilemmas. This book addresses these issues with contributed chapters by the leading authorities in the field of behavioral medicine. It deals with health and healthcare needs of the elderly by considering basic changes that result from aging and ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Racially Writing the Republic

    Racists, Race Rebels, and Transformations of American Identity

    by John Kuo Wei Tchen, Laura Janara ...
    Racially Writing the Republic investigates the central role of race in the construction and transformation of American national identity from the Revolutionary War era to the height of the civil rights movement. Drawing on political theory, American studies, critical race theory, and gender studies, the contributors to this collection highlight the assumptions of white (and often male) supremacy ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Ideology is one of the most controversial terms in the political vocabulary, exciting both revulsion and inspiration. This book examines the reasons for those views, and explains why ideologies deserve respect as a major form of political thinking. It investigates the centrality of ideology both as a political phenomenon and as an organizing framework of political thought and action. It explores ... Read more

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  • The Problem with Work

    Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries

    by Kathi Weeks ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labor, is inherently a social and political good. While progressive political movements, including the Marxist and feminist movements, have fought for equal pay, better work conditions, and the recognition of unpaid work as a valued form of labor, even they have tended to accept work as a naturalized or ... Read more

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  • Enlightenment's Wake

    Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age

    by John Gray ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    John Gray is the bestselling author of such books as Straw Dogs and Al Qaeda and What it Means to be Modern whichbrought a mainstream readership to a man who was already one of the UK's most well respected thinkers and political theorists.Gray wrote Enlightenment’s Wake in 1995 – six years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and six years before the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. ... Read more

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  • Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital

    by Vivek Chibber ...
    Postcolonial theory has become enormously influential as a framework for understanding the Global South. It is also a school of thought popular because of its rejection of the supposedly universalizing categories of the Enlightenment. In this devastating critique, mounted on behalf of the radical Enlightenment tradition, Vivek Chibber offers the most comprehensive response yet to postcolonial ... Read more

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  • Francis Fukuyama

    and the end of history

    by Howard Williams, E Gwynn Matthews, David Sullivan, E. Gwynn Matthews ...
    Series Book 1 - Political Philosophy Now
    Fukuyama's concept of the End of History has been one of the most widely debated theories of international politics since the end of the Cold War. This book discusses Fukuyama's claim that liberal democracy alone is able to satisfy the human aspiration for freedom and dignity, and explores the way in which his thinking is part of a philosophical tradition which includes Kant, Hegel and Marx. Two ... Read more

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  • The Dark Side of Modernity

    by Jeffrey C. Alexander ...
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  • Keeping Faith

    Philosophy and Race in America

    by Cornel West ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    'The sheer range of West's interests and insights is staggering and exemplary: he appears equally comfortable talking about literature, ethics, art, jurisprudence, religion, and popular-cultural forms.' - ArtforumKeeping Faith is a rich, moving and deeply personal collection of essays from one of the leading African American intellectuals of our age. Drawing upon the traditions of Western ... Read more

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  • Power

    Its Forms, Bases and Uses

    by Dennis Wrong ...
    In one grand effort, this is an anatomy of power, a history of the ways in which it has been defined, and a study of its forms (force, manipulation, authority, and persuasion), its bases (individual and collective resources, political mobilization), and its uses. The issues that Dennis Wrong addresses range from the philosophical and ethical to the psychological and political. Much of the work is ... Read more

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