Author: Duane R. BogenschneiderPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
The Gerritsen Collection of Women's History, 1543-1945
Author: Duane R. BogenschneiderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
The Democratic Paradox
Author: Chantal MouffePublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1789604710
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
From the theory of 'deliberative democracy' to the politics of the 'third way', the present Zeitgeist is characterized by attempts to deny what Chantal Mouffe contends is the inherently conflictual nature of democratic politics. Far from being signs of progress, such ideas constitute a serious threat to democratic institutions. Taking issue with John Rawls and Jrgen Habermas on one side, and the political tenets of Blair, Clinton and Schrder on the other, Mouffe brings to the fore the paradoxical nature of modern liberal democracy in which the category of the 'adversary' plays a central role. She draws on the work of Wittgenstein, Derrida, and the provocative theses of Carl Schmitt, to propose a new understanding of democracy which acknowledges the ineradicability of antagonism in its workings.
For the Common Good
Author: Jelle HaemersPublisher: Brepols Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
In 1477, the Low Countries were in chaos. On 5 January Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, was killed in the battle of Nancy. His political adversaries used this fortuitous opportunity to reverse his much-hated policies. The late duke's confidents were executed, as nobles fled from court.The French king declared war on Charles' heir, Mary of Burgundy, and the cities rose in rebellion against the duchy. United in their opposition to the ducal court, the Estates-General instituted a new state structure which severely reduced the power of the central state. The duchess' new husband, Maximilian of Austria, was never able to dictate war policy nor appease the discontent of the populace, because his first priority was to strengthen the power of the Habsburg dynasty. In 1482, when Mary of Burgundy died after a tragic fall from her horse, revolt again spread across the county of Flanders. In this dramatic crisis that would last for a decade, central authority was again challenged by a political alternative, the Flemish regency council. This book examines the people behind the revolt.From a murky background of conflicting loyalties, it identifies the principal allies of the Habsburg dynasty and key political adversaries of Maximilian in the Flemish cities. An in-depth analysis of their lives and their socio-economic and cultural backgrounds on the eve of the Flemish Revolt elucidates their reasons for rebelling or remaining loyal to court.By focusing on disloyal nobles at court and urban dissenters in the county of Flanders, this book goes beyond previous studies of the revolt and offers new insights into the social history of medieval politics. In the end, readers will discover whether the court, the nobility, and the urban rebels were really striving for the goal they claimed, the common good.
A TREATISE ON THE BITS OF HORSES
Author: BRACY CLARKAn Essay of the Bots of Horses, and Other Animals
Author: Bracy ClarkEnglish Reformed Church Amsterdam
Author: Shaping History
Author: Wayne Ph Te BrakePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520213181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
"A superb synthesis of popular politics in early modern western and central Europe. . . . Te Brake has cut across the barriers to find common properties and principles of variation in the politics of ordinary people."—Charles Tilly, Columbia University
A Book of Types, Borders, Ornaments, Brass Rule, Printing Materials and the Like for Printerdom
Author: H.C. Hansen Type FoundryPublisher:
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Category : Printers' ornaments
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
A Manual of Pharmacy, for the student of veterinary medicine, etc
Author: William John Thomas MORTONPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Cities And The Rise Of States In Europe, A.d. 1000 To 1800
Author: Charles TillyPublisher: Westview Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The rise of large, powerful states in Europe after 1000 a.d. transformed life across the Continent and eventually through the whole world. The new European states disposed of unprecedented stores of capital and vast military capacities.In recent decades, scholars have often drawn general models of state formation from the European experience after 1700, then applied them with only partial success to other parts of the world. Although such studies of modern Europe improved on early theories of modernization and development, they failed to accommodate the varied ways in which city-states, empires, federations, centralized states, and other forms of government evolved and the pivotal role that cities played in the multiple paths to state formation.In a sweeping, original work detailing eight centuries of city-state relations, Charles Tilly, Wim P. Blockmans, and their contributors document differences in political trajectories from one part of Europe to another and provide authoritative surveys of urbanization in nine major regions; they also suggest many correctives to previous analyses of state formation. They show that the variable distribution of cities significantly and independently constrained state formation and that states grew differently according to the character of urban networks in a given region. Their systematic study shows that unilinear models of state transformation underestimate the contingency and variability of popular and elite compliance with state-building activities. The book's findings offer important implications for the nature of economy, sovereignty, warfare, state power, and social change throughout the world.