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Preface to American Political Theory
Häftad, 1992
334 kr
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American political theory needs to be rescued from the undeserved status of a subordinate subfield of political theory, contends Donald Lutz. And so in ""A Preface to American Political Theory"" he sets out to emancipate American political theorists from empiricism and inappropriate European …
Framed for Posterity
Enduring Philosophy of the Constitution
Inbunden, 1993
580 kr
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In Marbury v. Madison, Chief Justice John Marshall defined the Constitution as ""a superior, paramount law"", one that supersedes the laws passed by Congress and state legislatures. What makes it paramount? This book sets out to recover the enduring principles, purposes, and meanings that inform …
Dance with Community
The Contemporary Debate in American Political Thought
Häftad, 1991
334 kr
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Surveys more than 100 theories of community, taken from political, sociological, philosophical and theological thought, and backed by a bibliography of over 300 entries. Fowler proposes the idea of existential community as an alternative to liberalism and the standard communitarian ideal.
If Men Were Angels
James Madison and the Heartless Empire of Reason
Inbunden, 1995
665 kr
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This is a study of James Madison, a central figure in American History. It illuminates his impact upon the America imagined by the farmers, his ongoing influence on the nation and the tragedy of his success in foreclosing the possibility of a radical Jeffersonian America that never was.
George Washington and American Constitutionalism
Häftad, 1993
353 kr
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This text offers an understanding of George Washington and the history and government he helped to make. Phelps makes the case for the President's decisive importance to the development of American constitutional republicanism with emphasis on the strength and coherence of Washington's political …
Brandeis
Beyond Progressivism
Häftad, 1993
353 kr
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A biography of the life and work of Louis Brandeis who became the first Jewish justice on his appointment to the US Supreme Court in 1916. A crusader for progressive causes, he helped draft social-welfare and labour legislation.
Learning of Liberty
Educational Ideas of the American Founders
Av Lorraine Smith Pangle, Thomas L. Pangle
Häftad, 1993
407 kr
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This work offers an analysis of the educational ideas of the Founders of the new American nation, seeing in their writings precedents for some modern dilemmas.
Our Limits Transgressed
Environmental Political Thought in America
Häftad, 1992
334 kr
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This is a critique of most of the major environmental writers of this century; it offers a set of political criteria for assessing their contributions.
Revolt Against Modernity
Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, and the Search for a Postliberal Order
Häftad, 1996
419 kr
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Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss are two of the most provocative and durable political philosophers of this century. Ted McAllister's superbly written study provides the first comprehensive comparison of their thought and its profound influence on contemporary American conservatism.Since the …
American Compact
James Madison and the Problem of Founding
Av Gary Rosen
Inbunden, 1999
651 kr
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In a study that combines textual analysis with deep historical awareness, Gary Rosen shows the philosophical consistency in Madison's long and controversial public life.
Republican Empire
Alexander Hamilton on War and Free Government
Inbunden, 1999
709 kr
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A conversation about war and freedom between founder Alexander Hamilton and the Loyalists, Anti-Federalists, Jeffersonians and other Federalists. Instead of pitting Hamilton's virtues against his opponents' vices, it pits his virtue of responsibility against the revolutionary virtue of vigilance.
Dark Side of the Left
Illiberal Egalitarianism in America
Häftad, 1998
419 kr
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Why do people who identify themselves as liberal or egalitarian sometimes embrace intolerance or even preach violence? This book examines the illiberal tendencies of egalitarian movements in American history, from the radical abolitionists of the 1830s, to the New Left activists of the 1960s.
Great Chief Justice
John Marshall and the Rule of Law
Häftad, 1996
353 kr
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From the Revolution to the Age of Jackson, John Marshall played a crucial role in defining the ""province of the judiciary"" and the constitutional limits of legislative action. This book clarifies the coherence of Marshall's jurisprudence, while keeping in sight the man as well as the jurist.
Henry Adams
The Historian As Political Theorist
Inbunden, 2001
329 kr
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Henry Adams has been a neglected figure in recent years. The Education of Henry Adams is widely accepted as a classic of American letters, but his other work is little read except by specialists. His brilliant journalism is out of print, while Mont Saint Michel and Chartres and the novels Democracy …
Lincoln and Davis
Imagining America, 1809-1865
Inbunden, 2001
619 kr
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Both Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis are locked in the American psyche as iconic symbols of victory and defeat. The author contests that these images tend to obscure the larger visions that compelled both men to pursue their policies and actions, resulting in the American civil war.
John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty
Inbunden, 1998
461 kr
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America's finest eighteenth-century student of political science, John Adams is also the least studied of the Revolution's key figures. By the time he became our second president, no American had written more about our government and not even Jefferson or Madison had read as widely about questions …
Patriot Fires
Forging a New American Nationalism in the Civil War North
Inbunden, 2002
619 kr
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The Civil War is often credited with giving birth to the modern American state. The demands of warfare led to the centralization of business and industry and to an unprecedented expansion of federal power. But the Civil War did more than that: as Melinda Lawson shows, it brought about a change in …
States' Rights and the Union
Imperium in Imperio, 1776-1876
Häftad, 2000
431 kr
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Forrest McDonald has long been recognized as one of our most respected and provocative intellectual historians. With this new book, he once again delivers an illuminating meditation on a major theme in American history and politics.Elegantly and accessibly written for a broad readership, McDonald's …
Citizenship and Democratic Doubt
The Legacy of Progressive Thought
Inbunden, 2004
632 kr
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Much of the world today views America as an imperialist nation bent on global military, economic, and cultural domination. At home few share this negative view, largely because of a widespread belief in the irreproachable purity of our goals. Bob Pepperman Taylor, however, argues that our moral …
Benjamin Franklin Unmasked
On the Unity of His Moral, Religious, and Political Thought
Inbunden, 2005
656 kr
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Moral paragon, public servant, founding father; scoundrel, opportunist, womanizing phony: There are many Benjamin Franklins. Now, as we celebrate the tercentenary of Franklin's birth, Jerry Weinberger reveals the Franklin behind the many masks and shows that the real Franklin was far more …
Patriot Fires
Forging a New American Nationalism in the Civil War North
Häftad, 2002
334 kr
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Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth
Häftad, 2002
440 kr
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Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth explores the shifting reputation of our most controversial founding father. Since the day Aaron Burr fired his fatal shot, Americans have tried to come to grips with Alexander Hamilton's legacy. Stephen Knott surveys the Hamilton image in the minds of …
Conceiving a New Republic
The Republican Party and the Southern Question, 1869-1900
Inbunden, 2006
682 kr
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During the late nineteenth century, Republicans struggled to reinvent America in the wake of civil war - and were consumed by the question of how the South should fit within the reconstituted Union. But the unity that Republicans had shown during the war was far from evident in facing this new …
Peace Pact
The Lost World of the American Founding
Häftad, 2003
427 kr
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That New England might invade Virginia is inconceivable today. But interstate rivalries and the possibility of intersectional war loomed large in the thinking of the Framers who convened in Philadelphia in 1787 to put on paper the ideas that would bind the federal union together. At the end of the …
African American Environmental Thought
Foundations
Inbunden, 2007
632 kr
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African American intellectual thought has long provided a touchstone for national politics and civil rights, but, as Kimberly Smith reveals, it also has much to say about our relationship to nature. In this first single-authored book to link African American and environmental studies, Smith …
Social Contract in America
From the Revolution to the Present Age
Inbunden, 2007
651 kr
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Because most Americans believe that government requires the consent of the governed, the idea of the social contract may come as close to a public philosophy as we've ever had. And, as Mark Hulliung reminds us, we have frequently fought our greatest political battles by wielding one or another …
Benjamin Franklin Unmasked
On the Unity of His Moral, Religious, and Political Thought
Häftad, 2005
440 kr
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Reveals the Benjamin Franklin behind the many masks and shows that the real Franklin was far more remarkable than anyone has yet discovered. The author shows us a powerful intellect lurking behind the leather-apron countenance. This lively, witty, and revelatory book is written for readers who want …
Union, Nation, or Empire
The American Debate Over International Relations, 1789-1941
Inbunden, 2009
709 kr
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Most overviews of American history depict an isolationist country finally dragged kicking and screaming onto the world stage by the attack on Pearl Harbor. David Hendrickson shows that Americans instead conducted often-raucous debates over international relations in the long epoch customarily seen …
Majority Rule Versus Consensus
The Political Thought of John C. Calhoun
Inbunden, 2009
632 kr
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John C. Calhoun may be best known for his stature in the U.S. Senate and his controversial defense of slavery, but he is also a key figure in American political thought. The staunchest advocate of the consensus model of government as an alternative to majority rule, he proposed government not by …
American Virtues
Thomas Jefferson on the Character of a Free People
Häftad, 1998
334 kr
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Since the early days of the republic, Americans have recognized Thomas Jefferson's distinctive role in helping to shape the American national character. As Founder and statesman, Jefferson thought broadly about the virtues Americans would need to cultivate in order to preserve and perfect their …
