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Author : Arnold J. Toynbee
Publisher :
Release Date : 1948
ISBN 10 : OCLC:176859229
Pages : 0 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
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Author : Arnold J. Toynbee
Publisher :
Release Date : 1985
ISBN 10 : 0195050819
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (55 downloads)
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Author : Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 2012-09-11
ISBN 10 : 9780679604839
Pages : 448 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (483 downloads)
Download The Revenge of Geography in PDF Full Online Free by Robert D. Kaplan and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this provocative, startling book, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts, offers a revelatory new prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world. Bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the recent and distant past to look back at critical pivots in history and then to look forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan traces the history of the world’s hot spots by examining their climates, topographies, and proximities to other embattled lands. He then applies the lessons learned to the present crises in Europe, Russia, China, the Indian Subcontinent, Turkey, Iran, and the Arab Middle East. The result is a holistic interpretation of the next cycle of conflict throughout Eurasia, a visionary glimpse into a future that can be understood only in the context of temperature, land allotment, and other physical certainties. A brilliant rebuttal to thinkers who suggest that globalism will trump geography, this indispensable work shows how timeless truths and natural facts can help prevent this century’s looming cataclysms. Praise for The Revenge of Geography “[An] ambitious and challenging new book . . . [The Revenge of Geography] displays a formidable grasp of contemporary world politics and serves as a powerful reminder that it has been the planet’s geophysical configurations, as much as the flow of competing religions and ideologies, that have shaped human conflicts, past and present.”—Malise Ruthven, The New York Review of Books “Robert D. Kaplan, the world-traveling reporter and intellectual whose fourteen books constitute a bedrock of penetrating exposition and analysis on the post-Cold War world . . . strips away much of the cant that suffuses public discourse these days on global developments and gets to a fundamental reality: that geography remains today, as it has been throughout history, one of the most powerful drivers of world events.”—The National Interest “Kaplan plunges into a planetary review that is often thrilling in its sheer scale . . . encyclopedic.”—The New Yorker “[The Revenge of Geography] serves the facts straight up. . . . Kaplan’s realism and willingness to face hard facts make The Revenge of Geography a valuable antidote to the feel-good manifestoes that often masquerade as strategic thought.”—The Daily Beast
Author : David J. Rosner
Publisher : Lexington Books
Release Date : 2018-12-04
ISBN 10 : 9781498540124
Pages : 370 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (12 downloads)
Download Catastrophe and Philosophy in PDF Full Online Free by David J. Rosner and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates how a number of influential philosophies arose out of catastrophes, such as wars, plagues, and earthquakes. Central to the project is an explanation of how these catastrophes led to the questioning of basic assumptions and the introduction of new ideas to make sense out of a chaotic and often unintelligible world.
Author : Arthur Herman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1997
ISBN 10 : 9780684827919
Pages : 538 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (791 downloads)
Download The Idea of Decline in Western History in PDF Full Online Free by Arthur Herman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at individuals associated with theories of the West's decline, and discusses the impact these theories have on the way we view modern problems, including the environment and race relations
Author : Lawrence M. Mead
Publisher : Encounter Books
Release Date : 2019-04-23
ISBN 10 : 9781641770415
Pages : 368 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (41 downloads)
Download Burdens of Freedom in PDF Full Online Free by Lawrence M. Mead and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burdens of Freedom presents a new and radical interpretation of America and its challenges. The United States is an individualist society where most people seek to realize personal goals and values out in the world. This unusual, inner-driven culture was the chief reason why first Europe, then Britain, and finally America came to lead the world. But today, our deepest problems derive from groups and nations that reflect the more passive, deferential temperament of the non-West. The long-term poor and many immigrants have difficulties assimilating in America mainly because they are less inner-driven than the norm. Abroad, the United States faces challenges from Asia, which is collective-minded, and also from many poorly-governed countries in the developing world. The chief threat to American leadership is no longer foreign rivals like China but the decay of individualism within our own society. The great divide is between the individualist West, for which life is a project, and the rest of the world, in which most people seek to survive rather than achieve. This difference, although clear in research on world cultures, has been ignored in virtually all previous scholarship on American power and public policy, both at home and abroad. Burdens of Freedom is the first book to recognize that difference. It casts new light on America's greatest struggles. It re-evaluates the entire Western tradition, which took individualism for granted. How to respond to cultural difference is the greatest test of our times.
Author : P. J. Corfield
Publisher : Yale University Press
Release Date : 2007-01-01
ISBN 10 : 9780300137941
Pages : 309 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (794 downloads)
Download Time and the Shape of History in PDF Full Online Free by P. J. Corfield and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the wealthy heiress Portia, but lacks the necessary funds. He turns to his merchant friend, Antonio, who is forced to borrow from Shylock, a Jewish moneylender. When Antonio's business falters, repayment becomes impossible, and by the terms of the loan agreement, Shylock is able to demand a pound of Antonio's flesh. Portia cleverly intervenes, and all ends well (except of course for Shylock).
Author : John Bellamy Foster
Publisher : Monthly Review Press
Release Date : 2021-06-01
ISBN 10 : 9781583679289
Pages : 688 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (928 downloads)
Download The Return of Nature in PDF Full Online Free by John Bellamy Foster and published by Monthly Review Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2020 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize A fascinating reinterpretation of the radical and socialist origins of ecology Twenty years ago, John Bellamy Foster’s Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature introduced a new understanding of Karl Marx’s revolutionary ecological materialism. More than simply a study of Marx, it commenced an intellectual and social history, encompassing thinkers from Epicurus to Darwin, who developed materialist and ecological ideas. Now, with The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology, Foster continues this narrative. In so doing, he uncovers a long history of efforts to unite issues of social justice and environmental sustainability that will help us comprehend and counter today’s unprecedented planetary emergencies. The Return of Nature begins with the deaths of Darwin (1882) and Marx (1883) and moves on until the rise of the ecological age in the 1960s and 1970s. Foster explores how socialist analysts and materialist scientists of various stamps, first in Britain, then the United States, from William Morris and Frederick Engels to Joseph Needham, Rachel Carson, and Stephen J. Gould, sought to develop a dialectical naturalism, rooted in a critique of capitalism. In the process, he delivers a far-reaching and fascinating reinterpretation of the radical and socialist origins of ecology. Ultimately, what this book asks for is nothing short of revolution: a long, ecological revolution, aimed at making peace with the planet while meeting collective human needs.
Author : Jo-Anne Pemberton
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-03-16
ISBN 10 : 9783030318277
Pages : 508 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (827 downloads)
Download The Story of International Relations, Part Three in PDF Full Online Free by Jo-Anne Pemberton and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the third volume in a trilogy that traces the development of the academic subject of International Relations, or what was often referred to in the interwar years as International Studies. This volume explores how International Relations progressed through the 20th century looking specifically at World War II, from the looming world war to the post-War reconstruction in Europe. This one of a kind project takes on the task of reviewing the development of IR, aptly published in celebration of the discipline’s centenary.
Author : Peter J. Bowler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-03-04
ISBN 10 : 9781108905251
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (525 downloads)
Download Progress Unchained in PDF Full Online Free by Peter J. Bowler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Progress Unchained reinterprets the history of the idea of progress using parallels between evolutionary biology and changing views of human history. Early concepts of progress in both areas saw it as the ascent of a linear scale of development toward a final goal. The 'chain of being' defined a hierarchy of living things with humans at the head, while social thinkers interpreted history as a development toward a final paradise or utopia. Darwinism reconfigured biological progress as a 'tree of life' with multiple lines of advance not necessarily leading to humans, each driven by the rare innovations that generate entirely new functions. Popular writers such as H. G. Wells used a similar model to depict human progress, with competing technological innovations producing ever-more rapid changes in society. Bowler shows that as the idea of progress has become open-ended and unpredictable, a variety of alternative futures have been imagined.
Author : Jeremy Salt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2008-07-09
ISBN 10 : 9780520255517
Pages : 479 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (551 downloads)
Download The Unmaking of the Middle East in PDF Full Online Free by Jeremy Salt and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-07-09 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Devastating in its portrayal of the depths to which the West (France, Britain, and the US especially) sank in conquering the Middle East. Starting off with Huntington's quote about 'Islam's bloody borders,' Salt argues that it was the West that made these borders bloody, though in the process it had no trouble finding native accomplices who helped, wittingly or not."—Mehran Kamrava, author of The Modern Middle East "This will be of much use to general readers who are ill-served by the preponderance of books in the marketplace that explain political events by recourse to stereotypical representations of 'Arabs' and 'Islam,' while neglecting important historical events that define current political and social reality in the region. None of the general history books on the Middle East offer comparable comprehensive details."—Joseph A. Massad, author of Desiring Arabs "This excellent book is comprehensive in scope, scholarly and yet highly readable. Focusing on the damaging role of western policy in the Middle East, well exemplified in the current debacle in Iraq. It will be essential reading for students and historians of the region."—Ghada Karmi, author of Married to Another Man: Israel's Dilemma in Palestine "Salt makes it abundantly clear that when it comes to the Middle East, 'the West' talks idealistically and acts brutally. This excellent book should be required reading for future American policymakers thinking about invading another Arab or Islamic country."—John J. Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago
Author : Katherine Hui-Yi Tseng
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2016-12-08
ISBN 10 : 9781317374770
Pages : 176 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (477 downloads)
Download Rethinking South China Sea Disputes in PDF Full Online Free by Katherine Hui-Yi Tseng and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proposed book draws on the on-going South China Sea dispute, and the multifaceted challenges wrought by the South China Sea issue that requires an inter-disciplinary perspective. It employs legal-analytical methods, to emphasize the nuances of the role and interpretation of international law and treaties by China in different periods, while taking into account policy and strategic concerns, which generally cast great sways in decision-making. The re-introduction of interdisciplinary concerns straddling law and history illustrates that the historical dimension, which has long been neglected, is an emerging concern that poses looming dangers that may unexpectedly radicalize the friction. Contributing to debunking the mystique wrought by confrontations between a historical and a law-dominated perspective, these perspectives are supported by a more nuanced analytical framework, featuring theoretical concerns with a tinge of practicality. The South China Sea Dispute aims to unveil a nuanced evolution of the issue with a confluence of inter-temporal law, policy and maritime practices in the South China Sea.
Author : Keith Clements
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-02-26
ISBN 10 : 9780567663313
Pages : 752 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (331 downloads)
Download The Moot Papers in PDF Full Online Free by Keith Clements and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Moot was the study and discussion group set by J.H. Oldham (1874-1969) following the 1937 Oxford conference on "Church, Community and State". Its purpose was to continue, in an informal but serious way, exploration of the relation between church and society and the realization of Christian ethics in the public sphere. The Moot met twice or three times a year from 1938 to 1947 (21 times in all) and was convened by Oldham with the conscious intention of responding to the grave crisis that was felt to be facing western society in Britain no less than on the continent of Europe. Overall some 35 people attended the Moot at one time or another, but its core comprised a small number of regular members who were representative of the highest levels in theology, social science and public affairs. In addition to Oldham himself they included T.S. Elliot, H. A. Hodges, Eleonora Iredale, Adolf Löwe, Karl Mannheim, Walter Moberly, John Middleton Murry and Alec Vidler. Other participants included Kathleen Bliss, Fred Clarke, Christopher Dawson, H. H. Farmer, Hector Hetherington, Walter Oakshott and Gilbert Shaw, while notables such as Reinhold Niebuhr, Melville Chaning-Pearce, Donald McKinnon, Philip Mairet, Leslie Newbiggin, William Paton, Frank Pakenham (later Lord Longford), Michael Polanyi and Oliver Tomkins made occasional "guest appearances". Against the background of impending and then actual war, the discussions in the Moot repeatedly focused on the "planned" nature of modern society and therewith the roles (if any) within it of moral choice and the Christian community.
Author : T.R.C. Hutton
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2013-09-20
ISBN 10 : 9780813142432
Pages : 446 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (243 downloads)
Download Bloody Breathitt in PDF Full Online Free by T.R.C. Hutton and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses the history of Breathitt County, Kentucky, to examine political violence in the United States and its interpretation in media and memory. Violence in Breathitt County, during and after the Civil War, usually reflected what was going on elsewhere in Kentucky and the American South. In turn, the types of violence recorded there corresponded with discernible political scenarios.
Author : Ben C. Fisher
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Release Date : 1989
ISBN 10 : 0865543437
Pages : 166 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (554 downloads)
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Author : José M. Magone
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2014-12-17
ISBN 10 : 9781317628361
Pages : 1028 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (836 downloads)
Download Routledge Handbook of European Politics in PDF Full Online Free by José M. Magone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Treaty of the European Union was ratified in 1993, the European Union has become an important factor in an ever-increasing number of regimes of pooled sovereignty. This Handbook seeks to present a valuable guide to this new and unique system in the twenty-first century, allowing readers to obtain a better understanding of the emerging multilevel European governance system that links national polities to Europe and the global community. Adopting a pan-European approach, this Handbook brings together the work of leading international academics to cover a wide range of topics such as: the historical and theoretical background the political systems and institutions of both the EU and its individual member nations political parties and party systems political elites civil society and social movements in European politics the political economy of Europe public administration and policy-making external policies of the EU. This is an invaluable and comprehensive resource for students, scholars, researchers and practitioners of the European Union, European politics and comparative politics.
Author : Theodore C. Grame
Publisher :
Release Date : 1980
ISBN 10 : MINN:31951000505617C
Pages : 188 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
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