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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-226) and index.
• Languages of democracy in America from the Revolution to the election of 1800 / Seth Cotlar — The ‘fortunate banner’ : languages of democracy in the United States, c. 1848 / Adam I. P. Smith — The contradictions of democracy in American institutions and practices / Laura F. Edwards — Varieties of democracy in the French Revolution / Ruth Scurr — Democracy, self, and the problem of the general will in nineteenth-century French political thought / Michael Drolet — Elections and democracy in France, 1789-1848 / Malcolm Crook — Talking about democracy : Britain in the 1790s / Mark Philp — The rise of democratic discourse in the Reform era : Britain in the 1830s and 1840s / Joanna Innes, Mark Philp, and Robert Saunders — People and power in British politics to 1850 / Joanna Innes — Constructing democratic thought in Ireland in the age of revolution, 1775-1800 / Ultán Gillen — ‘Democracy’ and the Irish people, 1830-48 / Laurent Colantonio — The limits of democracy : Ireland 1778-1848 / S. J. Connolly — Synergies / Joanna Innes and Mark Philp.

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• Democracy — History — 18th century.
• Democracy — History — 19th century.
• Europe — History.
• United States — History.
• Revolutions.
• 1700 – 1899 fast
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-356) and index.
• The whole story — Empires of the mind — Rulers of Italy — Imperial ecology — Mediterranean hegemony — Slavery and empire — Crisis — At heaven’s command? — The generals — The enjoyment of empire — Emperors — Resourcing empire — War — Imperial identities — Recovery and collapse — A Christian empire — Things fall apart — The Roman past and the Roman future.
• The very idea of empire was created in ancient Rome and even today traces of its monuments, literature, and institutions can be found across Europe, the Near East, and North Africa–and sometimes even further afield. In Rome, historian Greg Woolf expertly recounts how this mammoth empire was created, how it was sustained in crisis, and how it shaped the world of its rulers and subjects–a story spanning a millennium and a half of history. The personalities and events of Roman history have become part of the West’s cultural lexicon, and Woolf provides brilliant retellings of each of these, from the war with Carthage to Octavian’s victory over Cleopatra, from the height of territorial expansion under the emperors Trajan and Hadrian to the founding of Constantinople and the barbarian invasions which resulted in Rome’s ultimate collapse. Throughout, Woolf carefully considers the conditions that made Rome’s success possible and so durable, covering topics as diverse as ecology, slavery, and religion. Woolf also compares Rome to other ancient empires and to its many later imitators, bringing into vivid relief the Empire’s most distinctive and enduring features. As Woolf demonstrates, nobody ever planned to create a state that would last more than a millennium and a half, yet Rome was able, in the end, to survive barbarian migrations, economic collapse and even the conflicts between a series of world religions that had grown up within its borders, in the process generating an image and a myth of empire that is apparently indestructible. Based on new research and compellingly told, this sweeping account promises to eclipse all previously published histories of the empire. – Publisher.

Subjects:

• Rome — Politics and government — 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
• Imperialism — History — To 1500.
• Rome — History — Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• This study aims to update a classic of comparative revolutionary analysis, Crane Brinton’s 1938 study The Anatomy of Revolution. It invokes the latest research and theoretical writing in history, political science, and political sociology to compare and contrast, in their successive phases, the English Revolution of 1640-60, the French Revolution of 1789-99, and the Russian Revolution of 1917-29. This book intends to do what no other comparative analysis of revolutionary change has yet adequately done. It not only progresses beyond Marxian socioeconomic class analysis and early revisionist stresses on short-term, accidental factors involved in revolutionary causation and process it also finds ways to reconcile state-centered structuralist accounts of the three major European revolutions with postmodernist explanations of those upheavals that play up the centrality of human agency, revolutionary discourse, mentalities, ideology, and political culture — Provided by publisher.

Subjects:

• Revolutions — Case studies.
• Great Britain — History — Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660.
• France — History — Revolution, 1789-1799.
• Soviet Union — History — Revolution, 1917-1921.

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-438) and index.
• Introduction — Putting leaders in context — Democratic leadership : myths, powers, styles — Redefining leadership — Transformational political leadership — Revolutions and revolutionary leadership — Totalitarian and authoritarian leadership — Foreign policy illusions of ‘strong leaders’ — What kind of leadership is desirable?
• All too frequently, leadership is reduced to a simple dichotomy: the strong versus the weak. Yet, there are myriad ways to exercise effective political leadership — as well as different ways to fail. We blame our leaders for economic downfalls and praise them for vital social reforms, but rarely do we question what makes some leaders successful while others falter. In this magisterial and wide-ranging survey of political leadership over the past hundred years, renowned Oxford politics professor Archie Brown challenges the widespread belief that strong leaders meaning those who dominate their colleagues and the policy-making process are the most successful and admirable. –Jacket.

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• Political leadership — History — 20th century.
• Political leadership — History — 21st century.
• 1900 – 2099 fast
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-284) and index.
• The social construction of sovereign responsibilities — Sovereignty in early modern Europe — The rise of popular sovereignty — Sovereignty and the non-European world — Sovereignty after the Second World War — The rise of the responsibility to protect.

Subjects:

• Sovereignty.
• Protectorates.
• Government accountability.

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Part of the series Columbia studies in terrorism and irregular warfare;Columbia studies in terrorism and irregular warfare.
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• Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-278) and index.
• Pt. I. Why civil resistance works. The success of nonviolent resistance campaigns — The primacy of participation in nonviolent resistance — Exploring alternative explanations for the success of civil resistance — Pt. II. Case studies. The Iranian revolution, 1977-1979 — The first Palestinian intifada, 1987-1992 — The Philippine people power movement, 1983-1986 — Why civil resistance sometimes fails : the Burmese uprising, 1988-1990 — Pt. III. The implications of civil resistance. After the campaign : the consequences of violent and nonviolent resistance.

Subjects:

• Civil disobedience.
• Nonviolence.

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction. Enter human rights –The postwar marginality of universal human rights — Managing civil rights at home — The trauma of the Vietnam War — The liberal critique of right-wing dictatorships — The anticommunist embrace of human rights — A new calculus emerges — Insurgency on Capitol Hill — The human rights lobby — A moralist campaigns for president — We want to be proud again — Conclusion. Universal human rights in American foreign policy.
• The American commitment to international human rights emerged in the 1970s not as a logical outgrowth of American idealism but as a surprising response to national trauma, as Barbara Keys shows in this provocative history. Reclaiming American Virtue situates this novel enthusiasm as a reaction to the profound challenge of the Vietnam War and its tumultuous aftermath. Instead of looking inward for renewal, Americans on the right and the left alike looked outward for ways to restore America’s moral leadership. Conservatives took up the language of Soviet dissidents to resuscitate a Cold War narrative that pitted a virtuous United States against the evils of communism. Liberals sought moral cleansing by dissociating the United States from foreign malefactors, spotlighting abuses such as torture in Chile, South Korea, and other right-wing allies. When Jimmy Carter in 1977 made human rights a central tenet of American foreign policy, his administration struggled to reconcile these conflicting visions. Yet liberals and conservatives both saw human rights as a way of moving from guilt to pride. Less a critique of American power than a rehabilitation of it, human rights functioned for Americans as a sleight of hand that occluded from view much of America’s recent past and confined the lessons of Vietnam to narrow parameters. It would be a small step from world’s judge to world’s policeman, and American intervention in the name of human rights would be a cause both liberals and conservatives could embrace.

Subjects:

• Human rights — Government policy — United States.
• Human rights advocacy — United States.
• United States — Foreign relations — 20th century.

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• Leo Strauss, 1899-1973, a bibliography : p. 249-258.
• Includes index.

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• Plato. — Political science.
• Political science — Greece — History.
• Political science — History.
• Jewish philosophy.

Requested by Frame, W.

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• August 1991.
• Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects:

• Human rights — Guatemala.
• Political persecution — Guatemala.
• Murder — Guatemala.
• Persecución política — Guatemala
• Asesinato — Guatemala

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-332) and index.
• 1. Barbarians Running Late 2. Do Manners Matter? 3. The Death of the Golden Age 4. Welcoming the Stranger 5. The Embarrassment of Free Will 6. Sacrifice and Neighbor Love 7. The Demon on the Other Side 8. The Varieties of (Not) Listening 9. Fighting Words 10. Market Language and the Linguistics of Incivility 11. Some Technologies of Incivility 12. Law, Tolerance, and Civility’s Illusions 13. Where Civility Begins 14. Uncivil Religion 15. Civility and the Challenge of Christendom 16. The Etiquette of Democracy 17. Coda: The Civility of Silence.
• Hamline Bush Library: Donated in memory of Gordon G. Busdicker, Emeritus Trustee.

Subjects:

• Civil society.
• Etiquette.
• Democracy.
• Etiqueta
• Democracia

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