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“vincent duclert”

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  • The French Republic

    History, Values, Debates

    Edited by Edward G. Berenson, Vincent Duclert, Christophe Prochasson ...
    In this invaluable reference work, the world's foremost authorities on France's political, social, cultural, and intellectual history explore the history and meaning of the French Republic and the challenges it has faced. Founded in 1792, the French Republic has been defined and redefined by a succession of regimes and institutions, a multiplicity of symbols, and a plurality of meanings, ideas, ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

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    by Jean-Benoit Nadeau ...
    The French drink, smoke and eat more fat than anyone in the world, yet they live longer and have fewer heart problems than the English and the Americans. They work 35-hour weeks and take seven weeks' paid holiday each year, yet they are the world's fourth-biggest economic power.So how do they do it? From a distance modern France looks like a riddle. It is both rigidly authoritarian, yet incredibly ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Conservatism

    The Fight for a Tradition

    by Edmund Fawcett ...
    A fresh and sharp-eyed history of political conservatism from its nineteenth-century origins to today’s hard RightFor two hundred years, conservatism has defied its reputation as a backward-looking creed by confronting and adapting to liberal modernity. By doing so, the Right has won long periods of power and effectively become the dominant tradition in politics. Yet, despite their success, ... Read more

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  • Trudeau Transformed

    The Shaping of a Statesman 1944-1965

    by Max Nemni, Monique Nemni ...
    This groundbreaking biography continues the story begun in Young Trudeau, taking Canada's legendary Prime Minister from his pro-fascist youth all the way to his entry into federal politics as a crusading Liberal democrat.When he went to Harvard in 1944, Pierre Trudeau was twenty-five, a recent graduate of the University of Montreal Law School; true to his elite Catholic-French education, he had ... Read more

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  • The Passage to Europe

    How a Continent Became a Union

    by Luuk van Middelaar ...
    As financial turmoil in Europe preoccupies political leaders and global markets, it becomes more important than ever to understand the forces that underpin the European Union, hold it together and drive it forward. This timely book provides a gripping account of the realities of power politics among European states and between their leaders. Drawing on long experience working behind the scenes, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Can Democracy Work?

    A Short History of a Radical Idea, from Ancient Athens to Our World

    by James Miller ...
    "Of all the books on democracy in recent years [this is] one of the best . . . an intelligent journey through the turbulent past of this great human experiment." — The GuardianToday, democracy is the world's only broadly accepted political system, and yet it has become synonymous with disappointment and crisis. How did it come to this? In Can Democracy Work? James Miller, the author of the classic ... Read more

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  • Liberalism

    The Life of an Idea, Second Edition

    by Edmund Fawcett ...
    A compelling history of liberalism from the nineteenth century to todayDespite playing a decisive role in shaping the past two hundred years of American and European politics, liberalism is no longer the dominant force it once was. In this expanded and updated edition of what has become a classic history of liberalism, Edmund Fawcett traces its ideals, successes, and failures through the lives and ... Read more

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  • The Shield of Achilles

    War, Peace, and the Course of History

    by Philip Bobbitt ...
    "We are at a moment in world affairs when the essential ideas that govern statecraft must change. For five centuries it has taken the resources of a state to destroy another state . . . This is no longer true, owing to advances in international telecommunications, rapid computation, and weapons of mass destruction. The change in statecraft that will accompany these developments will be as profound ... Read more

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  • Counter-Democracy

    Politics in an Age of Distrust

    by Pierre Rosanvallon, Arthur Goldhammer ...
    Series Book 7 - The Seeley Lectures
    Democracy is established as a generally uncontested ideal, while regimes inspired by this form of government fall under constant criticism. Hence, the steady erosion of confidence in representatives that has become one of the major political issues of our time. Amidst these challenges, the paradox remains that while citizens are less likely to make the trip to the ballot box, the world is far from ... Read more

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  • The History of Human Rights

    From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era

    by Micheline Ishay ...
    Micheline Ishay recounts the dramatic struggle for human rights across the ages in a book that brilliantly synthesizes historical and intellectual developments from the Mesopotamian Codes of Hammurabi to today's era of globalization. As she chronicles the clash of social movements, ideas, and armies that have played a part in this struggle, Ishay illustrates how the history of human rights has ... Read more

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  • Political Science

    by Tracey Baptiste ...
    Series series The Britannica Guide to the Social Sciences
    This book traces the development of political science from ancient influences such as Plato and Aristotle to modern political shapers such as Robert A. Dahl. It covers changes to the field in both thought and practice due to the rise and fall of political regimes, world wars, colonialism, and social media. The book also includes thorough examinations of international relations, systems of ... Read more

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  • The French Revolution in Global Perspective

    Edited by Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, William Max Nelson ...
    The French Revolution in Global Perspective illuminates the dense connections among the cultural, social, and economic aspects of the French Revolution, revealing how new political forms—at once democratic and imperial, anticolonial and centralizing—were generated in and through continual transnational exchanges and dialogues.Believe iSituating the French Revolution in the context of early modern ... Read more

    $23.79 USD