harvard university press apr 2020 (31 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -George Louis Beer Prize WinnerWallace K. Ferguson Prize FinalistA Marginal Revolution Book of the Year'A groundbreaking contribution.Intellectual history at its best.'-Stephen Wertheim, Foreign AffairsNeoliberals hate the state. Or do they In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization to show that neoliberalism emerged less to shrink government and abolish regulations than to redeploy them at a global level. It was a project that changed the world, but was also undermined time and again by the relentless change and social injustice that accompanied it.'Slobodian's lucidly written intellectual history traces the ideas of a group of Western thinkers who sought to create, against a backdrop of anarchy, globally applicable economic rules. Their attempt, it turns out, succeeded all too well.'-Pankaj Mishra, Bloomberg Opinion'Fascinating, innovative.Slobodian has underlined the profound conservatism of the first generation of neoliberals and their fundamental hostility to democracy.'-Adam Tooze, Dissent'The definitive history of neoliberalism as a political project.'-Boston ReviewLibri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 381 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - George Louis Beer Prize WinnerWallace K. Ferguson Prize FinalistA Marginal Revolution Book of the Year'A groundbreaking contribution.Intellectual history at its best.'-Stephen Wertheim, Foreign AffairsNeoliberals hate the state. Or do they In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization to show that neoliberalism emerged less to shrink government and abolish regulations than to redeploy them at a global level. It was a project that changed the world, but was also undermined time and again by the relentless change and social injustice that accompanied it.'Slobodian's lucidly written intellectual history traces the ideas of a group of Western thinkers who sought to create, against a backdrop of anarchy, globally applicable economic rules. Their attempt, it turns out, succeeded all too well.'-Pankaj Mishra, Bloomberg Opinion'Fascinating, innovative.Slobodian has underlined the profound conservatism of the first generation of neoliberals and their fundamental hostility to democracy.'-Adam Tooze, Dissent'The definitive history of neoliberalism as a political project.'-Boston Review.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'By focusing on how ordinary soldiers and civilians in both countries understood and experienced the conflict, The Dead March offers a clearer picture of the brief, bloody war that redrew the map of North America.'--Provided by publisher.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Andrew Porter explores characterization in Homer, from an oral-traditional point of view, through the resonance of words, themes, and 'back stories' from the past and future. He analyzes Agamemnon's character traits in the Iliad, including his qualities as a leader, against events such as his tragic homecoming in the Odyssey.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Trachsel¿s work represents the first treatment dedicated to Demetrios of Scepsis in over a century. She offers a thorough analysis of the ancient and modern reactions to Demetrios¿s research into the Iliad and the Trojan landscape and provides new evidence about the impressively wide range of other topics Demetrios¿s work may have contained.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Winner of the Caughey Western History PrizeWinner of the Robert G. Athearn AwardWinner of the Lawrence W. Levine AwardWinner of the TCU Texas Book AwardWinner of the NACCS Tejas Foco Nonfiction Book AwardWinner of the María Elena Martínez PrizeFrederick Jackson Turner Award Finalist'A page-turner.Haunting.Bravely and convincingly urges us to think differently about Texas's past.'-Texas MonthlyBetween 1910 and 1920, self-appointed protectors of the Texas-Mexico border-including members of the famed Texas Rangers-murdered hundreds of ethnic Mexicans living in Texas, many of whom were American citizens. Operating in remote rural areas, officers and vigilantes knew they could hang, shoot, burn, and beat victims to death without scrutiny. A culture of impunity prevailed. The abuses were so pervasive that in 1919 the Texas legislature investigated the charges and uncovered a clear pattern of state crime. Records of the proceedings were soon filed away as the Ranger myth flourished.A groundbreaking work of historical reconstruction, The Injustice Never Leaves You has upended Texas's sense of its own history. A timely reminder of the dark side of American justice, it is a riveting story of race, power, and prejudice on the border.'It's an apt moment for this book's hard lessons.to go mainstream.'-Texas Observer'A reminder that government brutality on the border is nothing new.'-Los Angeles Review of Books.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dealing with climate change means accepting tough tradeoffs: giving up certain energy sources, products, and conveniences, all of which have economic impacts. Politicians balk, but there are solutions. Roland Kupers turns to the new science of complexity to show how we can untangle a knotty global economy and start making progress.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Seth Jacobowitz rethinks the origins of modern Japanese language, literature, and visual culture, presenting the first systematic study of the ways that media and inscriptive technologies available in Japan at its threshold of modernization in the late nineteenth to early twentieth century shaped and brought into being modern Japanese literature.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - China's sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw an unprecedented explosion in the production of woodblock-printed books. This volume considers what a wide range of late Ming books reveal about their readers' ideas of a pleasurable private life, as well as their orientations toward early modernity and toward traditional Chinese sources of authority.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Katherine L. Kretler plumbs the virtues of the Homeric poems as scripts for solo performance. What is lost in the journey from the stage to the page The book focuses on the performer not as transparent mediator, but as one haunted by multiple stories, bringing suppressed voices to the surface.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Publishers Weekly Best Religion Book of the YearA Choice Outstanding Academic TitleFor many Americans, being Christian is central to their political outlook. Political Christianity is most often associated with the Religious Right, but the Christian faith has actually been a source of deep disagreement about what American society and government should look like. While some identify Christianity with Western civilization and unfettered individualism, others have maintained that Christian principles call for racial equality, international cooperation, and social justice. At once incisive and timely, Christian delves into the intersection of faith and political identity and offers an essential reconsideration of what it means to be Christian in America today.¿Bowman is fast establishing a reputation as a significant commentator on the culture and politics of the United States.¿¿Church Times¿Bowman looks to tease out how religious groups in American history have defined, used, and even wielded the word Christian as a means of understanding themselves and pressing for their own idiosyncratic visions of genuine faith and healthy democracy.¿¿Christian Century¿A fascinating examination of the twists and turns in American Christianity, showing that the current state of political/religious alignment was not necessarily inevitable, nor even probable.¿¿Deseret News.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Tamara T. Chin explores the politics of representation during the Han dynasty at a pivotal moment when China was asserting imperialist power on the Eurasian continent and expanding its local and long-distance ('Silk Road') markets. Chin explains why rival political groups introduced new literary forms with which to represent these expanded markets.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Beloved by liberals, the living Constitution evolves with the times. But one downside has been the erosion of constitutional constraints on executive action. Saikrishna Prakash argues that if we want to rein in this imperial, living presidency, we must embrace constitutional originalism and revive the framers' vision of the separation of powers.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Audible Punctuation focuses on the pause in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, both as a compositional feature and as a performative aspect of delivery. Ronald Blankenborg's analysis of metrical, rhythmical, syntactical, and phonological phrasing shows that the text of the Homeric epic allows for different options for performative pause.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Winner of the William M. LeoGrande PrizeFor over a century, the United States has sought to improve the behavior of the peoples of Latin America. Perceiving their neighbors to the south as underdeveloped and unable to govern themselves, U.S. policy makers have promoted everything from representative democracy and economic development to oral hygiene. But is improvement a progressive impulse to help others, or realpolitik in pursuit of a superpower¿s interests ¿In this subtle and searing critique of U.S. efforts to `uplift¿ Latin America, Lars Schoultz challenges us to question the fundamental tenets of the development industry that became entrenched in the U.S. foreign policy bureaucracy over the last century.¿¿Piero Gleijeses, author of Visions of Freedom¿In this masterful work, Lars Schoultz provides a companion and follow-up to his classic Beneath the United States¿A necessary and rewarding read for scholars and students of U.S. foreign policy and inter-American relations.¿¿Renata Keller, The Americas.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The US Constitution says nothing about a presidential cabinet, yet this institution has grown powerful. Lindsay M. Chervinsky tells the story of George Washington's cabinet, an ad hoc panel that responded to emergencies of the day. It is supposed to be the Senate's job to advise the president, but the first cabinet changed that expectation forever.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - PHCC 38 includes widely-ranging articles on medieval and modern literary and material culture, as well as language structure and formation, of the Celtic regions of Ireland, Wales, and Breton. Dr. Aled Jones of Bangor University delivered the special lecture, comparing modern astrophysics to the plasticity of time in medieval Celtic literature.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Nicole Fleetwood enters American prisons to explore the creativity flourishing there. Though isolated and degraded, incarcerated artists produce bold works that testify to the economic and racial injustice of American punishment. These pieces, many published here for the first time, offer a new vision of freedom for the twenty-first century.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Throughout US history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons. Joshua Bennett explores the place of animality in works by Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Jesmyn Ward, and other black writers, delving into the literary imagination and ethical concerns that emerge from being viewed as a subgenre of the human.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume integrates philosophical and religious perspectives on the relation between body and soul. Focusing on the transformative period of the first six centuries CE, one hears echoes of Plato and Aristotle. The polyphonic¿but not dissonant¿dialogue is created by an international group of scholars in ancient philosophy, theology, and religion.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The scientific method is just over a hundred years old. From debates about the evolution of the human mind to the rise of instrumental reasoning, Henry M. Cowles shows how the idea of a single 'scientific method' emerged from a turn inward by psychologists that produced powerful epistemological and historical effects that are still with us today.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Elina Tsalicoglou offers an English rendition of Konstantinos Dapontes's idiosyncratic poem 'Canon of Hymns Comprising Many Exceptional Things,' and selected passages from one of his most important works, Garden of Graces. These are accompanied by notes and a detailed introduction to the life and work of this significant Greek author.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Free markets made US universities world leaders in research. Economist Miguel Urquiola argues that in the late nineteenth century, entrepreneurial universities saw they could meet the industrializing country¿s demand for expertise. They moved away from religiously inspired teaching, and market dynamics allowed them to surpass European competitors.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Julia Cagé scrutinizes contemporary democracies and offers a new approach to the crisis of political representation. She proposes radical solutions for political funding and participation, including ¿Democratic Equality Vouchers¿ and a ¿Mixed Assembly¿ model where disadvantaged socioeconomic groups are guaranteed a significant fraction of seats.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Gregory Afinogenov explores centuries of Russian spying and scholarship on the Far East. He argues that the approaches the empire took are closely related to its leaders' perception of Russia's place in the world. Espionage gave way to public-facing, academic study, as Russia sought to outdo Britain in a global contest for imperial prestige.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Long lost, the manuscript of this significant text has been recovered in the Société Asiatique in Paris and is now published here. Lokaprakasa by Ks emendra with the Commentary of Sahaja Bha a fills a large gap in our knowledge of private life and public administration in medieval India.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Edith Sarra radically rethinks the Tale of Genji by focusing on the figure of the house¿both the narrative¿s images of aristocratic mansions and its representation of their inhabitants. Unreal Houses opens new perspectives on the architectonics of the Genji and the feminine milieu that midwifed what has been called the world¿s first novel.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Oedipus's major handicap in life is not knowing who he is. Unlike the majority of modern and postmodern readings of Oedipus Tyrannus, Efimia Karakantza's text focuses on the question of identity. The quest to piece together Oedipus's identity is the long, painful, and intricate procedure of recasting his life into a new narrative.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Touching on themes of colonialism, cultural hybridity, resistance, and assimilation, Magdalena de Cao is the first in-depth and heavily illustrated examination of what life was like at one town and church complex in Peru during the early Colonial Period, when native peoples and Christian arrivals met.