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  • American Magnitude

    Hemispheric Vision and Public Feeling in the United States

    by Christa J. Olson ...
    **Winner, 2023 Rhetoric Society of America Book AwardWinner, 2022 Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award from the National Communication Association**At a moment in US politics when racially motivated nationalism, shifting relations with Latin America, and anxiety over national futures intertwine, understanding the long history of American preoccupation with magnitude and how it underpins national identity ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Constitutive Visions

    Indigeneity and Commonplaces of National Identity in Republican Ecuador

    by Christa J. Olson ...
    Series series Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
    In Constitutive Visions, Christa Olson presents the rhetorical history of republican Ecuador as punctuated by repeated arguments over national identity. Those arguments—as they advanced theories of citizenship, popular sovereignty, and republican modernity—struggled to reconcile the presence of Ecuador’s large indigenous population with the dominance of a white-mestizo minority. Even as indigenous ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

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  • The Tyranny of Good Intentions

    How Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice

    by Paul Craig Roberts, Lawrence M. Stratton ...
    A thousand years of legal protections against tyranny are being stolen right before our eyes. Under the guise of good intentions, personal liberties as old as the Magna Carta have become casualties in the wars being waged on pollution, drugs, white-collar crime, and all of the other real and imagined social ills. The result: innocent people caught up in a bureaucratic web that destroys lives and ... Read more

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  • Constitutional Patriotism

    by Jan-Werner Müller ...
    Constitutional Patriotism offers a new theory of citizenship and civic allegiance for today's culturally diverse liberal democracies. Rejecting conventional accounts of liberal nationalism and cosmopolitanism, Jan-Werner Müller argues for a form of political belonging centered on universalist norms, adapted for specific constitutional cultures. At the same time, he presents a novel approach to ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • The Politics of Resentment

    A Genealogy

    by Jeremy Engels ...
    In the days and weeks following the tragic 2011 shooting of nineteen Arizonans, including congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, there were a number of public discussions about the role that rhetoric might have played in this horrific event. In question was the use of violent and hateful rhetoric that has come to dominate American political discourse on television, on the radio, and at the podium. A ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Posters for Peace

    Visual Rhetoric and Civic Action

    by Thomas W. Benson ...
    By the spring of 1970, Americans were frustrated by continuing war in Vietnam and turmoil in the inner cities. Students on American college campuses opposed the war in growing numbers and joined with other citizens in ever-larger public demonstrations against the war. Some politicians—including Ronald Reagan, Spiro Agnew, and Richard Nixon—exploited the situation to cultivate anger against ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Voting Deliberatively

    FDR and the 1936 Presidential Campaign

    by Mary E. Stuckey ...
    Series series Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
    The 1932 election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt seemed to hold the promise of Democratic domination for years to come. However, leading up to the 1936 election, persistent economic problems, a controversial domestic agenda, and the perception of a weak foreign policy were chipping away at public support. The president faced unrelenting criticism from both the Left and the Right, and it seemed ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Bob Swann's "Positively Dazzling Realism"

    by Stephanie Mills, Hildegarde Hannum ...
    Series series Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures
    The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics. Writer, editor, ecologist, and activist, Stephanie Mills has been involved with matters ecological, bioregional, social, and political for over thirty years. Although her books and essays have largely fallen under the rubric of nature writing, she ... Read more

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  • Civitas by Design

    Building Better Communities, from the Garden City to the New Urbanism

    by Howard Gillette Jr. ...
    Since the end of the nineteenth century, city planners have aspired not only to improve the physical living conditions of urban residents but also to strengthen civic ties through better design of built environments. From Ebenezer Howard and his vision for garden cities to today's New Urbanists, these visionaries have sought to deepen civitas, or the shared community of citizens.In Civitas by ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation

    Edited by Christian Kock, Lisa Villadsen ...
    Series series Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
    Citizenship has long been a central topic among educators, philosophers, and political theorists. Using the phrase “rhetorical citizenship” as a unifying perspective, Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation aims to develop an understanding of citizenship as a discursive phenomenon, arguing that discourse is not prefatory to real action but in many ways constitutive of civic engagement. To ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Evolving Citizen

    American Youth and the Changing Norms of Democratic Engagement

    by Jay P. Childers ...
    Series series Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
    It has become a common complaint among academics and community leaders that citizens today are not what they used to be. Nowhere is this decline seen to be more troubling than when the focus is on young Americans. Compared to the youth of past generations, today’s young adults, so the story goes, spend too much time watching television, playing video games, and surfing the Internet. As a result, ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Museum Rhetoric

    Building Civic Identity in National Spaces

    by M. Elizabeth Weiser ...
    Series series RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric
    In today’s diverse societies, museums are the primary institutions within the public sphere in which individuals can both engage critical thought and celebrate community. This volume uses the lens of rhetoric to explore the role these societal repositories play in establishing and altering cultural heritage and national identity.Based on fieldwork conducted in over sixty museums in twenty-two ... Read more

    $28.79 USD