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  • The Genesis of Rebellion

    Governance, Grievance, and Mutiny in the Age of Sail

    by Steven Pfaff, Michael Hechter ...
    The Age of Sail has long fascinated readers, writers, and the general public. Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Jack London et al. treated ships at sea as microcosms; Petri dishes in which larger themes of authority, conflict and order emerge. In this fascinating book, Pfaff and Hechter explore mutiny as a manifestation of collective action and contentious politics. The authors use narrative ... Read more

    $25.49 USD

  • Internal Colonialism

    The Celtic Fringe in British National Development

    by Michael Hechter ...
    Recent years have seen a resurgence of separatist sentiments among national minorities in many industrial societies, including the United Kingdom. In 1997, the Scottish and Welsh both set up their own parliamentary bodies, while the tragic events in Northern Ireland continued to be a reminder of the Irish problem. These phenomena call into question widely accepted social theories which assume that ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Alien Rule

    by Michael Hechter ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    This book argues that alien rule can become legitimate to the degree that it provides governance that is both effective and fair. Governance is effective to the degree that citizens have access to an expanding economy and an ample supply of culturally appropriate collective goods. Governance is fair to the degree that rulers act according to the strictures of procedural justice. These twin ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Facing Ethnic Conflicts

    Toward a New Realism

    by Christopher J. Bakwesegha, Rogers Brubaker, Walker Connor, Andrew Ellis, Milton J. Esman, Hurst Hannum, Michael Hechter, Walter Kälin, René Lemarchand, Michael S. Lund, Hugh Miall, Norbert Ropers, Donald Rothchild, Valery A. Tishkov, Max van der Stoel, Angel Viñas, Peter Waldmann, I. William Zartman ...
    Ethnic conflict is the major form of mass political violence in the world today, and it has been since World War II. Dramatic acts of terrorism and calculated responses to them may distract the attention of policymakers and the public, but ethnic and nationalist conflict continues to pose the greatest challenge to peace and security across the globe. Causes of such conflict and ideas about how to ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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    Private Lives, Public Spirit: Britain 1870-1914

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  • Humanitarianism in Question

    Politics, Power, Ethics

    Edited by Michael Barnett, Thomas G. Weiss ...
    Years of tremendous growth in response to complex emergencies have left a mark on the humanitarian sector. Various matters that once seemed settled are now subjects of intense debate. What is humanitarianism? Is it limited to the provision of relief to victims of conflict, or does it include broader objectives such as human rights, democracy promotion, development, and peacebuilding? For much of ... Read more

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  • Political Geography

    World-Economy, Nation-State and Locality

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    $72.99 USD

  • After Adam Smith

    A Century of Transformation in Politics and Political Economy

    by Murray Milgate, Shannon C. Stimson ...
    How writers after Adam Smith helped shape our thinking about economics and politicsFew issues are more central to our present predicaments than the relationship between economics and politics. In the century after Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations the British economy was transformed. After Adam Smith looks at how politics and political economy were articulated and altered. It considers how grand ... Read more

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  • International Security

    The Contemporary Agenda

    by Roland Dannreuther ...
    International Security is a cutting-edge analysis of the key security challenges and developments in the post-Cold War world. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary examples, from the Iraq war to the rise of China, it is an essential guide for students and policy makers seeking to understand the theoretical and empirical debates over the fast-changing nature of international security today.The ... Read more

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  • Forming Nation, Framing Welfare

    Edited by Gail Lewis ...
    Series series Social Policy: Welfare, Power and Diversity
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  • African Politics in Comparative Perspective

    by Goran Hyden ...
    This revised and expanded second edition of African Politics in Comparative Perspective reviews fifty years of research on politics in Africa and addresses some issues in a new light, keeping in mind the changes in Africa since the first edition was written in 2004. The book synthesizes insights from different scholarly approaches and offers an original interpretation of the knowledge accumulated ... Read more

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  • Up the Republic!

    Towards a New Ireland

    by Fintan O'Toole ...
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