The Possibilities of Politics: Democracy in America, 1877-1917
- ISBN-10
- 0872291855
- ISBN-13
- 9780872291850
- Category
- Democracy
- Pages
- 48
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Author
- Robert D. Johnston
Description
Robert D. Johnston takes an in-depth look at recent scholarship in the late 19th-century American historiography, and shows how the social, political, and corporate developments in this period gave rise to and created modern America.
Get the book
Similar books
-
The Possibility of Politics: A Study in the Political Economy of the Welfare State
By Stein RingenThis book is suitable for academics and advanced undergraduates interested in political theory, public economics, social administration and political sociology.
-
The Politics of Education Policy in an Era of Inequality: Possibilities for Democratic Schooling
By Gary L. Anderson, Sonya Douglass Horsford, Janelle T. ScottThis book provides a critical perspective and analysis of today’s education policy landscape and leadership practice; explores the challenges and opportunities associated with teaching in and leading schools; and examines the structural, ...
-
Heidegger's Being and Time and the Possibility of Political Philosophy
By Mark Blitz5emmanuel Faye, Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy, translated by Michael Smith, Yale University Press, 2009, first published in French in 2005. The German publication in 2014 of several of Heidegger's notebooks, ...
-
Despite the Odds: The Contentious Politics of Education Reform
By Merilee S. GrindleThe book has important implications for developing countries as well as for the literature on political leadership, the role of international financial institutions, and even the dynamics of international policy diffusion.
-
The Politics of Possibility: Risk and Security Beyond Probability
By Louise AmooreSince September 11, 2001, the imagination of "low probability, high consequence" events has become a distinctive feature of contemporary politics. Uncertain futures—devastation by terrorist attack, cyber crime, flood, financial market...
-
Education and Political Subjectivities in Neoliberal Times and Places: Emergences of norms and possibilities
By Eva Reimers, Lena MartinssonThis book considers how political subjectivities are made possible in education in spite of dominant neoliberal norms.
-
Hegemony and Heteronormativity: Revisiting 'The Political' in Queer Politics
By María do Mar Castro Varela, Nikita Dhawan, Antke EngelThis book reflects on 'the political' in queer theory and politics by revisiting two of its key categories: hegemony and heteronormativity.
-
The Possibility of Politics: A Study in the Political Economy of the Welfare State
By Stein RingenA Study in the Political Economy of the Welfare State Stein Ringen ... This does not exclude the possibility that people are in fact pleasure seekers, but nor does it exclude the possibility that they seek other things than pleasure.
-
Refiguring Critical Theory: Jürgen Habermas and the Possibilities of Political Change
By James Craig HanksRefiguring Critical Theory offers some thoughts about the nature of democracy and the possibilities of individual and collective self-determination. The text traces theories of the relationship between being and consciousness...
-
Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities
By Henrik Ernstson, Erik SwyngedouwAcross its theoretical and empirical chapters, written by leading scholars from anthropology, geography, urban studies, and political science, the book explores new political possibilities that are opening up in an age marked by ...