Best of
Politics

1986

A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches


Martin Luther King Jr. - 1986
    on non-violence, social policy, integration, black nationalism, the ethics of love and hope, and more.

A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles


Thomas Sowell - 1986
    In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes this pattern. He describes the two competing visions that shape our debates about the nature of reason, justice, equality, and power: the "constrained" vision, which sees human nature as unchanging and selfish, and the "unconstrained" vision, in which human nature is malleable and perfectible. A Conflict of Visions offers a convincing case that ethical and policy disputes circle around the disparity between both outlooks.

Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water


Marc Reisner - 1986
    It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruption and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecologic and economic disaster. In Cadillac Desert Marc Reisner writes of the earliest settlers, lured by the promise of paradise, and of the ruthless tactics employed by Los Angeles politicians and business interests to ensure the city's growth. He documents the bitter rivalry between two government giants, the Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in the competition to transform the West.Based on more than a decade of research, Cadillac Desert is a stunning expose and a dramatic, intriguing history of the creation of an Eden—an Eden that may be only a mirage.

The Constitution: A Heavenly Banner


Ezra Taft Benson - 1986
    Book by Ezra Taft Benson

Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media


Michael Parenti - 1986
    Taking a critical perspective on the economics and politics of "presenting" the news, this topical supplement argues that the media systematically distorts news coverage.

Writings: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays and Articles


W.E.B. Du Bois - 1986
    This Library of America volume presents his essential writings, covering the full span of a restless life dedicated to the struggle for racial justice.The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States 1638–1870 (1896), his first book, renders a dispassionate account of how, despite ethical and political opposition, Americans tolerated the traffic in human beings until a bloody civil war taught them the disastrous consequences of moral cowardice.The Souls of Black Folk (1903), a collection of beautifully written essays, narrates the cruelties of racism and celebrates the strength and pride of black America. By turns lyrical, historical, and autobiographical, Du Bois pays tribute to black music and religion, explores the remarkable history of the Reconstruction Freedman’s Bureau, assesses the career of Booker T. Washington, and remembers the death of his infant son.Dusk of Dawn (1940) was described by Du Bois as an attempt to elucidate the “race problem” in terms of his own experience. It describes his boyhood in western Massachusetts, his years at Fisk and Harvard universities, his study and travel abroad, his role in founding the NAACP and his long association with it, and his emerging Pan-African consciousness. He called this autobiography his response to an “environing world” that “guided, embittered, illuminated and enshrouded my life.”Du Bois’s influential essays and speeches span the period from 1890 to 1958. They record his evolving positions on the issues that dominated his long, active life: education in a segregated society; black history, art, literature, and culture; the controversial career of Marcus Garvey; the fate of black soldiers in the First World War; the appeal of communism to frustrated black Americans; his trial and acquittal during the McCarthy era; and the elusive promise of an African homeland.The editorials and articles from The Crisis (1910–1934) belong to the period of Du Bois’s greatest influence. During his editorship of the NAACP magazine that he founded, Du Bois wrote pieces on virtually every aspect of American political, cultural, and economic life. Witty and sardonic, angry and satiric, proud and mournful, these writings show Du Bois at his freshest and most trenchant.

When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution


Elizabeth Becker - 1986
    Then, with the rise of the Khmer Rouge in 1975 came the closing of the border and a systematic reorganization of Cambodian society. Everyone was sent from the towns and cities to the countryside, where they were forced to labor endlessly in the fields. The intelligentsia were brutally exterminated, and torture, terror, and death became routine. Ultimately, almost two million people—nearly a quarter of the population—were killed in what was one of this century's worst crimes against humanity.When the War Was Over is Elizabeth Becker's masterful account of the Cambodian nightmare. Encompassing the era of French colonialism and the revival of Cambodian nationalism; 1950s Paris, where Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot received his political education; the killing fields of Cambodia; government chambers in Washington, Paris, Moscow, Beijing, Hanoi, and Phnom Penh; and the death of Pol Pot in 1998; this is a book of epic vision and staggering power. Merging original historical research with the many voices of those who lived through the times and exclusive interviews with every Cambodian leader of the past quarter century, When the War Was Over illuminates the darkness of Cambodia with the intensity of a bolt of lightning.

The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates


Ralph Louis Ketcham - 1986
     Edited and introduced by Ralph Ketcham.

Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics & Economy in the History of the U. S. Working Class


Mike Davis - 1986
    Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis's brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: Why has the world's most industrially advanced nation never spawned a mass party of the working class? This series of essays surveys the history of the American bourgeois democratic revolution from its Jacksonian beginnings to the rise of the New Right and the re-election of Ronald Reagan, concluding with some bracing thoughts on the prospects for progressive politics in the United States.

The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made


Walter Isaacson - 1986
    A captivating blend of personal biography and public drama, The Wise Men introduces the original best and brightest, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to postwar chaos: Averell Harriman, the freewheeling diplomat and Roosevelt's special envoy to Churchill and Stalin; Dean Acheson, the secretary of state who was more responsible for the Truman Doctrine than Truman and for the Marshall Plan than General Marshall; George Kennan, self-cast outsider and intellectual darling of the Washington elite; Robert Lovett, assistant secretary of war, undersecretary of state, and secretary of defense throughout the formative years of the Cold War; John McCloy, one of the nation's most influential private citizens; and Charles Bohlen, adroit diplomat and ambassador to the Soviet Union.

Vaclav Havel: Or Living in Truth


Václav Havel - 1986
    1. Six texts by Václav Havel --Letter to Dr Gustáv Husák --The power of the powerless --Six asides about culture --Politics and conscience --Thriller --An anatomy of reticence --pt. 2. Sixteen texts for Václav Havel --Catastrophe / Samuel Beckett --Courtesy towards God / Heinrich Böll --Prague : a poem, not disappearing / Timothy Garton Ash --Ex-prophets and storysellers / Jiří Gruša --From Variations and reflections on topics in Václav Havel's prison letters / Ladislav Hejdánek --Citizen versus state / Harry Järv --The chaste centaur / Pavel Kohout --Conversations 36 / Iva Kotralá --Candide had to be destroyed / Milan Kundera --I think about you a great deal / Arthur Miller --When I was still living in Prague / Zdena Salivarová --The sorrowful satisfaction of the powerless / Milan Šimečka --I saw Václav Havel for the last time / Josef Škvorecký --Introduction to The memorandum / Tom Stoppard --Letter to a prisoner / Zdeněk Urbǎnek --On the house / Lukvík Vaculík.

Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala


Václav Havel - 1986
    Havel gives insights into Czech history, the social and political roles of art, and a statement of the values underlying recent events in Eastern Europe. A national bestseller.

After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives


Edward W. Said - 1986
    A searing portrait of Palestinian life and identity that is at once an exploration of Edward Said's dislocated past and a testimony to the lives of those living in exile.

The Retreat from Class: A New 'True' Socialism


Ellen Meiksins Wood - 1986
    Challenging their dissociation of politics from class, she elaborates her own original conception of the complex relations between class, ideology and politics. In the process, Wood explores the links between socialism and democracy and reinterprets the relationship between liberal and socialist democracy.In a new introduction, Wood discusses the relevance of The Retreat from Class in a post-Soviet world. She traces the connections between post-Marxism and current academic trends such as postmodernism and argues that a re-examination of class politics is a necessary counter to the current cynical acceptance of capitalism.

The Sources of Social Power: Volume 1, a History of Power from the Beginning to Ad 1760


Michael Mann - 1986
    In it, Michael Mann identifies the four principal 'sources' of power as being control over economic, ideological, military, and political resources. He examines the interrelations between these in a narrative history of power from Neolithic times, through ancient Near Eastern civilisations, the classical Mediterranean age, and medieval Europe, up to just before the Industrial Revolution in England. Rejecting the conventional monolithic concept of a 'society', Dr. Mann's model is instead one of a series of overlapping, intersecting power networks. He makes this model operational by focusing on the logistics of power - how the flow of information, manpower, and goods is controlled over social and geographical space-thereby clarifying many of the 'great debates' in sociological theory. The present volume offers explanations of the emergence of the state and social stratification.

God and Government: A Biblical, Historical, and Constitutional Perspective


Gary DeMar - 1986
    Wade, an old truth started gaining new life in America.It was the truth that had once made America great, but one which she had forgotten—that the Bible is not a collection of disconnected moralisms for private application, but rather a comprehensive guide for all of life, a blueprint for the private and public conduct of all individuals and nations.In 1982, the three-volume God and Government series fanned the flames of this national worldview awakening, establishing that the character of a nation and its people depends on their relationship with God as revealed in Holy Scripture.Relying on clear historical and biblical research, author Gary DeMar demonstrated how America had been great and how she could be great again.The series quickly became a staple in the Christian curriculum. For decades, in the hands of countless teachers, parents, and students, the books educated minds young and old in the Christian history of America, the origin and foundation of government, the biblical principles of authority, and the basis and necessity of Christian political activism.But the work of reviving America is far from finished, and Americans need to hear—now more than ever—the biblical and historical truths explained in God and Government.Now thirty years later, American Vision has thoroughly renovated, revised, and updated Gary DeMar’s monumental work into this beautiful one-volume hardback.With a fresh new look, more images, an extensive subject and scripture index, and an updated bibliography, God and Government is ready to prepare a whole new generation to take on the political and religious battles confronting Christians today.May it be used in a new awakening of Christians in America—not just to inform minds, but to stimulate action and secure a better tomorrow for our posterity.Hardback, 700+ pages with dozens of carefully selected corresponding images, extensive subject and Scripture index, verified quotes and bibliographyTable of Contents:Part 1: Defining Government * 1: Self-Government and Family Government * 2: Ecclesiastical and Civil Governments * 3: The Origin and Development of Civil Government * 4: The Purpose and Function of Civil Government * 5: The Biblical Form of Civil Government * 6: Jesus and Civil Government * 7: The Christian History of The United States * 8: The Purpose of the United States Constitution * 9: The Relationship of Church and State In the Bible * 10: The Relationship of Church and State In the First Amendment Part 2: Issues in Biblical Perspective * 11: Developing a Biblical Worldview * 12: Worldviews in Conflict * 13: Sovereignty and Dominion * 14: Sovereignty and Ownership * 15: Financing the Work of God’s Kingdom * 16: Financing the Responsibilities of the State * 17: Biblical Economics * 18: The Enemies of Biblical Economics * 19: The Causes of Poverty * 20: The Conquest of Poverty Part 3: The Restoration of the Republic * 21: The Biblical View of Authority * 22: The Enemies of Biblical Authority * 23: God’s Sovereignty Over the Nations * 24: Establishing Christian Leadership * 25: The Restoration of the Republic * 26: The Foundation of Law * 27: The Administration of Justice * 28: Human Rights and Responsibilities * 29: Sovereignty and Education * 30: The Future of Government * Appendix: What is Government? * Scripture Index * Topical Index * Recommended Reading

Yes, Prime Minister: The Diaries Of The Right Hon. James Hacker: Volume 1


Jonathan Lynn - 1986
    

Against the Tide


Noel Browne - 1986
    New Hibernia.

Yes Prime Minister: The Diaries Of The Right Hon. James Hacker: Volume II


Jonathan Lynn - 1986
    Many literary classics become television classics, Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister are television classics which have the rare distinction of becoming classic English comic literature.

Macrocosm and Microcosm


Rudolf Steiner - 1986
    Steiner discusses the various paths of self-development that lead across these two thresholds and to the transformation of human soul-forces into spiritual organs of perception.A brief synopsis: The world behind the tapestry of sensory perceptions; human life between macrocosm and microcosm.The planets and their connection with our sleeping and waking life; consciousness soul, mind soul, and sentient soul.The inner path of the mystic; the cycle of the year; the ability to see through matter; the "greater guardian of the threshold."The nature and development of human soul faculties; the "lesser guardian of the threshold"; the sun at midnight; the results of "sins of omission."The Egyptian mysteries of Osiris and Isis; initiation experiences; the Rosicrucian path; mystics of the Middle Ages.Initiation in the "northern mysteries"; the necessity of suppressing the ego; conscious assent into the macrocosm and the higher worlds; the world of archetypal images.The four spheres of the higher worlds; the threshold of the spirit world; forces for developing clairvoyant consciousness in the world of archetypal images.The macrocosm mirrored in the human being; the nervous system as an inner solar system; the image of purified blood and the conquest of our lower nature in the symbol of the Rose Cross.Spiritual organs of perception and the strengthening powers of sleep; the thinking of the heart; the ego viewed from twelve perspectives.Reading the akashic record; the transition from intellect to heart thinking; four-dimensional space; intellectual questions have no meaning in relation to conditions before the intellect itself existed.Human and planetary evolution; adaptation to the different states of Earth's existence; the breathing process should not be influenced directly unless knowledge has become prayer.

Error of Judgement: The Truth About The Birmingham Bombings


Chris Mullin - 1986
    

The Search for Common Ground


Howard Thurman - 1986
    He calls us at once to affirm our own identity, but also to look beyond that identity to that which we have in common with all of life.

Christianity and the State


Rousas John Rushdoony - 1986
    "He removeth kings, and setteth up kings" (Dan. 2:21) and "increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them" (Job 12:23) because the government is on His shoulders: He is the governor among the nations (Isa. 9:7, Ps. 22:28). The need today is for the church to press the crown-rights of Christ the King, confident that His government over all will increase without end: "the zeal of the Lord of Hosts will perform this."This powerful volume sets forth a Biblical theology of the state, tracing in detail the history and consequences of both statist domination and Christian dereliction of duty. By firmly establishing the Biblical alternative to modern Chrisitianity's polytheism, the author alerts us to the pitfalls of the past, and provides Godly counsel for both the present and furture. The crystallization of decades of research, Christianity and the State is a landmark volume of 20th century Christendom.

The CIA, a Forgotten History: Us Global Interventions Since World War 2


William Blum - 1986
    Book by Blum, William

Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land


David K. Shipler - 1986
    In this monumental work, David Shipler delves into the origins of the prejudices that have been intensified by war, terrorism, and nationalism. Focusing on the diverse cultures that exist side by side in Israel and Israeli-controlled territories, Shipler examines the process of indoctrination that begins in schools; he discusses the far-ranging effects of socioeconomic differences, historical conflicts between Islam and Judaism, attitudes about the Holocaust, and much more. And he writes of the people: the Arab woman in love with a Jew, the retired Israeli military officer, the Palestinian guerilla, the handsome actor whose father is Arab and whose mother is Jewish.

The State


Anthony De Jasay - 1986
    . . . De Jasay offers the most compelling account of what is wrong and dangerous about the state."—Alan Ryan The State is an idiosyncratic and brilliant analysis of modern political arrangements that views the state as acting in its own interest contrary to the interests of individuals and even of an entire society. As Nobel laureate James Buchanan has observed, Jasay subjects the state to a "solid, foundational analysis, grounded in an understanding of economic theory, informed by political philosophy and a deep sense of history." The results include a "devastating critique of the absurdities of modern welfare economics." Jasay traces the logical and historical progression of the state from a modest-sized protector of life and property through its development into what he believes to be an "agile seducer of democratic majorities, to the welfare-dispensing drudge that it is today." Can, Jasay wonders, this seemingly inexorable expansion of the state be stopped? Or, "Is the rational next step [for the state] a totalitarian enhancement of its power?"Anthony de Jasay is an independent theorist living in France. Jasay “believes that philosophy should be mainly, if not exclusively, about clarifying conclusions that arise from the careless use of, or deliberate misuse of, language. There are echoes here of  . . . Wittgenstein's later philosophy.” His books, translated into a half dozen languages, include Justice and Its Surroundings and Social Contract, Free Ride.[source/credit line] I. M. D. Little in Ordered Anarchy, 2007

The Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence


U.S. Congress - 1986
    

Right Turn: The Decline of the Democrats and the Future of American Politics


Thomas Ferguson - 1986
    

Bird of Life, Bird of Death: A Naturalist's Journey Through a Land of Political Turmoil


Jonathan Evan Maslow - 1986
    The book chronicles not only his search for the bird & aspects of its natural history, but presents encounters with many other birds of Central America as well. Home to some wondrous birds in the almost magical rain forests, Maslow shows tho that the avifauna & the land they inhabit are threatened by unstable politics, unchecked population growth & deforestation. A must read for any interested in birds south of the border.--Tim F. Martin (edited)

In Honored Glory: Arlington National Cemetery: The Final Post


Philip Bigla - 1986
    This definitive history of Arlington National Cemetery is told with the dignity, respect, and pageantry that are due one of America's most honored and deeply revered sites.This all-new fourth edition of In Honored Glory brings the history of Arlington up to date, with expanded coverage of ceremonial units, including the caisson platoon; the dedication of the Women in Military Service Memorial; the identification of the Vietnam Unknown; the impact of September 11; the war on terrorism; the war in Afghanistan; the war in Iraq, the Columbia; and other developments since the publication of the third edition.In Honored Glory brings to life the history, happenings, people, and highlights that have combined to make Arlington National Cemetery a uniquely American institution.Topics covered include: A thorough history of the development of the cemetery over time The origins of Memorial Day The construction of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the subsequent history of interments A chapter on the Kennedy gravesites Current burial requirements

Leo Tolstoy: Resident and Stranger


Richard F. Gustafson - 1986
    Received opinion says that there are two Tolstoys, the pre-conversion artist and the post-conversion religious thinker and prophet, but Professor Gustafson argues convincingly that the man is not two, but one.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Search for Historical Meaning: Hegel & the Postwar American Right


Paul Edward Gottfried - 1986
    This important book--updated with a new preface--examines the influence of Hegelian concepts on the historical attitudes and cultural judgments of prominent postwar conservatives who, because of their concern with personal freedom as a political and ontological value, denounced Hegel while ascribing their own Hegelian ideas to less offensive sources. Gottfried argues that the lack of a true historical perspective was a serious defect in the postwar American conservative movement, and it grew worse in the years that followed. Essential reading for conservative thinkers, political philosophers, and American political historians, The Search for Historical Meaning concludes with an incisive examination of the American conservative movement that has implications for today.

The Challenge


Mahathir Mohamad - 1986
    Both traits are grippingly evident in this book, where he takes a hard and honest look at certain modes of thinking and living that ver vying for spremacy in the modern world, in general, and within the Malay community in Malaysia, in particular.With charateristic aplomb bd straight forwardness, Dr Mahathir explodes fallacies and exposes distortions concerning religiosity, education, role models, democracy, communism, freedom and dicipline, and the concerns of this world and the next. Only by striking an equilibrium between an interest in things spiritual and secular, can the Malays hope ro face and overcome the conflicting forces and challenges of the modern world.'The Challenge' is thought provoking and is of special interest today as Dr Mahathir is at the helm of a nation striving for racial balance and religious sanity. He expounds the need for a new system of values, ethics and attitudes which the Malays must adopt in the country's quest to become a developed nation by the year 2020. By championing his Vision 2020 and the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC), Malaysia, under his stewardship, will reach even greater heights.

Mothers of Feminism: The Story of Quaker Women in America


Margaret Hope Bacon - 1986
    

Birth of the Communist Manifesto


Dirk Jan Struik - 1986
    Besides the full text of the Manifesto, the book includes all prefaces by Marx or Engels; Engels' "Principles of Communism" and a brief history of the Manifesto in the USA. Fully annotated. Index. Illustrated.

Liberating Theory


Michael Albert - 1986
    society and history, and developing a dynamic vision and strategy for social change.

Chief of Staff: Twenty-Five Years of Managing the Presidency


Samuel Kernell - 1986
    Eight former White House Chiefs of Staff representing six different Presidents from Eisenhower to Carter gathered to talk about twenty-five years of the Presidency. The original transcripts have been edited to provide annotations when necessary without impeding the flow of this lively and candid debate.

First Things: An Inquiry Into the First Principles of Morals and Justice


Hadley Arkes - 1986
    It was understood in the past that, in morals or in mathematics, our knowledge begins with certain axioms that must hold true of necessity; that the principles drawn from these axioms hold true universally, unaffected by variations in local "cultures"; and that the presence of these axioms makes it possible to have, in the domain of morals, some right answers. Hadley Arkes restates the grounds of that older understanding and unfolds its implications for the most vexing political problems of our day.The author turns first to the classic debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. After establishing the groundwork and properties of moral propositions, he traces their application in such issues as selective conscientious objection, justifications for war, the war in Vietnam, a nation's obligation to intervene abroad, the notion of supererogatory acts, the claims of "privacy," and the problem of abortion.

The Political Forms of Modern Society: Bureaucracy, Democracy, Totalitarianism


Claude Lefort - 1986
    This anthology of his most important work published over the last four decades makes his writing widely accessible to an English-speaking audience for the first time.With exceptional skill Lefort combines the analysis of contemporary political events with a sensitivity to the history of political thought. His critical account of the development of bureaucracy and totalitarianism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe is a timely contribution to current debates about the nature and shortcomings of these societies. His incisive analyses of Marx's theory of history and concept of ideology provide the backdrop for a highly original account of the role of symbolism in modern societies. While critical of many traditional assumptions and doctrines, Lefort develops a political position based on a reappraisal of the idea of human rights and a reconsideration of what "democracy" means today.The Political Forms of Modern Society is a major contribution to contemporary social and political theory. The volume includes a substantial introduction that describes the context of Lefort's writings and highlights the central themes of his work.Claude Lefort teaches social and political theory at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He was a founder, with Cornelius Castoriadis, of the influential independent journal of the left, Socialisme ou Barbarie. John B. Thompson is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Cambridge.

The Next Left: The History of a Future


Michael Harrington - 1986
    

The Iran-Contra Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era


Jonathan Marshall - 1986
    

To Win a Nuclear War: The Pentagon's Secret War Plans


Michio Kaku - 1986
    for the past 40 years has not been one of deterrence as publicly stated, but rather has been one of threatening the use of nuclear weapons. This policy has been documented in such book as the New England Regional Office of the American Friends Service Committee's The Deadly Connection (Library Journal 4/15/86) and Barry M. Blechman and Stephen S. Kaplan's Force Without War: U.S. Armed Forces as a Political Instrument (Library Journal 3/1/79). Nonetheless, the authors' thorough analysis of recently released Pentagon documents provides the basis for a description of the nuclear war fighting strategy of the Reagan administration. The authors also outline the attitudes and biases of U.S. nuclear strategists and policymakers. Recommended for public and university libraries.--Dennis Felbel, University of Manitoba Library, WinnipegCopyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Guide to Understanding The...


Monarch Notes - 1986
    

Comparative History Of Civilizations In Asia: Volume 1


Edward L. Farmer - 1986
    A comparative history of civilizations in Asia from prehistoric times to the middle of the 19th century.

Henry Kissinger


Fred L. Israel - 1986
    A biography of the German immigrant whose family came to the United States to escape Nazi persecution of Jews and who served this country as secretary of state under two Presidents.

The German Revolution and the Debate on Soviet Power: Documents, 1918-1919; Preparing the Founding Congress


John Riddell - 1986
    A day-to-day account of the 1918-19 German revolution in the words of its main leaders, including Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht.

Politics in Hard Times: Comparative Responses to International Economic Crises


Peter A. Gourevitch - 1986
    

Poverty and Wealth: Why Socialism Doesn't Work


Ronald H. Nash - 1986
    Nash shows that market economies lead inevitably to abundance and political freedom because they are based on reality.

The Scourge Of Monetarism


Nicholas Kaldor - 1986
    Now thoroughly revised and updated, this edition also includes a new introduction which places Britain's experience of monetarism into a world context.

The Writer in the Catastrophe of Our Time


Ernesto Sábato - 1986
    

The Development of Plato's Political Theory


George Klosko - 1986
    This second edition has been thoroughly revised to take into account scholarly developments during the last twenty years.

Revolutions: Theoretical, Comparative, and Historical Studies


Jack A. Goldstone - 1986
    Insight into the causes of revolutions and the factors that shape their outcomes is critical to understanding politics and world history--and REVOLUTIONS is a reader designed to address this need. Part One offers a combination of classic treatises and late-breaking scholarship that develops students' theoretical understanding of revolutionary movements. Part Two shows students how these theories play out in real life through rich, accessible accounts of major revolutionary episodes in modern history.

Unancestral Voice


Owen Barfield - 1986
    This is the solvent mind at its best-distinguished exchanges giving provocative, open-ended results at every point. Highly recommended. of permanent value." Owen Barfield, who died in 1997 shortly after entering his hundredth year, was one of the seminal minds of the twentieth century, of whom C. S. Lewis wrote "he towers above us all." His books have won respect from many writers other than Lewis, among them T. S. Eliot, J. R. R. Tolkein, and Saul Bellows, and John Lukacs. He was born in North London in 1898 and received his B.A. with first-class honors from Wadham College, Oxford, in 1921. He also earned B.C.L., M.A., and B.Litt. degrees from Oxford and was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He served as a solicitor for twenty-eight years until his retirement from legal practice in 1959. Barfield was a visiting professor at Brandeis and Drew Universities, Hamilton College, the University of Missouri at Columbia, UCLA, SUNY-Stony Brook, and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. His books include seven others published by The Barfield Press: Romanticism Comes of Age, Worlds Apart: A Dialogue of the 1960s, Unancestral Voice, Speaker's Meaning, What Coleridge Thought, The Rediscovery of Meaning, and History, Guilt and Habit.

Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution III


Hal Draper - 1986
    In this third volume of his definitive study of Karl Marx's political thought, Hal Draper examines how Marx, and Marxism, have dealt with the issue of dictatorship in relation to the revolutionary use of force and repression, particularly as this debate has centered on the use of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat." Writing with his usual wit and perception, Draper strips away the layers of misinterpretation and misinformation that have accumulated over the years to show what Marx and Engels themselves really meant by the term.

Jesus and Spiral of Violence


Richard A. Horsley - 1986
    This fascinating analysis opens up a new perspective of the Roman-dominated Jewish Palestine of Jesus' time, viewing it as an "imperial situation" in which individual acts of violence were responses to institutionalized repression and injustice. Richard A. Horsley reveals the fiercely nationalistic Zealots as largely the fabrication of historians and exposes the erroneous view of Jesus as the sober prophet of nonviolence. In claiming the presence of the kingdom of God, Jesus aimed at catalyzing the renewal of the people of Israel, calling them to loving cooperation amid difficult circumstances of debt and despair and to organized resistance to the violence of an imperial situation.

Soviet Workers and Stalinist Industrialisation


Donald Filtzer - 1986
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The Tenant Movement in New York City, 1904-1984


Ronald Lawson - 1986
    

Sustainable Communities: A New Design Synthesis for Cities, Suburbs, and Towns


Paul Hawken - 1986
    Presents four case studies that serve as illustrations for discussions of land use, building design, and service systems, all shaped to promote limited dependence on fossil fuels.

The Essence of Stigler


Kurt R. Leube - 1986
    Stigler, who has been acknowledged as one of the foremost architects of twentieth-century economic thought.

Free Spaces: The Sources of Democratic Change in America


Sara M. Evans - 1986
    Evans and Harry C. Boyte argue for a new understanding of the foundations for democratic politics by analyzing the settings in which people learn to participate in democracy. In their new Introduction, the authors link the concept of free spaces to recent theoretical discussions about community, public life, civil society, and social movements.

Indonesia: The Rise of Capital


Richard Robison - 1986
    However, such an approach can neglect the powerful influences exerted upon the state by social and economic forces. This important and controversial new book examines the way in which one of these forces, capital, has emerged in the past two decades as a major influence upon the state, its officials and policies. The emergence of the capitalist class is examined, along with its internal divisions and conflicts and its relations with the state. In particular, attention is given to the fusion of the ruling strata of state officials and the capitalist class – the potential basis for a new ruling class. This is set against the weakness of capital caused by its division into domestic and international, state and private, Chinese and indigenous. These factors are in turn set in the context of international influences – the rise and fall of the oil boom, the activities of the IBRD and IMF, the decline of export earnings and the fiscal difficulties of the state. Since its original publication in 1986, Indonesia: The Rise of Capital has been the best selling academic book on Indonesian politics and the most cited in the SSCI and Google Scholar citation indexes. About the Author At the time of this publication in 1986, Richard Robison was Senior Lecturer in the Asian Studies Program at Murdoch University. He is now Emeritus Professor at Murdoch University and has been Professor of Political Economy at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague (2003–2006) and Professor and Director of the Australian Research Council’s Special Centre for Research on Political and Social Change in Contemporary Asia (1995–1999). He is the author, editor of 14 books and has published in major international journals, including World Politics, World Development, Pacific Review, New Political Economy and the Journal of Development Studies. Professor Robison has been awarded Senior research fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation and the Leverhulme Trust.

The Capitalist Revolution: Fifty Propositions About Prosperity, Equality, & Liberty


Peter L. Berger - 1986
    Berger, explains why capitalism is the most successful economic mechanism ever devised for improving material standards of large numbers of people.

Semites and Anti-Semites: An Inquiry into Conflict and Prejudice


Bernard Lewis - 1986
    This conflict is primarily political, a clash between states and peoples over territory and history. But it is also a conflict that has affected and been affected by prejudice. For a long time this was simply the "normal" prejudice between neighboring people of different religions and ethnic origins. In the present age, however, hostility toward Israel and its people has taken the form of anti-Semitism-a pernicious world view that goes beyond prejudice and ascribes to Jews a quality of cosmic evil. First published in the 1980s to universal acclaim, Semites and Anti-Semites traces the development of anti-Semitism from its beginnings as a poison in the bloodstream of Christianity to its modern entrance into mainstream Islam. Bernard Lewis, one of the world's foremost scholars of the Middle East, takes us through the history of the Semitic peoples to the emergence of the Jews and their virulent enemies, and dissects the region's recent tragic developments in a moving new afterword. "A powerful and important work, beautifully written and edited, and based on a range of erudition (in the best sense) that few others, if any, could command."—George Kennan

The Jesse Jackson Phenomenon: The Crisis Of Purpose In Afro American Politics


Adolph L. Reed Jr. - 1986
    Controversial analysis of the Jackson campaign by a black scholar who argues that his candidacy hurt the development of a viable black political movement.

Hobbesian Moral and Political Theory


Gregory S. Kavka - 1986
    Kant, Locke, Marx, and the classical utilitarians all have their current defenders and arc taken seriously as expositors of sound moral and political views. It is the aim of this book to introduce Hobbes into this select group by presenting a plausible moral and political theory inspired by Leviathan. Using the techniques of analytic philosophy and elementary game theory, the author develops a Hobbesian argument that justifies the liberal State and reconciles the rights and interests of rational individuals with their obligations.Hobbes's case against anarchy, based on his notorious claim that life outside the political State would be a "war of all against all," is analyzed in detail, while his endorsement of the absolutist State is traced to certain false hypotheses about political sociology. With these eliminated, Hobbes's principles support a liberal redistributive (or "satisfactory") State and a limited right of revolution. Turning to normative issues, the book explains Hobbes's account of morality based on enlightened self-interest and shows how the Hobbesian version of social contract theory justifies the political obligations of citizens of satisfactory States.

Weberian Sociological Theory


Randall Collins - 1986
    By analysing hitherto little known aspects of Weber's writings, Professor Collins is able both to offer a new interpretation of Weberian sociology and to show how the more fruitful lines of the Weberian approach can be projected to an analysis of current world issues. Professor Collins begins with Weber's theory of the rise of capitalism, examining it in the light of Weber's later writings on the subject and extending the Weberian line of reasoning to suggest a 'Weberian revolution' in both medieval Europe and China. He also offers a new interpretation of Weber's theory of politics, showing it to be a 'world-system' model; and he expands this into a theory of geopolitics, using as a particular illustration the prediction of the future decline of Russian world power. Another 'buried treasure' in the corpus is Weber's conflict theory of the family as sex and property, which Professor Collins applies to the historical question of the conditions that led to the initial rise in the status of women. The broad view of Weber's works shows that Weberian sociology remains intellectually alive and that many of his theories still represent the frontier of our knowledge about large-scale social processes.

Greek Tragedy and Political Theory


J. Peter EubenMichael Davis - 1986
    For those no longer enamored of technological utopias, less sure that history means progress and that more is better, and more aware of the finitude of our power and powers, the image of classical Greece is less one of serenity, proportion, and rationality than of turbulence, dissonance, and an ambivalent morality that plagues action and passion.…it is the darkness tragedy contains and discloses that increasingly fascinates contemporary critics and readers."…[T]he new interpretation of tragedy invigorates and gives depth to the pessimism of such modern social theorists as Max Weber…Jacques Ellul, the Frankfurt School, and Michel Foucault.…For all its pessimism…this crisis in the conception of the classical can help clarify what is at stake…"The juxtaposition of Greek tragedy and contemporary politics can enrich the way we talk about our public lives and stay the triteness that afflicts almost all cultural criticism. The juxtaposition can also provide a sensibility to express feelings and fears in public that are now expressed awkwardly and hesitantly. In this and other ways the reading of Greek tragedies can qualitatively expand the 'political agenda', bringing before the public issues, such as mortality, madness, piety, and passion, that are usually consigned to specialists or private life."

The Homosexual Network: Private Lives and Public Policy


Enrique Rueda - 1986
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Apartheid's Great Land Theft: The Struggle for the Right to Farm in South Africa


Ernest Harsch - 1986
    The fight to regain access to the land is key to forging an alliance of exploited producers that can successfully carry through to completion the national, democratic revolution in South Africa.

Violence and the Great Estates in the South of Italy: Apulia, 1900-1922


Frank M. Snowden III - 1986
    In the late nineteenth century this frontier area was settled and agro-business established. In the quasi-colonial context of the South of Italy, the relations between landowners and farm workers were characterized by extreme forms of oppression and brutality. This book is a study of the world the landlords made and of the harsh structures of profit, tenure, and climate they faced. It is also a powerful investigation of the appallingly grim conditions in the teeming agricultural centres of the region and a vivid history of the struggle by the farm workers to win the ordinary decencies of life - clothes, clean water, and bread. In the process, the labourers formed a potent anarcho-syndicalist movement whose history the book relates from the first general strikes in 1901 to the restoration of the landlords' power by fascist terror in 1922.

Years Of Wrath: A Cartoon History, 1932 1945


David Low - 1986
    

Benito Juárez


Dennis Wepman - 1986
    Presents the life of the leader who became president of Mexico, instituted many reforms, and led his country in a war of independence.

A Handbook of Non-violence Including Aldous Huxley's An Encyclopedia of Pacifism


Robert Seeley - 1986
    

Back to the '80s


Jack Ohman - 1986
    

Intellectual Foundations of the Nicaraguan Revolution


Donald C. Hodges - 1986
    Hodges has discovered a coherent ideological thread and political program, which he succeeds in tracing to Mexican and Spanish sources. Sandino's strong religious inclination in combination with his anarchosyndicalist political ideology established him as a religious seer and moral reformer as well as a political thinker and is the prototype of the curious blend of Marxism and Christianity of the late twentieth-century Nicaraguan government, the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional.

U S S R--From an Original Idea by Karl Marx


Marc Polonsky - 1986
    

Strategic Nuclear War: What the Superpowers Target and Why


William C. Martel - 1986
    

Human Territoriality: Its Theory and History


Robert David Sack - 1986
    This argument is developed by analysing the possible advantages and disadvantages that territoriality can provide, and by considering why some and not others arise at particular times. Major changes are explored in the relationships between territory and society from primitive times to the present day, with special attention to the distinctions between premodern and modern uses of space and territory. Specific analyses of the pre-modern uses of territoriality are provided by the history of the Catholic Church, and, for the modern context, by study of North American political territorial organization and the organization of factory, office, and home.

Lyrical Left: Randolph Bourne, Alfred Stieglitz, and the Origins of Cultural Radicalism in America


Edward Abrahams - 1986
    Abrahams recounts their lives and thought in lucid, lively, critically balanced terms.' - Milton Cantor, Library Journal

Lenin and Imperialism


Prabhat Patnaik - 1986
    At one level he outlined certain tendencies in the phase of monopoly capital which generated situations of actual or potential armed conflict and made for global instability of the international capitalist state system. At another level he explored with this theoretical apparatus, the specific, conjuncture which prevailed on the eve of the First World War as a means of explaining it. It is necessary to distinguish between these two levels; a failure to do so characterises both those who dismiss Lenin's theory as dated and those who apply it mechanically to current situations. The sixteen papers in this volume constitute an effort to correctly understand and apply Lenin's theory and provide useful material on the significance and interpretation of Lenin's theory of imperialism and on aspects of the capitalist crisis using empirical data to support theoretical assumptions. The volume also contains papers critically appraising recent theoretical writings on the theory of imperialism.Dr Patnaik's lucid Introduction highlights the various aspects of Lenin's theory that are, taken up in the five sections of this book. The first section interprets the theory and evaluates Lenin's insights with the help of empirical data. Two major themes are explored in the second section-state monopoly capitalism after the Second World War, and the changing pattern of inter-imperialist contradictions. The capitalists crisis and the problem of war-a very real situation for the world today-is taken up in the third section, while Section IV deals with imperialism and Third World industrialization. The last section is devoted to a critique of recent theoretical writings on the subjectThe papers in this book were first presented at a seminar on Lenin and Contemporary Imperialism.

Socialisms: Theories and Practices


Tony Wright - 1986
    But what precisely is socialism? Why is it that socialists themselves cannot reach agreement on the definition of a socialist society? This stimulating study argues that, despite Marxistattempts to claim the title of true socialism, there is no single socialist tradition. Rather, it is important to recognize and accept the extraordinary diversity within the movement. Developing this theme through a wide-ranging analysis of socialist ideas and movements, Wright reveals howsocialists have fundamentally differed about both the nature of socialism and the way it can be best achieved. The book concludes with a challenging discussion of the prospects for contemporary socialist traditions.

Jailed for Peace: The History of American Draft Law Violators, 1658-1985


Stephen M. Kohn - 1986
    is no dry-as-dust academic tome. It is a concise, humane chronicle of the most familiar expression of a very old American ideal--pacifism. BooklistConcise and clearly written, it makes important points and supports them with a strong collection of evidence. . . . Jailed for Peace will itself make a significant and lasting contribution to liberty and world peace. Resistance News

Wilhelm Marr: The Patriarch of Antisemitism


Moshe Zimmermann - 1986
    This is the first biography of radical writer and politician Wilhelm Marr, the man who introduced the term anti-Semitism into politics and founded the first Anti-Semitic League. Marr (1819-1904) began his political career as a democrat and revolutionary, fighting for the emancipation of all oppressed groups including the Jews. But when he became disillusioned with contemporary politics, Jews became the focus of his attack. Drawing on Marr's published and unpublished works, as well as on previously unexamined journals and voluminous correspondence, Zimmermann sets out to discover why an intellectual radical like Marr would become a virulent anti-Semite. As Zimmermann follows Marr's profound influence in the political, literary, and artistic circles of his day and his collaborations with Karl Marx, Richard Wagner, and other radical founders of modern anti-Semitism, he reveals the diverse ways that anti-Semitism came to permeate German thought and illuminates critical moments in the emergence of the German Reich. The book also includes Marr's surprising, never-before-published Testament of an Anti-Semite, written at the end of his life when he finally turned his back on the movement he helped to create. This is the first volume in a new Oxford series, Studies in Jewish History. The General Editor for the series is Jehuda Reinharz of Brandeis University.

Nice People & Rednecks: Ireland in the 1980s


Desmond Fennell - 1986
    

Saguaro: A View of Saguaro National Monument and the Tucson Basin


Gary Paul Nabhan - 1986
    

Spiral of Silence: Public Opinion-Our Social S


Elizabeth Noelle-Neumann - 1986
    For this second edition, Noelle-Neumann has added three new chapters: the first discusses new discoveries in the history of public opinion; the second continues the author's efforts to construct a comprehensive theory of public opinion, addressing criticisms and defenses of her "spiral of silence" theory that have appeared since 1980; the third offers a concise and updated summary of the book's arguments.