Taiwan

a political history

For centuries, various great powers have both exploited and benefited Taiwan, their designs for this island frequently clashing with the desire of local inhabitants to control their own destiny. Such conflicts have shaped Taiwan#s multiple, and frequently contradictory, identities. Denny Roy contends that Taiwan ...

Ways of being

potentiality and actuality in Aristotle's metaphysics

Charlotte Witt continues her highly regarded exploration of Aristotle#s metaphysics in a book devoted to the ontological distinction between potentiality and actuality. She focuses on Metaphysics book ix, which provides the most sustained discussion of this distinction. Witt rejects the conventional reading of this ...

Visualizing the nation

gender, representation, and revolution in eighteenth-century France

Popular images of women were everywhere in revolutionary France. Although women's political participation was curtailed, female allegories of liberty, justice, and the republic played a crucial role in the passage from old regime to modern society. In her lavishly illustrated and gracefully written book ...

Machiavelli's children

leaders and their legacies in Italy and Japan

Uncas

first of the Mohegans

Many know the name #Uncas# only from James Fenimore Cooper#s The Last of the Mohicans, but the historical Uncas flourished as an important leader of the Mohegan people in seventeenth-century Connecticut. In Uncas: First of the Mohegans, Michael Leroy Oberg integrates the life story ...

Heidegger´s roots

Nietzsche, National Socialism, and the Greeks

Despite a flood of recent works on Martin Heidegger and Nazism, there has been no sustained investigation of the shared themes that were the common ground between Heidegger#s thought and that of the ideologists of National Socialism. In this lucid and fair-minded book, Charles ...

The grammar of politics

Wittgenstein and political philosophy

Ludwig Wittgenstein#s work has been widely interpreted and appropriated by subsequent philosophers, as well as by scholars from areas as diverse as anthropology, cultural studies, literary theory, sociology, law, and medicine. The Grammar of Politics demonstrates the variety of ways political philosophers understand Wittgenstein ...

The end of diversity?

prospects for German and Japanese capitalism

After the devastation of World War II, Germany and Japan built national capitalist institutions that were remarkably successful in terms of national reconstruction and international competitiveness. Yet both "miracles" have since faltered, allowing US capital and its institutional forms to establish global dominance. National varieties ...

The wars within

peoples and states in conflict

Driving the state

families and public policy in Central Mexico

The offshore world

sovereign markets, virtual places, and nomad millionaires

The atlas of contemporary capitalism is curious indeed. A desperately poor and civil-war-wracked nation, Liberia, is the world's shipping superpower; the Cayman Islands the fifth-largest financial centre in the world; land-locked Zurich a venerable "offshore" banking centre. Indeed, it is estimated that half of ...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

a friend of virtue

Scholars have long debated the contribution Rousseau has made to political thought. Is he a theorist of radical individualism, a reactionary advocate for authoritarianism, or just a brilliantly paradoxical but ultimately incoherent controversialist? In this text devoted to discussion of Rousseau's conception of virtue ...

Gendering the master narrative

women and power in the Middle Ages

Sovereign nations, carnal states

A grand strategy for America

Going public

the role of labor-management relations in delivering quality government services

The public sector currently employs around 40 per cent of all union members in the United States. Pressures for cost-effective and quality government services have placed new demands on the labour-management relationship. A fluctuating set of expectations about the appropriate responsibilities of government and a ...

The copywrights

Intellectual Property and the literary imagination

They borrow from published works without attribution. They remake literary creation in the image of consumption. They celebrate the art of scissors and paste. Who are these outlaws? Postmodern culture-jammers or file-sharing teens? No, they are the Copywrights#Victorian and modernist writers, among them Oscar ...

The letter of the law

legal practice and literary production in Medieval England.

Justice contained

law and politics in the European Union

Looking back at law's century

This book describes a century of tremendous legal change, of inspiring legal developments, and profound failures. The twentieth century took the United States from the Progressive Era's optimism about law and social engineering to current concerns about a hyperlegalistic society, from philosophical idealism to ...