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Reconstructing the Commercial Republic Constitutional Design after Madison

Elkin Stephen L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226324012, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

James Madison is the thinker most responsible for laying the groundwork of the American commercial republic. But he did not anticipate that the propertied class on which he relied would become extraordinarily politically powerful at the same time as...

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America

Business & Economics

Rise of the Public Authority Statebuilding and Economic Development in Twentieth-Century America

Radford Gail

ISBN: PB: 9780226037721, ISBN: HB: 9780226037691, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
232 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 5 halftones, 3 line illus.

In the late nineteenth century, public officials throughout the United States began to experiment with new methods of managing their local economies and meeting the infrastructure needs of a newly urban, industrial nation. Stymied by legal barriers,...

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Resurgence of the West How a Transatlantic Union Can Prevent War and Restore the United States and Europe

Rosecrance Richard N.

ISBN: HB: 9780300177398, Yale University Press, July 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

After two centuries of ascent, the United States finds itself in economic decline. Some advise America to cure its woes alone. But the road to isolation leads inevitably to the end of US leadership in the international system, warns Richard Rosecranc...

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Rumor of Globalization Desecrating the Global from Vernacular Margins

Mukhopadhyay Bhaskar

ISBN: PB: 9781849041416, Hurst Publishers, January 2013
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Drawing on recent theories of virtuality, performativity, and governmentality, and on post-colonial activist scholarship, this book presents a series of ethnographic and archival studies of what Mukhopadhyay terms 'vernacular g...

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Political Science

Rational Empires Institutional Incentives and Imperial Expansion

Blanken Leo J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226056746, ISBN: HB: 9780226056739, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
218 pp., 25x15 cm, 4 tables, 3 halftones, 1 line illus.

The nineteenth century marked the high point of imperialism, when tsarist Russia expanded to the Pacific and the sun was said never to set on the British Empire. Imperialism remains a perennial issue in international relations today, and nowhere is t...

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Russian Politics The Paradox of a Weak State

Mendras Marie

ISBN: HB: 9781849041133, Hurst Publishers, May 2012
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! What has become of the Russian state twenty years after the collapse of Communism? Why have the rulers and the ruled turned away from democratic institutions and the rule of law? What explains the Putin regime's often uncoopera...

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Political Science

Riot Politics Hindu-Muslim Violence and the Indian State

Berenschot Ward

ISBN: PB: 9781849041362, Hurst Publishers, January 2012
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! On 27 February 2002, fifty-eight people died when a train coach caught fire just outside a small-town railway station in Gujarat, Western India. The incident marked the beginning of one of the worst outbursts of Hindu-Muslim vi...

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Middle East

Red Star Over Iraq Iraqi Communism Before Saddam

Franzén Johan

ISBN: HB: 9781849041010, Hurst Publishers, July 2011
264 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Recent outbursts of sectarian and ethnic violence in Iraq have made many observers question the viability of the state itself. It is said that due to the artificiality of the state and a lack of deep-seated political institutio...

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Religion and Development Ways of Transforming the World

Haar Gerrie ter

ISBN: PB: 9781849041409, Hurst Publishers, July 2011
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Until recently, policy-makers and academics generally saw religion as something that would disappear as countries made economic progress. But we now know that this rarely happens. People in most countries continue to look at t...

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Other

Religion, Caste and Politics in India

Jaffrelot Christophe

ISBN: PB: 9781849041386, Hurst Publishers, April 2011
600 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! After Independence the Nehruvian approach to socialism in India rested upon three pillars: secularism and democracy in the political domain; state intervention in the economy; and diplomatic Non-Alignment mitigated by pro-Sovie...

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