Examines the conditions in which religious nationalism develops and explores why several countries; including Ireland, England, Poland, and Greece stand in clear contrast to the broader trend of religious decline...
Maps the changing conditions of black political practice and experience from Emancipation to Obama with excursions into the Jim Crow era, Black Power radicalism, and the Reagan revolt. This book includes essays that define historically and conceptually discrete problems affecting black Americans...
This is an introductory guide to the representations of the environment found in everyday life, in nature, culture, landscape, art and in the media. These provide an important means of understanding environmental attitudes and decision-making...
In this collection of writings, leading historians of political thought and political theorists provide an overview of traditional and contemporary republicanism...
This book aims to contribute to current debates on republicanism by examining the relationship between republican theory and practice in a variety of contexts...
This comprehensive analysis of the way in which governments and firms have responded to globalisation examines closely the options available to both, and the historical contexts of the strategic decisions made...
This new volume offers an alternative view of human civilization in a globalizing age, exploring the uneven pace of development of human societies, particularly in the last two centuries, and arguing that this is leading to a global civil war...
Globalization and migration are pressuring nations around the world to change their ethnic self-definition and to treasure diversity not homogeneity. This book explores the growing gap between modern nations and their dominant ethnic groups...
Argues that we must rethink the struggle for knowledge, space and power and that the concept of geopolitics needs to be reconceptualized for the twenty-first century...