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Author |
: Ekaterina Pravilova |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 448 |
Release |
: 2018-05-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691180717 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691180717 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Public Empire by : Ekaterina Pravilova
"Property rights" and "Russia" do not usually belong in the same sentence. Rather, our general image of the nation is of insecurity of private ownership and defenselessness in the face of the state. Many scholars have attributed Russia's long-term development problems to a failure to advance property rights for the modern age and blamed Russian intellectuals for their indifference to the issues of ownership. A Public Empire refutes this widely shared conventional wisdom and analyzes the emergence of Russian property regimes from the time of Catherine the Great through World War I and the revolutions of 1917. Most importantly, A Public Empire shows the emergence of the new practices of owning "public things" in imperial Russia and the attempts of Russian intellectuals to reconcile the security of property with the ideals of the common good. The book analyzes how the belief that certain objects—rivers, forests, minerals, historical monuments, icons, and Russian literary classics—should accede to some kind of public status developed in Russia in the mid-nineteenth century. Professional experts and liberal politicians advocated for a property reform that aimed at exempting public things from private ownership, while the tsars and the imperial government employed the rhetoric of protecting the sanctity of private property and resisted attempts at its limitation. Exploring the Russian ways of thinking about property, A Public Empire looks at problems of state reform and the formation of civil society, which, as the book argues, should be rethought as a process of constructing "the public" through the reform of property rights.
Author |
: Arundhati Roy |
Publisher |
: Seven Stories Press |
Total Pages |
: 68 |
Release |
: 2011-01-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781609802943 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1609802942 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Public Power in the Age of Empire by : Arundhati Roy
In her major address to the 99th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association on August 16, 2004, "Public Power in the Age of Empire," broadcast nationally on C-Span Book TV and on Democracy Now! and Alternative Radio, writer Arundhati Roy brilliantly examines the limits to democracy in the world today. Bringing the same care to her prose that she brought to her Booker Prize-winning novel The God of Small Things, Roy discusses the need for social movements to contest the occupation of Iraq and the reduction of "democracy" to elections with no meaningful alternatives allowed. She explores the dangers of the "NGO-ization of resistance," shows how governments that block nonviolent dissent in fact encourage terrorism, and examines the role of the corporate media in marginalizing oppositional voices.
Author |
: Steve Coll |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 705 |
Release |
: 2013-05-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780143123545 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0143123548 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Private Empire by : Steve Coll
“ExxonMobil has met its match in Coll, an elegant writer and dogged reporter . . . extraordinary . . . monumental.” —The Washington Post “Fascinating . . . Private Empire is a book meticulously prepared as if for trial . . . a compelling and elucidatory work.” —Bloomberg From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of Ghost Wars and The Achilles Trap, an extraordinary exposé of Big Oil. Includes a profile of current Secretary of State and former chairman and chief executive of ExxonMobil, Rex Tillerson In this, the first hard-hitting examination of ExxonMobil—the largest and most powerful private corporation in the United States—Steve Coll reveals the true extent of its power. Private Empire pulls back the curtain, tracking the corporation’s recent history and its central role on the world stage, beginning with the Exxon Valdez accident in 1989 and leading to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. The action spans the globe—featuring kidnapping cases, civil wars, and high-stakes struggles at the Kremlin—and the narrative is driven by larger-than-life characters, including corporate legend Lee “Iron Ass” Raymond, ExxonMobil’s chief executive until 2005, and current chairman and chief executive Rex Tillerson, President-elect Donald Trump's nomination for Secretary of State. A penetrating, news-breaking study, Private Empire is a defining portrait of Big Oil in American politics and foreign policy.
Author |
: Justin Hart |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 294 |
Release |
: 2013-02-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199777945 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199777942 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Empire of Ideas by : Justin Hart
Empire of Ideas examines the origins of the U. S. government's programs in public diplomacy and how the nation's image in the world became an essential component of U. S. foreign policy.
Author |
: Jonathan P. Thompson |
Publisher |
: Torrey House Press |
Total Pages |
: 275 |
Release |
: 2021-08-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1948814447 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781948814447 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sagebrush Empire by : Jonathan P. Thompson
Award-winning journalist Jonathan P. Thompson delves into the spectacular land, rich history, and twisted politics of a remote Utah county.
Author |
: Paul Frymer |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 310 |
Release |
: 2019-07-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691191560 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691191565 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Building an American Empire by : Paul Frymer
How American westward expansion was governmentally engineered to promote the formation of a white settler nation Westward expansion of the United States is most conventionally remembered for rugged individualism, geographic isolationism, and a fair amount of luck. Yet the establishment of the forty-eight contiguous states was hardly a foregone conclusion, and the federal government played a critical role in its success. This book examines the politics of American expansion, showing how the government's regulation of population movements on the frontier, both settlement and removal, advanced national aspirations for empire and promoted the formation of a white settler nation. Building an American Empire details how a government that struggled to exercise plenary power used federal land policy to assert authority over the direction of expansion by engineering the pace and patterns of settlement and to control the movement of populations. At times, the government mobilized populations for compact settlement in strategically important areas of the frontier; at other times, policies were designed to actively restrain settler populations in order to prevent violence, international conflict, and breakaway states. Paul Frymer examines how these settlement patterns helped construct a dominant racial vision for America by incentivizing and directing the movement of white European settlers onto indigenous and diversely populated lands. These efforts were hardly seamless, and Frymer pays close attention to the failures as well, from the lack of further expansion into Latin America to the defeat of the black colonization movement. Building an American Empire reveals the lasting and profound significance government settlement policies had for the nation, both for establishing America as dominantly white and for restricting broader aspirations for empire in lands that could not be so racially engineered.
Author |
: Darius Staliūnas |
Publisher |
: Central European University Press |
Total Pages |
: 408 |
Release |
: 2021-05-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789633863640 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9633863643 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Tsar, The Empire, and The Nation by : Darius Staliūnas
This collection of essays addresses the challenge of modern nationalism to the tsarist Russian Empire. First appearing on the empire’s western periphery this challenge, was most prevalent in twelve provinces extending from Ukrainian lands in the south to the Baltic provinces in the north, as well as to the Kingdom of Poland. At issue is whether the late Russian Empire entered World War I as a multiethnic state with many of its age-old mechanisms run by a multiethnic elite, or as a Russian state predominantly managed by ethnic Russians. The tsarist vision of prioritizing loyalty among all subjects over privileging ethnic Russians and discriminating against non-Russians faced a fundamental problem: as soon as the opportunity presented itself, non-Russians would increase their demands and become increasingly separatist. The authors found that although the imperial government did not really identify with popular Russian nationalism, it sometimes ended up implementing policies promoted by Russian nationalist proponents. Matters addressed include native language education, interconfessional rivalry, the “Jewish question,” the origins of mass tourism in the western provinces, as well as the emergence of Russian nationalist attitudes in the aftermath of the first Russian revolution.
Author |
: Laura Engelstein |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 255 |
Release |
: 2011-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780801458217 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0801458218 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Slavophile Empire by : Laura Engelstein
Twentieth-century Russia, in all its political incarnations, lacked the basic features of the Western liberal model: the rule of law, civil society, and an uncensored public sphere. In Slavophile Empire, the leading historian Laura Engelstein pays particular attention to the Slavophiles and their heirs, whose aversion to the secular individualism of the West and embrace of an idealized version of the native past established a pattern of thinking that had an enduring impact on Russian political life. Imperial Russia did not lack for partisans of Western-style liberalism, but they were outnumbered, to the right and to the left, by those who favored illiberal options. In the book's rigorously argued chapters, Engelstein asks how Russia's identity as a cultural nation at the core of an imperial state came to be defined in terms of this antiliberal consensus. She examines debates on religion and secularism, on the role of culture and the law under a traditional regime presiding over a modernizing society, on the status of the empire's ethnic peripheries, and on the spirit needed to mobilize a multinational empire in times of war. These debates, she argues, did not predetermine the kind of system that emerged after 1917, but they foreshadowed elements of a political culture that are still in evidence today.
Author |
: Jeffrey Veidlinger |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 408 |
Release |
: 2009-04-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780253002983 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0253002982 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire by : Jeffrey Veidlinger
In the midst of the violent, revolutionary turmoil that accompanied the last decade of tsarist rule in the Russian Empire, many Jews came to reject what they regarded as the apocalyptic and utopian prophecies of political dreamers and religious fanatics, preferring instead to focus on the promotion of cultural development in the present. Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire examines the cultural identities that Jews were creating and disseminating through voluntary associations such as libraries, drama circles, literary clubs, historical societies, and even fire brigades. Jeffrey Veidlinger explores the venues in which prominent cultural figures -- including Sholem Aleichem, Mendele Moykher Sforim, and Simon Dubnov -- interacted with the general Jewish public, encouraging Jewish expression within Russia's multicultural society. By highlighting the cultural experiences shared by Jews of diverse social backgrounds -- from seamstresses to parliamentarians -- and in disparate geographic locales -- from Ukrainian shtetls to Polish metropolises -- the book revises traditional views of Jewish society in the late Russian Empire.
Author |
: Brian Phillips Murphy |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2015-06-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812247169 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812247167 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Building the Empire State by : Brian Phillips Murphy
Focusing on the state of New York, home to the first American banks, utilities, canals, and transportation infrastructure projects, Building the Empire State examines the origins of American capitalism by tracing how and why business corporations were first introduced into the economy of the early republic.