This book provides the first systematic account of the nature and importance of our judgements about degrees of freedom. Author Ian Carter analyzes the normative assumptions behind the claim that individuals are entitled to a measure of freedom. He argues for a conception of freedom that not only reflects commonly held intuitions about who is freer than who but is also compatible with a liberal or freedom-based theory of justice.

This book provides the first systematic account of the nature and importance of our judgements about degrees of freedom. Author Ian Carter analyzes the normative assumptions behind the claim that individuals are entitled to a measure of freedom. He argues for a conception of freedom that not only reflects commonly held intuitions about who is freer than who but is also compatible with a liberal or freedom-based theory of justice.

Edited by leading contributors to the literature, Freedom: An Anthology is the most complete anthology on social, political and economic freedom ever compiled.

• Offers a broad guide to the vast literature on social, political and economic freedom.
  
• Contains selections from the best scholarship of recent decades as well as classic writings from Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Kant among others.
  
• General and sectional introductions help to orient the reader.
  
• Compiled and edited by three important contributors to the...

Edited by leading contributors to the literature, Freedom: An Anthology is the most complete anthology on social, political and economic freedom ever compiled.

• Offers a broad guide to the vast literature on social, political and economic freedom.
  
• Contains selections from the best scholarship of recent decades as well as classic writings from Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Kant among others.
  
• General and sectional introductions help to orient the reader.
  
• Compiled and edited by three important contributors to the...

The 19th-century's steam railway epitomized modernity's relentlessly onrushing advance. In this work Ian Carter delves into the cultural impact of train technology, and how this was represented in British society. Why for example did Britain possess no great railway novel? The work's first half tests that assertion by comparing fiction and images by some canonical British figures (Turner, Dickens, Arnold Bennett) against selected French and Russian competitors: Tolstoy, Zola, Monet, Manet. The second half proposes that if high cultural work on the British steam railway is thin, then this does...

This collection of new essays on political and legal theory concentrates on themes dealt with in the work of Felix Oppenheim, including fundamental political and legal concepts and their implications for the scope of morality in politics and international relations. Among the issues addressed are the relationship between empirical and normative definitions of 'freedom', 'power' and 'interests', whether governments are free to act against the national interest, and whether they can ever be morally obliged to do so.

Struggling with his identity as an Army officer, Captain Peter Fleming returns to Vietnam to prove something to himself. After taking command of his new unit he quickly finds himself immersed in a deadly intelligence chess match with a masterful Viet Cong adversary. Actionpacked, this military thriller gives the inside perspective, never before told, of how ELINT- Electronic Intelligence was used leading up to TET, the major battle of the Vietnam War. In the secretive world of the Army Security Agency, Fleming and his crack team devise a new method for interpreting intelligence. Fleming and...