Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> General

Since at least the time of Plato, political scientists and philosophers have been concerned about what citizens and rulers should know if they are to be governed--and govern--well. Moreover, the increasing complexity of modern societies has revivified thinking about and around the critical concept of political knowledge. Vital questions arise, such as:

• does effective democracy demand an informed electorate?
• is such an aspiration realistic, given the size and reach of modern governments?
• how can electorates compensate for their...

Stimulated anew in the 1990s by the slaughter and the so-called ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia, and by the horrors of Rwanda, research about and around genocide flourishes as never before. Genocide studies has now accrued a large, sophisticated, and growing, body of scholarly literature. This growth looks set to continue: historians and social scientists are increasingly casting their analytical nets further into the past to investigate whether group destruction and population expulsions have been constitutive of imperial and state expansion over millennia. And, moreover, events...

From votes to strikes to street violence, politics is intrinsically geographical. Many of the books in this set, originally published between 1964 and 1990, illustrate that the social contexts provided by localities are crucial in defining distinctive political identities and subsequent political activities.

This is a collection of titles written by a range of international authors that seeks to get at the heart of the political experience in the Middle East, an endeavour that is as crucial today as it was when these books were first published.

• first ever facsimile reprint of the leading English newspaper published in Yokohama throughout the Meiji era.
• complete collection provided by Yokohama Archives of History and other institutions.
• playing an important role for the Meiji Japan s exchange with Western society, it covers not only articles on politics, commerce and economics, but also on the cultural activities of early Japanologists and the Asiatic Society of Japan.
• contributors include George Aston, Ernest Satow, Basil Hall Chamberlain, Lafcadio Hearn, Fenollosa,...