Authors:Ian Loader, Neil Walker,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: security, civilizing
Number of Pages: 314
Published: 2007-05-14
List price: $102.99
ISBN-10: 0521871204
ISBN-13: 9780521871204

Security has become a defining feature of contemporary public discourse, permeating the so-called ’war on terror’, problems of everyday crime and disorder, the reconstruction of ’weak’ or ’failed’ states and the dramatic renaissance of the private security industry. But what does it mean for individuals to be secure, and what is the relationship between security and the practices of the modern state? In this timely and important book, Ian Loader and Neil Walker outline and defend the view that security remains a valuable public good. They argue that the stat

Author: Mathias Albert
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: politics, world, civilizing
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2000-01-19
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0847698033
ISBN-13: 9780847698035

Civilizing World Politics offers an innovative approach to the changing contexts of global politics, moving beyond the ever more fuzzy debate on globalization to a concept of world society that transcends the nation state and embraces communities including nongovernmental organizations. It brings together research from various fields of political science, sociology, and social theory in new ways, successfully introducing U.S. students of international affairs to contemporary continental research in a way that enlightens as it civilizes.

Author: Marvin T. Brown
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: provision, economics, new, economy, civilizing
Number of Pages: 282
Published: 2010-05-21
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 0521152461
ISBN-13: 9780521152464

When a handful of people thrive while whole industries implode and millions suffer, it is clear that something is wrong with our economy. The wealth of the few is disconnected from the misery of the many. In Civilizing the Economy, Marvin Brown traces the origin of this economics of dissociation to early capitalism, showing how this is illustrated in Adam Smith’s denial of the central role of slavery in wealth creation. In place of the Smithian economics of property, Brown proposes that we turn to the original meaning of economics as household management. He presents a new framework for

Author: Norbert Elias
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: investigations, psychogenetic, sociogenetic, process, civilizing
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 2000-07-20
List price: $53.95
ISBN-10: 0631221611
ISBN-13: 9780631221616

The Civilizing Process stands out as Norbert Elias’ greatest work, tracing the "civilizing" of manners and personality in Western Europe since the late Middle Ages by demonstrating how the formation of states and the monopolization of power within them changed Western society forever.

Author: Frederick Law Olmsted
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Keywords: city, landscapes, writings, cities, american, civilizing
Number of Pages: 318
Published: 1997-03-22
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0306807653
ISBN-13: 9780306807657

Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) designed New York City’s Central Park, Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, Chicago’s South Park and Jackson Park, Montreal’s Mount Royal Park, the park systems of Boston and Buffalo, and many others. But Olmsted’s concerns extended beyond the hills and lakes, the flora and fauna of the park: he also designed parkways and neighborhoods, reshaping cities around their parks. He thus reinvented the American urban landscape as a democratic outdoor setting that encouraged a new kind of participation in city life. Olmsted was one of the most gifte

Author: Teresa A. Meade
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Pre
Keywords: brazilian, city, resistance, reform, rio, civilizing
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1996-12-01
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0271016086
ISBN-13: 9780271016085

The renovation of Rio, or "civilization" campaign, as the government called it, made life worse for the majority of the city’s residents. Their resistance to the changes is the focus of this study, tracing the rebellion that continued for more than 20 years after the renovation ended in 1909.

Author: Kavita Phili
Publisher: Rutgers University Pre
Keywords: colonial, south, india, modernity, resources, natures, race, civilizing
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2003-12-01
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0813533600
ISBN-13: 9780813533605

Kavita Philip unravels unexpected relationships between science, technology, and administrative systems in colonial India from the 1850s to the 1930s, deepening our perspective on continuing conflicts over race, resources, and empire. This is a story about the construction of nature in southern India that is deeply local and irreducibly global. Through detailed case studies, Kavita Philip shows how race and nature are fundamental to understanding colonial modernities. Through its insightful combination of methodologies from both the humanities and the social sciences, Civilizing Natures casts