Author: Charlie Savage
Publisher: Back Bay Book
Keywords: american, democracy, subversion, presidency, return, imperial, takeover
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2008-04-28
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 0316118052
ISBN-13: 9780316118057

Praised everywhere as a stunning work of reportage, TAKEOVER lays bare a hidden agenda, three decades in the making, to allow the White House to wield enormous powers, unchecked by Congres or the courts--an agenda that links warrantless wiretapping and Bush’s judicial nominees, torture and Cheney’s energy task force, the faith-based initiative and the imprisonment of citizens without trial. TAKEOVER tells the story of how a group of true believers, led by Cheney, set out to establish near-monarchical executive powers that, in the words of one conservative critic, "will lie around l

Author: Mr. Richard Stite
Publisher: Yale University Pre
Keywords: pleasure, power, russia, imperial, society, arts, serfdom
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2005-12-14
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0300108893
ISBN-13: 9780300108897

Serf-era and provincial Russia heralded the spectacular turn in cultural history that began in the 1860s. Examining the role of arts and artists in society’s value system, Richard Stites explores this shift in a groundbreaking history of visual and performing arts in the last decades of serfdom. Provincial town and manor house engaged the culture of Moscow and St. Petersburg while thousands of serfs and ex-serfs created or performed. Mikhail Glinka raised Russian music to new levels and Anton Rubinstein struggled to found a conservatory. Long before the itinerants, painters explored town and

Author: Richard H. Mitchell
Publisher: University of Hawaii Pre
Keywords: imperial, japan, criminals, political, faced, justice, janus
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1992-05-01
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 082481410X
ISBN-13: 9780824814106

Author: Thorstein Veblen
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: classics, history, cosimo, revolution, germany, industrial, imperial
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2006-09-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 159605882X
ISBN-13: 9781596058828

OF INTEREST TO: students of economics, readers of European history The traditions of the German people, including the personnel of the civil service, are traditions of frugality and parsimony... and these are fortifed in this connection by a traditional loyalty of service to a master, to whom the civil servant stands in a relation of personal stewardship. -from "Economic Policy of the Imperial State" One of the great thinkers of the early 20th century, American economist and sociologist THORSTEIN BUNDE VEBLEN (1857-1929) is best remembered for coining the phrase "conspicuous consumption

Author: Mark Elliott
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: identity, imperial, china, ethnic, banners, way, eight, manchu
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2001-03-15
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0804746842
ISBN-13: 9780804746847

In 1644, the Manchus, a relatively unknown people inhabiting China’s rude northeastern frontier, overthrew the Ming, Asia’s mightiest rulers, and established the Qing dynasty, which endured to 1912. From this event arises one of Chinese history’s great conundrums: How did a barely literate alien people manage to remain in power for nearly 300 years over a highly cultured population that was vastly superior in number? This problem has fascinated scholars for almost a century, but until now no one has approached the question from the Manchu point of view.This book, the first in any languag

Authors:Mark Kozlowski, Anthony Lewis,
Publisher: NYU Press
Keywords: wrong, courts, right, judiciary, imperial, myth
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2006-01-01
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0814747957
ISBN-13: 9780814747957

Few institutions have become as ferociously fought over in democratic politics as the courts. While political criticism of judges in this country goes back to its inception, today’s intensely ideological assault is nearly unprecedented. Spend any amount of time among the writings of contemporary right-wing critics of judicial power, and you are virtually assured of seeing repeated complaints about the "imperial judiciary." American conservatives contend not only that judicial power has expanded dangerously in recent decades, but that liberal judges now willfully write their policy prefer

Author: Stephen Roddy
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: imperial, china, representations, fictional, identity, literati
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1998-02-01
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0804731314
ISBN-13: 9780804731317

This book is a study of the intellectual and literary factors that in the mid-Qing dynasty contributed to the development of vernacular fiction of unprecedented scholarly and satirical sophistication. The author examines three works of vernacular fiction—Rulin waishi (ca. 1750), Yesou puyan (ca. 1780), and Jinghua yuan (1821/1828)—for their articulation of new perceptions of the literati, or Confucian scholar-gentry. He places the reevaluation of literati roles and privilege found in these novels within the context of scholarly and cultural developments, notably the ascendance of the philo