Author: Maya Latynski
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Keywords: perspectives, continental, pact, munich, reappraising
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 1992-05-01
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0943875390
ISBN-13: 9780943875392

Up to now, scholars’ treatment of the Munich pact focused on British policy -- either moralistically criticizing the ill-advised diplomacy of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain or reassessing the British role in view of the limitations imposed by a fragile economy. Reappraising the Munich Pact brings the other players back onto the stage by examining German, French, and Soviet policies before, during, and after the pact. Woodrow Wilson Center Press.

Author: George Raudzens
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: reappraising, essays, guns, germs, theories, centuries, eighteenth, disease, colonial, conquests, sixteenth, technology
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2003-08-01
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0391042068
ISBN-13: 9780391042063

During the 1960s, scholars changed their explanation for the European conquest of the world from racial and ethnic superiority to European combat advance because of guns, and epidemic disease caused by the lack of Euroasian immunities in the New World

Author: Terence Ball
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: political, history, thought, studies, revisionist, theory, reappraising
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1995-01-26
List price: $173.00
ISBN-10: 0198279531
ISBN-13: 9780198279532

Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseay, Mill and Marx, and Foucault - what really links these and other ’classic’ political theorists? Not, argues Terence Ball, their common status as ’dead, white, European males’, but instead the exciting and compelling way in which they can speak to us today. Professor Ball begins by setting out his liberating view of the way we should approach ’classic’ texts. Using an approach that is both ’problem-driven’ and methodologically ’pluralist’, Ball offers new readings - and reappraisals - of key authors and cl

Author: Terence Ball
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: political, history, thought, studies, revisionist, theory, reappraising
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1995-01-26
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0198279957
ISBN-13: 9780198279952

In this lively and entertaining book, Terence Ball maintains that ’classic’ works in political theory continue to speak to us only if they are periodically re-read and reinterpreted from alternative perspectives. That, the author contends, is how these works became classics, and why they are regarded as such. Ball suggests a way of reading that is both ’pluralist’ and ’problem-driven’--pluralist in that there is no one right way to read a text, and problem-driven in that the reinterpretation is motivated by problems that emerge while reading these texts. In

Authors:Frederic Wakeman Jr, Richard Louis Edmond,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: china, contemporary, studies, reappraising, republican
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2000-03-30
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0198296177
ISBN-13: 9780198296171

This book is a testament to the accomplishments of Republican studies during the 1980s and early 1990s. Leading scholars review many aspects of contemporary research on the Republican era, ranging from the influence of fascism on Chiang Kai-Shek to the transition from the Qing dynasty to the Republic. Relevant for all interested in the key period in China between Monarchy and Communism.