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Profiles in Power
"The turbulent and unpredictable presidency of Donald Trump has intensified public and scholarly attention to the personalities of presidents. "Profiles in Power" approaches the presidency as a personal affair that is shaped, in part, by the character of the occupants of the Oval Office and their attempts to craft public personas. In ten biographical essays that focus on individual presidents and on one First Lady, the authors in this volume build on a renewed interest in presidential studies that emphasizes individual agency. As such, the book seeks to bring the personal aspect of the presidency back into U.S. political history"--
Profiles in Power
Profiles in Power explores the role of the personalities and public personas of U.S. presidents. In ten biographical essays, a diverse array of scholars show that the presidency is and was a deeply personal affair, already before Donald Trump.
Historical Perspectives on Democracies and their Adversaries
This book historicizes the debate over how democratic regimes deal with anti-democratic groupings in society. Democracies across the world increasingly find themselves under threat from enemies, ranging from terrorists to parties and movements that undermine democratic institutions from within. This compilation of essays provides the first historical exploration of how democracies have dealt with such anti-democratic forces in their midst and how this impacted upon what democracy meant to all involved. From its inception in the nineteenth century, modern democratic politics has included fundamental debates over whether it is undemocratic and dangerous to ban parties with anti-democratic objectives and whether democracies should defend themselves, if necessary with violence, against perceived anti-democratic forces. This volume shows that implicit conceptions of democracy and democratic repertoires become explicit, fluid, and contested throughout these confrontations, not only within democratic parties, but also among their adversaries. Both sides have, at times, used force or limited the expression of ideas, thus blurring the lines between who is democratic and who is not.
Fear of Theory
In historiography, many interesting theoretical perspectives on biography have emerged in recent years, from forensics to structure and microhistory. Biographers themselves, though, often fear the study of the genre - needlessly, as these eighteen engaging new essays demonstrate.
De stem van de student
Een schaar in de handen van kinderen", zo typeerden de hoogleraren in 1825 de oprichting van het eerste studentenblad. Het was ongehoord dat studenten zelf de pen ter hand namen. Het initiatief kreeg echter navolging: al snel verschenen ook in de andere academiesteden studentenbladen. Enkele decennia later was het bestaan van een landelijk studentenweekblad een vanzelfsprekendheid. Annelies Noordhof-Hoorn analyseert de ontwikkeling van het Nederlandse studentenblad in de negentiende eeuw. Zij laat zien dat de studentenbladen niet alleen de identiteit van de student weerspiegelden, maar die ook vormden. Ze definieerden wie en wat een student was, hoe hij zich diende te gedragen en hoe hij zich moest verhouden tot de politiek en de maatschappij. Dit leidde tot hevige debatten en tot de oprichting van weer nieuwe bladen. Dit boek toont het belang van de universitaire pers voor de moderne universiteit aan.
Die Demokratisierung der Parteiführerauswahl
Hui Ding greift das klassische politikwissenschaftliche Thema der innerparteilichen Demokratie auf und fragt danach, inwieweit und unter welchen Bedingungen die Auswahl von Parteiführern demokratisiert werden kann. Im Rahmen eines institutionalistischen Forschungsansatzes werden Großparteien in Deutschland und Großbritannien verglichen. Dabei zeigt sich, dass die Auswahlprozesse zunehmend inklusiver werden, sodass beispielsweise auch einfache Parteimitglieder vielfach stimmberechtigt sind. Zugleich ist jedoch auch die Gatekeeping Power der Führungseliten durch die Erhöhung der Initiierungs-, Nominierungs- und Abstimmungshürden gestärkt worden.
Trojan Women
This new comic-book version of Euripides' classic The Trojan Women follows the fates of Hekabe, Andromache and Kassandra after Troy has been sacked and all its men killed. The Trojan Women is a wildly imaginative collaboration between the visual artist Rosanna Bruno and the poet and classicist Anne Carson.
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Different Lives
Internationally acclaimed biographies are mostly written by Anglophone biographers. How does biography function as a public genre in the rest of the world? Different Lives offers a global perspective on the biographical tradition by seventeen scholars of fifteen different countries.
