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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.
Penman of the Founding
"Early November on the Eastern Shore of Maryland is a fine time of year. The breezes off the Chesapeake Bay are sufficiently cool to turn the leaves vibrant but still mild enough to give hope for an Indian summer. In the 18th century fishermen could catch blue crab for a few more weeks; enslaved people, indentured servants, and farmers sowed the winter wheat; and women poured candles to see them through the impending winter. Although planters had long grown tobacco here, by 1732, the year John Dickinson was born, grains were more profitable as tobacco prices stagnated. Public tobacco houses still dotted the landscape, and the acrid smell of the drying weed seeped from black barns and mingled with the pungent scent of the Bay"--
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.
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"--
We Need to Talk About Putin
'Galeotti sketches a bleak, but convincing picture of the man in the Kremlin and the political system that he dominates' - The Times Meet the world's most dangerous man. Who is the real Vladimir Putin? What does he want? And what will he do next? Despite the millions of words written on Putin's Russia, the West still fails to truly understand one of the world's most powerful politicians, whose influence spans the globe and whose networks of power reach into the very heart of our daily lives. In this essential primer, Professor Mark Galeotti uncovers the man behind the myth, addressing the key misperceptions of Putin and explaining how we can decipher his motivations and next moves. From Putin's early life in the KGB and his real relationship with the USA to his vision for the future of Russia - and the world - Galeotti draws on new Russian sources and explosive unpublished accounts to give unparalleled insight into the man at the heart of global politics.
Happening
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "Happening recounts what it was like to be a young woman whose life changed — and world ominously narrowed — in 1963 with an unwanted pregnancy. . . . It feels urgently of the moment." --The New York Times In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child. This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the abortion with a knitting needle. Fearful and desperate, she finally located an abortionist, and ends up in a hospital emergency ward where she nearly dies. In Happening, Ernaux sifts through her memories and her journal entries dating from those days. Clearly, cleanly, she gleans the meanings of her experience. Now an award-winning film by Audrey Diwan Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival Official Selection of the Sundance Film Festival
The Codex Fori Mussolini
The year is 1932. In Rome, the Fascist leader Benito Mussolini unveils a giant obelisk of white marble, bearing the Latin inscription MVSSOLINI DVX. Invisible to the cheering crowds, a metal box lies immured in the obelisk's base. It contains a few gold coins and, written on a piece of parchment, a Latin text: the Codex fori Mussolini. What does this text say? Why was it buried there? And why was it written in Latin? The Codex, composed by the classical scholar Aurelio Giuseppe Amatucci (1867-1960), presents a carefully constructed account of the rise of Italian Fascism and its leader, Benito Mussolini. Though written in the language of Roman antiquity, the Codex was supposed to reach audien...
