Authors:Goran Runeson, Martin Skitmore,
Publisher: University of New South Wales Press (UNSW Press)
Keywords: reports, research, writing
Number of Pages: 169
Published: 1999-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0949823783
ISBN-13: 9780949823786

Author: T. M. Scanlon
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: blame, meaning, permissibility, dimensions, moral
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2008-09-30
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0674031784
ISBN-13: 9780674031784

In a clear and elegant style, T. M. Scanlon reframes current philosophical debates as he explores the moral permissibility of an action. Permissibility may seem to depend on the agent’s reasons for performing an action. For example, there seems to be an important moral difference between tactical bombing and a campaign by terrorists—even if the same number of non-combatants are killed—and this difference may seem to lie in the agents’ respective aims. However, Scanlon argues that the apparent dependence of permissibility on the agent’s reasons in such cases is merely a failure to distinguish

Author: Geoffrey Hosking
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: history, russians, russia
Number of Pages: 768
Published: 2003-05-30
List price: $24.50
ISBN-10: 0674011147
ISBN-13: 9780674011144

From the Carpathians in the west to the Greater Khingan range in the east, a huge, flat expanse dominates the Eurasian continent. Here, over more than a thousand years, the history and destiny of Russia have unfolded. In a sweeping narrative, one of the English-speaking world’s leading historians of Russia follows this story from the first emergence of the Slavs in the historical record in the sixth century C.E. to the Russians’ persistent appearances in today�s headlines. Hosking’s is a monumental story of competing legacies, of an enormous power uneasily balanced between

Author: Daniel T. Rodgers
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: progressive, politics, social, crossings, atlantic
Number of Pages: 648
Published: 2000-05-19
List price: $31.00
ISBN-10: 0674002016
ISBN-13: 9780674002012

"The most belated of nations," Theodore Roosevelt called his country during the workmen’s compensation fight in 1907. Earlier reformers, progressives of his day, and later New Dealers lamented the nation’s resistance to models abroad for correctives to the backwardness of American social politics. Atlantic Crossings is the first major account of the vibrant international network that they constructed--so often obscured by notions of American exceptionalism--and of its profound impact on the United States from the 1870s through 1945. On a narrative canvas that sweeps across Eur

Author: Jeremi Suri
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: century, american, kissinger, henry
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2007-07-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0674025792
ISBN-13: 9780674025790

What made Henry Kissinger the kind of diplomat he was? What experiences and influences shaped his worldview and provided the framework for his approach to international relations? Jeremi Suri offers a thought-provoking, interpretive study of one of the most influential and controversial political figures of the twentieth century. Drawing on research in more than six countries in addition to extensive interviews with Kissinger and others, Suri analyzes the sources of Kissinger’s ideas and power and explains why he pursued the policies he did. Kissinger’s German-Jewish backgroun

Author: Ira Berlin
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: north, america, slavery, centuries, first, thousands
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2000-03-04
List price: $24.50
ISBN-10: 0674002113
ISBN-13: 9780674002111

Many Thousands Gone traces the evolution of black society from the first arrivals in the early seventeenth century through the American Revolution. Laboring as field hands on tobacco and rice plantations, as skilled artisans in port cities, or as soldiers along the frontier, generation after generation of black slaves struggled to create a world of their own in circumstances not of their own making. In a panoramic view that stretches from the North to the Chesapeake Bay and Carolina low country to the Mississippi Valley, Berlin reveals the diverse forms that slavery and freedom assumed befor

Author: Mark Edward Lewis
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: imperial, china, history, han, empires, qin, chinese
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2007-04-20
List price: $31.50
ISBN-10: 067402477X
ISBN-13: 9780674024779

In 221 bc the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain depended for its political survival on a fundamental reshaping of Chinese culture. With this informative book, we are present at the creation of an ancient imperial order whose major features would endure for two millennia. The Qin and Han constitute the "classical period" of Chinese history--a role played by the Greeks and Romans in the West. Mark Edward Lewis highlights the key challenges faced by the court officials and scholars who set about