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The Private State: A New Perspective on the European Partition of Africa
(2014-06-06)
In the 1880s there was a race on among Europeans in Africa, spanning virtually the entire continent from Tunisia in the North to the Orange River in the South. Some European nicknames for this race are familiar: the Course ...
A Choice, Not an Echo: Polarization and the Transformation of the American Party System
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation offers an intellectual and institutional history of party polarization and ideological realignment in the postwar United States. It treats the construction of an ideologically sorted party system as a ...
Combative Pasts: Politics and Remembering in the Post-Communist Space
(2014-02-25)
More than two decades after the Polish Roundtable Agreement inaugurated the collapse of the Soviet Bloc, political conversations in the post-communist space remain remarkably attuned to symbolic and ethical questions. ...
Popular Opinion and Public Reasoning: Intellectual Changes and Institutional Innovations in Late Ming China (1580s-1640s)
(2014-06-06)
This study examines the rise of popularist discourse in the realms of intellectual transformation, political reforms, institutional innovations, social activism, and cultural construction from the 1580s to the 1680s. ...
The Making of a National Cadastre (1763-1807): State Uniformization, Nature Valuation, and Organizational Change in France
(2014-10-21)
How does a cadastre, one of the modern state's most omnipresent and yet self-effacing instruments of power over territory and people, become national? How are the processes of nation-state formation and the rise of modern ...
Political Ethics and the Spirit of Liberalism in Twentieth-Century Political Thought
(2014-10-21)
Liberalism is often criticized as too moralistic and removed from the realities of politics; and too complacently accepting of injustices. Such criticisms, familiar among contemporary political theorists, were expressed ...