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Explores one of the crucial problems of the contemporary era - struggles over access to, and use of, the environment. This book combines insights from anthropology, history, and environmental studies, mounting an interdisciplinary challenge to contemporary accounts of "globalization."

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Combines political theory and narrative analysis to argue that Rousseau's stories of sex and sexuality offer insights into the paradoxes of democratic consent. Drawing on a variety of Rousseau's political and literary writings, this book shows how consensual nonconsensuality organizes his representations of desire and identity.

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Translated by James Gutmann, Paul Oskar Kristeller, and John Herman Randall, Jr. Originally published in 1945. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of th

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The capture of the French king John II at Poitiers in 1356 marked the end of royal taxation as a temporary, wartime expedient and its beginning as an annual assessment. John Henneman's detailed treatment of war financing in the period immediately preceding, from 1322 to 1356, is the first volume in a proposed study of royal finances in France durin

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Looking at Americans and their politics, this book argues for a more complex understanding of the "space" occupied by politics in nineteenth-century American society and culture. It explores a wide range of political actions and attitudes.

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An examination of the conditions under which international rules of globalization come into existence, enabling world economic and financial systems to function and stabilize. It demonstrates that the rules result from a trial-and-error process - and usually after a crisis - in order to prevent pointless transaction costs and risks.

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Riots, insurrections, guerrilla movements, civil wars--all forms of internal conflict are increasing throughout the world. The conditions that breed domestic violence in the Third World persist, and events in Ulster and Quebec have shown that more advanced industrial countries are not immune from civil disorder. The subject of James E. Bond's book-

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How should politicians act When should they try to lead public opinion and when should they follow it When do virtues like toleration and willingness to compromise deteriorate into moral weakness This work answers these questions by exploring what a democratic polity needs from its leaders.

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This book explores thoroughly the reforms of Russian administration from 1775 to 1785, this work also reaches beyond Catherine's reign to challenge established opinions on the nature of eighteenth-century Russian government and the autocracy of the tsars. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand t

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Elizabeth Helsinger's iconoclastic book explores the peculiar power of rural England to stand for conflicting ideas of Britain. Despite the nostalgic appeal of Constable's or Tennyson's rural scenes, they record the severe social and economic disturbances of the turbulent years after Waterloo. Artists and writers like Cobbett, Clare, Turner, Emily

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Michael Burns charts the rural impact of the two political watersheds" of fin-de-siecle France--Boulangism and the Dreyfus Affair. Broadening our understanding of the early Third Republic, he investigates its intricate village life and shows how the deindustrialization of the countryside both upset and solidified rural cultures. Originally publish

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Professor Fellows presents a map of Ruskin's mind as it shifts from conditions of mastery to madness. In his study, he examines and transcribes the ways in which Ruskin observed his dislocation of imagination and shows how, in the very process of disintegration; he was enabled by his peculiar genius to transform the effects on his language and conc

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Combines interviews with international figures - including Mikhail Gorbachev - with insights gleaned from declassified archives in East Germany and her own understanding of Russian-German relations. This book shows how German strength and Russian weakness have governed the delicate dance of power between unified Germany and democratized Russia.