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  • - A Political Life
    av John Keane
    282,-

    The definitive biography of Tom Paine, published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of his death

  • av John Keane
    340,-

    In China's Galaxy Empire, John Keane and Baogang He target a development of enormous significance: China's return, after two centuries of decline and subjugation, to a position of prominence in world affairs. The daring thesis is that China is a newly rising empire of a kind never before witnessed: a galaxy empire. The galaxy empire interpretation rejects clichéd misdescriptions of China as a "big power", and it explains why China defies older definitions of land, sea, and air-based empires. The book warns against the perils of simple-minded, friend-versus-enemy thinking and "Big China, Bad China" politics, but it also proffers a forewarning to China's rulers: no empire lasts forever, and some are stillborn, because they indulge illusions of greatness and reckless power adventures.

  • av John Keane
    286,-

    One day they'll be like us. That was once the West's complacent assumption about countries emerging from poverty, imperial rule, or communism. But many have hardened into something very different from liberal democracy: what eminent political thinker John Keane describes as a new form of despotism. And one day, he warns, we may be more like them.

  • av John Keane
    324,-

    Vaclav Havel is revered as one of the 20th-century's great playwrights, dissidents, and honest champions of democracy. This study reveals a Havel, dramatising the key moments of joy, misery, triumph and tragedy on which his life has turned.

  • - A Sketch of the Rise and Progress of Geographical Knowledge from the Earliest Times to the First Circumnavigation of the Globe.
    av John Keane
    266,-

  • - The Earthscan Expert Guide to the Technology and Emerging Market
    av John Keane
    655 - 2 007,-

  • av John Keane
    251,-

    * This is an engaging and lively text which will interest a wide audience* The book presents a tightly woven historical and comparative analysis of the idea of the a liberty of the pressa in both European and American culture* Offers brilliantly original research. .

  • - Old Images, New Visions
    av Keane John Keane
    251,-

    It is only a decade ago that the eighteenth-century distinction between civil society and the state seemed old-fashioned, an object of cynicism, even of outright hostility. In this important new book, John Keane shows how, in a wholly unexpected reversal of fortunes, this antiquated distinction has since become voguish among politicians, academics, journalists, business leaders, relief agencies and citizens' organizations. John Keane examines the various sources and phases of the dramatic world-wide popularization of the term. He traces its reappearance in a wide range of contexts - from China to Tunisia, from South Africa to the emerging European Union - and clarifies the conflicting grammars and vocabularies of the language of civil society. Considerable care is taken to highlight the different possible meanings of the distinction between civil society and the state. Keane also takes the reader into previously uncharted intellectual territory by demonstrating that the civil society perspective contains unharnessed potentials: that it is possible to develop bold new images of civil society that alter the ways in which we think about matters such as power, property, violence, politics, publicity and democracy. Written with style and imagination, this important book by John Keane will be of great interest to students and scholars in politics, media studies, sociology, social and political theory, and to a broader public audience interested in the central debates and political developments of our time.

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