The H-Word: The Peripeteia of Hegemony - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9781786633699ISBN-10:1786633698UPC:9781786633699Book Category:Philosophy, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Political, Political Ideologies, History & TheoryBook Topic:Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismSize:8.11 x 5.43 x 0.47 inchesWeight:0.3902Product ID:SCXKKZD160
"A fascinating history of the political theory of hegemony Few terms are so widely used in the literature of international relations and political science, with so little agreement about their exact meaning, as hegemony. In the first full historical study of its fortunes as a concept, Perry Anderson traces its emergence in Ancient Greece, its rediscovery during the upheavals of 1848-9 in Germany, and then its chequered career in revolutionary Russia, fascist Italy, Cold War America, Thatcherized Britain, post-colonial India, feudal Japan, Maoist China, through to the world of Merkel and May, Bush and Obama. The result is a surprising and fascinating expedition into global intellectual history, ending with a strong political statement about the present"--
Languages:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9781786633699ISBN-10:1786633698UPC:9781786633699Book Category:Philosophy, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Political, Political Ideologies, History & TheoryBook Topic:Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismSize:8.11 x 5.43 x 0.47 inchesWeight:0.3902Product ID:SCXKKZD160
Perry Anderson is the author of, among other books, American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers, The Indian Ideology, The New Old World, Spectrum, Lineages of the Absolutist State, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, Considerations on Western Marxism, English Questions and The Origins of Postmodernity. He teaches History at UCLA and is on the editorial board of New Left Review.
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