Shifting Terrain
Essays on Politics, History and Society
Published on 15. June 2006
Book
Hardback
182 pages
978-0-8204-8602-4 (ISBN)
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Shifting Terrain places contemporary political, economic, and social questions in long-range historical context. An essay on the new American imperialism is set against one that considers enduring lessons from Thucydides on the hubris of empire. The deep Lockean liberal structure of American politics is treated, along with a case history of the labor movement. Essays on child labor, hunger and poverty explore topics in world political economy as it affects the most dispossessed.
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The Author: Glenn Perusek has written widely on political sociology, political economy, and political theory. He is co-editor of Trade Union Politics: American Unions and Economic Change, 1960s-1990s (1995) and Depth of Field: Stanley Kubrick, Film and the Uses of History (2006). A graduate of Kent State University, he earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago.