The Book of Government
Author : Niẓām al-Mulk
Publisher :
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 31,58 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Islamic Empire
ISBN :
Author : Niẓām al-Mulk
Publisher :
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 31,58 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Islamic Empire
ISBN :
Author : Robert Filmer
Publisher :
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 34,39 MB
Release : 1685
Category : Monarchy
ISBN :
Author : Niẓām al-Mulk
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 22,43 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Education of princes
ISBN : 0700712283
This volume is a translation of a classic 11th-century Persian text on behaviour and conduct in government. Nizam al-Mulk, who for 30 years was Chief Minister of two successive rulers of the Seljuk tribes, wrote this work between 1086 and 1091.
Author : Robert Beddard
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 30,48 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Wilma Dykeman
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 36,79 MB
Release : 1978
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Anthony King
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 33,12 MB
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1780746180
With unrivalled political savvy and a keen sense of irony, distinguished political scientists Anthony King and Ivor Crewe open our eyes to the worst government horror stories and explain why the British political system is quite so prone to appalling mistakes.
Author : Cheryl Simrell King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 16,27 MB
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1317469461
This book talks about the relationships amongst and between citizens and their governments, the possibilities of governing differently in ways that don't oppress, marginalize, or limit people, and about bringing different sensibilities to the practices of administration in US.
Author : F. H. Buckley
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,76 MB
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1594037949
This remarkable book shatters just about every myth surrounding American government, the Constitution, and the Founding Fathers, and offers the clearest warning about the alarming rise of one-man rule in the age of Obama. Most Americans believe that this country uniquely protects liberty, that it does so because of its Constitution, and that for this our thanks must go to the Founders, at their Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. F. H. Buckley’s book debunks all these myths. America isn’t the freest country around, according to the think tanks that study these things. And it’s not the Constitution that made it free, since parliamentary regimes are generally freer than presidential ones. Finally, what we think of as the Constitution, with its separation of powers, was not what the Founders had in mind. What they expected was a country in which Congress would dominate the government, and in which the president would play a much smaller role. Sadly, that’s not the government we have today. What we have instead is what Buckley calls Crown government: the rule of an all-powerful president. The country began in a revolt against one king, and today we see the dawn of a new kind of monarchy. What we have is what Founder George Mason called an “elective monarchy,” which he thought would be worse than the real thing. Much of this is irreversible. Constitutional amendments to redress the balance of power are extremely unlikely, and most Americans seem to have accepted, and even welcomed, Crown government. The way back lies through Congress, and Buckley suggests feasible reforms that it might adopt, to regain the authority and respect it has squandered.
Author : James I (King of England)
Publisher : Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 27,17 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780969751267
Author : Stephen R. Bown
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 18,8 MB
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1429927356
Commerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern world It was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expansion, controlling vast numbers of people and huge tracts of land, and taking on governmental and military functions. They managed their territories as business interests, treating their subjects as employees, customers, or competitors. The leaders of these trading enterprises exercised virtually unaccountable, dictatorial political power over millions of people. The merchant kings of the Age of Heroic Commerce were a rogue's gallery of larger-than-life men who, for a couple hundred years, expanded their far-flung commercial enterprises over a sizable portion of the world. They include Jan Pieterszoon Coen, the violent and autocratic pioneer of the Dutch East India Company; Peter Stuyvesant, the one-legged governor of the Dutch West India Company, whose narrow-minded approach lost Manhattan to the British; Robert Clive, who rose from company clerk to become head of the British East India Company and one of the wealthiest men in Britain; Alexandr Baranov of the Russian American Company; Cecil Rhodes, founder of De Beers and Rhodesia; and George Simpson, the "Little Emperor" of the Hudson's Bay Company, who was chauffeured about his vast fur domain in a giant canoe, exhorting his voyageurs to paddle harder so he could set speed records. Merchant Kings looks at the rise and fall of company rule in the centuries before colonialism, when nations belatedly assumed responsibility for their commercial enterprises. A blend of biography, corporate history, and colonial history, this book offers a panoramic, new perspective on the enormous cultural, political, and social legacies, good and bad, of this first period of unfettered globalization.