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Our ideas about morality are often framed in terms of demands for respect or complaints about being disrespected, yet basic questions about the nature and role of respect are frequently overlooked. Leading philosophers present fresh perspectives on respect and its implications for social justice, disability, environmental ethics, and more.

Ian Proops illuminates the idea of 'critique', the 'fiery test' which was central to Kant's philosophical project. He shows how Kant conceived it as a process for separating good metaphysics from bad, and explores what the positive results of this process were in one of the most famous sections of his work, the 'Transcendental Dialectic'.

This volume showcases the vibrant and diverse contributions made to philosophy by women in 18th-century Germany and explores their under-appreciated influence upon the course of modern philosophy. 13 women are profiled and their work on topics in logic, metaphysics, aesthetics, and moral and political philosophy is discussed.

This book offers a fresh perspective on the history of Germany by investigating the origins and impact of the 'communications revolution' that transformed state and society during the nineteenth century. It focuses upon the period 1830–80, exploring the interactions between the many different actors who developed, administered, and used one of the most important technologies of the period—the electric telegraph. Drawing upon evidence from Prussia, Bavaria, Bremen, and a number of towns across Central Europe, it reveals the channels through which knowledge circulated across the region, stimulating both collaboration and confrontation between the scientists, technicians, businessmen, and bureaucrats involved in bringing the telegraph to life. It highlights the technology's impact upon the conduct of trade, finance, news distribution, and government in the tumultuous decades that witnessed the 1848 revolutions, the wars of unification, and the establishment of the Kaiserreich in 1871. Following the telegraph lines themselves, it weaves together the changes which took place at a local, regional, national, and eventually global level, revisiting the technology's impact upon concepts of space and time, and highlighting the importance of this period in laying the foundations for Germany's experience of a profoundly ambiguous, networked modernity.

The notion that a 'West' exists dominates in international relations and political discourse. Yet, especially in recent years, more and more people believe that the 'West' is falling apart. The eminent historian of international relations Jussi Hanhimäki refutes this idea, emphasizing the continued strength of transatlantic security co-operation (particularly NATO) and the deeply integrated transatlantic commercial relationship. In 'Pax Transatlantica', he argues that even the rise of populism is evidence of close transatlantic political interconnections rather than a recipe for divorce. The West, the book concludes, not only continues to exist. It is likely to thrive in the future.

'Building the Population Bomb' carefully examines how the rise of the world's human population came to be understood as problematic by scientists and governments across the globe. It challenges our assumption of population growth as inherently problematic by demonstrating how it is our anxieties over population growth-and not population growth itself-that have detracted from the pursuit of economic, environmental, and reproductive justice.

Historians spend a lot of time thinking about violence: bloodshed and feats of heroism punctuate practically every narration of the past. Yet historians have been slow to subject 'violence' itself to conceptual analysis. What aspects of the past do we designate violent? To what methodological assumptions do we commit ourselves when we employ this term? How may we approach the category 'violence' in a specifically historical way, and what is it that we explain when we write its history? Astonishingly, such questions are seldom even voiced, much less debated, in the historical literature. This book lays out a cultural history model for understanding violence. Using interdisciplinary tools, it argues that violence is a positively constructed asset, deployed along three principal axes - power, signification, and risk.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Refugees Push Back -- Chapter 2 Virtual Citizens -- Chapter 3 Married to an Alien Enemy -- Chapter 4 Citizens Not Denizens -- Chapter 5. From Servants to Equals -- Conclusion -- Notes

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Beyond Nationalism and Revolution in Southeast Asia -- 1. From Bohemia to Balintawak: Cosmopolitan Origins of the Philippine Revolution -- 2. Masonería, Cofradía, Katipunan: Revolutionary Brotherhoods in the Philippines, 1896–1901 -- 3. From Baku to Bandung: Cosmopolitan Origins of the Indonesian Revolution -- 4. From Cultuurstelsel to Komedie Stamboel: The Long Nineteenth Century in the Indies -- 5. Newspapers, Rallies, Strikes: The Rise and Fall of Sarekat Islam (SI), 1912–1926 -- 6. Soekarno and the Promise of NASAKOM: From Rust en Orde through the Pacific War, 1926–1945 -- 7. Republicanism, Communism, Islam: Revolusi, 1945–1949 -- 8. From Guangzhou, Porto Novo, and Antananarivo toward Điện Biên Phủ -- 9. From Cần Vương to Viêt-Nam Duy-Tân Hội to Thanh Niên -- 10. From Thanh Niên to the Indochinese Communist Party (ICP) and the Việt Minh -- Conclusion: Commonalities, Comparisons, Conclusions -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Counterinsurgency: Eating Soup with a Chainsaw -- 2. Counterinsurgency: What It Is and Is Not -- 3. Not the Wars You're Looking For: Malaya, Greece, the Philippines -- 4. A New Laboratory: Dhofar, Oman -- 5. High Cost Success: El Salvador -- 6. How Much Does the Compellence Theory Explain? Turkey and the PKK -- 7. Counterinsurgency Success: Costs High and Rising -- Notes -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Power to Divide in Alliance Politics -- 1. The Theory of Selective Accommodation -- 2. Germany Fails to Detach Japan, 1915–16 -- 3. Germany Keeps the United States Neutral, 1914–16 -- 4. The Entente Fails to Keep Turkey Neutral, 1914 -- 5. The Entente Realigns Italy, 1915 -- 6. Britain and France Fail to Neutralize Italy, 1936–40 -- 7. Germany Divides the USSR from Britain and France, 1939 -- 8. Britain and the United States Neutralize Spain, 1940–41 -- 9. Germany Fails to Realign Turkey, 1941 -- 10. When Does Selective Accommodation Work? Claims and Case Comparisons -- 11. Selective Accommodation in Great Power Competition and U.S. Grand Strategy -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Primer on the US Military Machine -- 1. Defense Budgeting and Resource Allocation -- 2. Gaming and Modeling Combat -- 3. Technological Change and Military Innovation -- 4. Space, Missile Defense, and Nuclear Weapons: Three Case Studies in the Science of War -- Notes -- Index