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Author David Phillips has produced a clear, concise guide to Henry Sidgwick's masterpiece of classical utilitarian thought, The Methods of Ethics, setting it in its intellectual and cultural context while drawing out its main insights into a variety of fields.

"Steve Phillips's first book, Brown Is the New White, helped shift the national conversation around race and electoral politics, earning a spot on the New York Times and Washington Post bestseller lists and launching Phillips into the upper ranks of trusted observers of the nation's changing demographics and their implications for our political future. Now, in How We Win the Civil War, Phillips charts the way forward for progressives and people of color after four years of Trump, arguing that Democrats must recognize the nature of the fight we're in, which is a contest between democracy and white supremacy left unresolved after the Civil War. We will not overcome, Phillips writes, until we govern as though we are under attack-until we finally recognize that the time has come to finish the conquest of the Confederacy and all that it represents. With his trademark blend of political analysis and historical argument, Phillips lays out razor-sharp prescriptions for 2022 and beyond, from increasing voter participation and demolishing racist immigration policies to reviving the Great Society programs of the 1960s-all of them geared toward strengthening a new multiracial democracy and ridding our politics of white supremacy, once and for all"--

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Author's Note -- Introduction: A Choice Between Democracy and Whiteness -- Part I: We Are Still in a Civil War -- 1. The Confederacy: From Surrender to Success -- 2. The Twentieth Century, Part One: 50 Years,One Battle Plan -- 3. The Twentieth Century, Part Two: 50 More Years,Same Battle Plan -- 4. Fear of a Black President -- 5. Make America White Again -- Part II: How We Win -- 6. The Liberation Battle Plan -- 7. Georgia: "That's Not One We Expected" -- 8. Arizona: "You Tried to Bury Us. You Didn't Know We Were Seeds" -- 9. Virginia: "Alone Among the States of the Confederacy" -- 10. San Diego: "Transformed Within Less Than a Generation" -- 11. Texas: "The Task at Hand Is Epic" -- Epilogue: Once We Win-Creating a New Social Contract -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- About the Author -- Publishing in the Public Interest -- Copyright.

A concise guide to Henry Sidgwick's masterpiece, 'The Methods of Ethics', this book is written for undergraduate students and interested general readers and is designed to be read alongside Sidgwick's text. Its principal aims are to help readers to navigate through the text, and to raise the most significant interpretive and philosophical issues about Sidgwick's views and arguments. It highlights important connections between the work of Sidgwick and that of others in contemporary moral philosophy and in the history of moral philosophy.

"A landmark journey along the full length of the old Iron Curtain - from the Arctic Circle to Turkey's eastern border - tracing the history of the Cold War and meeting the people who live with its legacy. The Iron Curtain divided the continent of Europe, north to south, with the Berlin Wall as its most visible, infamous manifestation. Since the Cold War ended and these borders came down, Europe has transformed itself. New generations have grown up, freed from the tensions and restrictions of the past. But what do the Curtain and the Wall mean today? What has happened to the people and places they divided? What have they left in their wake? In a major new book, Timothy Phillips travels the route of the Iron Curtain from deep inside the Arctic Circle to the meeting point of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey. He explores the borderlands where the clash of civilisations was at its most intense between 1945 and 1989, and where the world's most powerful ideologies became tangible in reinforced concrete and barbed wire. He looks at the new Europe that emerged from the ruins. The people he meets bear vivid witness to times of change. There are those who look back on the Cold War with nostalgia and affection. Others despise it, unable to forgive the hard and sometimes lost decades that their families, friends and nations endured. These old fault lines have much to tell us about Europe now and about our societies' current disputes - over borders, and about belonging and the meaning of progress. The Curtain and the Wall transports the reader across 5,000 kilometres of Europe and through eight decades, to show how one of the defining stories of the 20th century continues to shape our world today"--Publisher's description

Brings to light the vital role coal miners played in the social and political history of 20th century ScotlandThroughout the 20th century Scottish miners resisted deindustrialisation through collective action and by leading the campaign for Home Rule. This book shows that coal miners occupy a central position in Scotland's economic, social and political history. It highlights the role of miners in formulating labour movement demands for political-constitutional reforms that helped create the conditions for the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999. The author also uses the experiences of the miners to explore working class wellbeing more broadly throughout the prolonged and politicised period of deindustrialisation that culminated in the Thatcherite assault of the 1980s.Key FeaturesAnalyses the longer history of Scottish coal miners in terms of changing industrial ownership, production techniques and workplace safetyExamines deindustrialisation as a long-running, phased and politicised processUses generational analysis to explain economic and political changeRelates Scottish Home Rule to debates about economic security and working class welfareRelates this economic and industrial history to changes in mining communities and gender relations

"In 1522 the Ottomans attacked the island of Rhodes and, after a six-month siege, the Hospitallers surrendered on terms. The Knights Hospitaller had ruled Rhodes since 1309 and the Ottomans had attempted to capture the island forty years before in 1480, but were defeated by the Knights. The Ottoman victory in 1522 resulted in the Knights being expelled from the island and eventually settling in Malta, Gozo, and Tripoli, and the Ottomans obtaining domination over the Eastern Mediterranean and its trade. This collection of essays, published on the 500th anniversary of the siege, explores such question as why Suleiman the Magnificent attacked Rhodes, what made the 1522 siege successful, and how the Rhodian population, the Knights Hospitaller, the Eastern and Western Mediterranean and Europe in general were affected by the loss of Rhodes. The answers to these questions are explored in new research by expert historians and archaeologists in their field. This book will appeal to all those interested in the Knights Hospitaller, Ottoman History, Crusader Studies, and Early Modern European History"--

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