Nature and Ideology
Title | Nature and Ideology PDF eBook |
Author | Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn |
Publisher | Dumbarton Oaks |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780884022466 |
The essays in this volume explore the broad range of ideas about nature reflected in twentieth-century concepts of natural gardens and their ideological implications. They also investigate garden designers' use of earlier ideas of natural gardens and their relationship to the rich model that nature offers.
Landscape and the Ideology of Nature in Exurbia
Title | Landscape and the Ideology of Nature in Exurbia PDF eBook |
Author | K. Valentine Cadieux |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2013-05-07 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1136193847 |
This book explores the role of the ideology of nature in producing urban and exurban sprawl. It examines the ironies of residential development on the metropolitan fringe, where the search for “nature” brings residents deeper into the world from which they are imagining their escape—of Federal Express, technologically mediated communications, global supply chains, and the anonymity of the global marketplace—and where many of the central features of exurbia—very low-density residential land use, monster homes, and conversion of forested or rural land for housing—contribute to the very problems that the social and environmental aesthetic of exurbia attempts to avoid. The volume shows how this contradiction—to live in the green landscape, and to protect the green landscape from urbanization—gets caught up and represented in the ideology of nature, and how this ideology, in turn, constitutes and is constituted by the landscapes being urbanized.
Jefferson Davis, Napoleonic France, and the Nature of Confederate Ideology, 1815–1870
Title | Jefferson Davis, Napoleonic France, and the Nature of Confederate Ideology, 1815–1870 PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Zvengrowski |
Publisher | LSU Press |
Pages | 379 |
Release | 2020-01-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0807172308 |
In this highly original study of Confederate ideology and politics, Jeffrey Zvengrowski suggests that Confederate president Jefferson Davis and his supporters saw Bonapartist France as a model for the Confederate States of America. They viewed themselves as struggling not so much for the preservation of slavery but for antebellum Democratic ideals of equality and white supremacy. The faction dominated the Confederate government and deemed Republicans a coalition controlled by pro-British abolitionists championing inequality among whites. Like Napoleon I and Napoleon III, pro-Davis Confederates desired to build an industrial nation-state capable of waging Napoleonic-style warfare with large conscripted armies. States’ rights, they believed, should not preclude the national government from exercising power. Anglophile anti-Davis Confederates, in contrast, advocated inequality among whites, favored radical states’ rights, and supported slavery-in-the-abstract theories that were dismissive of white supremacy. Having opposed pro-Davis Democrats before the war, they preferred decentralized guerrilla warfare to Napoleonic campaigns and hoped for support from Britain. The Confederacy, they avowed, would willingly become a de facto British agricultural colony upon achieving independence. Pro-Davis Confederates, wanted the Confederacy to become an ally of France and protector of sympathetic northern states. Zvengrowski traces the origins of the pro-Davis Confederate ideology to Jeffersonian Democrats and their faction of War Hawks, who lost power on the national level in the 1820s but regained it during Davis' term as secretary of war. Davis used this position to cultivate friendly relations with France and later warned northerners that the South would secede if Republicans captured the White House. When Lincoln won the 1860 election, Davis endorsed secession. The ideological heirs of the pro-British faction soon came to loathe Davis for antagonizing Britain and for offering to accept gradual emancipation in exchange for direct assistance from French soldiers in Mexico. Zvengrowski’s important new interpretation of Confederate ideology situates the Civil War in a global context of imperial competition. It also shows how anti-Davis ex-Confederates came to dominate the postwar South and obscure the true nature of Confederate ideology. Furthermore, it updates the biographies of familiar characters: John C. Calhoun, who befriended Bonapartist officers; Davis, who was as much a Francophile as his namesake, Thomas Jefferson; and Robert E. Lee, who as West Point’s superintendent mentored a grand-nephew of Napoleon I.
The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
Title | The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion PDF eBook |
Author | John Zaller |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 1992-08-28 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780521407861 |
This 1992 book explains how people acquire political information from elites and the mass media and convert it into political preferences.
Preservation Versus the People?
Title | Preservation Versus the People? PDF eBook |
Author | Mathew Humphrey |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2002-08-15 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0199242674 |
The philosophy of nature preservation has focused on whether arguments for nature preservation should be centred on the value of nature itself (ecocentrism) or derived human benefits (anthropocentrism). This book argues that this way of thinking has been counter-productive for environmental ethics.
The Politics of Nature
Title | The Politics of Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Dobson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2002-11-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1134803001 |
This book presents a uniquely comprehensive and balanced survey of current green political ideas. It analyses the ability of these ideas to provide plausible answers to fundamental problems in political theory, concerning justice and democracy, individual rights and freedom, human nature and gender. The authors, who come from a range of different disciplines, explore the relationship between green ideas and other traditions including liberalism, anarchism, feminism and Christianity.
The Political Ideology of Green Parties
Title | The Political Ideology of Green Parties PDF eBook |
Author | G. Talshir |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 327 |
Release | 2002-10-31 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1403919895 |
Has a new political ideology emerged in the aftermath of the Sixties? Gayil Talshir examines the ideological evolution of green parties in Britain and Germany and traces the formation and transformations of a new type of ideology - a modular ideology. In the 1980s, the 'extraordinary opposition', New Left and ecology movements developed, a distinct and social vision that paved the political road for the transformation of democracy. Talshir explores this journey from the politics of nature to changing the nature of politics.