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  • The American Presidency
    Harold J. Laski
    First Published in 1940, The American Presidency is the first full length study of the presidency in action in America to be written by an Englishman. Professor Laski offers a new theory of the place of the presidency in American life. ...
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    173,18 €

  • The Foundations of Sovereignty and Other Essays [1921]
    Harold J. Laski
    Laski’s Theory of the State This influential study develops aspects of Laski’s theory of the state, ideas he introduced in his first important publication, Authority in the Modern State (1919). According to Laski, the state is not a supreme entity; it is one association among many that must compete for the people’s loyalty and obedience. Harold J. Laski [1893-1950] was a teache...
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    49,52 €

  • Victory or Vested Interest?
    G.D.H. Cole / George Orwell / Harold Laski
    This book, first published in 1942, covers the whole field of wartime life and organization. Economics, burden-sharing, liberty and efficiency, womens’ roles: all are discussed frankly with positive suggestions being made. ...
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    64,46 €

  • Victory or Vested Interest?
    G.D.H. Cole / George Orwell / Harold Laski
    This book, first published in 1942, covers the whole field of wartime life and organization. Economics, burden-sharing, liberty and efficiency, womens’ roles: all are discussed frankly with positive suggestions being made. ...
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    180,79 €

  • The Basis Of Vicarious Liability
    Harold Joseph Laski
    Where blame meets the law.The Basis Of Vicarious Liability offers a focused vicarious liability analysis and an explication of tort law principles that remains central to debates over employer liability cases. Laski writes with compact, disciplined prose: arguments advance by logical steps rather than rhetorical flourish. The presentation is at once forensic and readable, makin...
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    18,08 €

  • Studies in the Problem of Sovereignty (1917)
    Harold J. Laski / Harold JLaski
    An influential study of political power. This volume (Laski’s first) addresses aspects of the theory of the state, a topic he developed further in Authority in the Modern State (1919) and The Foundations of Sovereignty and Other Essays (1921). Laski’s theoretical ideas are elaborated through examples drawn from recent political and religious movements, such as the Catholic Revi...
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    43,09 €

  • Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham
    Harold J. Laski / Harold JLaski
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    7,98 €

  • An Introduction to Politics
    Harold J. Laski / Harold JLaski
    Harold J. Laski’s An Introduction to Politics outlines the functions of the State institutions, while highlighting the problems between the State and society and politics in general.Without entering into any technicalities, the author discusses various topics, including the necessity of a government; the relationship between State and society; rights of an individual and the po...
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    8,77 €

  • The Rise of European Liberalism
    Harold Laski
    Prisoners of Want examines the experience of the unemployed and their protests in France in the interwar years. Little has been written on the experience of unemployment in France despite the wealth of material - social and medical investigations, government reports, novels, memoirs and newspapers - that can be used to reconstruct the representation and reality of the experienc...
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    267,66 €

  • The State of Scholarly Publishing
    Harold Laski
    For decades, university presses and other scholarly and professional publishers in the United States played a pivotal role in the transmission of scholarly knowledge ...
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    169,19 €

  • Studies in Law and Politics
    Harold Laski
    The essays that comprise Studies in Law and Politics are by and large academic ...
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    267,69 €

  • The State in Theory and Practice
    Harold Laski
    This timeless classic by Harold J. Laski explains the nature of the modern state by examining its characteristics, as revealed by its history. The State in Theory and Practice is a work that grows in significance, rather than dwindles over time. This is because, as Sidney A ...
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    301,35 €

  • Reflections on the Constitution (Works of Harold J. Laski)
    Harold J. Laski
    This work remains of interest to anyone concerned with Britain’s political institutions and how they might be reformed. Laski was strongly in favour of utilising Britain’s capacity for decisive government to drive through great social reforms. He was still confident that there was a majority will for such change and quite unable to imagine the kind of centralisation that was la...
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    268,15 €

  • The Foundations of Sovereignty (Works of Harold J. Laski)
    Harold J. Laski
    This influential study, originally published in 1921, develops aspects of Laski’s theory of the state, ideas he introduced in his first important publication, Authority in the Modern State (1919). ...
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    301,43 €

  • The Rise of European Liberalism (Works of Harold J. Laski)
    Harold J. Laski
    A valuable piece of intellectual history, readable in its own terms, this volume, beginning with the Renaissance and the Reformation, traces the growth of Liberal doctrine until the advent of the French Revolution. It shows the relation of Liberalism to the new economic system, and the impact of this upon science, philosophy and literature. The book explains how the same causes...
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    267,84 €

  • Programme for Victory (Works of Harold J. Laski)
    Harold J. Laski / Harold Nicolson / Herbert Read
    Written two years after the commencement of the Second World War, the chapters in this book succinctly put forward the case for reorganizing the foundations of the social order, by rejecting capitalism and historical equilibrium, both in Europe and further afield in the British Empire, in favour of building a Socialist civilization. ...
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    220,94 €

  • The Strategy of Freedom (Works of Harold J. Laski)
    Harold J. Laski
    In this tract, Laski discusses the British case for the destruction of Hitler from the angle of the university student, especially from America, who had doubts about the complexities of the situation. He illustrates why all parties in Britain felt that future freedom of intelligence depended on victory. ...
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    221,27 €

  • A Grammar of Politics (Works of Harold J. Laski)
    Harold J. Laski
    Laski’s magnum opus, this volume outlines the history and functions of state institutions which (in the author’s view) are desirable for the effective functioning of a democracy. Topics discussed include: The necessity of government; state and society; rights and power; liberty and equality; property as a theory of industrial organisation; the nature of nationalism; law as a so...
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    563,43 €

  • Communist Manifesto (Works of Harold J. Laski)
    Harold J. Laski
    To mark the centenary of its first publication in 1848, the Labour Party issued this important special edition of the Communist Manifesto. In his (then) new historical introduction, Harold Laski discussed the authors of the Manifesto, their background and the development of their ideas. He outlined the history of the CommunistLeague, the struggles of the different sects and the...
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    221,10 €

  • The Danger of Being a Gentleman (Works of Harold J. Laski)
    Harold J. Laski
    An excellent and entertaining essayist, Laski’s volume deals with the issues of politics and law in Europe and American during the 1920s and 30s. It is unified by the concpetion of democracy as a society of equals sharing in a common good. ...
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    268,05 €

  • Liberty in the Modern State (Works of Harold J. Laski)
    Harold J. Laski
    Updated to take into account the post-war political landscape, this book, consisting of some undelivered lectures originally dating from 1929, discusses the meaning and place of liberty and freedom in a global post-war context. ...
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    220,84 €

  • The Dilemma of Our Times (Works of Harold J. Laski)
    Harold J. Laski
    This book, originally published in 1952, unfinished and perhaps imperfect, is the last book of one of the most acute political thinkers of the twentieth century. Laski’s earlier optimism about a swing to the Left was beginning to be reversed, and in this volume he saw the defects of his previous optimistic surveys, which, in his opinion, still had value, but needed to be brough...
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    267,90 €

  • Parliamentary Government in England (Works of Harold J. Laski)
    Harold J. Laski
    This volume, originally published in 1938 can be read by anyone with an interest in the evolution of the institution of government in England and how the workings of some parts of it particularly relate to the problems of the first half of the twentieth century. ...
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    341,44 €

  • Authority in the Modern State
    Harold J. Laski / Harold JLaski
    A Solution to the Problem of Authority. Originally published: New Haven: Yale University Press, 1919. x, [19]-398 pp. This work was intended to be a sequel to Studies in the Problem of Sovereignty (1917). Here Laski argues that sovereignty is best understood as a type of authority, and he supports his case with examples drawn principally from modern French history. After tracin...
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    36,20 €

  • The Foundations of Sovereignty and Other Essays
    Harold J. Laski / Harold JLaski
    Laski’s theory of the state. Originally published: New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1921. xi, 317 pp. This influential study develops aspects of Laski’s theory of the state, ideas he introduced in his first important publication, Authority in the Modern State (1919). According to Laski, the state is not a supreme entity; it is one association among many that must compete ...
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    37,81 €

  • Studies in the Problem of Sovereignty
    Harold J. Laski / Harold JLaski
    An influential study of political power. Originally published: New Haven: Yale University Press, 1917. x, [ii], 297 pp. This volume (Laski’s first) addresses aspects of the theory of the state, a topic he developed further in Authority in the Modern State (1919) and The Foundations of Sovereignty and Other Essays (1921). Laski’s theoretical ideas are elaborated through examples...
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    31,38 €

  • Authority in the Modern State
    Harold J. Laski / Harold JLaski
    A Solution to the Problem of Authority. Originally published: New Haven: Yale University Press, 1919. x, [19]-398 pp. This work was intended to be a sequel to Studies in the Problem of Sovereignty (1917). Here Laski argues that sovereignty is best understood as a type of authority, and he supports his case with examples drawn principally from modern French history. After tracin...
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    24,49 €

  • Studies in Law and Politics
    Harold Laski
    The essays that comprise Studies in Law and Politics are by and large academic ...
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    90,48 €

  • The State of Scholarly Publishing
    Albert N. Greco / Harold Laski
    For decades, university presses and other scholarly and professional publishers in the United States played a pivotal role in the transmission of scholarly knowledge ...
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    60,98 €

  • Studies In The Problem Of Sovereignty (1917)
    Harold Joseph Laski
    ''Studies in the Problem of Sovereignty'' is a book written by Harold Joseph Laski and originally published in 1917. The book is a collection of essays that explore the concept of sovereignty, or the supreme power or authority in a political system. In the book, Laski examines different theories of sovereignty, including those based on divine right, natural law, and popular sov...
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    35,38 €


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