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UNINA9910460097603321 |
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Rennison Nick |
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100 must-read historical novels / / Nick Rennison |
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London, [England] : , : A & C Black, , 2009 |
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1-282-96038-5 |
9786612960383 |
1-4081-3606-6 |
1-4081-3600-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (188 p.) |
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Collana |
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Bloomsbury Good Reading Guides |
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Soggetti |
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Historical fiction - History and criticism |
Historical fiction |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; About This Book; Introduction; A-Z List of Entries by Author; A-Z of Entries; The First World War and its Aftermath; The American West; Past and Present; Ancient Roman Murders; The Middle Ages; The Renaissance; Nineteenth Century Narratives; Australia Fair and Foul; Asia; Black History in Fiction; The Ancient Greeks; Tudor Tales; Scotland; The American Civil War; Eighteenth Century Adventures; Historical Fiction for Children (and Adults); Writers' Lives; Ancient Egypt; Exploring the World |
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Historical fiction is a hugely popular genre of fiction providing fictional accounts or dramatizations of historical figures or events. This latest guide in the highly successful Bloomsbury Must-Reads series depicts 100 of the finest novels published in this sector, with a further 500 recommendations. A wide range of classic works and key authors are covered: Peter Ackroyd, Margaret Attwood, Sarah Waters, Victor Hugo and Robert Louis Stevenson to name a few. If you want to expand your reading in this area, or gain a deeper understanding of the genre - this is the best place to start! Inside yo |
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UNINA9910369928303321 |
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Autore |
Emerson Peter |
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Majority Voting as a Catalyst of Populism : Preferential Decision-making for an Inclusive Democracy / / by Peter Emerson |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020 |
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[1st ed. 2020.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (XXXIX, 227 p. 33 illus., 7 illus. in color.) |
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Elections |
Democracy |
Welfare economics |
Political science |
Peace |
Electoral Politics |
Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy |
Governance and Government |
Conflict Studies |
Peace Studies |
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Decision-making in Parliaments and Referendums -- Parliamentary and Presidential Elections -- Governance: From Power-dividing to Power-sharing -- Majority Voting in Belfast, Dublin and London -- Continental Europe – Are We All Little Bolshevik? -- Asia, Where Voting was Invented -- Majoritarian Democracy – the Catalyst of Populism. |
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This timely book presents a critique of binary majority rule and provides insights into why, in many instances, the outcome of a two-option ballot does not accurately reflect the will of the people. Based on the author's first-hand experience, majority-voting is argued to be a catalyst of populism and its divisive outcomes have prompted countless |
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disputes throughout Europe and Asia. In like manner, simple majority rule is seen as a cause of conflict in war zones, and of dysfunction in so-called stable democracies. In order to safeguard democracy, an all-party power-sharing approach is proposed, which would make populism less attractive to voters and governments alike. In geographically arranged chapters, well-tested alternative voting procedures (e. g. non-majoritarian Modified Borda Count) are presented in case studies of Northern Ireland, Central Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, Russia, China, North Korea and Mongolia. . |
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