"The Great Strike on the 'Q'" by John A. Hall delves into the tumultuous events surrounding a significant labor strike that shook the foundations of the transportation industry. Hall meticulously chronicles the struggles of workers as they fought for better wages and working conditions, highlighting the social and economic factors that fueled their discontent. Through vivid storytelling and in-depth research, the book captures the essence of the labor movement, illustrating the determinati...

The History of American Strikes: 3 Classic Books gathers three foundational examinations of labor conflict in the United States, tracing the strike as economic weapon, social drama, and instrument of political consciousness. Combining historical narrative, documentary-minded analysis, and forceful interpretive argument, the volume ranges across industrial disputes, union organization, employer resistance, and the changing meanings of collective action. Its juxtaposition of classic texts ma...

In this volume the story is told of the first entente cordiale and of the circumstances which led to its disruption. The questions which occupied the attention of the French and the British governments at that period have now passed into the domain of history. The resentment evoked by the Egyptian crisis of 1840 and the controversies raised by the Spanish marriages has died away. The attitude towards the Liberal and national movements in Europe, adopted, on the one side, by Louis Philippe ...

In "The Great Strike on the 'Q,'" John A. Hall intricately weaves a narrative that chronicles the labor unrest surrounding the railway sector during a crucial period in American history. The book employs a blend of vivid storytelling and rigorous analysis, illustrating the socio-economic conditions that led to widespread strikes. Hall deftly juxtaposes personal narratives with larger historical contexts, engaging readers with lyrical prose that brings to life the voices of workers, union l...

This book moves scholarly debates beyond the old question of whether or not international institutions matter in order to examine how they matter, even in a world of power politics. Power politics and international institutions are often studied as two separate domains, but this is in need of rethinking because today most states strategically use institutions to further their interests. Anders Wivel, T.V. Paul, and the international group of contributing authors update our underst...

The Great Strike on the 'Q' is a vivid and dramatic account of one of the most significant labor conflicts in American railroad history, set against the backdrop of the late nineteenth century. Authored by John A. Hall, the book delves into the events surrounding the 1888 strike on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad—commonly known as the Q. Through a blend of narrative storytelling and journalistic detail, Hall brings to life the struggles, hopes, and hardships faced by the railroad...

Without nation-states Covid-19, climate change, international cyberattacks, and other threats would go unchecked. In The World of States, John L. Campbell and John A. Hall challenge the view that nation-states have lost their relevance in the context of globalization and rising nationalism. The book traces how states evolved historically, how contemporary states differ from one another, and the interactions between them. States today confront a host of challenges, but two features make som...

Is the United States a nation of materialistic loners whose politics are dictated by ethnic, racial, religious, or sexual identities? This is what America has become in the eyes of many commentators. Americans seem to fear that their society is breaking apart, but how accurate is this portrayal and how justified is the fear? Introducing a balanced viewpoint into this intense debate, John Hall and Charles Lindholm demonstrate that such alarm is unfounded. Here they explore the institutional...

In his new book John A. Hall traces the interactions between nations, states and empires in the making of the modern world.It is commonly assumed that nation states succeeded and replaced empires, relegating empires to the past: Hall argues that this is not the case. Empires have continued alongside nation states, shadowing them and overseeing them in the industrial era. The two world wars were imperial wars, rather than wars between nation states. Even after rapid decolonization i...

From unemployment to Brexit to climate change, capitalism is in trouble and ill-prepared to cope with the challenges of the coming decades. How did we get here? While contemporary economists and policymakers tend to ignore the political and social dimensions of capitalism, some of the great economists of the past - Adam Smith, Friedrich List, John Maynard Keynes, Joseph Schumpeter, Karl Polanyi and Albert Hirschman - did not make the same mistake. Leveraging their insights, sociologists Jo...

Has the emergence of nationalism made warfare more brutal? Does strong nationalist identification increase efficiency in fighting? Is nationalism the cause or the consequence of the breakdown of imperialism? What is the role of victories and defeats in the formation of national identities? The relationship between nationalism and warfare is complex, and it changes depending on which historical period and geographical context is in question. In 'Nationalism and War', some of the world's lea...

Ernest Gellner (1925–95) was a multilingual polymath and a public intellectual who set the agenda in the study of nationalism and the sociology of Islam. Having grown up in Paris, Prague, and England, he was also one of the last great Jewish thinkers from Central Europe to experience directly the impact of the Holocaust. His intellectual trajectory differed from that of similar thinkers, both in producing a highly integrated philosophy of modernity and in combining a respect for nationalis...