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Federal Union, Modern World: The Law of Nations in an Age of ...

Federal Union, Modern World: The Law of Nations in an Age of ...

Peter S. Onuf

The Law of Nations in an Age of Revolutions, 1776-1814 Peter S. Onuf, Nicholas Greenwood Onuf. ized American politics, authorizing would-be state sovereignties to obstruct and subvert the common interests of enterprising, peaceful, and ...
Nations, Markets, and War: Modern History and the American ...

Nations, Markets, and War: Modern History and the American ...

Nicholas Greenwood Onuf

Modern History and the American Civil War Nicholas Greenwood Onuf, Peter S. Onuf. Acknowledgments Two brothers (hereinafter Nick and Peter) who happen to be scholars in allied disciplines are bound to have diverging perspectives, ...
The Mind of Thomas Jefferson

The Mind of Thomas Jefferson

Peter S. Onuf

Peter S. Onuf. Thomas Jefferson: A Reference Biography (New York, 1986), 453– 79. The most complete bibliographies are Shuffelton, Thomas Jefferson, Annotated Bibliography of Writings about Him, 1826–1980 (New York, 1983); and ...
Making Sense, Making Worlds: Constructivism in Social Theory ...

Making Sense, Making Worlds: Constructivism in Social Theory ...

Nicholas Onuf

This powerful collection of essays clarifies Onuf’s approach to international relations and makes a decisive contribution to the debates in IR concerning theory.
World of Our Making: Rules and Rule in Social Theory and ...

World of Our Making: Rules and Rule in Social Theory and ...

Nicholas Greenwood Onuf

World of our Making is a major contribution to contemporary social science. Now reissued in this volume, Onuf s seminal text is key reading for anyone who wishes to study modern international relations.
Negotiated Empires: Centers and Peripheries in the Americas, ...

Negotiated Empires: Centers and Peripheries in the Americas, ...

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On the conceptual history of federalism and union see PeterS. Onuf and NicholasG. Onuf, Federal Union, Modern World: The anAge of Revolutions, 1776 –1814 (Madison, Lawof Nations in Wise: Madison House,1993). Foran ambitious recent ...
The Republican Legacy in International Thought

The Republican Legacy in International Thought

Nicholas Greenwood Onuf

In this book Nicholas Onuf provides the first major treatment of the republican way of thinking about law, politics, and society in the context of international thought.
Making Sense, Making Worlds: Constructivism in Social Theory ...

Making Sense, Making Worlds: Constructivism in Social Theory ...

Nicholas Onuf

... is available from the British Library Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Onuf, Nicholas Greenwood. Making sense, making worlds: constructivism in social theory and international relations / Nicholas Greenwood Onuf. p. cm.
Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations

Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations

Martin Griffiths

Nicholas Onuf, World of Our Making: Rules and Rulein Social Theory and International Relations, Columbia, Universityof South Carolina Press,1989, pp.18 –19. 3. Ibid.,p.27. 4. Nicholas Onuf, 'International legal order as an idea', American ...
Congress and the Confederation

Congress and the Confederation

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Peter S. Onuf. But the sequence was by no means inevitable: indeed, Federalist depictions of the "critical period" reflected a massive crisis of confidence among frustrated nationalists. The challenge is to explain how political developments on  ...
The Atlantic Enlightenment

The Atlantic Enlightenment

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Susan Manning, Francis D. Cogliano. Chapter. 8. Adam. Smith. and. the. Crisis. of. the. American. Union. Peter S. Onuf* Within a few years of its publication in 1776, Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations became the textbook for the new — now ...
Paine and Jefferson in the Age of Revolutions

Paine and Jefferson in the Age of Revolutions

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Simon P. Newman, Peter S. Onuf. 42. Ayer says that Paine had not foreseen them (see Ayer's Thomas Paine, 96), but Paine, in his Dissertations on Government; the Affairs of the Bank; and PaperMoney, gave the impression rather that he did ...
Between Sovereignty and Anarchy: The Politics of Violence in ...

Between Sovereignty and Anarchy: The Politics of Violence in ...

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... Unnatural Rebellion: Loyalists in New YorkCity during theRevolution Maurizio Valsania The Limits of Optimism: Thomas Jefferson's Dualistic Enlightenment Peter S. Onuf and Nicholas P. Cole, editors Thomas Jefferson, the Classical World, ...
Patriots, redcoats, and loyalists

Patriots, redcoats, and loyalists

Peter S. Onuf

The Development of an American Culture (Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1970), 31-43. James H. Hutson, "The American Revolution: The Triumph of a Delusion?" in Erich Anger mann et al., eds., New Wine in Old Skins: A Comparative View of ...
Oregon and the Collapse of Illahee: U.S. Empire and the ...

Oregon and the Collapse of Illahee: U.S. Empire and the ...

Gray H. Whaley

James Clifford and George E. Marcus, Writing Culture. For an example of attempting to make Richard White's “middle ground” paradigm of mutual accommodation fit western Oregon, see Nathan Douthit, Uncertain Encounters. 20 Peter S. Onuf ...
Becoming Men of Some Consequence: Youth and Military Service ...

Becoming Men of Some Consequence: Youth and Military Service ...

John A. Ruddiman

... Unnatural Rebellion: Loyalists in New York City during the Revolution Maurizio Valsania The Limitsof Optimism: Thomas Jefferson's Dualistic Enlightenment Peter S. Onuf and Nicholas P. Cole, editors Thomas Jefferson, the Classical World, ...
The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

Mary Kershner Maxwell

Peter Peter Peter Peter (M) Nicholas Nicholas *l20 ac Nicholas *128 ac Nicholas *l28 ac Nicholas Nicholas Nicholas *5 persons Peter Peter* Anth'y* blksmith l50 a Peter *l76 a Peter* BPS Anthony *l50 a Anthony *150 a Anthony Martin *0 ...
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

From the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Laurence J. Peter

From the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
International Legal Positivism in a Post-Modern World

International Legal Positivism in a Post-Modern World

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On the one hand, it represents (in the words of Nicholas Onuf) '[t]he unimpeachable doctrine for most of us',7 yet on the other, it is often perceived as a mix of 'old-fashioned, conservative, continental European nineteenth-century views – na ...
Turkey and the Greater Middle East

Turkey and the Greater Middle East

Bülent Aras

Nicholas Onuf, World of Our Making: Rules and Rule in Social Theory and International Relations (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1989). He later simplified his linguistic philosophy and explanation of IR in a summary chapter, ...
Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter

Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter

Robert Steiner

Sixty years after the original story, Wendy must face her fears and weaknesses and return to Neverland to rescue Peter from certain doom in this final and most touching chapter of the ever youthful legend of Peter Pan.
The Concept of the Political

The Concept of the Political

Hartmut Behr

Onuf (editors) ON RULES, POLITICSAND KNOWLEDGE Friedrich Kratochwil, International Relations, andDomestic Affairs Pierre P.Lizee A WHOLE NEW WORLD Reinventing International Studies forthe PostWestern World Hans J.
Before I Met You: A Novel

Before I Met You: A Novel

Lisa Jewell

Peter Lawler. He sounded like he might be a financial adviser. Or a solicitor. The intercom crackled, and the sound of an elderly lady's voice emerged. “Yes?” “Oh, hello. I'm looking for a Peter Lawler.” “Who?” “Peter Lawler.” “Peter Morler?” “No ...
The Art of World-Making: Nicholas Greenwood Onuf and His Critics

The Art of World-Making: Nicholas Greenwood Onuf and His Critics

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London: Routledge. ——— 2003a. “Parsing Personal Identity: Self, Other Agent.” In Francois Debrix, ed., Language, Agency and Politics in a Constructed World, pp. 26–49. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe. ——— 2003b. “Foreword.” In Jamie Frueh,  ...
Righteous Anger at the Wicked States: The Meaning of the ...

Righteous Anger at the Wicked States: The Meaning of the ...

Calvin H. Johnson

MORRIS ONUF PAH PAMPHLETS PGM PGW:CS PJJ PTJ RAKOVE, BEGINNINGS RAKOVE, ORIGINAL MEANINGS RDCUS ... OF NATIONAL POLITICS: AN INTERPRETATIVE HISTORY OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS (1979) JACKN.
The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

With the wit of Mark Twain, the psychological acuity of Sigmund Freud, and the theoretical impact of Isaac Newton, Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull’s The Peter Principle brilliantly explains how incompetence and its accompanying ...
The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...

The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...

Paul Dickson

280 Peter's Paradoxical Paradox of incompetence; every post tends to be filled by an employee incompetent to ... Peter's Theorem: Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence. (Dr. LaurenceJ. Peter and Peter Hull, from their book ...
Tragedy and International Relations

Tragedy and International Relations

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Onuf (editors) ON RULES, POLITICS AND KNOWLEDGE Friedrich Kratochwil, International Relations andDomestic Affairs Pierre P. Lizee A WHOLE NEW WORLD Reinventing International Studiesforthe PostWestern World Cornelia Navari ...
International Legal Theory: Essays and engagements, 1966-2006

International Legal Theory: Essays and engagements, 1966-2006

Nicholas Onuf

The book records the author’s efforts to address important problems in international legal theory and to engage other scholars who were also addressing these problems.

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