This provocative book analyzes why individuals in pluralist democracies disagree collectively about the rights and values they agree on individually. Based on interviews with thousands of citizens and political decision-makers in Canada, The Clash of Rights explores the politics of a wide array of issues-from government wiretapping to antihate legislation-and challenges some of our most commonly held assumptions about democratic politics.

The Clash of Rights: Liberty, Equality, and Legitimacy in Pluralist Democracy

Politics & Social Sciences

Russell, Sir Peter

Sniderman, Professor Paul

Fletcher, Professor Joseph F.

Tetlock, Professor Philip E.

Politics & Government

Yale University Press

Prince Henry "the Navigator" A Life

Prince Henry "the Navigator": A Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Henry the Navigator, fifteenth-century Portuguese prince and explorer, is a legendary, almost mythical figure in late medieval history. Considered along with Columbus to be one of the progenitors of modernity, Prince Henry challenged the scientific assumptions of his age and was responsible for liberating Europeans from geographical restraints that had bound them since the Roman Empire’s collapse. In this enthralling account of Henry’s life―the first biography of “The Navigator” in more than a century―Peter Russell reaps the harvest of a lifelong study of Prince Henry. Making full use of documentary evidence only recently available, Russell reevaluates Henry and his role in Portuguese and European history. Examining the full range of Prince Henry’s activities, Russell discusses the explorer’s image as an imperialist and as a maritime, mathematical, and navigational pioneer. He considers Henry’s voyages of discovery in the African Atlantic, their economic and cultural consequences, and the difficult questions they generated regarding international law and papal jurisdiction. Russell demonstrates the degree to which Henry was motivated by the predictions of his astrologer―an aspect of his career little known until now―and explains how this innovator, though firmly rooted in medieval ways of thinking and behaving, set in motion a current of change that altered European history.

Prince Henry the Navigator

Russell, Peter

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