Everybody's political what's what? / by Bernard Shaw
1944, 1st edition. London: Constable and Co. Previous owner's signature. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #313528
Physical description: viii, 380 pages: illustrations; 21 cm. Includes index. Contents: Is human nature incurably depraved? -- The land question -- The British party system -- The parliaments of the poor -- Democracy: the next step -- Knowing our places -- Equality -- The proposed abolition of classes -- The state and the children -- Schoolmade monsters -- Financial mysteries: banking -- Illusions of the money market -- Sense and nonsense about compensation -- The vice of gambling and the virtue of insurance -- The illusions of war finance -- On war and its great men -- The military man -- The economic man -- The educated -- The half educated -- The corruptly educated -- The aesthetic man -- The man of science -- The medical man -- Architecture a world power -- The theocratic man -- The collective biologist -- The collective statistician -- The genetic state -- State corruption -- Municipal corruption -- Coercions and sanctions -- Law and tyranny -- Juries and ministers of grace defend us! -- Conscientious objection versus general strike -- Our attempts at anthropometry -- Intermezzo -- Creed and conduct -- Collective scoundrelism -- Government by great men, so-called -- For the reviewers -- Economic summary -- Political summary -- Religious summary -- Envoy. Subjects: Political science. Politics and government
Political science Philosophy. Genre: Illustrated.
Price: €10.95