Modern category: 14410 books
Soul, Self, and Society
The New Morality and the Modern State
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Political and social commentators regularly bemoan the decline of morality in the modern world. They claim that the norms and values that held society together in the past are rapidly eroding, to be replaced by permissiveness and empty hedonism. But as Edward Rubin demonstrates in this powerful account...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Conflict is central to human history. It is often the cause, course and consequence of social, cultural and political change. Military history therefore has to be more than a technical analysis of armed conflict. War in the Modern World since 1815 addresses war as a cultural phenomenon, discusses its meaning in different socities and explores the various contexts of military action.
Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire
Europe and the Transformation of the Tropical World
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire provides the first wide-ranging environmental history of the heyday of European imperialism, from the late nineteenth century to the end of the colonial era. It focuses on the ecological dimensions of the explosive growth of tropical commodity production, global...
The Global Lives of Things
The Material Culture of Connections in the Early Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The Global Lives of Things considers the ways in which ‘things’, ranging from commodities to works of art and precious materials, participated in the shaping of global connections in the period 1400-1800. By focusing on the material exchange between Asia, Europe, the Americas and Australia, this...
by James B. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2005
East Asia from 1400 to 1850 was a vibrant web of connections, and the southern coast of the Korean peninsula participated in a maritime world that stretched to Southeast Asia and beyond. Within this world were Japanese pirates, traders, and fishermen. They brought things to the Korean peninsula and...
by Sheldon Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
This study examines the role of modern sports in constructing national identities and the way leaders have exploited sports to achieve domestic and foreign policy goals. The book focuses on the development of national sporting cultures in Great Britain and the United States, the particular processes...
Paracelsian Moments
Science, Medicine, and Astrology in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
Scientific ideas inspired by religious, magical, and alchemical themes competed alongside traditional Aristotelian science and the emerging mechanical philosophy in the early modern era. At the center of this ferment was a quirky and creative German physician, Paracelsus, whose religious-alchemical worldview...
Women in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
Intimate, Intellectual and Public Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The eighteenth century looms large in the Scottish imagination. It is a century that saw the doubling of the population, rapid urbanisation, industrial growth, the political Union of 1707, the Jacobite Rebellions and the Enlightenment - events that were intrinsic to the creation of the modern nation...
The Material Letter in Early Modern England
Manuscript Letters and the Culture and Practices of Letter-Writing, 1512-1635
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
The first major socio-cultural study of manuscript letters and letter-writing practices in early modern England. Daybell examines a crucial period in the development of the English vernacular letter before Charles I's postal reforms in 1635, one that witnessed a significant extension of letter-writing skills throughout society.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2006
"A sweeping yet rigorous analysis of Dixon and his work. The collection approaches the southern intellectual through multiple methodologies -- from literary theory and film studies to social history and religious studies. We get an exhaustive yet diverse perspective on Dixon's influence and legacy."...
by Spatio Temprey
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Nineteenth century France was a period of rapid modernisation and expansion. Édouard Manet, the quintessential painter of modern life, was a man of his times and his paintings were powerful, often shocking, representations of modern society. In particular, Manet scandalised French society with his...
More than Real
A History of the Imagination in South India
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
From the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the major cultures of southern India underwent a revolution in sensibility reminiscent of what had occurred in Renaissance Italy. During this time, the imagination came to be recognized as the defining feature of human beings. More than Real draws our...
An Unknown Destiny
Terror, Psychotherapy, and Modern Initiantion: Readings in Nietzsche, Heidegger, Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Beginning with a consideration of Nietzsches inflammatory and critical insight that the modern world is framed by the death of God, Michael Gruber confronts contemporary disenchantment and its necessary offspring, the universalization of terror. By making truth relative, negating the value of beauty,...
by Renee D'Aoust
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
"A remarkably clear-eyed descent into New York's surreal world of modern dance peopled by the obsessed, dispossessed, sexy, suicidal, brutal, broke, and absurd."-Lance Olsen, author of Nietzsche's Kisses
The award-winning writer Renée E. D'Aoust draws from her experiences as a modern...