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Chaos and Cosmos
Literary Roots of Modern Ecology in the British Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
In Chaos and Cosmos, Heidi Scott integrates literary readings with contemporary ecological methods to investigate two essential and contrasting paradigms of nature that scientific ecology continues to debate: chaos and balance. Ecological literature of the Romantic and Victorian eras uses environmental...
Japan Extolled and Decried
Carl Peter Thunberg's Travels in Japan 1775-1776
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This edition makes available once again Thunberg’s extraordinary writings on Japan, complete with illustrations, a full introduction and annotations. Carl Peter Thunberg, pupil and successor of Linnaeus – of the great fathers of modern science – spent eighteen fascinating months in the notoriously...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Despite the claims of Steven Pinker and others, violence has remained a historical constant since the Enlightenment, even though its forms and visibility have been radically transformed. Accordingly, the studies gathered here recast debate over violence in modern societies by undermining teleological and reassuring narratives of progress.
Democracy and Political Culture
Studies in Modern British History
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Democracy and Political Culture: Studies in Modern British History attempts to give a total picture of the political-social culture of Great Britain in the twentieth century. To do so it chooses a number of particular subjects which nonetheless stand for this culture as a whole, and which together...
by Martin Johnes
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
The modern Christmas was made by the Victorians and rooted in their belief in commerce, family and religion. Their rituals and traditions persist to the present day but the festival has also been changed by growing affluence, shifting family structures, greater expectations of happiness and material...
by Banu Turnaoğlu
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Turkish republicanism is commonly thought to have originated with Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the founding of modern Turkey in 1923, and understood exclusively in terms of Kemalist ideals, characterized by the principles of secularism, nationalism, statism, and populism. Banu Turnaoğlu challenges...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The work of women philosophers in the early modern period has traditionally been overlooked, yet their writing on topics such as reality, time, mind and matter holds valuable lessons for our understanding of metaphysics and its history. This volume of new essays explores the work of nine key female...
Almshouses in Early Modern England
Charitable Housing in the Mixed Economy of Welfare, 1550-1725
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Almshouses providing accommodation for poor people are a common feature of the towns and villages of England, visible representations of historic attitudes towards the poor. The period after the Reformation saw not only the survival of many medieval institutions but also a remarkable number of new...
Moralizing Capitalism
Agents, Discourses and Practices of Capitalism and Anti-Capitalism in the Modern Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2019
This book adds a crucial focus on morality to the growing literature on the history of capitalism by exploring social and cultural perspectives on the economic order that has dominated the modern world. Taking the study beyond narrow economic confines, it traces the entanglement between moral sentiments...
Revival: A History of Modern Culture: Volume I (1930)
The Great Renewal 1543 - 1687
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
The best excuse for writing the history of anything is the intrinsic interest of the subject. Most men of past generations have thought, and many men still think, of politics as the warp and woof of social life. History for a long time therefore treated chiefly politics. Then came the economists to...
by Professor Stephen Hetherington
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2021
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2021
The Philosophy of Knowledge: A History presents the history of one of Western philosophy's greatest challenges: understanding the nature of knowledge. Divided chronologically into four volumes, it follows conceptions of knowledge that have been proposed, defended, replaced, and proposed anew by ancient,...
Remaking English Society
Social Relations and Social Change in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
A tribute to the work of Keith Wrightson, Remaking English Society re-examines the relationship between enduring structures and social change in early modern England. Collectively, the essays in the volume reconstruct the fissures and connections that developed both within and between social groups...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
Elizabeth Lorentz was a young maid servant in early modern Germany who believed herself to be tormented by the devil, and who was eventually brought to trial in 1667. The trial grappled with the question of whether Lorentz was a willing accomplice of the devil or suffering from melancholy as a result...
Hearts Touched by Fire
The Best of Battles and Leaders of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
In July 1883, just a few days after the twentieth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, a group of editors at The Century Magazine engaged in a lively argument: Which Civil War battle was the bloodiest battle of them all? One claimed it was Chickamauga, another Cold Harbor. The argument inspired...