Modern category: 14410 books
Between Utopia and Dystopia
Erasmus, Thomas More, and the Humanist Republic of Letters
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
The figure of the intellectual looms large in modern history, and yet his or her social place has always been full of ambiguity and ironies. Between Utopia and Dystopia is a study of the movement that created the identity of the universal intellectual: Erasmian humanism. Focusing on the writings of...
by James Robinson, Charles Beard
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2017
The nation which has unmistakably assumed the leading role in European affairs during the past two hundred years is France. At the opening of the eighteenth century she already enjoyed a commanding position. In the wars to which the ambition of her king, Louis XIV, gave rise, almost all the countries...
Vienna, 1814
How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War, and Peace at the Congress of Vienna
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
“Reads like a novel. A fast-paced page-turner, it has everything: sex, wit, humor, and adventures. But it is an impressively researched and important story.”
—David Fromkin, author of Europe’s Last Summer
Vienna, 1814 is an evocative and brilliantly researched account of the most audacious...
Religion, Identity and Conflict in Britain: From the Restoration to the Twentieth Century
Essays in Honour of Keith Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
The British state between the mid-seventeenth century to the early twentieth century was essentially a Christian state. Christianity permeated society, defining the rites of passage - baptism, first communion, marriage and burial - that shaped individual lives, providing a sense of continuity between...
by Christopher Storrs
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A major reassessment of Philip V's leadership and what it meant for the modern Spanish state Often dismissed as ineffective, indolent, and dominated by his second wife, Philip V of Spain (1700–1746), the first Bourbon king, was in fact the greatest threat to peace in Europe during his reign. Under...
by Ben Walsh, Paul Shuter, Hannah Dalton
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Exam Board: OCR
Level: GCSE
Subject: History
First Teaching: September 2016
First Exam: June 2018
An OCR endorsed textbook
Trust Ben Walsh to guide you through the new specification and motivate your students to excel with his trademark mix of engaging narrative and fascinating contemporary...
The Wealth of Communities
War, Resources and Cooperation in Renaissance Lombardy
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The early decades of the sixteenth century were a turbulent time for the Italian peninsula as competing centres of power struggled for political control. Nowhere was this more true than the area contested by Milan and Venice, that was constantly crossed and occupied by rival armies. Investigating...
Early Modern England 1485-1714
A Narrative History
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
The second edition of this bestselling narrative history has been revised and expanded to reflect recent scholarship. The book traces the transformation of England during the Tudor-Stuart period, from feudal European state to a constitutional monarchy and the wealthiest and most powerful nation on...
by Kullada Kesboonchoo Mead
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This book examines the development of Thailand from the integration of Siam into the European world economy at the beginning of the nineteenth century, up to the emergence of Thailand as a modern nation state in the twentieth century. It concentrates in particular on the reign of King Chulalongkorn...
The Writing on the Wall
Why We Must Embrace China as a Partner or Face It as an Enemy
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2006
The prevailing view of China is that the country is an economic juggernaut sure to become the dominant power of the twenty-first century. In this provocative and stimulating book critically acclaimed author Will Hutton warns instead that China is running up against a set of daunting challenges from...
India Becoming
A Portrait of Life in Modern India
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
A New Republic Editors' and Writers' Pick 2012
**A New Yorker Contributors' Pick 2012
A portrait of incredible change and economic development, of social and national transformation told through individual lives**
The son of an Indian father and an American mother, Akash Kapur...
Service as Mandate
How American Land-Grant Universities Shaped the Modern World, 1920–2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
Established by the Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862, America’s land-grant universities have had far-reaching influences on the United States and the world. Service as Mandate, Alan I Marcus’s second edited collection of insightful essays about land-grant universities, explores how these...
State of Nature, Stages of Society
Enlightenment Conjectural History and Modern Social Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Frank Palmeri sees the conjectural histories of Rousseau, Hume, Herder, and other Enlightenment philosophers as a template for the development of the social sciences in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Without documents or memorials, these thinkers, he argues, employed conjecture to formulate...
In Defence of Modernity
Vision and Philosophy in Michael Oakeshott
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Although Oakeshott's philosophy has received considerable attention, the vision which underlies it has been almost completely ignored. This vision, which is rooted in the intellectual debates of his epoch, cements his ideas into a coherent whole and provides a compelling defence of modernity.The main...