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by Maria Pia Donato
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
In 1705-1706, during the War of the Spanish Succession and two years after a devastating earthquake, an ’epidemic’ of mysterious sudden deaths terrorized Rome. In early modern society, a sudden death was perceived as a mala mors because it threatened the victim’s salvation by hindering repentance...
A Century of Genocide
Utopias of Race and Nation - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Why did the twentieth century witness unprecedented organized genocide? Can we learn why genocide is perpetrated by comparing different cases of genocide? Is the Holocaust unique, or does it share causes and features with other cases of state-sponsored mass murder? Can genocide be prevented?
Blending...
Modern Freedom
Hegel’s Legal, Moral, and Political Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book, the result of 40 years of Hegel research, gives an integral interpretation of G.W.F. Hegel's mature practical philosophy as contained in his textbook, Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts, published in 1820, and the courses he gave on the same subject between 1817 and 1830.
The European Wars of Religion
An Interdisciplinary Reassessment of Sources, Interpretations, and Myths
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
In recent years religion has resurfaced amongst academics, in many ways replacing class as the key to understanding Europe's historical development. This has resulted in an explosion of studies revisiting issues of religious change, confessional violence and holy war during the early modern period....
Jewish Materialism
The Intellectual Revolution of the 1870s
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
A paradigm-shifting account of the modern Jewish experience, from one of the most creative young historians of his generation
To understand the organizing framework of modern Judaism, Eliyahu Stern believes that we should look deeper and farther than the Holocaust, the establishment of the...
Wittgenstein
Meaning and Mind (Volume 3 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations), Part 1: Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
Wittgenstein: Meaning and Mind is the third volume of a four-volume analytical commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, consisting of two parts. Part 1 is a sequence of fifteen essays that examine in detail all the major topics discussed in Philosophical Investigations §§243-427....
by Joseph Jastrow
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
“ If that imaginary individual so convenient for literary illustration, a visitor from Mars, were to alight upon our planet at the present time, and if his intellectual interests induced him to take a survey of mundane views of what is “in heaven above, or on the earth beneath or in the waters...
Migration Policies and Materialities of Identification in European Cities
Papers and Gates, 1500-1930s
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
This book focusses on the instruments, practices, and materialities produced by various authorities to monitor, regulate, and identify migrants in European cities from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Whereas research on migration regulation typically looks at local policies for the early...
A Destiny of Choice?
New Directions in American Consumer History
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
In the twentieth century, Americans thought of the United States as a land of opportunity and equality. To what extent and for whom this was true was, of course, a matter of debate, however especially during the Cold War, many Americans clung to the patriotic conviction that America was the land of...
The Challenges of Contemporaneity
Postmodernity and Multiculturalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
This book presents an overview of postmodernism and its social indicators, and of the postmodern condition in consciousness as an indicator of its modification and development. The book brings together philosophical, sociological and cultural approaches towards contemporary societal issues, such as...
by F. Connor
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
This monograph makes clear how the format of the literary folio played a fundamental role in book history by encapsulating the unstable negotiation between commerce, cultural prestige, and the fundamental nature of the printed book.
Pragmatism (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. The word "pragmatism" is used everywhere today, from business to sports to politics. Although the word hadn't yet entered everyday language when William James published Pragmatism in 1907, the philosopher believed its...
by John Henry
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
This is a concise but wide-ranging account of all aspects of the Scientific Revolution from astronomy to zoology. The third edition has been thoroughly updated, and some sections revised and extended, to take into account the latest scholarship and research and new developments in historiography.
by Woodruff D. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Despite the fact that respectability is universally recognized as a feature of nineteenth-century society, it has seldom been studied as a subject in itself. In this path-breaking book, Woodruff D. Smith interprets respectability as a highly significant cultural phenomenon, incorporating both a moral...