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Hegel’s Realm of Shadows
Logic as Metaphysics in “The Science of Logic”
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Hegel frequently claimed that the heart of his entire system was a book widely regarded as among the most difficult in the history of philosophy, The Science of Logic**.** This is the book that presents his metaphysics, an enterprise that he insists can only be properly understood as a “logic,”...
Moral Nation
Modern Japan and Narcotics in Global History
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
This trailblazing study examines the history of narcotics in Japan to explain the development of global criteria for political legitimacy in nations and empires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Japan underwent three distinct crises of sovereignty in its modern history: in the 1890s,...
Petitioning for Land
The Petitions of First Peoples of Modern British Colonies
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Petitioning for Land is the first book to examine the extent of First Peoples political participation through the use of petitions. Interpreting petitions as a continuous form of political articulation, Karen O'Brien considers petitioning for recognition of prior land ownership as a means by which...
by John Traynor
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Now in its second edition, this engaging text introduces readers to all the key developments in American history between 1900 and 2000. Combining factual coverage with an analysis of professional historians’ most recent interpretations of major domestic and foreign affairs, it fully explores dramatic...
Hegemonic War and Grand Strategy
Ludwig Dehio, World History, and the American Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Ludwig Dehio advances a theory of the historical dynamic of the modern European state system (1494–1945) and its hegemonic wars. After explaining Dehio's thoughts about why none of the European Powers were successful in their attempts to conquer the Continent, the text analyzes bids for hegemony...
Resolutions and Decisions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Volume 2
The Early Soviet Period 1917-1929
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
This set of four volumes is an indispensable reference work for the study of modern Russia in general and Soviet Communism in particular. Ever since its foundation on the eve of the twentieth century, the organization now called the Communist Party of the Soviet Union has been embodying its major...
by L-Cmdr Steven D. Culpepper
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
This historical study investigates the military effectiveness and combat power of Civil War balloons. The categories inherent to military effectiveness include timeliness, accuracy, usefulness, operational considerations, and logistics. Limited by available material, especially those documenting Confederate...
The Conquest of Death
Violence and the Birth of the Modern English State
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
A fresh and fascinating history of crime and violence in England through the office of the coroner In his fascinating debut, Matthew Lockwood explores the history of crime, homicide, and suicide in England over four centuries through the office of the coroner. While the office was established to investigate...
The Limits of Liberalism
Tradition, Individualism, and the Crisis of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
In The Limits of Liberalism, Mark T. Mitchell argues that a rejection of tradition is both philosophically incoherent and politically harmful. This false conception of tradition helps to facilitate both liberal cosmopolitanism and identity politics. The incoherencies are revealed through an investigation...
by Christopher Cimorelli, Colby Dickinson, Onoriode Ekeh
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
This book blends historical, theological, and philosophical inquiries into what “modernity” means with the aim of showing how Newman can analyze, critique, and explain fruitful ways forward within a diverse range of subjects. First, it surveys historical and theological topics such as how Newman...
by Major Alan J. Deogracias II
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
This thesis examines the Battle of Hampton Roads, 8 and 9 March 1862, the first battle of ironclads, to determine if it was a Revolution in Military Affairs. This study is an analysis of naval developments prior to March 1862, the battle, and the impact the battle had on the U.S. Navy and the Royal...
Resolutions and Decisions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Volume 3
The Stalin Years 1929-1953
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
This set of four volumes is an indispensable reference work for the study of modern Russia in general and Soviet Communism in particular. Ever since its foundation on the eve of the twentieth century, the organization now called the Communist Party of the Soviet Union has been embodying its major...
by L. Whaley
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Women have engaged in healing from the beginning of history, often within the context of the home. This book studies the role, contributions and challenges faced by women healers in France, Spain, Italy and England, including medical practice among women in the Jewish and Muslim communities, from the later Middle Ages to approximately 1800.
by Monica Pohle Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Bringing together cultural, economic and social historians from across Europe and beyond, this volume offers a consideration from a number of perspectives of the principal forces that further integrated the Ottoman Empire and Western Europe during the first century of industrialisation. The essays...