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by Nicholas Dent
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2008
In this superb introduction, Nicholas Dent covers the whole of Rousseau's thought. Beginning with a helpful overview of Rousseau's life and works, he introduces and assesses Rousseau's central ideas and arguments. These include the corruption of modern civilization, the state of nature, his famous...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
A number of changes in the English economy during the eighteenth century marked the inception of the modern industrialised world. Whether for the historian seeking explanations for past growth, or the economist in search of prescriptions for the future, the English industrial revolution is probably...
Renaissance in Japan
A Cultural Survey of the Seventeenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Renaissance in Japan is a superb survey of Japan's literary giants-forerunners of today's modern Japanese writers.
Called the "Kyoto epoch," the age in which these writers lived was the period in which Japanese cultural development made many of its greatest advances. In these years...
Enraged
Why Violent Times Need Ancient Greek Myths
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
An examination of remedies for violent rage rediscovered in ancient Greek myths Millennia ago, Greek myths exposed the dangers of violent rage and the need for empathy and self-restraint. Homer’s Iliad, Euripides’ Hecuba, and Sophocles’ Ajax show that anger and vengeance destroy perpetrators and...
by Leon Harold Craig
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Thomas Hobbes's influential political treatise, Leviathan, was first published in 1651. Many scholars have since credited him with a mechanistic outlook towards human nature that established the basis of modern Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theory. In The Platonian...
Badiou
A Subject To Truth
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2003
Alain Badiou is one of the most inventive and compelling philosophers working in France today—a thinker who, in these days of cynical resignation and academic specialization, is exceptional in every sense. Guided by disciplines ranging from mathematics to psychoanalysis, inspired as much by Plato and...
The Post-Reformation
Religion, Politics and Society in Britain, 1603-1714
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The 17th century was a dynamic period characterized by huge political and social changes, including the Civil War, the execution of Charles I, the Commonwealth and the Restoration. The Britain of 1714 was recognizably more modern than it was in 1603. At the heart of these changes was religion and...
A History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century
Updated and Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
A History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century, originally published in Buenos Aires in 1994, attained instant status as a classic. Written as an introductory text for university students and the general public, it is a profound reflection on the “Argentine dilemma” and the challenges that the...
Exorcising Hitler
The Occupation and Denazification of Germany
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
The collapse of the Third Reich in 1945 was an event nearly
unprecedented in history. Only the fall of the Roman Empire fifteen
hundred years earlier compares to the destruction visited on Germany.
The country's cities lay in ruins, its economic base devastated. The
German people stood at the brink...
Hidden History
An Exposé of Modern Crimes, Conspiracies, and Cover-Ups in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
The US government has spent as much time covering up conspiracies as it has helping the American people. In Hidden History, you will see the amount of effort that our government has dedicated over the past fifty years to lying and covering up the truth to the world.
Starting with the assassination...
The Myth of Seneca Falls
Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 is a cherished American myth. The standard account credits founders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott with defining and then leading the campaign for women's suffrage. In her...
by Elizabeth S. Radcliffe
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
David Hume's theory of action is well known for several provocative theses, including that passion and reason cannot be opposed over the direction of action. Elizabeth S. Radcliffe defends an original interpretation of Hume's views on passion, reason, and motivation which is consistent with other...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
The Cold War in the Third World explores the complex interrelationships between the Soviet-American struggle for global preeminence and the rise of the Third World. Those two distinct but overlapping phenomena placed a powerful stamp on world history throughout the second half of the twentieth century....
Divided We Stand
The Battle Over Women's Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
More than forty years ago, two women's movements drew a line in the sand between liberals and conservatives. The far-reaching legacy of that rift is still felt today.
One of Smithsonian Magazine's "Ten Best History Books of the Year†?
Gloria Steinem was quoted in 2015 (the New...