History Theory category: 16752 books
Rational Number Theory in the 20th Century
From PNT to FLT
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
The last one hundred years have seen many important achievements in the classical part of number theory. After the proof of the Prime Number Theorem in 1896, a quick development of analytical tools led to the invention of various new methods, like Brun's sieve method and the circle method of Hardy,...
African Realism?
International Relations Theory and Africa's Wars in the Postcolonial Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
African Realism explains Africa’s international conflicts of the post-colonial era through international relations theory. It looks at the relationship between Africa’s domestic and international conflicts, as well as the impact of factors such as domestic legitimacy, trade, and regional economic...
by Felix Seidler
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: 73 von 100 Punkten, The University of Sydney (Center for International Security Studies), course: New Security Challenges, language: English, abstract: This essay deals about the approaches...
The Color of Our Shame
Race and Justice in Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
For many Americans, the election of Barack Obama as the country's first black president signaled that we had become a post-racial nation - some even suggested that race was no longer worth discussing. Of course, the evidence tells a very different story. And while social scientists are fully engaged...
Beckett's Dantes
Intertextuality in the fiction and criticism
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Beckett's Dantes: Intertextuality in the Fiction and Criticism is the first study in English on the literary relation between Beckett and Dante. It is an innovative reading of Samuel Beckett and Dante's works and a critical engagement with contemporary theories of intertextuality. It is an informative...
Reconciliation and Reification
Freedom's Semblance and Actuality from Hegel to Contemporary Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
The critical theory tradition has, since its inception, sought to distinguish its perspective on society by maintaining that persons have a deep-seated interest in the free development of their personality--an interest that can only be realized in and through the rational organization of society,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Bringing together political theorists and specialists in Canadian politics, Applied Political Theory and Canadian Politics combinesconceptual frameworks from political theory and empirical evidence to offer fresh perspectives on political events in contemporary Canada. Examining complex and timely...
by Neelam Pandey
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Political theory is the categorization of social thought by a group or by the persuasion or beliefs of a geo-political mass. Many political theories are founded as critiques toward existing political, economic and social conditions of the theorist’s time. Political theory can also be considered...
THE VESTED INTERESTS & THE NATURE OF PEACE
From the Author of The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning in America & Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This eBook edition of "THE VESTED INTERESTS & THE NATURE OF PEACE” has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Vested Interests and The Nature of Peace are two books by Thorstein Veblen that go hand in hand. Veblen's main critique...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Through musical analysis of compositions written between the mid-twelfth to late nineteenth centuries, this volume celebrates the achievements of eight composers, all women: Hildegard of Bingen, Maddalena Casulana, Barbara Strozzi, Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Marianne Martines, Josephine Lang,...
by Carlos Munzer
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 8, 2017
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La lucha contra el revisionismo en el marxismo, a la luz de la cuestión china, concentra uno de los combates centrales del marxismo y es donde se forja la continuidad de su programa en las batallas del Siglo XXI, contra sus liquidadores revisionistas que “inventan nuevas teorías”...
Philosophizing Rock Performance
Dylan, Hendrix, Bowie
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, and David Bowie are among three of the most influential figures in twentieth-century popular music and culture, and innumerable scholars and biographers have explored the history of their influence. However, critical historiography reminds us that such scholarship is responsible...
Storytelling, History, and the Postmodern South
The Life of a Soldier of Fortune
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
In this innovative collection, Jason Phillips and ten other historians and literary scholars explore the enduring dynamic between history, literature, and power in the American South. Blending analysis with storytelling, and professional insights with personal experiences, they "deconstruct Dixie,"...
Dystopia
A Natural History
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Dystopia: A Natural History is the first monograph devoted to the concept of dystopia. Taking the term to encompass both a literary tradition of satirical works, mostly on totalitarianism, as well as real despotisms and societies in a state of disastrous collapse, this volume redefines the central...