History Theory category: 16752 books
by George W. Carey
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
A concise overview of the competing political philosophies that have shaped United States history.
Who are the most influential thinkers, and which are the most important concepts, events, and documents in the study of the American political tradition? How ought we regard the beliefs and motivations...
China
A Modern History
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
China's transformation in the last few decades has been perhaps the most remarkable -- and most controversial -- development in modern history. Barely a century removed from the struggling and out-dated Qing Empire, China has managed to reinvent itself on an unprecedented scale: from Empire, to Communist...
The Politics of Inequality
A Political History of the Idea of Economic Inequality in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2007
Since the early days of the American republic, political thinkers have maintained that a grossly unequal division of property, wealth, and power would lead to the erosion of democratic life. Yet over the past thirty-five years, neoconservatives and neoliberals alike have redrawn the tenets of American...
Melchior Wankowicz
Poland’s Master of the Written Word
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
In Melchior Wankowicz: Poland’s Master of the Written Word, Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm examines the life and writing of famous Polish writer Melchior Wankowicz, author of legendary work “The Battle of Monte Cassino”.
Acclaimed by his readers and critics alike, Melchior Wankowicz was...
Prayer After the Slaughter
The Great War: Poems and Stories from World War I
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Never before or after have the horrors of the "Great War," as World War I was known, been captured as they were by Kurt Tucholsky. The famed Weimar writer, who would become one of Germany’s best-known satirist and journalists, describes surviving in the trenches and fighting a losing battle,...
Old Gods, New Enigmas
Marx's Lost Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Is revolution possible in the age of the Anthropocene?
Marx has returned, but which Marx? Recent biographies have proclaimed him to be an emphatically nineteenth-century figure, but in this book, Mike Davis’s first directly about Marx and Marxism, a thinker comes to light who speaks to the...
Measuring History
Cases of StateLevel Testing Across the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Measuring History complements the cases presented in Wise Social Studies Practices (Yeager & Davis, 2005). Yeager and Davis highlight the rich and ambitious teaching that can occur in the broad context of statelevel testing. In this book, the chapter authors and I bring the particular state history...
Sayyid Qutb - an Islamic fundamentalist
an Islamic fundamentalist
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2003
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: A (1), Lebanese American University (Political Science Department), course: Graduate Seminar: Modern Arab Political Thought, 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract:...
Beyond the Second Sophistic
Adventures in Greek Postclassicism
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
The "Second Sophistic" traditionally refers to a period at the height of the Roman Empire’s power that witnessed a flourishing of Greek rhetoric and oratory, and since the 19th century it has often been viewed as a defense of Hellenic civilization against the domination of Rome. This book...
What Was History?
The Art of History in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
From the late fifteenth century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books about how to read and evaluate histories. These pioneering works grew from complex early modern debates about law, religion and classical scholarship. Anthony Grafton's book is based on his Trevelyan Lectures of 2005,...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The kingdoms of Kush and Aksum were once located in East Africa. What was it like to live in these kingdoms? Reading about ancient history will help your child better appreciate the world, especially the changes experienced over time. Such facts can be used to understand the present and accurately predict what’ll happen in the future. Read this book today!
Disassembly Required
A Field Guide to Actually Existing Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
"Geoff Mann is a new breed of monkey-wrencher. He knows that contemporary capitalism has a perverse habit of dismantling itself and gives us a toolkit to build a new, more socially just edifice."-Andy Merrifield, Magical Marxism"Insightful and incisive, thoughtful and thorough, filled with...
by Richard M. Valelly
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
American politics seems to grow more contentious and complicated by the day, and whether American democracy works well is hotly debated. Amidst all this roiling partisan argument and confusing claims and counterclaims, there has never been a greater need for an impartial primer on the basics of the...
The Corporate Financiers
Williams, Modigliani, Miller, Coase, Williamson, Alchian, Demsetz, Jensen, Meckling
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
The Corporate Financiers is the fifth book in a series of discussions about the great minds in the history and theory of finance. While the series addresses the contributions of scholars in our understanding of modern finance, this volume presents the ways in which a corporation creates value.
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