History Theory category: 16752 books
Authority, Piracy, and Captivity in Colonial Spanish American Writing
Juan de Castellanos's Elegies of Illustrious Men of the Indies
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Authority, Piracy, and Captivity in Colonial Spanish American Writing examines the intricate bond between poetry and history writing that shaped the theory and practice of empire in early colonial Spanish-American society. The book explores from diverse perspectives how epic and heroic poetry served...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Recent scholarship has acknowledged that the intertextual discourse of ancient comedy with previous and contemporary literary traditions is not limited to tragedy. This book is a timely response to the more sophisticated and theory-grounded way of viewing comedy's interactions with its cultural and...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
A History of New Zealand Literature traces the genealogy of New Zealand literature from its first imaginings by Europeans in the eighteenth century. Beginning with a comprehensive introduction that charts the growth of, and challenges to, a nationalist literary tradition, the essays in this History...
Vindicating the Commercial Republic
The Federalist on Union, Enterprise, and War
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Contrary to most academic commentary on The Federalist, this book contends thatthe most significant teachings of the work did not have to do with the institutions of government so much as with the non-institutional features of American constitutionalism, specifically its advocacy for greater union,...
by Friedrich Engels
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Friedrich Engels (November 28, 1820 August 5, 1895) was a German industrialist, social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of Marxist theory, working in close collaboration alongside Karl Marx. In 1845, he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on...
International Studies
Interdisciplinary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Presenting International Studies as a wide, plural and inherently interdisciplinary field of research, this book shows its links with philosophy, peace research, history, geography, globalization studies, international political economy, political psychology, sociology and social theory, linguistics, strategic or war studies and anthropology.
by Lenny Flank
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
A history of the anti-evolution "Intelligent Design" movement in the US, from the Scopes trial in 1925, through the rise of creation "science" in the 1980's, to the rise of intelligent design "theory" in the 1990's. Appendix includes the Wedge Document, a leaked internal...
by Keir Elam
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
The late twentieth century saw an explosion of interest in semiotics, the science of the signs and processes by which we communicate. In this study, the first of its kind in English, Keir Elam shows how this new 'science' can provide a radical shift in our understanding of theatrical performance,...
Schoenberg's New World
The American Years
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Arnold Schoenberg was a polarizing figure in twentieth century music, and his works and ideas have had considerable and lasting impact on Western musical life. A refugee from Nazi Europe, he spent an important part of his creative life in the United States (1933-1951), where he produced a rich variety...
by Eric Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
According to a commonplace narrative, the rise of modern political thought in the West resulted from secularization—the exclusion of religious arguments from political discourse. But in this pathbreaking work Eric Nelson argues that this familiar story is wrong. Instead, he contends, political thought...
A History of Ukraine
The Land and Its Peoples, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
First published in 1996, A History of Ukraine quickly became the authoritative account of the evolution of Europe's second largest country. In this fully revised and expanded second edition, Paul Robert Magocsi examines recent developments in the country's history and uses new scholarship in order...
Struggle on Their Minds
The Political Thought of African American Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
American political thought has been shaped by those who fought back against social inequality, economic exclusion, the denial of political representation, and slavery, the country's original sin. Yet too often the voices of African American resistance have been neglected, silenced, or forgotten. In...
Affective Communities
Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siècle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2006
“If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.” So E. M. Forster famously observed in his Two Cheers for Democracy. Forster’s epigrammatic manifesto, where the idea of the “friend” stands as a metaphor for dissident...
Souls with Longing
Representations of Honor and Love in Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
The works of William Shakespeare vividly represent for our admiration and study a pageant of souls with longing in whose wake we ceaselessly follow. Through some of his most memorable characters, Shakespeare illuminates the nature and character—as well as consequences—of our distinctively human...