History Theory category: 16752 books
by John Barber
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
In October 2016 a story was reported in most popular newspapers that using old-fashioned scholarship and 21st-century computerised tools to analyse texts a team of international scholars have established that Shakespeare’s collaboration with other playwrights was far more extensive than has been...
by Niccolò Machiavelli
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2015
"Discourses on Livy" is a work of political history and philosophy written in the early 16th century by the Italian writer and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli, best known as the author of The Prince. The Discourses were published posthumously with papal privilege in 1531....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Hemingway has been labeled a ‘communist sympathizer,’ ‘elitist’, and a ‘rugged individualist.’ This volume embraces the complexity of political advocacy in Hemingway’s novels and short stories. Hemingway’s characters physically, intellectually and spiritually become part of resisting...
Social Theory of Fear
Terror, Torture, and Death in a Post-Capitalist World
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. In the current crisis of the capitalist world system, elites promote fear of crime and terrorism to keep and expand their privileges and control the masses. This book offers an analysis of the crisis and strategies for rebellion.
The Structure of Cuban History
Meanings and Purpose of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
In this expansive and contemplative history of Cuba, Louis A. Perez Jr. argues that the country's memory of the past served to transform its unfinished nineteenth-century liberation project into a twentieth-century revolutionary metaphysics. The ideal of national sovereignty that was anticipated as...
Against Self-Reliance
The Arts of Dependence in the Early United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Individualism is arguably the most vital tenet of American national identity: American cultural heroes tend to be mavericks and nonconformists, and independence is the fulcrum of the American origin story. But in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a number of American artists, writers,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2008
Epigraphy is a method of inferring and analyzing historical data by means of inscriptions found on ancient artifacts such as stones, coins, and statues. It has proven indispensable for archaeologists and classicists, and has considerable potential for the study of ancient history at the undergraduate...
Philosophy of Economy
The World as Household
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
The writings of Sergei Bulgakov (18711944), like those of other major social thinkers of Russia’s Silver Age, were obliterated from public consciousness under Soviet rule. Discovered again after eighty years of silence, Bulgakov’s work speaks with remarkable directness to the postmodern listener....
Christopher Smart's English Lyrics
Translation in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
In the first full-length study of Christopher Smart’s translations and the place and function of translation in Smart’s poetry, Rosalind Powell proposes a new approach to understanding the relationship between Smart’s poetics and his practice. Drawing on translation theory from the early modern...
Violence and Civility
On the Limits of Political Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
In Violence and Civility, Étienne Balibar boldly confronts the insidious causes of violence, racism, nationalism, and ethnic cleansing worldwide, as well as mass poverty and dispossession. Through a novel synthesis of theory and empirical studies of contemporary violence, the acclaimed thinker pushes...
by Walter Bagehot
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
'Physics and Politics’ is a description of the evolution of communities of men. The materials here are derived mainly from books, the surface to be observed being so extensive, but the attitude is precisely the same, that of a scientific observer. To a certain extent the 'Physics and Politics’...
The Political Theory of John Stuart Mill: 7 Book Collection
Considerations on Representative Government, England and Ireland, Speech In Favor of Capital Punishment, The Contest in America, Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform & More
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2017
This collection of selected work presents John Stuart Mill as a political theorist. In this seven-book edition you can find out Mill's thoughts on representative government, parliamentary reform and capital punishment. This collection also contains books where Mill discussed some of the current topics...
by David Armitage
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Between the early seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, major European political thinkers first began to look outside their national borders and envisage a world of competitive, equal sovereign states inhabiting an international sphere that ultimately encompassed the whole globe. In this insightful...
From Toussaint to Price-Mars
Rhetoric, Race, and Religion in Haitian Thought
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
In From Toussaint to Price-Mars: Rhetoric, Race, and Religion in Haitian Thought, Scholar, Intellectual, and Theologian Celucien L. Joseph engages Haiti's intellectual history by focusing on the ideas and writings of Haiti's four most important thinkers and writers: Toussaint Louverture, Joseph Antenor...