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Final Solutions
Human Nature, Capitalism and Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Final Solutions offers a ground-breaking and genuinely unique analysis of modern genocide. Sabby Sagall draws on the insights of the Frankfurt school and Wilhelm Reich to create an innovative combination of Marxism and psychoanalysis. He argues that genocide is a product of an ‘irrational’...
by Sharon Harrow
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Sport as it is largely understood today was invented during the long eighteenth century when the modern rules of sport were codified; sport emerged as a business, a spectacle, and a performance; and gaming organized itself around sporting culture. Examining the underexplored intersection of sport,...
Like a Pelting Rain
The Making of the Modern Mind
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
When it comes to analyzing today's culture, people talk about politics, economics, and even morals. Like a Pelting Rain: The Making of the Modern Mind goes deeper and looks at the spiritual condition of Western civilization.
How we arrived at where we are is the long and complex interplay of...
Academic Skepticism in Seventeenth-Century French Philosophy
The Charronian Legacy 1601-1662
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
This book is the first systematic account of Pierre Charron’s influence among the major French philosophers in the period (1601-1662). It shows that Charron’s Wisdom was one of the main sources of inspiration of Pierre Gassendi’s first published book, the Exercitationes adversus aristoteleos....
Beyond Foucault
New Perspectives on Bentham's Panopticon
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
In his hugely influential book Discipline and Punish, Foucault used the example of Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon prison as a means of representing the transition from the early modern monarchy to the late modern capitalist state. In the former, power is visibly exerted, for instance by the destruction...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
A key volume on a central aspect of the history of medicine and its social relations, The History of Healthcare in Public and Private examines how the modernisation of healthcare resulted in a wide variety of changing social arrangements in both public and private spheres.
This book...
An Historian in Peace and War
The Diaries of Harold Temperley
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The First World War and subsequent peace settlement shaped the course of the twentieth century, and the profound significance of these events were not lost on Harold Temperley, whose diaries are presented here. An established scholar, and later one of Britain’s foremost modern and diplomatic historians,...
Food and Identity in England, 1540-1640
Eating to Impress
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Food and Identity in England, 1540-1640 considers early modern food consumption in an important new way, connecting English consumption practices between the reigns of Henry VIII and Charles I with ideas of 'self' and 'otherness' in wider contexts of society and the class system.
Examining...
Licensing Loyalty
Printers, Patrons, and the State in Early Modern France
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
In Licensing Loyalty, historian Jane McLeod explores the evolution of the idea that the royal government of eighteenth-century France had much to fear from the rise of print culture. She argues that early modern French printers helped foster this view as they struggled to negotiate a place in the...
Women, Enlightenment and Catholicism
A Transnational Biographical History
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Women, Enlightenment and Catholicism explores, for the first time, the uncharted territory of women’s religious Enlightenment. Each chapter offers a biographical insight into the social and cultural context of female Enlighteners and how Catholic women in Europe used the thought and values of Enlightenment...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Cartesian Empiricisms considers the role Cartesians played in the acceptance of experiment in natural philosophy during the seventeenth century. It aims to correct a partial image of Cartesian philosophers as paradigmatic system builders who failed to meet challenges posed by the new science’s innovative...
Choosing Death
Suicide and Calvinism in Early Modern Geneva
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
In this case study of the Republic of Geneva, Jeffrey R. Watt convincingly argues the early modern era marked decisive change in the history of suicide. His analysis of criminal proceedings and death records shows that magistrates of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries often imposed penalties...
The Emblematic Queen
Extra-Literary Representations of Early Modern Queenship
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
This study examines representations of early modern female consorts and regnants via extra-literary emblematics such as paintings, jewelry, miniature portraits, carvings, placards, masques, funerary monuments, and imprese.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
The Routledge History of the Twentieth-Century United States is a comprehensive introduction to the most important trends and developments in the study of modern United States history. Driven by interdisciplinary scholarship, the thirty-four original chapters underscore the vast range of identities,...