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Power, Culture and Modernity in Nigeria
Beyond The Colony
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
In this book, Oluwatoyin Oduntan offers a critical intervention in the scholarly fields of Nigerian, and West African history, as well as towards understanding the intellectual ideas by which modern African society was formed, and how it functions.
The book traces the shifting dynamics between...
Sexual Knowledge
Feeling, Fact, and Social Reform in Vienna, 1900-1934
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Vienna’s unique intellectual, political, and religious traditions had a powerful impact on the transformation of sexual knowledge in the early twentieth century. Whereas turn-of-the-century sexology, as practiced in Vienna as a medical science, sought to classify and heal individuals, during the...
Transforming the Twentieth Century:Technical Innovations and Their Consequences
Technical Innovations and Their Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2006
This inquiry into the technical advances that shaped the 20th century follows the evolutions of all the principal innovations introduced before 1913 (as detailed in the first volume) as well as the origins and elaborations of all fundamental 20th century advances. The history of the 20th century is...
Reformations
The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
This fast-paced survey of Western civilization’s transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly to life. Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the two-hundred-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that...
Soldier of Christ
The Life of Pope Pius XII
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Soldier of Christ reveals a paradoxical figure: a prophetic reformer of limited vision whose leadership stimulated the emergence of a global Catholicism while sowing doubt and dissension among some of the Church’s most faithful servants. The Cold War and Pius XII’s manner of engaging with the modern world defined his pontificate, Ventresca argues.
This Happened in My Presence
Moriscos, Old Christians, and the Spanish Inquisition in the Town of Deza, 1569-1611
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
This Happened in My Presence reveals life in the small Spanish town of Deza during a period that was complex and tumultuous.
The introduction explains the medieval origins of Deza's Christian, Muslim, and Jewish populations and the changing policies toward religious minorities under the Catholic...
by Autori Vari
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2014
During the early modern age religious orders had to interpret papal strategies and directives in international politics in the light of a substantial ambiguity. They were loyal subjects of the pope, but also trusted agents and advisers of princes. They were operatives of the Holy See and, at the same...
American Prophets
Seven Religious Radicals and Their Struggle for Social and Political Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
American Prophets sheds critical new light on the lives and thought of seven major prophetic figures in twentieth-century America whose social activism was motivated by a deeply felt compassion for those suffering injustice.
In this compelling and provocative book, acclaimed religious scholar...
by Stefan Ihrig
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Early in his career, Hitler took inspiration from Mussolini—this fact is widely known. But an equally important role model for Hitler has been neglected: Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey, who inspired Hitler to remake Germany along nationalist, secular, totalitarian, and ethnically exclusive lines. Stefan Ihrig tells this compelling story.
Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy
With Selections from the Objections and Replies
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 1996
The Meditations, one of the key texts of Western philosophy, is the most widely studied of all Descartes' writings. This authoritative translation by John Cottingham, taken from the much acclaimed three-volume Cambridge edition of the Philosophical Writings of Descartes, is based upon the best available...
In God's Hands
The Spiritual Diaries of Pope John Paul II
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Available for the first time in English, the private reflections of the modern pope recently elevated to sainthood—deeply personal writings that reveal a spiritual leader who agonized over his service to God, continually questioning whether he was doing enough.
As the head of the Roman Catholic...
The Great Upheaval
America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution. But in contrast to the way conventional histories tell it, none of these remarkable events occurred in isolation.
Now,...
The Six Day War 1967
Sinai
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
In May 1967, Egypt expelled the United Nations peacekeeping forces stationed in the Sinai desert and deployed its army along its border with Israel, its moves coordinated with those of Jordan and Syria. By June, Israel realized that the international community would not act, and so it launched a pre-emptive...
Passionate Minds
Emilie du Chatelet, Voltaire, and the Great Love Affair of the Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
It was 1733 when the poet and philosopher Voltaire met Emilie du Châtelet, a beguiling—and married—aristocrat who would one day popularize Newton’s arcane ideas and pave the way for Einstein’s theories. In an era when women were rarely permitted any serious schooling, this twenty-seven-year-old’s...