Modern category: 14410 books
by William Caferro
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
In this book, William Caferro asks if the Renaissance was really a period of progress, reason, the emergence of the individual, and the beginning of modernity.
An influential investigation into the nature of the European Renaissance
Summarizes scholarly debates about the nature...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Mary Tudor's reign is regarded as a period where, within a short space of time, an early modern European state attempted to reverse the religious policy of preceding governments. This required the use of persuasion and coercion, of propaganda and censorship, as well as the controversial decision to...
Terrorists and Terrorism
In the Contemporary World
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
A concise and accessible survey of this topical and complex subject, this is the first book of its type to focus on the terrorists, and their psychology, in an historical context.
Focusing on a variety of prominent terrorist groups together with a number of less notorious ones, the book encourages...
The Industrial Revolutionaries
The Making of the Modern World, 1776–1914
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
“Anyone with a passing interest in economic history will thoroughly enjoy” this account of how industry transformed the world (The Seattle Times).
In less than one hundred and fifty years, an unlikely band of scientists, spies, entrepreneurs, and political refugees took a world made of...
Doing Recent History
On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That Talks Back
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Recent history—the very phrase seems like an oxymoron. Yet historians have been writing accounts of the recent past since printed history acquired a modern audience, and in the last several years interest in recent topics has grown exponentially. With subjects as diverse as Walmart and disco, and...
That Greece Might Still Be Free
The Philhellenes in the War of Independence
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
When in 1821, the Greeks rose in violent revolution against the rule of the Ottoman Turks, waves of sympathy spread across Western Europe and the United States. More than a thousand volunteers set out to fight for the cause. The Philhellenes, whether they set out to recreate the Athens of Pericles,...
by Simon Rae
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Dorset in Victorian and Edwardian times was (as now) a predominantly rural county, but one suffering from the agricultural depression. Rider Haggard reports (1901) on a long expedition across country meeting just four other vehicles. 'Three of them were brewers' drays, and the fourth was a timberdrag.'...
by David Gerrard
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
The North Riding of Yorkshire is a fortunate land - favoured by some of the most magnificent scenery in England and with a number of the country's most attractive towns. A century ago this remote and sparsely populated area stubbornly maintained a distinctive way of life. For most, that life was a...
Embodying Hebrew Culture
Aesthetics, Athletics, and Dance in the Jewish Community of Mandate Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
From their conquest of Palestine in 1917 during World War I, until the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the British controlled the territory by mandate, representing a distinct cultural period in Middle Eastern history. In Embodying Hebrew Culture: Aesthetics, Athletics, and Dance in the...
by John E. Wills Jr., Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2002
"A totally absorbing book...imaginative and erudite, full of startling juxtapositions and flashes of real perception."—Jonathan D. Spence
John E. Wills's masterful history ushers us into the worlds of 1688, from the suicidal exaltation of Russian Old Believers to the ravishing voice...
by Abhilash G Nath
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Philosophy - Philosophy of the Present, Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi), language: English, abstract: In the later years of his life, Foucault associates his genealogical studies of discourse, institutions and practices to the Kantian 'ontology of ourselves,'...
by Domenico Sella
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
In his comprehensive overview of 17th century Italy, Professor Sella challenges the old view that Italy was in general decline, instead he shows it to have been a time of sharp contrasts and shifts in fortune. He starts with a balanced and critical analysis of political developments (placing the Italian...
Streb
How to Become an Extreme Action Hero
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
An inspiring memoir and self-help guide to greatness by the dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov calls “fearlessness and intelligence combined . . . potent and beautiful.”
Called “the Evel Knievel of Dance,” Elizabeth Streb has been pushing boundaries and testing the potential of the human body...
by Harriet Martineau
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.