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Emblems of Pluralism
Cultural Differences and the State
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
From outlawing polygamy and mandating public education to protecting the rights of minorities, the framing of group life by the state has been a subject of considerable interest and controversy throughout the history of the United States. The subject continues to be important in many countries. This...
At Home in the World
Women Writers and Public Life, from Austen to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
A bold new literary history that says women's writing is defined less by domestic concerns than by an engagement with public life
In a bold and sweeping reevaluation of the past two centuries of women's writing, At Home in the World argues that this body of work has been defined less by domestic...
Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More
The Last Soviet Generation
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always...
The Craft of International History
A Guide to Method
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
This is a practical guide to the historical study of international politics. The focus is on the nuts and bolts of historical research--that is, on how to use original sources, analyze and interpret historical works, and actually write a work of history. Two appendixes provide sources sure to be indispensable...
A Book Forged in Hell
Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published--"godless," "full of abominations," "a book forged in hell . . . by the devil himself." Religious and secular authorities saw it as a threat...
The Faith of a Heretic
Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Originally published in 1959, The Faith of a Heretic is the most personal statement of the beliefs of Nietzsche biographer and translator Walter Kaufmann. A first-rate philosopher in his own right, Kaufmann here provides the fullest account of his views on religion. Although he considered himself...
Erased
Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
In Erased, Omer Bartov uncovers the rapidly disappearing vestiges of the Jews of western Ukraine, who were rounded up and murdered by the Nazis during World War II with help from the local populace. What begins as a deeply personal chronicle of the Holocaust in his mother's hometown of Buchach--in...
by Johann Gottfried Herder, Gregory Moore
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2011
Without Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803), we simply would not understand Shakespeare in the way we do. In fact, much literature and art besides Shakespeare would neither look the same nor be the same without the influence of Herder's "Shakespeare" (1773). One of the most important and...
Marx's Inferno
The Political Theory of Capital
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Marx’s Inferno reconstructs the major arguments of Karl Marx’s Capital and inaugurates a completely new reading of a seminal classic. Rather than simply a critique of classical political economy, William Roberts argues that Capital was primarily a careful engagement with the motives and aims of...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2011
The I Ching, or Book of Changes, a common source for both Confucianist and Taoist philosophy, is one of the first efforts of the human mind to place itself within the universe. It has exerted a living influence in China for 3,000 years, and interest in it has been rapidly spreading in the West.
by Bruce Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2012
This is a book about Irish nationalism and how Irish nationalists developed their own conception of the Irish race. Bruce Nelson begins with an exploration of the discourse of race--from the nineteenth--century belief that "race is everything" to the more recent argument that there are no races. He...
by Sebastian Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Until very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to study nations in isolation or to understand world history as emanating from the West. This book reveals...
Utopia/Dystopia
Conditions of Historical Possibility
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
The concepts of utopia and dystopia have received much historical attention. Utopias have traditionally signified the ideal future: large-scale social, political, ethical, and religious spaces that have yet to be realized. Utopia/Dystopia offers a fresh approach to these ideas. Rather than locate...
The Locust and the Bee
Predators and Creators in Capitalism’s Future - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
The recent economic crisis was a dramatic reminder that capitalism can both produce and destroy. It's a system that by its very nature encourages predators and creators, locusts and bees. But, as Geoff Mulgan argues in this compelling, imaginative, and important book, the economic crisis also presents...