wyszukanych pozycji: 109
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Utopias of the British Enlightenment
ISBN: 9780521430845 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This collection of eighteenth-century British utopias shows how the image of the ideal society was used as a form of social criticism, particularly as a means of focusing on ideas of progress and commercial development. The texts chosen reveal important trends in the development of liberal rights theories, of proto-socialist concepts of property distribution, and of conservative notions of the ideal hierarchical community. The introduction examines their relationship to the key issues and developments in the political thought of the period.
This collection of eighteenth-century British utopias shows how the image of the ideal society was used as a form of social criticism, particularly as...
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313,78 |
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The French Revolution Debate in Britain: The Origins of Modern Politics
ISBN: 9780333626467 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Gregory Claeys explores the reception of the French Revolution in Britain through the medium of its leading interpreters. Claeys argues that the major figures - Thomas Paine, Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin and John Thelwall - collectively laid the foundations for political debate for the following century, and longer.
Gregory Claeys explores the reception of the French Revolution in Britain through the medium of its leading interpreters. Claeys argues that the major...
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590,12 |
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Marx and Marxism
ISBN: 9780141983486 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. An illuminating history of Marx's thought and intellectual influence from a leading historian of socialism Why was Marx so successful as a thinker? Did he have a system and if so, what does it consist of? How did Marxism develop in the twentieth century and what does it mean today? Karl Marx remains the most influential and controversial political thinker in history. The movements associated with his name have lent hope to many victims of tyranny and aggression but have also proven disastrous in practice and resulted in the unnecessary deaths of millions. If after the collapse of the...
An illuminating history of Marx's thought and intellectual influence from a leading historian of socialism Why was Marx so successful as a thinker?...
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65,84 |
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The Selected Works of Robert Owen Vol III: The Book of the New Moral World
ISBN: 9781138646438 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Robert Owen (1771-1858) was the founder of British socialism, and one of the most influential reformers in Britain and America in the first half of the 19th century. This book contains all Owen's key writings on the ideal community, socialism, religion, and the capitalist economic system.
Robert Owen (1771-1858) was the founder of British socialism, and one of the most influential reformers in Britain and America in the first half of th...
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762,24 |
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Imperial Sceptics: British Critics of Empire, 1850-1920
ISBN: 9780521199544 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Imperial Sceptics provides a highly original analysis of the emergence of opposition to the British Empire from 1850 1920. Departing from existing accounts, which have focused upon the Boer War and the writings of John Hobson, Gregory Claeys proposes a new chronology for the contours of resistance to imperial expansion. Claeys locates the impetus for such opposition in the late 1850s with the British followers of Auguste Comte. Tracing critical strands of anti-imperial thought through to the First World War, Claeys then scrutinises the full spectrum of socialist writings from the early 1880s...
Imperial Sceptics provides a highly original analysis of the emergence of opposition to the British Empire from 1850 1920. Departing from existing acc...
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281,17 |
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Owenite Socialism: Pamphlets and Correspondence
ISBN: 9780415149723 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 5680 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is the definitive account of an extremely influential movement in political history. Robert Owen has often been described as the father of English Socialism . Despite being a high capitalist himself, he believed that the advancement of humankind could be furthered by the improvement of every individual s personal environment. This ten-volume set reprints an extensive collection of Owenite Socialist and co-operative material, the bulk of which are extremely scarce and difficult to find outside of specialist research libraries. The volumes are arranged in... This is the definitive account of an extremely influential movement in political history. Robert Owen has often been described as the father... |
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Utopianism for a Dying Planet: Life after Consumerism
ISBN: 9780691236681 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature
ISBN: 9780521714143 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Since the publication of Thomas More's genre-defining work Utopia in 1516, the field of utopian literature has evolved into an ever-expanding domain. This Companion presents an extensive historical survey of the development of utopianism, from the publication of Utopia to today's dark and despairing tendency towards dystopian pessimism, epitomised by works such as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Chapters address the difficult definition of the concept of utopia, and consider its relation to science fiction and other literary genres. The volume...
Since the publication of Thomas More's genre-defining work Utopia in 1516, the field of utopian literature has evolved into an ever-expanding domain. ...
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136,75 |
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Les périmètres de remembrement urbain (PRU) approuvés en Wallonie : Coûts de transaction, formes d'appropriation et modalités d'application
ISBN: 9786139515936 / Francuski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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Human Rights and the Food Sovereignty Movement: Reclaiming control
ISBN: 9781138793026 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Our global food system is undergoing rapid change. Since the global food crisis of 2007-2008, a range of new issues have come to public attention, such as land grabbing, food prices volatility, agrofuels and climate change. Peasant social movements are trying to respond to these challenges by organizing from the local to the global to demand food sovereignty. As the transnational agrarian movement La Via Campesina celebrates its 20th anniversary, this book takes stock of the movement's achievements and reflects on challenges for the future. It provides an in-depth analysis of the... Our global food system is undergoing rapid change. Since the global food crisis of 2007-2008, a range of new issues have come to public attention, ... |
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240,91 |
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Perimetri di raggruppamento urbano (PRU) approvati in Vallonia
ISBN: 9786204447889 / Włoski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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278,83 |
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Nicaragua Unveiled: A Traveler's Handbook: A Condensed Guide to Beaches, Volcaones, Rum Tasting, Nightlife & Beyond
ISBN: 9798877079823 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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52,70 |
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The Politics of English Jacobinism: Writings of John Thelwall
ISBN: 9780271025919 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 596 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. After Thomas Paine fled to France in 1792, John Thelwall was the most important leader of working-class radicalism in Britain. According to one observer, he was "one of the boldest political writers, speakers, and lecturers of his time." But his contribution to social and political thought has been underappreciated by modern historians of political thought. In this volume, Gregory Claeys attempts to restore Thelwall to his rightful place by reproducing for the first time his major political writings: The Natural and Constitutional Rights of Britons, the Tribune... After Thomas Paine fled to France in 1792, John Thelwall was the most important leader of working-class radicalism in Britain. According to one obs... |
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186,63 |
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Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Thought
ISBN: 9780415244190 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Thought provides essential information on, and a critical interpretation of, nineteenth-century thought and nineteenth-century thinkers. The project takes as its temporal boundary the period 1789 to 1914. Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Thought primarily covers social and political thinking, but key entries also survey science, religion, law, art, concepts of modernity, the body and health, and so on, and thereby take into account all of the key developments in the intellectual history of the period. The encyclopedia is alphabetically...
Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Thought provides essential information on, and a critical interpretation of, nineteenth-century thought an...
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French Revolution Debate in Britain: The Origins of Modern Politics
ISBN: 9780333626474 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Gregory Claeys explores the reception of the French Revolution in Britain through the medium of its leading interpreters. Claeys argues that the major figures - Thomas Paine, Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin and John Thelwall - collectively laid the foundations for political debate for the following century, and longer.
Gregory Claeys explores the reception of the French Revolution in Britain through the medium of its leading interpreters. Claeys argues that the major...
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172,07 |
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The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Thought
ISBN: 9781107696143 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. An accessible introduction to the key trends in nineteenth-century thought within philosophy, history, political thought, economics, religion and the social sciences, as well as feminism and imperialism. This Companion will appeal to scholars and advanced students of these disciplines.
An accessible introduction to the key trends in nineteenth-century thought within philosophy, history, political thought, economics, religion and the ...
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122,78 |
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Dystopia: A Natural History
ISBN: 9780198785682 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Dystopia: A Natural History is the first monograph devoted to the concept of dystopia. Taking the term to encompass both a literary tradition of satirical works, mostly on totalitarianism, as well as real despotisms and societies in a state of disastrous collapse, this volume redefines the central concepts and the chronology of the genre and offers a paradigm-shifting understanding of the subject. Part One assesses the theory and prehistory of 'dystopia'. By contrast to utopia, conceived as promoting an ideal of friendship defined as 'enhanced sociability', dystopia is defined by...
Dystopia: A Natural History is the first monograph devoted to the concept of dystopia. Taking the term to encompass both a literary tradition...
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Human Rights and the Food Sovereignty Movement: Reclaiming Control
ISBN: 9781138793019 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Our global food system is undergoing rapid change. Since the global food crisis of 2007-2008, a range of new issues have come to public attention, such as land grabbing, food prices volatility, agrofuels and climate change. Peasant social movements are trying to respond to these challenges by organizing from the local to the global to demand food sovereignty. As the transnational agrarian movement La Via Campesina celebrates its 20th anniversary, this book takes stock of the movement's achievements and reflects on challenges for the future. It provides an in-depth analysis of the... Our global food system is undergoing rapid change. Since the global food crisis of 2007-2008, a range of new issues have come to public attention, ... |
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762,24 |
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Genehmigte Stadtumbaugebiete (PRU) in Wallonien
ISBN: 9786204447858 / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Der Perimeter der städtischen Flurbereinigung (PRU) ist ein wallonisches Planungsinstrument, das zur Förderung der Stadterneuerung und zur Vereinfachung der Verwaltungsverfahren eingeführt wurde. Erste Untersuchungen des Instruments haben gezeigt, dass der Einsatz des PRU nicht so effektiv wie erhofft zu sein scheint, um die Transaktionskosten (Fristen) einer städtischen Flurbereinigungsmaßnahme zu senken. Darüber hinaus haben sie zwei Formen der Aneignung des Instruments durch die Akteure aufgezeigt: eine proaktive Strategie und eine Strategie der Opportunität. Die Aufgabe dieser...
Der Perimeter der städtischen Flurbereinigung (PRU) ist ein wallonisches Planungsinstrument, das zur Förderung der Stadterneuerung und zur Vereinfac...
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278,83 |
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The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature
ISBN: 9780521886659 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Since the publication of Thomas More's genre-defining work Utopia in 1516, the field of utopian literature has evolved into an ever-expanding domain. This Companion presents an extensive historical survey of the development of utopianism, from the publication of Utopia to today's dark and despairing tendency towards dystopian pessimism, epitomised by works such as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Chapters address the difficult definition of the concept of utopia, and consider its relation to science fiction and other literary genres. The volume...
Since the publication of Thomas More's genre-defining work Utopia in 1516, the field of utopian literature has evolved into an ever-expanding domain. ...
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420,93 |