wyszukanych pozycji: 13
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Religion and Innovation: Antagonists or Partners?
ISBN: 9781472591012 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. It is often assumed that religion is the backward-looking servant of tradition and the status quo, utterly opposed to the new. This refrain in so much of recent polemical writing has permeated the public mind and can even be found in academic publications. But recent scholarship increasingly shows that this view is a gross simplification - that, in fact, religious beliefs and practices have contributed to significant changes in human affairs: political and legal, social and artistic, scientific and commercial. This is certainly not to say that religion is always innovative. But the... It is often assumed that religion is the backward-looking servant of tradition and the status quo, utterly opposed to the new. This refrain in so m... |
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Religion and Innovation: Antagonists or Partners?
ISBN: 9781472591289 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. It is often assumed that religion is the backward-looking servant of tradition and the status quo, utterly opposed to the new. This refrain in so much of recent polemical writing has permeated the public mind and can even be found in academic publications. But recent scholarship increasingly shows that this view is a gross simplification - that, in fact, religious beliefs and practices have contributed to significant changes in human affairs: political and legal, social and artistic, scientific and commercial. This is certainly not to say that religion is always innovative. But the... It is often assumed that religion is the backward-looking servant of tradition and the status quo, utterly opposed to the new. This refrain in so m... |
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Recent Themes in Historical Thinking: Historians in Conversation
ISBN: 9781570037412 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 141 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Described as "the New York Review of Books for history," Historically Speaking has emerged as one of the most distinctive historical publications in recent years, actively seeking out contributions from a pantheon of leading voices in historical discourse from both inside and outside academia. Recent Themes in Historical Thinking represents some of the best writing on historiography to appear in the past five years. The prominent historians featured in this collection of essays and interviews drawn from Historically Speaking comment on such wide-ranging topics as the impact of postmodernism...
Described as "the New York Review of Books for history," Historically Speaking has emerged as one of the most distinctive historical publications in r...
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Recent Themes in Early American History
ISBN: 9781570037641 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This collection of recent essays and interviews from Historically Speaking demonstrates that traditional approaches still foster fresh understanding of the early American past and that original contributions to oft-studied topics continue to be made. The volumes centerpiece is a lively forum on disjunctions between colonial and revolutionary historiography. Other pieces assess the divergent interests of academics and lay readers on the subject of the founding fathers, explore the emergence of American nationalism, examine notions of sustainability in colonial agriculture, map links between...
This collection of recent essays and interviews from Historically Speaking demonstrates that traditional approaches still foster fresh understanding o...
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Recent Themes in the History of Science and Religion
ISBN: 9781570038709 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Described as "the New York Review of Books for history," Historically Speaking has emerged as one of the most distinctive historical publications in recent years, actively seeking out contributions from a pantheon of leading voices in historical discourse from both inside and outside academia. Recent Themes in the History of Science and Religion represents some of the best writing on the intersections of scientific and religious history produced in recent years. This collection of essays from Historically Speaking centers around four sustained dialogues among an international group of leading...
Described as "the New York Review of Books for history," Historically Speaking has emerged as one of the most distinctive historical publications in r...
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Recent Themes in Military History: Historians in Conversation
ISBN: 9781570037399 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 141 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Described as "the New York Review of Books for history,"Historically Speaking has emerged as one of the most distinctive historical publications in recent years, actively seeking out contributions from a pantheon of leading voices in historical discourse from both inside and outside academia. Recent Themes in Military History represents some of the best writing on military history to appear in the past five years. This collection of forums, interviews, and individual essays drawn from Historically Speaking provides contrasting views on such topics in military history as the existence and...
Described as "the New York Review of Books for history,"Historically Speaking has emerged as one of the most distinctive historical publications in re...
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Recent Themes in the History of Africa and the Atlantic World
ISBN: 9781570037580 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Described as "the New York Review of Books for history," Historically Speaking has emerged as one of the most distinctive historical publications in recent years, actively seeking out contributions from a pantheon of leading voices in historical discourse. This collection of articles and forums by prominent historians explores the relationship of Africa to world history, maps the current state of the burgeoning field of Atlantic history, and debates the accuracy of Olaudah Equiano's seminal narrative. The standard approach of world historians often compresses the African past into...
Described as "the New York Review of Books for history," Historically Speaking has emerged as one of the most distinctive historical publications in r...
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93,01 |
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Recent Themes in World History and the History of the West
ISBN: 9781570038310 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Described as "the New York Review of Books for history," Historically Speaking has emerged as one of the most distinctive historical publications in recent years, actively seeking out contributions from a pantheon of leading voices in historical discourse from both inside and outside academia. Recent Themes in World History and the History of the West represents some of the best writing on Western civilization and world history in the past five years. This collection of essays and interviews from Historically Speaking gives leading historians' approaches to the continually evolving field of...
Described as "the New York Review of Books for history," Historically Speaking has emerged as one of the most distinctive historical publications in r...
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93,01 |
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Recent Themes on Historians and the Public
ISBN: 9781570038341 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Recent Themes on Historians and the Public represents some of the best recent writing on the public role of historians. These articles and interviews from Historically Speaking examine the relationship between historians and their audiences. Award-winning "popular historian" Adam Hochschild begins by discussing the relationship between popular and academic history. An all-star cast of historians and editors offer their responses, forming a fascinating extended conversation. This forum addresses questions such as what the public role of the historian should be and whether practicing history...
Recent Themes on Historians and the Public represents some of the best recent writing on the public role of historians. These articles and interviews ...
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83,21 |
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Recent Themes in Military History
ISBN: 9781570037382 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 141 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book offers an inviting survey of recent developments in military studies from leading voices in the field.Deemed "the New York Review of Books for history," "Historical Speaking" has emerged as one of the most unusual historical publications in recent years, actively seeking out contributions from a pantheon of leading voices in historical discourse from both inside and outside academia. "Recent Themes in Military History" represents some of the best writing on military history to appear in "Historically Speaking" in the past five years.Using multiple formats - forums, interviews, and...
This book offers an inviting survey of recent developments in military studies from leading voices in the field.Deemed "the New York Review of Books f...
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166,52 |
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Recent Themes in the History of Africa and the Atlantic World
ISBN: 9781570037573 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book presents new approaches to understanding African history from major historians of the subject matter. This collection of articles and forums by prominent historians explores the relationship of Africa to world history, maps the current state of the burgeoning field of Atlantic history, and debates the accuracy of Olaudah Equiano's seminal narrative. The standard approach of world historians often compresses the African past into interpretive frameworks that leave Africans without a history of their own. Joseph C. Miller makes the case here for an alternative approach, a multicentric...
This book presents new approaches to understanding African history from major historians of the subject matter. This collection of articles and forums...
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166,52 |
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Recent Themes in Early American History
ISBN: 9781570037658 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Described as "the New York Review of Books for history," Historically Speaking has emerged as one of the most distinctive historical publications in recent years, actively seeking out contributions from a pantheon of leading voices in historical discourse. Recent Themes in Early American History represents the best writing on colonial and revolutionary-era American history to appear in its pages the past five years. This collection of recent essays and interviews from Historically Speaking demonstrates that traditional approaches still foster fresh understanding of the early American past and...
Described as "the New York Review of Books for history," Historically Speaking has emerged as one of the most distinctive historical publications in r...
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93,01 |
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British Abolitionism and the Question of Moral Progress in History
ISBN: 9781611170153 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The idea of progress may well be one of the most important products of Western civilization. Yet most historians avoid the subject, especially the notion that there has been significant moral progress over time, and favor contingency and human agency over teleology as the engines of contemporary historical inquiry. In this collection, an international cast of prominent historians use the abolition of the British slave trade as a case study for exploring the larger interpretive question of moral progress in history.
Approaching their subject from the standpoints of social, economic,... The idea of progress may well be one of the most important products of Western civilization. Yet most historians avoid the subject, especially the not...
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