wyszukanych pozycji: 11
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From Reconstruction to the Present Day, 1864-1981
ISBN: 9780394708423 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 602 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The third volume in Great Issues In American History, From Reconstruction to the Present Day is now updated and revised to include another decade of American history. Beatrice K. Hofstadter, wife of the late Richard Hofstadter and herself an historian who worked with him closely on the original edition, has added a new section covering 1970 to 1981 and rearranged other sections in the light of what has since proved to be of lasting importance. This collection of significant documents in American history now goes from Lincoln's Proclamation on the Wade-Davis Bill on July 8, 1864, to Reagan's...
The third volume in Great Issues In American History, From Reconstruction to the Present Day is now updated and revised to include another decade of A...
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95,03 |
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Development and Scope of Higher Education in the United States: A Staff Study for the Commission on Financing Higher Education
ISBN: 9780231019569 / Angielski / Twarda / 1952 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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565,05 |
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The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it
ISBN: 9780679723158 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The American Political Tradition isone of the most influential and widely read historical volumes of our time. First published in 1948, its elegance, passion, and iconoclastic erudition laid the groundwork for a totally new understanding of the American past. By writing a "kind of intellectual history of the assumptions behind American politics," Richard Hofstadter changed the way Americans understand the relationship between power and ideas in their national experience. Like only a handful of American historians before him Frederick Jackson Turner and Charles A. Beard are examples...
The American Political Tradition isone of the most influential and widely read historical volumes of our time. First published in 1948, its ele...
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76,02 |
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The Paranoid Style in American Politics
ISBN: 9780241802007 / Angielski / Miękka / 26-02-2026 / 400 str. Książka dostępna od: 26-02-2026 |
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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
ISBN: 9780394703176 / Angielski / Miękka / 1966 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction.
In this award-winning classic work of consensus history, Richard Hofstadter, author of The Age of Reform, examines the role of social movements in the perception of intellect in American life. -As Mr. Hofstadter unfolds the fascinating story, it is no crude battle of eggheads and fatheads. It is a rich, complex, shifting picture of the life of the mind in a society dominated by the ideal of practical success.- --Robert Peel in the Christian Science Monitor Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction. In this award-winning classic work of consensus history, Richard Hofstadter, author of |
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The Idea of a Party System: The Rise of Legitimate Opposition in the United States, 1780-1840volume 2
ISBN: 9780520017542 / Angielski / Miękka / 1970 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This work traces the historical processes in thought by which American political leaders slowly edged away from their complete philosophical rejection of a party and hesitantly began to embrace a party system. In the author's words, "The emergence of legitimate party opposition and of a theory of politics that accepted it was something new in the history of the world; it required a bold new act of understanding on the part of its contemporaries and it still requires study on our part." Professor Hofstadter's analysis of the idea of party and the development of legitimate opposition offers...
This work traces the historical processes in thought by which American political leaders slowly edged away from their complete philosophical rejection...
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The Paranoid Style in American Politics
ISBN: 9780307388445 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This timely reissue of Richard Hofstadter's classic work on the fringe groups that influence American electoral politics offers an invaluable perspective on contemporary domestic affairs.In The Paranoid Style in American Politics, acclaimed historian Richard Hofstadter examines the competing forces in American political discourse and how fringe groups can influence -- and derail -- the larger agendas of a political party. He investigates the politics of the irrational, shedding light on how the behavior of individuals can seem out of proportion with actual political issues, and how...
This timely reissue of Richard Hofstadter's classic work on the fringe groups that influence American electoral politics offers an invaluable perspect...
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Social Darwinism in American Thought, 1860-1915
ISBN: 9781512812350 / Angielski / Twarda / 1944 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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382,19 |
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Social Darwinism in American Thought
ISBN: 9780807055038 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Social Darwinism in American Thought portrays the overall influence of Darwin on American social theory and the notable battle waged among thinkers over the implications of evolutionary theory for social thought and political action. Theorists such as Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner adopted the idea of the struggle for existence as justification for the evils as well as the benefits of laissez-faire modern industrial society. Others such as William James and John Dewey argued that human planning was needed to direct social development and improve upon the natural order....
Social Darwinism in American Thought portrays the overall influence of Darwin on American social theory and the notable battle waged among thin...
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155,30 |
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Academic Freedom in the Age of the College
ISBN: 9781560008606 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) When this classic volume first appeared, academic freedom was a crucially important issue. It is equally so today. Hofstadter approaches the topic historically, showing how events from various historical epochs expose the degree of freedom in academic institutions. The volume exemplifies Richard Hofstader's qualities as a historian as well as his characteristic narrative ability. Hofstadter first describes the medieval university and how its political independence evolved from its status as a corporate body, establishing a precedent for intellectual freedom that has been a measuring rod...
When this classic volume first appeared, academic freedom was a crucially important issue. It is equally so today. Hofstadter approaches the topic his...
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217,65 |
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Great Issues in American History, Vol. I: From Settlement to Revolution, 1584-1776
ISBN: 9780394705408 / Angielski / Miękka / 1969 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This first volume of Great Issues in American History -- three volumes of documents that cover the history of America from its settlement to the present -- gives us a generous sampling from the major political controversies in the Colonial period. Included are such documents as Richard Hakluyt's "Discourse of Western Planting" (1584), "Letter from Christopher Columbus to the King and Queen of Spain" (undated, probably 1694), "The Third Virginia Charter" (1612), Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" (1776) and "The Declaration of independence" (July 4, 1776). Each has an explanatory headnote, and...
This first volume of Great Issues in American History -- three volumes of documents that cover the history of America from its settlement to the prese...
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76,02 |