wyszukanych pozycji: 9
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. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 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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200,74 zł |
The Age of Reform
ISBN: 9780394700953 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1960 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction.
This book is a landmark in American political thought. Preeminent Richard Hofstadter examines the passion for progress and reform that colored the entire period from 1890 to 1940 with startling and stimulating results. The Age of Reform searches out the moral and emotional motives of the reformers the myths and dreams in which they believed, and the realities with which they had to compromise. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction.
This book is a landmark in American political thought. Preeminent Richard Hofstadter examin... |
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66,92 zł |
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. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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645,31 zł |
Social Darwinism in American Thought, 1860-1915
ISBN: 9781512812350 / Angielski / Twarda / 1944 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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412,92 zł |
Great Issues in American History, Vol. II: From the Revolution to the Civil War, 1765-1865
ISBN: 9780394705415 / Angielski / Miękka / 1969 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Volume II gathers documents from the period of the Revolution through the Jacksonian era, up to the Civil War and the Emancipation. To fit both Colonial and Early National courses, documents covering 1765-1776 appear at the beginning of this volume and at the end of Volume I.
Volume II gathers documents from the period of the Revolution through the Jacksonian era, up to the Civil War and the Emancipation. To fit both Coloni...
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64,98 zł |
Social Darwinism in American Thought
ISBN: 9780807055038 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 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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176,70 zł |
The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made It
ISBN: 9780679723158 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 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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86,94 zł |
Academic Freedom in the Age of the College
ISBN: 9781560008606 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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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224,70 zł |
Great Issues in American History, Vol. I: From Settlement to Revolution, 1584-1776
ISBN: 9780394705408 / Angielski / Miękka / 1969 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 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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82,16 zł |