wyszukanych pozycji: 5
Making History Matter
ISBN: 9781566397490 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This collection of Robert Dawidoff's essays and journalism is peopled by the likes of the Founding Fathers, Fred Astaire, Henry and William James, Sophie Tucker, Trent Lott, and Cole Porter. Drawing together this unlikely cast of characters, Dawidoff probes into the role of outsider groups as well as intellectual and political elites in the formation of American culture.
As a scholar of intellectual and cultural history, Dawidoff takes the stance that historians ought to take an active role in our democratic culture, informing and participating in public discourse. He argues for a broad... This collection of Robert Dawidoff's essays and journalism is peopled by the likes of the Founding Fathers, Fred Astaire, Henry and William James, Sop...
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134,81 zł |
Making History Matter
ISBN: 9781566397483 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This collection of Robert Dawidoff's essays and journalism is peopled by the likes of the Founding Fathers, Fred Astaire, Henry and William James, Sophie Tucker, Trent Lott, and Cole Porter. Drawing together this unlikely cast of characters, Dawidoff probes into the role of outsider groups as well as intellectual and political elites in the formation of American culture.
As a scholar of intellectual and cultural history, Dawidoff takes the stance that historians ought to take an active role in our democratic culture, informing and participating in public discourse. He argues for a broad... This collection of Robert Dawidoff's essays and journalism is peopled by the likes of the Founding Fathers, Fred Astaire, Henry and William James, Sop...
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394,21 zł |
The Genteel Tradition and the Sacred Rage: High Culture vs. Democracy in Adams, James, and Santayana
ISBN: 9780807857298 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Asking why many American intellectuals have had such difficulty accepting wholeheartedly the cultural dimensions of democracy, Robert Dawidoff examines their alienation and ambivalence, a tradition of detachment he identifies as "Tocquevillian." In the work of three towering American literary figures - Henry Adams, Henry James, and George Santayana -- Dawidoff explores fully this distancing and uneasy response to democratic culture.
Linked together by common Harvard, Cambridge, and New England connections, and by an upper-class, Brahmin background, each of these three writers,... Asking why many American intellectuals have had such difficulty accepting wholeheartedly the cultural dimensions of democracy, Robert Dawidoff examine...
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Queer Families, Common Agendas : Gay People, Lesbians, and Family Values
ISBN: 9781560231301 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Vital information on family services, custody, and access rights for gay parents Queer Families, Common Agendas: Gay People, Lesbians, and Family Values examines the real life experience of those affected by current laws and policies regarding homosexual families. The book will help policy makers, lawyers, social workers, and the general public better understand these families. Here you will be able to compare the progress of policy in the U.S. and Canada for gay and lesbian parents and their children and explore relevant legal approaches in the two countries. In Queer Families, Common...
Vital information on family services, custody, and access rights for gay parents Queer Families, Common Agendas: Gay People, Lesbians, and Family Val...
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248,92 zł |
Created Equal: Why Gay Rights Matter to America
ISBN: 9780312117641 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 167 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Why should Americans who are not gay care about gay rights? In Created Equal, Michael Nava and Robert Dawidoff argue that the movement for gay equality is central to the continuing defense of individual liberty in America. Beginning with an examination of the determined assault on gay issues by the religious right, the authors show how this sectarian movement to legislate private religious morality into law undermines the purpose of American constitutional government: the protection of the individual's right to determine how best to live his or her life. The book starts from the premise... Why should Americans who are not gay care about gay rights? In Created Equal, Michael Nava and Robert Dawidoff argue that the movement for gay equa... |
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82,35 zł |