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Beyond Eurocentrism: A New View of Modern World History
ISBN: 9780815626930 / Angielski / Miękka / 454 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Employing the approaches of Gramsci and Foucault, Gran proposes a reconceptualisation of world history. He challenges the convention of relying on totalitarian or democratic functions of a particular state to explain relationships of authority and resistance in a number of national contexts.
Employing the approaches of Gramsci and Foucault, Gran proposes a reconceptualisation of world history. He challenges the convention of relying on tot...
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163,64 zł |
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Morals Of History
ISBN: 9780816622979 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A study examining the complex relationship between "ethics" and "history". He confronts topics ranging from the conquest of America and 19th-century colonialism, to democracy and conflicts of the "self" versus the "other".
A study examining the complex relationship between "ethics" and "history". He confronts topics ranging from the conquest of America and 19th-century c...
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438,22 zł |
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Morals of History
ISBN: 9780816622986 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The celebrated theorist Tzvetan Todorov offers here a thought provoking study of the complex relationship between 'ethics' and 'history'. In exploring such issues as how one practices and assesses equality among different societies, Todorov confronts topics ranging from the conquest of America and nineteenth-century colonialism, to democracy and conflicts of the Self versus the Other.
The celebrated theorist Tzvetan Todorov offers here a thought provoking study of the complex relationship between 'ethics' and 'history'. In exploring...
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140,81 zł |
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The Tragic History of the Sea
ISBN: 9780816638901 / Angielski / Miękka / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An expert on perils of the high seas, British native Boxer (1904-2000) translated the Portuguese collection of accounts, originally published as pamphlets, The Tragic History of the Sea 1589-1622 in 1959 and Further Selections from the Tragic History of the Sea 1599-1565 in 1968. They were published
An expert on perils of the high seas, British native Boxer (1904-2000) translated the Portuguese collection of accounts, originally published as pamph...
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114,72 zł |
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Sowing Empire : Landscape And Colonization
ISBN: 9780816640966 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Planting and transplanting, seeding and reshaping--landscaping practices that emerged in the eighteenth century--are inextricable from the contested terrain of empire within which they operated. From the plantations of the "nabobs" to the island gardens of narrative fiction, from William Beckford's estate at Fonthill to Marie Antoinette's ornamented farm, Sowing Empire considers imperial relandscaping--its patriarchal organization, heterosexual reproduction, and slavery--and how it contributed to the construction of imperial power. At the same time, the book shows how these picturesque...
Planting and transplanting, seeding and reshaping--landscaping practices that emerged in the eighteenth century--are inextricable from the contested t...
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114,72 zł |
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Imperial White : Race, Diaspora, and the British Empire
ISBN: 9780816647798 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Radhika Mohanram shows not just how British imperial culture shaped the colonies, but how the imperial rule of colonies shifted--and gave new meanings to--what it meant to be British.
Imperial White looks at literary, social, and cultural texts on the racialization of the British body and investigates British whiteness in the colonies to address such questions as: How was the whiteness in Britishness constructed by the presence of Empire? How was whiteness incorporated into the idea of masculinity? Does heterosexuality have a color? And does domestic race differ from... Radhika Mohanram shows not just how British imperial culture shaped the colonies, but how the imperial rule of colonies shifted--and gave new meani... |
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292,15 zł |
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Imperial White: Race, Diaspora, and the British Empire
ISBN: 9780816647804 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Radhika Mohanram shows not just how British imperial culture shaped the colonies, but how the imperial rule of colonies shifted--and gave new meanings to--what it meant to be British.
Imperial White looks at literary, social, and cultural texts on the racialization of the British body and investigates British whiteness in the colonies to address such questions as: How was the whiteness in Britishness constructed by the presence of Empire? How was whiteness incorporated into the idea of masculinity? Does heterosexuality have a color? And does domestic race differ from... Radhika Mohanram shows not just how British imperial culture shaped the colonies, but how the imperial rule of colonies shifted--and gave new meani... |
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109,50 zł |
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Eric Voegelin's Search for Order in History, Expanded Edition
ISBN: 9780819165572 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Expanded and updated from the first edition published in 1978 by Louisiana State University Press.
Expanded and updated from the first edition published in 1978 by Louisiana State University Press.
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419,08 zł |
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Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India
ISBN: 9780822323488 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Foreword by James Scott
This classic work in subaltern studies explores the common elements present in rebel consciousness during the Indian colonial period. Ranajit Guha--intellectual founder of the groundbreaking and influential Subaltern Studies Group--describes from the peasants' viewpoint the relations of dominance and subordination in rural India from 1783 to 1900. Foreword by James Scott
This classic work in subaltern studies explores the common elements present in rebel consciousness during the Indian colonia... |
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125,15 zł |
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The Pre-Occupation of Postcolonial Studies
ISBN: 9780822325215 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Pre-Occupation of Postcolonial Studies contains essays by both leading figures and younger scholars engaged in the field of postcolonial studies. In this state-of-the-field reader, editors Fawzia Afzal-Khan and Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks have created a dynamic forum for contributors from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary vantage points to question both the limits and the limitations of postcolonial thought.
Since it burst on the academic scene as the hot new disciplinary field during the final decade of the twentieth century, postcolonial studies has faced criticism from... The Pre-Occupation of Postcolonial Studies contains essays by both leading figures and younger scholars engaged in the field of postcolonial st...
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130,37 zł |
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Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity through Early Modern Europe
ISBN: 9780822326441 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This distinctive collection explores the construction of genealogies--in both the biological sense of procreation and the metaphorical sense of heritage and cultural patrimony. Focusing specifically on the discourses that inform such genealogies, "Generation and Degeneration" moves from Greco-Roman times to the recent past to retrace generational fantasies and discords in a variety of related contexts, from the medical to the theological, and from the literary to the historical.
The discourses on reproduction, biology, degeneration, legacy, and lineage that this book broaches not only... This distinctive collection explores the construction of genealogies--in both the biological sense of procreation and the metaphorical sense of herita...
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119,94 zł |
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Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity
ISBN: 9780822327844 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields--not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, political theory, and social movements. In "Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity" Michael LOwy and Robert Sayre formulate a theory that defines romanticism as a cultural protest against modern bourgeois industrial civilization and work to reveal the unity that underlies the extraordinary diversity of romanticism from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century.
After critiquing previous conceptions of romanticism and discussing its... Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields--not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, po...
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464,31 zł |
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Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity
ISBN: 9780822327943 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields--not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, political theory, and social movements. In "Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity" Michael LOwy and Robert Sayre formulate a theory that defines romanticism as a cultural protest against modern bourgeois industrial civilization and work to reveal the unity that underlies the extraordinary diversity of romanticism from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century.
After critiquing previous conceptions of romanticism and discussing its... Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields--not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, po...
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119,94 zł |
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States of Imagination: Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State
ISBN: 9780822327981 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The state has recently been rediscovered as an object of inquiry by a broad range of scholars. Reflecting the new vitality of the field of political anthropology, States of Imagination draws together the best of this recent critical thinking to explore the postcolonial state. Contributors focus on a variety of locations from Guatemala, Pakistan, and Peru to India and Ecuador; they study what the state looks like to those seeing it from the vantage points of rural schools, police departments, small villages, and the inside of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Focusing on the... The state has recently been rediscovered as an object of inquiry by a broad range of scholars. Reflecting the new vitality of the field of political a...
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130,37 zł |
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States of Imagination: Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State
ISBN: 9780822328018 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The state has recently been rediscovered as an object of inquiry by a broad range of scholars. Reflecting the new vitality of the field of political anthropology, States of Imagination draws together the best of this recent critical thinking to explore the postcolonial state. Contributors focus on a variety of locations from Guatemala, Pakistan, and Peru to India and Ecuador; they study what the state looks like to those seeing it from the vantage points of rural schools, police departments, small villages, and the inside of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Focusing on the... The state has recently been rediscovered as an object of inquiry by a broad range of scholars. Reflecting the new vitality of the field of political a...
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516,47 zł |
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From the Margins: Historical Anthropology and Its Futures
ISBN: 9780822328612 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Historical anthropology: critical exchange between two decidedly distinct disciplines or innovative mode of knowledge production? As this volume s title suggests, the essays Brian Keith Axel has gathered in From the Margins seek to challenge the limits of discrete disciplinary epistemologies and conventions, gesturing instead toward a transdisciplinary understanding of the emerging relations between archive and field.
In original articles encompassing a wide range of geographic and temporal locations, eminent scholars contest some of the primary preconceptions of their fields. The... Historical anthropology: critical exchange between two decidedly distinct disciplines or innovative mode of knowledge production? As this volume s tit...
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464,31 zł |
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From the Margins: Historical Anthropology and Its Futures
ISBN: 9780822328889 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Historical anthropology: critical exchange between two decidedly distinct disciplines or innovative mode of knowledge production? As this volume s title suggests, the essays Brian Keith Axel has gathered in From the Margins seek to challenge the limits of discrete disciplinary epistemologies and conventions, gesturing instead toward a transdisciplinary understanding of the emerging relations between archive and field.
In original articles encompassing a wide range of geographic and temporal locations, eminent scholars contest some of the primary preconceptions of their fields. The... Historical anthropology: critical exchange between two decidedly distinct disciplines or innovative mode of knowledge production? As this volume s tit...
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119,94 zł |
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After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and Through the Nation
ISBN: 9780822331063 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From a variety of historically grounded perspectives, After the Imperial Turn assesses the fate of the nation as a subject of disciplinary inquiry. In light of the turn toward scholarship focused on imperialism and postcolonialism, this provocative collection investigates whether the nation remains central, adequate, or even possible as an analytical category for studying history. These twenty essays, primarily by historians, exemplify cultural approaches to histories of nationalism and imperialism even as they critically examine the implications of such approaches.
While most of... From a variety of historically grounded perspectives, After the Imperial Turn assesses the fate of the nation as a subject of disciplinary inqu...
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495,61 zł |
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After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and Through the Nation
ISBN: 9780822331421 / Angielski / Miękka / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From a variety of historically grounded perspectives, After the Imperial Turn assesses the fate of the nation as a subject of disciplinary inquiry. In light of the turn toward scholarship focused on imperialism and postcolonialism, this provocative collection investigates whether the nation remains central, adequate, or even possible as an analytical category for studying history. These twenty essays, primarily by historians, exemplify cultural approaches to histories of nationalism and imperialism even as they critically examine the implications of such approaches.
While most of... From a variety of historically grounded perspectives, After the Imperial Turn assesses the fate of the nation as a subject of disciplinary inqu...
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125,15 zł |
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Archives of Empire: From the East India Company to the Suez Canal
ISBN: 9780822331643 / Angielski / Miękka / 832 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A rich collection of primary materials, the multivolume Archives of Empire provides a documentary history of nineteenth-century British imperialism from the Indian subcontinent to the Suez Canal to southernmost Africa. Barbara Harlow and Mia Carter have carefully selected a diverse range of texts that track the debates over imperialism in the ranks of the military, the corridors of political power, the lobbies of missionary organizations, the halls of royal geographic and ethnographic societies, the boardrooms of trading companies, the editorial offices of major newspapers, and...
A rich collection of primary materials, the multivolume Archives of Empire provides a documentary history of nineteenth-century British imperia...
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172,16 zł |
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