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Arts of Perception: The Epistemological Mentality of the Spanish Baroque, 1580-1720
ISBN: 9780415411530 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Arts of Perception offers a new account of a key period in Spanish history and culture and a fundamental reassessment of its major writers and intellectuals, including Gracian, Quevedo, Calderon, Saavedra Fajardo, Lopez de Vega, and Sor Juana. Reading these figures in the context of European thought and the new science, and philosophy, the study considers how they developed various arts of perception - complex perceptual strategies designed to overcome and exploit epistemic problems to enable an individual to act effectively in the moral, political, social or religious sphere. The study... Arts of Perception offers a new account of a key period in Spanish history and culture and a fundamental reassessment of its major writers and inte... |
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878,00 zł |
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Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective
ISBN: 9780415913836 / Angielski / Miękka / 572 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This reader chronicles the Western engagement with the nature of knowledge during the past four centuries. It introduces the student to the thought of the major philosophers of this period, from Francis Bacon to Hayden White, through substantial extracts of their works. Tracing the development of Western thought, the reader provides an historical context for the postmodernist thought of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Richard Rorty and Hayden White. This reader is an introduction to the work of over 30 philosophers and the historical development of Western ideas of knowledge.
This reader chronicles the Western engagement with the nature of knowledge during the past four centuries. It introduces the student to the thought of...
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209,70 zł |
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States of Violence
ISBN: 9780472068937 / Angielski / Miękka / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This extraordinary collection of essays recasts prevailing understandings of the role of violence in the formation of the modern world. By illuminating the links between exceptional ruptures and the routine maintenance of social order, the collection expands and redefines our understanding of political violence.
By means of a combination of detailed historical studies and imaginative reflection, this book explores the often unrecognized violent foundations of modern nations. Focusing on the relations between the state and the domestic order, it directs attention to contests over the... This extraordinary collection of essays recasts prevailing understandings of the role of violence in the formation of the modern world. By illuminatin...
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164,05 zł |
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Bridging the Atlantic: The Question of American Exceptionalism in Perspective
ISBN: 9780521026390 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bridging the Atlantic discusses comparative developments in modern European and American history. The case studies on British, German, and U.S. history since the eighteenth century assembled here seek to establish an integrated vision of Atlantic history. The contributions by European and American historians challenge the concept of American exceptionalism and present a vivid example of the ongoing debate among American and European historians on the structure and nature of European-American relations.
Bridging the Atlantic discusses comparative developments in modern European and American history. The case studies on British, German, and U.S. histor...
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182,88 zł |
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Fascination and Misgivings: The United States in French Opinion, 1870-1914
ISBN: 9780521026918 / Angielski / Miękka / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through the views of French travelers and diverse French studies about the United States, this book shows how French opinion of the United States evolved during the late nineteenth century. Aspects of American life were puzzling and exotic to the French, yet American towns and industry gave the proof of an emerging economic power, and American society provided attractive models of social engineering. Even before World War I, the United States found its place in French opinion, following trends that continued throughout the twentieth century: fascination and misgivings, attraction and...
Through the views of French travelers and diverse French studies about the United States, this book shows how French opinion of the United States evol...
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251,53 zł |
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The Case for the Enlightenment: Scotland and Naples 1680 1760
ISBN: 9780521035729 / Angielski / Miękka / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Challenging the recent tendency to fragment the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Europe into multiple Enlightenments, John Robertson demonstrates the extent to which thinkers in two societies at the opposite ends of Europe shared common intellectual preoccupations. Before 1700, Scotland and Naples faced a bleak future as backward, provincial kingdoms in a Europe of aggressive commercial states. Yet by 1760, Scottish and Neapolitan thinkers were in the van of those advocating the cause of Enlightenment by means of political economy. Robertson pays particular attention to the greatest...
Challenging the recent tendency to fragment the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Europe into multiple Enlightenments, John Robertson demonstrates t...
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192,08 zł |
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The Psychologizing of Modernity: Art, Architecture and History
ISBN: 9780521582384 / Angielski / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Psychologizing of Modernity, Mark Jarzombek examines the impact of psychology on twentieth-century aesthetics. Analyzing the interface among psychology, art history and avant-gardist practices, he also reflects on the longevity of the myth of aesthetic individuality as it infiltrated not only avant-garde art, but also history writing. The principle focus of this study is pre-World War II Germany, where theories of empathy and Entartung emerged; and postwar America, where artists, critics and historians gradually shifted from their reliance on psychology to philosophy, and most...
In The Psychologizing of Modernity, Mark Jarzombek examines the impact of psychology on twentieth-century aesthetics. Analyzing the interface among ps...
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422,19 zł |
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Fascination and Misgivings: The United States in French Opinion, 1870-1914
ISBN: 9780521653237 / Angielski / Twarda / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through the views of French travelers and diverse French studies about the United States, this book shows how French opinion of the United States evolved during the late nineteenth century. Aspects of American life were puzzling and exotic to the French, yet American towns and industry gave the proof of an emerging economic power, and American society provided attractive models of social engineering. Even before World War I, the United States found its place in French opinion, following trends that continued throughout the twentieth century: fascination and misgivings, attraction and...
Through the views of French travelers and diverse French studies about the United States, this book shows how French opinion of the United States evol...
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583,94 zł |
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Bridging the Atlantic: The Question of American Exceptionalism in Perspective
ISBN: 9780521782050 / Angielski / Twarda / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bridging the Atlantic discusses comparative developments in modern European and American history. The case studies on British, German, and U.S. history since the eighteenth century assembled here seek to establish an integrated vision of Atlantic history. The contributions by European and American historians challenge the concept of American exceptionalism and present a vivid example of the ongoing debate among American and European historians on the structure and nature of European-American relations.
Bridging the Atlantic discusses comparative developments in modern European and American history. The case studies on British, German, and U.S. histor...
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255,83 zł |
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Religion and the Early Modern State: Views from China, Russia, and the West
ISBN: 9780521828253 / Angielski / Twarda / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How did state power impinge on the religion of the common people? The contributing historians of this collection uncover the process of "confessionalization," or "acculturation," by which officials of state and church collaborated in ambitious programs of Protestant or Catholic reform. Thirteen essays reveal a spectrum of possibilities which early modern governments tried to achieve by regulating religious life, as well as how religious communities consequently evolved in new directions.
How did state power impinge on the religion of the common people? The contributing historians of this collection uncover the process of "confessionali...
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510,00 zł |
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History and Biography: Essays in Honour of Derek Beales
ISBN: 9780521893176 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For too long, too many historians have been too much concerned with impersonal forces, underlying structures and long-term developments. Now, "people" are back. In a postmodern age it is easier to appreciate the decisive role played by individuals, as they ride their luck and seize their opportunity to bend the world to their will. As these essays by twelve eminent historians demonstrate, biography is too important to be left to the amateurs. Among the rich variety of strong characters analyzed here are an Austrian emperor, a German kaiser, a Victorian prime minister, an Italian dictator, and...
For too long, too many historians have been too much concerned with impersonal forces, underlying structures and long-term developments. Now, "people"...
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228,66 zł |
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Born Again: The Year and Events that Changed America Forever! Election 2000 and September 11th
ISBN: 9780595261352 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Election 2000 and September 11th. This is a chronicle of the life-changing events that covered the period October 2000 through October 2001. A time when a foreign army of religious fanatics declared war against our economy, our military, our sovereignty, and our culture. A war, as President Bush has said, between the forces of good and evil! And it marked the moment America came of age, and truly changed forever!
Election 2000 and September 11th. This is a chronicle of the life-changing events that covered the period October 2000 through October 2001. A time wh...
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68,99 zł |
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Born Again: The Year and Events that Changed America Forever! Election 2000 and September 11th
ISBN: 9780595655311 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Election 2000 and September 11th. This is a chronicle of the life-changing events that covered the period October 2000 through October 2001. A time when a foreign army of religious fanatics declared war against our economy, our military, our sovereignty, and our culture. A war, as President Bush has said, between the forces of good and evil! And it marked the moment America came of age, and truly changed forever!
Election 2000 and September 11th. This is a chronicle of the life-changing events that covered the period October 2000 through October 2001. A time wh...
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107,42 zł |
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Laws of Men and Laws of Nature: The History of Scientific Expert Testimony in England and America
ISBN: 9780674025806 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Are scientific expert witnesses partisans, or spokesmen for objective science? This ambiguity has troubled the relations between scientists and the legal system for more than 200 years. Modern expert testimony first appeared in the late eighteenth century, and while its use steadily increased throughout the nineteenth century, in cases involving everything from patents to X-rays, the respect paid to it steadily declined, inside and outside of the courtroom. With deep learning and wry humor, Tal Golan tells stories of courtroom drama and confusion and media jeering on both sides of the...
Are scientific expert witnesses partisans, or spokesmen for objective science? This ambiguity has troubled the relations between scientists and the le...
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158,92 zł |
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History of Young People in the West, Volume II, Stormy Evolution to Modern Times
ISBN: 9780674404083 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. However swiftly it passes, youth is always with us, a perpetual passing phase, an apprenticeship to the myriad ways of the world, subject of panegyrics and diatribes, romances and cautionary tales from antiquity to our day. This two-volume history is the first to present a comprehensive account of what youth has been in the West and what it has meant through the ages. Brought together by Giovanni Levi and Jean-Claude Schmitt, a company of gifted historians and social scientists traces the changing character and status of young people from the gymnasia of ancient Greece to the lycees of... However swiftly it passes, youth is always with us, a perpetual passing phase, an apprenticeship to the myriad ways of the world, subject of panegy... |
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225,67 zł |
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The Military Revolution and Political Change: Origins of Democracy and Autocracy in Early Modern Europe
ISBN: 9780691024752 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To examine the long-run origins of democracy and dictatorship, Brian Downing focuses on the importance of medieval political configurations and of military modernization in the early modern period. He maintains that in late medieval times an array of constitutional arrangements distinguished Western Europe from other parts of the world and predisposed it toward liberal democracy. He then looks at how medieval constitutionalism was affected by the "military revolution" of the early modern era--the shift from small, decentralized feudal levies to large standing armies. Downing won the... To examine the long-run origins of democracy and dictatorship, Brian Downing focuses on the importance of medieval political configurations and of ... |
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292,67 zł |
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Muslims in Australia
ISBN: 9780710311085 / Angielski / Twarda / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kabir seeks to understand the basis of mainstream Australians' fear of Muslims by tracing their history since the Afghan settlement in 1860. The author investigates how events such as September 11 and Bali terrorist attacks reinforce suspicion and fear. This book gives an insight into what it means to be a Muslim in contemporary Australia, and how and why the actions of militant Islamic groups have impacted upon Muslims in general in Western society.
Kabir seeks to understand the basis of mainstream Australians' fear of Muslims by tracing their history since the Afghan settlement in 1860. The autho...
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707,28 zł |
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The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster: Volume Six
ISBN: 9780712910583 / Angielski / Twarda / 718 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The volume contains histories of the eleven ancient parishes in Leyland hundred (Leyland, Penwortham, Brindle, Croston, Hesketh-with-Becconsall, Tarleton, Rufford, Chorley, Hoole, Eccleston, Standish) and of two of the five ancient parishes in Blackburn hundred (Blackburn parish and Whalley). Some very considerable places in the volume never achieved the status of ancient parish: Darwen was part of Blackburn parish, and Whalley included Accrington, Burnley, Clitheroe, Colne, and Nelson. In the Middle Ages the area was relatively poor, with extensive royal forests used for deer and, later,...
The volume contains histories of the eleven ancient parishes in Leyland hundred (Leyland, Penwortham, Brindle, Croston, Hesketh-with-Becconsall, Tarle...
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365,83 zł |
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Childhood in Question: Children, Parents and the State
ISBN: 9780719053948 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Childhood in question brings together some of today's foremost writers working on the history of childhood.
Childhood in question brings together some of today's foremost writers working on the history of childhood.
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102,64 zł |
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A Concise History of Euthanasia: Life, Death, God, and Medicine
ISBN: 9780742531116 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this first book to explore the history of euthanasia worldwide since classical antiquity, distinguished historian Ian Dowbiggin exposes the many disturbing themes that link present and past in the concept of the right to die. His deeply informed history traces the controversial record of "mercy killing," a source of heated debate among doctors and laypeople alike. Dowbiggin examines evolving opinions about what constitutes a good death, taking into account the societal and religious values placed on sin, suffering, resignation, judgment, penance, and redemption. He also examines the bitter...
In this first book to explore the history of euthanasia worldwide since classical antiquity, distinguished historian Ian Dowbiggin exposes the many di...
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92,63 zł |
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