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A Jacques Barzun Reader: Selections from His Works
ISBN: 9780060935429 / Angielski / Miękka / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout his career Jacques Barzun, author of the New York Times bestseller and National Book Award Finalist From Dawn to Decadence, has always been known as a witty and graceful essayist, one who combines a depth of knowledge and a rare facility with words. Now Michael Murray has carefully selected eighty of Barzun's most inventive, accomplished, and insightful essays, and compiled them in one impressive volume. With subjects ranging from history to baseball to crime novels, A Jacques Barzun Reader is a feast for any reader. Throughout his career Jacques Barzun, author of the New York Times bestseller and National Book Award Finalist From Dawn to Decadence<... |
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101,37 zł |
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Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 124. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, III: Volume 124: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, III
ISBN: 9780197263204 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volume 124 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 19 obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy.
Volume 124 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 19 obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy.
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413,03 zł |
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Proceedings of the British Academy Volume 125, 2003 Lectures: Volume 125: 2003 Lectures
ISBN: 9780197263242 / Angielski / Twarda / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volume 125 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 15 lectures delivered at the British Acaademy in 2003.
Volume 125 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 15 lectures delivered at the British Acaademy in 2003.
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489,29 zł |
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Time Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past
ISBN: 9780226981536 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Time Maps extends beyond all of the old cliches about linear, circular, and spiral patterns of historical process and provides us with models of the actual legends used to map history. It is a brilliant and elegant exercise in model building that provides new insights into some of the old questions about philosophy of history, historical narrative, and what is called straight history."-Hayden White, University of California, Santa Cruz
Who were the first people to inhabit North America? Does the West Bank belong to the Arabs or the Jews? Why are racists so obsessed with origins?... "Time Maps extends beyond all of the old cliches about linear, circular, and spiral patterns of historical process and provides us with models ...
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122,02 zł |
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Europe and Ethnicity: The First World War and Contemporary Ethnic Conflict
ISBN: 9780415119962 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 1990s have seen an upsurge in ethnic tensions in many parts of Europe. Europe and Ethnicity suggests the main reasons are to be found in the decisions taken during the first world and at Versailles.
* An introductory chapter analyzes the context of the war with particular reference to regions and states where the national and ethnic questions were particularly complex and intransigent * Subsequent chapters present case studies from arenas of conflict: Ireland to Yugoslavia; the Middle East to the Baltic states; Austria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Europe and... The 1990s have seen an upsurge in ethnic tensions in many parts of Europe. Europe and Ethnicity suggests the main reasons are to be found in ...
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198,51 zł |
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Experiments in Rethinking History
ISBN: 9780415301459 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From two of the world s leading postmodern historians, this thoroughly original collection of articles allows students and researchers to understand and learn important new ways of thinking and writing about the past. This book includes a thorough two-part introduction on theory and practice as well as introductory material in each section that allows the reader to fully engage with the theoretical aspects of the book. It provides a deeper understanding of how to engage with the past today. Fourteen thought-provoking experimental pieces of historical writing tackle subjects... From two of the world s leading postmodern historians, this thoroughly original collection of articles allows students and researchers to understan... |
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697,65 zł |
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Experiments in Rethinking History
ISBN: 9780415301466 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From two of the world s leading postmodern historians, this thoroughly original collection of articles allows students and researchers to understand and learn important new ways of thinking and writing about the past. This book includes a thorough two-part introduction on theory and practice as well as introductory material in each section that allows the reader to fully engage with the theoretical aspects of the book. It provides a deeper understanding of how to engage with the past today. Fourteen thought-provoking experimental pieces of historical writing tackle subjects... From two of the world s leading postmodern historians, this thoroughly original collection of articles allows students and researchers to understan... |
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198,51 zł |
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Modes of Comparison: Theory & Practice
ISBN: 9780472069187 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Modes of Comparison: Theory and Practice, the contributors highlight how theoretical problems have brought forth new ideas on comparison and how comparison has become pivotal in the human sciences. Many of the chapters in this interdisciplinary volume update landmark essays from the journal Comparative Studies in Society and History. Each of the essays questions a number of critical and contemporary issues in history, sociology, and anthropology as they relate to various ideas of comparison. The authors set out comparative projects, discuss the difficulties of identifying...
In Modes of Comparison: Theory and Practice, the contributors highlight how theoretical problems have brought forth new ideas on comparison and...
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225,68 zł |
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Morgan Park Academy: A History (Volume I)
ISBN: 9780595440559 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a history of a school, but it is not merely the story of an institution. It is a montage of stories, including reports of athletic contests, memories of alumni, pranks and protests, and even a number of brief sketches of the lives of alumni after the Academy. It is, in short, an attempt to recover the life of the place.
This is a history of a school, but it is not merely the story of an institution. It is a montage of stories, including reports of athletic contests, m...
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110,40 zł |
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Morgan Park Academy: A History (Volume I)
ISBN: 9780595896226 / Angielski / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a history of a school, but it is not merely the story of an institution. It is a montage of stories, including reports of athletic contests, memories of alumni, pranks and protests, and even a number of brief sketches of the lives of alumni after the Academy. It is, in short, an attempt to recover the life of the place.
This is a history of a school, but it is not merely the story of an institution. It is a montage of stories, including reports of athletic contests, m...
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156,49 zł |
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South to the Future: An American Region in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780820324111 / Angielski / Twarda / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Until recently, the American South has often been treated in isolation by historians and literary critics. In these essays five scholars of southern history and literature evaluate elements of contemporary--and future--southern experience, including place, community, culture, class, gender, and racial roles. Fred Hobson observes in his introductory essay that the U.S. South must be seen in relation to a larger world--the Caribbean and Central and South America, as well as European countries with a similar grounding in hardship and defeat. Moreover, the South can no longer be viewed in... Until recently, the American South has often been treated in isolation by historians and literary critics. In these essays five scholars of souther... |
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748,10 zł |
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Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s
ISBN: 9780821416914 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The motto Eugenics is the self-direction of human evolution was part of the logo of the Second International Congress of Eugenics, held in 1921. However, by the 1930s, the disturbing legacy of this motto had started to reveal itself in the construction of national identities in countries throughout the world. Popular Eugenics is a fascinating look at how such tendencies emerged within the rhetoric, ideology, and visual aesthetics of U.S. mass culture during the 1930s, offering detailed analysis of the way that eugenics appeared within popular culture and images of modernity, particularly...
The motto Eugenics is the self-direction of human evolution was part of the logo of the Second International Congress of Eugenics, held in 1921. Howev...
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320,30 zł |
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Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s
ISBN: 9780821416921 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The motto Eugenics is the self-direction of human evolution was part of the logo of the Second International Congress of Eugenics, held in 1921. However, by the 1930s, the disturbing legacy of this motto had started to reveal itself in the construction of national identities in countries throughout the world. Popular Eugenics is a fascinating look at how such tendencies emerged within the rhetoric, ideology, and visual aesthetics of U.S. mass culture during the 1930s, offering detailed analysis of the way that eugenics appeared within popular culture and images of modernity, particularly... The motto Eugenics is the self-direction of human evolution was part of the logo of the Second International Congress of Eugenics, held in 1921. Ho... |
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152,47 zł |
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London, Metropolis of the Slave Trade
ISBN: 9780826214836 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The recognition that ordinary people could and did trade in slaves, as well as the fact that ordinary people became slaves, is, indeed, the beginning of comprehending the enormity of the forced migration of eleven million people and the attendant deaths of many more." In London, Metropolis of the Slave Trade, James A. Rawley collects some of his best works from the past three decades. Also included in this volume are three new pieces: an essay on a South Carolina slave trader, Henry Laurens; an analysis of the slave trade at the beginning of the eighteenth century; and a..."The recognition that ordinary people could and did trade in slaves, as well as the fact that ordinary people became slaves, is, indeed, the beg... |
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316,34 zł |
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The Vampire of Reason: An Essay in the Philosophy of History
ISBN: 9780860919728 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Western philosophies of history commonly regard nature as a mere arena in which human beings suffer, labour and create. In this lucid and clearly written contribution to the subject, Blackburn argues that such a narrow perspective must be transcended. Nature is not simply a backdrop for human actors, but is itself an active force which created and perpetually consumes the human species. It is the very reason why human beings perpetually recreate and destroy one another.
Drawing on a wide range of disciplines--from the natural science of Darwin and Prigogine to the social theories of the... Western philosophies of history commonly regard nature as a mere arena in which human beings suffer, labour and create. In this lucid and clearly writ...
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95,98 zł |
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Cultures and Nations of Central and Eastern Europe: Essays in Honor of Roman Szporluk
ISBN: 9780916458935 / Angielski / Miękka / 668 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written in honor of one of the foremost observers of nationalism and culture in Central and Eastern Europe, this volume brings together 35 eminent scholars from the United States, Canada, Ukraine, and Poland. Supplemented by a bibliography of the work of Roman Szporluk, these fresh, urgent essays mirror Szporluk's broad and comparativist approach. Topics range from the rise of Ukrainian national consciousness in Galicia, to nationalism in contemporary Serbia; from the rise of private property in the Russia of Catherine II, to contemporary Russian attitudes toward Ukrainian nation building....
Written in honor of one of the foremost observers of nationalism and culture in Central and Eastern Europe, this volume brings together 35 eminent sch...
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121,77 zł |
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Essays on Latin American Security: The Collected Writings of a Scholar-Implementer
ISBN: 9781403398963 / Angielski / Twarda / 351 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Russell W. Ramsey, Ph.D., D. Min., is the nation's longest standing scholar who writes about the Latin American military and security forces. He offers here a compilation of his best published work on this admittedly controversial topic, dating from 1963 to 2002."
Russell W. Ramsey, Ph.D., D. Min., is the nation's longest standing scholar who writes about the Latin American military and security forces. He offer...
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167,02 zł |
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Nervous Acts: Essays on Literature, Culture and Sensibility
ISBN: 9781403934536 / Angielski / Twarda / 395 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These essays demonstrate the sweeping influence of the human nervous system on the rise of literature and sensibility in early modern Europe. The brain and nerves have usually been treated as narrow topics within the history of science and medicine. Now George Rousseau, an international authority on the relations of literature and medicine, demonstrates why a broader context is necessary. The nervous system was a crucial factor in the rise of recent civilization. More than any other body part, it holds the key to understanding how far back the strains and stresses of modern life - fatigue,...
These essays demonstrate the sweeping influence of the human nervous system on the rise of literature and sensibility in early modern Europe. The brai...
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416,76 zł |
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The Best American History Essays 2006
ISBN: 9781403968401 / Angielski / Twarda / 305 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ten of the best articles in American history published in 2006 selected from over 300 learned and popular journals. Topics range from the general to the specific and cover all aspects of American history, from the early days of the republic through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These are the questions that today's historians are asking.
Ten of the best articles in American history published in 2006 selected from over 300 learned and popular journals. Topics range from the general to t...
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208,36 zł |
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The Best American History Essays 2006
ISBN: 9781403968524 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ten of the best articles in American history published in 2006 selected from over 300 learned and popular journals. Topics range from the general to the specific and cover all aspects of American history, from the early days of the republic through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These are the questions that today's historians are asking.
Ten of the best articles in American history published in 2006 selected from over 300 learned and popular journals. Topics range from the general to t...
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208,36 zł |