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American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Centuryby Christine StansellISBN 0805048472 (0-8050-4847-2)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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The Art of Conversationby Peter BurkeISBN 0801481678 (0-8014-8167-8)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Athens : A Portrait of the City in Its Golden Ageby Christian Meier, Robert Kimber, Rita KimberISBN 0805048405 (0-8050-4840-5)
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Meier's sweeping narrative begins with the decisive Athenian victory at the battle of Salamis, when a hastily assembled fleet held off the much mightier navy of the Persian emperor, Xerxes. It was in war, Meier suggests, that Athens first came to see itself as a place unlike any other. When they were not battling Persians, Athenians often fought neighboring city-states over, say, who would have the right to host a round of Olympic games or control shipping lanes. (The Athenians, quipped Thucydides, "were born into the world to take no rest themselves and to give none to others.") The Athenian penchant for fighting with their neighbors--and, when neighbors were otherwise occupied, amongst themselves--led to the city-state's decline at the end of the Peloponnesian War in 404 B.C., when Meier's saga draws to a close.
Meier brings a flair for storytelling to his thoroughgoing portrait of Athens's shining moment, with a cast of characters strong on well-known figures like Solon, Alcibiades, Euripides, and Socrates. Meier also writes with self-effacing modesty, noting that his is but one interpretation among many and that history that, as his does, "obeys the law of narrative sequence [is] the most time-honored perspective for curtailing understanding." Yet Athens does nothing of the sort, offering instead a fine overview of the complexities of Athenian life from which every reader of classical history will profit. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Battle of the Books: History and Literature in the Augustan Ageby Joseph M. LevineISBN 0801481996 (0-8014-8199-6)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Being and Nothingnessby Jean Paul SartreISBN 080221486X (0-8022-1486-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Being and Nothingness'Book summary:Jean-Paul Sartre, the seminal smarty-pants of mid-century thinking, launched the existentialist fleet with the publication of Being and Nothingness in 1943. Though the book is thick, dense, and unfriendly to careless readers, it is indispensable to those interested in the philosophy of consciousness and free will. Some of his arguments are fallacious, others are unclear, but for the most part Sartre's thoughts penetrate deeply into fundamental philosophical territory. Basing his conception of self-consciousness loosely on Heidegger's "being," Sartre proceeds to sharply delineate between conscious actions ("for themselves") and unconscious ("in themselves"). It is a conscious choice, he claims, to live one's life "authentically" and in a unified fashion, or not--this is the fundamental freedom of our lives.
Drawing on history and his own rich imagination for examples, Sartre offers compelling supplements to his more formal arguments. The waiter who detaches himself from his job-role sticks in the reader's memory with greater tenacity than the lengthy discussion of inauthentic life and serves to bring the full force of the argument to life. Even if you're not an angst-addicted poet from North Beach, Being and Nothingness offers you a deep conversation with a brilliant mind--unfortunately, a rare find these days. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Bolingbroke and His Circle: The Politics of Nostalgia in the Age of Walpoleby Isaac KramnickISBN 0801480019 (0-8014-8001-9)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Brains and Numbers: Elitism, Comtism, and Democracy in Mid-Victorian Englandby Christopher KentISBN 0802053602 (0-8020-5360-2)
Hardcover, University of Toronto Press
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Christian Libertyby Martin LutherISBN 0800601823 (0-8006-0182-3)
Softcover, Augsburg Fortress Pub
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Christian Scholar in the Age of the Reformationby Harris E. HarbisonISBN 0802819753 (0-8028-1975-3)
Softcover, W.B. Eerdmans
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Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Societyby Ralf DahrendorfISBN 0804705615 (0-8047-0561-5)
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Condition of the Working Class in Englandby Friedrich EngelsISBN 0804706344 (0-8047-0634-4)
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The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780-1910by Caroline WintererISBN 0801867991 (0-8018-6799-1)
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The Dandy: Brummell to Beerbohmby Ellen MoersISBN 0803281013 (0-8032-8101-3)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragmentsby Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Gunzelin Schmid Noerr, Edmund JephcottISBN 0804736332 (0-8047-3633-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments'Book summary:Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. "What we had set out to do," the authors write in the Preface, "was nothing less than to explain why humanity, instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking into a new kind of barbarism."[via]
Yet the work goes far beyond a mere critique of contemporary events. Historically remote developments, indeed, the birth of Western history and of subjectivity itself out of the struggle against natural forces, as represented in myths, are connected in a wide arch to the most threatening experiences of the present.
The book consists in five chapters, at first glance unconnected, together with a number of shorter notes. The various analyses concern such phenomena as the detachment of science from practical life, formalized morality, the manipulative nature of entertainment culture, and a paranoid behavioral structure, expressed in aggressive anti-Semitism, that marks the limits of enlightenment. The authors perceive a common element in these phenomena, the tendency toward self-destruction of the guiding criteria inherent in enlightenment thought from the beginning. Using historical analyses to elucidate the present, they show, against the background of a prehistory of subjectivity, why the National Socialist terror was not an aberration of modern history but was rooted deeply in the fundamental characteristics of Western civilization.
Adorno and Horkheimer see the self-destruction of Western reason as grounded in a historical and fateful dialectic between the domination of external nature and society. They trace enlightenment, which split these spheres apart, back to its mythical roots. Enlightenment and myth, therefore, are not irreconcilable opposites, but dialectically mediated qualities of both real and intellectual life. "Myth is already enlightenment, and enlightenment reverts to mythology." This paradox is the fundamental thesis of the book.
This new translation, based on the text in the complete edition of the works of Max Horkheimer, contains textual variants, commentary upon them, and an editorial discussion of the position of this work in the development of Critical Theory.More editions of Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments:
The Discovery of the Individual, 1050-1200by Colin MorrisISBN 0802066658 (0-8020-6665-8)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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Dr. Woodward's Shield: History, Science, and Satire in Augustan Englandby Joseph M. LevineISBN 0801499356 (0-8014-9935-6)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equationby David BodanisISBN 0802713521 (0-8027-1352-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation'Book summary:[via]To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Einsteins miracle year of discoveries, a new edition of the bestselling biography of his famous equationGenerations have grown up knowing that the equation E=mc2 changed the shape of our world, but never understanding what it actually means, why it was so significant, and how it informs our daily lives today--governing, as it does, everything from the atomic bomb to a television's cathode ray tube to the carbon dating of prehistoric paintings. In this book, David Bodanis writes the "biography" of one of the greatest scientific discoveries in history--that the realms of energy and matter are inescapably linked--and, through his skill as a writer and teacher, he turns a seemingly impenetrable theory into a dramatic human achievement and an uncommonly good story.More editions of E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation:
Eight Philosophers of the Italian Renaissanceby P.O. KristellerISBN 0804701113 (0-8047-0111-3)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Eroticism and the Body Politicby Lynn Avery HuntISBN 0801840279 (0-8018-4027-9)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eroticism and the Body Politic'Book summary:By the end of the nineteenth century, women had become an undeniable force both in the public discussion of social life and in politics itself. Yet in art and literature women's bodies continued to be represented-- and domesticated-- by men. They were still more often the object of the artist's or writer's gaze than they were the subject of their own representing processes. The erotic potential of women's bodies, however, was far from a marginal concern in the elaboration of modern forms of politics, art, literature, and psychology.
In "Eroticism and the Body Politic", scholars from art history, history, and literature examine the frequent intersections between the body erotic and the body politic. Focusing on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France, they show how eroticized representations of bodies had a multitude of political and cultural meanings. The authors consider the eroticized body in a wide variety of media: from Fragonard's paintings of "erotic mothers", to political pornography attacking Marie Antoinette, to the "new woman" of fin-de-siecle decorative arts.
Exploring the possibilities of a multidisiplinary approach, the volume shows that eroticism had an impact far beyond the usual confines of libertine or pornographic literature-- and that politics included much more than voting, meeting, or demonstrating. At a time of general methodological ferment in the "human sciences", "Eroticism and the Body Politic" brings fresh approaches to the developing field of cultural studies. [via]
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Escape from Freedomby Erich FrommISBN 0805031499 (0-8050-3149-9)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Escape from Freedom'Book summary:If humanity cannot live with the dangers and responsibilities inherent in freedom, it will probably turn to authoritarianism. This is the central idea of Escape from Freedom, a landmark work by one of the most distinguished thinkers of our time, and a book that is as timely now as when first published in 1941. Few books have thrown such light upon the forces that shape modern society or penetrated so deeply into the causes of authoritarian systems. If the rise of democracy set some people free, at the same time it gave birth to a society in which the individual feels alienated and dehumanized. Using the insights of psychoanalysis as probing agents, Fromms work analyzes the illness of contemporary civilization as witnessed by its willingness to submit to totalitarian rule.[via]More editions of Escape from Freedom:
European Feminisms, 1700-1950: A Political Historyby Karen M. OffenISBN 0804734208 (0-8047-3420-8)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Existentialism and Human Emotionsby Jean Paul SartreISBN 0802214843 (0-8022-1484-3)
Softcover, Allied Books Ltd
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Feminist Theory: The Intellectual Traditions of American Feminismby Josephine DonovanISBN 0804461228 (0-8044-6122-8)
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Frege in Perspectiveby Joan WeinerISBN 0801421152 (0-8014-2115-2)
Hardcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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French Intellectual Nobility: Institutional and Symbolic Transformations in the Post-Sartrian Eraby Niilo KauppiISBN 0791431444 (0-7914-3144-4)
Softcover, State Univ of New York Pr
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From Colonials to Provincials: Amercian Thought and Culture, 1680-1760by Ned C. LandsmanISBN 0801487013 (0-8014-8701-3)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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The Grave of Alice B. Toklas: And Other Reports from the Pastby Otto FriedrichISBN 0805009035 (0-8050-0903-5)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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A History of Economic Theory: Classic Contributions, 1720-1980by Jurg NiehansISBN 0801849764 (0-8018-4976-4)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Economic Theory: Classic Contributions, 1720-1980'Book summary:A History of Economic Theory offers a comprehensive account of the builders and building blocks of modern mainstream economics. Jurg Niehans shows how the analytical tools used by economists have evolved from the eighteenth century to the present. Niehans first surveys the development of classical economics from the scholastic and mercantilist traditions to Marx. He then follows the progress of marginalist economics from Thunen to Fischer. In the book's final section, he describes economic theory in the model-building era from Pigou and Keynes to Rational Expectations.
Building his story around the economists themselves, Niehans presents a pantheon of economic theory. It includes the famous from Smith and Riccardo to Samuelson and Friedman, as well as detailed discussions of lesser-known figures who have nevertheless made classic contributions. For each theorist Niehans offers a biographical sketch followed by a description, interpretation, and critical assessment of his work. With the current revival of interest in the history of economics, economists will find A History of Economic Theory not only a rich source of information but also a challenging analysis of the dynamics of scientific progress. [via]
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A History of Russian Thought: From the Enlightenment to Marxismby Andrzej WalickiISBN 0804711321 (0-8047-1132-1)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages: Language Theory, Mythology, and Fictionby Jesse M. GellrichISBN 0801493951 (0-8014-9395-1)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Ideas That Changed the Worldby Felipe Fernandez-ArmestoISBN 078949941X (0-7894-9941-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ideas That Changed the World'Book summary:From the Publisher: Authoritative, Compelling, provocative: internationally respected historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto introduces you to the key historical and philosophical notions that have shaped our world since the dawn of civilization. Over 175 of the world's most pivotal ideas are crystallized and clearly explained -- from cannibalism to zen, from time to the unconscious, from logic to chaos theory. The author's wide-ranging and unashamedly personal analysis is accompanied by a stimulating mix of contemporary and historical images, bringing often hard-to-grasp concepts vividly to life. Chronologically Arranged, the format of this book nevertheless allows you to start at the beginning or dip in at any point. The connections between ground-breaking ideas are highlighted throughout, along with expert suggestions for thought-provoking further reading. [via]
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The Illustrated Longitudeby Dava Sobel, William J. H. AndrewesISBN 0802713440 (0-8027-1344-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Longitude'Book summary:Dava Sobel's Longitude tells the story of how 18th-century scientist and clockmaker William Harrison solved one of the most perplexing problems of history--determining east-west location at sea. This lush, colorfully illustrated edition adds lots of pictures to the story, giving readers a more satisfying sense of the times, the players, and the puzzle. This was no obscure, curious difficulty--without longitude, ships often found themselves so far off course that sailors would starve or die of scurvy before they could reach port. When a nationally-sponsored contest offered a hefty cash prize to the person who could develop a method to accurately determine longitude, the race was on. In the end, the battle of accuracy--and wills--fought between Harrison and arch-rival Maskelyne was ruthless and dramatic, worthy of a Hollywood feature film. Longitude's story is surprising and fascinating, offering a window into the past, before Global Positioning Satellites made it look easy. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Imitation of Christby Thomas A. KempisISBN 0802440053 (0-8024-4005-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Imitation of Christ'Book summary:The Thomas à Kempis fan club includes St. Ignatius, Thomas Merton, Thomas More, and even Agatha Christie's Miss Marple. (She reads a chapter of The Imitation of Christ every night before sleep.) Imitation has exerted immense influence on Christian worship, ethics, and church structure, because it gives specific yet broad-minded guidance about the central task of Christian life--learning to live like Jesus. Better to read this book a little here and there, now and then, than to try gobbling it cover to cover. Imitation is no triumph of orderly thinking, but it's a great monument and incentive to deep living. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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The Institutes of Christian Religionby Jean Calvin, Tony Lane, Hilary OsborneISBN 0801025249 (0-8010-2524-9)
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Institutes of the Christian Religion: 1536 Editionby John CalvinISBN 0802841678 (0-8028-4167-8)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Institutes of the Christian Religion: 1536 Edition'Book summary:John Calvin was just twenty-seven years old when the first edition of his Institutes was published in Basel in 1536. Calvin's little book as he affectionately called it grew in size throughout the rest of his life; eventually, this early, shorter version evolved into what is now known as the Institutes, the 1559 edition, which Calvin considered the authoritative form of his thought for posterity. / Renowned Calvin scholar Ford Lewis Battles translated the 1536 Institutes in 1975, after completing his masterful translation of the 1559 Institutes. This revised edition of Battles's translation will interest general readers who wish to better understand the earliest expression of Calvin's theology, as well as scholars who wish to pursue further research. In addition to Calvin's own classic text, the book's four appendices make available in English four significant Reformed texts, including a new translation of Calvin's preface to Olivétan's 1535 French Bible. Five indices include an index of biblical references and a comparative table of the 1536 and 1559 Institutes. Numerous citations in the endnotes from the writings of Calvin's predecessors and contemporaries help place the text in its historical context. [via]
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Institutes of the Christian Religion/One-Volume Editionby John Calvin, Henry BeveridgeISBN 0802881661 (0-8028-8166-1)
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The Intellectual Life of Colonial New Englandby Samuel Eliot MorisonISBN 0801490111 (0-8014-9011-1)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Isaiah Berlin : A Lifeby Michael IgnatieffISBN 0805055207 (0-8050-5520-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Isaiah Berlin : A Life'Book summary:Russian by birth, Jewish by descent, English by choice, Isaiah Berlin (1909-97) knit together three identities into a cosmopolitan sensibility that informed his contributions as one of the 20th century's most influential and important intellectuals. Based on his experiences as a child during the Russian Revolution and his friendships with such beleaguered writers as Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova, Berlin affirmed the superiority of individual freedom and judgment to Marxist totalitarianism. But he made fellow liberals uncomfortable with his unwelcome reminders that their ideals--liberty, equality, social justice--inevitably conflicted and required painful tradeoffs. London-based journalist Michael Ignatieff, who spent 10 years interviewing Berlin before his death, adeptly captures an appealing man: lighthearted, spontaneous, a brilliant conversationalist and lecturer (one of Oxford University's most popular professors), able to savor private happiness despite an essentially tragic view of political life. Ignatieff admires Berlin's views without accepting them uncritically; similarly, he acknowledges personal failings while appreciating the serenity Berlin achieved against considerable odds. This lucidly written, thoughtfully argued work is a model of the well-balanced biography, carefully evaluating the complex interplay of character and conviction in one remarkable individual. --Wendy Smith [via]
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John Dewey and American Democracyby Robert B. WestbrookISBN 0801481112 (0-8014-8111-2)
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Jonathan Edwardsby Perry Miller, John F. WilsonISBN 0803283075 (0-8032-8307-5)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Left Out: Pragmatism, Exceptionalism, and the Poverty of American Marxism, 1890-1922by Brian LloydISBN 0801855411 (0-8018-5541-1)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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The Liberal Ideal and the Demons of Empire: Theories of Imperialism from Adam Smith to Leninby Bernard SemmelISBN 0801845408 (0-8018-4540-8)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Liberal Ideal and the Demons of Empire: Theories of Imperialism from Adam Smith to Lenin'Book summary:As Great Britain and other Western nations built empires--both formal and informal--writers on economic and social questions developed theories to explain why and how advanced industrial states exercised control over colonial regions. Different schools of thought emerged: some anticipated the growth of a cosmopolitaneconomic order, others believed in a brutal imperialism necessary for an expanding capitalism, still others saw evil precapitalist forces at work. In The Liberal Ideal and the Demons of Empire, noted historian Bernard Semmel traces the evolution of the ideas about imperialism and discusses four major schools of thought: the classical economists, the social theorists, the national economists, and the Marxists.
From Adam Smith to Lenin, the subject of colonialism--and then imperialism--remained controversial. Although classical economists offered visions of a prosperous world economy based on free trade, and liberal idealists argued that rational self-interest would eliminate aggressive mercantilism and wars of conquest, such "utopian" ideals proved elusive. Even defenders of capitalism noted contradictions between the harsh realities of the emerging industrial system and the optimistic economic theories that attempted to describe it. In the end the critics--including liberal sociologists, national economists, and Marxists--would win the day by defining imperialism in terms of historic demons: feudal aristocrats, medieval usurers, and evil empires. These ideas, Semmel concludes, became props of the liberal, socialist, and fascist ideologies of our time.
"A generation ago, Richard Koebner traced the changing meanings of the word imperialism from its rather surprising Napoleonic beginnings. Now, building on a succession of books with which he has enriched the literature, Bernard Semmel addresses the wider question of the evolution in thought to which the evolution of the word was, so to speak, an index. Semmel's book will beunquestionably useful to historians--particularly those outside the confines of European expansion--and will be valuable as supplemental reading in college courses. One wonders if it will have the effect one would most like to see--on politicians, publicists, and praters who continue to use the word imperialism so inappropriately."--Robert K. Webb, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Bernard Semmel is Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. His studies of imperialism include Imperialism and Social Reform, Jamaican Blood and Victorian Conscience, and The Rise of Free Trade Imperialism. He has also written on Methodism, John Stuart Mill, and naval strategy.
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Timeby Dava SobelISBN 0802713122 (0-8027-1312-2)
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A Map of Twentieth-Century Theology: Readings from Karl Barth to Radical Pluralismby Robert W. Jenson, Carl E. BraatenISBN 0800626869 (0-8006-2686-9)
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Marx's Concept Of Manby Erich FrommISBN 0804461619 (0-8044-6161-9)
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Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europeby Hayden V. WhiteISBN 0801817617 (0-8018-1761-7)
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Metahistory:the Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europeby Hayden V. WhiteISBN 0801814693 (0-8018-1469-3)
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Modern European Intellectual History: Reappraisals and New Perspectivesby Dominick LA Capra, Steven L. KaplanISBN 0801498813 (0-8014-9881-3)
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Natasha's Dance : A Cultural History of Russiaby Orlando FigesISBN 0805057838 (0-8050-5783-8)
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A People's Tragedy, wrote Eric Hobsbawm, did "more to help us understand the Russian Revolution than any other book I know." Now, in Natasha's Dance, internationally renowned historian Orlando Figes does the same for Russian culture, summoning the myriad elements that formed a nation and held it together.
Beginning in the eighteenth century with the building of St. Petersburg-a "window on the West"-and culminating with the challenges posed to Russian identity by the Soviet regime, Figes examines how writers, artists, and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia itself-its character, spiritual essence, and destiny. He skillfully interweaves the great works-by Dostoevsky, Stravinsky, and Chagall-with folk embroidery, peasant songs, religious icons, and all the customs of daily life, from food and drink to bathing habits to beliefs about the spirit world. Figes's characters range high and low: the revered Tolstoy, who left his deathbed to search for the Kingdom of God, as well as the serf girl Praskovya, who became Russian opera's first superstar and shocked society by becoming her owner's wife.
Like the European-schooled countess Natasha performing an impromptu folk dance in Tolstoy's War and Peace, the spirit of "Russianness" is revealed by Figes as rich and uplifting, complex and contradictory-a powerful force that unified a vast country and proved more lasting than any Russian ruler or state.More editions of Natasha's Dance : A Cultural History of Russia:
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The New Science of Giambattista Vicoby Giovanni Battista Vico, Thomas Goddard Bergin, Max Harold FischISBN 0801492653 (0-8014-9265-3)
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Nietzsches Thought of Eternal Returnby Joan StambaughISBN 0801812887 (0-8018-1288-7)
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On Christian Libertyby Martin Luther, Harlold J. Grimm, W. A. LambertISBN 0800636074 (0-8006-3607-4)
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Opera and Ideas: From Mozart to Straussby Paul A. RobinsonISBN 0801494281 (0-8014-9428-1)
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Plato on the Trial and Death of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedoby Lane CooperISBN 0801490499 (0-8014-9049-9)
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Plato's Republicby PlatoISBN 0804901724 (0-8049-0172-4)
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Political Man: The Social Bases of Politicsby Seymour Martin LipsetISBN 0801825229 (0-8018-2522-9)
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The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution 1770-1823by David Brion DavisISBN 0801491568 (0-8014-9156-8)
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Reflections on the Revolution in Franceby Edmund Burke, J. C. D. ClarkISBN 0804742057 (0-8047-4205-7)
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The editor's Introduction is much more extensive than that of any previous edition. It situates the Reflections in Burke's life and the development of his ideas, the history of English political thought, the debate about the French Revolution, and the debate the book itself inspired. But the Introduction is more than a compendium of information; it is a thoughtful, coherent interpretation of Burke and his book. The editor's notes are also fuller than those of any previous edition, glossing many literary and biblical allusions missed by previous editors. He also supplies an extended note on the text, a biographical guide, and a bibliography, helpfully presented in discursive form.More editions of Reflections on the Revolution in France:
The Renaissance and Reformation in Germany: An Introductionby Gerhart HoffmeisterISBN 0804413916 (0-8044-1391-6)
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Renaissance Feminism: Literary Texts and Political Modelsby Constance JordanISBN 0801497329 (0-8014-9732-9)
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Renaissance Humanism in Papal Rome: Humanists and Churchmen on the Eve of the Reformationby John F. D'AmicoISBN 0801842247 (0-8018-4224-7)
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Salvageby Tom StoppardISBN 0802140068 (0-8021-4006-8)
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Shipwreckby Tom StoppardISBN 080214005X (0-8021-4005-X)
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Symposium and Phaedrusby Plato, William S. CobbISBN 0791416186 (0-7914-1618-6)
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Thought and Letters in Western Europe, A.D. 500 to 900by Laistner, Max, L., H.H. KingISBN 0801490375 (0-8014-9037-5)
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Three Treatisesby Martin LutherISBN 0800616391 (0-8006-1639-1)
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Tocqueville in Americaby George Wilson PiersonISBN 0801855063 (0-8018-5506-3)
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Twelve Bar Bluesby Patrick NeateISBN 0802140564 (0-8021-4056-4)
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Unfashionable Observationsby Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Richard T. GrayISBN 0804723826 (0-8047-2382-6)
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Under the title Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen, Nietzsche collected four essays published separately between 1873 and 1876: "David Strauss the Confessor and the Writer," "On the Utility and Liability of History for Life," "Schopenhauer as Educator," and "Richard Wagner in Bayreuth." The title, newly translated as Unfashionable Observations, spells out the common impulse linking these essays: Nietzsche's inimical attitude toward his "time," understood broadly as all the mainstream and popular movements that constituted contemporary European, but especially German, "culture" in the wake of the Prussian military victory over the French in 1871.
The Unfashionable Observations are foundational works for Nietzsche's entire philosophy, prefiguring both his characteristic philosophical style and many of the major ideas he would develop in his later writings. This is the first English translation to include Nietzsche's variants to the published text.More editions of Unfashionable Observations:
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Unfashionable Observationsby Richard T. GrayISBN 0804734038 (0-8047-3403-8)
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Under the title Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen, Nietzsche collected four essays published separately between 1873 and 1876: "David Strauss the Confessor and the Writer," "On the Utility and Liability of History for Life," "Schopenhauer as Educator," and "Richard Wagner in Bayreuth." The title, newly translated as Unfashionable Observations, spells out the common impulse linking these essays: Nietzsche's inimical attitude toward his "time," understood broadly as all the mainstream and popular movements that constituted contemporary European, but especially German, "culture" in the wake of the Prussian military victory over the French in 1871.
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The Utopian Alternative: Fourierism in Nineteenth-Century Americaby Carl J. GuarneriISBN 080148197X (0-8014-8197-X)
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Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Ideaby Edmund S. MorganISBN 0801490413 (0-8014-9041-3)
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Historians have generally supposed that the main outlines of the Puritan church were determined in England and Holland and transplanted to the new world. The author convincingly suggests, instead, that the distinguishing characteristic of the New England churches-the ideal of a church composed exclusively of true and tested saints-developed fully only in the 1630's and 1640's, some time after the first settlers arrived in New England. He also examines the influence of the Separatist colony at Plymouth on the later settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and follows the difficulties created by a definition of the religious community so selective that the New England churches nearly expired for lack of saints to fill them.
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Voyageby Tom StoppardISBN 0802140041 (0-8021-4004-1)
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Wagnerism in European Culture and Politicsby William Weber, David LargeISBN 0801492831 (0-8014-9283-1)
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Walter Benjamin and the Antinomies of Traditionby John McColeISBN 0801497116 (0-8014-9711-6)
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Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolutionby Joan B. LandesISBN 0801494818 (0-8014-9481-8)
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The Wretched of the Earthby Frantz FanonISBN 0802150837 (0-8021-5083-7)
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Although socialism has seemingly collapsed in the years since Fanon's work was first published, there is much in his look into the political, racial, and social psyche of the ever-emerging Third World that still rings true at the cusp of a new century. --Eugene Holley, Jr. [via]
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The Wretched of the Earthby Richard Philcox, Frantz FanonISBN 0802141323 (0-8021-4132-3)
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Although socialism has seemingly collapsed in the years since Fanon's work was first published, there is much in his look into the political, racial, and social psyche of the ever-emerging Third World that still rings true at the cusp of a new century. --Eugene Holley, Jr. [via]
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