Author: Sophia WadiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 686
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The Aryan Path
Author: Sophia WadiaPublisher:
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Category : Theosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 686
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Who's who in Philosophy: Anglo-American philosophers
Author: Dagobert David RunesPublisher:
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Category : Philosophers
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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The Dark Path
Author: Williamson MurrayPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300270682
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
From an esteemed military historian, a sweeping history of the revolutions in war-fighting that have shaped the modern world Heraclitus wrote that "war is the father of all," and it has formed much of the modern world. Although the fundamental nature of war has not altered over the centuries, constant change, innovation, and adaptation have repeatedly reshaped how wars are fought in the West. Revolutions in military practice cannot be separated from larger social developments in areas like logistics, finance and economics, and the culture of military organizations. In The Dark Path, Williamson Murray argues that the history of warfare in the West hinged on five revolutions, which both reflected the social, political, and economic conditions that produced them and in turn influenced how those conditions evolved. These five key turning points are the advent of the modern state, which formed bureaucracies and professional militaries; the Industrial Revolution, which produced the financial and industrial means to sustain and equip large armies; the French Revolution, which provided the ideological basis needed to sustain armies through continent-sized wars; the merging of the Industrial and French Revolutions in the U.S. Civil War; and the accelerating integration of technological advancement, financial capacity, ideology, and government that unleashed the modern capacity for total warfare. An ambitious work of synthesis, this book shows how the world continually re-creates war--and how war, in turn, continually re-creates the world.
A Bibliography of John Middleton Murry, 1889-1957
Author: George P. LilleyWho's who in Philosophy
Author: Dagobert David RunesPublisher:
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Category : Philosophers
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Life in the Writings of Storm Jameson
Author: Elizabeth MaslenPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810167670
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Margaret Storm Jameson (1891–1986) is primarily known as a compelling essayist; her stature as a novelist and champion of the dispossessed is largely forgotten. In Life in the Writings of Storm Jameson, Elizabeth Maslen reveals a figure who held her own beside fellow British women writers, including Virginia Woolf; anticipated the Angry Young Women, such as Doris Lessing; and was an early champion of such European writers as Arthur Koestler and Czesław Miłosz. Jameson was a complex character whose politics were grounded in social justice; she was passionately antifascist—her novel In the Second Year (1936) raised the alarm about Nazism—but always wary of communism. An eloquent polemicist, Jameson was, as president of the British P.E.N. during the 1930s and 1940s, of invaluable assistance to refugee writers. Elizabeth Maslen’s biography introduces a true twentieth century hedgehog, whose essays and subtly experimental fiction were admired in Europe and the States.
Perspectives on Vedānta
Author: Rama Rao PappuPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004644377
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Talking Back
Author: Sabyasachi BhattacharyaPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199088586
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
British histories in the nineteenth century were by and large monologues. From the turn of the century Indians began to 'talk back', questioning colonial assumptions and narratives of India's past. What was the point of this endeavour? What was said when the Indians began to talk back? What was the discourse of civilization all about? Sabyasachi Bhattacharya explores these questions and lays bare the various forms this rhetoric took: from the defence of Indian civilization to a tendency towards vainglorious depiction of 'Hindu civilization'; from asserting civilizational unity in the distant past to creating a surrogate for nationhood. Tracing the inception of this discourse in the works of R.G. Bhandarkar and Bankimchandra Chatterjee, this book explores the evolution of the idea of civilization in the writings of luminaries like Gandhi, Tagore, Vivekananda, and Nehru, as well as works of intellectuals, historians, linguists, and sociologists like M.G. Ranade, V.K. Rajwade, D.D. Kosambi, Sardar K.M. Panikkar, Nirmal Kumar Bose, and many present-day scholars.
Late-Victorian and Edwardian British Novelists
Author: George Malcolm JohnsonPublisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars. Dictionary of Literary Biography provides reliable information in an easily comprehensible format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history. Dictionary of Literary Biography systematically presents career biographies and criticism of writers from all eras and all genres through volumes dedicated to specific types of literature and time periods. For a listing of Dictionary of Literary Biography volumes sorted by genre click here. 01
British Short-fiction Writers, 1915-1945
Author: John Headley RogersPublisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Essays on authors of the short story that had its origins in the mid-nineteenth century and reached its maturity in England in the twentieth century. The modern British short story grew slowly following by nearly fifty years the origins of this form in the United States, France and Russia. Discusses why several features of nineteenth-century English life may have delayed the development of this literary form.