Author: Hippolyte TainePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368438263
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
The Modern Regime
Author: Hippolyte TainePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368438263
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution
Author: Malick W. GhachemPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521836808
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
A provocative history of Haiti up to 1804, when Haitians became the first formerly enslaved people to overthrow a colonial slaveholding power.
The Old Regime and the Revolution
Author: Alexis De TocquevillePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226805336
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 523
Book Description
The Old Regime and the Revolution
Author: Alexis de TocquevillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The Sources of Social Power: Volume 2, The Rise of Classes and Nation-States, 1760-1914
Author: Michael MannPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107031184
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 845
Book Description
This second volume deals with power relations between the Industrial Revolution and the First World War.
Classical Republicanism in a Gothic Mode
Author: Mark Swanson LacyThe Revolution of Peter the Great
Author: James CRACRAFTPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674029941
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Many books chronicle the remarkable life of Russian tsar Peter the Great, but none analyze how his famous reforms actually took root and spread in Russia. By century's end, Russia was poised to play a critical role in the Napoleonic wars and boasted an elite culture about to burst into its golden age. In The Revolution of Peter the Great, James Cracraft offers a brilliant new interpretation of this pivotal era.
Down to Earth
Author: Bruno LatourPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1509530592
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The present ecological mutation has organized the whole political landscape for the last thirty years. This could explain the deadly cocktail of exploding inequalities, massive deregulation, and conversion of the dream of globalization into a nightmare for most people. What holds these three phenomena together is the conviction, shared by some powerful people, that the ecological threat is real and that the only way for them to survive is to abandon any pretense at sharing a common future with the rest of the world. Hence their flight offshore and their massive investment in climate change denial. The Left has been slow to turn its attention to this new situation. It is still organized along an axis that goes from investment in local values to the hope of globalization and just at the time when, everywhere, people dissatisfied with the ideal of modernity are turning back to the protection of national or even ethnic borders. This is why it is urgent to shift sideways and to define politics as what leads toward the Earth and not toward the global or the national. Belonging to a territory is the phenomenon most in need of rethinking and careful redescription; learning new ways to inhabit the Earth is our biggest challenge. Bringing us down to earth is the task of politics today.
The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 2
Author: Garland Encyclopedia of World MusicPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136096027
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
Book Description
The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music comprises two volumes, and can only be purchased as the two-volume set. To purchase the set please go to: http://www.routledge.com/9780415972932
The Architecture of Modern Italy
Author: Terry KirkPublisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 9781568984360
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
“Modern Italy”may sound like an oxymoron. For Western civilization,Italian culture represents the classical past and the continuity of canonical tradition,while modernity is understood in contrary terms of rupture and rapid innovation. Charting the evolution of a culture renowned for its historical past into the 10 modern era challenges our understanding of both the resilience of tradition and the elasticity of modernity. We have a tendency when imagining Italy to look to a rather distant and definitely premodern setting. The ancient forum, medieval cloisters,baroque piazzas,and papal palaces constitute our ideal itinerary of Italian civilization. The Campo of Siena,Saint Peter’s,all of Venice and San Gimignano satisfy us with their seemingly unbroken panoramas onto historical moments untouched by time;but elsewhere modern intrusions alter and obstruct the view to the landscapes of our expectations. As seasonal tourist or seasoned historian,we edit the encroachments time and change have wrought on our image of Italy. The learning of history is always a complex task,one that in the Italian environment is complicated by the changes wrought everywhere over the past 250 years. Culture on the peninsula continues to evolve with characteristic vibrancy. Italy is not a museum. To think of it as such—as a disorganized yet phenomenally rich museum unchanging in its exhibits—is to misunderstand the nature of the Italian cultural condition and the writing of history itself.