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  • Europe and America Criss-Crossing Perspectives, 1788-1848

    by Jacques Portes ...
    Series series Internationale
    Dans ce livre sont réunies certaines des communications présentées lors de l’atelier : Europe Viewing America, America viewing Europe de la conférence de l’EAAS à Budapest en mars 1986. Ces textes viennent de divers pays, leurs auteurs sont aussi bien des historiens que des littéraires ou des "civilisationistes". Au premier coup d’œil, l’ouvrage peut sembler hétéroclite, toutefois, sa richesse ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    by Nell Irvin Painter ...
    A New York Times bestseller: “This terrific new book . . . [explores] the ‘notion of whiteness,’ an idea as dangerous as it is seductive.”—Boston GlobeTelling perhaps the most important forgotten story in American history, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousand years of Western civilization, illuminating not only the invention of race but also the frequent ... Read more

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  • Inventing Human Rights: A History

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    by Lynn Hunt ...
    “A tour de force.”—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book ReviewHow were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and intellectual history, which traces the roots of human rights to the rejection of torture as a means for finding the truth. She demonstrates ... Read more

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  • Discourse on Colonialism

    by Aimé Césaire ...
    Césaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a process in which [he] played a prominent role.--Library JournalThis classic work, first published in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Nearly twenty years later, when ... Read more

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  • On Revolution

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    A unique and fascinating look at violent political change by one of the most profound thinkers of the twentieth century and the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of TotalitarianismHannah Arendt’s penetrating observations on the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, have been fundamental to our understanding of our political landscape. On Revolution is her classic ... Read more

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  • The Idea of Decline in Western History

    by Arthur Herman ...
    Historian Arthur Herman traces the roots of declinism and shows how major thinkers, past and present, have contributed to its development as a coherent ideology of cultural pessimism.From Nazism to the Sixties counterculture, from Britain's Fabian socialists to America's multiculturalists, and from Dracula and Freud to Robert Bly and Madonna, this work examines the idea of decline in Western ... Read more

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  • LEADERSHIP: Essential Selections on Power, Authority, and Influence

    by Barbara Kellerman ...
    "Bravo to Barbara Kellerman! Building upon a lifetime of scholarship and upon a popular course she has created at Harvard, Kellerman brings between the covers of a single volume the world's classic literature on leadership. Every thoughtful leader will find deep, rich rewards here." -- David Gergen, Director, Center for Public Leadership Harvard Kennedy School, Former Presidential AdviserBolster ... Read more

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  • The Liberal Tradition in America

    The Classic on the Causes and Effects of Liberal Thought in the U.S.

    by Louis Hartz ...
    This "brilliantly written" look at the original meaning of the liberal philosophy has become a classic of political science ( American Historical Review).Winner of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation AwardAs the word "liberal" has been misused and its meaning diluted in recent decades, this study of American political thought since the Revolution is a valuable look at the "liberal tradition" that has ... Read more

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  • The Communist Manifesto

    by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels ...
    "A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism." So begins one of history's most important documents, a work of such magnitude that it has forever changed not only the scope of world politics, but indeed the course of human civilization. The Communist Manifesto was written in Friedrich Engels's clear, striking prose and declared the earth-shaking ideas of Karl Marx. Upon publication in ... Read more

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  • Schnitzler's Century

    The Making of Middle-Class Culture 1815-1914

    by Peter Gay ...
    "This is cultural history of the first order, and it is liberal and humane history at its very best."—David CannadineAn essential work for anyone who wishes to understand the social history of the nineteenth century, Schnitzler's Century is the culmination of Peter Gay's thirty-five years of scholarship on bourgeois culture and society. Using Arthur Schnitzler, the sexually emboldened Viennese ... Read more

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  • The Varieties of History

    From Voltaire to the Present

    Edited by Fritz Stern ...
    "I cannot imagine a more engaging and instructive introduction to the fascinations of historical writing than Fritz Stern's classic The Varieties of History." —Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. City University of New York"This book contains not only an excellent selection of passages which characterize the ideas and the work of leading historians from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, but the book ... Read more

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  • Social Darwinism in American Thought

    by Richard Hofstadter ...
    Social Darwinism in American Thought portrays the overall influence of Darwin on American social theory and the notable battle waged among thinkers over the implications of evolutionary theory for social thought and political action. Theorists such as Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner adopted the idea of the struggle for existence as justification for the evils as well as the benefits of ... Read more

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