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“michael gottlob”

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  • Human Rights and Public Memory in India

    Historical Perspectives on Decolonization

    by Michael Gottlob ...
    The book examines the political use of the past in post-colonial India. It shows how past “injustices” are used to justify current violations of human rights. It shows how the recent and increased reappraisal of European colonial rule and post-colonial theory formation are introducing further confrontations into the struggles over memory, and with advancing globalization, they are beginning to ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • History and Politics In Post-Colonial India

    by Michael Gottlob ...
    The writing of history in India has been fraught with controversies. From the storm over textbooks in the 1970s, and the furore over the Babri Masjid in the 1990s, to the flaring up of religious sentiments over 'beef-eating' and the Ram Sethu, this book provides a synoptic view of teaching and writing of history in post-colonial India. Michael Gottlob explores historical research and teaching as ... Read more

    $82.99 CAD

  • Philosophy of Language

    The Central Topics

    by J L. Austin, Anthony Brueckner, Donald Davidson, Keith Donnellan, Michael Dummett, Gareth Evans, Gottlob Frege, H P. Grice, Paul Horwich, Saul Kripke, David Lewis, John McDowell, Michael McKinsey, Ruth Millikan, Stephen Neale, Hilary Putnam, W V. Quine, Bertrand Russell, Nathan Salmon, John Searle, P F. Strawson, Alfred Tarski, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Noam Chomsky, David M. Kaplan, Stephen Schiffer ...
    This collection of classic and contemporary essays in philosophy of language offers a concise introduction to the field for students in graduate and upper-division undergraduate courses. It contains some of the most important basic sources in philosophy of language, including a number of classic essays by philosophers such as Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Kripke, Grice, Davidson, Strawson, Austin, ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Across Cultural Borders

    Historiography in Global Perspective

    by Arif Dirlik, Andreas Eckert, Michael Gottlob, Wang Hui, Maghan Keita, Gabriele Lingelbach, Jochen Meissner, Matthias Middell, Jörn Rüsen, Stefan Tanaka, Q Edward Wang ...
    This innovative work offers the first comprehensive transcultural history of historiography. The contributors transcend a Eurocentric approach not only in terms of the individual historiographies they assess, but also in the methodologies they use for comparative analysis. Moving beyond the traditional national focus of historiography, the book offers a genuinely comparative consideration of the ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

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  • African History: A Very Short Introduction

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    by John Parker, Richard Rathbone ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Essential reading for anyone interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. Key themes in current thinking about Africa's history are illustrated with a range of fascinating historical examples, drawn from over 5 millennia across this vast continent. ... Read more

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  • Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism

    by Huw Price, Simon Blackburn, Robert Brandom, Paul Horwich, Michael Williams ...
    Pragmatists have traditionally been enemies of representationalism but friends of naturalism, when naturalism is understood to pertain to human subjects, in the sense of Hume and Nietzsche. In this volume Huw Price presents his distinctive version of this traditional combination, as delivered in his René Descartes Lectures at Tilburg University in 2008. Price contrasts his view with other ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Hobson-Jobson

    The Definitive Glossary of British India

    by Henry Yule, A. C. Burnell ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
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  • Mere Possibilities

    Metaphysical Foundations of Modal Semantics

    by Robert Stalnaker ...
    Series series Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series
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    A History

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    Series series History (R0)
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  • Emotive Language in Argumentation

    by Douglas Walton, Fabrizio Macagno ...
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  • The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume V: Historiography

    by Wm.Roger Louis ...
    Series Book 5 - The Oxford History of the British Empire
    The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the founding of colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century to the reversion of Hong Kong to China at the end of the twentieth, British imperialism was a catalyst for far-reaching change. The Oxford ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD