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  • University Adult Education in England and the USA

    A Reappraisal of the Liberal Tradition

    by Richard Taylor, Kathleen Rockhill, Roger Fieldhouse ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Adult Education
    Originally published in 1985 this book is a critique and comparison of the nature, structure and provision of university adult education in England and the USA. The focus is both contemporary (twentieth century) and historical and is interdisciplinary, involving both social scientific and historical modes of enquiry and analysis. A central concern of the book is the liberal tradition as it has ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

  • E. P. Thompson and English radicalism

    Edited by Roger Fieldhouse, Richard Taylor ...
    Available in paperback for the first time, E. P. Thompson and English radicalism gathers together a selection of leading authors from a diverse range of disciplines to critically review not only this pivotal work, but the wide range of his career, including his experience as an adult educator, writer, poet and critic. His involvement in the early New Left, his political theories, his socialist ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    The classic explanation of the craft of history and the vital worth of historians to civilizationIn this volume, English historian Richard Evans offers a defence of the importance of his craft. At a time when fact and historical truth are under unprecedented assault, Evans shows us why history is necessary. Taking us into the historians' workshop to show us just how good history gets written, he ... Read more

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  • A Crooked Line

    From Cultural History to the History of Society

    by Geoff Eley ...
    "Eley brilliantly probes transformations in the historians' craft over the past four decades. I found A Crooked Line engrossing, insightful, and inspiring."--Lizabeth Cohen, author of A Consumers' Republic"A Crooked Line brilliantly captures the most significant shifts in the landscape of historical scholarship that have occurred in the last four decades. Part personal history, part insightful ... Read more

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  • A History of International Thought

    From the Origins of the Modern State to Academic International Relations

    by Lucian Ashworth ...
    International thought is the product of major political changes over the last few centuries, especially the development of the modern state and the industrialisation of the world economy. While the question of how to deal with strangers from other communities has been a constant throughout human history, it is only in recent centuries that the question of ‘foreign relations’ (and especially ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • The Pursuit of History

    Aims, Methods and New Directions in the Study of History

    by John Tosh ...
    This classic introduction to the study of history invites the reader to stand back and consider some of its most fundamental questions – what is the point of studying history? How do we know about the past? Does an objective historical truth exist and can we ever access it?In answering these central questions, John Tosh argues that, despite the impression of fragmentation created by Postmodernism ... Read more

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  • The Twilight Years

    The Paradox of Britain Between the Wars

    by Richard Overy ...
    From a leading British historian, the story of how fear of war shaped modern EnglandBy the end of World War I, Britain had become a laboratory for modernity. Intellectuals, politicians, scientists, and artists?among them Arnold Toynbee, Aldous Huxley, and H. G. Wells?sought a vision for a rapidly changing world. Coloring their innovative ideas and concepts, from eugenics to Freud?s unconscious, ... Read more

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  • The Moral Economists

    R. H. Tawney, Karl Polanyi, E. P. Thompson, and the Critique of Capitalism

    by Tim Rogan ...
    A fresh look at how three important twentieth-century British thinkers viewed capitalism through a moral rather than material lensWhat’s wrong with capitalism? Answers to that question today focus on material inequality. Led by economists and conducted in utilitarian terms, the critique of capitalism in the twenty-first century is primarily concerned with disparities in income and wealth. It was ... Read more

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  • Archive Stories

    Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History

    by Durba Ghosh, Jeff Sahadeo, Craig Robertson, Tony Ballantyne ...
    Despite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written about actual encounters with them—about the effect that the researcher’s race, gender, or class may have on her experience within them or about the impact that archival surveillance, architecture, or bureaucracy might have on the histories that are ultimately written. This provocative collection initiates ... Read more

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  • The Making of British Socialism

    by Mark Bevir ...
    A compelling look at the origins of British socialismThe Making of British Socialism provides a new interpretation of the emergence of British socialism in the late nineteenth century, demonstrating that it was not a working-class movement demanding state action, but a creative campaign of political hope promoting social justice, personal transformation, and radical democracy. Mark Bevir shows ... Read more

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  • The Social and Political Thought of George Orwell

    A Reassessment

    by Stephen Ingle ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    Stephen Ingle is Professor at the Politics Department, University of Stirling. His main academic interests are in the relationship between politics and literature and in adversarial (two party) politics, especially in the UK. ... Read more

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  • Myth and the Irish State

    by John M. Regan ...
    When we read a history we believe ourselves to be reading cold, hard, facts of the events that took place and how they occurred. But there is no real, truthful way to know the approach our historian has taken with the historical sources. This book deals with the uncertainty in writing history in the context of Irish history in particular. Regan argues in this book that the notion of elision, ... Read more

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