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  • More Than Just War

    Narratives of the Just War and Military Life

    par Charles Jones ...
    Collections series Interventions
    This book raises questions about the just war tradition through a critical examination of its revival and by juxtaposing it with a literary phenomenology of war. Recent public debate about war has leaned heavily on a just-war tradition dating back many centuries. This book examines the recent revival of that tradition in the United States and Britain, arguing that it is less coherent and ... En savoir plus

    $79.69 CAD

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  • What Is History, Now?

    par Suzannah Lipscomb, Helen Carr ...
    This groundbreaking new collection addresses the burning issue of how we interpret history today. What stories are told, and by whom, who should be celebrated, and what rewritten, are questions that have been asked recently not just within the history world, but by all of us. Featuring a diverse mix of writers, both bestselling names and emerging voices, this is the history book we need NOW.WHAT ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • Conscience: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Paul Strohm ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Where does our conscience come from? How reliable is it?In the West conscience has been relied upon for two thousand years as a judgement that distinguishes right from wrong. It has effortlessly moved through every period division and timeline between the ancient, medieval, and modern. The Romans identified it, the early Christians appropriated it, and Reformation Protestants and loyal Catholics ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • The History Question

    Who Owns the Past?; Quarterly Essay 23

    par Inga Clendinnen ...
    Collections Livre 23 - Quarterly Essay
    In The History Question, Inga Clendinnen looks past the skirmishes and pitched battles of the history wars and asks what's at stake - what kind of history do we want and need? Should our historians be producing the "objective record of achievement" that the Prime Minister has called for? For Clendinnen, historians cannot be the midwives of national identity and also be true to their profession: ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • English Literature in Context

    Modifié par Paul Poplawski ...
    This is the second edition of English Literature in Context, a popular textbook which provides an essential resource and reference tool for all English literature students. Designed to accompany students throughout their degree course, it offers a detailed narrative survey of the diverse historical and cultural contexts that have shaped the development of English literature, from the Anglo-Saxon ... En savoir plus

    $37.99 CAD

  • Inventing Ireland

    The Literature of a Modern Nation

    par Declan Kiberd ...
    Kiberd - one of Ireland's leading critics and a central figure in the FIELD DAY group with Brian Friel, Seamus Deane and the actor Stephen Rea - argues that the Irish Literary Revival of the 1890-1922 period embodied a spirit and a revolutionary, generous vision of Irishness that is still relevant to post-colonial Ireland. This is the perspective from which he views Irish culture. His history of ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Death of Christian Britain

    Understanding Secularisation, 1800–2000

    par Callum G. Brown ...
    Collections series Christianity and Society in the Modern World
    The Death of Christian Britain examines how the nation’s dominant religious culture has been destroyed. Callum Brown challenges the generally held view that secularization was a long and gradual process dating from the industrial revolution. Instead, he argues that it has been a catastrophic and abrupt cultural revolution starting in the 1960s. Using the latest techniques of gender analysis, and ... En savoir plus

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Pursuit of History

    Aims, Methods and New Directions in the Study of History

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $75.99 CAD

  • The Historical Novel

    par Jerome de Groot ...
    Collections series The New Critical Idiom
    The historical novel is an enduringly popular genre that raises crucial questions about key literary concepts, fact and fiction, identity, history, reading, and writing. In this comprehensive, focused guide, Jerome de Groot offers an accessible introduction to the genre and critical debates that surround it, including:the development of the historical novel from early eighteenth-century works ... En savoir plus

    $46.99 CAD

  • Imperial nostalgia

    How the British conquered themselves

    par Peter Mitchell ...
    A strong emotional attachment to the memory of empire runs deep in British culture. In recent years, that memory has become a battleground in a long-drawn ideological war, inflecting debates on race, class, gender, culture, the UK’s future and its place in the world. This provocative and passionate book surveys the scene of the imperial memory wars in contemporary Britain, exploring how the myths ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

  • Hume

    A Very Short Introduction

    par James A. Harris ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    David Hume, philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and essayist, was one of the great figures of the European Enlightenment. Unlike some of his famous contemporaries, however, he was not dogmatically committed to idealised conceptions of reason, liberty, and progress. Instead, Hume was a sceptic whose arguments questioned the reach and authority of human rationality, and who put the ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • A Philosopher at the Admiralty

    par Peter Johnson ...
    This book is volume one of a two-part series (volumes sold separately). Taken together, the two volumes of A Philosopher at War examine the political thought of the philosopher and archaeologist, R.G. Collingwood, against the background of the First and Second World Wars. Collingwood served in Admiralty Intelligence during the First World War and although he was not physically robust enough to ... En savoir plus

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