The Off-Modern, Paperback - Svetlana (Harvard University, USA) Boym

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PlcAuthor(s): Svetlana (Harvard University, USA) BoymIllustration(s): 42 bw illus; 16 color illusNumber of pages: ...

Reducere. Awards🏆Honorable Mention (2010) - Street Literature Book Award Medal (Slbam) - (Adult Nonfiction)Contributor(s): Author: Sudhir Alladi VenkateshLis...

With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if ...

The Marine Corps has always considered itself a breed apart. Since 1775, America's smallest armed service has been suspicious of outsiders and deep...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Svetlana AlpersNumber of pages: 308Publication date: 1995Dimensions: 234 x 153 x 20Cover type:...

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Renowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early modern Europe as laborers. Bookish but hardly divorced from physical tas...

Guido Mazzoni tells the story of poetry's revolution in the modern age. The chief transformation was the rise of the lyric as it is now conceived: ...

Give and Take offers a new history of government in Tokugawa Japan (1600-1868), one that focuses on ordinary subjects: merchants, artisans, village...

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What drives the drug trade, and how has it come to be what it is today? A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent means of a...

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Alexander Des Forges reads shiwen from a literary perspective, showing how the examination essay redefined prose aesthetics, transformed the work o...

If contemporary culture were a school, with all the tasks and expectations meted out by modern life as its curriculum, would anyone graduate? In th...

John W. O'Malley works out a remarkable guide to the intellectual and historical developments behind the concepts of Catholic reform, the Counter R...

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Warfare is the most dangerous threat faced by modern humanity. It is also one of the key influences that has shaped the politics, economics, and so...

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This is a book about the Irish Question, or more specifically about Irish Questions. The term has become something of a catch-all, a convenient way...

Perhaps nothing has ever been so frightening to people of faith as "the modern." Pluralistic and rationalizing, modernity would seem the antithesis...

The final work of the esteemed philosopher William Demopoulos supplants logical empiricism's accounts of physical theories, which fail to satisfact...

Reducere. The Western magical traditions are currently undergoing an international resurgence. In Stealing Fire from Heaven, Nevill Drury offers an overview ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Maurizio (Drury University, USA) SabiniIllustration(s): 87 bw illusNumber of pages: 248Collection: B...

Here is quite simply one of the most original books about a jazz musician ever published--a biography-cum-discography that focuses in turn on fourt...

A provocative case that "failed states" along the periphery of today's international system are the intended result of nineteenth-century colonial ...

Reducere. Calvin Tomkins first discovered the work of Robert Rauschenberg in the late 1950s, when he began to look seriously at contemporary art. While gazin...

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Contributor(s): Author: James ChappelIn 1900 the Catholic Church stood staunchly against human rights, religious freedom, and the secular state. Ac...

John Christopoulos provides a comprehensive account of abortion in early modern Italy. Bringing together medical, religious, and legal perspectives...

This book is about the losers of the Meiji Restoration and the supporters who promoted their legacy. Using sources ranging from essays by former To...

Thousands were executed for incompatible religious views in 16th-century Europe. The meaning and significance of those deaths are studied here comp...

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Shelley's suspenseful and intellectually rich gothic tale confronts some of the most important and enduring themes in all of literature--the power ...

Twelve-year-old Will likes two things: turtles and the local nature reserve. Everything else is a nightmare, because Will has a facial difference t...

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In the 1960s, Latin American literature became known worldwide as never before. Writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Va...

Populism, on both the right and the left, has spread like wildfire throughout Europe and the United States and is making inroads in other parts of ...

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With the publication of Utopia (1516), Thomas More provided a scathing analysis of the shortcomings of his own society, a realistic suggestion for ...

Now in its second edition, Transnational France takes a transnational approach to the history of modern France that draws the reader into a key asp...

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