Sökt på: Sökresultat
totalt 112 träffar
Empires of Islam in Renaissance Historical Thought
Renaissance humanists believed that the origins of peoples could reveal crucial facts about their modern political character. Margaret Meserve explores what happened when European …
The Greatest Nation of the Earth
While fighting a war for the Union, the Republican party attempted to construct the world’s most powerful and most socially advanced nation. Rejecting the common assumption that …
The Demands of Liberty
How does France reconcile the modern movement toward pluralism and decentralization with a strong central governing power? One of the country's most distinguished political …
Revolutionary Commerce
Combining the intellectual history of the Enlightenment, Atlantic history, and the history of the French Revolution, Paul Cheney explores the political economy of globalization in …
Making Democracy in the French Revolution
This book reasserts the importance of the French Revolution to an understanding of the nature of modern European politics and social life. Scholars currently argue that the French …
Ernest Gruening and the American Dissenting Tradition
Ernest Gruening is perhaps best known for his vehement fight against U.S. military involvement in Vietnam, where he set himself apart by casting one of two votes against the Tonkin …
Globalizing Sport
In this impressive book, Barbara Keys offers the first major study of the political and cultural ramifications of international sports competitions in the decades before World War …
The World That Latin America Created
How a group of intellectuals and policymakers transformed development economics and gave Latin America a new position in the world.After the Second World War demolished the old …
The Government of the Ottoman Empire in the Time of Suleiman the Magnificent
Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia
As readers of classic Russian literature know, the nineteenth century was a time of pervasive financial anxiety. With incomes erratic and banks inadequate, Russians of all social …
Age of Entanglement
Age of Entanglement explores patterns of connection linking German and Indian intellectuals from the nineteenth century to the years after the Second World War. Kris Manjapra …
Youth in the Fatherless Land
The first comprehensive history of German youth in the First World War, this book investigates the dawn of the great era of mobilizing teenagers and schoolchildren for experiments …