Language, History and Class - Rilegato

 
9780631167327: Language, History and Class
Rilegato
ISBN 10: 0631167323 ISBN 13: 9780631167327
Casa editrice: Blackwell Pub, 1991

Sinossi

This book is an investigation of how societies have understood and described themselves. It is concerned both with the history of language and the language of history. The chapters include studies of societies in Germany, China, USA and India, pre-revolutionary France and 19th-century Britain and America. The author examines how political declarations and manifestos relate to the societies from which they emanated and for which they aimed to legislate. Words such as "liberty" and "equality" have to be understood in a limited sense in the French and American revolutions, but it would be impossible to understand these events without recourse to these resonant concepts. The essays in this book explore the difficulties and the possibilities in understanding language as historical evidence.

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Editore
Blackwell Pub
Data di pubblicazione
1991
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0631167323
ISBN 13 
9780631167327
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
256
Redattore
Corfield Penelope J.
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

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ISBN 10:  0631167331 ISBN 13:  9780631167334
Casa editrice: Wiley-Blackwell, 1991
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