harvard university press apr 2014 (Oltre 1.000 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Two Faces of American Freedom boldly reinterprets the American political tradition from the colonial period to modern times, placing issues of race relations, immigration, and presidentialism in the context of shifting notions of empire and citizenship. Today, while the U.S. enjoys tremendous military and economic power, citizens are increasingly insulated from everyday decision-making. This was not always the case. America, Aziz Rana argues, began as a settler society grounded in an ideal of freedom as the exercise of continuous self-rule-one that joined direct political participation with economic independence. However, this vision of freedom was politically bound to the subordination of marginalized groups, especially slaves, Native Americans, and women. These practices of liberty and exclusion were not separate currents, but rather two sides of the same coin. However, at crucial moments, social movements sought to imagine freedom without either subordination or empire. By the mid-twentieth century, these efforts failed, resulting in the rise of hierarchical state and corporate institutions. This new framework presented national and economic security as society's guiding commitments and nurtured a continual extension of America's global reach. Rana envisions a democratic society that revives settler ideals, but combines them with meaningful inclusion for those currently at the margins of American life.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Old English Shorter Poems offers tantalizing insights into the Anglo-Saxon mental landscape. These poems and charms find meaning in the loss of fortune and reputation, exile, and alienation. Wisdom also emerges as folk remedies, such as charms to treat stabbing pain, cysts, childbirth, and nightmares of witch-riding caused by a dwarf.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Maximos the Confessor is one of the most challenging and original Christian thinkers of all time. The Ambigua is his greatest philosophical and doctrinal work, in which daring originality, prodigious talent for speculative thinking, and analytical acumen are on lavish display. The result is a labyrinthine map of the mind¿s journey to God.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Maximos the Confessor is one of the most challenging and original Christian thinkers of all time. The Ambigua is his greatest philosophical and doctrinal work, in which daring originality, prodigious talent for speculative thinking, and analytical acumen are on lavish display. The result is a labyrinthine map of the mind's journey to God.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Salutati¿s first surviving treatise was written for a lawyer who entered a Florentine monastery and requested a piece encouraging him to persevere in religious life. On the World and Religious Life is a wide-ranging reflection on humanity¿s misuse of God¿s creation and the need to orient human life with a proper hierarchy of values.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Lorenzo Valla (1406-1457) was the leading philologist of the first half of the fifteenth century, as well as a philosopher, theologian, and translator. His extant Latin letters, though few, afford a direct and unguarded window into the working life of the most passionate, difficult, and interesting of the Italian humanists.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In her introduction to Northanger Abbey¿part of Harvard¿s celebrated annotated Austen series¿Susan Wolfson proposes that Austen¿s most underappreciated, most playful novel is about fiction itself and how it can take possession of everyday understandings. Wolfson¿s running commentary will engage new readers and delight scholars.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Thomas Hobbes laid the theoretical groundwork of the nation-state in Leviathan, his tough-minded 1651 treatise. Charles Maier's Leviathan 2.0 updates this classic to explain how modern statehood took shape between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, before it unraveled into the political uncertainty that persists today.

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Metaphor supposes that an ordinary word could have been used, but instead something unexpected appears. The point of a metaphor is to enrich experience by bringing different associations to mind, by giving something a different life. The prophetic character of metaphor, Denis Donoghue says, changes the world by changing our sense of it.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Her performing days numbered, Josephine Baker did something outrageous: she transformed her chateau into a theme park whose main attraction was her Rainbow Tribe¿12 children from around the globe, adopted as the family of the future. Matthew Pratt Guterl concludes that Baker was a serious activist, determined to make a positive difference.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Revered as the birthplace of democracy, Athens is much more than an open-air museum filled with crumbling monuments to ancient glory. Athens takes readers on a journey from the classical city-state to today¿s contemporary capital, revealing a world-famous metropolis that has been resurrected and redefined time and again.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - American Tax Resisters gives a history of the anti-tax movement that, for the past 150 years, has pursued limited taxes on wealth and battled efforts to secure social justice through income redistribution. It explains how a once-marginal ideology became mainstream, elevating individual entrepreneurialism over sacrifice and solidarity.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Empire was not fabricated in European capitals and implemented ¿out there.¿ Imperial systems affected the metropole as well as the farthest outpost. Empires and the Reach of the Global shows how imperialism has been a shaping force not just in international politics but in the economies and cultures of today¿s world.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In Germany the end of World War II calls forth images of obliterated cities, hungry refugees, and ghostly monuments to Nazi crimes. Drawing on diaries, photographs, essays, reports, fiction and film, Werner Sollors makes visceral the sorrow and anger, guilt and pride, despondency and resilience of a defeated people--and the paradoxes of occupation.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Migrations and Belongings traces burgeoning population flows across several continents from 1870 to 1945 and explains the variables involved and the processes of acculturation by which ¿belonging¿ takes shape. Migration, it shows, is both a critique of unsatisfactory conditions in one society and a contribution of human capital to another.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Emily Rosenberg examines the social and cultural networks that emerged from global exchanges between 1870 and 1945. Transnational connections were being formed many decades before 'globalization' became a commonplace term in economic and political discourse, and these currents underscore the fluidity of spatial and personal identifications.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Offering a fresh look at trade during the second industrial revolution, Global Markets Transformed describes a world of commodities on the move¿wheat and rice, coffee and tobacco, oil and rubber, all traveling around the planet through commodity chains of producers, processors, transporters, and buyers, often invisible to one another.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In the 1960s and 1970s, analogies between sex discrimination and racial injustice became potent weapons in the battle for women's rights, as feminists borrowed rhetoric and legal arguments from the civil rights movement. Serena Mayeri's Reasoning from Race is the first history of this key strategy and its consequences for American law.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Louis Mandrin led a gang of bandits who brazenly smuggled contraband into eighteenth-century France. Michael Kwass brings new life to the legend of this Gallic Robin Hood, exposing the dark side of early modern globalization. Decades later, the memory of Mandrin inspired ordinary subjects and Enlightened philosophers alike to challenge royal power.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Focusing on a quantitative assessment of Brazil¿s economic performance 1976¿2009, Aldo Musacchio and Sergio Lazzarini analyze the rise of new species of state capitalism in which governments interact with private investors either as majority or minority shareholders in publicly-traded corporations or as financial backers of purely private firms.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Robert Tsai's history invites readers into the circle of defiant groups who refused to accept the Constitution's definition of who 'We the People' are and how their authority should be exercised. It is the story of America as told by dissenters: squatters, Native Americans, abolitionists, socialists, internationalists, and racial nationalists.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The defeat of the Ottomans by the Holy League fleet at Lepanto (1571) was among the most celebrated international events of the sixteenth century. The Battle of Lepanto anthologizes the work of twenty-two poets who composed Latin poetry in response to the news of the battle, the largest Mediterranean naval encounter since antiquity.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - For six terror-filled weeks in 1870 German armies bombarded Strasbourg, killing hundreds of citizens, wounding thousands, and destroying landmarks. Rachel Chrastil tells how the city became the epicenter of a new kind of warfare whose indiscriminate violence shocked contemporaries and led to debates over the wartime protection of civilians.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - By 1945 Washington and London envisioned a new era in which the U.S. shouldered global responsibilities while Britain focused its regional interests narrowly. Mapping the End of Empire reveals how AnglöAmerican perceptions of geography and perspectives on the Muslim world shaped postcolonial futures from the Middle East to South Asia.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - How can we live in such a way that we die only once How can we organize a society that gives us a better chance to be fully alive How can we reinvent religion so that it liberates us instead of consoling us These questions stand at the center of The Religion of the Future¿a book about religion and a religious work in its own right.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Culling the Masses questions the view that democracy and racism cannot coexist. Based on records from 22 countries 1790-2010, it offers a history of the rise and fall of racial selection in the Western Hemisphere, showing that democracies were first to select immigrants by race, and undemocratic states first to outlaw discrimination.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware 1044 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware 416 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware 284 pp. Englisch.