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  • Languages of Reform in the Eighteenth Century

    When Europe Lost Its Fear of Change

    Edited by Susan Richter, Thomas Maissen, Manuela Albertone ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Early Modern History
    Societies perceive "Reform" or "Reforms" as substantial changes and significant breaks which must be well-justified. The Enlightenment brought forth the idea that the future was uncertain and could be shaped by human beings. This gave the concept of reform a new character and new fields of application. Those who sought support for their plans and actions needed to reflect, develop new arguments, ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • National History and New Nationalism in the Twenty-First Century

    A Global Comparison

    Edited by Niels F. May, Thomas Maissen ...
    Series series Routledge Approaches to History
    National history has once again become a battlefield. In internal political conflicts, which are fought on the terrain of popular culture, museums, schoolbooks, and memorial politics, it has taken on a newly important and contested role. Irrespective of national specifics, the narratives of new nationalism are quite similar everywhere. National history is said to stretch back many centuries, ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • Democratic Enlightenment

    Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750-1790

    by Jonathan Israel ...
    The Enlightenment shaped modernity. Western values of representative democracy and basic human rights, gender and racial equality, individual liberty, and freedom of expression and the press, form an interlocking system that derives directly from the Enlightenment's philosophical revolution. This fact is uncontested - yet remarkably few historians or philosophers have attempted to trace the ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Political Violence in Twentieth-Century Europe

    Edited by Donald Bloxham, Robert Gerwarth ...
    This is a comprehensive history of political violence during Europe's incredibly violent twentieth century. Leading scholars examine the causes and dynamics of war, revolution, counterrevolution, genocide, ethnic cleansing, terrorism and state repression. They locate these manifestations of political violence within their full transnational and comparative contexts and within broader trends in ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Unfabling the East

    The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia

    by Jürgen Osterhammel ...
    Translated by Robert Savage ...
    How Enlightenment Europe rediscovered its identity by measuring itself against the great civilizations of AsiaDuring the long eighteenth century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. In this panoramic and colorful book, Jürgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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  • The Intellectual Temptation

    Dangerous Ideas in Politics

    by Frits Bolkestein ...
    an absorbing (and beautifully written) study that deserves a very wide audience.- Joshua Muravchikan erudite account of where [the] vision [of individual liberty] comes from, why some ideologues set themselves against it, and how our contemporaries have ceased to treasure it.- Christopher CaldwellBolkestein exposes todays fashionable, yet dangerous ideas, doing a great service not only to Europe ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism

    Edited by John Breuilly ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism comprises thirty six essays by an international team of leading scholars, providing a global coverage of the history of nationalism in its different aspects - ideas, sentiments, and politics. Every chapter takes the form of an interpretative essay which, by a combination of thematic focus, comparison, and regional perspective, enables the reader to ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Contributions to L'Année Sociologique

    by Emile Durkheim ...
    These reviews, notices, and introductory sections by a major figure in intellectual history represent more than a decade of effort to define and clarify a new form of scientific investigation. Together, they offer a suggestive new picture of Emile Durkheim as "Scholarch" of the "French School" and master of a whole school of social thought.For fifteen years, Emile Durkheim worked on the journal L ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Revolutions and Counter-Revolutions

    1917 and its Aftermath from a Global Perspective

    by Stefan Rinke, Michael Wildt, Birgit Aschmann, Jan Claas Behrends, Dietrich Beyrau, Robert Gerwarth, David Hopkins, Patrick J. Houlihan, Tomio Izao0, Abdulhamit Kirmizi1, Jörn Leonhard2, Ricardo Pérez Montfort3, Jan Schmidt4, María Inés Tato5, Adam Tooze6, Enric Ucelay-Da Cal7, Klaus Weinhauer8, Guoqi Xu9 ...
    Series Book 34 - Eigene und Fremde Welten
    1917 was an important year in world history and not just because of the United States' entry into the First World War and the Russian Revolution. It is rightly considered the turning point of the war and the foundational moment for determining structures of the short 20th century. Contemporaries realized these global connections yet in a historiography limited to the nation-state they did not gain ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns

    by Domenico Losurdo, Fredric Jameson ...
    Translated by Jon Morris, Marella Morris ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    Available in English for the first time, Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns revives discussion of the major political and philosophical tenets underlying contemporary liberalism through a revolutionary interpretation of G. W. F. Hegel’s thought. Domenico Losurdo,one of the world’s leading Hegelians, reveals that the philosopher was fully engaged with the political controversies of his time. In so ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • After the Nazi Racial State

    Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe

    by Rita Chin, Heide Fehrenbach, Geoff Eley, Atina Grossmann ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    "After the Nazi Racial State offers a comprehensive, persuasive, and ambitious argument in favor of making 'race' a more central analytical category for the writing of post-1945 history. This is an extremely important project, and the volume indeed has the potential to reshape the field of post-1945 German history."---Frank Biess, University of California, San DiegoWhat happened to "race," race ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Androids in the Enlightenment

    Mechanics, Artisans, and Cultures of the Self

    by Adelheid Voskuhl ...
    The eighteenth century saw the creation of a number of remarkable mechanical androids: at least ten prominent automata were built between 1735 and 1810 by clockmakers, court mechanics, and other artisans from France, Switzerland, Austria, and the German lands. Designed to perform sophisticated activities such as writing, drawing, or music making, these “Enlightenment automata” have attracted ... Read more

    $20.99 USD