History of Ideas, Intellectual History
"Sans-Culottes"An Eighteenth-Century Emblem in the French Revolution
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Examines contemporary debates about Ciceronian, Cynic, and Cartesian moral philosophy, as well as subjects ranging from music and the origins of government to property and the nature of the human soul. This book opens up fresh perspectives on the Enlightenment, and eighteenth-century moral and political philosophy. With 6 halftones.. Hardback, 508 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 873g.
Author: Sonenscher, Michael
ISBN: 0691124981
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
Date: 2008 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational History of Ideas, Intellectual History
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"Scholastic Humanism and the Unification of Europe Heroic Age - the Reshaping of Knowledge and Government"
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"Scholastic Humanism & the Unification of Europe" series; This second of three volumes focuses on the period from c.1090-1212. The volume explores the lives, scholarly resources and contributions of a wide sample of people who either took part in the creation of the scholastic system of thought or gave practical effect to it in public life. With 0. Paperback, 240 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 301g.
Author: Southern, R.W.
ISBN: 0631220798
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Date: 2000 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational History of Ideas, Intellectual History (V. 2)
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"Hollow Earth"The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations and Marvelous Machines Below the Earth's Surface
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A cultural history of ideas about what might exist under the Earth's surface. This work explores how each era's relationship to the notion of a hollow earth reflected its particular hopes, fears and values. It features a collection of artwork including Bosch's surreal nightmares of Hell, and 17th-century maps and diagrams of the interior. With 57 b&w photos, painting, artwork. Paperback, 304 pages. Size: 207 x 156 mm. Weight: 456g.
Author: Standish, David
ISBN: 0306815338
Publisher: The Perseus Books Group
Date: 2007 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) History of Ideas, Intellectual History
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"For the Glory of God"How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery
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Argues that, whether we like it or not, people acting for the glory of God have formed our modern culture. This book shows that the Christian conception of God resulted - almost inevitably and for the same reasons - in the Protestant Reformation, the rise of modern science, the European witch-hunts, and the Western abolition of slavery. With 30 halftones. 13 tables.. Paperback, 504 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 714g.
Author: Stark, Rodney
ISBN: 0691119503
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
Date: 2004 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational History of Ideas, Intellectual History
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"The Origins of Freemasonry"Scotland's Century, 1590 - 1710
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An account of the origins of freemasonry, a brotherhood of men bound together by secret initiatives, rituals and modes of identification with ideals of fraternity, equality, toleration and reason. Beginning in Britain, it swept across Europe, yet its origins is debated. The author demonstrates that its real origins lie in Scotland around 1600. With 14 halftones. New ed. Paperback, 263 pages. Size: 229 x 153 mm. Weight: 377g.
Author: Stevenson, David
ISBN: 0521396549
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 1990 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational History of Ideas, Intellectual History
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"Stirner: the Ego and Its Own"
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"Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought" series; A new edition of a striking 19th-century German polemic against left Hegelianism and socialism. With 2 figures. New ed. Paperback, 428 pages. Size: 217 x 140 mm. Weight: 600g.
Author: Stirner, Max (Leopold, David, ed.)
ISBN: 0521456479
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 1995 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational History of Ideas, Intellectual History
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"History of Political Philosophy"
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This volume provides an unequaled introduction to the thought of chief contributors to the Western tradition of political philosophy from classical Greek antiquity to the twentieth century. Written by specialists on the various philosophers, this third edition has been expanded significantly to include both new and revised essays. With ill.. 3 rev ed. Paperback, 992 pages. Size: 254 x 178 mm. Weight: 1289g.
Author: Strauss, Leo Cropsey, Joseph
ISBN: 0226777103
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Date: 1987 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational History of Ideas, Intellectual History
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"Makers of Modern Culture"Five Twentieth-Century Thinkers
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An examination of the lives of five important European intellectuals - Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Joyce and Jean-Paul Sartre. Each chapter concentrates on one of those figures, presenting a concise overview of their personal life and contributions. Paperback, 129 pages. Size: 216 x 127 mm. Weight: 170g.
Author: Stromberg, Roland N.
ISBN: 0882958755
Publisher: Harlan Davidson Inc
Date: 1991 (United States)
Readership: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly History of Ideas, Intellectual History
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"The Sociology of Social Change"
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Reappraises the legacy of sociological thinking about change, from the classical to the contemporary, covering the four grand visions of social and historical change which have dominated the field since the 19th century: the evolutionary, the cyclical, the dialectical and the post-developmentalist. With 0. Paperback, 368 pages. Size: 244 x 172 mm. Weight: 654g.
Author: Sztompka, Piotr
ISBN: 0631182063
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Date: 1993 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational History of Ideas, Intellectual History
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"The Passion of the Western Mind"Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View
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A collection of the pivotal ideas from the great minds of Western civilization. From Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from Copernicus to Freud, their concepts are described simply but without simplifying them. Paperback, 544 pages. Size: 197 x 126 mm. Weight: 378g.
Author: Tarnas, Richard
ISBN: 0712673326
Publisher: Vintage
Date: 1996 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) History of Ideas, Intellectual History
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"Books That Changed the World"The 50 Most Influential Books
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Features an analysis of books from various fields of human creativity and intellectual endeavour. This book sets each work and its author in historical context, summarizes the content of the work in question, and explores its influence and legacy. With 50 b&w illustrations. Hardback, 208 pages. Size: 265 x 185 mm. Weight: 954g.
Author: Taylor, Andrew
ISBN: 1847246028
Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) History of Ideas, Intellectual History
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"Religion and the Decline of Magic"Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England
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"Penguin History" series; This analysis of popular belief in England begins with the collapse of the medieval Church and ends with the change in the intellectual atmosphere around 1700. New ed. Paperback, 880 pages. Size: 198 x 128 mm. Weight: 700g.
Author: Thomas, Keith
ISBN: 0140137440
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date: 1991 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) History of Ideas, Intellectual History
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"The Crisis of Church and State, 1050-1300"
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"Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching" series; New ed. Paperback, 224 pages. Size: 230 x 150 mm. Weight: 335g.
Author: Tierney, Brian
ISBN: 0802067018
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Date: 1988 (Canada)
Readership: Professional & Vocational History of Ideas, Intellectual History
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"Contesting Cultural Authority"Essays in Victorian Intellectual Life
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A volume of essays which constitutes a major overview of the Victorian intellectual enterprise. Paperback, 384 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 594g.
Author: Turner, Frank M.
ISBN: 0521068789
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational History of Ideas, Intellectual History
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"Vico: the First New Science"
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"Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought" series; Annotated student edition of Vico's First New Science, an important and previously untranslated text. With glossary, bibliography, chronology, index. Paperback, 366 pages. Size: 215 x 135 mm. Weight: 491g.
Author: Vico, Giambattista (Pompa, Leon, ed.)
ISBN: 0521387264
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 2002 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational History of Ideas, Intellectual History
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