History Theory category: 16752 books
Resistance, Heroism, Loss
World War II in Italian Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
In no other country in Europe has national identity been so closely bound to memories of the war. Italy’s Republic was born of World War II, its constitution defined by anti-Fascism, its parties self-identified with national Resistance. Because of their importance to the nation’s identity, the...
by Shibani Kinkar Chaube
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
This volume is a theoretico-empirical study of nations and nationalism on a global scale. It enquires if the idea of the nation, by its own logic, is feasible and whether India fulfils the requirement of nationhood with a reasonable prospect of survival. The monograph engages with the theories of...
Adventures in the French Trade
Fragments Toward a Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
This memoir is less a chronicle of the life of a leading scholar and critic of matters French than a series of differently angled fragments, each with its attendant surprise, in what one commentator has called Jeffrey Mehlman's amour vache—his injured and occasionally injurious love—for France...
The Spatiality of Emotion in Early Modern China
From Dreamscapes to Theatricality
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Emotion takes place. Rather than an interior state of mind in response to the outside world, emotion per se is spatial, at turns embedding us from without, transporting us somewhere else, or putting us ahead of ourselves. In this book, Ling Hon Lam gives a deeply original account of the history of...
Reforming Ideas in Britain
Politics and Language in the Shadow of the French Revolution, 1789–1815
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Between 1789 and 1815, Britain faced a surge of challenges brought about by the French Revolution. Growing tensions with France, then the outbreak of war, exacerbated domestic political controversy, giving rise to new forms of political protest, to which the government responded with ever-increasing...
Counter-Enlightenments
From the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
The Enlightenment and its legacy are still actively debated, with the Enlightenment acting as a key organizing concept in philosophy, social theory and the history of ideas.
Counter-Enlightenments is the first full-length study to deal with the history and development of counter-enlightenment...
Everyday Examples
An Introduction to Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
"Free will: mental energy that poofs into existence from scratch?"
In pairing key ideas from the history of philosophy with examples from everyday life and culture, David Cunning produces a clear, incisive and engaging introduction to philosophy. Everyday Examples explores historical...
by Niccolo Machiavelli
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccolò Machiavelli. But while his treatise The Prince made his name synonymous with autocratic ruthlessness and cynical manipulation, The Discourses (c.1517) shows a radically different outlook on the world of politics....
Marx and Engels's "German ideology" Manuscripts
Presentation and Analysis of the "Feuerbach chapter"
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Since the 1920s, scholars have promoted a set of manuscripts, long abandoned by Marx and Engels, to canonical status in book form as The German Ideology, and in particular its 'first chapter,' known as 'I. Feuerbach.' Part one of this revolutionary study relates in detail the political history through...
The H-Word
The Peripeteia of Hegemony
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
A fascinating history of the political theory of hegemony
Few terms are so widely used in the literature of international relations and political science, with so little agreement about their exact meaning, as hegemony.
In the first full historical study of its fortunes as a concept,...
by John Locke
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
A highly influential figure in the Age of Enlightenment in England and France, whose works helped inspire the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, John Locke was one of the most important political theorists in Western history. In The Second Treatise of Government, a major contribution...
Enlightened War
German Theories and Cultures of Warfare from Frederick the Great to Clausewitz
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Enlightened War investigates the multiple and complex interactions between warfare and Enlightenment thought. Although the Enlightenment is traditionally identified with the ideals of progress, eternal peace, reason, and self-determination, Enlightenment discourse unfolded during a period of prolonged...
by Joseph Isaac Lifshitz
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
This book is a scholarly examination of the political thought of Rabbi Meir (Maharam) of Rothenburg, the most important thirteenth century German Rabbi who was associated with the Pietist movement of the period. From the Maharam's responsa on community matters, a coherent political thought emerges...
The Accommodated Animal
Cosmopolity in Shakespearean Locales
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Shakespeare wrote of lions, shrews, horned toads, curs, mastiffs, and hellhounds. But the word “animal” itself only appears very rarely in his work, which was in keeping with sixteenth-century usage. As Laurie Shannon reveals in The Accommodated Animal, the modern human / animal divide first came...