Palgrave imprint: 15119 books
Master-Servant Childhood
A History of the Idea of Childhood in Medieval English Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
An interdisciplinary synthesis that offers a new understanding of childhood in the Middle Ages as a form of master-servant relation embedded in an ancient sense of time as a correspondence between earthly change and eternal order.
The Dream of a Democratic Culture
Mortimer J. Adler and the Great Books Idea
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
This book presents a moderately revisionist history of the great books idea anchored in the following movements and struggles: fighting anti-intellectualism, advocating for the liberal arts, distributing cultural capital, and promoting a public philosophy, anchored in mid-century liberalism, that fostered a shared civic culture.
The Development of Early Childhood Education in Europe and North America
Historical and Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
The public provision of early childhood education has developed at different rates across individual countries over the past two centuries. This book provides the historical background to explain how these national differences occurred, with particular reference to welfare and educational systems, to highlight how particular influences grew.
by S. Cleary
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This book is an existential study of romantic loving. It draws on five existential philosophers to offer insights into what is wrong with our everyday ideas about romantic loving, why reality often falls short of the ideal, sources of frustrations and disappointments, and possibilities for creating authentically meaningful relationships.
by Wesley Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
Metaphysics and Music in Adorno and Heidegger explains how two notoriously opposed German philosophers share a rethinking of the possibility of metaphysics via notions of music and waiting. This is connected to the historical materialist project of social change by way of the radical Italian composer Luigi Nono.
by M. Foucault
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
The Courage of the Truth is the last course that Michel Foucault delivered at the College de France before his death in 1984. In this course, he continues the theme of the previous year's lectures in exploring the notion of "truth-telling" in politics to establish a number of ethically irreducible conditionsbased on courage and conviction.
Maurice Dobb
Political Economist
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
This book explores the life of the man whom even his critics acknowledged was one of the world's most significant Communist economists. From his outpost at the University of Cambridge, where he was a protégé of John Maynard Keynes and mentor to students, Dobb made himself into one of British communism's premier intellectuals.
by Professor Donald M. MacRaild, Dr Avram Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2004
The expansion of social history that took place in the twentieth century has produced some of the most exciting works in the field of historical studies. As the range of the social historian's concerns has grown, so has the range of methodologies and theoretical approaches they employ. Historians have...
Objects of Time
How Things Shape Temporality
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
This is a book about time, but it is also about much more than time—it is about how the objects we use to think about time shape our thoughts. Because time ties together so many aspects of our lives, this book is able to explore the nexus of objects, cognition, culture, and even biology, and to do so in relationship to globalization.
by Jerome Teelucksingh
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Afro-Caribbean personalities coupled with trade unions and organizations provided the ideology and leadership to empower the working class and also hastened the end of colonialism in the Anglophone Caribbean.
Leadership in Colonial Africa
Disruption of Traditional Frameworks and Patterns
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Taken together, the chapters in this book represent a tapestry of leadership frameworks and cultures in colonial Africa. Scholars across disciplines explore the nature and evolution of leadership born of the colonial encounter between white colonialists and native Africans as well as the leadership...
George Padmore and Decolonization from Below
Pan-Africanism, the Cold War, and the End of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
This book argues that the rising tide of anti-colonialism after the 1930s should be considered a turning point not just in harnessing a new mood or feeling of unity, but primarily as one that viewed empire, racism, and economic degradation as part of a system that fundamentally required the application of strategy to their destruction.
The Other Special Relationship
Race, Rights, and Riots in Britain and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
The close diplomatic, economic, and military ties that comprising the "special relationship" between the United States and Great Britain have received plenty of attention from historians over the years. Less frequently noted are the countries' shared experiences of empire, white supremacy,...
On The Government of the Living
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1979-1980
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
With these lectures Foucault inaugurates his investigations of truth-telling in the ethical domain of practices of techniques of the self. How and why, he asks, does the government of men require those subject to power to be subjects who must tell the truth about themselves?