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The Western Intellectual Tradition
Av Jacob Bronowski, Bruce Mazlish
Häftad, 1962
285 kr
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A New Science
The Breakdown of Connections and the Birth of Sociology
Inbunden, 1989
2422 kr
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In this book Bruce Mazlish examines the historical origins of sociology, especially in terms of its relationship to the humanities and to economics. He is particularly concerned with how omnipresent substitution of money for personal relations changed the nature of human relations in the nineteenth …
New Science
The Breakdown of Connections and the Birth of Sociology
E-bok, 1989
1548 kr
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In this book Mazlish examines the historical origins of sociology, looking closely at how what he terms the "cash nexus"--the omnipresent substitution of money for personal relations--was perceived as changing the nature of human relations in the 19th century and led to the development of sociology …
New Science
The Breakdown of Connections and the Birth of Sociology
Häftad, 1993
601 kr
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"What makes this book stand out is the way in which Mazlish situates sociology in the broader context of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century social thought. This is the most interesting treatment I have read of how there came to be a felt need for sociology, of how a place was created in …
Fourth Discontinuity
The Co-Evolution of Humans and Machines
Häftad, 1995
492 kr
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From Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to current films like The Terminator about menacing androids, writers have expressed concern about computers and biogenetic creations taking over or altering human life. In this engrossing and lively book, Bruce Mazlish discusses the complex relationship between …
Global History Reader
Inbunden, 2004
2585 kr
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This groundbreaking work brings together an important collection of essays from an international range of contributors to set globalization in its historical context.Through these thematically focused essays, the history of the world is examined in key themes that transcend national boundaries such …
Global History Reader
Häftad, 2004
667 kr
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This groundbreaking work brings together an important collection of essays from an international range of contributors to set globalization in its historical context.Through these thematically focused essays, the history of the world is examined in key themes that transcend national boundaries such …
New Global History
Inbunden, 2006
2585 kr
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From a distinguished author in the field, The New Global History is a critical inquiry into the historical process of globalization, which is seen as a distinctly twentieth century phenomenon with its roots in the age of expansion of the early modern world. Cutting across disciplinary boundaries, …
New Global History
Häftad, 2006
667 kr
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From a distinguished author in the field, The New Global History is a critical inquiry into the historical process of globalization, which is seen as a distinctly twentieth century phenomenon with its roots in the age of expansion of the early modern world. Cutting across disciplinary boundaries, …
Progress
Fact or Illusion?
E-bok, 2025
1102 kr
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Progress, perhaps the fundamental secular belief of modern Western society, has come under heavy fire recently because, after three centuries, advances in science and technology seem increasingly to bring problems in their wake: alienation, environmental degradation, the threat of nuclear …
Leviathans
Multinational Corporations and the New Global History
Av Alfred D. Chandler Jr, Bruce Mazlish
Häftad, 2005
754 kr
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A ground-breaking 2005 exploration of multinational corporations that differs from other books on the subject by offering the reader a totally global perspective of multinationals without portraying them simply as economic entities. Written by experts on various aspects of the history, development, …
Leviathans
Multinational Corporations and the New Global History
Av Alfred D. Chandler Jr, Bruce Mazlish
Inbunden, 2005
1677 kr
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A ground-breaking 2005 exploration of multinational corporations that differs from other books on the subject by offering the reader a totally global perspective of multinationals without portraying them simply as economic entities. Written by experts on various aspects of the history, development, …
Civilization and Its Contents
Inbunden, 2005
1112 kr
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"Civilization" is a constantly invoked term. It is used by both politicians and scholars. How useful, in fact, is this term? Civilization and Its Contents traces the origins of the concept in the eighteenth century. It shows its use as a colonial ideology, and then as a support for racism. The term …
Civilization and Its Contents
Häftad, 2005
266 kr
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"Civilization" is a constantly invoked term. It is used by both politicians and scholars. How useful, in fact, is this term? Civilization and Its Contents traces the origins of the concept in the eighteenth century. It shows its use as a colonial ideology, and then as a support for racism. The term …
Paradox of a Global USA
Av Bruce Mazlish, Nayan Chanda m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1193 kr
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The Paradox of a Global USA describes the vexed relationship between the United States and globalization. On the one hand, the U.S. has vociferously promoted modernization and open markets, both central components of the process of globalization. On the other hand, it appears to be resolutely …
Paradox of a Global USA
Av Bruce Mazlish, Nayan Chanda m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
288 kr
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The Paradox of a Global USA describes the vexed relationship between the United States and globalization. On the one hand, the U.S. has vociferously promoted modernization and open markets, both central components of the process of globalization. On the other hand, it appears to be resolutely …
Civilization and Its Contents
E-bok, 2005
321 kr
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"Civilization" is a constantly invoked term. It is used by both politicians and scholars. How useful, in fact, is this term? Civilization and Its Contents traces the origins of the concept in the eighteenth century. It shows its use as a colonial ideology, and then as a support for racism. The term …
James and John Stuart Mill
Av Bruce Mazlish, Bruce Mazlish
Häftad, 1988
811 kr
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The story of James and John Stuart Mill is one of the great dramas of the 19thcentury. In the tense yet loving struggle of this extraordinarily influential father and son, we can see the genesis of evolution of Liberal ideas-about love, sex, and women, wealth and work, authority and rebellion-which …
New Global History
E-bok, 2006
768 kr
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From a distinguished author in the field, The New Global History is a critical inquiry into the historical process of globalization, which is seen as a distinctly twentieth century phenomenon with its roots in the age of expansion of the early modern world. Cutting across disciplinary boundaries, …
New Global History
E-bok, 2006
785 kr
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From a distinguished author in the field, The New Global History is a critical inquiry into the historical process of globalization, which is seen as a distinctly twentieth century phenomenon with its roots in the age of expansion of the early modern world. Cutting across disciplinary boundaries, …
Reflections on the Modern and the Global
Häftad, 2017
749 kr
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Over the past five hundred years, historians and other social scientists have perceived an extraordinary occurance: the transition from the Middle Ages, via the Renaissance, to modernity. Equally remarkable has been the transition taking place in the last fifty years from modernity to …
In Search of Nixon
A Psychohistorical Inquiry
Av Bruce Mazlish, Bruce Mazlish
Inbunden, 2017
2510 kr
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Who was the real Richard Nixon and why did he behave the way he did? In this innovative work, a distinguished historian, trained in psychoanalysis, unravels the riddle of Nixon's singularly opaque political personality. Neither a political biography, nor a clinical psychoanalysis, at the time of …
James and John Stuart Mill
Av Bruce Mazlish, Bruce Mazlish
Inbunden, 2017
2510 kr
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The story of James and John Stuart Mill is one of the great dramas of the 19thcentury. In the tense yet loving struggle of this extraordinarily influential father and son, we can see the genesis of evolution of Liberal ideas-about love, sex, and women, wealth and work, authority and rebellion-which …
Leader, the Led, and the Psyche
Essays in Psychohistory
Av Edward Alexander, Bruce Mazlish
Inbunden, 2017
1520 kr
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In this book of absorbing stories, Bruce Mazlish illuminates the lives of intellectual and political leaders with the penetrating light of psychohistory and in doing so illuminates our own lives as well. A pioneer in this field, Mazlish demonstrates that study of the origins of leaders their …
Revolutionary Ascetic
Evolution of a Political Type
Inbunden, 2017
2510 kr
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Why have the great revolutionary leaders of modern times from Robespierre to Lenin and Mao Tse-tung‘so often been ascetics, austere "puritans" with few emotional ties? What functions, political as well as personal, do these ascetic traits perform for the modern revolutionary leader and for his …
Uncertain Sciences
Inbunden, 2017
2585 kr
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This sweeping inquiry into the present condition of the human sciences addresses the central questions: What sort of knowledge do the human sciences claim to be offering? To what extent can that knowledge be called scientific? and What do we mean by "scientific" in such a context?In this …
Uncertain Sciences
E-bok, 2017
953 kr
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This sweeping inquiry into the present condition of the human sciences addresses the central questions: What sort of knowledge do the human sciences claim to be offering? To what extent can that knowledge be called scientific? and What do we mean by "scientific" in such a context? In this …
Uncertain Sciences
E-bok, 2017
953 kr
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This sweeping inquiry into the present condition of the human sciences addresses the central questions: What sort of knowledge do the human sciences claim to be offering? To what extent can that knowledge be called scientific? and What do we mean by "scientific" in such a context? In this …
Revolutionary Ascetic
Evolution of a Political Type
E-bok, 2017
910 kr
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Why have the great revolutionary leaders of modern times from Robespierre to Lenin and Mao Tse-tung‘so often been ascetics, austere "puritans" with few emotional ties? What functions, political as well as personal, do these ascetic traits perform for the modern revolutionary leader and for his …
Revolutionary Ascetic
Evolution of a Political Type
E-bok, 2017
864 kr
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Why have the great revolutionary leaders of modern times from Robespierre to Lenin and Mao Tse-tung‘so often been ascetics, austere "puritans" with few emotional ties? What functions, political as well as personal, do these ascetic traits perform for the modern revolutionary leader and for his …
