Lawrence Stone Lectures – serie
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17 produkter
Rules
A Short History of What We Live By
Häftad, 2023
225 kr
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A panoramic history of rules in the Western worldRules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organize the rites of life, from birth through death. We may chafe …
Time and Power
Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich
Inbunden, 2019
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
366 kr
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From the author of the national bestseller The Sleepwalkers, a book about how the exercise of power is shaped by different concepts of timeThis groundbreaking book presents new perspectives on how the exercise of power is shaped by different notions of time. Acclaimed historian Christopher Clark …
Sleepwalking into a New World
The Emergence of Italian City Communes in the Twelfth Century
Inbunden, 2015
403 kr
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Amid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a new form of collective government--the commune--arose in the cities of northern and central Italy. Sleepwalking into a New World takes a bold new look at how these autonomous city-states came about, and …
Citizenship, Inequality, and Difference
Historical Perspectives
Häftad, 2021
289 kr
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A succinct and comprehensive history of the development of citizenship from the Roman Empire to the present dayCitizenship, Inequality, and Difference offers a concise and sweeping overview of citizenship's complex evolution, from ancient Rome to the present. Political leaders and thinkers still …
Not Even Past
Barack Obama and the Burden of Race
Inbunden, 2010
227 kr
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Barack Obama, in his acclaimed campaign speech discussing the troubling complexities of race in America today, quoted William Faulkner's famous remark "The past isn't dead and buried. In fact, it isn't even past." In Not Even Past, award-winning historian Thomas Sugrue examines the paradox of race …
Pity of Partition
Manto's Life, Times, and Work across the India-Pakistan Divide
Av Ayesha Jalal
Inbunden, 2013
379 kr
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Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) was an established Urdu short story writer and a rising screenwriter in Bombay at the time of India's partition in 1947, and he is perhaps best known for the short stories he wrote following his migration to Lahore in newly formed Pakistan. Today Manto is an …
Rules
A Short History of What We Live By
Inbunden, 2022
443 kr
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A panoramic history of rules in the Western worldRules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organize the rites of life, from birth through death. We may chafe …
Sea of Storms
A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina
Inbunden, 2015
429 kr
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The diverse cultures of the Caribbean have been shaped as much by hurricanes as they have by diplomacy, commerce, or the legacy of colonial rule. In this panoramic work of social history, Stuart Schwartz examines how Caribbean societies have responded to the dangers of hurricanes, and how these …
No Enchanted Palace
The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations
Häftad, 2013
209 kr
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No Enchanted Palace traces the origins and early development of the United Nations, one of the most influential yet perhaps least understood organizations active in the world today. Acclaimed historian Mark Mazower forces us to set aside the popular myth that the UN miraculously rose from the ashes …
Citizenship, Inequality, and Difference
Historical Perspectives
Inbunden, 2018
403 kr
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A succinct and comprehensive history of the development of citizenship from the Roman Empire to the present dayCitizenship, Inequality, and Difference offers a concise and sweeping overview of citizenship's complex evolution, from ancient Rome to the present. Political leaders and thinkers still …
Sea of Storms
A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina
Häftad, 2016
306 kr
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The diverse cultures of the Caribbean have been shaped as much by hurricanes as they have by diplomacy, commerce, or the legacy of colonial rule. In this panoramic work of social history, Stuart Schwartz examines how Caribbean societies have responded to the dangers of hurricanes, and how these …
Sleepwalking into a New World
The Emergence of Italian City Communes in the Twelfth Century
Häftad, 2018
377 kr
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A bold new history of the rise of the medieval Italian communeAmid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a new form of collective government—the commune—arose in the cities of northern and central Italy. Sleepwalking into a New World takes a bold new look …
Living I Was Your Plague
Martin Luther's World and Legacy
Av Lyndal Roper
Inbunden, 2021
415 kr
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From the author of the acclaimed biography Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet, new perspectives on how Luther and others crafted his larger-than-life imageMartin Luther was a controversial figure during his lifetime, eliciting strong emotions in friends and enemies alike, and his outsized persona …
Living I Was Your Plague
Martin Luther's World and Legacy
Av Lyndal Roper
Häftad, 2023
252 kr
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From the author of the acclaimed biography Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet, new perspectives on how Luther and others crafted his larger-than-life imageMartin Luther was a controversial figure during his lifetime, eliciting strong emotions in friends and enemies alike, and his outsized persona …
Time and Power
Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich
Häftad, 2021
218 kr
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From the bestselling author of The Sleepwalkers, a book about how the exercise of power is shaped by different concepts of timeThis groundbreaking book presents new perspectives on how the exercise of power is shaped by different notions of time. Acclaimed historian Christopher Clark draws on four …
Magdalena Coline
A Life Beyond Slavery in Mediterranean Europe
Inbunden, 2025
315 kr
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The courtroom drama that denied the legitimacy of slavery in late medieval EuropeIn 1387, a young Muslim woman from North Africa was captured on a galley in the Bay of Naples and brought to Marseille as a slave. For more than ten years, she was held in bondage to a shipwright and privateer named …
Before West and East
The Byzantine Empire in World History
Inbunden, 2027
271 kr
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A revelatory new history of Byzantium that shows it was a center of global power for a thousand years, dominating the medieval world and shaping the emergence of the Latin West and the Muslim EastThe seeds of contemporary Western culture are rightly identified with Greece, Rome, and Christianity. …
