New Perspectives on the Past – serie
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Nations and Nationalism
Häftad, 2006
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
423 kr
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This updated edition of Ernest Gellner’s classic exploration of the roots of nationalism includes an extended introduction from John Breuilly, tracing the way the field has changed over the past two decades. As pertinent today as it was when it was first published in 1983. Argues that nationalism …
History of the Family
Häftad, 1989
564 kr
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The History of the Family concerns the changing interactions between family and social, political and religious structures over the last thousand years of European history. The family is usually described in terms of patterns of kinship, inheritance, and relations between sexes and generations. The …
Famine
Social Crisis and Historical Change
Av David Arnold
Häftad, 1988
580 kr
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In this original and timely work, David Arnold draws upon the history of Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe, to explain the origins and characteristics of famine. He considers whether some societies are more vulnerable to famine than others, and contests the assumption that those affected by …
Pre-Industrial Societies
New Perspectives on the Past
Häftad, 1989
580 kr
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One would not normally expect students of biology to dissect frogs without prior knowledge of frog anatomy; yet students of history are regularly expected to analyse pre-modern institutions and events without any prior knowledge whatsoever of the general anatomy of pre-industrial societies. Gifted …
Slavery
Inbunden, 2000
1563 kr
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This book is a cross-cultural examination of slavery. It draws material from the many regions, and widely separated historical periods, in which slavery has existed - ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, the Muslim societies of the Middle East and Africa, sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas. …
Slavery
Häftad, 2000
669 kr
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This book is a cross-cultural examination of slavery. It draws material from the many regions, and widely separated historical periods, in which slavery has existed - ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, the Muslim societies of the Middle East and Africa, sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas. …
Problem of Nature
Environment and Culture in Historical Perspective
Av David Arnold
Häftad, 1996
597 kr
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This book considers how nature - in both its biological and environmental manifestations - has been invoked as a dynamic force in human history. It shows how historians, philosophers, geographers, anthropologists and scientists have used ideas of nature to explain the evolution of cultures, to …
Logic of Culture
Authority and Identity in the Modern Era
Av William Ray
Häftad, 2001
580 kr
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This book proposes an analysis of the underlying 'logic' of culture, drawing on a wide range of material not previously examined in works of this kind.
Kingship
The Politics of Enchantmant
Inbunden, 2006
1308 kr
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From despots to powerless figureheads, and from the Neolithic era to the present, this book traces the history of kingship around the world and the tenacity of its connection with the sacred. Considers the many forms that kingship took during this period, including: the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt; …
Kingship
The Politics of Enchantmant
Häftad, 2006
569 kr
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From despots to powerless figureheads, and from the Neolithic era to the present, this book traces the history of kingship around the world and the tenacity of its connection with the sacred. Considers the many forms that kingship took during this period, including: the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt; …
Sociocultural Evolution
Calculation and Contingency
Häftad, 1998
746 kr
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Sociocultural evolution is the most important concept that has guided social science thought over the past 300 years. Throughout this time it has, however, been fiercely contested and has changed as it has slowly discarded the providential concerns that originally characterized it. This book traces …
