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Nature Engaged
Science in Practice from the Renaissance to the Present
AvM. Biagioli,J. Riskin
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
1 119 kr
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This volume gathers essays that focus on the worldliness of science, its inseparable engagement in the major institutional bases of social life: law, market, church, school, and nation. With a chronological span reaching from the Renaissance to Big Science, its topics range from sundials to genetic sequences, from calculating instruments to devices that simulate human behavior, from early cartography to techniques for tracing radioactive fallout on a global scale. The book aims to show readers, with episodes drawn from the span of their modern history, the sciences in action throughout human society.
Recovering Bishop Berkeley
Virtue and Society in the Anglo-Irish Context
AvS. Breuninger
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
547 kr
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Through a close analysis of key texts and the larger historical contexts within which they were composed, this study explores George Berkeley's engagement with the social and economic threats facing Ireland and Britain, highlighting his belief that virtue and religion could play crucial roles in alleviating these problems.
American Bourgeoisie
Distinction and Identity in the Nineteenth Century
AvJ. Rosenbaum,S. Beckert
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
1 119 kr
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This volume engages a fundamental disciplinary question about this period in American history: how did the bourgeoisie consolidate their power and fashion themselves not simply as economic leaders but as cultural innovators and arbiters? It also explains how culture helped Americans form both a sense of shared identity and a sense of difference.
Carl Gustav Jung
Avant-Garde Conservative
AvJ. Sherry
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
563 kr
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Carl Gustav Jung has always been a popular but never a fashionable thinker. His ground-breaking theories about dream interpretation and psychological types have often been overshadowed by allegations that he was anti-Semitic and a Nazi sympathizer. Most accounts have unfortunately been marred by factual errors and quotes taken out of context; this has been due to the often partisan sympathies of those who have written about him. This book provides a more accurate and comprehensive account of Jung's controversial opinions about art, politics, and race.
Character, Self, and Sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment
AvT. Ahnert
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
1 119 kr
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An interdisciplinary examination of the Enlightenment character and its broader significance. Whilst the main focus of the book is the Scottish Enlightenment, contributors also employ a transatlantic scope by considering parallel developments in Europe, and America.
Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought
Transpositions of Empire
AvS. Dorsett,I. Hunter
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
563 kr
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A collection that focuses on the role of European law in colonial contexts and engages with recent treatments of this theme in known works written largely from within the framework of postcolonial studies, which implicitly discuss colonial deployments of European law and politics via the concept of ideology.
Religious Transactions in Colonial South India
Language, Translation, and the Making of Protestant Identity
AvH. Israel
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
547 kr
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Religious Transactions in Colonial South India locates the "making" of Protestant identities in South India within several contesting discourses. It examines evolving attitudes to translation and translation practices in the Tamil literary and sacred landscapes initiated by early missionary translations of the Bible in Tamil. Situating the Tamil Bible firmly within intersecting religious, literary, and social contexts, Hephzibah Israel offers a fresh perspective on the translated Bible as an object of cultural transfer. She focuses on conflicts in three key areas of translation - locating a sacred lexicon, the politics of language registers and "standard versions," and competing generic categories - as discursive sites within which Protestant identities have been articulated by Tamils. By widening the cultural and historical framework of the Tamil Bible, this book is the first to analyze the links connecting language use, translation practices, and caste affiliations in the articulation of Protestant identities in India.
Sir John Malcolm and the Creation of British India
AvJ. Harrington
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
563 kr
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Through his writings, the leading East India Company servant, Sir John Malcolm helped to shape the historical thought of British empire-building in India. This book uses his works to examine the intellectual history of British expansion in South Asia, and shed light on the history of orientalism and indirect rule and the formation of British power.
Benjamin Constant and the Birth of French Liberalism
AvK. Steven Vincent
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
547 kr
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This book advances a new interpretation of the timing and character of French (and more broadly European) liberalism, and contributes to the ongoing debate concerning the place of morality, sociability, and conceptions of the "self" in modern liberal thought.
Isaiah Berlin
The Journey of a Jewish Liberal
AvA. Dubnov
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
981 kr
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This study offers an intellectual biography of the philosopher, political thinker, and historian of ideas Sir Isaiah Berlin. It aims to provide the first historically contextualized monographic study of Berlin's formative years and identify different stages in his intellectual development, allowing a reappraisal of his theory of liberalism.
Making British Indian Fictions
1772-1823
AvA. Malhotra
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
628 kr
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This book examines fictional representations of India in novels, plays and poetry produced between the years 1772 to 1823 as historical source material. It uses literary texts as case studies to investigate how Britons residing both in the metropole and in India justified, confronted and imagined the colonial encounter during this period.
Emergence of Russian Liberalism
Alexander Kunitsyn in Context, 1783-1840
AvJ. Berest
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
563 kr
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A fresh perspective on the history of Russian liberalism through the life and work of Alexander Kunitsyn, a teacher and philosopher of natural law, whose academic and journalistic writings contributed to the dissemination of Western liberal thought among the Russian public.
Gospel of Beauty in the Progressive Era
Reforming American Verse and Values
AvL. Szefel
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
628 kr
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Szefel investigates the use of poetry in addressing political reform at the turn of the twentieth century. It charts the work of poets and editors - many of whom were women and minorities - who created a network of organizations to nurture writers who addressed the problems wrought by Progressive-era capitalism.
History and Psyche
Culture, Psychoanalysis, and the Past
AvS. Alexander,B. Taylor
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
1 119 kr
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Today, a widening range of historical phenomena are being examined through the psychoanalytic lens, while the psychoanalytic tradition itself is coming in for unprecedented historical scrutiny. This collection of essays showcases the innovative, and sometimes contentious, encounters between psychoanalysis and history.
Knowledge Production, Pedagogy, and Institutions in Colonial India
AvI. Sengupta,D. Ali
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
563 kr
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This volume seeks to revise the Saidian analytical framework which dominated research on the subject of colonial knowledge for almost two decades, which emphasized colonial knowledge as a series of representations of colonial hegemony. It seeks to contribute to research in the field by analyzing knowledge in colonial India as a dynamic process.
Art and Life in Modernist Prague
Karel Čapek and his Generation, 1911-1938
AvT. Ort
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
628 kr
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In most contemporary historical writing the picture of modern life in Habsburg Central Europe is a gloomy story of the failure of rationalism and the rise of protofascist movements. This book tells a different story, focusing on the Czech writers and artists distinguished by their optimistic view of the world in the years before WWI.
Monism
Science, Philosophy, Religion, and the History of a Worldview
AvT. Weir
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
547 kr
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The first survey in the English language of the history of naturalistic monism in the works of Haeckel, Spinoza, and others. Contributors demonstrate that, to a greater extent than previously shown, monism provided an essential epistemological framework for numerous religious, political and cultural movements between the 1840s and 1940s.
History and Psyche
Culture, Psychoanalysis, and the Past
AvS. Alexander,B. Taylor
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
1 230 kr
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Today, a widening range of historical phenomena are being examined through the psychoanalytic lens, while the psychoanalytic tradition itself is coming in for unprecedented historical scrutiny. This collection of essays showcases the innovative, and sometimes contentious, encounters between psychoanalysis and history.
Scottish Enlightenment
Race, Gender, and the Limits of Progress
AvSilvia Sebastiani
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
1 452 kr
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The Scottish Enlightenment shaped a new conception of history as a gradual and universal progress from savagery to civil society. Whereas women emancipated themselves from the yoke of male-masters, men in turn acquired polite manners and became civilized. Such a conception, however, presents problematic questions: why were the Americans still savage? Why was it that the Europeans only had completed all the stages of the historic process? Could modern societies escape the destiny of earlier empires and avoid decadence? Was there a limit beyond which women's influence might result in dehumanization? The Scottish Enlightenment's legacy for modernity emerges here as a two-faced Janus, an unresolved tension between universalism and hierarchy, progress and the limits of progress.
European Antarctic
Science and Strategy in Scandinavia and the British Empire
AvP. Roberts
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
1 119 kr
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This is the first transnational study of British, Norwegian, and Swedish engagement with the Antarctic. Rather than charting how Europeans unveiled the Antarctic, it uses the history of Antarctic activity as a window into the political and cultural worlds of twentieth-century Britain and Scandinavia.
William James and the Quest for an Ethical Republic
AvTrygve Throntveit
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
547 kr
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Pragmatist philosopher William James has long been deemed a dubious guide to ethical reasoning. This book overturns such thinking, demonstrating the coherence of James's efforts to develop a flexible but rigorous framework for individuals and societies seeking freedom, meaning, and justice in a world of interdependence, uncertainty, and change.
Cultural History of the British Census
Envisioning the Multitude in the Nineteenth Century
AvK. Levitan
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
563 kr
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The book explores the hotly disputed process by which the census was created and developed and examines how a wide cast of characters, including statisticians, novelists, national and local officials, political and social reformers, and journalists responded to and used the idea of a census.
Dream of a Democratic Culture
Mortimer J. Adler and the Great Books Idea
AvT. Lacy
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
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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.
Origins of Modern Historiography in India
Antiquarianism and Philology, 1780-1880
AvR. Mantena
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
563 kr
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This book uncovers practices surrounding acts of collecting, surveying, and antiquarianism during British colonial rule in India. By examining these practices, this book traces the colonial conditions of the production of 'sources,' the forging of a new historical method, and the ascendance of positivist historiography in nineteenth-century India.
Rammohun Roy and the Making of Victorian Britain
AvL. Zastoupil
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
1 086 kr
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This book investigates Rammohun Roy as a transnational celebrity. It examines the role of religious heterodoxy - particularly Christian Unitarianism - in transforming a colonial outsider into an imagined member of the emerging Victorian social order It uses his fame to shed fresh light on nineteenth-century British reformers, including advocates of liberty of the press, early feminists, free trade imperialists, and constitutional reformers such as Jeremy Bentham. Rammohun Roy's intellectual agendas are also interrogated, particularly how he employed Unitarianism and the British satiric tradition to undermine colonial rule in Bengal and provincialize England as a laggard nation in the progress towards rational religion and political liberty.
Indian Mobilities in the West, 1900-1947
Gender, Performance, Embodiment
AvS. Lahiri
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
563 kr
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How and why did Indians move within and across the West? What effects did this have on their identities? Despite the burgeoning scholarship on the postcolonial South Asian Diaspora, histories and geographies of colonial Indian mobility have received much less scrutiny. Focusing on a range of individuals who moved within and across Europe and North America, including a champion of London's female poor, a tourist and a war-time spy, this book addresses that gap by examining the production of Indian mobility within the West over the course of the first half of the twentieth century. By analyzing the lives of individual Indian men and, in particular, women it articulates new perspectives on transnational histories and geographies of mobility, gender, performance, and embodiment.
Reading of Russian Literature in China
A Moral Example and Manual of Practice
AvM. Gamsa
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
628 kr
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This book traces the profound influence that Russian literature, which was tied inseparably to the political victory of the Russian revolution, had on China during a period that saw the collapse of imperial rule and the rise of the Communist Party.
At the Edges of Liberalism
Junctions of European, German, and Jewish History
AvS. Aschheim
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
563 kr
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The essays in this volume seek to confront some of the charged meeting points of European - especially German - and Jewish history. All, in one way or another, explore the entanglements, the intertwined moments of empathy and enmity, belonging and estrangement, creativity and destructiveness that occurred at these junctions.
At the Edges of Liberalism
Junctions of European, German, and Jewish History
AvS. Aschheim
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
563 kr
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The essays in this volume seek to confront some of the charged meeting points of European - especially German - and Jewish history. All, in one way or another, explore the entanglements, the intertwined moments of empathy and enmity, belonging and estrangement, creativity and destructiveness that occurred at these junctions.
French Enlightenment and its Others
The Mandarin, the Savage, and the Invention of the Human Sciences
AvD. Harvey
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
1 230 kr
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This book explores the French Enlightenment's use of cross-cultural comparisons - particularly the figures of the Chinese mandarin and American and Polynesian savage - to praise of critique aspects of European society and to draw general conclusions regarding human nature, natural law, and the rise and decline of civilizations.

Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History – serie

Nature Engaged

Recovering Bishop Berkeley

American Bourgeoisie

Carl Gustav Jung

Character, Self, and Sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment

Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought

Religious Transactions in Colonial South India

Sir John Malcolm and the Creation of British India

Benjamin Constant and the Birth of French Liberalism

Isaiah Berlin

Making British Indian Fictions

Emergence of Russian Liberalism

Gospel of Beauty in the Progressive Era

History and Psyche

Knowledge Production, Pedagogy, and Institutions in Colonial India

Art and Life in Modernist Prague

Monism

History and Psyche

Scottish Enlightenment

European Antarctic

William James and the Quest for an Ethical Republic

Cultural History of the British Census

Dream of a Democratic Culture

Origins of Modern Historiography in India

Rammohun Roy and the Making of Victorian Britain

Indian Mobilities in the West, 1900-1947

Reading of Russian Literature in China

At the Edges of Liberalism

At the Edges of Liberalism

French Enlightenment and its Others