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Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World
From the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests
Häftad, 2025
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372 kr
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The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World is an original and provocative reconstruction of 1,400 years of classical antiquity. Sharply written, it is a major intervention in Marxist theories of class, seeking to explain and illustrate the value of Marx's general analysis of society to ancient …
America's Fatal Leap
1991-2016
Inbunden, 2025
303 kr
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America's Fatal Leap deconstructs US geopolitics after the end of the Cold War, informed by its author's unsurpassed command of modern history. Paul W. Schroeder, an acclaimed historian of international diplomacy, was a conservative and a natural supporter of American leadership in the world. But …
Latin
or, the Empire of a Sign
Häftad, 2023
275 kr
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Though not without its rivals, Latin stood at the apex of Western culture from the Renaissance until relatively recently. Françoise Waquet offers an enthralling, original history of the language's uses, its detractors and defenders, and the social hierarchies its practitioners inscribed. Granted a …
Women, Resistance and Revolution
A History of Women and Revolution in the Modern World
Häftad, 2026
210 kr
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In Women, Resistance and Revolution, Sheila Rowbotham traces four centuries of feminist struggle and revolutionary politics. She reveals how women have confronted the dual challenges of an unjust state system and patriarchal social prejudice. First published in 1972, Women, Resistance and …
What Happened in History
Häftad, 2027
221 kr
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Archaeologist and historian Gordon Childe charts the momentous shifts in early human history: from hunter-gathering to settled agriculture, the development of the first towns and cities in Mesopotamia, and the spectacular rise and fall of Graeco-Roman civilisation. Childe was one of the first …
Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism
Häftad, 2013
255 kr
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Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism is a sustained exercise in historical sociology that shows how the slave-based societies of Ancient Greece and Rome eventually became the feudal societies of the Middle Ages. In the course of this study, Anderson vindicates and refines the explanatory power of …
Lineages of the Absolutist State
Häftad, 2013
487 kr
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Forty years after its original publication, Lineages of the Absolutist State remains an exemplary achievement in comparative history. Picking up from where its companion volume, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, left off, Lineages traces the development of Absolutist states in the early modern …
Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilizations
Av Max Weber
Häftad, 2013
472 kr
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Max Weber is widely recognized as the greatest of the founders of classical sociology. Yet whilst his thought is often associated with the development of capitalism in Western Europe or the analysis of modernity, Weber also had a profound scholarly interest in ancient societies and the Near …
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
Av R H Tawney
Häftad, 2015
472 kr
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In one of the true classics of twentieth-century political economy, R. H. Tawney investigates the way religion has moulded social and economic practice. He tracks the influence of religious thought on capitalist economy and ideology since the Middle Ages, shedding light on the question of why …
Lineages of the Absolutist State
E-bok, 2013
268 kr
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Forty years after its original publication, Lineages of the Absolutist State remains an exemplary achievement in comparative history. Picking up from where its companion volume, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism , left off, Lineages traces the development of Absolutist states in the early modern …
Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism
E-bok, 2013
175 kr
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Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism is a sustained exercise in historical sociology that shows how the slave-based societies of Ancient Greece and Rome eventually became the feudal societies of the Middle Ages. In the course of this study, Anderson vindicates and refines the explanatory power of …
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
Av R H Tawney
E-bok, 2015
174 kr
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In one of the true classics of twentieth-century political economy, R. H. Tawney investigates the way religion has moulded social and economic practice. He tracks the influence of religious thought on capitalist economy and ideology since the Middle Ages, shedding light on the question of why …
Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilizations
Av Max Weber
E-bok, 2013
179 kr
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Max Weber is widely recognized as the greatest of the founders of classical sociology. Yet whilst his thought is often associated with the development of capitalism in Western Europe or the analysis of modernity, Weber also had a profound scholarly interest in ancient societies and the Near East. …
Peasant-Citizen and Slave
The Foundations of Athenian Democracy
Häftad, 2015
385 kr
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The controversial thesis at the center of this study is that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive characteristic of Athenian democracy was the unprecedented prominence it gave to free labor. Wood argues that the emergence of the peasant as citizen, …
Pristine Culture of Capitalism
A Historical Essay on Old Regimes and Modern States
E-bok, 2015
179 kr
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In this lively and wide-ranging book, Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that what is supposed to have epitomized bourgeois modernity, especially the emergence of a "modern" state and political culture in Continental Europe, signaled the persistence of pre-capitalist social property relations. Conversely, …
Peasant-Citizen and Slave
The Foundations of Athenian Democracy
E-bok, 2015
179 kr
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The controversial thesis at the center of this study is that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive characteristic of Athenian democracy was the unprecedented prominence it gave to free labor. Wood argues that the emergence of the peasant as citizen, …
Persistence of the Old Regime
Europe to the Great War
Av Arno Mayer
E-bok, 2024
179 kr
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In this classic work which analyzes the context in which thirty years of war and revolution wracked the European continent, the great historian Arno Mayer emphasizes the backwardness of the European economies and their political subjugation by aristocratic elites and their allies. Mayer turns …
Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?
The "Final Solution" in History
Av Arno Mayer
E-bok, 2024
268 kr
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Was the extermination of the Jews part of the Nazi plan from the very start? Arno Mayer offers astartling and compelling answer to this question, which is much debated among historians today.In doing so, he provides one of the most thorough and convincing explanations of how the genocidecame about …
History of Gold and Money
1450-1920
Av Pierre Vilar
E-bok, 2025
179 kr
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For much of human history, the motive force behind war, conquest, social conflict and world exploration has been the drive to acquire gold. From the ancient world of Croesus to the wealthy dynasties of Renaissance Italy, from the earliest European explorations into Africa, America, and Asia to the …
History of the Paris Commune of 1871
E-bok, 2020
268 kr
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In 1871, the working class of Paris, incensed by their lack of political power and tired of being exploited, seized control of the capital. This book is the outstanding history of the Commune, theheroic battles fought in its defence, and the bloody massacre that ended the uprising. Its author, …
Meaning of the Second World War
E-bok, 2020
179 kr
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The very scale of the 1939-45 war has often tempted historians to study particular campaigns at the expense of the wider panorama. In this readable and richly detailed history of the conflict, the Belgian scholar Ernest Mandel (author of the acclaimed Late Capitalism ) outlines his view that the …
Latin
or, the Empire of a Sign
E-bok, 2023
179 kr
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Though not without its rivals, Latin stood at the apex of Western culture from the Renaissance until relatively recently. Fran�oise Waquet offers an enthralling, original history of the language''s uses, its detractors and defenders, and the social hierarchies its practitioners inscribed. Granted a …
Panthay Rebellion
Islam, Ethnicity and the Dali Sultanate in Southwest China, 1856-1873
Häftad, 2023
312 kr
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The Panthay Rebellion of 1856-1873 held the armies of the Qing dynasty at bay for nearly two decades. This account by David Atwill offers a remarkable panorama of the cosmopolitan frontier society from which the rebellion sprang.The rebel leader, Du Wenxiu, took the name of Sultan Suleiman, …
European Empires from Conquest to Collapse, 1815-1960
Häftad, 2024
312 kr
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European Empires from Conquest to Collapse is a vivid anticolonial reckoning with the history of imperial warfare. Global in scope, it deftly surveys the fighting forces and military engagements of the Great Powers, from the British in India to the scramble for Africa. Victor Kiernan lays bare the …
European Empires from Conquest to Collapse, 1815-1960
E-bok, 2024
268 kr
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European Empires from Conquest to Collapse is a vivid anticolonial reckoning with the history of imperial warfare. Global in scope, it deftly surveys the fighting forces and military engagements of the Great Powers, from the British in India to the scramble for Africa. Victor Kiernan lays bare the …
Nevertheless
Machiavelli, Pascal
Häftad, 2022
312 kr
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Nevertheless comprises essays on Machiavelli and on Pascal. The ambivalent connection between the two parts is embodied by the comma (,) in the subtitle: Machiavelli, Pascal. Is this comma a conjunction or a disjunction? In fact, both. Ginzburg approaches Machiavelli's work from the perspective of …
Nevertheless
Machiavelli, Pascal
E-bok, 2022
268 kr
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Nevertheless comprises essays on Machiavelli and on Pascal. The ambivalent connection between the two parts is embodied by the comma (,) in the subtitle: Machiavelli, Pascal. Is this comma a conjunction or a disjunction? In fact, both. Ginzburg approaches Machiavelli''s work from the perspective of …
Connected History
Essays and Arguments
Häftad, 2022
251 kr
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Sanjay Subrahmanyam is becoming well known for the same sort of reasons that attach to Fernand Braudel and Carlo Ginzburg, as the proponent of a new kind of history - in his case, not longue durée or micro-history, but 'connected history': connected cross-culturally, and spanning regions, subjects …
Connected History
Essays and Arguments
E-bok, 2022
174 kr
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Sanjay Subrahmanyam is becoming well known for the same sort of reasons that attach to Fernand Braudel and Carlo Ginzburg, as the proponent of a new kind of history - in his case, not longue dur�e or micro-history, but ''connected history'': connected cross-culturally, and spanning regions, …
Overthrow of Colonial Slavery
1776–1848
Häftad, 2011
537 kr
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In 1770 a handful of European nations ruled the Americas, drawing from them a stream of products, both everyday and exotic. Some two and a half million black slaves, imprisoned in plantation colonies, toiled to produce the sugar, coffee, cotton, ginger and indigo craved by Europeans. By 1848 the …
