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American History
A Very Short Introduction
2012 || Paperback || Paul S. Boyer || Oxford University Press
This brief history of America will span the earliest migrations to the present, reflecting Paul S. Boyer's interests in social, intellectual, and cultural history, including popular culture and religion. It will reflect his personal view of American history, in which a sense of paradox and irony loom large.
While noting positive achievements-political, economic, social, and cultural-he will also discuss the United States's failures to live up to its oft-statedideals; although America has figu...
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A Concise History of Modern Europe / 5th edition
Liberty, Equality, Solidarity
2022 || Paperback || David S. Mason || Rowman & Littlefield
Highlighting the key events, ideas, and individuals that have shaped modern Europe, this fresh and lively book provides a concise history of the continent from the Enlightenment to the present. Drawing on the enduring theme of revolution, David S. Mason explores the political, economic, and scientific causes and consequences of revolution; the development of human rights and democracy; and issues of European identity and integration.
He deliberately avoids a detailed chronology of every count...
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British Civilization / 9th edition
An Introduction
2019 || Paperback || John Oakland || Taylor & Francis
Thoroughly updated and revised, the ninth-edition of the highly-regarded British Civilization: An Introduction continues to be the ideal textbook on Britain, its country and people, religion, politics and government, international relations, legal system, economy, education, media and culture for students of British studies.
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A History of Western Society / 12th edition
Combined Volume
2016 || Paperback || John P. McKay || Macmillan || met inkijkexemplaar
Praised by instructors and students alike for its readability and attention to everyday life, the twelfth edition of A History of Western Society includes many tools to engage today's students and save instructors time. This edition features a comprehensive primary source program, five chapters devoted to the lives of ordinary people that make the past real and relevant, and the best and latest scholarship throughout. With over 200 written and visual primary sources included in the document f...
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The Age of Sustainable Development / 1st edition
2015 || Paperback || Jeffrey D. Sachs e.a. || Columbia University Press
Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development. In this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can use a holistic way forward to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and political-economic injustice: sustainable development.
Sachs offers readers, students, activists, environmentalists, and policy makers the tools, metric...
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Computer / 4th edition
A History of the Information Machine
2023 || Paperback || Martin Campbell-Kelly e.a. || Taylor & Francis
This volume provides a history of the computer which now comes properly up to the ubiquitous age, with new chapters that look at globalization, platformitization and regulation, allowing readers to engage with the more recent takeover by computers in their historical perspective. With the growing ubiquity of computers, the subject is one of interest to many students and this will feature in history of science and technology courses, and world history courses as well as ones specifically on co...
The Two Koreas
A Contemporary History
2013 || Paperback || Don Oberdorfer e.a. || Basic Books
North Korea is an impoverished, famine-ridden nation, but it is also a nuclear power whose dictator Kim Jong-un regularly threatens his neighbors and adversaries, the United States in particular, with destruction. Even though Kim and President Donald Trump's responses to him dominate the daily headlines, the idea that North Korea is a menace is not a new one. Indeed, ever since Korea was first divided at the end of World War II, the tension between its northern and southern halves has riveted...
The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Two Discourses and the Social Contract
2014 || Paperback || Jean-Jacques Rousseau || The University of Chicago Press
Few philosophers have been the subject of as much or as intense debate, yet almost everyone agrees on one thing: Jean-Jacques Rousseau is among the most important and influential thinkers in the history of political philosophy. This book brings together fresh translations of three of Rousseau's works.
Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History
1999 || Paperback || Jan Patocka || Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
This is a translation of Patocka's final work in which he treats prehistory through the concepts of Husserl and Heidegger. He believes the technological society to be decadent, and in the 20th century, war has become the basic reality which prevails through apparent "peace".
The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition
2009 || Hardcover || Zeev Sternhell || Yale University Press
Presents a controversial view of the origins of fascism, locating them in the eighteenth century with the advent of the Anti-Enlightenment, a far earlier date than most historians. This book contends that J G Herder, Edmund Burke, and Joseph de Maistre can be connected to the origins of the Anti-Enlightenment.