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    Cassell's Dictionary...

    Cassell's Dictionary of Modern American History

    Forse hardback met stofomslag in goede staat. Naam op schutblad. Verder netjes. Engelstalig.

    Cassell's Dictionary of Modern American History is a guide to the people, events, movements and ideas that have shaped modern America. Taking as its starting point the period immediately preceding the American Revolution, the dictionary guides the reader through the birth of the United States and its 19th-century territorial expansion, examines the traumatic impact of the Civil War and America's rapid ascent to great-power status, and goes on to consider the economic consequences of the Great Depression, America's decisive role in two world wars and the many domestic upheavals of the 20th century, from the Civil Rights Movement to the Lewinsky Scandal.
    The dictionary contains over 1000 articles focusing not only on major political, diplomatic and military topics but also on economic, social and cultural matters. Extensive thematic articles on core subjects such as the Civil War and Reconstruction blend clear and readable narrative with trenchant analysis, whilst a wealth of briefer entries define essential terms from baby boom to bussing, provide biographical data on public figures as diverse as Eleanor Roosevelt and Sitting Bull, deliver key facts about battles, treaties and acts of Congress from the Banking Act to the Bay of Pigs, and explain the significance of crucial Supreme Court verdicts from Marbury vs. Madison to Roe vs. Wade.

    Peter Thompson;

    € 12,00

    Russia's Bitter Path...

    Russia's Bitter Path to Modernity

    Hardback met stofomslag in goede staat. Aantekening op schutblad. Verder netjes. Engelstalig.

    Will it follow the model of the Western capitalist democracies, as those who applied the economic shock therapy of the early 90s hoped, or will it chose its own distinct path of development? In this history of Russia from 1917 to the present, Alexander Chubarov teases out certain themes developed in his previous book on tsarist Russia (The Fragile Empire). One of the key factors to Russia's distinctiveness is its halfway location in the center of the Eurasian landmass. This lends an inevitability to the traditional cultural schism between Westernizing reformers and Slavophiles. Neither approach, says Chubarov, will work on its own. Chubarov offers "a balanced view, abstaining from narrow, ideologically biased assessments," and examines the triumphs (yes) and failures of Russia's Soviet development "within Russia's own cultural and historical context." Without ever minimizing the brutalities of the Soviet period-the state terror, the collectivizations, the labor camps, the deportations of whole peoples-Chubarov demonstrates much continuity between tsarist and Soviet Russia, with the latter often repeating the former's mistakes. Russia, says Chubarov, cannot turn its back on its Soviet experience. Far from being a blind alley or "aberrant phase," the Soviet period was an organic part of Russia history and "was largely successful in turning Russia and most of the other Soviet republics into modern states.

    Alexander Chubarov;

    € 35,00
    € 12,00

    The Closing of the...

    The Closing of the Western Mind

    Dikke paperback in goede staat. Rug verkleurd. Fotokartern. Engelstalig.

    The conversion of the emperor Constantine to Christianity in 368 AD brought a transformation to Christianity and to western civilization, the effects of which we still feel today. Previously, the Roman empire had absorbed and sustained the Greek intellectual tradition which, in the astronomy of Ptolemy, the medicine of Galen and the philosophy of Plotinus, reached new heights. Constantine turned Rome from the relatively open, tolerant and pluralistic civilisation of the Hellenistic world, towards a culture that was based on the rule of fixed authority. The century after Constantine's conversion saw the development of an alliance between church and state which stifled freedom of thought and the tradition of Greek rationalism which was intrinsic to it. The churches enjoyed enormous patronage and exemptions from tax, and in return allowed the emperors to take on the definition and enforcement of an increasingly narrow religious orthodoxy.

    This book explores how the European mind was closed by the revolution of the fourth century. It looks at the rise of the 'divine' monarch, the struggle as Christianity painfully separated itself from Judaism, the conflict between faith and reason, and the problems in finding any kind of rational basis for Christian theology. In these centuries, a turning-point for Western civilisation, we see the development of Christian anti-Semitism, the origins of the opposition of religion and science and the roots of Christianity's discomfort with sex, issues which haunt the Christian churches to this day.

    The Closing of the Western Mind is a major work of history. Wide-ranging and ambitious, its central theme is the relationship between the two wellsprings of our civilisation, the Judaeo-Christian and the Greco-Roman, and how the tensions between them have created the culture in which we continue to live, think and believe.

    Charles Freeman;

    € 8,50

    A Political History of...

    A Political History of the World

    Engelstalige paperback, in zeer goede staat. Naam op titelpagina. 

    A three-thousand year history of the world that examines the causes of war and the search for peace

    In three thousand years of history, China has spent at least eleven centuries at war. The Roman Empire was in conflict during at least 50 per cent of its lifetime. Since 1776, the United States has spent over one hundred years at war. The dream of peace has been universal in the history of humanity. So why have we so rarely been able to achieve it?

    In A Political History of the World, Jonathan Holslag has produced a sweeping history of the world, from the Iron Age to the present, that investigates the causes of conflict between empires, nations and peoples and the attempts at diplomacy and cosmopolitanism. A birds-eye view of three thousand years of history, the book illuminates the forces shaping world politics from Ancient Egypt to the Han Dynasty, the Pax Romana to the rise of Islam, the Peace of Westphalia to the creation of the United Nations.

    This truly global approach enables Holslag to search for patterns across different eras and regions, and explore larger questions about war, diplomacy, and power. Has trade fostered peace? What are the limits of diplomacy? How does environmental change affect stability? Is war a universal sin of power? At a time when the threat of nuclear war looms again, this is a much-needed history intended for students of international politics, and anyone looking for a background on current events.

    Jonathan Holslag ;

    € 8,50
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