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    The Strange Career of...

    The Strange Career of Jim Crow

    Engelse paperback, leeslijn op de rug, in goede staat

    C. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Southern historian, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Now, to honor his long and truly distinguished career, Oxford is pleased to publish this special commemorative edition of Woodward's most influential work, The Strange Career of Jim Crow.

    The Strange Career of Jim Crow is one of the great works of Southern history. Indeed, the book actually helped shape that history. Published in 1955, a year after the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education ordered schools desegregated, Strange Career was cited so often to counter arguments for segregation that Martin Luther King, Jr. called it "the historical Bible of the civil rights movement." The book offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws, presenting evidence that segregation in the South dated only to the 1890s. Woodward convincingly shows that, even under slavery, the two races had not been divided as they were under the Jim Crow laws of the 1890s. In fact, during Reconstruction, there was considerable economic and political mixing of the races. The segregating of the races was a relative newcomer to the region.

    Hailed as one of the top 100 nonfiction works of the twentieth century, The Strange Career of Jim Crow has sold almost a million copies and remains, in the words of David Herbert Donald, "a landmark in the history of American race relations."

    Comer Vann Woodward; William S. McFeely (afterword);

    € 7,50
    € 8,50

    Het wonder van...

    Het wonder van Rotterdam, beelden en herinneringen

    Mooi exemplaar, paperback met zijflappen, als nieuw.

    "Het wonder van Rotterdam' is een prachtig geïllustreerd boek waarin Nelleke Noordervliet herinneringen ophaalt aan de stad van haar jeugd. Ze maakt een wandeling langs de adressen waar ze tussen 1945 en 1963 heeft gewoond: Nieuwe Boezemstraat, Insulindestraat en Coolhaven, en komt op basis daarvan tot een persoonlijke beschouwing over 'the sense of belonging'. Noordervliet gaat terug naar het bombardement op Rotterdam, dat haar eigen familie van nabij heeft meegemaakt. Hoe kunnen we deze pijnlijke geschiedenis blijven herdenken? Ze brengt een ode aan de gewone Rotterdammer die direct na de oorlog - de jaren van haar vroege jeugd - zijn mouwen opstroopte en aan de slag ging. Hier kiest ze doelbewust voor de vorm van een verhalend gedicht, omdat die gewone Rotterdammer niet direct poëtisch lijkt, maar wel degelijk poëzie verdient. Vervolgens blikt ze terug op haar middelbare-schooltijd op het katholieke meisjeslyceum Maria Virgo, een periode waarin ze zich ontwikkelde van een verlegen meisje tot een jonge vrouw met belangstelling voor geschiedenis en literatuur. De novelle 'Miss Blanche' vormt het intrigerende sluitstuk van dit boek. De hoofdpersoon H.H. Wedigh is een Rotterdamse sigarenboer van de oude stempel, iemand die zo lijkt te zijn weggelopen uit de jaren vijftig. Hij moet zijn weg zien te vinden in een nieuwe, multiculturele wereld."--Provided by vendor.

    Nelleke Noordervliet ;

    € 8,50

    Inventing the Individual

    Inventing the Individual

    Engelse paperback, in zeer goede staat

    The new book from Larry Siedentop, acclaimed author of Democracy in Europe, Inventing the Individual is a highly original rethinking of how our moral beliefs were formed and their impact on western society today 'Magisterial, timeless, beautifully written ... Siedentop has achieved something quite extraordinary. He has explained us to ourselves' Spectator This ambitious and stimulating book describes how a moral revolution in the first centuries AD - the discovery of human freedom and its universal potential - led to a social revolution in the west. The invention of a new, equal social role, the individual, gradually displaced the claims of family, tribe and caste as the basis of social organisation. Larry Siedentop asks us to rethink the evolution of the ideas on which modern societies and government are built, and argues that the core of what is now our system of beliefs emerged much earlier than we think. The roots of liberalism - belief in individual liberty, in the fundamental moral equality of individuals, that equality should be the basis of a legal system and that only a representative form of government is fitting for such a society - all these, Siedentop argues, were pioneered by Christian thinkers of the Middle Ages, who drew on the moral revolution carried out by the early church. It was the arguments of canon lawyers, theologians and philosophers from the eleventh to the fourteenth century, rather than the Renaissance, that laid the foundation for liberal democracy. There are large parts of the world where other beliefs flourish - fundamentalist Islam, which denies the equality of women and is often ambiguous about individual rights and representative institutions; quasi-capitalist China, where a form of utilitarianism enshrines state interests even at the expense of justice and liberty. Such beliefs may foster populist forms of democracy. But they are not liberal. In the face of these challenges, Siedentop urges that understanding the origins of our own liberal ideas is more than ever an important part of knowing who we are. LARRY SIEDENTOP was appointed to the first post in intellectual history ever established in Britain, at Sussex University in the 1970's. From there he moved to Oxford, becoming Faculty Lecturer in Political Thought and a Fellow of Keble College. His writings include a study of Tocqueville, an edition of Guizot's History of Civilization in Europe, and Democracy in Europe, which has been translated into a dozen languages. Siedentop was made CBE in 2004. PRAISE FOR THE BOOK 'One of the most stimulating books of political theory to have appeared in many years ... a refreshingly unorthodox account of the roots of modern liberalism in medieval Christian thinking' John Gray, Literary Review 'A brave, brilliant and beautifully written defence of the western tradition' Paul Lay, History Today 'An engrossing book of ideas ... illuminating, beautifully written and rigorously argued' Kenan Malik, Independent 'A most impressive work of philosophical history' Robert Skidelsky

    Larry Siedentop ;

    € 6,50
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