Burke's Royal Palaces of Europe
Author : Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,15 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Europe
ISBN :
Author : Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,15 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Europe
ISBN :
Author : Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 13,92 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
A total of 176 photographs, 56 in full color, reveal the richness and splendor of some of the most extraordinary buildings of all time.
Author : Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 20,72 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Africa
ISBN :
Author : Anne Veronica Witchard
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,76 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780754658641
Focusing on Thomas Burke's bestselling collection of short stories, Limehouse Nights (1916), Anne Witchard's interdisciplinary book contextualises the burgeoning cult of Chinatown in turn-of-the-century London. Witchard shows that Burke's immensely popular Chinatown stories destabilize social orthodoxies in highly complex ways, forcing us to rethink his influence on both sides of the Atlantic. She shows that China and chinoiserie served as mirrors that reveal the disquietudes of western art and culture.
Author : G. Delanty
Publisher : Springer
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 48,91 MB
Release : 1995-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0230379656
A critical analysis of the idea of Europe and the limits and possibilities of a European identity in the broader perspective of history. This book argues that the crucial issue is the articulation of a new identity that is based on post-national citizenship rather than ambivalent notions of unity.
Author : Alan Haworth
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 19,52 MB
Release : 2011-02-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1135198969
This absorbing study invites you to climb inside the heads of the major political philosophers, as it were, and to see the world through their eyes. Beginning with Socrates and concluding with post-Rawlsian theory, Alan Haworth presents the key ideas and developments with clarity and depth. Each chapter provides a concentrated study of a given thinker or group of thinkers and together they constitute a broad account of the main arguments in political philosophy. There are chapters on Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, the Utilitarians, Marx, Rawls, and post-Rawlsian developments. This is a fascinating, lively and engaging look at the topic and will be appropriate for any student taking a course in political philosophy or political thought.
Author : Declan Kiberd
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 20,77 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674005051
A celebration of the tenacious life of the enduring Irish classics, this book by one of Irish writing's most eloquent readers offers a brilliant and accessible survey of the greatest works since 1600 in Gaelic and English, which together have shaped one of the world's most original literary cultures. In the course of his discussion of the great seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Gaelic poems of dispossession, and of later work in that language that refuses to die, Declan Kiberd provides vivid and idiomatic translations that bring the Irish texts alive for the English-speaking reader. Extending from the Irish poets who confronted modernity as a cataclysm, and who responded by using traditional forms in novel and radical ways, to the great modern practitioners of such paradoxically conservative and revolutionary writing, Kiberd's work embraces three sorts of Irish classics: those of awesome beauty and internal rigor, such as works by the Gaelic bards, Yeats, Synge, Beckett, and Joyce; those that generate a myth so powerful as to obscure the individual writer and unleash an almost superhuman force, such as the Cuchulain story, the lament for Art O'Laoghaire, and even Dracula; and those whose power exerts a palpable influence on the course of human action, such as Swift's Drapier's Letters, the speeches of Edmund Burke, or the autobiography of Wolfe Tone. The book closes with a moving and daring coda on the Anglo-Irish agreement, claiming that the seeds of such a settlement were sown in the works of Irish literature. A delight to read throughout, Irish Classics is a fitting tribute to the works it reads so well and inspires us to read, and read again.
Author : Riitta Jallinoja
Publisher : Springer
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 25,43 MB
Release : 2017-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137580739
This book takes a novel approach to family, exploring in detail how status is inherited and maintained within families; the process of upward social mobility; and how the roots of social decline start within families. The author also examines how rigidly status equivalence determines choice of spouse. Exceptionally extensive in its coverage, the book ranges from the seventeenth century to the present day, across a large range of European countries and part of the United States, and across several class groups, including royalty, nobility and entrepreneurial dynasties, as well as families of professionals, artists and those in lower ranks. The book also discusses the viability of the central sociological concepts of class and status. The book will be of interest to scholars and students in the areas of family sociology, history, social equality and inequality and class and elitism research.
Author : Pamela Clemit
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 22,74 MB
Release : 2011-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0521516072
The first major collection of essays to provide a comprehensive examination of the British literature of the French Revolution.
Author : Beat Kümin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 18,77 MB
Release : 2022-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1000789381
The European World 1500–1800 provides a concise and authoritative textbook for the centuries between the Renaissance and the French Revolution. It presents early modern Europe not as a mere transition phase, but a dynamic period worth studying in its own right. Written by an experienced team of specialists, and derived from a successful undergraduate course, it offers a student-friendly introduction to all major themes and processes of early modern history. This fully updated fourth edition is structured in six parts – Starting Points, Society and Economy, Religion, The Wider World, Culture, Politics – and includes two new chapters on the Environment and Food and Drink Cultures. Specially designed to assist learning, The European World 1500–1800 features: expert surveys of key topics written by an international group of historians suggestions for seminar discussion and further reading extracts from primary sources and generous illustrations, including maps a glossary of key terms and concepts a full index of persons, places and subjects and a companion website, offering colour images, direct access to primary materials, and interactive features which highlight key events and locations discussed in the volume. The European World 1500–1800 is essential reading for all students embarking on the discovery of the early modern period. For support with the early modern historiographical debates see the partnering volume Interpreting Early Modern Europe edited by C. Scott Dixon and Beat Kümin.- https://www.routledge.com/Interpreting-Early-Modern-Europe/Dixon-Kumin/p/book/9781138799011.