The Course of Time ... Twentieth Edition
Author : Robert Pollok
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Page : 478 pages
File Size : 25,25 MB
Release : 1854
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Author : Robert Pollok
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Page : 478 pages
File Size : 25,25 MB
Release : 1854
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Author : Robert Pollok
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Page : 348 pages
File Size : 32,95 MB
Release : 1858
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Author : Robert Pollok
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Page : 288 pages
File Size : 38,32 MB
Release : 1868
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Author : Kelly Knauer
Publisher : Time Life Medical
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 36,23 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
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Presents pictures of the major events of the twentieth century involving business, disasters, society, sports, the arts and more.
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Publisher : Time Life Medical
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 21,57 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
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Covers major events and discoveries of the twentieth century.
Author : Giovanni Arrighi
Publisher : Verso
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 18,66 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 9781859840153
Winner of the American Sociological Association PEWS Award (1995) for Distinguished Scholarship The Long Twentieth Century traces the epochal shifts in the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Giovanni Arrighi masterfully synthesizes social theory, comparative history and historical narrative in this account of the structures and agencies which have shaped the course of world history over the millennium. Borrowing from Braudel, Arrighi argues that the history of capitalism has unfolded as a succession of "long centuries"—ages during which a hegemonic power deploying a novel combination of economic and political networks secured control over an expanding world-economic space. The modest beginnings, rise and violent unravel-ing of the links forged between capital, state power, and geopolitics by hegemonic classes and states are explored with dramatic intensity. From this perspective, Arrighi explains the changing fortunes of Florentine, Venetian, Genoese, Dutch, English, and finally American capitalism. The book concludes with an examination of the forces which have shaped and are now poised to undermine America's world power.
Author : Humphrey Prideaux
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Page : 660 pages
File Size : 44,48 MB
Release : 1858
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Author : Tony Judt
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 14,21 MB
Release : 2008-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1440634556
“Exhilarating . . . brave and forthright.” —The New York Times Book Review “Perhaps the greatest single collection of thinking on the political, diplomatic, social, and cultural history of the past century.” —Forbes We have entered an age of forgetting. Our world, we insist, is unprecedented, wholly new. The past has nothing to teach us. Drawing provocative connections between a dazzling range of subjects, from Jewish intellectuals and the challenge of evil in the recent European past to the interpretation of the Cold War and the displacement of history by heritage, the late historian Tony Judt takes us beyond what we think we know of the past to explain how we came to know it, showing how much of our history has been sacrificed in the triumph of myth—making over understanding and denial over memory. Reappraisals offers a much-needed road map back to the historical sense we urgently need. Judt's book, Ill Fares the Land, republished in 2021 featuring a new preface by bestselling author of Between the World and Me and The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Author : Eric Hobsbawm
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 38,30 MB
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1595589775
Eric Hobsbawm, who passed away in 2012, was one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age. Through his work, he observed the great twentieth-century confrontation between bourgeois fin de siècle culture and myriad new movements and ideologies, from communism and extreme nationalism to Dadaism to the emergence of information technology. In Fractured Times, Hobsbawm, with characteristic verve, unpacks a century of cultural fragmentation. Hobsbawm examines the conditions that both created the flowering of the belle époque and held the seeds of its disintegration: paternalistic capitalism, globalization, and the arrival of a mass consumer society. Passionate but never sentimental, he ranges freely across subjects as diverse as classical music, the fine arts, rock music, and sculpture. He records the passing of the golden age of the “free intellectual” and explores the lives of forgotten greats; analyzes the relationship between art and totalitarianism; and dissects phenomena as diverse as surrealism, art nouveau, the emancipation of women, and the myth of the American cowboy. Written with consummate imagination and skill, Fractured Times is the last book from one of our greatest modern-day thinkers.
Author : Wilma Iggers
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,47 MB
Release : 2006-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1845451384
Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Wilma and Georg Iggers came from different backgrounds, Wilma from a Jewish farming family from the German-speaking border area of Czechoslovakia, Georg from a Jewish business family from Hamburg. They both escaped with their parents from Nazi persecution to North America where they met as students. As a newly married couple they went to the American South where they taught in two historic Black colleges and were involved in the civil rights movement. In 1961 they began going to West Germany regularly not only to do research but also to further reconciliation between Jews and Germans, while at the same time in their scholarly work contributing to a critical confrontation with the German past. After overcoming first apprehensions, they soon felt Göttingen to be their second home, while maintaining their close involvements in America. After 1966 they frequently visited East Germany and Czechslovakia in an attempt to build bridges in the midst of the Cold War. The book relates their very different experiences of childhood and adolescence and then their lives together over almost six decades during which they endeavored to combine their roles as parents and scholars with their social and political engagements. In many ways this is not merely a dual biography but a history of changing conditions in America and Central Europe during turbulent times.