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The Rise of Western Power

Author : Jonathan Daly

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 696 pages

File Size : 22,93 MB

Release : 2021-01-14

Category : History

ISBN : 135006615X

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In this second edition of The Rise of Western Power, Jonathan Daly retains the broad sweep of his introduction to the history of Western civilization as well as introducing new material into every chapter, enhancing the book's global coverage and engaging with the latest historical debates. The West's history is one of extraordinary success: no other region, empire, culture, or civilization has left so powerful a mark upon the world. Daly charts the West's achievements-representative government, the free enterprise system, modern science, and the rule of law-as well as its misdeeds: two World Wars, the Holocaust, imperialistic domination, and the Atlantic slave trade. Taking us through a series of revolutions, he explores the contributions of other cultures and civilizations to the West's emergence, weaving in historical, geographical, and cultural factors. The new edition also contains more material on themes such as the environment and gender, and additional coverage of India, China and the Islamic world. Daly's engaging narrative is accompanied by timelines, maps and further reading suggestions, along with a companion website featuring study questions, over 100 primary sources and 60 historical maps to enable further study.



China and Russia

Author : Philip Snow

Publisher : Yale University Press

Page : 648 pages

File Size : 38,61 MB

Release : 2023-04-25

Category : History

ISBN : 0300271794

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A compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the present Russia and China, the largest and most populous countries in the world, respectively, have maintained a delicate relationship for four centuries. In addition to a four-thousand-kilometer border, they have periodically shared a common outlook on political and economic affairs. But they are, in essence, profoundly different polities and cultures, and their intermittent alliances have proven difficult and at times even volatile. Philip Snow provides a full account of the relationship between these two global giants. Looking at politics, religion, economics, and culture, Snow uncovers the deep roots of the two nations’ alignment. We see the shifts in the balance of power, from the wealth and strength of early Qing China to the Tsarist and Soviet ascendancies, and episodes of intense conflict followed by harmony. He looks too at the experiences and opinions of ordinary people, which often vastly differed from those of their governments, and considers how long the countries’ current amicable relationship might endure.



Humanism and Empire

Author : Alexander Lee (Historian)

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 461 pages

File Size : 16,39 MB

Release : 2018

Category : History

ISBN : 0199675155

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The first comprehensive, synoptic study of humanistic ideas of Empire in the period c.1250-1402, Humanism and Empire offers a radical new interpretation of fourteenth-century political thought, and raises wide-ranging questions about the foundations of modern constitutional ideas and the origins of the concept of liberty.



The South Slav Conflict

Author : Raju G.C Thomas

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 230 pages

File Size : 22,88 MB

Release : 2021-12-12

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1000525457

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First Published in 1996. In identifying the causes of such a national and international failure in conflict management, The South Slav Conflict becomes a valuable case study in comparative politics and international relations. Edited by Raju G .C . Thomas and H. Richard Frim and, is unique among these by virtue of its thoroughly interdisciplinary approach to the causes and consequences of the war. The book’s great strength begins with its forthright assertion that no serious attempt to explain the current cycle of genocide and revenge among Serbs, Croats, and Bosnians can avoid the inherent complexity of the factors that transform ed Yugoslavia from one of the most pluralist of European communist states into a theater of human misery.



The Legacy of Marxism

Author : Matthew Johnson

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Page : 233 pages

File Size : 30,21 MB

Release : 2012-06-28

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 144114482X

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Marx's influence is evident in a range of often incompatible and contradictory political movements and intellectual approaches. With a number of those movements now discredited by the experience of 'really existing socialism', and the academic left gravitating towards approaches which eschew 'authoritarian', 'essentialist' and 'ethnocentric' elements of orthodox Marxism, the relevance of Marx has been called into question. Featuring chapters by Norman Geras, Joseph Femia, Alan Johnson, Paul Bowman, Ronaldo Munck, Lawrence Wilde, Mark Cowling, Chengyi Peng, Terrell Carver, Oliver Harrison and Stuart Sim, this book is an attempt to examine means by which the left can make real, substantive and positive contributions to contemporary debate. The collection examines such topics as: the meaning of Marxism and pluralism within the left; Marxism's scientific credentials; Žižek, revolution, democracy and cultural studies; the politics of development; the relationship between Marxism and global capitalism; the global justice debate and Marx's rejection of moral discourse; the analysis of crime and criminal justice; Chinese society and constitutional diversity, and the relationship between Marxism and post-Marxism.



Calvinism in the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth 1548–1648

Author : Kazimierz Bem

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 376 pages

File Size : 11,30 MB

Release : 2020-05-11

Category : Religion

ISBN : 9004424822

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Calvinism in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 1548–1648 offers an in-depth history of the Reformed Churches in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in their first hundred years. Kazimierz Bem analyses church polity, liturgy, the practices of Calvinist church discipline and piety, and the reasons for conversion to and from Calvinism in all strata of the society. Drawing on extensive research in primary sources, Bem challenges the dominant narrative of Protestant decline after 1570 and argues for a continued flourishing of Calvinism in the Commonwealth until the 1630s.



After Charlemagne

Author : Clemens Gantner

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 349 pages

File Size : 40,54 MB

Release : 2020-12-17

Category : History

ISBN : 1108894631

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Bringing together the foremost scholars of early medieval Italy, After Charlemagne offers new perspectives on the politics, culture, society and economy of ninth-century Italy and paints a vivid picture of a multifaceted peninsula with complex international relations, a fascinating but neglected period of Italian history.



Concord

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Page : 670 pages

File Size : 14,60 MB

Release : 1893

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