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Art in Theory 1648-1815: An Anthology of Changing Ideas

1 review

Wiley-Blackwell, 1991

Charles Harrison: An Anthology of Changing Ideas
This book was in perfect condition when it arrived.

European Architecture 1750-1890 (Oxford History of Art)

2 reviews
Barry Bergdoll

Oxford University Press, USA, 2000

History of architecture
this book must be read with Modern Architecture by Oxford in order to understand the history of architecture. This book covers the must needed areas of the field including, the hut to Palladio, and others up until the rise of modernism, where incidently the book Modern Architecture takes over. I recommend this book in concordance to that book and for the architecture student whether for class or ...

Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy

1 review
John Rawls, Barbara Herman

Harvard University Press, 2000

a fascinating collection of lectures
One can see why John Rawls rejuvenated interest in moral philosophy -- this book is not only a beautifully written, but also a well organized collection of lectures on moral philosophy. Yes, all the big names are here -- Kant, Hegel, Leibnitz & Hume -- entire sections devoted to each. Utilitarianism, constructivism, intuitionism and perfectionism are all studied carefully as the various moral ...

Warfare in the Western World: Military Operations since 1871, Volume II

4 reviews
Robert Doughty, Ira Gruber, ...

Wadsworth Publishing, 1995

Excellent survey
For a clearly written, concise, reliable summary of Western military history with an operational-level focus, this is the book to buy. I use it to teach military history, and my students (cadets) rate it highly.

Hegel's Practical Philosophy: Rational Agency as Ethical Life
Robert B. Pippin

Cambridge University Press, 2008

This fresh and original book argues that the central questions in Hegel's practical philosophy are the central questions in modern accounts of freedom: What is freedom, or what would it be to act freely? Is it possible so to act? And how important is leading a free life? Robert Pippin argues that the core of Hegel's answers is a social theory of agency, the view that agency is not exclusively a matter of the self-relation and self-determination ...

Hegel: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

10 reviews
Peter Singer

Oxford University Press, USA, 2001

Excellent
Probably not very many people will plunge into Hegel on their own, and most of those will quickly plunge back out. As Bryan Magee said, "His writing is almost uniquely obscure -- it positively repels the reader...One can read page after page of Hegel, racking one's brains and thinking: 'What the HELL does he mean?'" Hegel may just be one of those writers best approached through the secondary ...

Nature, Empire, And Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

Stanford University Press, 2006

This collection of essays explores two traditions of interpreting and manipulating nature in the early-modern and nineteenth-century Iberian world: one instrumental and imperial, the other patriotic and national. Imperial representations laid the ground for the epistemological transformations of the so-called Scientific Revolutions. The patriotic narratives lie at the core of the first modern representations of the racialized body, Humboldtian ...

A History of Western Philosophy: Kant and the Nineteenth Century, Revised, Volume IV

1 review
W. T. Jones, Robert J. Fogelin

Wadsworth Publishing, 1975

Approaching the modern age...
This book, 'Kant and the Nineteenth Century', is the fourth volume of a five-volume series on the history of Western Philosophy by W.T. Jones, professor of philosophy in California. This series is a very strong, thorough introduction to the course of Western Philosophy, beginning at the dawn of the philosophical enterprise with the pre-Socratics in ancient Greece to the modern thinkers such as ...

Longman Anthology of World Literature Volume II (D, E, F) The: The 17th and 18th Centuries, The 19th Century, ...

1 review
David Damrosch, April Alliston, ...

Longman, 2003

Longman Anthology of World Literature Volume II
I received the books within the time I was told it would take for them to reach me and they were exactly what I expected and in perfect condition. :)

Contact Points: American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750-1830

2 reviews
Andrew R. L. Cayton

The University of North Carolina Press, 1998

Great overview of colonial and native american interactions
Contact Points provides an excellent collection of essays from top ethno historians including James Axtell, Jane Merritt, Claudio Saunt, and many more. There topics cover a wide range of years and areas all over the eastern seaboard and out into Missouri and the Great Lakes. The general idea of the book is to examine the "frontier" that has been defined in a variety of ways throughout this ...

Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America

10 reviews
Ira Berlin

Belknap Press, 1998

American Slavery Was Local
The myth of slavery derives from the powerful images of the miniseries Roots; the notion that black people were simply swept out of their African lives, degraded and sometimes killed on the harsh way to America and then put to work on a cotton plantation without power of any sort. Ira Berlin, in this beautifully written and thoroughly researched history of the first two hundred years of ...

The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe (Science and Its Conceptual ...

5 reviews
Robert J. Richards

University Of Chicago Press, 2002

Orthodox neo-darwinist view on Darwin is an evident false an
Robert J. Richards is the only scholar that has offered a huge and conclusive amount of evidence on the Darwin's true anti-mechanistic prespective. His previous little book showing albeit succintely a similar perspective, "The Meaning of Evolution", was injustely ignored. Now Professor Richards offers us a long, vivid and brilliant reconstruction of the german romantic frame we need to ...

Kant and the Fate of Autonomy: Problems in the Appropriation of the Critical Philosophy (Modern European ...

1 review
Karl Ameriks

Cambridge University Press, 2000

The fate of Kant's critical system
The appearance of Kant's great critiques initiated a revolution in philosophy, and yet for many he is beyond reach, as if contained and reformed by his successors, and their transformations of his starting point. Beginning with Rheinhold and Fichte this process began, and within Kant's own lifetime the core of his system was being overshadowed. Their contributions, ending with Hegel, are, of ...

Wicked Charleston: The Dark Side of the Holy City

3 reviews
Mark R. Jones

The History Press, 2005

Fun and Interesting History
I've read plenty of Charleston histories, but this ranks among the best. Detailed but lively, it explores (and dispels) the myths and presents the pirate legends, ghost stories, and scandals with that touch of the risque that is seldom found in watered down tour books or stuffy histories. Whether you're headed to Charleston for a visit or just looking for an armchair tour, this is the book.

Tales from the Hanging Court
Tim Hitchcock, Robert Shoemaker

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

Tales from the Hanging Court draws on published accounts of Old Bailey trials from 1674-1834, a rich seam of social, political and legal history. Through these compelling true stories of theft, murder, rape and blackmail, Hitchcock and Shoemaker capture the early history of the judicial system and the colourful, vibrant and sometimes scandalous world of pre-industrial London: "This was a time when an orphan could live for a week by stealing a ...

The Imperative (Studies in Continental Thought)

2 reviews
Alphonso Lingis

Indiana University Press, 1998

Lingis' Masterpiece
It was my great privilege to read this book in manuscript form. Lingis already has a wide reputation as a master stylist and a unique philosophical personality. _The Imperative_ is his most systematic work yet, and the most reflective of his characteristic insights, which have up till now been dispersed among dozens of memorable essays and books. The central thesis of the book is simple: the ...

The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Volume One: 17th through 19th Centuries (Aunt Lute Anthology ...

Aunt Lute Books, 2004

Every anthology constructs a tradition. Sitting directly in dialogue with the feminist literary recovery project of the past 30 years, this anthology constructs a tradition of American women's writing that is truly multiple and inclusive, bringing together women's voices from across a broad spectrum of U.S. social life. Anyone who cares about women's literature is sure to be intrigued by this anthology's radical vision of what the history of ...

Cyrano de Bergerac (Bantam Classics)

45 reviews
Edmond Rostand

Bantam Classics, 1959

Be sure to buy the right translation.
This play is a wonderful work but I ended up originally buying a copy translated by Lowell Bair that was just awful. The movie starring Jose Ferrer (academy award best actor 1950) used the Brian Hooker translation that preserved the poetry and impact of the original French. You will not be disappointed if purchase the Hooker Translation.

Early Modern Europe: The Age of Religious War, 1559-1715
Mark Konnert

Broadview Press, 2006

Drawing on the most recent social, economic, cultural, and intellectual research, Mark Konnert provides an engrossing overview of Europe during a highly dynamic and turbulent historical period. The book argues that while territorial trade-offs, resource and wealth distribution, and social conflict contributed to a century and a half of revolts, civil wars, and witch hunts, religion was the main catalyst for the violence that rocked the ...

Rites and Passages: The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Culture in France, 1650-1860 (Jewish Culture and Contexts)
Jay R. Berkovitz

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007

In September 1791, two years after the Revolution, French Jews were granted full rights of citizenship. Scholarship has traditionally focused on this turning point of emancipation while often overlooking many of the most crucial aspects of French Jewish history. In Rites and Passages , Jay R. Berkovitz argues that no serious treatment of Jewish emancipation can ignore the cultural history of the Jews during the ancien régime . It was during ...

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