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Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752

2 reviews
Jonathan I. Israel

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

A stunning work
No number of stars is enough for this book. The scholarship is amazing, the narrative clear and fascinating from start to finish, the topic more relevant than ever. This book and its predecessor (Radical Enlightenment) are two of the best books I have read in many years, and by far the best on this subject. I am very seldom so enthusiastic about any product. So many books come with the lure of an ...

The Contested Public Square: The Crisis of Christianity and Politics

1 review
Greg Forster

IVP Academic, 2008

A Helpful Introduction to the Topics
In The Contested Public Square, Greg Forster provides a helpful introduction to at least some of the major strains of thought which shaped the way Christians approach politics. Tracing the development of these ideas through history, he gives a helpful primer for those who are interested in learning more about these issues. This is an extremely accessible book. It is written in a way that will ...

The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado

9 reviews
Elliott West

University Press of Kansas, 2000

Outstanding!
The Contested Plains, by one of the most imaginative Western historians writing today, is a masterpiece in the field. It puts peoples-white and Indian-together in a complicated field of action--the Plains and the Rockies in the 19th century. West shows us a world of surprising and fascinating complexity, a place of high drama undergoing sweeping transformations. West is a master storyteller. ...

The Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand: Truth and Toleration in Objectivism

12 reviews
David Kelley

Transaction Publishers, 2000

Ayn Rand for the rational - and tolerant!
A number of the reviewers here of Kelley's book are water-carriers for the ARI and their curious claim that NOBODY (except them, of course!) can speak for Objectivism and the legacy of Ayn Rand. Echoing Leonard Peikoff, they claim that Objectivism is a "closed system" that is perfect, complete, above criticism, and comprises ONLY the writings of Ayn Rand or those she endorsed (although ARI tries ...

The Los Angeles Plaza: Sacred and Contested Space

1 review
William David Estrada

University of Texas Press, 2008

Outstanding Book - Highly Recommended
The history of the plaza, laid out under the Spanish crown in 1781, is the history of Los Angeles. William Estrada has written a highly readable and comprehensive study of the founding and growth of Los Angeles under the Spanish, Mexican and American flags from a small pueblo, into its current day internationally renowned, cosmopolitan city. This book is not a narrow history of an ethnic ...

Contested Terrain: A New History of Nature and People in the Adirondacks (Regional)

4 reviews
Philip G. Terrie

Syracuse University Press, 2008

This book is much better than Schneider's.
I have always loved the Adirondacks, but after reading this astonishingly well-written book I have a new appreciation for this remarkable region. If you're a fellow Adirondacks-lover I HIGHLY recommend this book. Also, if you have time to read only one history of the Adirondacks, then this is the one to read.

Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement
Phil Brown

Columbia University Press, 2007

The increase in environmentally induced diseases and the loosening of regulation and safety measures have inspired a massive challenge to established ways of looking at health and the environment. Communities with disease clusters, women facing a growing breast cancer incidence rate, and people of color concerned about the asthma epidemic have become critical of biomedical models that emphasize the role of genetic makeup and individual lifestyle ...

Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism (Radical Perspectives)
Anne Enke

Duke University Press, 2007

In Finding the Movement , Anne Enke reveals that diverse women?s engagement with public spaces gave rise to and profoundly shaped second-wave feminism. Focusing on women?s activism in Detroit, Chicago, and Minneapolis-St. Paul during the 1960s and 1970s, Enke describes how women across race and class created a massive groundswell of feminist activism by directly intervening in the urban landscape. They secured illicit meeting spaces and gained ...

Contested Commodities

2 reviews
Margaret Jane Radin

Harvard University Press, 2001

An outstanding treatment of a most important subject
Radin deals thoughtfully with some virgin territory in legal and social theory -- the question of what theoretical grounds might underlie the common intuition that some valued (indeed cherished) things should be treated by the law as (in whole or in part) "not for sale." Such items as children, body parts, sexual relations, votes, opinions, and the like are among the candidates for this status, ...

Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia

2 reviews
Brian D. McKnight

University Press of Kentucky, 2006

They felt the war on the mountain tops too
When most of us close our eyes and try to picture the Civil War as it happened, I imagine most of us see long rows of uniformed men advancing toward one another with appropriate flags waving above them, in an open field lit with sunshine. We seem to picture the war as one great Pickett's Charge. All the men are true and brave, ready to die doing their duty. Of course, that's not the way it ...

The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States

11 reviews
Alexander Keyssar

Basic Books, 2001

Don't take it for granted
The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States should be on your required reading list if you are interested in the history of the democratic experiment in the United States. Alexander Keyssar has produced that most unusual book-both enjoyable and profoundly informative. Keyssar traces the always contentious right of Americans to participate in democracy. I, like ...

Manage for Profit, Not for Market Share: A Guide to Greater Profits in Highly Contested Markets

9 reviews
Hermann Simon, Frank Luby

Harvard Business School Press, 2006

An important and timely study of the issues concerning adoptive profit versus market share in today's volatile stock market
Expertly co-authored by Hermann Simon (Founder and Chariman of Simon-Kucher and Partners Strategy and Marketing Consultants, Germany), and SKP partners of Boston's division, Frank F. Bilstein and Frank Luby, Manage For Profit Not For Market Share: A Guide To Greater Profits In Highly Contested Markets is an important and timely study of the issues concerning adoptive profit versus market share in ...

Contested Eden: California Before the Gold Rush (California History Sesquicentennial Series)

5 reviews

University of California Press, 1998

Scholarly essays about pre-gold rush California.
This book looks at pre-gold rush California from varorious angles. Essays on native California history, along with indigenous actions during early occupation years are major parts of this text. The history of "Californio" women and indigenous sexuality are also included. Californio and Anglo interactions between 1820 and 1850 cover new ground. At times the work appears a bit "heady" because ...

Contested Terrain: The Transformation of the Workplace in the Twentieth Century
Richard C. Edwards

Basic Books, 1980

The controversial study by a young radical economist of the transformation of the workplace-- where today impersonal bureaucracies legitimate hierarchies and enhance the employer's control over the worker.

Contested Knowledge

2 reviews
Steven Seidman

Wiley-Blackwell, 2008

A good overview of social thoery with a theme
In this book, Seidman displays the arc of sociological theory, starting with Comte and the Founding Fathers of sociology (Marx, Durkheim, & Weber). He then moves through to more contemporary theory, including post-structuralism (post-modernism). The purpose beghind this book is to look for the moral beliefs that are inevitably imbedded in any abstract theory of sociology. It is only one book, ...

Contested Memories: Poles and Jews During the Holocaust and Its Aftermath

2 reviews

Rutgers University Press, 2003

The Most Important Book that You will Read on this Subject
The continuing debate between historians as to how to view the invasion of Poland and the Holocaust is perfectly expressed in this collection of essays. A must read for any historian, or anyone with an interest in the subject.

Culturally Contested Literacies: America's 'Rainbow Uderclass' and Urban Schools
Guofang Li

Routledge, 2007

"Culturally Contested Literacies" is a vivid ethnographic account of the everyday cross-cultural living and schooling experiences of six culturally-diverse families in urban America. Documenting the ways in which these families learn about literacies and their meanings in relation to schools, inner city environments, and other ethnic groups, Guofang Li's incisive analysis reveals the unique experiences of fractured urban America.Unlike prior ...

The Contested Past: Reading Canada's History - Selections from the Canadian Historical Review

University of Toronto Press, 2002

This collection of selected excerpts focuses on The Canadian Historical Review's contribution to the study of Canadian history from the journal's founding in 1920 to the present. Using the CHR's own interconnected objectives as a benchmark - the promotion of high standards of historical research and writing in Canada, and the fostering of the study of Canadian history - Marlene Shore analyses the varying degrees of success the journals had in ...

Contested Citizenship: Immigration and Cultural Diversity in Europe (Social Movements, Protest and Contention)
Ruud Koopmans, Paul Statham, ...

Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2005

From international press coverage of the French government?s attempt to prevent Muslims from wearing headscarves to terrorist attacks in Madrid and the United States, questions of cultural identity and pluralism are at the center of the world?s most urgent events and debates. Presenting an unprecedented wealth of empirical research garnered during ten years of a cross-cultural project, Contested Citizenship addresses these fundamental issues ...

Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America

3 reviews
Jeff Wiltse

The University of North Carolina Press, 2007

A Social History of an Unusual Aspect of America
Here comes summer, and Americans will head for a trusted way of getting rid of stress and heat: they will jump into swimming pools. But pools themselves have been a source of stress to many communities within the nation; indeed, Jeff Wiltse has written a history of the social tensions pools have caused (and sometimes eased) in _Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America_ ...

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